Grammy nominated singer- songwriter Victoria Monét is back at the Genius office to break down another one of her hits, “Alright,” which has been streamed over 10 million times on Spotify to date! The song is off her most recent album Jaguar II and produced by KAYTRANADA. On today’s episode, learn the motivation behind the liberating song.
“Working with KAYTRANADA always brings up the energy. I really love working with KAYTRANADA, he’s extra special and I have always wanted to so the fact that I have a couple with him now is fire.”
“Working with KAYTRANADA always brings up the energy. I really love working with KAYTRANADA, he’s extra special and I have always wanted to so the fact that I have a couple with him now is fire.”
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00:00 In reality, outside of my musical persona, is very clean, very good girl.
00:07 So in this song, I wanted to just be a bit of a villain.
00:10 The way that women are talked about in rap songs, we're kind of dogged.
00:14 So I kind of wanted to dog from our perspective and just show that it could go both ways.
00:18 What I loved about this session was, Keetranada pulls me into an up-tempo bag.
00:29 Usually if I'm choosing records or making things from scratch, I'm mid-tempo, slow, girly.
00:35 So working with Keetranada always brings up the energy.
00:37 I really love working with Keetranada.
00:39 He's extra special and I always have wanted to.
00:42 So the fact that I have a couple with him now is fire.
00:55 Sometimes men think that a dick is like a superpower and once it's in that thing, it's
01:00 in that thing forever.
01:01 And so I just wanted to assure whoever thought like that, that there's a possibility that
01:07 we forgot already, you know what I mean?
01:09 We didn't even come.
01:10 It's just a bit of brutal honesty to open the song and maybe catch attention.
01:15 "Make your niggas feel away as a forte, really.
01:18 Might not even hit you when I'm in your city.
01:20 Thought you was about to get some foreplay with me?
01:23 You won't even get a picture of these 4K titties.
01:25 Even if you ask me for a picture, you ain't even gonna get that."
01:28 And 4K, I feel like has two meanings.
01:31 It's like, I would have sent you a very clear picture, but also, maybe my boob job costs
01:36 4K.
01:37 And so it's like, maybe like $4,000 titties, which is probably really cheap.
01:42 But 4K as in the picture quality would have been pristine.
01:45 When you're on your shit outside, you don't really have any worries.
02:08 Bills are paid, hair is laid.
02:10 Bank account is abundant.
02:12 Things are flowing to you.
02:13 You got it all taken care of.
02:15 That's how we steppin' out.
02:16 I feel like it's just so villainous.
02:23 It's like, damn, ruthless, girl.
02:25 I think women deserve that freedom to just not fully be committed.
02:30 You get to date around.
02:31 You get to explore and express yourself however you want to.
02:34 You don't have to fall in love.
02:35 So that line is just about, once you think you got me, you don't.
02:39 We can't be got.
02:40 We can't be had.
02:41 We can't be kept.
02:42 We can't be owned.
02:43 Sometimes when you're not being able to be controlled, people might name it a hoe as
02:51 a negative thing, but you're like, "No, actually I'm empowered and I'm doing what the fuck
02:55 I want to do and I'm immortal."
02:57 I won't die.
02:58 You think you killing my pussy?
03:00 I'm not dying.
03:10 I just wanted to express how professionally I can make niggas feel the way.
03:17 That's where that line comes from.
03:18 It's just like, I'm really good at this.
03:20 To describe it as a forte just made sense.
03:22 It's like, this comes so naturally to me.
03:25 I'm so good at this.
03:26 I'm a professional.
03:27 It's my forte.
03:28 Using the word immortal kind of reminds me of Mortal Kombat.
03:33 When you think of Mortal Kombat, you think of males playing it.
03:36 Just to relate being a female that's immortal.
03:38 Like, "Oh, you think you playing me?
03:40 I'm playing you."
03:42 I love just flipping the gender stereotypes in music form because in reality, that's how