Safer - "Stuck On You"

Love and infatuation are themes that play a large role in several songs by the Brooklyn band Safer. I’m specifically thinking of the band’s 2019 singles “All My Life,” where frontman Mattie Safer describes the euphoric relief of finally finding love that you’ve searched far and wide to find, and “Sleepless Nights,” which chronicles how those love induced butterflies in your stomach can lead to restless evenings of tossing and turning. So, when the press release for their latest track, “Stuck On You,” described it as a “left-field lover’s glam-anthem about being so hung up on someone that you’d drink their bathwater just to get next to them,” I had to ask, how does love work its way into so many the band’s songs?

During our live stream interview on Instagram last Thursday, Mattie admitted that he’s an unabashed hopeless romantic that simply loves falling in love and crushing hard. So, naturally, this part of his makeup plays a not so subtle role in his music. This is definitely the case with “Stuck On You,” as it's bristling with the kind of heart on your sleeve lyrics that prove he’s not just being coy. He even mixes in a rhyming scheme in the final verse that has a kitschy, lovey-dovey simplicity to it, as he sings “I’m stuck on you / And all the things you do / Like a car in a ditch, like a dog on a bitch/ Like a barrow in a rut, like a squirrel on a nut.” And as we’ve come to expect with Safer, the song has a groove that doesn’t quit, a propulsive beat, and cymbal crashes that hammer the point home. 

Stream the track below!

You can also listen to “Stuck On You” on Spotify, and of course, you can purchase a limited edition postcard vinyl record of the single via the band’s website. Keep up with Safer by following them on Instagram and liking them on Facebook. You can also re-watch our live-streamed interview via the Look At My Records! Instagram.