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“FRIENDS” is a pop song by American DJ Marshmello. The track is a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie.
The song centers on the idea of “friend-zoning” someone. Anne-Marie narrates her experience warding off unwanted romantic advances from a friend, repeatedly telling this person that they’...
[Intro]
Ooh-oh, ooh-woo
Ooh-oh, ooh-woo
[Verse 1]
You say you love me, I say you crazy
We're nothing more than friends
You're not my lover, more like a brother
I known you since we were like ten, yeah
[Refrain]
Don't mess it up, talking that shit
Only gonna push me away, that's it!
When you say you love me, that make me crazy
Here we go again
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't go look at me with that look in your eye
You really ain't going away without a fight
You can't be reasoned with, I'm done being polite
I've told you one, two, three, four, five, six thousand times
[Chorus]
Haven't I made it obvious?
Haven't I made it clear?
Want me to spell it out for you?
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
Haven't I made it obvious? (Ooh-oh, ooh-wooh)
Haven't I made it clear?
Want me to spell it out for you? (Ooh-oh, ooh-wooh)
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
[Verse 2]
Have you got no shame? You looking insane
Turning up at my door (Ah)
It's two in the morning, the rain is pouring
Haven't we been here before? (Ah)
[Refrain]
Don't mess it up, talking that shit
Only gonna push me away, that's it! (Ah)
Have you got no shame? You looking insane
Here we go again
[Pre-Chorus]
So don't go look at me with that look in your eye
You really ain't going away without a fight
You can't be reasoned with, I'm done being polite
I've told you one, two, three, four, five, six thousand times
[Chorus]
Haven't I made it obvious? (Haven't I made it?)
Haven't I made it clear? (Haven't I made it clear?)
Want me to spell it out for you?
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
Haven't I made it obvious? (Ooh, ooh-woah)
Haven't I made it clear? (Haven't I?)
Want me to spell it out for you? (To spell it out for you?)
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
[Bridge]
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
That's how you **** spell "friends"
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
Get that shit inside your head
No, no, yeah, uh, ah
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
We're just friends
[Pre-Chorus]
So don't go look at me (No) with that look in your eye
You really ain't going nowhere without a fight (A fight, nah, nah)
You can't be reasoned with, I'm done being polite
I've told you one, two, three, four, five, six thousand times
[Chorus]
Haven't I made it obvious? (Have I not made it obvious?)
Haven't I made it clear? (Yeah, I made it very clear)
Want me to spell it out for you? (Yo)
F-R-I-E-N-D-S (I said F-R-I-E-N-D-S)
Haven't I made it obvious? (I made it very obvious)
Haven't I made it clear? (I made it very clear)
Want me to spell it out for you?
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
F-R-I-E-N-D-S
[Outro]
Mmm, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ah, ah-oh, ah-oh
FRIENDS was written by Marshmello & Anne-Marie & Nat Dunn & Eden Prince & Jasmine Thompson & Sarah Blanchard & R.I.Pablo & Richard Boardman.
FRIENDS was produced by Marshmello.
Marshmello & Anne-Marie released FRIENDS on Fri Feb 09 2018.
We censored the word “fucking” in the song’s bridge, because we’ve heard it that way in all versions of the song. Hence, it’s probably a stylistic choice of the writers.
One possible explanation is that even though Anne-Marie gets increasingly annoyed with the person she’s addressing, the actual to...
Marshmello called the song “the official friend zone anthem,” and suggested:
The song peaked at the #11 spot as of June 9th, 2018 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Two years earlier I had remixed her song,” he explains, “so we kind of knew each other, but we had never met in real life. Within the next 30 minutes she writes all the lyrics and I produce all the drums.
Via Billboard
Regarding the often-misheard spelling “F-R-I-E-N-D-S,” Anne Marie clarifies to Billboard:
I think it just came into my head, like “F-R-I-E-N-D-S,” and everyone went mad, so we ended up sticking with it. It’s fun, although people do think I’m spelling it wrong [Laughs], so I have to make it clear th...
This whole song came about because Marshmello remixed my song “Alarm” back in 2016, and I loved what he did and always thought it would be sick to work with him again. And he was in London in December. He had actually been working on one of my songs that needed production done on it, so I was at stu...
We wrote the whole thing to the guitar loop. I don’t know how the subject came up. I like to try and write about stuff that I haven’t heard before in a song, like um, I just was thinking about situations that I’ve been in with people, and I remembered this one situation—awkward situation—where my fr...