
Trainor's family members are featured on backing vocals. "Evil Twin" was written by Trainor, Joshua Kear, Ethan Snoreck and Tyler Johnson, and produced by Johnson and Andrew Wells. Composition Ĭo-writers Ethan Snoreck, better known by his stage name Whethan (left), and Tyler Johnson (right) Thus, it made the final cut for Treat Myself. On January 22, she unveiled the tracklist for the album, which included "Evil Twin" as the 11th track on it. Trainor stated in a January 2020 interview that Treat Myself will 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. Billboard described them as "fierce" and "terrified", and ABC News Radio called them "sassy" and "scared". The artwork features side-by-side photographs of Trainor. #EVILTWIN comes out Friday 😎 listen for my entire family on the backgrounds!" The song was released as a promotional single on December 13. Trainor revealed the single artwork and wrote, "You've waited long enough. She confirmed the upcoming release of "Evil Twin", on Twitter, on December 9, 2019. Trainor delayed the August 2018-scheduled album, Treat Myself, to January 25, 2019, because she wanted to add more songs to it, though it was not released on that date either. The next day, she described the track in an interview with Entertainment Tonight by saying "why did I say that? That is my evil twin, that wasn't me! I am innocent!" According to her, it is about "all those things think about to ", and everyone has an "evil twin" in them. On February 7, 2018, Meghan Trainor tweeted that her new favorite song on her upcoming third major-label studio album was "Evil Twin".
