{"id":491591,"date":"2019-10-24T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=901756"},"modified":"2019-10-24T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:02:19","slug":"joeboy-reckons-with-heartbreak-on-dont-call-me-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/joeboy-reckons-with-heartbreak-on-dont-call-me-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Joeboy Reckons With Heartbreak on \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me Back\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JoeBoy_EmilyNkanga_8.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Joeboy\u2019s \u201cBaby,\u201d released earlier this year, <\/span><span>is a beam of contentment. \u201cI\u2019m always making really happy music,\u201d Joeboy says, and it has worked for him \u2014 <\/span><span>\u201cBaby\u201d is a breakout hit, with over 20 million streams this year spread across YouTube and Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But Joeboy changes course on \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Back,\u201d a collaboration with Mayorkun that deals with the potentially <span>vengeful aftermath of a relationship.&nbsp;<\/span><span>The instrumental \u201cbrought out a different emotion,\u201d Joeboy says. \u201cThat made me reach for one of my past realities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He lays out the scenario: <span>\u201cI was really into this girl, she don\u2019t like me no more, she\u2019s on to another person, I feel bad about it, but at the end of the day, I tell her not to call me back when she finds out I\u2019m with someone else too.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPeople are like that sometimes,\u201d Joeboy adds. \u201cOnce they find out you\u2019re ok without them, they want you back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Joeboy was an early participant in emPawa Africa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/mr-eazi-empawa-africa-distribution-joeboy-859540\/\">a talent incubation initiative<\/a> started last year by the Nigerian star Mr. Eazi. After completing the program, Joeboy released \u201cBaby,\u201d and the track promptly charted on Apple Music in multiple countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>His next solo release was <span>\u201cBeginning,\u201d which also detailed romantic infatuation \u2014 \u201cI want your heart and soul and your own body too,\u201d Joeboy sings. \u201cI can\u2019t let you go.\u201d <\/span><span>The singer says \u201cBeginning\u201d is now doing even better than its predecessor: \u201c<\/span><span>The numbers are actually growing faster than the way \u2018Baby\u2019 did.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Back\u201d is the work of the producer Beats by KO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/joeboy-mayorkun-dont-call-me-back-901756\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joeboy\u2019s \u201cBaby,\u201d released earlier this year, is a beam of contentment. \u201cI\u2019m always making really happy music,\u201d Joeboy says, and it has worked for him \u2014 \u201cBaby\u201d is a breakout hit, with over 20 million streams this year spread across YouTube and Spotify. But Joeboy changes course on \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Back,\u201d a collaboration with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:26:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}