In My Feelings
| In My Feelings | |
|---|---|
| Drake | |
| publication | 13th July 2018 |
| length | 3:38 |
| Genre (s) | Contemporary R&B , Bounce |
| Author (s) | Lil Wayne , Drake, Magnolia Shorty , Static Major , Deezle , Jim Jonsin , TrapMoneyBenny , Rex Zamor , Phil “Triggaman” Price , Orville “Bugs Can Can” Hall , City Girls |
| Producer (s) | TrapMoneyBenny, BlaqNmilD |
| Label | Young Money |
| album | Scorpion |
In My Feelings is a song by the Canadian singer and rapper Drake from 2018. The fifth single from his fifth studio album Scorpion was by Lil Wayne , Drake, Magnolia Shorty , Static Major , Deezle , Jim Jonsin , TrapMoneyBenny , Rex Zamor , Phil “ Triggaman ”Price , Orville“ Bugs Can Can ”Hall and the City Girls , and produced by TrapMoneyBenny and BlaqNmilD .
Music and lyrics
In My Feelings is a contemporary R&B song with clear elements of the bounce genre. The essential components of the background music are samples, an 808 bass, hi-hats , scratches , claps and snares played as rim shots . In addition, the cowbell effect known from old school hip-hop is built into the instrumental.
The song begins with an intro part in which the beat can be heard as well as a text spoken rhythmically by Drake in a deep voice. Then the chorus, sung melodically by the interpreter, begins, followed by the song's only, much more monotonous stanza and another chorus with slightly modified text. Then begins a break with the structure of the song, which is still conventional for pop music , when the rap formation City Girls throws in a few lines. This is followed by a strongly looped sample of the song Smoking Gun by rapper Magnolia Shorty , while Drake sings the first chorus first in part and then in its entirety. Suddenly a voice sample from Lil Wayne's single Lollipop sounds and overlaps with Magnolia Shorty's voice, with the beat changing briefly and faster bass drums being used. At the end, the instrumental changes back to the original and Drake quotes the lines from the intro. During the final fade-outs set Handtrommeln one. When the music can hardly be heard any more, an approximately nine-second dialogue from the Atlanta series plays .
In the text Drake sings about four women with the names or initials Kiki, KB, Resha and JT, and asks them if they love him and would never leave him. In the verse, he asks one of them to see him for who he was before the media pounced on him. The text fragments rapped in the samples have no content-related reference to the actual song.
Music video
The music video begins with an approximately two-minute intro in which a man played by Drake appears at night in the garden in front of the house of his friend Kiki, who ignored his text messages, and tries to convince her to go out with him. The woman is standing on a balcony and talking to him. She says he must first delete contacts with other women from his cell phone . He offers to give her his password and give her a free hand on his mobile phone. Suddenly Kiki's mother appears on another balcony of the villa and sends the man away. At first he pretends to get into his car, but when she goes back in he returns to continue his conversation. However, the mother notices this and steps out again to drive him away for good. He pretends to have just lost a contact lens on the floor in front of the house and disappears.
Only now does the actual song begin and the video clip suddenly changes its entire tone. It is now broad daylight and we are in an urban area with summery, yellowish colors. Drake sings the song in front of a graffiti- sprayed shed showing the face of Lil Wayne . In between, a few clips follow alternately , the look, camera work and image quality of which are reminiscent of home videos showing short scenes and locations from the city. Several colorfully dressed people dance in front of different backdrops, including the internet personality Shiggy , with the women often working hard . Sometimes this takes place in the form of a polonaise . One of these women performs the lines rapped by the City Girls in different places while she performs a choreography . Later in the video, Drake is sitting with friends at a set table in front of a takeaway with drinks and hot dogs , and towards the end he crouches in the corner of a nightclub illuminated with red light .
Then there is another change in the narrative when the singer suddenly wakes up on the sofa . He tells a man who is also in the room that he dreamed that he had shot a music video in New Orleans in which he established a dance that was subsequently imitated by the whole world. Suddenly Shiggy appears at Drake's door, carrying a laptop , and asks him when he would be ready to start. The singer looks perplexed and says he needs another ten minutes and sends the web star out. Then the music starts with credits in which various people dance.
criticism
In My Feelings got positive reviews. Above all, the bounce elements of the song and its quality as a summer hit were praised. Rolling Stone magazine, which named the title the best song of the year, was particularly euphoric . The song also appeared on a variety of other leaderboards for the greatest songs of 2018, including those from Complex , Billboard , The Guardian, and MTV .
success
My Feelings was a huge commercial success worldwide, reaching the top of the charts in the United States , the United Kingdom , Canada , Sweden , Denmark , Australia and New Zealand , and the top ten in a number of other countries. In Germany , Austria and Switzerland it positioned itself in places 4, 3 and 2. In the USA the song was the ninth most successful commercial of 2018.
Kiki Challenge
For the music video of In My Feelings , Shiggy created the Kiki Challenge , in which people film themselves re- enacting the choreography danced in the clip while getting out of a moving car. The trend has been viewed as dangerous by some tabloid media . Some sources blame Shiggy's original post for the song's success.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album credits. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ List of samples. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Lyrics. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ music video. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ^ The Fader Review. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Hand Me The Aux review of the music video. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone's Best Songs of 2018. Accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Complex's Best Songs of 2018. Accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Billboard's Best Songs of 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ The Guardian's Best Songs of 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ MTV's Best Songs of 2018. Accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ US charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ UK charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Canadian Charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ US annual charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Today article on Kiki Challenge. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Picture article about Kiki-Challenge. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ The West Article on Kiki Challenge. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Refinery29 article. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone Article. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Stern article. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .