195 milioni di stream, 36 milioni di riproduzioni su SoundCloud e 46 milioni di visualizzazioni su YouTube: questi i numeri di i hate u, i love u di Gnash feat. Olivia O’Brien. Il brano inizia a farsi largo anche in Italia, dove è appena diventato disco d’oro. Ma chi è davvero Gnash?
Gnash, nome d’arte di Garrett Charles Nash, è un cantante, autore, DJ e produttore di 22 anni e viene da Los Angeles. Qui ha iniziato a scrivere e registrare musica nel suo garage e si è costruito un seguito grazie al profilo su SoundCloud e a una serie di concerti fai-da-te in vari parchi californiani, dove la sua merchandise, soprattutto gli occhiali tondi che lo contraddistinguono, va a ruba.
L’EP di debutto di Gnash (la “g” però non si pronuncia!) u è arrivato nel marzo del 2015 su SoundCloud, ed è stato seguito dal secondo lavoro me e infine da us, tutti e 3 pubblicati con la sua etichetta :): (che si pronuncia happysad). Ben presto però il giovane artista è stato notato e messo sotto contratto dall’Atlantic e per il prossimo anno è atteso l’album d’esordio.
Il singolo i hate u, i love u, contenuto nell’EP us e cantato con Olivia O’Brien, ha raggiunto la posizione numero 50 nella Billboard Hot 100 e il primo posto in Australia. Il pezzo sta spopolando su Spotify facendosi notare in tutto il mondo, anche in Italia, come dimostra la certificazione di disco d’oro appena ottenuta.
Di seguito il testo e il video ufficiale di i hate u, i love u.
Testo
Feeling used
But I’m
Still missing you
And I can’t
See the end of this
Just wanna feel your kiss
Against my lips
And now all this time
Is passing by
But I still can’t seem to tell you why
It hurts me every time I see you
Realize how much I need you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don’t want to, but I can’t put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I’ll never be her
I miss you when I can’t sleep
Or right after coffee
Or right when I can’t eat
I miss you in my front seat
Still got sand in my sweaters
From nights we don’t remember
Do you miss me like I miss you?
Fucked around and got attached to you
Friends can break your heart too, and
I’m always tired but never of you
If I pulled a you on you, you wouldn’t like that shit
I put this real out, but you wouldn’t bite that shit
I type a text but then I nevermind that shit
I got these feelings but you never mind that shit
Oh oh, keep it on the low
You’re still in love with me but your friends don’t know
If u wanted me you would just say so
And if I were you, I would never let me go
I don’t mean no harm
I just miss you on my arm
Wedding bells were just alarms
Caution tape around my heart
You ever wonder what we could have been?
You said you wouldn’t and you fucking did
Lie to me, lie with me, get your fucking fix
Now all my drinks and all my feelings are all fucking mixed
Always missing people that I shouldn’t be missing
Sometimes you gotta burn some bridges just to create some distance
I know that I control my thoughts and I should stop reminiscing
But I learned from my dad that it’s good to have feelings
When love and trust are gone
I guess this is moving on
Everyone I do right does me wrong
So every lonely night, I sing this song
I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don’t want to, but I can’t put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I’ll never be her
All alone I watch you watch her
Like she’s the only girl you’ve ever seen
You don’t care you never did
You don’t give a damn about me
Yeah all alone I watch you watch her
She’s the only thing you’ve ever seen
How is it you’ll never notice
That you are slowly killing me
I hate you I love you
I hate that I love you
Don’t want to, but I can’t put
Nobody else above you
I hate you I love you
I hate that I want you
You want her, you need her
And I’ll never be her
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