Pretty Boy Flow TikTok song is the newest popular trend on the social media app. The Pretty Boy Flow original song is called Jackie Brown by Brent Faiyaz.
Due to it being a social media app based around music and dancing, TikTok has a plethora of songs going viral on it. More often than not, a song goes viral on the app due to a dance or trend attached to it rather than any lyrical relevance, and sometimes the lyrics are far darker than even the people doing the dance or trend realize it.
However, the beauty of TikTok is the fact that metaphors, relevance, and meaning take a backdrop to the thing at hand, which is the trend. Still, analyzing a particular song and why it’s popping on the app can sometimes enhance one’s understanding of both the song and the craze around it.
The Pretty Boy Flow Song Explained
The Pretty Boy Flow song is actually an alternative R&B song called Jackie Brown. The track is the 16th song from Faiyaz’s 2022 album, Wasteland.
Wasteland is the R&B singer’s highly anticipated sophomore album which he released on July 8, 2022, over half a decade after his debut album Sonder Son, which came out in 2017.
Faiyaz’s reputation and acclaim had seen a huge boost between the two albums as he’d gone from a feature in a popular Goldlink song to becoming one of the new faces of R&B in the same way the Weeknd and Frank Ocean had been in the early 2010s.
Jackie Brown‘s success can be seen as a clear example of just how much Faiyaz’s worth has grown in the public eye. Not only is the song a trend on TikTok, but it accomplished that feat despite not being a single, promotional, or otherwise from the album.
Pretty Boy Flow Lyrics Meaning
Pretty Boy Flow lyrics that have gained popularity on TikTok do not coincide with the term. In fact, the term “Pretty Boy Flow” is not in the song.
The part of the song which has become popular, on TikTok and elsewhere, are:
Only been a few hours but it felt like daysOnly been days but it felt like monthsI been gone for a year, only wrote like once.Life move fast when when you doing what you want.
These four lines are part of the opening verse of the song and they, alongside the whole song, denote a feeling very common in Faiyaz’s music.
Here, the singer talks about the interesting and debaucherous life he is living, the beautiful women he has relationships with, the substances he is partaking in, but also the emptiness inside despite all of the success.
These are all common themes in Faiyaz’s music, but what makes the song and him a popular artist is the cockiness he has which shines through despite how depressing his situation actually is.
Pretty Boy Flow Becomes A TikTok Trend
The Pretty Boy Flow TikTok trend has nothing to do with the depression Faiyaz sings of. In fact, the whole trend is based around a dance.
The basic premise of the videos is as follows:
- One or more people enter the frame from a window or a door
- They proceed to lower into a half squat at the second line of the song
- Then, they move the index and middle finger of each hand into an X and start swaying around
- This process is then duplicated in different locations to hilarious effect
The reason why the trend is called Pretty Boy Flow is that a creator named STURDYYOUNGINNsped up the original song and called it such. The creator’s sound has over 687.8K videos set to it.
Brent Faiyaz Tiktok Songs
Brent Faiyaz TikTok songs include many more than Jackie Brown. The singer has also gone viral on the app off two other songs.
Faiyaz’s TikTok famous songs also include:
- Rehab (Winter In Paris)
- Dead Man Walking
What the two songs have in common is that both saw a deeper and bassier version of the track become popular. The famous part of the first song is:
I got too many h*es, but they ain’t youYou like to put that sh*t in your nose, but I still love you
And the second song is:
Drop the roof and let the smoke clearI got diamonds doin’ toosie slides in both earsDice rollin’ on the Las Vegas strip tonightSlip that on and we might miss the fight
The subject matter of the two songs is very similar to Jackie Brown as once again, Faiyaz sings about his debaucherous lifestyle.
Similarly, the trends have absolutely nothing to do with what he is singing about.