Music Review // Dayside & Guffchild "Daddy's Girl"

 

This song was created by Dayside, Guffchild, Pope $ilk and Mosez Jones.  I'm trying to think of a way to describe the efforts of the collab with some other group of artists such as Black Eyed Peas but nothing really seems to match this sound.  There are moments of pop where it can feel like The Weeknd or something you'll hear on the radio, but it also has a lot more soul and can turn into an almost funk type of sound during the chorus as well.   On top of all of that, the second verse is rapped, so that adds another element in with it all.

"Daddy's Girl" is lyrically a song which tells a story but also feels like a chapter in this person's story and so maybe it would be further elaborated upon in another song as part of an album.  The main character is the daughter of a lawyer who basically living off of her dad's money.  There is this idea of her going out, in the first verse, and paying for drinks until her card declines and that just has that idea of using someone else's money.

As the story goes on, it tells about how her daddy's money ran out, which it doesn't really seem to say why but she got cut off and now she is getting her money a different way.  This is where it gets interesting because the song itself has lyrics that she's selling her body, while the music video portrays her putting on a ski mask and making a gun with her fingers, implying that it feels like she's going to rob someone.  She burns the ski mask at the end as well, sort of a destroying the evidence type of thing.

I enjoy that this song has this story built into it that can be understood just by listening to this one song but it can also be built upon with other songs on an album or EP, before or after it.  This song just also has a strong musical presence where it feel like somethng you've heard before because it will touch upon certain familiar genres while still creating a sound of its own that will leave you wanting to listen to it again and again.