Billboard Music Awards 2016

Meghan Trainor Hits the Billboard Music Awards in Yet Another Sequined Dress

By Elana Fishman May 22, 2016, 8:50pm EDT

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Regardless of how you feel about Meghan Trainor’s music, you’ve got to admit she’s had one hell of a year. Tonight, the 22-year-old pop star will be performing her hit single "No" at the Billboard Music Awards. In February, she won a Grammy for Best New Artist. Her second album, Thank You, just dropped earlier this month, and is already earning solid reviews. And when she fell during her recent performance on the Tonight Show, she recovered in supremely endearing fashion. Jennifer Lawrence, the queen of the televised tumble, would most certainly have approved.

Meghan’s also, it should be noted, a very cute girl — one whom dozens of designers are no doubt clamoring to dress. So why does she keep choosing the same damn dress for every red carpet?

Here's the long-sleeved, sequined Michael Costello look she's wearing to tonight's Billboard Music Awards. It's purple, it's pretty enough, and it fits her nicely.

Photo: David Becker/Getty Images for dcp

But wait — it looks familiar, right? That's probably because it's almost identical to the long-sleeved, sequined Badgley Mischka the singer wore to last year's Billboard Music Awards. That dress was green and had a slit, but still. Basically the same.

Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

But that's not all. At the 2015 American Music Awards, for reasons that are still unclear, Meghan made out with Charlie Puth mid-performance. And she did so while clad in a silver minidress covered in — you guessed it — sequins.

Photo: Jeff Kravitz/AMA2015/FilmMagic

At the People's Choice Awards in January, she chose a Balmain look that, while not entirely sequined, was still extraordinarily shimmery and featured the same silhouette as all her previous red carpet dress picks.

Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Aaaaand here she is at the Grammys, basically wearing a black version of her 2015 BBMAs look (it's by Michael Costello).

Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Believe it or not, this look — which Meghan wore for her Grammys performance later that same night — is in fact a different dress that just happens to be indistinguishable from the one she wore hours earlier on the carpet.