Nice to Meet Ya

"Nice to Meet Ya" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor featuring Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj. The third and final single of the former's third major-label studio album Treat Myself (2020), they were released on the same day. It was written by the artists alongside Scott Harris and production duo Ojivolta. Backed by an instrumentation of tingling drums and a hip hop beat, the pop and R&B song has feel-good and characteristically confident lyrics. Music critics were mixed in their reception of the song. Commercially, "Nice to Meet Ya" charted at number 89 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Trainor's 10th career entry. It also charted in Scotland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Mathew Cullen directed the music video for "Nice to Meet Ya", which was inspired by Working Girl (1988), and featured Trainor performing dance routines with her female co-workers, and a pink-haired Minaj. Trainor has performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Background Meghan Trainor delayed her August 2018-scheduled third major-label studio album, Treat Myself, to January 25, 2019, because she wanted to add more songs to it, and removed it from iTunes that month. Trainor wrote a rough demo of "Nice to Meet Ya" and played it for her label, and according to her, all of Epic Records was like "oh my God, this one". She knew right away that the song was going to be a single, describing it as "the flame that [she] need[ed]" and a relative to "No" (2016). Trainor stated in a January 2020 interview that Treat Myself would be an attempt to make a pop record that feels relevant in an era when hip-hop reigns, adding that she had written four albums worth of material trying to adapt to new trends in the music industry. Regarding her decision to have Nicki Minaj feature on "Nice to Meet Ya", Trainor stated that it was the "coolest thing" ever, adding that she worshipped the former since she was in middle school. According to Trainor, Minaj took the song to an "I'm a boss" level, and it felt "really awesome to be supported like that by awesome legends".