
Waterparks have teamed up with blackbear for their new single, ‘FUCK ABOUT IT’
The track was released today, October 14th, via Fueled by Ramen.
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About This Track
blackbear's 'do re mi' arrived as the lead single from his third studio album 'digital druglord' in March 2017. The track originated from a tweet, the lyric about being done with someone became blackbear's first to cross 100,000 retweets, prompting him to build a chorus around it. The solfège scale becomes a breakup countdown, each note marking another step towards the exit.
The song catalogues the wreckage of a relationship defined by designer shoes, prescription pills, and expensive gestures that never quite landed. blackbear frames himself as the exhausted patron, tallying broken glass and broken trust in equal measure. The production stays minimal, letting the hook's sing-song cadence carry the venom. What reads as petulance in the verses sharpens into clarity by the third repetition of the chorus: this is less about anger than about the relief of finally meaning it.
The original version found a substantial streaming audience, the kind of numbers that suggest the sentiment connected beyond blackbear's existing fanbase. A remix followed on the reissued edition of the album, extending the song's commercial reach. The title's nursery-rhyme simplicity masks a fairly unsparing account of mutual damage, the kind where both parties leave worse off than they arrived.
"do re mi" is a single by blackbear, from the album digital druglord, released 20th April 2017. The track is 3:32 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about blackbear.
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