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"Everybody Wants To Be Poppy" is the first official single and original song by Poppy, released under the name That Poppy. It was released on June 23rd, 2015. The audio currently has over 1 million views on YouTube.
Theme
Poppy cosigned the Genius bio for the song, which says that "the song is about how people often try to be something they're not or to be a celebrity".[1]
Lyrics
[Hook]
Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy
Everybody wants to be
[Verse 1]
All the people all around wanna know
What to look like, what to think, where to go
But I don't know, I don't know
I don't know what to think anymore, no
[Chorus]
I'm not here to tell you what to say or be
Why is everybody just like me?
[Verse 2]
I don't know who to belong to, no
I'm just a princess with a pistol, whoa
[Hook]
Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy
Everybody wants to be
Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy
Everybody wants to be someone else
[Chorus]
I'm not here to tell you what to say or be
Why does everybody look like me?
[Guitar Solo]
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
[Bridge]
Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy
Everybody wants to be
Everybody wants to be Poppy, Poppy
Everybody wants to be me
[Chorus]
I'm not here to tell you what to say or be
Why is everybody just like me?
'Cause I don't have all the answers, but what I say is true
All you need to do is just be you
Videos
Trivia
- A three-part webseries of the same name was created in promotion of the song.
- This song was performed live during the Bubblebath Tour and the North American leg of the Am I A Girl? Tour.
- The song's chorus is available as a ringtone on iTunes.
- The official instrumental was leaked in October of 2016.[2]
- To date, this song, as well as the Travis Mills remix and the clean version of "Lowlife", are the only Poppy era songs that were removed from streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify.