Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High)

Ruotsalaisesta Tove Lo:sta kohistaan tulevaisuuden pop-tähtenä. Hänen läpimurtokappaleensa Habits (Stay High) sivuaa hänelle tyypillisesti seksiä, huumeita ja rikkinäistä elämää.

”Uh-uh uh-uh uh-uh
I eat my dinner in my bathtub
Then I go to sex clubs
Watching freaky people getting it on
It doesn’t make me nervous
If anything I’m restless
Yeah I’ve been around and I’ve seen it all

I get home, I got the munchies
Binge on all my Twinkies
Throw up in the tub, then I go to sleep
And I drank up all my money
Tasted kind of lonely

You’re gone and I got to stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Trying to forget you babe, I fall back down
Gotta stay high all my life to forget I’m missing you

Pick up daddies at the playground
How I spend my day time
Loosen up the frown, make them feel alive
I make it fast and greasy
I know my way too easy

You’re gone and I got to stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze,
Tryin’ to forget you babe, I fall back down
Got to stay high all my life to forget I’m missing you

Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain’t got no end
Oh, can’t go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain
Oh, staying in my play pretend
Where the fun ain’t got no end
Oh oh can’t go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain

You’re gone and I got to stay high
All the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
High all the time to keep you off my mind, ooh ooh
Spend my days locked in a haze
Tryin’ to forget you babe, I fall back down
Got to stay high all my life to forget I’m missing you”

The Beatles – Help!

Kuten kovin monet Beatlesin biisestä, tämänkin voip tulkita happotripiksi…

”When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody’s help in any way
But now these days are gone and I’m not so self assured
Now I find I’ve changed my mind, I’ve opened up the doors”

Weezer – We Are All on Drugs

”and you twist in your seat
cause you wanna hit the street
when you’re on drugs
and you cause such a fuss
cause there’s no one you can trust
when you’re on drugs
and the best of your days
will all vanish in the haze
when you’re on drugs
and you’ll wish you could quit
once you’re really sick of it
but you’re on drugs”

Vaikuttaisi aika selvästi huumeidenvastaisilta sanoituksilta. Mukana ripaus itseironiaa laulajalta, joka on tainnut käydä jonkin sortin ”kuivumisen” läpi itsekin.