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Sunlight
Metadata
- title
- Sunlight
- meaning
- After Stories' head-noise: choose sunlight: popsicle picnic, Tajín mango, beer back, summer camp where nobody needs you.
- year
- 2023
- release
- MÖB
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- DistroKid credit pane: Music and lyrics, Luke Francis Walton (BMI 00579587572). Producer, mixing engineer, recording engineer, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing and vocals billed as Scoobert Doobert. Mastering engineer, Riley Knapp. Album art by Grizzard Graphics is the existing cover credit; this pane does not list graphic design.
- image
- /photos/covers/sunlight.jpg
- imageAlt
- Cover for Sunlight. A red, white, and blue popsicle.
- imageCredit
- Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/sunlight/1708670332?i=1708670335
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB
- themes
- Funk
- summer
- freedom
- California
- MÖB
- 2023
- isrc
- QZNWQ2342323
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Strawberry shortcake A popsicle picnic A waterpark ticket for you I'm barefoot on concrete I'm burning up my feet It's snow-cone weather Margarita round number two I'll be in the sunlight, the sunlight Yeah, imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Imma throw a beer back And savor it Got me feeling alright In the sunlight, the sunlight Oo yeah hmm Oo yeah hmm Yeah, Imma throw another beer back And savor it And now I'm feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah No tourist trap My mango got that Tajín in the bag Breezy, put up a hammock throw a frisbee Under a clear sky Summer camp away Where the living's easy 'Cause nobody needs me Imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Yeah imma be in the sunlight, the sunlight Imma throw a beer back And savor it Got me feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah hmm Oo yeah hmm Yeah, Imma throw another beer back And savor it And now I'm feeling alright In the sunlight The sunlight Oo yeah sunlight Oo yeah sunlight Oo yeah
Content
Track three on MÖB, the turn toward warmth after Stories' head-loop. The DistroKid credit pane lists music and lyrics as Luke Francis Walton, BMI 00579587572. Producer, mixing, recording, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing are billed as Scoobert Doobert. Riley Knapp mastered it. Ear to the Ground Music singled it out for bouncy funk energy, which fits its job: the album trying an answer to its own anxiety. The verses are a summer inventory (popsicle picnic, mango with Tajín, margarita number two) and the chorus is a prescription repeated until it sticks: imma be in the sunlight, throw a beer back, savor it.
The line that carries it is nobody needs me. That's the freedom move: permission to exist without being on call, not martyrdom. On an LP shadowed by illness and dread, Sunlight is the choice to step into the light anyway. It pairs with Tired of the Sunshine on Moonlight Beach as the push-pull on California brightness. Here the vote is for the sun.
Spotify for Artists emails on July 30, 2023 added it to Soirée (1:51 a.m., 267,639 followers) and come thru (9:21 a.m., 49,831 followers). Soirée added it again on February 17, 2024 (9:31 a.m., 307,256 followers).