Teeth 😬 🦷 | 3 to 5 BOPS

Teeth 😬 🦷: 3 to 5 BOPS No. 32 (2023), features musical BOPS courtesy of 5 Seconds of Summer, 100 gecs, Demi Lovato, Kali Uchis, and Poppy. 

Ah, you know what time it is! It’s 3 to 5 BOPS time – WOO! On 3 to 5 BOPS, it’s all about brevity and sweetness… for the most part! There’s a theme/topic, 3, 4, or 5 songs, and a blurb – two paragraphs or less.  3 to 5 BOPS, hence, is a mini playlist that shouldn’t take much time to consume.  In the 32^nd edition of 3 to 5 BOPS (2023), we select songs that are associated with Teeth 😬 🦷 in some form or fashion. The BOPS arrive courtesy of 🎙 5 Seconds of Summer, 🎙 100 gecs, 🎙 Demi Lovato, 🎙 Kali Uchis, and 🎙 Poppy. Okay, let’s get into it!

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1. 100 gecs, “I Got My Tooth Removed”

💿 10,000 gecs • 🏷 Dog Show / Atlantic • 📅 2023

🎵 “I Got My Tooth Removed” easily ranks among the best songs from 💿 10,000 gecs, the 2023 sophomore album by 🎙 100 gecs (🎙 Laura Les and 🎙 Dylan Brady). “Tooth” is as outlandish as everything else that graces 10,000 gecs, beginning as a ballad. Soon enough, “I Got My Tooth Removed” turns into this cartoonish, utterly absurd record. “I got my tooth removed / And I don’t wanna talk about it,” Brady sings in the chorus. Of course, in the verses, the listener learns more about the offensive tooth. “You were man / Such an asshole,” Brady sings in the first verse, adding, “So I had to say goodbye.” Later, Laura Les sings, “My cheek swelled up twice its size / And I started attracting flies / And playing operation with a safety pin, I start to cry.” Of course, ultimately, we know what happens: “I got my tooth removed!”

2. Demi Lovato, “Skin of My Teeth”

💿 HOLY FVCK • 🏷 Island • 📅 2022

“Demi leaves rehab again / When is this shit gonna end?” Woo! HOLY FVCK, 🎙 Demi Lovato! Lovato is one of the most honest musicians in the game – too honest at times…  That characteristic hasn’t changed as the 🏆 Grammy-nominated musician unveils her 2022 studio album, 💿 HOLY FVCK, and lead single, 🎵 “SKIN OF MY TEETH”. What has changed, however, is the style. “SKIN OF MY TEETH” finds Lovato joining so many others on the pop-punk train.  Is it successful? You bet! Lovato has both the vocal chops and biography for pop-punk.  Over the years, the nonbinary musician struggled with addiction, something that has graced many of their songs including “SKIN OF MY TEETH.” Demi is brutally honest (shocker) on the gargantuan chorus:

“I’m alive by the skin of my teeth

I survived, but it got harder to breathe

Askin’ why doesn’t make it easier

Go easier on me

Goddamn it, I just wanna be free

But I can’t ‘cause it’s a fuckin’ disease

I’m alive by the skin of my—.”

Lovato penned “SKIN OF MY TEETH” with 🎼 ✍ OAK (also produces), Keith Sorrells, Laura Veltz, lil aaron, and Alex Niceforo.  Well, six writers are par for the course when it comes to songwriting these days, especially in pop.  OAK does a fantastic job, as always, assembling an awesome backdrop for the incredibly talented singer. Even with the stylistic shift, Demi can still B-L-O-W! The reasons why “SKIN OF MY TEETH” works are the theme and lyrics (addiction), high-flying vocals, electrifying production, and the artistry and personality of Demi. HOLY FVCK, count me in!

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3. 5 Seconds of Summer, “Teeth”

💿 CALM • 🏷 Interscope • 📅 2020

“Sometimes, you’re a stranger in my bed / Don’t know if you love me or you want me dead.” Woah, woah, WOAH!  The script of the energetic 🎵 “Teeth” encompasses the extremes of love.  “Teeth” appears as the fifth track off of 💿 CALM, the fourth studio album by Australian pop collective, 🎙 5 Seconds of Summer. “Some days, you’re the best thing in my life / Sometimes, when I look at you, I see my wife,” 5SOS sings, continuing, “Then you turn into somebody I don’t know / And you push me away, push me away, yeah.” Sometimes it’s great, while other times, as 🎙 Luke Hemmings sings so convincingly, you “Don’t know if [you’re] gonna make it out alive.” Where do those ‘teeth’ come into play though? That would be the chorus, where the Hemmings and company assert, “Talk so pretty, but your heart got teeth.”

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Appears in 🔻:

• 15 T Songs: No Rhyme or Reason (2020)

4. Poppy, “Bite Your Teeth”

💿 I DISAGREE • 🏷 Sumerian • 📅 2020

“Bite your own teeth, bite your own teeth / Don’t cry, just bite your own teeth.” Woo! 🎙 Poppy makes a bold statement with the colorful 🎵 “Bite Your Teeth”.  “Bite Your Teeth” arrives as the eighth track from her 2020 album, 💿 I DISAGREE.  Stylistically, the record is primarily metal/alternative metal.  She wrote this sub-three-minute record with 🎼 ✍ Zakk Cervini, Chris Greatti, and Titanic Sinclair (Cervini and Greatti also produce). “Bite Your Teeth” commences with incredibly heavy production; it’s intense to the n^th degree. Those guitars roar while mammoth drums pummel. The record is also defined by its driving rhythm and metric shifts.  Poppy is aggressive vocally but also delivers a sense of poise despite the intensity.  One of the most unexpected moments of the song is the bridge, which contrasts the heaviness that dominates most of the track. Post-bridge, “Bite Your Teeth” is wild, and we wouldn’t have it any other way! RAWR!!!

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Appears in 🔻:

• Bite: 5ive Songs No. 11 (2022)
• BEWARE, These Songs Totally BITE! (2022)

5. Kali Uchis, “Your Teeth in my Neck”

💿 Isolation • 🏷 Universal Music Operations Limited • 📅 2018

“What do you do it for? / Rich man keeps getting richer, taking from the poor.” Well, unfortunately, 🎙 Kali Uchis, that’s how the world works, and it totally sucks.  The good news is, on 🎵 “Your Teeth in My Neck” (💿 Isolation, 2018), the groove is infectious – simply irresistible! One thing that stands out is the fact that Uchis taps into her Colombian roots, exhibiting ample personality. The personality is warranted given the real talk she spits. Uchis provides commentary on the music industry, especially how it often takes advantage of naïve, up-and-coming artists.  “I’ve been working so hard just to give you more,” she sings in the first pre-chorus.  Of course, the larger commentary goes to greed exhibited, hence, why “It’s your teeth in my neck.” The second verse features a very emotional, thought-provoking lyrical moment: “Kill us all off, they’d take our worth they pay us dirt.”  “Your Teeth in My Neck” is a call to action: pay us what we’re worth and stop being so damn greedy!

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Appears in 🔻:

• Neck: 5ive Songs No. 65 (2022)

Teeth: 3 to 5 BOPS No. 32 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Dog Show / Atlantic, Interscope, Island, Sumerian, Universal Music Operations Limited; OpenClipart-Vectors, Tania Van den Berghen from Pixabay]