OKAY. HOLD UP. Stop whatever you’re doing. Put down the oat milk latte, pause the true crime podcast, and LISTEN.
BABYFACE (yes, THE Babyface, the R&B LEGEND, the man who basically ghostwrote your mom’s high school prom playlist) has a leaked collab with…wait for it…GEN Z STARS???
No. One. Saw. This. Coming.
Not the music industry. Not the psychic on TikTok who correctly predicted Beyoncé’s Renaissance drop. Not even the FBI agent spying on us through our webcams. NOBODY. And honestly? I feel like I just got hit by a truck full of nostalgia and hyperpop beats.
Because apparently, this isn’t just some random “vibe” song. This is the most UNHINGED, genre-mashing, brain-melting thing to hit the internet since AI started making pizza commercials.
WHO ARE THE GEN Z ARTISTS??
You’re not ready. I wasn’t ready. My cat, who was peacefully napping next to me, was NOT READY. We’re talking a mix of indie-pop alt kids, SoundCloud-rappers-turned-chart-toppers, and that one TikTok singer whose name you never remember but whose songs are permanently stuck in your brain.
Rumors are swirling that Chase Atlantic, Doechii, and even Olivia Rodrigo might be involved. But WAIT. There’s also whispers (aka some deep-dive Reddit sleuthing) that Lil Nas X might have left his glittery fingerprint on this, which…yeah, checks out. Chaos is his brand.
THE SONG ITSELF?
Imagine Babyface’s silky smooth vocals—like the audio equivalent of butter melting on warm toast—but then someone throws in a HEAVY 808 bass drop out of nowhere and suddenly we’re in a rave inside a haunted house inside a Hot Topic inside a 90s roller rink.
One second, you’re vibing. Next second, some hyperpop glitch sound effect punches you in the eardrum and now you’re questioning reality. The transitions? Aggressive. The BPM? Illegal in some countries. The VIBES?? IMMACULATE.
Some people are calling it “the future of music.” Others are saying, “My ears just ascended to another dimension.” Me? I’m still trying to process the fact that Babyface, a man who wrote heartbreak anthems before some of these collab artists were even BORN, just made a track that sounds like it was produced by a caffeinated robot on GarageBand.
WHEN CAN WE HEAR IT??
Well, that’s the kicker. Since it leaked, it’s only floating around in the deep corners of the internet. You might have to sell your soul to a Discord mod to get a link. Some guy on Twitter claims he has a snippet, but I’m 89% sure it’s just an old Ne-Yo song sped up. Babyface himself hasn’t confirmed anything, but his manager just tweeted the side-eye emoji, so you KNOW something’s up.
THE VERDICT?
This is either the best thing to ever happen to music… or a social experiment designed to see if our brains can handle 90s R&B mixed with Gen Z chaos. Either way, I’ll be illegally streaming it until further notice.
If you find the full version before I do? Drop the link. I won’t snitch. (Probably.)