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- "When I get chills at night,
I feel it deep inside without you, yeah."
Hailee Steinfeld, "Love Myself."
- Whoever this person is is probably talking about a significant other.
- The person that you love is not there.
You feel sad or you feel cold.
- Without you, so... with... so he's feeling it
inside without her.
- I'm not thinking too much into it 'cause it already sounds super sexual.
- "Know how to satisfy,
keeping that tempo right without you, yeah."
- That other person isn't missing that person."
- I think we're getting into a little more dangerous territory.
"Keeping the tempo right," that's kinda, like,
I don't wanna go into detail.
It's sexual.
- I thought at first I was reaching there,
but nope, it's about sex.
- "Pictures in my mind on replay. I'm gonna touch the pain away."
Is this about masturbation?
- Jerking away. Choking the chicken.
- You can interpret it as sexually, but it could just be like,
you know, feeling someone's hand or you touch their arm
when you're comforting somebody.
- I feel like this is a breakup song, like an after breakup song.
- He's remembering old times from the old relationship.
- She's thinking about her and the guy having sex together,
and that's helping her touch the pain away.
So isn't she technically using him to love herself?
- "I'm gonna touch the pain away" means touch themselves
in a certain way.
What is this?
- "I know how to scream my own name, scream my name."
Good for you, buddy.
- What song do I know about masturbation?
All of-- is it Miley Cyrus?
- She doesn't need a guy to moan and be like,
"(in ecstasy) Haileeee!" while they're having sex.
She could just scream, "Hailee," and get satisfaction
from that on her own.
- This guy's just lonely.
I'm assuming it's a he, but honestly we don't know
for sure if it's a guy or not.
Girls masturbate too.
- "I love me, gonna love myself.
No, I don't need anybody else, hey.
Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else.
I love me."
- I just masturbated all the memories of her out of here!
Now it's me. I found myself.
- I know the song. It's by Hailee Steinfeld.
- I don't need anybody else to tell me that they love me
to feel secure in who I am as a person.
As long as I love myself, that's all that really matters.
- I don't need somebody else to verify
that I'm a good person or I'm worthy of love or attention.
- Basically, this is all about self-loving and stuff,
but the only song I know that's out about that
is that one Hailee whatever song.
- You could read this two ways:
dirty minded way, and then also in a self-acceptance way.
- I wish I could say that I think this is about loving yourself
and being confident in yourself and stuff,
but I know it's not.
- "I'll take it nice and slow, feeling good on my own without you, yeah."
- "Got me speaking in tongues, the beautiful, it comes
without you, yeah."
(gibberish)
Is that the sound that's coming out of her mouth
while she's masturbating?
- Whoever this is is so into it they're just like,
"Ha, la, la, ha, la, la."
Like, they can't even say words.
- "The beautiful" end results, um, happiness and fulfillment
and whatever else you want out of life,
it comes without this person that left them.
- Now that you're not in a relationship anymore,
the ability to be able to create beautiful moments by yourself,
and she doesn't need that person to make life beautiful.
- "I'm gonna put my body first,
and love me so hard 'til it hurts."
It's about masturbation. That kind of gives it there.
- She's like, "No, I'm gonna focus on myself.
I'm gonna work on myself. I'm gonna make myself better for me.
Not for anyone else-- because I want to."
- Growing up now, like the age I am now,
it's really acceptable to not be in a relationship
and be with yourself.
- "I know how to scream out the words, scream the words.
I love me, gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."
- They're learning to appreciate themself.
- Loving yourself, being confident, not caring what others think.
He's not ashamed to love himself anymore,
so he's just screaming it out.
- It's a very uplifting and confident moment at this point.
- It's a metaphor of orgasms representing self-loving
and correlating to finding yourself beautiful?
I don't know! I'm so confused.
- "(blandly) Ah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la."
- "Any time that I like, I love.
I know how to scream my own name, scream my name."
- I think he's done masturbating.
He doesn't feel sad anymore
'cause whenever he wants to be happy, he can be happy.
- Their name is them, and since they're proud of them,
they scream their name.
- When she does something, she does it with a lot of passion,
not a little bit of passion.
Any time that she likes, she loves.
- "Can't help myself, no.
I don't need anybody else. Any time that I like, I love me.
Ah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
Any time that I like, I love me."
- Before he was relying on whoever his partner was
to make him happy, but now he's so into himself
that he can just be happy whenever.
- Before anyone else can love you, you have to love yourself,
and before anyone else can support you, you have to support yourself.
- You can read it both ways.
I think they're really finding self-acceptance
and they're also kind of horny.
- I still don't know if this song's about masturbation or not.
Half about masturbation, half not.
That's my conclusion.
- (Finebros) So what do you think this song was about?
- Um, it's about femininity and women power
and self-confidence and self-reliance and masturbation,
but mostly self-reliance.
- Learning to love yourself and making yourself a priority in your life.
- It's masturbation, but I feel like it takes
masturbation to a deeper level.
When you're masturbating, and you're getting intimate with yourself,
you're kind of in touch with your own body.
- (Finebros) For the artist, this song is ultimately about
taking care of yourself.
Even though it's nice to have someone,
the song represents the power in being self-sufficient.
- I think that's a really cool message.
Everything's temporary; you have to accept for you
because that's the only thing that stays a constant
throughout your entire life.
- Life can still be so, so great by yourself if you make it that way.
- It's not this outlandish, straight of the box--
like you've never seen this concept before,
but it's a good one to reiterate because we have too many songs
that are the exact opposite.
- If that was their message,
they could've said it in different ways
because otherwise it just seems like a song about masturbation.
- (Finebros) Finally, do you know the song's title and artist?
- "Love Me Harder"... and it's, I don't know.
- Literally no idea. Miley Cyrus.
- Demi Lovato? "Love Myself."
- "I Love Myself" byyyy... Icona Pop?
- I feel like it's Maroon 5
because "ah, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la."
- "Love Me" by Hailee Steinfeld.
- "Love Myself" by Hailee Steinfeld.
- (Finebros) It's called "Love Myself" by Hailee Steinfeld.
- Never heard of that person.
- Who's that?
- I was so off.
- I knew that too! Oh god!
I was trying to figure it out the entire time.
- (Finebros) Hailee is only 18 years old.
What do you think about a fellow teenager
making a song with these kinds of themes?
- I think it's great. I think it's good.
And I think that she's taking a risk by doing that
because it's definitely sparking conversation.
- You could still be a teen and be mature.
This is my mature face.
- Now I'm wondering if she has a sense of humor
and if it's kind of like she made this song just to see
if people would think it's about masturbation.
- Teenagers have sex.
I guess it's, like, "shocking" for them to write about it
because it's not like they come home to their parents
and are like, "(sigh) Josh-- lemme tell ya. Took care of me today, mom.
Took care of me today."
She's letting people know first of all, as a teenager, it's okay
to engage in sexual activities.
I mean, you know, when you're 50 years old... the train stops.
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