Still Callin' You Honey (Babydoll Cover — Bieber Style)
Two cups on the sill, one of them mine
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Still Callin' You Honey (Babydoll Cover — Bieber Style)
A song that spent eight years being nobody's hit has just become Dominic Fike's first top 10. Babydoll climbs 13-10 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated Oct. 24, lifted by 48.4 million in radio reach and 5.6 million streams in its tracking week 1. It first surfaced in 2018 on his debut EP Don't Forget About Me, Demos, entered the chart only this February, and found a second life on TikTok along the way. His third album, How To Quit Smoking, arrives Oct. 30.
Babydoll is a small-hours song: one person, one room, one name they keep saying. Fike's original is a hazy sketch from that 2018 EP, an acoustic loop with the vocal kept close to the mic and half-lit — over almost before it starts.
This version gives that ache a body and a pulse. It moves at 106 BPM, closer to a warm neo-soul groove than a hush: Rhodes chords, a muted electric guitar, a bass line that walks, and real drums carrying rimshots, finger snaps and shaker. The lead is a breathy male falsetto close to the mic, opening into three-part harmony on every chorus. The bridge strips back to keys and voice, and the last chorus arrives with everything in the room.
The words here are written for this version — the fixation belongs to the song, the sentences are its own. What stays is the habit of saying a name to an empty apartment.
Still callin' you honey, nobody home.
Play it on the walk home, or in the kitchen at the close of a long day, when you are not quite ready to stop thinking about someone.
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