Who Is Fancy
Jake "Fancy" Hagood (born March 29th, 1991), better known by his stage name Who Is Fancy, is a musical artist from Bentonville, Arkansas, United States co-signed by Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta on Big Machine Label Group and Dr. Luke on Prescription Songs. Fancy grew up in Arkansas and moved to Nashville, TN to attend college at Trevecca Nazarene University. He later left college to pursue a music career.
Who Is Fancy was presented at the iHeartMedia Music Summit as an artist who is predicted to score commercial success in 2015. Read Full BioJake "Fancy" Hagood (born March 29th, 1991), better known by his stage name Who Is Fancy, is a musical artist from Bentonville, Arkansas, United States co-signed by Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta on Big Machine Label Group and Dr. Luke on Prescription Songs. Fancy grew up in Arkansas and moved to Nashville, TN to attend college at Trevecca Nazarene University. He later left college to pursue a music career.
Who Is Fancy was presented at the iHeartMedia Music Summit as an artist who is predicted to score commercial success in 2015. The artist's debut single "Goodbye", began playing on US pop radio on February 10, 2015, and has been added into rotation at New York's WHTZ and San Francisco's KMVQ-FM.
Proof of his identity is found on iTunes for the song "Goodbye" where he is credited as a composer as "Fancy Hagood." His identity is also found on a YouTube video where he is seen performing, as well through a facebook post made by his sister to the Ellen Degeneres Show in 2012 referring to her brother as Jake "Fancy" Hagood.
Who Is Fancy was presented at the iHeartMedia Music Summit as an artist who is predicted to score commercial success in 2015. Read Full BioJake "Fancy" Hagood (born March 29th, 1991), better known by his stage name Who Is Fancy, is a musical artist from Bentonville, Arkansas, United States co-signed by Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta on Big Machine Label Group and Dr. Luke on Prescription Songs. Fancy grew up in Arkansas and moved to Nashville, TN to attend college at Trevecca Nazarene University. He later left college to pursue a music career.
Who Is Fancy was presented at the iHeartMedia Music Summit as an artist who is predicted to score commercial success in 2015. The artist's debut single "Goodbye", began playing on US pop radio on February 10, 2015, and has been added into rotation at New York's WHTZ and San Francisco's KMVQ-FM.
Proof of his identity is found on iTunes for the song "Goodbye" where he is credited as a composer as "Fancy Hagood." His identity is also found on a YouTube video where he is seen performing, as well through a facebook post made by his sister to the Ellen Degeneres Show in 2012 referring to her brother as Jake "Fancy" Hagood.
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GOODBYE
Who Is Fancy Lyrics
I was a hot mess
In my Sunday best
Black tears in my eyes
You were my first love
You were my only one
I can't believe your lies
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
You got a new friend
You like to play pretend
I'm just keepin' my cool
Turn on that smoke machine
Magic and make-believe
She'll never know you like I do
Once we were a fire burnin'
Now you're just a lesson I'm learnin'
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
Written by: STEPHENIE NICOLE JONES, JAKE FANCY HAGOOD, JESSE FRASURE
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Reinhard Democrito
I was a hot mess
In my Sunday best
Black tears in my eyes
You were my first love
You were my only one
I can't believe your lies
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
You got a new friend
You like to play pretend
I'm just keepin' my cool
Turn on that smoke machine
Magic and make-believe
She'll never know you like I do
Once we were a fire burnin'
Now you're just a lesson I'm learnin'
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
[4x]
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
Ren
This is how I read the videos, too, particularly the one with the character who starts off wearing a wig. I read these videos as an allegory for how the music industry pushed Fancy to soften or cover his identity in order to be "acceptable" for mainstream audiences. I formed that opinion before I realized that this was his debut single, though; now I think that it just stands as a bit of prescient irony.
Edit: and before I realized that this was his debut single, I also interpreted the other person in the song (to whom the singer is saying goodbye) to be the music industry with all of their expectations for what he should be like. My reading of the song's lyrics is below, even though obviously it doesn't make sense if it was his first song rather than his last recording.
You were my first love / You were my only one (the label he signed with, his excitement at breaking into the industry and the loyalty he felt -- echoed by signing the contract in the video)
Once we were like bottle rockets / Now I know I have to stop it (i.e., stop making music within a mainstream context; simultaneously, having to stop expressing himself so freely -- the character being seated in the makeup chair and having the first layer of differentness peeled away)
Please believe this isn't easy / I just need to say goodbye (the pain in the character's face as they begin to be molded - it's not easy to set down those markers of self-expression)
You've got a new friend, you like to play pretend / I'm just keeping my cool (i.e., the next new star; the character holding their tongue as the manager talks to the producer, setting their fate)
Turn on that smoke machine / Magic and make-believe (the theatrics of the music industry, particularly the viral campaign that obscured his identity until the mainstream was already hooked -- the set-pieces traipsing past, taking priority and right-of-way and blocking the artist's confident walk)
She'll never know you like I do (other artists haven't been put under quite the same pressure to conform and so might not understand the full extent of their underhandedness)
Once we were a fire burnin' / Now you're just a lesson I'm learnin' (He used to be really enthusiastic, but now he sees the mistake he made in signing that contract -- learning the realities of the industry)
I know I can find somebody / You won't ever find nobody else like me (a protest against how they stripped away his individuality and identity to fit him into a mold and how what makes him valuable and appealing is exactly what they wanted to pare away -- the costume person measuring the character and dressing them up in "correct" clothes)
I just need to say goodbye / goodbye / losing my mind / goodbye (both saying goodbye to his identity -- the ache of performing as he is expected to -- but also saying goodbye to the industry's trickery)
And then the fade-out at the end, with the character left standing alone and empty as the camera moves out past the abandoned set-pieces, the little bit of light coming in through the window representing the tiniest sliver of hope for authenticity.
Kinga K
I was a hot mess
In my Sunday best
Black tears in my eyes
You were my first love
You were my only one
I can't believe your lies
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
You got a new friend
You like to play pretend
I'm just keepin' my cool
Turn on that smoke machine
Magic and make-believe
She'll never know you like I do
Once we were a fire burnin'
Now you're just a lesson I'm learnin'
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
I know that I can find somebody
You won't ever find nobody else like me
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye
Nikishia Henry
I was a hot mess, in my Sunday best.
Got tears in my eyes.
You were my first love, you were my only one.
I can't believe your lies.
Once we were like battle rockets, now I know I have to stop it.
Please believe me, this isn't easy.
I just need to say goodbye...
Goodbye, goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye.
You got a new friend, you like to play pretend.
I'm just keepin' my cool.
Turn on that smoke machine, magic and make-believe
She'll never know you like I do.
Once we were like a fire burning, now you're just a lesson I'm learning.
Please believe me, this isn't easy.
I just need to say goodbye.
Goodbye, goodbye.
Losin' my mind
Goodbye.
I know that I can find somebody.
You will never find nobody else like me.
I know that I can find somebody.
You will never find nobody else like me, yeah yeah...
I know that I can find somebody.
You will never find nobody else like me.
I know that I can find somebody.
You will never find nobody else like me, yeah yeah...
Once we were like battle rockets, now I know I have to stop it.
Please believe me, this isn't easy.
I just need to say goodbye...
Goodbye, goodbye
Losin' my mind
Goodbye.
Doria Hulbert
this song is so underappreciated
zeroh
Agreed
Danny Tucker
Agreed
Angela c : p
Helen Otis preach
Mocking Bird
I know right
M Marino
+FRED jones yeah I know, I said a year
Lima Swanepoel Hosk
That guy looks like Kian Lawley and Justin Bieber had a baby
Cha Phet
Stephanie Iraheta yes i think so
Bianca Toscano
His name is tucker tripp in case anybody wanted to know
Student Aiyana Pennington
Bro yesssss