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Oh-Jesse.Org » Blog Archive » Decoding Leavin’ Lyrics
Jesse McCartney’s new hit single ”Leavin’ ” not only has an urban vibe to it, but its lyrics are littered with urban slang, such as when he calls the object of his affection ‘’shawty.”
Does the Disney-friendly McCartney talk like that in real life?
”With some of my good friends, as just joking around, yeah, I drop words like that every now and again,” he says, laughing. ”But they know it’s out of fun. And it’s a fun record. The thing is, especially with a single like that, as soon as you start taking yourself too seriously, people are going laugh at you.
”These aren’t Bob Dylan lyrics. This is a record that’s supposed to move you. And by the end of the song it’s really about how you feel after listening to it.”
So here are explanations, mostly McCartney’s, for some of the song’s phrases:
”Flyin’ on the G5, G5” : ”It’s a private jet — a G5 is an airplane,” he says. Specifically, the Gulfstream G500 business jet. He’s telling the girl he wants to fly her first class.
”You make me want to take you out and let it rain” : ”The expression let it rain is when you have a stack — for her. Basically, it’s just spend money on her,” he says. ”Just let it rain. Just absolutely buy her whatever, just spend a lot of money on her.”
”Just tell him to the left, left, left”: ”It’s a pop reference — Beyonce kind of made that a famous term” when she told her departing boyfriend in her song ”Irreplacable,” ”to the left, to the left, everything you own in the box to the left.” ”So basically it’s saying, ‘Just tell him to the left, left, left,’ meaning all your [stuff] on the left-hand side of my room, get it out.”
”That thing you got behind you is amazing”: McCartney says the operative word is ”behind” — he’s admiring her posterior. ”That’s exactly, it’s definitely, it’s supposed to …” he stumbles. ”It’s not dead on the nose [but] you get a good idea.”
