Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, … Read Full Bio ↴Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her breakout single, "Dance Monkey", was released in May 2019 and reached number one in over 30 countries.
In 2019, she broke the Australian record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks at the top in 1943.
"Dance Monkey" was accredited 16× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,120,000 units, by mid-2021. Tones was the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, winning four of eight nominations. Tones and I released her debut extended play, The Kids Are Coming, on 30 August 2019, which peaked at number three in Australia, and top 10 in several countries. Her debut album, Welcome to the Madhouse, was released via Bad Batch on 16 July 2021. It debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's lead single "Fly Away" peaked at number four in Australia and number 11 in the UK.
Toni Watson grew up in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Conflicting reports state she was born either in 1993 or in 2000. The artist prefers not to disclose her birth details, "I never denied my age. I never lied about it. I just don't say anything now... Everything is wrong online."
She explained choosing a music career: "One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old." The singer-songwriter had learned to play keyboards and drum pads while at secondary school.She started busking in Melbourne, while working in fashion retail at the Universal Store.
In 2009, as Toni Watson, she created a YouTube page and posted a cappella cover versions of songs. She performed local gigs and festivals, including the Let Go festival. Tones was the vocalist for a duo in 2014, and remembered: "I started out singing in small pubs and bars in Mornington, I was singing along to a guitarist until I ended up branching out on my own." She explained her shift to a solo career: "I actually got made redundant from my retail job and with that money I bought an RC300 (loop station) and just started to try to figure it all out." She busked "up and down the east coast with her synthesizers and loop pedal, she has been building a loyal fanbase and captivating crowds with her genre-diverse style."
In September 2017, the singer-songwriter travelled to Byron Bay in the Australian state of New South Wales to try busking there. At an early performance, she met Jackson Walkden-Brown who became her manager about a month later. Her busking success led to a greater commitment to a music career. The artist spent 2018 living between Walkden-Brown's home in the Gold Coast hinterland and in her van in Byron Bay, writing music and busking full-time. Later that year she won the Battle of the Buskers at Buskers by the Creek.
In 2019, she broke the Australian record for the most weeks at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart by any artist with 16 weeks. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks at the top in 1943.
"Dance Monkey" was accredited 16× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,120,000 units, by mid-2021. Tones was the most awarded artist at the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, winning four of eight nominations. Tones and I released her debut extended play, The Kids Are Coming, on 30 August 2019, which peaked at number three in Australia, and top 10 in several countries. Her debut album, Welcome to the Madhouse, was released via Bad Batch on 16 July 2021. It debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart. The album's lead single "Fly Away" peaked at number four in Australia and number 11 in the UK.
Toni Watson grew up in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula to the south of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Conflicting reports state she was born either in 1993 or in 2000. The artist prefers not to disclose her birth details, "I never denied my age. I never lied about it. I just don't say anything now... Everything is wrong online."
She explained choosing a music career: "One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old." The singer-songwriter had learned to play keyboards and drum pads while at secondary school.She started busking in Melbourne, while working in fashion retail at the Universal Store.
In 2009, as Toni Watson, she created a YouTube page and posted a cappella cover versions of songs. She performed local gigs and festivals, including the Let Go festival. Tones was the vocalist for a duo in 2014, and remembered: "I started out singing in small pubs and bars in Mornington, I was singing along to a guitarist until I ended up branching out on my own." She explained her shift to a solo career: "I actually got made redundant from my retail job and with that money I bought an RC300 (loop station) and just started to try to figure it all out." She busked "up and down the east coast with her synthesizers and loop pedal, she has been building a loyal fanbase and captivating crowds with her genre-diverse style."
In September 2017, the singer-songwriter travelled to Byron Bay in the Australian state of New South Wales to try busking there. At an early performance, she met Jackson Walkden-Brown who became her manager about a month later. Her busking success led to a greater commitment to a music career. The artist spent 2018 living between Walkden-Brown's home in the Gold Coast hinterland and in her van in Byron Bay, writing music and busking full-time. Later that year she won the Battle of the Buskers at Buskers by the Creek.
Cross Me
Tones And I Lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Cross me (cross me)
They gon' do that if I let them close to me (close to me)
She's been movin' distant like our memories (like our memories)
I know you wish it could be how it used to be (how it used to be)
You gon' have to get used to me (to get used to me)
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
I could give it to you (I could give it to you)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to
Yeah, I know you probably tell your friends
Every single thing I fuckin' put you through
And all you do is highlight the negative, you can't tell me what I took you too
I just brush it off and keep pushin' through
And I could tell you what it took me too
'Cause I ain't the type to hold grudges, I'm chillin if you doin' you
But if you cross me (if you cross me)
I'm gon' get you, I don't care if you close to me
She's been movin' distant like our memories
I know you wish it could be how it used to be
But you gon' have to get used to me, oh, oh
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
I could give it to you (yeah, I could give it to you)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to (oh-oh)
And since you do what you want (oh-oh)
You go do what you want (oh-oh)
I brought my tooly in the party
I bet I could screw who I want (oh-oh)
Like, "Push up on me, baby, I got what you want and what you need"
I know I'm talkin' kinda crazy, I just call it how I see
And these cartiers tinted when I'm in the club, I an't tell 'em what I see
And these cartiers tinted when I'm with this bitch, I can't tell 'em what I peep
And I gotta turn off my location when I'm with her, don't you tell 'em where I be
They wanna crucify me in these streets and I can't let them
Crossed me, now you lost me, you fucked it all up (fucked it all up)
I know that you're thinkin' about all our love I
While I caught you in his bed, you fucked it all up
Now it's fuck all these women and fuck all my trust
I wanna know how you are feelin' in this club?
Tell me, baby, what you thinkin' of your love
So don't forget about me, 'bout me, 'bout me
'Cause I know you gon' miss me, baby, yeah
So I'm out here doin' sideways 'cause I need all prestige used to
Clown on my name, now they see all the streams
Ask me these questions, refuse to be me
Tell them my life is a movie and I'm pickin' out the scenes
My life a movie, no cameo, anything goes
Any bitch blow, let the money, oh
I'm a wolf on the street like DiCaprio
I can make that pussy sink like titanic
Swipe the clitty with my off hand
While I'm doin' my Diddy, I'm one band
She ride me in the Benz like I'm Dirty Dan, stallion
Ooh, that my lil' baby, my pookie (pookie)
I dress her in Fenty and Pucci (Pucci)
When it come to this life, ain't no newbie
When I call on my dawgs, they on duty
I'm Jamaican, I'm coolie but when I pop out the tooly
The brodie I'm a fooly
So many drums, I'm scorin' a movie
So many drums, I be scorin' a movie
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
Ha-ha, lost boys and we never land
In the club with a hot hand
See a sexy lil' bitch with her friends
All she wanna do is dance, all she wanna do is dance
But if you cross me (if you cross me)
I'm gon' get you, I don't care if you close to me
She's been movin' distant like our memories
I know you wish it could be how it used to be
But you gon' have to get used to me, oh, oh
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
I could give it to you (yeah, I could give it to you)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to (oh-oh)
Cross me (cross me)
They gon' do that if I let them close to me (close to me)
She's been movin' distant like our memories (like our memories)
I know you wish it could be how it used to be (how it used to be)
You gon' have to get used to me (to get used to me)
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to
Yeah, I know you probably tell your friends
Every single thing I fuckin' put you through
And all you do is highlight the negative, you can't tell me what I took you too
I just brush it off and keep pushin' through
And I could tell you what it took me too
'Cause I ain't the type to hold grudges, I'm chillin if you doin' you
But if you cross me (if you cross me)
I'm gon' get you, I don't care if you close to me
She's been movin' distant like our memories
I know you wish it could be how it used to be
But you gon' have to get used to me, oh, oh
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
I could give it to you (yeah, I could give it to you)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to (oh-oh)
And since you do what you want (oh-oh)
You go do what you want (oh-oh)
I brought my tooly in the party
I bet I could screw who I want (oh-oh)
Like, "Push up on me, baby, I got what you want and what you need"
I know I'm talkin' kinda crazy, I just call it how I see
And these cartiers tinted when I'm in the club, I an't tell 'em what I see
And these cartiers tinted when I'm with this bitch, I can't tell 'em what I peep
And I gotta turn off my location when I'm with her, don't you tell 'em where I be
They wanna crucify me in these streets and I can't let them
Crossed me, now you lost me, you fucked it all up (fucked it all up)
I know that you're thinkin' about all our love I
While I caught you in his bed, you fucked it all up
Now it's fuck all these women and fuck all my trust
I wanna know how you are feelin' in this club?
Tell me, baby, what you thinkin' of your love
So don't forget about me, 'bout me, 'bout me
'Cause I know you gon' miss me, baby, yeah
So I'm out here doin' sideways 'cause I need all prestige used to
Clown on my name, now they see all the streams
Ask me these questions, refuse to be me
Tell them my life is a movie and I'm pickin' out the scenes
My life a movie, no cameo, anything goes
Any bitch blow, let the money, oh
I'm a wolf on the street like DiCaprio
I can make that pussy sink like titanic
Swipe the clitty with my off hand
While I'm doin' my Diddy, I'm one band
She ride me in the Benz like I'm Dirty Dan, stallion
Ooh, that my lil' baby, my pookie (pookie)
I dress her in Fenty and Pucci (Pucci)
When it come to this life, ain't no newbie
When I call on my dawgs, they on duty
I'm Jamaican, I'm coolie but when I pop out the tooly
The brodie I'm a fooly
So many drums, I'm scorin' a movie
So many drums, I be scorin' a movie
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
Ha-ha, lost boys and we never land
In the club with a hot hand
See a sexy lil' bitch with her friends
All she wanna do is dance, all she wanna do is dance
But if you cross me (if you cross me)
I'm gon' get you, I don't care if you close to me
She's been movin' distant like our memories
I know you wish it could be how it used to be
But you gon' have to get used to me, oh, oh
A hundred is how I keep it with my dawgs, but fifty-fifty, we gotta split that shit
Shoes tied when I be with them hoes, 'cause I ain't tryna trip off no bitch
And if you give it to me (if you give it to me)
I could give it to you (yeah, I could give it to you)
How you want me to (how you want me to), how you want me to (oh-oh)
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Justin Irvin Rivera
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