This week's song: "All in My Head (Flex)" by Fifth Harmony feat. Fetty Wap!!!!!!!!!!!
Writer(s):
- Mikkel Eriksen,
- Tor Hermansen
- Benjamin Levin
- Willie Maxwell
- Daystar Peterson
- Nolan Lambroza
- Julia Michaels
- Simon Wilcox
- Brian Garcia
- Ewart Brow
- Clifton Dillon
- Richard Foulks
- Herbert Harris
- Leroy Romans
- Lowell Dunbar
- Brian Thompson
- Handel Tucker
Chart Position (as of this writing): #11
Unforgivable Lyric: "It's all in my head" (see below)
My kids’ opinion: My
kids are indifferent at this point. I think they haven't heard it enough to form an opinion.
My opinion: Like most pop music, it is mindless, meaningless, hastily written lyrics paired with a sweet beat, and I'll be darned if I don't enjoy it a great deal. I don't change the station.
UP. BEATS. This song had me at the first reggae-style guitar upbeats.
My opinion: Like most pop music, it is mindless, meaningless, hastily written lyrics paired with a sweet beat, and I'll be darned if I don't enjoy it a great deal. I don't change the station.
UP. BEATS. This song had me at the first reggae-style guitar upbeats.
Soooooo... girl bands are a thing again? Since there are five of them, that makes them like the Spice Girls, right? Which means they're British? I'll assume they're British.
I'm fascinated that a five person singing group can manage to give each member a part to sing in a three minute song and manage to squeeze in Fetty Wap. It's kind of genius. I also like how the lyrics seem
to eschew any type of double entendre and just have... entendre. There is also not a lot of
internal song logic either. If "It's all in my head," does that mean all this climbing into beds is just a dream, like some hyper-sexualized Inception? Or it just rhymed? I'm not sure.
In regards to Fetty Wap: He's probably the best mumbler of our time. Maybe it's just too much autotune/effects on his vocals, but I can't understand a word he says. Even so, I think he's awesome and catchycatchycatchy.
Other Notes:
- The actual music video (not the live one posted here) is out of control. It's like the lyrics: not subtle at all.
- I could have the number of writers wrong, but does it really take 17 people to write a song this simple and silly? Some of the writers, I believe, are from the "interpolation" of another song. Either way, 17 is a lot of writers. Good job, team. Go spend up you 1/17th of the royalties, you've earned it.
