Soulja Boy Tell 'Em's 2008 single Kiss Me thru the Phone — the ringtone-era hit whose chorus spells out a phone number — is rebuilt here as a grand opera aria: full orchestral strings, piano, brass swells, and a chamber choir, with the lead voice soft, breathy, and entirely sincere. 1
Every line is the released song's own, and none of it needed trimming. "Baby, you know that I miss you, I wanna get wit' you / Tonight, but I cannot, baby girl, and that's the issue." The strings swell hardest on "I really wanna kiss you, but I can't," the choir takes the dial-tone "da-da-da" for itself, and 678-999-8212 is intoned like a sacred address. 2 The arrangement never lets on that any of it is funny.
Listen late at night with the lights off, when a missed call feels like a tragedy and a full orchestra agrees with you.