 Genius Meanings
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The xx – Intro
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“Intro”, a simple, two minute instrumental song is easily The xx’s most popular song. As of August 2017, it’s their most streamed song on Spotify, racking up over 200 million
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Yungg S – The XX Intro
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[Intro] / Yeah / Reality / Behind my eyelids / One minute, one second / [Verse 1] / Yo, it was only yesterday when I woke up / From this dream, vivid visions / When everything
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Rihanna, 311, Akon & The xx (Ft. JAY-Z & Snoop Dogg) – Intro / Umbrella / Amber / I Wanna Love You [Mixed]
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Nov 10, 2023 ... Intro / Umbrella / Amber / I Wanna Love You [Mixed] ... Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning.
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The xx – Crystalised
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“Crystalised” is about a complicated relationship, and ultimately uses crystallization as a metaphor for love. It’s the lead single from The xx’s eponymous debut album. Romy and
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The xx – Angels
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“Angels” opens with a restrained style and soft-spoken verses about the idea of being in love. Croft’s lyrics compare the premature end of an relationship to “dreaming of angels
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LOONA – X X
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The xx – Shelter
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“Shelter” is the kind of track that launched the xx into a global phenomenon. Romy’s lyrical longing to right her perceived “wrong” is heart-wrenching. When it’s set to the stark
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The xx – Say Something Loving
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Airy and open, “Say Something Loving” uses echoed guitars, a matching bassline, varied percussion and programming as well as orchestration to express the feeling of feeling
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The xx, VINNE, SMACK, Gunna, Lil Baby, Skrillex, Flowdan & Fred again.. – Drip Too Hard / Intro / Rumble / My Mind (Loud Luxury Edit) [Mixed]
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[Intro: Lil Baby] / Drip too hard, don't stand too close / You gon' fuck around and drown off this wave / Doin' all these shows, I've been on the road / I don't care where I go
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The xx – Fantasy
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Mysterious in composition and with hushed vocals by Sim, “Fantasy” opens up with overlaid synths, the ends with a distorted bassline, Romy’s guitar hooks and fluttering samples
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Danny Brown – XXX
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First track off Danny Brown’s acclaimed sophomore album “XXX” which was released in 2011.
Danny Brown talked about this song in an interview:
For XXX, I was just thinking of the
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Carole & Tuesday – Polly Jean
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“Polly Jean” is Carole & Tuesday’s second opening theme for the second half of the anime (episode 13 to episode 24). The vocalists Nai Br.XX (Carole) and Celeina Ann (Tuesday
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Azad Right – It's All Right
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Azad Right spits over The XX’s popular “Intro” track and his this to say about it:
“A lot of people have been wanting to hear me rap with no hooks so I decided to do just that
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Genius Romanizations – JUNNA - コノユビトマレ (Kono Yubi Tomare) (Romanized)
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Nozomi doori ni / Kakete ageru / Tekagen wa shinai / Suki, kirai, suki, kirai / Saisho wa daare? / Hodohodo ja tsumannai / Subete ka zero ka / Suki, kirai, suki, kirai
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Luci4 (Ft. 9lives) – XX pt. 3
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[Intro] / I hate I was ever in love with you / I hate I was ever in love with you / I hate I was ever in love with y-y-you / I wanted to have my son with you / I wanna go home; I'm
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Genius Romanizations – JUNNA - コノユビトマレ (Kono Yubi Tomare) (Romanized)
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Nozomi doori ni / Kakete ageru / Tekagen wa shinai / Suki, kirai, suki, kirai / Saisho wa daare? / Hodohodo ja tsumannai / Subete ka zero ka / Suki, kirai, suki, kirai
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Jamie xx (Ft. Popcaan & Young Thug) – I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)
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The xx’s own Jamie xx released his solo debut In Colour, grabbing Popcaan and man-of-the-moment Young Thug for an assist with “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times).”
The song was
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The xx – VCR
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“VCR” is about simple, nostalgic, and cute love. VCRs, or videocassette recorders, were used throughout the 1980s and 1990s to watch and record video until the DVD was invented in
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Sig.Carlito – PL4Y Y0UR ROL3 xx
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[Intro: Sig.Carlito & Taylor Swift] / You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset / She's going off about something that you said (Yeah) / 'Cause she doesn't get your
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Carole & Tuesday – Hold Me Now
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“Hold Me Now” is the ending theme to the 2019 anime Carole & Tuesday, performed by their vocalists Nai Br.XX and Celeina Ann. In episode 4 of the series, the girls try making a
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Marc E. Bassy – XX
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[Intro] / Maybe we get high, just so we can come back down to earth / Maybe we'll get by / That's all that matters / Baby when I'm alone, I'm never really alone / Just pretending
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alt-J – Intro
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The opener to alt-J’s An Awesome Wave, “Intro” wastes no time indicting the pretentious, unoriginal ilk of the music festival scene. It’s a beautiful song with some really biting
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Izaya Tiji – Foreign Xx
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[Intro] / Yuh, yeah / Yeah / Yeah / Ye-yeah / Ye-yeah / Yeah (He shot at me) / [Verse] / Tryna get rich, I'm tryna get rich, I'm tryna get rich (Yuh) / I'm tryna get big, I'm tryna
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XXXTENTACION – FIND ME (Intro)
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“FIND ME” is the introduction to Members Only, Vol. 3. On the song, XXXTENTACION questions where his lover has been as he has been awaiting her.
Before its release, X previewed
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Lucii – XX
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[Intro] / Zero / [Verse 1] / Don't fuck around / Make us come around / That .44 gonna gun him down / SB, my familiar / Mafia, my gango / Go Tirana in Lambos / But we brought UK in
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Carole & Tuesday – Day by Day
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“Day by Day” is about how strong the fear of losing someone can be and how you might even start losing yourself.
This is one of the Carole & Tuesday’s songs that was performed at
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Lacuna Coil – Humane XX
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[Intro: Cristina Scabbia] / (Ah-ah-ah... a-a-a-ah, ah...) / [Verse 1: Andrea Ferro, Andrea Ferro & Cristina Scabbia] / You walk on by without a feeling to your stroll / You walk
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Lacuna Coil – Comalies XX
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[Intro: Andrea Ferro] / You walk on by / Wondering why / [Verse 1: Cristina Scabbia] / Parlami / Il tuo silenzio guarda dentro / Non resisterò / È un attimo, nel tuo vuoto sento
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XXXTENTACION – NEVER
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In this song, there are several reoccurring themes; a girl, death, and X’s internal dispute with death vs. life. It is believed that the song is related to a relationship that X
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XXXTENTACION – Teeth (Interlude)
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XXXTENTACION is singing this song about his breakup with his girlfriend, and what he is feeling about relationships. This song is also a sequel to “A Message To Tina Belcher.”
X
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Genius Romanizations – LUN8 - XX (Romanized)
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[Intro] / Yeah, yeah / I wanna fly high with you / [Verse 1] / Nareul dulleossan i crazy sound (Oh-eh-oh) / Jeongsineopsi gyesok keojyeoga (Oh-eh-oh) / Eodideun dallyeo, running
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The xx – Islands
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“Islands” is about fully committing oneself to one person in that relationship. Although the narrator has had other relationships and casual flings, the relationship they find in
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XXXTENTACION – SAD!
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On “SAD!” X laments about the struggle of letting go of a loved one and the feeling of depression that follows.
He details emotions of uncertainty surrounding a specific
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Jamie xx (Ft. Romy) – SeeSaw
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“SeeSaw” is the third track on Jamie xx’s solo debut In Colour, featuring bandmate Romy Croft from The xx.
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Vukovi – XX
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[Intro] / What does the future hold for the female of the species? / She is the answer to extinguishing this toxic, masculine, cesspool of a society / She deserves to live in a
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XXXTENTACION – vice city
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“vice city” is the earliest song publicly available on XXXTENTACION’s SoundCloud. The song is a classic to many fans with its melancholy melody, cynical lyrics with the
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