"Hey Arnold" by Rico Nasty
This is rapper Rico Nastyâs second breakout song after âiCarlyâ from back in 2016. Both are referencing recent classic Nickelodeon childrenâs TV shows.
Which feels like a synchronicity because I had my second date last night with the very smart, very witty, very kind, and very cute childrenâs TV writer.
I taste just like ice cream
And we made out!
Like kids.
And it was so fun.
I literally said at one point, âI feel like Iâm a 12-year-old boy again.â
Rico Nasty, who is known for coining the genre âsugar trapâ which mixes hip hop, trap, and punk/metal/rock rap, sexualizes the childrenâs TV references, even taunting her new partnerâs ex:
Flex on your ex bitch, you know I'm up next bitch
Like Hey Arnold
Hey Arnold
Baby like them Hey Arnolds
And as I mentioned in an earlier post it seems like I have a type with these childrenâs TV writers.
My (ex?)-wife and now this woman, the first person Iâve kissed since the separation.
And good and successful childrenâs TV writers at that. Both nominated for Emmyâs this year.
(Note: Iâve had sex since the separation, but it was during the pandemic, in July 2020, and for some reason, it seemed weird/unsafe for us to kiss but OK to um you know do everything else?)
After we made out, and she left my car, I did a Shuffle to see what the spirit had to say about the experience.
I got:
"Golden Days" by Whitney
Which is another song from 2016. This one by indie folk-rock band Whitney, which was formed by members of the band Smith Westerns Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich, after its break up.
The song and album are a breakup cycle itself.
Julien said of it: ââGolden Daysâ is the song we both sent our ex-girlfriends after we made it, to get some kind of closure. I remember sending it to her and she just started bawling. It wasnât even in a sense of getting back together, more like â I sent you this, and now we can be friends, and everythingâs cool.â
The band tweeted that Maxâs ex also called him crying after she got the demo, too.
Here are the lyrics:
Oh, don't you save me from hangin' on
I tell myself what we had is gone
And after all that I put you through
I get knocked out like I never knew
Whippdog posted on Songmeanings.com:
âThese are the thoughts of a mature and communicative person when going through a breakup. No blaming, no petty fighting, just an odd balance between wondering what you could've done better and the perpetual thought: what a shame. He knows it, all of their friends know it too. Sometimes things just don't work out. My favorite part is that he understands all of this. He misses the Golden Days, but he also gets to look back on them fondly. Maybe time will pass and these two will find each other again.â
It kept me real 'til I'm moving on
But you can't leave feeling like you did no wrong
It's a shame I can't get it together now
It's a shame we can't get it together now
'Cause I'm aching but
And Sam Briggs of The Line of Best Fit wrote of it:
âItâs an honest, beautiful record about the feeling of transition between one emotional state and another â unconsciously burdened with the nostalgia of leaving something behind, but emerging out the other side fizzing with the possibility of the new unknown.â
I fell right in when you gave me up
Those golden days snuck away from us
Lately, I've been close but I'm up to trouble
Those golden days keep you hanging on
I do feel as Sam Briggs wrote: a bit unconsciously burdened with nostalgia and yet fizzing with the possibility of the new unknown in this fledgling relationship.
And I feel as Whippdog wrote: that maybe time will pass and my ex(?)-wife and I will find each other again.
It kept me real 'til I'm movin' on
But you can't leave feeling like you did no wrong
It's a shame I can't get it together now
It's a shame we can't get it together now
'Cause I'm searching for those golden days
And I donât know.
Both are the new unknown.
Which is a nice place to live, no matter the outcome.
Itâs âGoldenâ itself.
Or as the original Hey Arnold says:
Okay, thatâs the one hundred and ninety-second Shuffle Synchronicities.