♪ (rock music) ♪
- "Ever since I left the city..."
Yeah, I know. It's "Hotline Bling."
- "Ever since I left the city,
you got a reputation for yourself now."
Oh. Oh. "Hotline Bling."
- This is Drake, "Hotline Bling."
- This is "Hotline Bling."
I mean, you throw the 6 God in there.
- Ever since he left, she kind of,
I think because a little promiscuous.
- Apparently he left someone, and now the girl is, like--
now she's kinda known, so she's doing some stuff.
- "Everybody knows and I feel left out.
Girl, you got me down. You got me stressed out."
- She doesn't want him anymore.
And he's angry about it 'cause he wants her.
- When people, when they move apart, they change.
- She's probably doing stuff
that she wasn't doing while they were dating.
And now he kinda wishes that she was that way back then.
But she wasn't, so now he's all bummed out.
- "Why wasn't this person the way they are when I was with them?"
They're so different, and it makes you feel kind of insecure,
like you were somehow holding them down from their personality.
- "'Cause ever since I left the city,
you started wearing less and goin' out more."
- You do you, boo.
You wear whatever you want. Wear leggings and a bra.
- She's wearing less and going out more to get more attention,
because she's not getting it from him.
- She's going out, clubbing, sleeping around.
Drake's going back to his Degrassi days,
crying in his wheelchair.
- "Glasses of champagne out on the dance floor,
hangin' with some girls I've never seen before."
- She's going to the bar and getting drunk
and hanging out with the wrong crowd.
- So this girl goes clubbing a lot.
And I take it as, from previously, she didn't do that before.
Probably an ex-girlfriend
or somebody he used to hook up with.
- This gets a little possessive.
He's like, "Oh, I've never seen those girls before."
I guess he was really involved in her life and now he's not.
- "You used to call me on my cell phone late night
when you need my love."
- "Used to," so she doesn't call him anymore.
Or he doesn't answer.
Or he stopped answering and so she stopped calling.
- "You just call me late night when you need somebody to hold."
- "Need my love"-- okay, so that could be interpreted
in many different ways.
It could be just like, "Oh my gosh, you're awesome!"
Or it could just be like, "Hey, what are you doing?
You should come over to my house."
- Now it seems like she was kinda just a booty call.
If she's just a booty call, you cannot control her.
And even if you're in a relationship, you can't control her.
- "And I know when that hotline bling,
that can only mean one thing."
- When his phone's ringing, he knows what's gonna happen next.
- "Hotline bling" equals booty call line.
- "Oh, I'm getting that booty call, eh?"
And he's all happy about it,
and he's doing his stupid dance moves.
- "You got exactly what you asked for,
running out of pages in your passport,
hanging with some girls I've never seen before."
- In all honesty, this sounds like a great life for this girl.
- So the girl's getting around.
I don't know if that's in a literal sense
or he's talking about that she's sleeping with a bunch of guys.
I don't want to directly go to sex,
but this is Drake we're talking about here.
And he's got this whole image about loving the good girl.
- She has new friends now. Drake is in the past.
(straightforward) It's too late, Drake. She's gone!
- "These days all I do is wonder
if you bendin' over backwards for someone else."
- He basically starts wondering
if she's sleeping with other people now.
- (chuckling) This has very different meanings
depending on how you take it.
- When there's that phrase, "You're bending over backwards,"
it's when people keep asking you to do stuff
and you're like, "Okay, sure," and you're going out of your way.
Or it could just mean really inappropriate stuff.
- He still really, really loves her, and he's concerned for her.
- He still has that thought in the back of his mind.
He's like, "Hmm, I wonder how she's doing right now.
Is she with another guy?"
- "Doing things I taught you, gettin' nasty for someone else."
- "You don't need no one else. You don't need nobody else, no."
- She's using his "sexy time" tricks apparently
to please the other man. I don't know how Drake knows this.
- "You don't need nobody else."
I think he's kinda getting jealous.
- He's getting possessive again.
Even the thought of her doing that with someone else.
Like, he has no clarification if that's what she's doing.
But even the thought of that is,
"No, you can't do that. You're mine."
- "Why you never alone? Why you always touching road?"
- "Used to always stay at home, be a good girl.
You was in a zone, yeah."
So I think "touching road" means she's always going places.
- So I think he's saying, "You were never really alone.
I was always the one here for you, and now you abandon me."
- So he doesn't like her "bad girl" image, I guess,
'cause according to Drake, she's sleeping around with everybody.
He wants her "good girl" image back.
- I just don't really like the whole thing about,
"Oh, you used to stay at home. You were such a good girl.
You little house bunny. Why are you always out on the road now?"
Like, "Because I can do whatever the [bleep] I want. That's why."
- "You should just be yourself. Right now, you're someone else."
- So he's saying, "You're not being yourself
and you should go back to that."
She's kinda just going all over the place.
- Drake knows the true her, but I think the true her is lost.
- I think she's just trying to figure herself out.
It happens a lot with adolescents.
You know, he's just started going out with everybody.
And there's nothing wrong with it.
- Maybe she just liked the lifestyle Drake introduced her to,
'cause he's famous.
And then he's like, "All right, I'm dipping."
And she's like, "Okay, but I like how you live.
I like that, so I'm gonna try to do that."
- Who are you to say that she's being someone else?
Just because she changed and you don't like it
doesn't mean that she's someone else.
Like, "You should just be yourself."
"No. (chuckling) Go away. You're not even in the city."
Like... (chortling) what do you know?
- (Finebros) Do you know the song's title and artist?
- It's called "Cell Phone"?
- "Hotline Bling" by the one and only Drake.
- (all) "Hotline Bling" by Drake.
- (Finebros) It's called "Hotline Bling" by Drake.
- Yes, I heard it before. It's just that I don't--
when I listen to songs on the radio or somewhere else,
I don't pay attention to the name.
- (Finebros) Although Drake has never admitted
to what the song is about,
critics think it's directed towards a specific ex of his,
an ex he still feels for but is salty about her new lifestyle.
- I mean, the relationship obviously ended for a reason.
So he can be bitter about it, but that's not affecting her.
- She's her own person. She's allowed to do what she wants.
- When you sleep with somebody, it's a very personal experience.
And then they go off and now they're sleeping with other people.
It's kind of uncomfortable, because you're wondering
if they're sharing that same connection that you felt that was--
you can never feel that connection with anybody else,
and you're worried that they're feeling that connection
with somebody else.
- You shouldn't be telling people what to do and what not to do.
Let them do what they want to do
and let them learn this on their own.
(chuckles) I never even thought of this song
as having a deep meaning. It's just been a meme for me.
♪ (Drake, "Hotline Bling") ♪
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♪ ("Hotline Bling" continues) ♪