Tones And I on Dance Monkey Song: I Loathe It A Lot Of The Time

[RAMROD 107,571]

Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey” has been streamed more than 7 billion times. Its creator would quite happily never hear it again.

Tones (real name Toni Watson) is the proud owner of one of the streaming era’s biggest hits, a song that broke records in the U.K. and Australia, and is now ranked No. 3 on Spotify’s all-time list of most-played songs.

Like so many artists, Tones is always looking ahead, never behind. Speaking on Australia’s Nova network, Tones recounted a recent songwriting workshop in Los Angeles, where a string of potential collaborators took their joint-creations in the direction of her famous number.

Watson was discussing her new song ‘Eyes Don’t Lie’and the process of co-writing it in Los Angeles.

“I did this thing in LA where they do this thing where they put you in a room with a different person every day,” she said, going on to explain that the producers were all men, and would bounce ideas off each other about what kind of song she should write.

“Usually it was directed at ‘Dance Monkey’, like ‘Okay, this girl had a hit with this kind of song, let’s go there’, and I was like ‘I don’t want to go there anymore,'” she continued.
 

https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/tones-and-i-on-her-hit-dance-monkey-i-loathe-that-song-a-lot-of-the-time-3190110

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/tones-and-i-dance-monkey-loathe-1235046942/

 

 

[Luke78619 23,244]

Same, especially hearing it five times a week at work 

2 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

going on to explain that the producers were all men, and would bounce ideas off each other about what kind of song she should write.

“Usually it was directed at ‘Dance Monkey’, like ‘Okay, this girl had a hit with this kind of song, let’s go there’, and I was like ‘I don’t want to go there anymore,'” she continued.

But this is kinda tragic  

[Red 97,629]

Tones and I and I have something in common 

[Meat 18,962]

6 minutes ago, Red said:

Tones and I and I have something in common 

Tones and I-

[sarahb 16,515]

This is the song that completely baffles me as to how people like it

How can you hear her voice on that song and not immediately want to change it to something else

[pachinko 10,257]

I think she is a one-hit wonder.