From Abba to Cardi B, songs about missed calls and answering machines are never out of the charts. But why are there so few hits about texting?
“I’m so passionate about phones that I made a song about them, just so I could commission a 10ft phone replica for the video and keep it to have in my kitchen,” declares chart-bothering producer and artist Jax Jones. He’s talking to the Guide over the phone. “My connection with my phone is getting stronger every day!”
Jones may be exaggerating slightly, but he does indeed have a ludicrous prop handset in his kitchen and it is, indeed, from the video for Ring Ring, his current hit with Mabel. He is not alone in his passion for phones, when you take into account Banx & Ranx’s summer anthem Answerphone (“When I call you, you don’t answer phone, na na”), Cardi B’s Thru Your Phone (a warning not to use one’s handset as a repository for incriminating evidence) and Dua Lipa telling the entire planet not to pick up their phones.
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