Singer-songwriter Victoria Monét tries to guess lyrics from some of her most popular songs. She shares how she will be holding her Grammy if she wins, the meaning behind her daughter being the youngest Grammy nominee, and the qualities she looks for in a relationship.
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00:00 (laughs)
00:02 I make myself laugh sometimes.
00:04 Energy, energy, I'm in the club.
00:06 It's giving like, okay, transform, bitch.
00:08 Maybe your boob job costs 4K.
00:10 (upbeat music)
00:13 Had to send a video, I don't edit my pics.
00:17 I work for it, I'm on my shit.
00:18 This is a lyric from "Ass Like That."
00:20 (bell dings)
00:21 ♪ Had to send a video, I don't edit my pics ♪
00:24 ♪ I work for it, I'm on my shit ♪
00:27 I usually work out in platform heels,
00:29 treadmill at least six miles.
00:31 Just kidding.
00:32 I really have a trainer that is my key to fitness.
00:36 It is the only reason I commit to going
00:40 'cause I'll find a way out of it otherwise.
00:41 So I think the investment into a trainer
00:43 is really important for someone
00:44 who wants to really commit to it and take it serious.
00:47 I do everything from HIIT training to cardio.
00:49 I've done Pilates.
00:50 And then dance is a good form of fitness for me
00:52 'cause I'm in rehearsals a lot and learning choreography.
00:55 I started with dance.
00:56 It was my first love, really.
00:58 So I really, really respect dancers
00:59 and what they do with their bodies
01:00 and what they bring to visuals,
01:02 what they bring to stages.
01:03 And they bring music to life in such a beautiful way.
01:06 So I'm a huge dance fan.
01:08 I think in another life I would be straight up just a dancer.
01:13 (laughs)
01:15 I'm so deep in my bag like a grandma would a peppermint.
01:19 This is a lyric from "On My Mama."
01:21 (bell dings)
01:22 ♪ I'm so deep in my bag ♪
01:23 ♪ Like a grandma would a peppermint ♪
01:25 I mean, there's everything from peppermints
01:27 to like Werthers.
01:29 And it's always at the bottom of the bag.
01:31 What I remember about recording this song
01:33 was it just being the first song that I liked
01:37 right after giving birth,
01:40 probably like six weeks after having my daughter.
01:42 And I was writing a bunch of songs
01:44 and I was just like, "I don't know if I got it anymore."
01:47 Just down on myself for the first, like,
01:49 I might wanna say like eight months of the song's life,
01:55 it had no second verse.
01:56 My dream collabs were always Beyonce or Meg Thee Stallion.
01:59 So I was like, "Let me just get somewhere
02:01 "and then like shoot my shot and just see what happens."
02:04 I sent it around to a few people
02:06 and I don't think anyone heard anything on it.
02:09 So I was just like, "I'm gonna just write a second verse."
02:11 And so that's where this lyric came from.
02:14 Okay, when I hear "On My Mama,"
02:16 I think about like street and cool
02:20 and like kind of underground.
02:21 When I think of the Grammys,
02:22 I'm like musical masterpiece, like elevated musicianship.
02:27 I didn't expect "On My Mama" to be considered
02:30 in the caliber of competitors that it's in.
02:34 That's a hard category.
02:35 So there's a video going around
02:39 where I'm reacting to the Grammys.
02:40 (crowd cheering)
02:42 There couldn't be a more genuine response
02:45 'cause I was definitely just surprised.
02:47 And I know my mom, especially this being a song
02:51 kind of nodding to her, she's feeling herself.
02:54 (laughs)
02:55 So it's all around a really, really special record.
02:58 For her to be in the video,
02:59 for my daughter to be in the video,
03:00 it feels like a generational token.
03:02 You know, just like, I just really hope
03:04 that we get to see it on the trophy, you know?
03:07 That would be the best ending to it all.
03:10 When you rock them short nails, that's low-key sentimental.
03:16 Yep, that's a lyric from "Touch Me."
03:18 (bell dings)
03:19 ♪ And when you rock them short nails ♪
03:20 ♪ That's low-key sentimental ♪
03:22 What it really is about is sensuality and foreplay
03:26 and not making anything dangerous.
03:29 'Cause you know, these nails,
03:30 the way that they're shaped, it's kind of like knifey.
03:33 So you wanna go from knifey to wifey.
03:36 And take the nails off so no one gets hurt.
03:38 So you need to cut them
03:39 so that you can really use your fingers
03:41 to the best of your ability.
03:43 That sounds so crazy.
03:44 But yes, short nails for the girls.
03:48 (laughs)
03:49 ♪ I'll stop rocking nails for you ♪
03:51 ♪ I'll park the Porsche and drop the tab ♪
03:53 Definitely made a lot of sense, the song was about her.
03:56 But I'm happy we got to a place
03:58 where we could just explore those thoughts creatively
04:01 and not physically.
04:03 Yeah, like I feel like it's really cool to just be honest
04:05 and be able to be in a vulnerable space musically
04:08 and then step off and be like,
04:10 that was cool, girl, you know?
04:12 Tell me baby, baby, what's your sign?
04:15 'Cause you're astronomically fine.
04:17 This is a lyric from "Coasted."
04:19 (bell dings)
04:20 Yes.
04:21 ♪ Tell me baby, baby, what's your sign ♪
04:23 ♪ 'Cause you're astronomically fine ♪
04:25 I am a Taurus.
04:27 I am a Pisces moon, Leo rising.
04:31 I know about my sign, if you told me your birthday,
04:36 I'm not the one who'd be like, oh, what time are you born?
04:38 Okay, I got your chart.
04:40 I'm not that good.
04:41 Hey y'all, welcome to Mama Monet's.
04:43 I'm your server, Victoria, what can I get y'all?
04:47 I do wanna do more acting.
04:48 I feel like I have fun with it.
04:50 On the music side, I like to do skits
04:52 and just make up funny stuff,
04:53 but eventually I wanna take it seriously
04:55 and actually take classes and study it
04:57 because when I step into film,
04:59 I want everybody in film to know
05:01 that I dedicated time to it and I didn't just get there
05:04 because my artist career took off and I'm making a cameo.
05:06 And even writing scripts and music for scripts
05:10 for TV and film would be really exciting.
05:14 Life is but a dream that you manifested slowly.
05:18 This is a lyric from "Moment."
05:20 ♪ Life is but a dream that you manifested slowly ♪
05:24 Emphasis on slowly.
05:26 I'm just kidding.
05:27 I do feel like I have that ability
05:29 and it's been proven to me over and over
05:30 because I keep writing things down,
05:32 I keep dreaming about things and then they happen
05:35 and some of the things are so random
05:37 that I even forgot about.
05:38 The first stop really is Grammys.
05:42 It's been such a dream and I think
05:43 that it's just so close to being something that I'm holding.
05:47 So I'm doing visualizations with me holding Grammys
05:50 like this, not like this, like this.
05:53 So I'm really into all of the things self-betterment.
05:58 So listening to motivational speakers in the mornings,
06:01 meditations, going to the gym, eating healthy,
06:04 drinking two gallons of water,
06:05 taking your magnesium at night, clean skin.
06:10 I chop my hair off.
06:11 It's just very, it's giving like, okay, transform bitch.
06:13 And I'm trying to be a butterfly.
06:16 From a jaguar to a butterfly.
06:18 Okay.
06:19 Remember the trees and the bees,
06:22 the memories of when you used to be a kid on a swing.
06:25 This is a lyric from Hollywood
06:27 featuring Earth, Wind & Fire and Hazel.
06:30 ♪ The memories of when you used to be ♪
06:33 ♪ A kid on a swing ♪
06:36 For her to be the youngest Grammy nominee of all time
06:39 just feels like, in a sense, it's like, okay, well yeah,
06:43 you wanted that, right?
06:44 Because you put her on the song.
06:45 You want the best of results.
06:47 And so it's in one way, I'm like surprised.
06:50 But in another way, I'm like, no,
06:52 but that's what you planned for.
06:54 And I'm like, it worked.
06:55 But it was super important for me to have her
06:56 on the song with me because when I think of
06:59 Earth, Wind & Fire, I think of my grandma.
07:01 And she passed away the year that I came to LA.
07:04 And I feel like she's been,
07:06 I feel like she's been an angel on my shoulder since.
07:09 And so to have a daughter that has not met her,
07:11 I feel like she might be her in a way,
07:15 like reincarnated in some parts of her.
07:17 Maybe she's talked to her before I gave birth
07:20 and was like, go out here and do this thing
07:21 and help Victoria feel great about life.
07:25 And Hazel being on that song
07:26 just feels like a real full circle.
07:29 So if that Grammy happens, my makeup is done.
07:33 It's a wrap.
07:34 Just carry me out of this dredger
07:36 because I have to go home.
07:39 Thought you was about to get some foreplay with me.
07:41 You won't even get a picture of these 4K titties.
07:44 I make myself laugh sometimes.
07:48 This is a lyric from a song called
07:50 "Alright" with Kate Jonathan.
07:52 ♪ Thought you was about to get some foreplay with me ♪
07:54 ♪ Won't even get a picture of these 4K titties ♪
07:56 So like I'm thinking 4K quality,
07:58 but also maybe your boob job costs 4K.
08:01 Or gold.
08:03 So there's lots of ways to be viewed this.
08:05 Maybe you have gold tits
08:06 or like gold nipple rings or something.
08:09 So there's lots of ways 4K can go down.
08:13 But he's not getting a picture of them.
08:15 Kate Jonathan is one of my favorite collaborators.
08:20 He, whereas I usually love like a melancholy
08:25 chord progression, like very relaxed.
08:27 He's up tempos.
08:28 He's like energy, energy.
08:30 I'm in the club.
08:31 I've said this before,
08:32 but I do want to do a project with him.
08:34 Just like maybe just an EP,
08:35 like all just either vacation music or like up tempos.
08:39 Just you can play the playlist,
08:41 a soul cycle mix, something.
08:43 But he's just really incredible.
08:45 I'm just trying to jump your bones.
08:49 We don't gotta jump the broom.
08:51 That is a lyric from F-U-C-K.
08:53 ♪ I'm just trying to jump your bones ♪
08:56 ♪ We don't gotta jump the broom, you know ♪
08:58 I usually love someone with a sense of humor.
09:01 Either that I can make laugh
09:02 or that they make me laugh or vice versa.
09:04 Or both actually.
09:06 Someone who's into the same things as me
09:10 usually will determine where I share my space.
09:13 It's like, if you love fitness
09:14 or if you love like good food or cooking it,
09:17 or if you love like comedies,
09:20 just things that I relate to that we can do together.
09:24 And you gotta be cute.
09:28 Just a little bit cute.
09:29 Yeah.
09:30 We like days off smoke bombs and the 90s sitcoms.
09:33 Ooh, this is a throwback.
09:34 Is this from 90s babies?
09:37 Okay, okay, okay.
09:38 You went in the archives.
09:40 ♪ We like days off smoke bombs and the 90s sitcoms ♪
09:44 Growing up it was Fresh Prince.
09:46 I wanted to be Ashley Banks 100%.
09:50 And then as an adult, it became Martin.
09:53 But both of them are so great.
09:54 You get to see different variations of black families
09:58 and intimacy and romance on film.
10:00 And the other stuff I was watching was like cartoons
10:02 so they're colorless.
10:03 Like what was like, Hey Arnold, like he was just yellow.
10:07 So like it was cool to just see it in like in real time
10:11 and see the representation then.
10:13 And laugh, it's all comedy based.
10:15 I love to laugh.
10:16 Just make me laugh.
10:17 Miors.
10:18 I've been on a roll where you been?
10:22 Real protective with my soul, where you been?
10:24 This is a lyric from Monopoly.
10:26 ♪ I've been on a roll where you been? ♪
10:29 ♪ Real protective with my soul, where you been? ♪
10:32 I feel like there's so many iterations of Victoria.
10:35 When I look back and even when I listen back
10:37 to certain things that I was writing then,
10:39 even how my voice sounds.
10:41 So I feel like the whole career has been based
10:44 on a constant morph.
10:47 And then what you get today will not be what you get
10:51 in three years.
10:52 You know, it's just gonna change again, which I really like.
10:54 So looking back on the career, I've been really blessed,
10:57 surrounded by lots of great people, supportive people,
11:00 lots of opportunities to grow me and to grow other people,
11:05 to invest in other people's catalogs
11:09 and just display some versatility there
11:13 in the songwriting space.
11:15 And I wanna continue to do that.
11:17 Trying to divide time between focusing on your own art
11:21 and songwriting sometimes can be a toss up.
11:24 And at the time I had some opportunities to perform
11:27 with Ariana in arenas.
11:29 So like even the nerves of that, you're like,
11:31 okay, I could do it.
11:32 You know, I went out there,
11:34 this big arena of all these lights,
11:37 people who are here to see her.
11:38 And I just was able to remain calm and have fun on stage.
11:42 And so some challenges that I thought would be
11:45 a little bit harder for me actually were good.
11:48 So I think I could handle more
11:49 than little Victoria would have thought for sure.
11:53 (upbeat music)
11:55 (upbeat music)
11:58 (upbeat music)
12:01 (upbeat music)