So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya

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* Re-Release

Single artwork

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**So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya**, also known as **So You Think**, is a debut single by GIRLI. It was independently released on May 22, 2015, and later re-released on September 22, 2015, along with its b-side, ASBOys, under First and Last Music.

## Background

On April 20, 2015, GIRLI tweeted:

> makin sum 🎵🎶choons🎶🎵 with this mad 1 @ian\_watt\_ @ London
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In a March 2016 interview with Wonderland Magazine, she explained:

> That [So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya] was just one of the first songs I wrote as GIRLI. I was feeling pretty pissed off and I thought it was important to make people aware that women can be angry and in a legit way. Not just in a cat-fight screaming way... I write pop music... I think pop music at the moment is very middle-of-the-road and doesn't really garner many extreme reactions. I wanted extreme reactions.
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In an April 2019 interview with The Line of Best Fit, she reflected back on the song's lyrics:

> I definitely became a better songwriter on this album. [Odd One Out] There's the kind of songs that before I thought 'I'm not the kind of artist that'd write a ballad', and I wrote a ballad. You know, my first ever song [So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya] has me saying 'so you thought I was gonna do a ballad?'. And there's a massive ballad on the album called 'Friday Night Big Screen', which is just about falling in love and how it's like the movies. That's probably my favourite song on the album – the ballad. It's ironic.
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## Theme

In November 2015, GIRLI told i-D Magazine:

> It [So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya] is about a bunch of people, really. Like the people who use to make fun of me at school and a guy who I was dating that turned out to be an asshole, and my sister! It's just about really random stuff -- it was kind of less specific. I have got songs like ASBOys, which are about a very specific group of people whereas this was just general warning.
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## Artwork

GIRLI photographed by Hannah Saleh and Ivan Kašša on April 2, 2015.

* Photoshoot
* BTS
* Media
* Merchandise

Single artworkRe-release artwork

CDCDCDT-shirtiPhone 5 caseiPhone 6 case

### Background

On October 24, 2015, GIRLI posted on Facebook:

> so you think you can fuck with me do ya video 💥 coming soon 💥
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On November 9, 2015, the music video for So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya was published to her YouTube channel. In an interview with Setlisted, she explained:

> It was like I didn't really know what to do for it, [So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya's music video] I was like 'do we have a video with a narrative to it or what do we do?' Then a friend of mine was like 'why don't they just come round and film us?' So the people in the video are in like an art collective called Occupy and they're a big bunch of my friends basically and we just go around and do that anyway. So it was just a guy with a camera coming and following us on a night out but it was fucking long though. We were like 'yeah great come film us' but then you don't realize you have to do ten takes of multiple shots lip-syncing everywhere you go. So we were out from like 6pm to 4am and it was so fucking long.
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The video was later made private sometime after early 2019. On November 2, 2020, GIRLI posted an apology to Twitter:

> i was 17 when i wore box braids & at the time, i didn't understand that was cultural appropriation. it's something i'm very ashamed of these days. & since then i've educated myself a lot on the topic. i'm always learning & i clearly still have ways to go in educating myself
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The director's upload of the music video can still be watched on Vimeo.
## Official Versions

 ▶ | Re-Release (Version used in music video, features changed and missing sound effects) | Official Streaming Services

## Lyrics

### Lyrical Differences

The re-released version of So You Think You Can Fuck With Me Do Ya replaces a notification sound effect with a text-to-speech voice, which says "you have a text message".

* Final Version
* Demo Version

There you go, you listen and that's how you know

Why don't you show some sympathy in letting go?

It's plain to see, that there is nothing other for me

Nothing other for me, so when you breathe

You let me inside but don't, let me teeth

I guess it must be easier, it's plain to see

That there is nothing other for me, nothing other for me

Hey, you thought I was gonna do a ballad?

Fuck off, never ever, ever, ever, ever

Hey girl, just thought I'd text and say

That I love you so much, you're my number one babe

Hey girl, ya where you been?

You know the two blue ticks show that it's been seen

Hey boy, do you wanna be friends?

I wanna chat shit and blaze in your ends

Bunk lessons, fuck the teachers

Fuck the work, fuck the tests, fuck the bleachers

Behind the bike sheds me and you

You wanna sing some shit 'cause we got nothing to do

You cut your wrists light a fag can we twos?

Let me introduce, we're the wasted youth

You have a text message

Ugh, oh my god, you'll never guess who just texted me

Who?

Christina

What the fuck, why is she messaging you?

I don't know she's kinda like pissed off 'cause I made out with Donny last night. I'm just gonna say, piss off

Don't you know what you've got in store?

Baby, soon you'll know there's a whole lot more

'Cause I don't really like you and for that I'm sure

I think it's time we need to settle the score

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

Say one, two, three, four

I'm gonna tweet just a little bit more

Count one, two, three, four

I'm gonna tweet and call you a whore

Say one, two, three, four

You're a bitch, I know your sister in law

Count one, two, three, four

Say something stupid give me some more

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Do you know what you got in store?

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Do you know what you got in store?

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you chat like a fool?

So you think you can act like a loser?

You don't know what you got in store

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can chat like a fool?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Don't you know that your mum's a whore?

Don't you know what you've got in store?

Baby, soon you'll know there's a whole lot more

'Cause I don't really like you and for that I'm sure

I think it's time we need to settle the score

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

You two step, want you to stay

You make me feel so uneasy

You two step, want you to stay

You make me feel so uneasy

You two step, want you to stay

You make me feel so uneasy

You make me feel so uneasy

You make me feel so uneasy

Don't you know what you've got in store?

Baby, soon you'll know there's a whole lot more

'Cause I don't really like you and for that I'm sure

I think it's time we need to settle the score

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

So you think you can fuck with me do ya?

So you think you can bend the rules?

So you think you can act like a loser?

Only I know you chat like a fool

[Snippet]

Two blue ticks show you that it's been seen

Hey girl, do you wanna be friends?

[...] head?

Fuck the teachers

## Credits

### Technical

* Writer - **GIRLI**
* Producer - **Ian Watt**
* Publishers - **Stellar Songs Limited**, **EMI Music Publishing Limited**, **Sony Music Publishing**

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230103220121/https://twitter.com/carpediemremix/status/590268069924237312
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171116140337/https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2016/03/02/girli
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190411205647/https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/girl-debut-album-reintroducing-her-to-world-interview
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230103231028/https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/qv8ndd/class-of-2016-girli-wants-to-make-weird-shit-with-courtney-love
5. ↑ https://hannahsaleh.com/post/664680181402845184
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/0-QUZTk0N-
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11. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/0\_DjVYk0GW
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 https://www.discogs.com/es/release/12090929-GIRLI-So-You-Think-You-Can-Fuck-With-Me-Do-Ya
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20181005063433/https://shop.virginemi.com/girli
14. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/girlimusic/photos/a.1684761835083477/1848724388687220
15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20171112194825if\_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8SYGFsKubU
16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220224002920/https://setlisted.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/interview-girli
17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220327202223/https://twitter.com/bl0odyflower/status/1093241219688394753
18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220224001545/https://twitter.com/GIRLImusic/status/1323322405209649152
19. ↑ https://vimeo.com/146000565
20. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/girlimusic/soyouthink
https://youtu.be/t313OHyvdbM
https://youtu.be/AZU0TD\_nA7s
21. ↑ https://youtu.be/mYYKzK\_HxUw