It is funny how fun songs about phones and phone calls can be. From New Edition telling the telephone man something must be wrong with your line because your baby keeps hanging up on you, to Young Thug and Travis Scott knowing you should pick up the phone because you're home, and Drake's Hotline Bling or Nokia...that's just a little bit of ditties with phones. A new song, "Ring Ring Ring," by Tyler, the Creator puts phones front and center, with Tyler seeming to call and ex and discuss how much he misses her physically and emotionally.
The lyrics in, "Ring Ring Ring," aren't wildly creative, but they're fun and go with the incredibly catchy tune, beat, and reptition of, "Ring ring ring," in the chorus, simulating a phone going off with Tyler insisting, "Operator, can you pick that phone?" among other comments about how it can't be a dead line, she's just not picking up (presumably tired of Tyler calling). The whole song is fun, peppy, and continues the longtime trend of enjoyable songs about phones.
Whether Lady Gaga is talking about her, "Telephone," Blondie is requesting you, "Call Me," or there is that famous phone number, "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone, there are a lot of songs with phones. We don't always talk on our phones these days, often texting. That said, a song about texting someone your feelings of love, anger, or so forth just doesn't hit as hard compared to that phone ringing and someone saying, "Hello?" Bruno Mars is, "Calling All My Lovelies," Soulja Boy needs you to, "Kiss Me Through the Phone," and Ed Sheeran isn't even making a call, he's just looking through his, "Old Phone," because this list goes on. Songs about phones are just fun, whether its a new hit like with Tyler, the Creator, something older, or even just straightforwardly being told, "Shut Up, My Mom's Calling," as with Hotel Ugly. So yes, let's celebrate phones in songs and instead of always texting, call me, maybe (as Carly Rae Jepsen would request)?
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