Author: Amanda London

Lil Durk / Roddy Ricch

January 19, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 19, 2023

“Twin” by Roddy Ricch (ft. Lil Durk)

To call someone your “twin” in this context doesn’t mean that the two of you are siblings who were born at the same time. Rather, it points to the notion of the person you’re ‘twins’...

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

January 19, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 19, 2023

“Easy Now” by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

The intended addressee of Noel Gallagher’s “Easy Now” would be a person at a stage in their life marked by uncertainty whereas, based on a less-than-ideal present, they lack confidence or are afraid of...

Fall Out Boy

January 19, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 19, 2023

“Love From the Other Side” by Fall Out Boy

“Love From the Other Side” is a pretty-complex love song and one in which the vocalist doesn’t really make much effort in terms of propagating its understandability.  We can confidently conclude that it is...

Hit-Boy / Offset

January 19, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 19, 2023

“2 Live” by Hit-Boy and Offset

The title of this song is in fact a reference to the 2 Live Crew, the 1990s’ Deep South rap act which helped establish the likes of strippers as norms in the hip-hop community. And...

Iggy Pop

January 19, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 19, 2023

“All The Way Down” by Iggy Pop

By this stage in the game Iggy Pop, being a septuagenarian and all, is older than most of the rest of us. And perhaps it can be said that as such legendary artists get older...

Baby Tate

January 18, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 18, 2023

“Hey, Mickey!” by Baby Tate

“Hey, Mickey!” is classified as a cover of “Mickey“, i.e. that earworm which Toni Basil put out in 1982. However, it isn’t truly so, as the verses are totally different, and Baby Tate’s work is more...

Drake / Eminem / Kanye West / Lil Wayne

January 18, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 18, 2023

“Forever” by Drake, Lil Wayne, Eminem & Kanye West

As with most cyphers or posse cuts, “Forever” is braggadocious in nature. The emcees are given a general theme or perhaps in this case just a single word – “forever” – and then are tasked...

Gabrielle Aplin

January 17, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 17, 2023

“Never Be The Same” by Gabrielle Aplin

Gabrielle Aplin has revealed that her song “Never Be The Same” was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. The way she explained it, that experience altered people’s lives so effectively that a lot of us were forced...

NewJeans

January 17, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 17, 2023

“OMG” by NewJeans

“OMG” is another one of those puppy-love kind of songs coming to us from NewJeans, a mid-teenagerish Korean girl group. The title, as you likely already know, is an acronym which stands for “oh my...

Jessie Reyez / Koffee / Sam Smith

January 16, 2023

 by Amanda London · Published January 16, 2023

“Gimme” by Sam Smith (ft. Jessie Reyez & Koffee)

Sam Smith has already blatantly revealed that “Gimme” is a sex song. That said, besides for a reference to ‘nutting’ in the first verse, the lyrics of this piece aren’t necessarily what we would classify as...