Female Artist Covers “Hotline Bling,” Flips the Script to Empower Women Instead of Shaming Them

It’s no secret. As, uh, notorious as Drake’s “Hotline Bling” has been, it’s actually a pretty needy and vaguely misogynistic song. The dude shames his ex-girlfriend for hanging out with other people now, and complains about how she doesn’t call him anymore–which, if someone talked to me like how Drake talks to his ex here, I wouldn’t call him either.

Enter Ceresia. This R&B artist covered “Hotline Bling,” but in her own way, singing from the perspective of the ex. She totally blasts the needy ex-boyfriend and completely owns the track.

See, I got a reputation for myself now
Everybody knows that you feel left out
Boy you had me down, you had me stressed out

…

You and me, we just don’t get along
You made me feel like I did you wrong
Goin’ places that you don’t belong

I love Drake as much as the next girl, but damn. This is fire. Or, to borrow from the youths’ vernacular: this is 100.

Ceresia isn’t alone in doing this by the way, oh no. You should head on over to Jezebel, where there are a bunch more female artists who completely make the track their own, too.

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