2019Released
3:29

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Interesting facts and trivia about Cradles. By Songfacts®.

New Jersey native Daniel Maisonneuve is a singer-songwriter and producer who records under the name of Sub Urban. This dark single became his breakthrough hit after being popularized through the video sharing application TikTok.

"Cradles" contains a more minimal style of production than most of Sub Urban's songs. He explained to Genius that it originated with him working on his piano on "this jazz idea for a low-fi hip-hop thing." Sub Urban randomly played some chords, which he thought sounded "sexy" and a potential hit. So he went up to his room and started writing the song.

Lyrically, the song is a dystopian nursery rhyme where 19-year-old Sub Urban compares childhood to adulthood. He explained: "I feel like nobody ever really grows out of the whiny sort of tantrum-throwing person that they were as a kid. And you see it a lot on the internet these days. It's just without a filter, everyone's just an a--hole. And I thought it would be good to just write a song about how I developed as a person." Sub Urban added that he went with the flow and considers himself "just as much of a baby as anybody else."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Cradles.
C♯Key
MajorMode
3/4Time Signature
67BPM

Album

The album Cradles is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Cradles.
NCS
2019 NCS
2019 NCS

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