🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈BUSY SIGNAL • BALLOON (floating, floating, everybody floating)🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hywcq4KTJAQ
Busy Signal • Balloon

Busiest Signal ever. Beautifullest balloons ever. Best song ever. Best vibes ever. Best thread ever.

will check this when it's not 8.25am

<3 <3 <3

He's outdone himself

Greatest moment in the history of recorded sound.

BALLOON.

This is the most important thing that has ever happened

masterpiece

Love this.

BALLOON

I see one look like me
I see one look like you

I feel guilty sharing it because I know I’m adding to the number of folk with “balloon balloon balloon balloon” stuck in their head.

v excited to send this to every parent I know

the video I just invented for this in my head is amazing

If nothing else this song is empirical proof that, at the end of the decade, the influence of emojis upon pop has been infinitely better than the influence of hashtags was at the start.

ikr... ✈️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl1CsAdfaLk

Finally, a song

man you REALLY like this song, eh BC? Okay, playing now.

BALLOON
RED ONE
BLACK ONE
WHITE ONE

yeah it's a stone cold jam on contact, i am gonna play the shit outta this. Busy is such a boss.

Yep, and I choose to believe he’s singing “a girl just get married to a fellow one”.

I'm 99% sure that is what he's saying

well, I guess it could be “married to a fellow, and / honeymoon...”, but I prefer to mentally block that option.

haha ok yeah that's obvious now, sorry to deflate you

I won’t be deflated, I’m a big balloon lol

BALLOON

Greatest moment in the history of recorded sound.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 24 August 2019 11:52 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is the most important thing that has ever happened

― Tim F, Saturday, 24 August 2019 12:30 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Not even hyperbole

this has the makings of an ilx classic

I even like it

If this doesn’t win the end of year poll ILM is canceled

fwiw I also choose to believe this is a song about an interracial lesbian wedding reception

don't know what it's about but I love the Text Message song and video

happy mondays - whatever floats your balloon

now this is the ILM I remember

balloon

balloon

> v excited to send this to every parent I know

Will be great when Spotify cues "Bedroom Bully" as the next song. High energy tune for jumping on the mattress!

https://media.tenor.co/images/f5956b258e0651b5e2a40dabcebff1ed/raw

http://media2.giphy.com/media/3o6Ztioced8LTJ51D2/giphy.gif

Balloon

ALL I SEE

balloon

can we mention it whenever we post autotune songs? thanks.

cw autotune

that's not autotune, they're experimenting with helium.

cw balloon

can we mention it whenever we post balloon songs? thanks.

can we mention it whenever we see loving people here taking part in this affair? thanks.

balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7KnURR7Vvk

balloon ....ball....loon...loon is Minnesota's state bird

I played this ONCE, a week ago, to my five-year-old. Since then he has demanded we listen to it every time we get in the car.

BALLOON

is this really about balloons

All I see

xp yes

I love how this seems to be unavailable anywhere and has less than 9000 views on youtube yet it is a lock for the tracks poll.

Happy revive!🎈

I don’t know about ‘unavailable anywhere’ - it’s on his new album (hey folks, did y’all know Busy has an album out??? it’s very good too!!!) so hardly obscure - but I agree, it should have blown up - bigly -by now.

True. And the album is really good, yes.

thank you all for introducing me to this.

https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Balloon-Bump-Editable-1359115817/original-518676-2.jpg

click here for balloon bump

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0197/8160/products/unicorn-balloon-bouquet_52d15478-ed2a-4d96-9949-b1cd916246ea.jpg?v=1541109284
https://i.etsystatic.com/5603770/r/il/7bd930/1528268694/il_570xN.1528268694_ce3z.jpg
https://image.pushauction.com/0/0/93fa01e3-a565-4c85-afd4-3efb62fc961b/8fb32491-fff9-47d8-8112-a3a934795688.jpg

If this doesn’t win the end of year poll ILM is canceled

― Tim F, Sunday, 25 August 2019 02:32 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

don tim f had spoken

🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈

All power to breastcrawl

🎈 🎈 🎈

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

BALLOON

seriously though, well done breastcrawl (and ILM) for getting this to number one. I feel like these are one of the moments that get me closeer to dying happy.

think i'm gonna set "balloon" as the alarm on my phone

that's a quick way to hate a song, mind

I did that with 'Heartbeats' years ago and it still sends me into a Pavlovian panic mode

celebrating, we're celebrating
1 year (+ 3 days) of BALLOON!

I had missed this YT comment:

LINTON KUSH S.P. blackicealmighty 9 months ago
Busy got this for the kids parties Birthday party yanuh,if him can get this viral and have the kids puck it up.it could be his most viewed song.still grown ass people why him a sing bout balloons.

Agent Sasco MERRY HOLIDAYS swiss cheese & cheddar and many more AND Cheeses is born today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRH0lWLYYxk

https://as1.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/76/30/90/500_F_276309098_FfkxWi5X9g1B3fJpnxcj5C8mxdQMAXHG.jpg

I like it! now go and embark on 🧀Your Own Thread Adventure🧀 (or liven up the rolling dancehall thread idk)

Busy has a brand new bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzGgx_dp0Y

oh shit, our man has a legit summer jam here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_SpwmQj2M

very, very good. taking his time with it too, relishing every sip

...and what an unexpected joy to see that thread pop up in SNA!

Bay love pon the acre
Celebrate life forever
Smoking marijuana
Bay gyal pon the corner
No care about no nosy neighbor
Food full of spicy flavor
Yard man make we link together
Rivers, beaches and sunny weather
Alright then

hm I don't dislike that or anything, but this is a better summer jam IMHO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqdDQwMXYvI

"Bad Gyal"

“Bring Rum” wins this one hands-down for me. “Bad Gyal” (there’s a remix by Amsterdam-based German producer Jonasu, who I’ve never heard of, as well) is fun, but tries just a little bit too hard to be all summery, while “Bring Rum” works both as a lockdown chillout-in-the-park song and as a low-key post-vacc celebration anthem.

(it also has a Balloon-like did he go there oh I guess maybe not double take moment: grab a woman every man grab a woman every woman grab a man)

very strong vote for 'bring rum' here too, basically for the same reasons breastcrawl says, with added horny police

and also it goes on too long. 'bring rum' like 'balloon' is the perfect length

Not sure why you need to call the horny police on someone who’s just trying to break into dance management

Bad Gyal is fine but Bring Rum is kinda compulsive right now

"food full of spicy flavor..."

makes me want to start a thread to call out songs that make you hungry

a lovely bummer of a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEDGOnUTe1I

“It Ruff” and those other new Busy tracks are included on this integrated Rolling Spotify playlist for all the Caribbean music threads (soca, dancehall, reggaeton/dembow/urbano, Martinique, other caribbopop). we’re 75 tracks in, feel free to follow:

ILM rolling Caribbean vibes 🥁🥁🥁

just fyi that one's two years old

thanks bc

Smokey Signal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNWbHqq95A
“Cruising”

Surprisingly good imo!

Busy Signal: always surprisingly good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIVreyyCrE

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
great vid!!!

Balloon

back in the news

I love you, ILM. Just wondered somewhat drunkenly tonight how this thing might hold up; ended up bopping around the room nearly crying with joy.

Balloon.

🎈

"I see one look like me / I see one look like you" is such total Ambushed by Unexpected Emotion.

Olivia Fong-Tom
3 years ago
What’s the meaning behind this song

2 replies
willnzsurf
2 years ago
Floating🆙📌

johan hermanns
2 years ago (edited)
i think he meant we re all the same no matter what color you are

back up:

Smokey Signal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqI__LWgXA

“Cruising”

(in preparation for the imminent GASMS onslaught)