Like yesterday’s track, the song in the #7 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 is a remix duet that owes much of its popularity to TikTok.
British pop singer PinkPantheress scored a modest hit with ‘Boys a Liar’ in late 2022, but it was a remixed version featuring New York rapper Ice Spice that soundtracked a million TikToks and sailed up the charts, eventually peaking at #3.
This is the first top 40 hit for both of these performers but likely not the last. Ice Spice, in particular, feels like she’s about to become very big. At least that’s the impression I get in my household, where my two daughters play and sing along to her songs on a regular basis.
We have also watched, more times than I care to estimate, a repeating clip of two dancing dogs from the animated film Barbie & the Diamond Castle set to a mashup of Ice Spice’s ‘In Ha Mood’ and ‘Check It Out’ by will.i.am and Nicki Minaj (the ‘Check It Out’ piece is actually that song’s sample of ‘Video Killed the Radio Star,’ so it would be more accurately described as a mashup of Ice Spice and The Buggles).
That dog video might be the best summation of Gen Z’s pop culture sensibility I’ve ever seen.
Take a look inside your heart
Is there any room for me (Is there any room for me?)
I won’t have to hold my breath
Till you get down on one knee (Till you get down on one knee)
Because you only want to hold me
When I’m looking good enough (When I’m looking good enough)
Did you ever feel me?
Would you ever picture us? (Would you ever picture us?)
[Verse 2: PinkPantheress]
Every time I pull my hair
Well, it’s only out of fear (Only out of fear)
That you’ll find me ugly
And one day you’ll disappear because
What’s the point of crying?
It was nеver even lovе (It was never even love)
Did you ever want me?
Was I ever good enough? (Ever good enough?)
[Chorus: PinkPantheress]
The-the boy’s a liar, the boy’s a liar
He doesn’t see ya, you’re not looking at me, boy
The boy’s a liar, the boy’s a liar
He doesn’t see ya, you’re not looking at me, boy
[Post-Chorus: PinkPantheress]
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
[Verse 3: Ice Spice]
He say that I’m good enough, grabbin’ my duh-duh-duh
Thinkin’ ’bout shit that I shouldn’t’ve (Huh)
So I tell him there’s one of me, he makin’ fun of me (Ha-ha)
His girl is a bum to me (Grrah)
Like that boy is a cap
Sayin’ he home, but I know where he at, like
Bet he blowin’ her back
Thinkin’ ’bout me ’cause he know that it’s fat (Damn)
And it been what it been (Huh)
Callin’ his phone like, “Yo, send me a pin”
Duckin’ my shit, ’cause he know what I’m on (Grrah)
But when he hit me I’m not gon’ respond (Grrah)
But I don’t sleep enough without you
And I can’t eat enough without you (Huh)
If you don’t speak, does that mean we’re through? (Huh)
Don’t like sneaky shit that you do (Grrah)
[Chorus: PinkPantheress]
The-the boy’s a liar, the boy’s a liar
He doesn’t see ya, you’re not looking at me, boy
The boy’s a liar, the boy’s a liar
He doesn’t see ya, you’re not looking at me, boy
[Post-Chorus: PinkPantheress]
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Good eno-o-ough, good eno-o-ough
Meet Me In Montauk 
I guess it’s no longer enough to know what the kids are listening to. Now we need a theme week to know what the kids are streaming on TikTok.🤪
Totally get how Ice Spice’s contribution breathed new life into this song and how it captured the Tik Tok generation.
As for the dancing dogs… I’ve seen the video before and am curious what makes you return to it so frequently? 🤣 I’ll now be contemplating for days what represents the summation of each generation’s pop culture sensibility, so thanks for that.
We return to it because it never fails to make us laugh. Also, Fiona likes to do the dances.
That I know. A video of Fiona dancing I would return to repeatedly!