Dissect DJs - Craig David - Fill Me In

Episode Date: May 18, 2020

We decode the brilliant story-telling ability of one of the UK's finest, Craig David, in his signature single - 'Fill Me In'. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

What you got to say it, Craig? Dicek Dijays. I'm checking this girl next door when our parents went out. She don't say, hey boy, come on right around. So I knock at the door, you were standing with a bottle of red while I'm ready to poor, dressed in a long back Saturday, or next to the floor. Oh, what's going on, everybody? Dysack D.Js, in for another one.

It's time for a little Craig David. I'm about to take you back to the early 2000s. It's a good place to be, I think. Music-wise. Craig, this song. Craig is throwing it down. What a beat. Can we be real about the level of downness?

Craig is throwing it? This is a genre right of the bat. I wanted to say that you don't get that much of. You don't hear that much then and you don't hear much of now, where it's kind of like this smooth sort of like, almost like British pop, but it's not over the top in your face pop. It's just kind of like a smooth like, yeah. And not in your face British either.

It's kind of like you can hear it. It's a nice balance of both, yeah. Yeah, I agree. So going back to the lyrics, I'm, I'm just. Going back to the lyrics out the gate. Okay. Let's start by going ahead and introducing the song for those of us that, those that did not grow up in the early 2000s.

I feel like everybody knows the song. Go ahead. Yes. There's a lot of people that miss it, sure. So this is Craig David. The song was called Fill Me In, and it was, we always do this without checking the year that a song came out. Are you looking at lyrics?

Yeah, I'm doing lyrics. I got the lyrics in my hand. If I had a guess on the year, I would say 2001. But I will go ahead. Let's go ahead and say that. 2001 is when the song came out. And it is one of those songs that, when you listen to it, you're going to hear one thing, but it may meet another. And we always had a bit of a...

A little bit of a mystery as far as what the lyrics. Who is filling who in on what? And you'll understand that as we continue. So first of all, out the gate, he was checking the girl next door. When her parents went out, she phoned said, hey, boy, come on right around. I think that's where we start, right? What does that sound like, too? He was looking at the girl next door.

Parents left and that girl, somehow beforehand he had gotten her number or she got his, she hit him up and said, hey. Your parents are gone. Come on through, baby. Let's do something. Okay, by the way, I looked it up as is 2000. Okay. Totally right there. First of all, it sounds like this is something that's, are they in high school?

Like, it sounds like a high school, maybe early 20s. Okay, it's ageless to me. When we think of like your parents are gone or something, you think of high school is like the age that you would assume that associates with. But really, people can live at home at any age. And anytime somebody's living at home, this could apply. So this could be high school or it could be a, for some reason, 40-year-old. Who's just still, you know, shacking up. Someone who somehow is back at her mother's house because of whatever happened.

And their parents leave, and now the house is open, she's hitting this guy up. So this could be any age. You're right. Which is the benefit to both because the guy doesn't necessarily want to creep through while the parent. He's got to go do an intro of the parents. He's got to like, oh, hey, how you doing? It doesn't seem more awkward at 40. Yeah.

You know, exactly, yeah. Yeah. Nobody ever wants to have, like, passing by conversation with the parents as you're just trying to find your way up to the upstairs room on the left. So, when they said down, stopped kissing, grass and told me about jacuzzi sounded interesting, so we jumped ride in. Ooh, I think we missed a line or two, but. No, they jumped right in, though. That's the takeaway here. She told them about jacuzzi.

This is a jacuzzi? Sounded interesting, so they jumped right in. Oh, wait, wait. Did they start kissing and crescent before the jacuzzi? They did. And then she told them about the jacuzzi. Okay. Yeah, we jumped right.

This is progressing nicely. I mean, parents aren't home. What do we fucking around for? And then we missed the part because we kind of skipped over earlier, but it's fine. You were standing there with a bottle of red wine ready to pour. Okay. Dressed in a long black satin and lace to the floor. So she came in, she's wearing a black dress.

She's got red wine. The moment you walk in. So you're right, this might be a middle-aged, late-thirties woman living with your parents. I mean, anybody could be wearing a... Or I'm going to be a little more positive and say maybe she's taking care of her parents. went out to go to a little Yeah, there's a lot of reasons. There's a lot of reasons somebody

could be like living with their parents, you know? It's not always just like, oh, you know, I can't get out. You know, sometimes you're, maybe they're staying with you. I don't know, you know. Happens. That's what I'm saying. So you're liking this whole scene?

I fact that she's showing up wearing like a lacy garment and something. If any time there's an arrival and that's the situation, like why beat her on the bush. Yeah. Jump right in. All calls diverted to answer phone. You know what they say? I don't know.

You should have just let that way. All calls diverted to answer. a phone. He's not answering right now. Please leave a message after the tone. Now this is like 2000. I guess cell phones were barely making it. Now this is like Nokia time. Yeah but still

that's a cell phone that counted. That's all they had at the time but you know he's not answering. Yeah you're right. I mean me and her parents were kind of cool but they were the fine line between me and you. We were just doing things and people in love to do. Parents trying to

find out what we were. All right, before we get into the breakdown part. It's so hard to stop right there. I know. I was surprised you did. The next part we're going to let it go, so I'm going to let it go for a while. And then we're going to talk about it. So I'm going to let that whole part, because this is the best part.

Me and her parents were kind of cool, but they ran a fine line between me and you. All right, I'm getting it now. They were just doing things young people in love, do. Parents try to find out what we're up to. Now, depending on how old the parents are, if you're in your 40s and they're in their 80s, you're still kind of a young person to that. Was there not a line in there that said something about doing it? what kids do

doing things young people in love do. Yeah, all right, so they're not 40s. They're like... I mean, that could be young because I'm trying to tell you.

They could be young. It could be, if the parents are 80 in their 40. Exactly. So, argument is still valid as to this could be any age. Yeah.

But probably somebody young. Yeah. Let's be honest. I don't think Craig David was probably in his like 20s of the time. I don't think he's just singing a ballad for 40 years.

So is he talking to what was he's in 17? Is he acting like he's a 17-year-old in this big song? It feels like a setup that was kind of built for, you know, because a lot of, like, yeah, high school kids are probably going to like it, so. Okay, so so far, let's just say it's, they're in the jacuzzi. They were having some wine, but they're having wine, too.

Yeah. So that means they're at least 21 or do this, like, a little 17-year-old know what's up with wine with a black satin dress? I mean, the age here is very. I'll bump it out of high school then, you know? So 19. You're at 19-20? No, I'm above that, too.

21. So this is, like, college. They're like. Even though 19 is technically out of college, like, anything under 20s. So, like, you say, like, 21, 22. These two are like 22. We'll give them that. Yeah, sure.

I don't know. Again, I don't know. We're getting too bogged down in ages here. I don't know. I'm pretty big on the age. I don't think it matters. It kind of means a lot as to if the parents are leaving and if they're coming back and they're worried about us, leave me alone. If I'm 40, I'm doing what I do.

But if I'm 22, she's living with me. She's living with me. They're still paying the bills and the thing. I guess I get it. All right. But that said. Either way, he said the parents at him were kind of cool. But the point is, they're out of town right now.

So, like, let's get it. He just rattles it off right there The reason Craig David killed it was because like nobody was better At just like kind of running through a series of lyrics and just making every single one count than he did Like he's telling you a story and he's saying it quickly But yet he's hitting every note and it's going with the beat it's incredible really Like there's so few people that I think I could pull that off so like you know He killed that but with that said I believe I'm starting to answer the question as to I believe his first line was him talking

Then the second main verse is the parents talking So that's where the hook is always confused. Because if you're not really paying attention to the story and you hear the words being said, it sounds like somebody who's trying to call their significant out or out on like running around on them. Because he's asking, why is there half a bottle of wine gone? Why is the jacuzzi turned down? Why are you dressed in black? You're dressed in white.

Yeah, yeah, what's the deal? Back when I originally used to hear this, I always thought that's what this song was about. But when we break it down as we do, it's like a back and forth conversation. It's still confusing. Still, like, not an easy answer, but I get the feeling it's like a parent asking. He's given back to him, and then the parents are going to come talking again. So it's like, you can have a video of like the parents like, why are you thinking? They're really probably saying, why were we creeping out late last night?

And then Craig is just putting a little cool spin on it. You were wearing black and now you're dressing white. The jacuzzi's a white. And need I mention this bottle of wine, half the contents gone. What is this young lady? This is our 1942 chel duvet. Okay? This is a very expensive bottle that we have been saving for our 48th anniversary. I don't know why we'd celebrate that anniversary with a special bottle wine, but we want it to because 48 is a damn load of years.

Yeah, ages are all over the place right now. Fill me in. Whenever the ghost was clear and you'd ask me to come out, I'd say, hey, girl, I was standing with the keys in my hand to the 4 by 4, jumped in my ride, chipped in my ride, nobody saw. So the first time the girl was asking him to come out now, he used to. talking to come around now and he's like yeah come on jumps in this four by four check it makes her nobody saw and they just they're going to the club like they switch roles so first she asked him to come over now she she she's saying did i come over he doesn't sound like he has as much restrictions as she does though no it sounds like he's got a four by four yeah jump right in so there's no

question there's no there's no but he did check if nobody saw because she's got to escape her little dungeon and they do they live like right next to each other probably live like cross I'm imagine, I always imagine this being like two people that live down the neighborhood together. Like she's sneaking out. You gotta climb a fence probably or something like yeah. Yeah. Can I just say, how do we know they're in club? I didn't hear anything about a rhythm. So it was early morning. We better be leaving. So I gave you my jacket for you to home. Told you were to wear it because you felt cold. I mean they're at the club. Can I just say, how do we know they're in club? I didn't hear anything about a club. The club we went in. We got down, bount

to the rhythm, which is an awesome line. Like you kind of told that. I bow, bad, bad, pass it over there. Again, because Craig is able to say something that makes sense, go with the beat, and actually continue the story going. Incredible storytelling abilities from this guy. What time do you think it was? He said they saw it was early morning. Like, you think it's probably East Coast Club? Or no, England, right?

Isn't that where he's from? Do they stay out until 4 a? They probably do, I don't know. 4 or 5, okay. All right, they're out until 4 or 5 a.m. And then they're about to leave, and then she's cold. So he gave it a jacket. By the way.

But he made it sound so much better than that. Dude, Craig is a. smooth dad, dude. Like, I got to say, like, everything it sounds like I'm imagining as he's describing it. I'm like, hey, gave you my jacket because you seem cold. Like, that's just something that so many artists these days would just miss that, you know? Like, they would never even, not only would they not think to, but it definitely

would include it in the line. Craig's just like, he's an A-game baller right now, man. Like, he's just on top of his soul. Lyrical artist. Yes. I mean, I didn't mean to break the rules. I weren't trying to pay him up that for fools. We were just doing.

things on people that I do parents trying to find out what we were to say Why can't you keep the promises? No more saying you'll be home by 12 Constrolling in and four Out with the kids We're leaving with a boy next door Hey

Hold up these parents are I mean We're putting her at least at 22 right Anywhere in the mid-20s? Yeah, let's go ahead and get that vibe They are very inquisitive You know why I think it's good to go in the early 20s because right now the early to mid-20s is that range where there are some people who are very much on their own independent, you know, making it on their own. While there's others who are still kind of in that situation where like, yeah, I still kind of live at home, live that foundation that I've always come up with and I don't really know anything else.

And the parents hasn't let them know anything else. So I think that's what we're getting here. So what age range are you giving this? Yeah, I think you're right. I'd say 25 and 22 is a good. 22 to 25? Yeah, like he's 25. She's like 20.

She's still like living out. She's just never gotten out of the house. Two, why does she have to be home by 12? Because that's... These parents are out. These parents are way too. Parents are very strict. You know, these parents, just go with that.

Parents, don't be something I'm demanding, okay? And once you get to a certain age, if you're still letting them live at home, that's your fault. You're still living and living home. Let them live, okay? Leave them alone. You have no control over 12. And if you're paying attention to the jacket she's wearing and whose property, and then she left her money on the TV.

And she's, what? Maybe she has other money. Okay, maybe that's a jacket. She got at Mervant's yesterday. Remember this is 2000, so Mervis were still around. Is this? Mervis is not around anymore? Mervis is big gone.

It was around her and this, and she probably got a new jacket there. All I'm saying is, as I'm reading this story, and yes, it is now figured out it is guy talking, then the parents, then the guy talking, then the parents. Parents, calm your asses down. You guys are way too inquisitive. Leave them alone. Why do I have to tell you to fill you in? I am about 22, 25 years old. Get off from my back.

You know how we finally figured out what is happening in this song, even though? that we never really know it. Because we dissected the motherfucker. Because all this thing to do is be checking up on. Last time we're going to stop before the end, but these parents, you need to back, back off. He's even saying it now, he's like, these people, your parents are way too involved. And let me just say, this just feels like an excellent example of parents that need to kind of recognize. Like, there's a difference between protecting your daughter from being around some, like,

savage lazy fuck who just got no responsibility doesn't have a shit together yeah you're like we're trying to protect him and somebody who's like actually this person would probably be very beneficial for your daughter this guy's a four by four dude he gave her his jacket when she was cold he's taken her good spots he's showing her a good time he's mindful by the way of your restrictions he's trying to get her home at midnight maybe it's a couple minutes late sometimes is there a really reason that they came home at four okay yeah All right, well, that you should probably be a little pissed about that. But still, who's coming home with 12?

Who's coming home with 12? Well, okay, now, this is where I very much would like to actually know the age. Because if she's 22, it's like, okay, well, let the girl live. If she's like 18, then it's like, all right, well, yeah, I'm with you, actually. Four is a little late. Four is a little late. Don't bring out the parenting. When I'll see two shadows moving in your bedroom, like,

now you're dressed in black when I left you were dressed in white. Can you feel me? Can you Can you feel the I'm ready to answer Let's leave him alone It turns out Filming in

Has become a lesson And you know what This is something that pop songs Or music doesn't get into that much But movies very much do This is a subject that a lot of movies Especially in like say the 80s There's a bunch of these movies

Where this is kind of like the struggle Doesn't usually get played out of music now actually But this is one of the ones that do And I think, like, it's just, it's a give and take of trust between parents and they're an adolescent as they become an adult child. And, yeah, you know, you just need to sometimes, got to, like, take the reins off a little bit and let them make their own mistakes, let them go live their own life. And if they... I think it's just hard for a parents to realize that their daughter is sexually active and begging the guy across the street. I think that's the hardest thing that they can get through their heads here.

And they're just trying to keep that overbearing that they've had all her life. She's probably the only child, sounds like. you know and she's just sitting there I mean never says anything about that but I'm just mad you know putting up a story here they need to back off or she needs to move out

get her own apartment whatever but that's what the story ends up being about this whole time you're right castle earlier you said I thought it was a relationship and the guy who was like girl was caught cheating but this is just the parents

being overprotective and asking way too inquisitive questions for their 20 to 25 year old daughter who is of age to be enjoying herself with the red wine and black dress I feel like I gotta just go ahead and throw this little quick story because I have a little background that this just keeps reminding me of when I was a senior in high school girl I was dating had parents that were even more

gnarly strict than the people in this song and I lived up in the mountains far away from like everybody so it took long to get home she always had to be home at midnight we always tried to make sure she got there by the time but it was like 1202 I'd get phone calls from this guy scary-ass voice why is she in home? And after the second time of that, he literally told me he wanted me to meet him, and I did. And this full had a light shining in my face, like a straight up interrogation session,

in a dark room, and I walked into this, and he just asked me, he had me, he's like, sit down, and he's like, this isn't about it, I like you. Literally, he's sitting in the dark with a light shining in my face. Now, at the time, this was my first kind of like real relationship. I just thought that's what dating was. I thought this is just what your girlfriend's dad does And I look back and I'm like

Bro, I was like an 18 year old kid Can you chill a little bit? It was 1202 I live in the damn mountains Alright Give it another 10 minutes Can you give it another 10 minutes? I don't know

Yeah, a pretty extreme version It was an extreme version, yeah So like I mean I've been through what Craig's discussing in the song And you know what sometimes it's just like You know hey and especially given that like she was like a straight-a-suit and everything and like definitely somebody that was worth trusting you know it's a give and take if your daughter or even son has burned your trust a lot then maybe you know tighten up the reins a little bit we don't know what this we don't know what the case is here yeah this song is very ambiguous there's a good chance that if this was written out of a true story maybe craig was the shit bag the whole time maybe he was like he's leaving out the whole part where he got into a fist fight with the girl's dad because he's he asked where they were.

Craig wouldn't do that. No, I don't see him doing that either. I'm just saying, you know, there's a lot of vagueness in the story. But in the general, what I take it as is I'm like, okay, well, Craig, he was a smooth gentleman,

and this girl's parents a little too uptight. Here's a quick question. That's a good lead-in. And do you think he met this girl on Monday? And they had a drink on Tuesday, or? Yeah, well, we'll bring that up like.

It's possible. This is the song. There's seven days in the week. From seven days. There's seven days. This might be the girl. from seven days and it's all intertwined. I mean, you should.

We'll go up with that. But before we do, since it's been such an actual example of your life that you've had, and you enjoy the song, and what are you giving this as far as a rating castle? All right, rating time.

Fill me in, I'm gonna go with... Four delayed five? You know what that was? That was a four and a, you know what? I'm gonna give it five. That's what that was. It was a, you know what? Five.

Some of those songs nostalgic, go ahead. It's one of those ones where I wouldn't think necessarily out the bat when I remember it. I don't know that's a five-slaver, but then listening back and then going through all the things that we just discussed, the poetic nature of the fact that he's telling a story, his ability to rattle off lyrics to the beat and like make it work. This would be a really hard song to karaoke too because how quickly he moves and how much you've got to be specific to it. There's very few artists who I would trust with this song.

Challenge accepted. All right. I'll be carry-up in this next time. The world turns out. I look forward to seeing it. All right. Well, with my rating, then I'm going to go ahead and go with a. Snowflakes of snaps?

Yeah, snowflakes of snaps. So four claps and snowflakes of snaps because it's not just a five because it's just not the five. It just doesn't carry like a five shit, but it's close and it has such a good feeling. I remember listening to it. I hear it now. I get into it. The story always confused me and now I finally realize what the story means. It gets four claps and a bunch of snaps.

You know what? The snowflakes actually worked because I actually always remember Craig David wearing those like little beanies that was kind of like snowflake looking thing. That was part of my reason for the snowflakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, I throw out the snowflakes where they're on the same page. It's good. All right, man, well, um, I guess. I do like Craig David, so let's keep this going. All right, you want to fill me in? I will.

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