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Phoenix

J-Boy

Release date: 1st June 2017

From Ti Amo
Track 1
4:07
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'J-Boy' swaggers with the bright lights and brighter sunsets that define Ti Amo wholesale. The track stands as the lead single from Phoenix's album, its title a shorthand for the emotional core that runs through it: the refrain "just because of you" becomes both anchor and accusation, a relationship rendered in the language of consequence and entanglement. The band lock into a synth-pop groove that feels effortless, the kind of thing only Phoenix seem capable of pulling off with such ease. What makes the song work is its refusal to choose between euphoria and unease. There's a swagger to the production, a European disco sheen that invites you to move, yet the lyrics keep circling back to complicity and blame. A Dork four-star record, it sits comfortably within the album's larger project of turning summer heat into something you can dance to, even as the emotional weather grows more complicated. It's the sound of a band completely sure of itself.

"J-Boy" is a single by Phoenix, from the album Ti Amo, released 1st June 2017. The track is 4:07 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Phoenix.

About the Artist

Phoenix

Phoenix

Lyrics

J-Boy

Something in the middle of the side of the store
Got your attention when you ask for more
I was excited to be part of your world
To belong, to be lost, to be mostly the two of us
Something I was stealing for no reason at all
They hang me higher than a disco ball
But you talked them into letting me go
It's no Picasso, Michelangelo
Something 'bout the jewels you wear
Shiny, shiny bangles on your wrists
And at the Masquerade ball
You feel trapped in a vault, in an empty aquarium
If suddenly you're out of the woods
Then inside of an alley you're out of words
Well, I thought it was radium at first
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
Is it so bad? Is it so true?
Is it still you?
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
It's more than that, we're chained
And there's no one else to blame
For us two
Some things they don't matter till they matter to you
They stole that money from a homeless girl
The truth, we're all to blame
There are lies and moral consequences
We started at the end of the line
To end up giving up to a couple, who cares?
When you talked me into letting you go
No more coral on the atoll
Something 'bout how hard you learned
Kamikaze in a hopeless world
Do you remember the last time you laughed
And I laughed and you left and I left?
Send me on the lonely other side of the world
With a couple of guys and no alphabet
Put two and two together
We'll make it last forever
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
Is it so bad? Is it so true?
Is it still you?
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
It's more than that, we're chained
And there's no one else to blame
For us two
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
Is it so bad? Is it so true?
Is it still you?
Just because of you
These things I have to go through
It's more than that, we're chained
And there's no one else to blame
For us two

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Track details

From Ti Amo

4:072017Single
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Ti Amo
Ti Amo
Phoenix
2nd June 2017
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Release year
2017
  1. 1J-Boy
    4:07
  2. 2Ti Amo
    3:26
  3. 3Tuttifrutti
    3:53
  4. 4Fior di Latte
    4:04

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    Writer
    Christian Mazzalai, Deck d’Arcy, Laurent Brancowitz, Thomas Mars
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    Phoenix, Pierrick Devin
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    Superpoze
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    Michael Brauer
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