EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact
It’s now being theorised that music may be playing a surprising role in hookup culture, as the steady decline in songs about lovers calling each other while under the influence appears to coincide with the falling fertility rate.
Research shows that tracks about late night root requests peaked in the mid-2000s to early 2010s, with notable bangers such as Call Me Maybe and Hotline Bling dominating the airwaves.
Blondie also had a couple of back to back call related bangers in the 80’s with ‘Call me’ and ‘Hanging up the telephone.’
It was unknown if Blondie was talking about the same person.
But when it comes to the most famous call themed anthems, two stand out as permanently etched into the millennial psyche.
For the original performative males, it was ‘Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?’ by Arctic Monkeys.
For the goth girls, it was ‘Call Me When You’re Sober’ by Evanescence, featuring the smoking hot wolf guy.
Though not on purpose, these songs may have contributed to romanticising toxic hookup culture by highlighting a cycle of messy, late night, substance fuelled flings and framing emotional unavailability and one sided effort as poetic and hot.
But now with pointless culture wars dominating the algorithms, it appears kids could do with less divisiveness, and more songs about 3am booty calls.
More to come.
