TikTok’s new hit song sounds like The Powerpuff Girls immersion scarfacepowder, smoked a cigarette, and spent a night in the East Village…and then wrote a super-popular, bubblegum song about it.
The song, produced by Girly Girl Productions and called “10 Drunk Cigarettes,” is a seemingly artificial intelligence-assisted ditty about all the things girls need more than men. You’d be forgiven for — aside from the title — this sounds like a bad Katy Perry song. Instead, it’s a very funny and raunchy song that people love.
It doesn’t hurt that the song seems to be borrowing from an old TikTok formula that has led to hits like “abcdefu” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch.” It’s easy to count, like the “Twelve Days of Christmas.”
Here’s the bulk of the song, written for your reading pleasure:
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“Ten things we girls need before we need a man:
1 new e-cigarette
2 lines of Coke
3 bar drinks
And 4 lines of Coke
French fries for 5
I got hit 6 times with a blunt object
And 7 lines of Coke
8 pairs of shoes
9 BB belt
And 10 drunken cigarettes”
The song also explores all the things a girl doesn’t need from a man before she finally decides money would be nice. It’s honestly a fun song and does the classic trick of mixing an innocent beat with raunchy lyrics.
People have been sharing it on TikTok, posting lip syncs and covers. Some of these videos have hundreds of thousands or even millions of views.
Girly Girl Productions seems to have produced a lot of similar songs designed to go viral. For example, a recent song features the “modesty” trend. Most of the songs seem to follow a similar formula of hyper-pop, bubblegum aesthetic, and ridiculous lyrics.
So if you’re suddenly hearing a lot of songs on TikTok that incorporate girl power, vaping, and drugs, you’ll know where it’s coming from.
