![]() ![]() ^ " Billboard Global 200: Week of November 4, 2023".^ " Billboard Canadian Hot 100: Week of November 18, 2023".Australian Recording Industry Association. ^ a b " Billboard Hot 100: Week of November 18, 2023"." 'Lil Boo Thang' Viral Artist Paul Russell Signs With Arista". ^ a b Schneider, Marc (August 17, 2023)."Hot 100 First-Timers: Paul Russell's 'Lil Boo Thang' Gets Bigger With Debut". ^ a b Zellner, Xander (September 26, 2023).Charts Chart performance for "Lil Boo Thang" It peaked at number 27 on the chart in November 2023. "Lil Boo Thang" debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 99 in September 2023, marking Russell's first chart appearance. Russell told Billboard that he wrote the song after being "stressed out on a Thursday afternoon, so just turned on some of the music that makes happy and imagined that was celebrating something". Russell first previewed the track on TikTok on June 28, 2023, after which he signed with Arista Records to release it as a single. The song samples the 1977 track " Best of My Love" by the Emotions, which was written by Maurice White and Al McKay of Earth, Wind & Fire. Russell originally previewed the track on TikTok, where it went viral and received more than 10 million views. " Lil Boo Thang" is a song by American singer Paul Russell, released as a single on August 18, 2023, through Arista Records. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.2023 single by Paul Russell "Lil Boo Thang" that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. I don't know about y'all, but I know about us and, uh The moment I knew you were the one I could spend my life with 'Cause after we kissed, I could only think about your lips I was in love with you when we were younger, you were mine (my boo)Īnd I see it from time to time, I still feel like (my boo)Īnd I can see it no matter how I try to hide (my boo)Īnd even though there's another man who's in my life I know we haven't seen each other in a while Now another brother's taken over, but it's still in your eyes (my boo)Įven though we used to argue, it's alright (my boo) It started when we were younger, you were mine (my boo) I was the one who said, "Put your lips like this" I was the one who gave you your first kiss I don't know 'bout y'all, but I know about us and, uh See, I don't know 'bout y'all, but I know about us and, uh Oh baby, ooh (yeah, uh, uh, uh) (you gotta rockaway to this one, c'mon) Know that you're that one for me, it's clear for everyone to see You never see it coming 'cause you're blinded from the start There's always that one person that will always have your heart ![]()
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