3 Nights

## Music video

* Official Video
* Alternative Video

"**3 Nights**" is the debut single by American singer and rapper Dominic Fike. It was released as a single from his *Don't Forget About Me, Demos* EP through Columbia Records on October 16, 2018, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium (Flanders), Croatia, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and within the top forty of the charts in Germany. "3 Nights" revolves around Fike staying up late at a motel in the "City of Palms," otherwise known as Fort Myers, FL, and the conversations and nude pictures he receives from a girl. The lyrics include Fike offering said girl to stay with him and call him "what you want, when you want, if you want." It is one of two songs on the EP that Fike didn’t write and produce himself, the other being “Socks.”

The track seems to be about the progression of a relationship going from the narrator not being 100% interested, to falling in love, to then reluctantly drifting apart.

## Critical reception

In a profile on Fike, *The New Yorker* said the parent EP of the song is "nostalgic for the early-two-thousands beach-bonfire style of Jack Johnson, with some of the watered-down reggae of 311 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers." It further said "3 Nights" could "generously be classified as high-quality retail music", calling it "easy to listen to" and comparing it to "Rude" by Canadian reggae fusion band Magic! Matthew Strauss of *Pitchfork* gave the track a negative review; he described it as "absolutely harmless to a fault" and "neither soothing nor pleasant", further criticizing its lyrics as "mildly endearing but utterly forgettable".

## Music video

A music video directed by Nathan Rickard was released on April 3, 2019, and features Fike with friends in his hometown of Naples, Florida and Miami International Inn Motel, with a snippet of an unreleased song being played at the end. Kevin Abstract also shared an alternate video he directed for the song, which was described by Fike as "messing around".

## Lyrics

**[Chorus]**

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want

And you can call me names if you call me up

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want

And you can call me names if you call me up

**[Verse 1]**

Feel like the least of all your problems

You can reach me if you wanna stay up tonight, stay up at night

Green lights in your body language

Seems like you could use a little company from me

But if you got everything figured out like you say

Don't waste a minute, don't wait a minute

It's only a matter of time for you-ooh-ooh-ooh to-ooh-ooh-ooh

Tell me now, 'cause I've been up for, I've been up for

**[Chorus]**

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want (Want)

And you can call me names if you call me up (Call me up)

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want

And you can call me names if you call me up (Ooh)

**[Verse 2]**

I can't fix each and all your problems

I'm no good with names and faces

She sent me naked pictures from her neck down to the waist

I get my feelings involved, she stopped returnin' my calls

Her flaws turned into walls and barricades

And I'm too far gone in all the wrong ways

And now every long day is a bad one

I can't make you call or make you stay or take you off the pedestal

So I get lost in modern music, watchin' movies, talkin' to the walls in my room

Walkin' through the halls in my head, just tryna make sure it all makes sense

I ain't made of money, maybe someday, you can take it from me?

I'm up too late thinkin' 'bout you and M.I.A. for

**[Chorus]**

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want (Want)

And you can call me names if you call me up (Call me up)

Three nights at the motel

Under streetlights in the City of Palms

Call me what you want, when you want, if you want

And you can call me names if you call me up (Ooh)

## References

1. ↑ "Dominic Fike's EP Don't Forget About Me, Demos is poised to revolutionize the pop genre entirely" - *Texx and the City.*
2. ↑ "Dominic Fike, the Twenty-Three-Year-Old Who Embodies the Hazy Future of Pop Music" - *The New Yorker.*
3. ↑ ""3 Nights" by Dominic Fike Review" - *Pitchfork.*
4. ↑ "Dominic Fike Shares New Video for '3 Nights'" - *Complex.*
5. ↑ "Watch Dominic Fike's '3 Nights' video" - *The Fader.*

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