Purple Disco Machine & Benjamin Ingrosso, Honey Boy | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 77^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we highlight “Honey Boy” performed by Purple Disco Machine and Benjamin Ingrosso featuring Nile Rodgers and Shenseea.  

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 77^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2024), we break down “Honey Boy” performed by Purple Disco Machine and Benjamin Ingrosso featuring Nile Rodgers and Shenseea.

“My my oh my my / Won’t you come and let me dive / My my oh my my  / Won’t you come and play me all night, night.”  Play, Benjamin Ingrosso, you hottie, you 😈 (Can I be buttercup, so I can, fuck it up? 🤭).  The Swedish singer is hot and talented, showing off his sickening pipes on “Honey Boy”. “Honey Boy” was released as a single long before Paradise, the 2024 studio album by German DJ and producer, Purple Dance Machine, arrived. Attributed to Purple Dance Machine and Ingrosso, “Honey Boy” invites other talented musicians along ‘for the ride’: Iconic guitarist, songwriter, and, producer, Nile Rodgers, and gorgeous Jamaican singer, Shenseea. Purple Dance Machine, Rodgers, and Hampus Lindvall produced this infectious bop.

In verse one, Benjamin references his social awkwardness against an unawkward, groovy AF instrumental.  “I never said a single word to any girl / I was afraid that I would fuck [mess in some versions] it up,” he sings, adding, “But then one day I saw her face and the old me would’ve walked away / But then I took a chance.” Aww, Benjamin, way to be brave! However, she says, “Honey boy, you’re too young, but let me give you a night you won’t forget.” Oh, snap 🫰 😈! It’s not all Ingrosso singing though. Shenseea puts her sexy two cents in during the pre-chorus (“Bet you like, bet you like how it’s feeling, oh” 😈) and joins in during the chorus (excerpted at the top).  Ingrosso serves up a second ear-catching verse, including a jealous friend (“You should have seen the jealous look on his Danny’s face”) and this nameless woman taking Ben under her wing (“All your friends will never know the things that you will learn”). Oh, snap! The melodies are tuneful, and the lyrics are fun, fun fun. The music is sweet too, thanks to Rodger’s guitar playing, and his production/writing skills alongside Purple Disco Machine.  “Honey Boy” is an infectious, kick-ass, must-hear contemporary dance / dance-pop / disco cut.  Purple Disco Machine, Benjamin Ingrosso, Nile Rodgers, and Shenseea did that!

Purple Disco Machine // Paradise // Columbia // 2024

Purple Disco Machine & Benjamin Ingrosso, Honey Boy: Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 No. 77 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Columbia; cottonbro studio, Harry Shelton, Kool Shooters, Lucas Pazeta, Mavluda Tashbaeva, Teddy Yang, Wesley Souza from Pexels]