![]() When the idea of the video was being processed, Carpenter thought of a subway because it's where different people would be found the line "Somewhere in the world" represents those people. The video features Carpenter singing the song with several bored people inside the subway on a typical big-city daily commute. The video is set in a New York City Subway car and is shot in one take. ![]() The music video, which was directed by Hayley Young, was uploaded to her Vevo account on YouTube on February 10, 2017. The chorus' lyric "They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs" is a metaphor for wasting time doing pointless things and making no real progress. ![]() Lyrically, the song talks about embracing individuality and rising above mediocrity. Carpenter's vocal range spans from the low note F3 to the high note of G5, giving the song two octave and one note of range. The song follows the chord progression of Cm-Csus-C5-Csus-Cm–A ♭-Fm/A ♭-A ♭-Fm/A ♭-A ♭-Fsus7-F7-B ♭sus-B ♭. In terms of music notation, "Thumbs" was composed using 4Ĥ common time in the key of C minor, with a moderately fast tempo of 135 beats per minute. Musically, "Thumbs" is a three minutes and thirty-six seconds electropop song with pop and house elements. Carpenter describes the other songs on the album as "children" of "Thumbs".Ĭomposition and lyrical interpretation She says that if people are falling into the same mistakes they are going to continue 'twiddling them thumbs', thus continuing to live in the mediocrity. "We'd finish the album, I then heard "Thumbs" which gave me these vibes of fame and black and gold and just like some of my favorite soulful songs." The song talks about embracing individuality and escaping mediocrity. The song was the last recorded for the album, Carpenter says. The song was written by Steve Mac and Priscilla Renea and was the only song in the album without Carpenter's writing credit. It was released initially as a promotional single and later released as a single. It was certified Platinum by United States ( RIAA) and Norway ( IFPI). It was the first song by Carpenter with a chart impact and it peaked at number one on Billboard 's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. Carpenter promoted "Thumbs" with several live performances, including on Radio Disney Music Awards 2017, on Today and on The Late Late Show. It was accompanied by a music video directed by Hayley Young premiered on her Vevo channel on February 10, 2017. "Thumbs" is an up-tempo electropop song with house and pop elements. It was later released as the album's second single on January 3, 2017. The song was originally released by Hollywood Records as the third promotional single from Evolution on October 7, 2016, a week before the album's release. The track was written by Priscilla Renea and its producer Steve Mac. In the end, it doesn’t matter how much you get paid, because everyone’s eventually gonna die." Thumbs" is a song recorded by American singer Sabrina Carpenter from her second studio album Evolution (2016), included as the third track of the album. They believe that they’re their own boss because while they aren’t the top of the company, they’re not the bottom and there are even people working under them.īut they're all just working to get paid the very same However, they do work under someone who tells them what to do, and they are not the top of the company.Īnd somebody works for them and, so, they think they got it made They get up everyday to go to work for someone else People believe that they are their own boss in life Somewhere in the world, they think they're working for themselves It’s a basic setup for most of the world that you can find anywhere, repeating itself over and over. It never ends till the end, then you start again The aforementioned mother who is married to the father (who is also a son), gives birth to a baby girl who eventually marries a boy whose sister has a child of her ownĪnd they all just tryna multiply with one another The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother The father is not just a father, but a son to a woman somewhere There is a father and a mother out there somewhereĪnd the father is a son, who has a mother Somewhere in the world there, is a father and a mother Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs (Official Video)
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