So High

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## from the album *Please, Be Seated~* and from the EP *Purrr!*

### Genre

Alternative R&B • alternative hip hop • chill out • lofi • new wave

### Producer

Ilya • Evil Needle

## Music Video

"**So High**" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter and rapper Ilya. It was released on March 13, 2014 through MAU and Kemosabe Records and was made available for CD, vinyl, digital download/streaming and serves as the lead single to her debut extended play, *Purrr!*, and appears as the third track on the extended play.

The track also appears as the sixth track on her debut studio album, *Please, Be Seated~*. The song received highly positive reviews from music critics upon its release.

## Background

In 2011, Ilya began to teach herself how to sing, rap, dance, and produce music. She revealed that being a singer and a rapper was never her intention; however she needed a job after she dropped out of high school at the age of 16. Ilya would spend a lot of time browsing YouTube for beats and instrumentals which she would add vocals to using the built-in microphone on her MacBook, all while sitting on the mattress on her own bedroom floor.

She began to self-produce her music and by November of 2011, she had completed her first song and had uploaded her first song to SoundCloud. Throughout 2012 and 2013, Ilya continued to upload self-produced tracks onto her SoundCloud account, although the songs only received moderate popularity. In early February of 2014, Ilya uploaded "So High" onto SoundCloud. The song immediately went viral in online circles all over and across the internet and eventually caught the attention of Kemosabe Records, who signed Doja to the label. An official music video for the song was released a few days later, and helped gain the song larger public attention online.

## Composition

The musical base of the song is taken from "Falling Leaves" by French music producer Evil Needle, who is credited as the producer of the song. Musically, the song is set in the key of B Minor with a tempo of 132 BPM.

## Critical reception

Upon its release, the song received overwhelmingly high positive reviews from music critics and music publications alike. At the time of its release, Adelle Platon of *Vibe* wrote that the song mixes "bright vocals with unfiltered bars" and described Ilya as a "psychedelic prodigy". Reminiscing several years later, Nastia Voynovskaya of NPR described "So High" as a "downtempo smoking anthem" which was released in "a year when SoundCloud upstarts like ABRA and Shlohmo shifted R&B in a trippier, more zoned-out direction."

Juliana Pache of *The Fader* described the song as "a smooth, repetitive, Soulection-esque number about precisely what the title suggests." Aria Hughes of *WWD* also described the song as "a stoner song comparing falling in love to smoking weed".

## Lyrics

[Intro]

**\*lighter flick\***

[Pre-Chorus]

Blow, weed, coke, pop X

Speedin' up the heartbeat bangin' in the chest

When you put it on me you relieve my stress

You got me so high, takin' deep, deep breaths

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

[Chorus]

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high, high

[Verse]

You got me so turnt up, this dude got a bitch so high

Weed always on my mind, now he always on my mind

Doja, know you want some of this purr (**\*meowing\***)

You ain't gotta say a word, just spark that, let's get burnt

Ah, then we'll roll up a hundred fuckin' blunts

All up in my mouth, now I'm all up in yo' **\*meowing\***

This n\*\*\*a got pounds of it all up in his trunk

Now we both look turnt up, he wavin' and I'm drunk

I got dank shit in my cup, you know what I'ma do to you

I could get real used to you, blow, weed, X

And we sippin' on that juicy-juice, that's just what she choose to do

Oh, man, this shit these drugs will do to you

[Pre-Chorus]

Blow, weed, coke, pop X

Speedin' up the heartbeat bangin' in the chest

When you put it on me you relieve my stress

You got me so high, takin' deep, deep breaths

[Chorus]

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high

I know you ain't a drug, but you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high

You get me so high, you get me so high, high

[Outro]

**Six hits to the dome, gone off control**

**Six hits to the dome, gone off control**

**Six hits to the dome, gone off control**

**Gone off control, gone off control**

## Music video

The official music video was released on March 25, 2014. Filmed in the salt flats of California, Ilya described it as somewhat a "high-budget" project for an artist as small as herself. In the video, she is dressed as a Hindu goddess and primarily stays seated on a lotus-styled throne while doing flowy arm movements. She revealed in an interview that her child experience of practicing Hinduism influenced the aesthetics used in the video, stating: "The world of the video for 'So High' comes from my personal life, my past, it is not something that came out of nowhere."

## Trivia

* The song surpassed over 100 million streams on Spotify in 2017.
	+ It was later certified Gold in 2017.
* The song was featured on the Fox series *Empire* in the third episode of the show's first season.