Shamir Bailey Hates Your Favorite Shamir Song

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

He wrote "On the Regular" to be hated.

— Shamir Bailey is a queer, Philadelphia-based musician. His albums include Ratchet, Hope, Revelations, and Resolution.

— While he was in the studio, we had Shamir perform acoustic versions of his songs "Straight Boy" and "I Can't Breathe."

Video production by Kim Nowacki. Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	So, Kath, Tobin, I want to start out by talking about this one song.
0:04.6	If you were anywhere in 2015, it was pretty much impossible to avoid.
0:09.0	It's called On the Regular.
0:10.7	Yes, this song was everywhere.
0:14.6	Hi, hi, howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy.
0:16.1	What everyone is mine is you could call me multiply.
0:18.2	Just so you know, yes, yes, I'm my guy.
0:20.1	You could give my fingers and I'm not waving high.
0:22.0	Guess I'm never ending.
0:23.0	You could call me high, but really how long till the world realized?
0:26.1	Yes, yes, I'm the best, but what you heard, anything less is...
0:28.8	It seems to be.
0:30.6	It's the first single off an album called Ratchet by Shamir Bailey.
0:34.4	And can I just say he was 19 when that came out?
0:37.6	Like, what were you doing at 19?
0:39.6	I was not doing much.
0:40.8	Me neither.
0:41.6	It's so young or to be successful.
0:43.6	But the thing is, Shamir didn't want anybody to hear this song.
0:48.0	I literally wrote that song to be hated.
0:52.6	Shamir says that early into making the album,
0:55.0	it was becoming clear that the record producers he was working with
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