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'Genius' is a playful exchange between Labrinth and Sia, each claiming the title for themselves on the grounds that loving someone so complicated requires exceptional intelligence. The track trades verses and harmonies over a stuttering electronic beat, the chorus built around a cheerful stammer that turns self-aggrandisement into a shared joke. Diplo's production keeps the arrangement light and bouncy, the interlude breaks punctuated by his vocal tags.
Labrinth opens with a series of rhetorical questions, 'Do you think I'm stupid?', 'Do you think I'm helpless?', before declaring that his devotion makes him a genius. Sia responds in kind, invoking Einstein, Newton, Galileo, and Hawking as points of comparison, insisting that only someone of rare intellect could navigate the demands of loving her. The bridge shifts the metaphor slightly: 'You're the lock and I'm the key', the pair framing their relationship as a puzzle only they can solve.
The track appeared on the collaborative album from the trio, a project that leaned into pop hooks and high-concept vocal interplay. The stuttered title refrain and the back-and-forth structure give the song a lightness that undercuts the grandiosity of the claim, the whole thing delivered with enough wink to keep it charming rather than earnest.
"Genius" is a track by LSD, from the album LABRINTH, SIA & DIPLO PRESENT... LSD, released 3rd May 2018. Full lyrics are available below.
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