TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME
Producers
You wet my eyes, but I don't mind it
I tell you lies, but it's only sometimes
You pick a fight and I'll define it
I swear that I
[Chorus]
I only called her one time
Maybe it was two times
Don't think it was three times
Can't be more than four times
Think we need to rewind
You text that boy sometimes
Must be more than three times
Didn't mean to two-time you, two-time you
[Verse]
She said that I, I shoulda liked it
I told her I only use it sometimes
Except when I, I need remindin'
I'm petrified
[Chorus]
But I only called her one time
Maybe it was two times
Don't think it was three times
Didn't mean to two-time you, two-time you
You wet my eyes, but I don't mind it
I tell you lies, but it's only sometimes
You pick a fight and I'll define it
I swear that I
[Chorus]
I only called her one time
Maybe it was two times
Don't think it was three times
Can't be more than four times
Think we need to rewind
You text that boy sometimes
Must be more than three times
Didn't mean to two-time you, two-time you
[Post-Chorus]
I two-time you, two-time you
[Chorus]
I only called her one time
Maybe it was two times
Don't think it was three times
Can't be more than four times
Think we need to rewind
You text that boy sometimes
Must be more than three times
Didn't mean to two-time, two-time you
Two-time you, two-time you
About
“TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME” is an upbeat and fun song about unfaithful relationships in the digital age. It was the third early-release from the album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships.
During the song’s premiere on BBC Radio 1 on Annie Mac’s “The Hottest Record in the World,” Matt Healy described the song as being the most fun song on the record. He stated it was the only The 1975 song that he likes listening to when going out for a run since it’s a fun song about girls and carries good vibes.
When Annie Mac asked if the song was about infidelity, Matt Healy responded,
Yeah, I think it is. It’s not necessarily all autobiographical because I’m not a naughty boy like that. I’ve not actually been like that… I’m a monogamous dude… like massively.
Matty went on to discuss the song’s social commentary on difficulties of dating in today’s society,
[…] negotiating these things that are like relationships in a world that’s constructed on so many things that just aren’t, in the way that Instagram or Twitter or whatever, can get into the nooks and crannies of one’s real relationships. I don’t think you have to be monogamous or not to know how that feels. And [there’s] almost like a frivolity to it, which I sort of like because I don’t do frivolity very often. I’m always quite like— I wanna say something and when you do say something it’s just fun man.
Matty also explained how the track got its dancehall sound and his collaboration with co-producer No Rome:
The clap comes from a kind of reggae-ton place, but I suppose it’s […] No Rome, who’s my best mate, who lives with me now and I was working on one of his beats. We’d done a song together called “Narcissist” and we were going to put that out like next month or something and we were working on it and something went wrong. It just started looping too fast and the beat in TOOTIME just kind of appeared. And then we just made that.
Much like they did with “Love It If We Made It”, the band sent another letter to Dork HQ a week before the song’s release, including the new title and lyrics.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
When confronted with this claim on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 interview, Matty replied,
Yeah, I don’t know anything anymore mate, I don’t know what constitutes a hit. I just know that this is a song that I just objectively kind of listen to not necessarily as a ’75 song. It’s just something that sort of makes me really happy, and the video makes me kind of happier. That’s my only metric as to why I would think it would be kind of a– I don’t even care if it’s a hit. I just want our fans to hear it.
Yes, an official video was released on August 29, 2018.
The stylization of the song’s title is quite interesting. Though it’s not the first time The 1975 have played around with long and experimental song titles, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME can be interpreted in more ways than one.
Of course, “two-time”, in the chorus, is present in the title. Why, then, is “two” misspelled as “too”? And why is it done three times? This is probably for artistic purposes. “TOOTIME” is written three times with no spaces in-between, allowing readers to find different words in the title depending on how they look at it. You can see “TOO TIME”, “ME TOO”, or maybe “ME TOO TIME”.
Perhaps it’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to the “#MeToo” movement, or a jab at the narcissism of social media, or the attention-seeking of Internet trolls. It’s up to personal speculation. In any case, it’s quite a clever way of giving the song’s title just as much meaning as the song itself.
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