Chainsmokers' "Sick Boy" Needs Some Work | Lyrics Explained
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The Chainsmokers tried again to be deep, and they're trying so hard and getting so close to pulling it off! I really hope they keep trying, but "Sick Boy" and its lyrics deserve a portion of the abuse they're getting.
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I actually like this song
Andrew Fechenbach me to
Same it's catchy
My view on the song is that it is about the social media. They call him the sick boy because everything he posts show how sick he is (how awesome he is). But he also states that you have to watch out because we are very narcissistic when it comes to social media. We show only the best of us and how good and beautiful our life is while we don't get to see the other side of it. (where lies are turned into fairydust). It is not always as beautyfull as we show it to the world. and the ones that are called the sick boys (the popular ones on social media) start to notice this once they start to get recognized. Also once you are being called a 'sick boy' there is no escaping from it. no matter where you go (And we can pick sides, but this is us, this is us). Because they are called these 'sick boys' everybody is somehow forcing them to continue to show their awesome lifes wich can take a high price to pay from them. They start living in the way everybody wants them to live and become alienated from who they really are/were. They don't recognize themselves anymore after a while and that is why their inner personalities feel sad. (They live in a prison that they made themselves)
I think Sick Boy is deep yet so vague so that it is open to interpretation and people can adapt the meaning to their own lives.
Yep
Cool video. I agree, it was almost good but something fell short.
Of topic please Please do a song/songs from *Tyler Joseph's Solo album:* No Phun Intended
Maybe the prison that he built himself is the ‘pop’ music & style they have made & produced?, The other people in the ‘pop’ industry call him the Sick Boy cos of they have ideas of telling the Truth through songs?, he says it’s easy for them to say cos they don’t take the risk of making songs like that??? Just a theory 🖤
Pretty good theory. I especially agree that it could have to do with the pop music being their prison.
It's about anxiety, don't overanalyze they explained what the song is about
Are you familiar with Sleeping at Last? I think he has some of the most inspiring poetic lyrics of our generation. You would have a field day with any of his songs. A sample:
You taught me the courage of stars before you left
How light carries on endlessly even after death
With shortness of breath
You explained the infinite
How rare and beautiful it is
To even exist
-Saturn
In my opinion, they are two great (or at least pretty good) music producers/djs that are now finding a way to express something through their music. I can't deny that it sounds a lot like blurryface or heathens, but instead of taking that as a "copy" I preffer taking it as an "inspiration". What I mean is that it appears that tøp has like opened a creak in the pop hits industry and the chainsmokers are like some of the first to see that creak and wanting to go through it. Maybe Andrew isn't an awesome songwriter yet, but I'll admit that he's being really brave by trying to be one and still making the music he likes (or them like). I really hope that my theory is accurate because I would LOVE to see more even better songs like this one, i'll admit that I like bravery in music when talking about something that really matters to you about what you do, and I think that this song is a great breakthrough for this guy
I heard that a new tøp song might come preeeety soon. Woop woop! Also, could you please explain a MCR song?
MCR isn't done on this channel yet, and believe me that I'll drop whatever I'm doing to explain new TOP.
+The Pop Song Professor
You Want To Know......Simple. There is a Lineage......it has Existed From The Dawn Of Mankind ......it is A Serpentine Lineage.....A Race Within The Race Of Humanity. People Do Call Him A Sick Boy and He Has A Whole Brood Of Offspring, Poised In Positions Of Power and Unfortunately Corrupting The DNA of Almost All Earthly Inhabitants. It Pays Well To Be A "Sick Boy". Satan And His Minions Like To Brag And Hide Easily In Plain Sight. You Have Forgotten Who You Are Like The Majority Of Humans, Literally Couldn't Even Name Your Great-Great Grandparents...... " They Know Who They Are And Can Recount Their Ancestors All The Way Back To Eden In The Garden...... They Cash In On Your Ignorance and Although It Is Cannibalism They Feed Off Of Their Own Not To Distantly Related Offspring.....You
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, their career will be remembered. yet, their career started young and the fad of this type of pop will soon fade. Conversely, they might be capitalizing on common themes anyone with a social media following in the digital age. I didn't like this song particularly, but I like to analyze things. They have mastered the formula for Pop music success, but they will not achieve true artist status until they actually voice what they feel in an authentic (rather than easily relatable) sense.
A VERY good analysis. I completely agree with your last sentence.
Thank you so much! Subscribed after this video :) Look forward to your other commentary
Yay! Welcome!
I am personally getting a generation of narcissists and social media with vague political undertones
Most songs these days need -a lot of work- tO BE REWRITTEN THEY ARE AWFUL (My opinion of today’s music)
lol, yes, many just aren't good listening at all.
It's one of my favourite songs. I don't really like the Chainsmokers but this song is amazing
Hey, could you do something by The Brobecks or I Don’t Know How But They Found Me? Some songs are very interesting, and both bands are so unknown meanings are hard to come by. Thanks!
ineedmyspace 034 Ooo idkhbtfm would be cool
My favorite bands a a a a a a a
My two cents: He comes from the East side but lives in the West and he's learned some bad habits from both. I think he recognizes fame requires him to be prideful and lie and he's not especially happy with these aspects of his character. As an industry insider he's telling us we shouldn't believe his public face or "the narcissism," because he's "spinning lies into fairy dust," just as he knows others are. If he's acting, he's not being his true self - which means he is representative of the problem with social media or "the sick boy." In other words, he's sick with amorality. The risk he's taking is in pointing out to you that you're sick too. He's trying to wake you up. Many of us view social media as problematic but do nothing to change our habits or work around using it. This is our "indifference." "Feed yourself with my life's work / How many likes is my life worth" is repetitious and representative of the cycle of social media that he's caught up in and can't escape from. In summary, he's the sick boy because as someone famous he's more likely to be our scapegoat. He's the reason we gives ourselves for forming our own bad habits and not being our best selves - when in reality we're all sick and drowning in social media together.
it sounds like a twenty one pilots song
I think so too.
Yeh the have deep meanings behind the lyrics
Sick Boy is my favourite song! They're slowly making their videos deeper cos if they suddenly changed they'd lose fans but they still want deeper songs
Love ur way of explaining the lyrics😊
Thing is there are so many ways I can interpret the meaning of "sick boy" .
Would you like to do Taylor Swift's All Too Well? I know that's an old song, I just I want to hear your explanation.
Dekido That is the absolute best Taylor Swift song.
Don’t you think that for the music video they took *a little* inspiration from Twenty One Pilots?
To be honest, the song reminded me of Heathens a ton...
Now that you’ve said it, I listened to the song again and it actually does sound like Heathens! I find that.......interesting....
Tyler took a lot of muse and the Killers, the whole shaking thing is Inspiration from Brandon Flowers.
I think that's mainly because of the reversed intro. I see more similarities to TheWeeknd (At least in the vocals)
Specifically "Star Boy" sounds a lot alike to me
I've been listening to this song since it came out. I keep hearing "Joseph Coffee" before the song ends
Also I like the song alot
about the prison thing;
i wish you guys searched it and then talked about it because many of you are super disrespectful.
these lines were about how he deals with anxiety. search it before you speak.
Don't be too sensitive
Enjoyed this take. They’ve built a bro image from the ground up. To fundamentally shift in one song... their right to be vague in a poetic way has not yet been earned.
I think you're overthinking the details of the lyrics
Yeah I thought "Sick Boy" was really good, it's one of my favorite Chainsmokers song, but I like "Something Just Like This" a little better.
Also yeahhh I thought their album pretty much sucked, and thank you for mentioning the lyric "F**k me back to life" because I literally hated that lyric and thought it was so sloppy and frankly just plan gross and stupid.
No problem. Any chance to make fun of that lyric. :)
The Pop Song Professor For real tho, like that was a really bad lyric. 😂
Why can’t you just enjoy the song? I love the song and Matt Mcguire (the drummer) is amazing!
The only few songs which got the appreciation was Sick Boy, Hope and This Feeling. The songs which needs to be thought about over their Sick Boy Album, was Beach House, I really didn't got the meaning of it. But criticizing this song isn't as important as Beach House cause Sick Boy still had a great sound.
Can you do the meaning of medicine by daughter 💘#notificationsquad
honestly, in my opinion, I feel like the chainsmokers want to be a rock band, the name chainsmokers just screams punk band along with sick boy lyrics almost sound like a old blink 182 song. well I think that any way.
That's a fair hypothesis. They want to be as deep as a rock band, but they may be stuck in the genre their fans like them for.
MarkPKMiller Actually, I want them to be a punk band lol
Street livin' by black eyed peas
I actually like the song. It sounds good imo.
I think it'll do well on the radio. It's got a "Heathens" vibe.
The Pop Song Professor yes, agreed, it’s definitely got a TOP vibe to it.
I’m kind of hoping they stick with this sound and/or try something even more different from their previously released music.
Tbh, this is really helpful for one of my GLMVs. Before I make a GLMV, I need to know the meaning of it so it made an original GLMV. Thank you very much!
Sick boy it's the best song of 2018.
Memories do not open was the best album of 2017.
i sound so bitter but i kind of felt like they copied tøp and tried to cash in on their style
WhyAreYouTakingSoLongSanFranscisco I agree the lryics kinda remind me of lane boy.. I havent heard it yet though
The lyrics have similar themes to Lane Boy, and the music sounded like Heathens.
WhyAreYouTakingSoLongSanFranscisco
Its not really "copied"
Its more like "inspired"
Frosty Mercirous heavily influenced, but not copied.
Ok so they were inspired by tøps music to cash in on it
I feel like it sounds political east being the right, west being the left. I don't think its about being famous at all.
I like this Song and made a remix of this
It’s crazy to think that a song could get you a 6b in a English essay if you teacher doesn’t know the song existed 😂
I really liked this video. You gained one suscriber today! Greetings from Argentina!!
Yay! Welcome!
I don't know if you still answer on this song..but I don't get "we choose pride over character and we can pick sides" , I mean what side they're talking about.. ??? haven't they already chosen pride??
I, myself, love the song and the band
💯💯
Still patiently waiting for The Birds pt 1 and 2 by The Weeknd
It's currently my next The Weeknd video I'm planning. Hoping to film it in the next few days. :)
Name: Chainsmokers.. SICK (Smoking Is Cool Kids) boy. Being judged by narcissistic parents of teen and kids that listen to their music who say they are a bad influence, but the parents can be just as bad or sick of an influence to their own children by being so wrapped up in themselves? Totally, a guess....but, that is what I hear out of it.
Thanks for sharing.
Just found your awesome channel, hope you can explain lyrics from The Killers..
Welcome! I do like a couple of songs by them.
I couldn’t help but hear it as sick *🅱️oye*
“Lead singer extraordinaire.” 😂😂😂
Sick boy is just the song twenty pilots were looking for
i feel the explanation could be more simple. People just love to hate it. Because media makes it easy.
Explain mans not hot hot by big shaq
Sick boy is the song we need at this point in time
Honestly really like this song. And I have HATED everything else they’ve done other than “Something Just Like This”.
like everyone else is saying, i felt like it had a lot of themes from blurryface and sounded kind of like heathens and hometown. plus, the music video was like a weird twist of the fairly local and guns for hands music videos?
Thank you pop song professor for all the great content keep working hard! Can you please explain crash by Eden or start end by Eden :)
You're welcome, and thanks for the suggestions.
I am the.. I am the... I am a sick boy.😈
The song was good but it had the potential to be deeper and better.
I'm happy your covering this song! While listening to it I was really wondering what your thoughts would be about it :)
Happy to oblige. :)
i love love love love love love love love SICK BOY dood its amazing
Illuminati confirmed, song ain't bad tho
you forgot about Matt McGuire their drummer and RUclipsr who is/was really into Metal, Hardcore and Punk who appearently was upgraded from touring member to full member. Maybe this shift has something to do with him.
But as long as they aren't actually willing to risk it all, they won't be able to shake their old image.
A fair assessment.
I kinda like vague lyrics tho because it makes a song easier to identify with
oh no, don't tell me you are a hawkeye fan. #ISU4life
Nah, my Grandma just gives me these sweatshirts, and they're warm. :)
It's deep guys! This song has meaning anyone can see that!
Memories do not open is my favorite album omggg 😭
no, I liked the sweatshirt!
Us is the United states way of life. Stars and celebrities are now what we look up to now, like role models. The east and west are talking about the ways both sides of the United states mind sets are. The my religion part is about he himself has built a mindset of his own. He knows it and is ok with it. This is a criticism on the current culture of the United states and possibly on current social norms now. I think.
obviously.
I don’t even have an opinion on it because I don’t understand it 😂😂 I like the sound of it though, so I guess I like it 🤷♀️
I don't think that their last album was so bad it has some very good songs like paris or something just like this.
Yeah would be deeper if he did just have 3 lines that is just repeated over and over
U need to think deeply to know what he s talking about.
He is most probably talking about the judgemental hypocrites who wants him not to make any mistake. Like if any celeb commits a mistake then he is cursed. Ppl want them to make no mistakes n b perfect and its like living in a prison. And the main line means that u curse someone (just because) he has diff opinions by sayin thm a sick boy or sth evn worse and this line basically refers to all those bullies out there
This song needs A LOT of work lyrically and vocally
I don't have the knowledge to criticize vocals, but I agree the lyrics need some help.
omg had no idea everyone was hating this song, i personnaly LOVE IT so much, been hearing it all day 😂 btw great job , i just subscribed you haha
This video is good but it start off stronger then start to fell off for me idk why it’s like I agree I agree ,wait what?? What are you talking about
I feel like i am the only one here but I love that song! ❤😍😍
damn, you have some questions.
camila cabello - real friends
I love sick boy.
Is that a Furry on your book shelf??
I love love LOVE Sick Boy and it is a deep song. To me.
connect it with LOGAN PAUL
I wonder how many of your students accidentaly stumbled into your channel
A couple every once in a while. It's always funny.
wtf is ride by twenty one pilots!?
What about New Year’s Day by Taylor swift
I really like the song but hope that younger kids don't think that it's okay to act pretentious or narcassitc.
Message man - 21 pilots
Hi, I’ve watched a lot of your videos and seen that you put a lot of effort into them. Could you check out Cavetown? And do a video on that? He’s a kind of small artist, but his lyrics are pretty deep. This Is Home is a song that sounds interesting I guess
I really like this song
Do the chainsmokers somebody plz
The Chainsmokers are the best group in the world.
I think it's about the presidential election, he has previously said that people shouldn't support trump... and he has been to both "sides" of america... and because he cant pick between the two running presidents, he is "the sick boy"
But the west coast and east coast usually vote on the same side...
Well i guess that is sort of correct, but what about the presidential candidates? maybe it is a metaphor for them being so different (like east and west) but still having the same ideas and sick intentions with the country og USA?
I would guess he'd put presidential candidates as part of the problem.
btw really like your videos, please keep em' coming! (oh thanks for actually interacting in a debate with a subscriber, not often you see this anymore)
It's about illuminati...
It always is...
So why you ask that he is the sick boy..?
" how many likes is my life worth?"
because they write there names in blood, they sold them souls to the devil
all the people that listen too this song they dont even know where its about..
You should do an NF song
Also, the video makes it seem more authentic. I think its easy to critique, but harder to understand. ESPECIALLY when people are as mainstream and successful ruclips.net/video/eACohWVwTOc/видео.html
There newer stuff sound good and quite frankly better
I love this song
Everyone keeps saying this song is a knock off of a twenty one pilots song... :/
Nice hair btw .. and amazing video!!
Thanks and thanks!
You look like pewdiepie tbh
Any song by EDEN PLZZZZZ
that he sings “easy to say when you don’t take the risk bro” is totally not narcissism
I like that song