Teacher

## Single by PrettyMuch

"**Teacher**" is the sophomore single by PrettyMuch, released through Syco Music and Columbia Records on September 29, 2017. The band co-wrote it with Ilya Salmanzadeh and Savan Kotecha. They performed the song on MTV's Total Request Live in October 2017.

## Composition

In an interview, Austin Porter said about the single, "The way I hear it in my head is, you've got this girl and you've kind of lost touch with your game. You don't know how to spit game no more, but she's teaching you how she spits game. So you get macked, basically." Edwin Honoret added, "Women empowerment, 100 percent!" When asked to elaborate further on this, Honoret told *Billboard*, "It's just the guy not really knowing the approach or losing your game on how to pick up girls, even talk to a girl, and he's trying to give it to the girl. Put it [in] the girl's hands and be like, 'Hey, can you teach me the ways? Can you run the game?' A lot of guys nowadays feel like they have to run the game, but girls have the power."

Brandon Arreaga named his favorite lyric to be 'And on the real tip / Everything we do is salacious,' purely because it contained a vocabulary word. Honoret added about this line, "It's so cheesy and corny. It makes sense, but it doesn't, and it's just us—again—not taking ourselves too seriously. We'll throw this out there and hope for the best."

## Music video

The music video was posted to YouTube on October 6, directed by Noah Duran. For the concept, Arreaga explained it to showcase their "camaraderie," "individuality," and "playfulness," depicting them in a plain white room goofing off. They planned to shoot it in one take, though an alternate idea would have been footage from the one take, and another day of "shooting at some studio." Honoret told *Billboard*, "My favorite part is just not really taking it too seriously. I feel, with this one-take thing, we kind of just wanted to show more personality and having fun. I feel like nowadays artists want to go so deep and so in-depth with their videos — you know, girls and kids, they just want to see us feeling relatable. Just hanging out. We want the fans to feel they can be a part of that environment as well. Sometimes all the production and stuff gets intimidating."

## Personnel

* Austin Porter - vocals, writer
* Brandon Arreaga - vocals, writer
* Chris Gehringer - masterer
* Cory Bice - background vocals, assistant engineer
* Edwin Honoret - vocals, writer
* George Galatis - guitar
* Ilya Salmanzadeh - writer, producer, engineer, bass, guitar, programmer
* Jakob Jerlström - background vocals
* Jenny Schwartz - background vocals
* Jeremy Lertola - background vocals, assistant engineer
* John Hanes - engineer
* Ludvig Söderberg - background vocals
* Matt Engst - background vocals
* Nick Mara - vocals, writer
* Peter Karlsson - producer, engineer
* Sam Holland - engineer
* Savan Kotecha - writer
* Serban Ghenea - mixer
* Silke Lorenzen - background vocals
* Zion Kuwonu - vocals, writer

## Gallery

PrettyMuch - Teacher (TRL)PrettyMuch - Teacher (Live 955)
## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: Edwin, *Brandon*]

Yo, it's PRETTYMUCH (*Yeah*)

Comin' through, comin' from you live, you know (*Woah-oh-oh*)

I'm just tryna figure out what you can be

'Cause, uh (Aye!)

[Chorus: All, *Nick*, **Brandon**]

You could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

You could be my boss (*Where they at?*)

Oh, you could be my lover (*Where they at?*)

You could be my car (*Where they at?*)

Baby, I could drive ya (*Oh*) anywhere you want (*Slow, slow*)

Ah, you could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

Oh yeah, you could be my boss (*Skrrt*)

**I don't give a what 'cause**

[Verse 1: Edwin, *Brandon*]

So, tell me your wish

I could do the night or the day shift (*Day shift*)

You could find my name on your playlist

Your favorite, girl, yeah

And on the real tip (*Real*)

Everything we do is salacious (*Yeah*)

Meet me in your room or the basement

Escapin', girl, yeah (*Oh yeah*)

[Pre-Chorus: Austin]

Like that Prada you stole

Put me on like your clothes

We can rock nice and slow

Yeah, me and you, true

[Chorus: All, *Nick*]

You could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

You could be my boss (*Where they at?*)

Oh, you could be my lover (*Where they at?*)

You could be my car (*Where they at?*)

Baby, I could drive ya (*Oh*) anywhere you want (*Slow, slow*)

Ah, you could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

Oh yeah, you could be my boss (I don't give a what)

[Verse 2: Zion]

It's your birthday

Every single day it's your birthday (Woo)

I can make you feel like Tinashe

In every way, yeah yeah (Yeah, yeah)

And when the beat drops

We'll keep on dancin' 'cause we can't stop

We'll be connected like a hotspot

I got Wi-Fi, girl

[Pre-Chorus: Brandon, *Edwin*]

Like that Prada you stole

Put me on like your clothes

We can rock nice and slow

Me and you, true (*Yeah, that's true*)

[Chorus: All, *Nick*, **Edwin**, ***Zion***]

You could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

You could be my boss (*Where they at?*)

(**You could be my boss**)

Oh, you could be my lover (*Where they at?*)

(**Yeah, yeah, yeah**)

You could be my car (*Where they at?*)

(**Said you could be, girl**)

Baby I could drive ya (*Oh*), oh

Anywhere you want

(***Yeah, anywhere you want, baby, I got it***)

Ah, you could be my teacher (*Where they at?*)

Oh yeah, you could be my boss (*I don't give a what*)

[Post-Chorus: All, *Zion*]

'Cause, uh

I like you, I want you (*I like you*)

Indeed, baby, take a seat, baby (*I like you*)

I like you, I want you

Indeed, baby, take a seat, baby (*I like you*)

I like you, I want you

Indeed, baby, take a seat, baby

I like you (*Oh, oh*), I want you

Indeed, baby, take a seat, baby

[Outro: Brandon]

Ooh! Aye!

## References

1. ↑ "@PRETTYMUCH". *Twitter*. October 3, 2017.
2. ↑ Roth, Madeline (October 5, 2017). "PRETTYMUCH's New Single Is All About 'Women Empowerment, 100 Percent'. *MTV*.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Armstrong, Megan (October 6, 2017). "PRETTYMUCH on New 'Teacher' Video: 'We Wanted to Just Turn the Camera on and Let Us Be Us'". *Billboard*.