Baby Hotline

Baby Hotline / Tea Errors

**Baby Hotline** is a short song uploaded by Jack Stauber on January 10th, 2019, along with a music video. It would later be extended into a full song on January 30th, 2019, as a Patreon exclusive. It would later be released along with the extended version of Tea Errors on March 21st, 2019, under Jack Stauber's Micropop.

## Lyrics

*Note: These lyrics have not been officially confirmed by Jack and are interpreted by fans, so a few lyrics may be incorrect*

The **bolded** lyrics were included in the original short.

**[Verse 1]**

**Baby Hotline, please hold me close to you**

**Baby flatline, still time to do it too (Ha-ha-ha!)**

**Baby snack time, chow down to earth**

**But in your head she's a hoarder of quarters**

**And no boundary boredom-dom, boundary boredom**

**[Chorus]**

**I contend that your drinking eye has never opened**

**I insist somebody will die and I hate hoping**

**Wishing that the pills let you cry and I hate coping**

**Someday I will go back outside and see her okay**

[Break 1]

(Hotline!)

Hung up and put on hold! (-old)

(Hotline!)

My line is getting cold! (o-o-old)

(Hotline!)

Hung up and put on hold! (o-o-old)

(Hotline!)

(No, uh, I'll try again though...)

[Verse 2]

Baby Hotline, please dial nine to get out

No flatline, what were you scared about? (Ha-ha-ha!)

Baby sat by and felt the wind

At least I called her a hoarder of quarters

And no boundary boredom-dom, boundary boredom

[Chorus]

I contend that your drinking eye has never opened

I insist somebody will die and I hate hoping

Wishing that the pills let you cry and I hate coping

Someday I will go back outside and see her okay

[Break 2]

(For a while)

(While, oh) (Hahahahaha...)

(For a while)

(While, oh)

(Hotline!)

Hung up and put on hold! (-old)

(Hotline!)

My line is getting cold! (o-o-old)

(Hotline!)

Hung up and put on hold! (o-o-old)

(Hotline!)

[Bridge]

Numb, I feel burning with haste

And I'm realizing now it's a terrible waste

I feel numb, I feel burning with haste

And I'm realizing now what a terrible waste

I feel numb, I feel burning with haste

And I'm realizing now it's a terrible waste

I feel numb, I feel burning with haste

And I'm realizing now it's a terrible waste

I feel numb

[Verse 3]

What a waste

What a waste

What a waste

Sunbathe 'til morning time

And your eyes will open wide (What a waste)

Oh baby, nevermind

To my sight, oh, run and hide

[Verse 4]

I can say, oh!

Wrap it in with cinnamon (What about...)

I've been dead, oh!

Wrap the trouble now (Ha ha!)

I feel so good, you're welcome (If you did it)

Thinking bent, oh

I won't stay more anymore, oh I don't even think about it

[Interlude 2]

Oh, you know I don't

Oh, you know I don't

Oh, you know I don't

Oh, you know I don't

[Outro]

I hate hoping, oh-oh-oh

I hate hoping, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

I hate hoping, oh

I hate hoping, oh
## Notes

Baby Hotline has become one of Jack's most famous and influential songs to date, as well as becoming the overall most popular extended song, becoming very famous for its possible dark meaning and its smart lyrics. It has also become popular among fan-made videos and animations since the original song's debut with the music video. The original music video is noted for its attention to detail lots with lots of hidden effects and Easter eggs in the video. The imagery and visuals in the music video would go on to become very popular in the Jack Stauber community and in the internet in general, such as the scenes with Jack holding the telephone and Jack with a soda can for an eye. The succeeding extended version would follow up the original version well and would be just as well received and popular, if not more than the original. The song has also been noted for its new segments that are very different from the original song which have been met with mixed opinions, mainly from longtime Jack listeners, but most positive. These segments also do keep the original retro 80s tone of the song and the potential message.

## Trivia

* As stated above, Baby Hotline has become Jack's most famous extended song in views and streams.
* Baby Hotline is also Jack's most viewed music video and overall YouTube video of 2019.
* Baby Hotline was Jack Stauber's first video and public song of 2019.
* The extended version of Baby Hotline was Jack's longest song of 2019.
* Baby Hotline was teased on Plopscotch the same day of the original upload, which shows a behind the scenes photo of the clay hand with heads attached to it, seen in the music video during the "no boundary boredom-dom" lyrics.
	+ The lyrics of the song featured during the scene would also be the captions of the Plopscotch teaser post.
* Baby Hotline holds the records of the shortest a micropop has taken for an extended version to be created, being finished and uploaded only 20 days after the original upload of the music video.
	+ This also marks the first and currently only time a micropop was extended in the same month and year it was uploaded in, do so in January 2019.
* Baby Hotline was the first time an extended song played out the entirety of the original song without any form of new intro or starter. The only extended songs to later do this style were the extended versions of Those Eggs Aren't Dippy, Out the Ox, and Keyman.
	+ It is also the only song on the EP to do this intro format and not have a new intro or starter.
* The cover and promo video for the Telephone EP are based off this song, with it being the opening track of the EP.
* As stated above, there are a lot of hidden Jack Stauber faces hidden throughout the music video, which can be seen when pausing and examining the music video with each few frames.
* While the official meaning and story of the song has not been confirmed by Jack, the most popular theory about Baby Hotline from most fans is that the song is about a woman calling the suicide hotline, specifically from a payphone, with "baby hotline" being a metaphor for said hotline. The song is being sung from the perspective of both the woman calling said hotline and the responder on the other side of the phone.
	+ Hotline Caller: The beginning of the song portrays the singer wanting to call the hotline and be "close to it", but the responder does not take them seriously with them always getting a flatline and them believing the responder sees them as a "hoarder of quarters" with no "boundary boredom". They continue to be put "on hold" as their line gets "cold". However, they continue to call the hotline and get a response, as heard in spoken dialogue "No, uh, I'll try again". They eventually sing about feeling numb and burning with haste after continuously calling the hotline, and how doing so was eventually just a waste. Verse 4 eventually plays out the woman's mindset as she prepares to commit suicide where she claims she's been "dead", her thinking is "bent", and how she eventually decides to "wrap the troubles" and feels good from doing so and now she doesn't have to stay and think about "it" anymore. The outro seems to be the woman right before her suicide, repeating manically that she hates hoping before the song ends with the phone ringing out. The clapping in the background seems to also represent the end of her life in a similar fashion to how people clap at the end of movies.
	+ Hotline Responder: While the woman caller is the main character of the song, the "baby hotline" responder's perspective is portrayed in select segments of the song. Verse 2 portrays the responder's view on the suicide victim. They claim there was no flatline and only then ask what they were scared about. After the woman commits suicide and "sits by and feels the wind", they simply say they at least called her the "hoarder of quarters" with no "boundary boredom", as speculated by the woman caller earlier. Verse 3 seems to then represent the responder attempting to help the victim, such as recommending a sunbath. Eventually, they just say nevermind to their "sight" and they just run and hide from them. At the end of the song, the after the woman likely commits suicide, the phone ringing fading out seems to represent the responder attempting to call them back again after multiple failed attempts from the woman, but being too late.
	+ Both/Other: The chorus has been under debate whether it is from the caller or the responder's point of view. However, there are also theories that the chorus is back and forth from them. The responder claims her "drinking eye" has never opened, to which the woman responds she insists someone will die and she hates hoping, which is later sung by her at the end of the song. Fans also speculate that the "someone" who could die is the woman herself due to her suicidal thoughts. The responder then claims that they wish the pills, likely antidepressants, will let her cry and that he doesn't like coping. The responder then says that they hope they will be able to go outside and see the woman okay from her mental state. Some fans also theorize that "baby hotline" being a metaphor for the suicide hotline is represented in the term "baby", representing that the woman calling the hotline is being perceived as weak and fragile by the responder, like an actual baby.

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