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behind the scenes with Bottoms Up...

The lyrics to Bottoms Up are steeped in the imagery of dance clubs and alcohol. This is epitomized in Trey's main refrain, “Bottoms up, bottoms up, every single cup / Got a couple bottles, but a couple ain't enough.”

Trey continues to develop this theme throughout the song, first calling again for more drinks with the line, “Cheers to the girls, more juice for the guys,” and finally describing the effects that the alcohol is having on him. “My vision's blurred, my word's slurred,” he states. Later in the same verse, he says much more bluntly, “We drunk so let me be your alcohol hero.”

The focus of this song is more on the beat and overall sound than it is on the lyrics, especially when Trey is singing, but he does also develop several other themes through his lyrics. He mentions the money that he has with him, using the descriptive phrase, “pocket full of green” and also states several times that he is willing to buy the girls in the club whatever drinks they want.

If alcohol is his focus, girls are his primary distraction and he calls on the women around him, and the women “all around the world, city to city” several times to participate in the drinking and general party atmosphere.

Nicki Minaj's lyrics to Bottoms Up are more creative and have more personality than Trey's simple ode to a good time. She starts out by taking Trey up on his offer; listing off the wide variety of drinks she would like him to buy her. Unlike Trey's verses, which are detached and sound more like he is describing the memory of a good time, Nicki's verses are written from the point of view of a drunk person.

In fact, she wrote her entire section in character as her alter ego Roman Zolanski and switches seamlessly from angry outbursts to coy flirtations to drunken rambling throughout the course of her rap solo.

who wrote Bottoms Up?

According to Trey Songz, he wrote the majority of the lyrics to Bottoms Up before he contacted Nicki Minaj to write her own solo verses.

This means that while both Trey and Nicki wrote approximately equal portions of the lyrics, they did not actually collaborate on any part of the song before it was recorded and mixed. Because Trey's part was written before he even proposed the project to Niki, he did not know what she was going to write. This gives the song the interesting effect of having two distinct pieces with two distinct styles.

The juxtaposition of Trey's standard hip-hop club song lyrics played against the energy and character of Nicki's section give the song a disconnected, drunken feel. The listener is asked to switch between the generic mood of Trey's sections and the immediacy of Nicki's.

Nicki had actually heard Trey's original version of the song when she wrote her segment. As is common in many hip-hop cameo verses, her section is written as a rap solo and is used as an aside to bridge Trey's melodic verses and choruses.

Nicki claims that she took an uncharacteristically long time to write the part, because she was putting so much effort into it, rearranging sections in order to perfect them. Although Nicki wrote her lyrics herself, she wrote the whole segment from the point of view of her character, Roman Zolanski. Roman, she claims, is the evil twin that has grown inside her as the result of her inner anger. This is apparent in the anger that Roman expresses in her segment.

While Trey Songz and Nicki Minaj wrote the majority of the lyrics themselves, some of the writing credit should go to the song's producer, Kane Beatz. As with most contemporary pop music producers, he played a large role in mixing the song and in composing the overall sound.

what is Bottoms Up REALLY about?

On the surface, Bottoms Up is a simple song about going to a club and drinking a lot of alcohol.

It is about having fun, letting loose and getting caught up in the moment.The pulsing bass and the repetition of “bottoms up, bottoms up,” encourage everyone in the club to get out on the dance floor and to drink as much as they can. This carefree atmosphere is further enhanced by Trey's numerous references to money. He says that he has a “pocket full of green,” meaning a pocket full of money that he intends to spend on alcohol.

Although he does not mention the source of the money, he is reveling in it and one can guess that he is out celebrating the fact that he was recently paid. “Money stay in my pocket, girl, I'm like a walking bank,” he says, offering to buy celebratory drinks for all the girls in the club.

The sexual tension present in the dance club, although never explicit, is mentioned several times in the lyrics to Bottoms Up. Trey compliments girls, using the line, “girl you know I love the way you shake it in those jeans” as part of his main refrain. This theme is further developed in the song's music video, which depicts Trey wandering through a surreal funhouse filled with dance club lighting. He sees scantily clad women through the mirrors and watches as they perform seductive dance sequences.

From its start, Nicki Minaj's solo lyrics to Bottoms Up further develop the themes of alcohol and fun. She sings from the point of view of Roman Zolanski, who is listing off the numerous types of alcohol she would like Trey to buy her. She proceeds to act in a drunken fashion, first threatening to beat up another girl in the club and then taking it back, claiming that she's “really such a lady.”

In a drunken stream of logic, she name drops the famous people she has collaborated with in the past, expresses sympathy for the late Anna Nicole Smith and, through the strains of Trey's final “bottoms up, bottoms up” refrain, she drunkenly trails off saying “I'm not that drunk... I'm good, I'm good.”