The #15 song of 2023, according to Billboard’s Hot 100, was Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was,’ quite the feat considering it was the #2 song the year before.
At #16 is another country bro, Bailey Zimmerman, with ‘Rock and a Hard Place.’
That brings us to #17, a track called ‘Under the Influence’ by R&B singer — and abuser of women — Chris Brown.
I have no interest in Brown as a human being or an entertainer, so I won’t bother engaging with this song. Funny how it’s easy to write somebody off for their personal failures when you have no investment in their art to begin with.
Fuckin’ Robitussin
I don’t know why this shit got me lazy right now, yeah
Can’t do Percocets or Molly (Molly)
I’m turnin’ one, tryna live it up here right, right, right
[Pre-Chorus]
Baby, you can
Ride it, ooh, yeah
Bring it over to my place
And you be like
“Baby, who cares?”
But I know you care
Bring it over to my place
[Chorus]
You don’t know what you did, did to me
Your body lightweight, speaks to me
I don’t know what you did, did to me
Your body lightweight, speaks to me
[Post-Chorus]
(‘Cane on it)
Yeah
Yeah (Yeah)
[Verse 2]
I can make it hurricane on it (‘Cane on it)
Hunnid bands, make it rain on it (Rain on it)
Tie it up, put a chain on it (Chain on it)
Make you tattoo my name on it (Name on it), oh
Make you cry like a baby, yeah
Let’s GoPro and make a video, yeah (Yeah)
Make you cry like a baby, yeah
Let’s GoPro and make a video (Video)
Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
Baby, you can
Ride it, ooh, yeah
Bring it over to my place
And you be like
“Baby, who cares?”
But I know you care
Bring it over to my place
[Chorus]
You don’t know what you did, did to me
Your body lightweight, speaks to me
I don’t know what you did, did to me
Your body lightweight, speaks to me
[Post-Chorus]
(‘Cane on it)
(‘Cane on it)
(‘Cane on it)
[Outro]
Baby, you can
Ride it, ooh, yeah
(Molly, Molly)
And you be like
“Baby, who cares?”
But I know you care
(Molly, Molly)
It might be due to a poor shipboard internet connection, or maybe this was your way of intentionally not promoting Chris Brown, but I don’t see the video so I can’t hear the song. Either way, I doubt I’m missing much.