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B.o.B is everywhere. Setuju enggak sih? Karena belakangan memang banyak penampakan nama rapper asal Atlanta ini. Setelah Nothin' On You, sekarang giliran Airplanes yang menjadi radio hit. Nah, di lagu ini, B.o.B mengajak vokalis band Paramore, yakni Hayley Williams untuk menyanyikan bagian chorus-nya. Hasilnya bisa dikategorikan pada sebuah kesuksesan. Siapa yang bisa nyangka kalau hip-hop bisa klop dengan ciri khas rock chick-nya Hayley. Lagu dimulai dengan piano menyebarkan nuansa gothic, tapi kemudian penyeimbang beat-beat hip hop hadir sebelum kita terlena dengan kegelapan di awal lagu tadi.
Aku enjoy dengan sepenuh hati lagu ini, terutama keberadaan Hayley yang tidak memamerkan teriakannya. Dan ada momen dimana Hayley menghiasi lagu dengan dinamika vokalnya. Dan aku juga suka bagian itu. Rap dari B.o.B juga kuat, berhubung lirik yang di-rap-kannya bertema persuasif/provokatif. Selain Bobby Ray sendiri, Jeremy Dussolliet, dan Tim Sommers bertanggung jawab pada perangkaian musik dan lirik di lagu ini. Sedangkan yang berindak sebagai produsernya, ada Alex Da Kid dan DJ Frank E (yang pernah sukses besar dengan Flo Rida di lagu Right Round).
Ada lho Airplanes, Part II yang selain menampilkan Hayley Williams juga menampilkan tambahan rap dari Eminem. Dengan adanya penambahan rap, so pasti durasi lagunya jadi nambah panjang. Selain itu, lirik untuk B.o.B diubah semua. Lagu yang awalnya mencondongkan diri pada pengharapan berubah menjadi pengandaian di bagian keduanya ini. Lagi, Eminem memberikan bridge ke lagu ini. Pilih sendiri, lagunya tambah seru atau justru jadi tambah maruk?
(Ai Hasibuan / CreativeDisc Contributors)
Lyrics:
AIRPLANES
[Chorus - Hayley Williams]
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky
Are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
[Verse 1 - B.o.B]
Yeah
I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
Cause after all the partyin’ and smashin’ and crashin’
And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion
And all the pandemonium and all the madness
There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
And when you’re staring at that phone in your lap
And you hoping but them people never call you back
But that’s just how the story unfolds
You get another hand soon after you fold
And when your plans unravel
And they sayin’ what would you wish for
If you had one chance
So airplane airplane sorry I’m late
I’m on my way so don’t close that gate
If I don’t make that then I’ll switch my flight
And I’ll be right back at it by the end of the night
[Chorus - Hayley Williams]
[Verse 2 - B.o.B]
Somebody take me back to the days
Before this was a job, before I got paid
Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank
Yeah back when I was tryin’ to get a tip at subway
And back when I was rappin’ for the hell of it
But now a days we rappin’ to stay relevant
I’m guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes
Then maybe yo maybe I’ll go back to the days
Before the politics that we call the rap game
And back when ain’t nobody listened to my mix tape
And back before I tried to cover up my slang
But this is for Decatur, what’s up Bobby Ray
So can I get a wish to end the politics
And get back to the music that started this sh-t
So here I stand and then again I say
I’m hopin’ we can make some wishes outta airplanes
[Chorus]
[End]
AIRPLANES, PART II
[Chorus - Hayley Williams]
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
[Bridge]
Dreaming.
(oh oh oh oh)
Of falling (mmm mmm mmm mmm)
Dreaming (ooh oh oh oh)
[B.o.B - Verse 1]
(ya) Lets pretend like it’s 98
like i’m eating lunch off of styrofoam trays
trying to be the next rapper comin out the A (A-town)
Hoping for a record deal to ignore my pain (ya)
now lets pretend like i’m on the stage
and when my beat drops everybody goes insane (woo)
okay
and everybody know my name and everywhere I go people wanna hear me sing (oh)
oh yeah and I just dropped my new album on the first week I did Five-Hundred Thousand
gold in the spring and diamond in the fall and then a world tour just to top it all off
and lets pretend like they called me the greatest selling out arenas with big ass stages
and everybody loved me and no-one ever hated
lets try to use imagination
[Chorus]
[B.o.B - Verse 2]
Okay lets pretend like this never happened (never)
like I never had dreams of being a rapper (rapper)
like I didn’t write raps up in all of my classes
like I never used to run away into the blackness
now lets pretend like it was all good (good) like i didn’t live staring in a notebook (notebook)
like I did the things that i probably knew i should (should)
but Ii aint have neighbours thats why they call it hood (hood yeah)
now lets pretend like i aint got a name before they ever call me BOB aka Bobby ray
i’m talking back before the mixtapes (yeah) before the videos and the deals and the fame
before the ever once compared me to Andre before i ever got on Myspace
before they ever noticed my face so lets just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes
[Chorus]
[Bridge II]
and it seems like yesterday it was just a dream
but those days are gone (gone gone) and just memories
(oh oh)
and it seems like yesterday it was just a dream
but those days are gone (gone gone)
[Eminem]
allright lets pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
lets pretend things would have been no different
pretend he procrastinated had no motivation
pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin they could blow away with the wind
marshall you’re never gonna make it makes no sense to play the game there ain’t no way that you’ll win
pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends
pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
and it wasn’t time to move and schools were changing again
he wasn’t socially awkward and just strange as a kid
he had a father and his mother wasn’t crazy as sh-t
and he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as sh-t
f-ck a talent show in a gymnasium bitch you won’t amount to sh-t quit daydreaming kid
you need to get your cranium checked you thinking like an alien it just ain’t realistic
now pretend they ain’t just make him angry with this sh-t and there was no one he could even aim when he’s pissed it
and his alarm went off to wake him off but he didn’t make it to the rap Olympics left to his plane and he missed it
he’s gon’ have a hard time explaining to Hailey and Laney these food stamps and this WIC sh-t
cuz he never risked shit he hopes and he wished it but it didn’t fall in his lap so he ain’t even here
he pretends that…
[Hayley Williams]
Airplanes in the night sky like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars
I could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now
Uh hmm oh oh oh ooo
Uhu mm aalalalaa
[End]
