RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!
Описание
В этом клипе RAYE предстает в образе женщины, потерявшей покой, — ее героиня мечется между нежностью и отчаянием. Вышедший 18 сентября 2025 года, «WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!» — это визуальный монолог о любовной одержимости: мы видим, как артистка в одиночестве расстегивает платье в два часа ночи, кричит в пустоту и одновременно молится. Камера то и дело выхватывает ее тоскливый взгляд, а в каждом жесте чувствуется лихорадочное ожидание. Настроение клипа колеблется между гротескной комедией о «приложениях на мужа» и щемящей драмой о страхе остаться ненужной — от «Помоги мне, Господи» до «Я бы хотела кольцо, и большое, и блестящее».
RAYE играет здесь сразу и главную героиню, и саму себя: она то ли иронизирует над бытовыми ритуалами свиданий («пересматриваю анкеты»), то ли вдруг переходит на отчаянный шепот — “tell him my grandma said it”. Режиссёр клипа (в титрах не указан, но очевидно) выстраивает визуальный ряд как прихоть женщины, потерявшей чувство времени: она смотрит в зеркало, перебирает в руках воображаемое кольцо, и всё это под аккомпанемент нарастающего драматизма. В финале, когда героиня почти срывается, голос с неба (или воображения?) произносит “YOUR HUSBAND IS COMING”, и клип обрывается на ноте, оставляющей зрителя между смехом и слезами.
Текст песни:
Baby, where the hell is my husband
And what’s taking him so long,
to find, me
Oh baby
Where the hell is my lover
Getting down with another
(Oooh yeah)
Tell him if you see him baby
If you see him tell him
He should holler
Verse 1
Why is this beautiful man
Waiting for me to get old
Why he already testing my patience
I only fear he taking time
with other women that ain’t me
while I’ve been reviewing applications
Wait til I get my hands on him
Ima tell him off too
for how long he kept me waiting
Anticipating
Praying to Lord
to give him to my loving arms
and despite my frustrations
Pre
He must need me
completely
how my heart yearns for him
is he far away
is okay
This man is testing me
Uh huh uh huh
Help me help me help Lord
I need you to tell me
Chorus
Baby, where the hell is my husband
And what’s taking him so long,
to find me
Oh baby
Where the hell is my lover
Getting down with another
(Oooh yeah)
Tell him if you see him baby
If you see him tell him
He should holler
Verse 2
I’m doing lonely acrobatics
Unzipping my dress
at 2am and I’m tired of living like this
He must be out there getting ready
Tryna fix up his tie
Uh huh huh huh hello
this where your wife is
Wait ‘til I get your heart going
Ima turn it up too
For how much I’m bout to love ya
No one above ya
Praying to the Lord
To hurry hurry you along
Baby I intend to rush ya
Pre
He must need me
completely
how my heart yearns for him
is he far away
is okay
This man is testing me
Uh huh uh huh
Help me help me help Lord
I need you to tell me
Chorus
Baby, where the hell is my husband
And what’s taking him so long,
to find, me
Oh baby
Where the hell is my lover
Getting down with another
(Oooh yeah)
Tell him if you see him baby
If you see him tell him
He should holler
Bridge
Tuh tuh tuh tuh
Tell him I’m mm
Tell him I’m mm with the mm mm mm
Tell I’m kind
Tell him I’m 5’5
Tell him I got brown eyes
and a growing fear
that if he doesn’t find me now
I’m going to die alone so can he
Uh uh uh uh uh
Hurry up here sir
Uh uh uh uh
Uh huh uh huh uh huh huh
I want it want it want it want it want it
I would like a ring
I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring
On my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny diamond
That I could wave around
and talk and talk about it
and when the day is here
Forgive me God
That I could ever doubt it
Until death I do I do I do I
Is he about it, bout it, bout it
This man
Is testing me
Uh huh uh huh uh
help me help me help me Lord
I need you to tell me
Last Chorus
Baby,
Where the hell is my husband
And what’s taking him so long
To find me,
Oh baby
Where the hell is my lover
Getting down with another
(oooh yeah)
Tell him that my grandma said it
Tell him grandma said it
YOUR HUSBAND IS COMING
Outro
I would like a ring
I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger I would like a big and shiny
(woo)
Diamond (yes), diamond (yes), diamond (yes), diamond (yes), diamond (yes) ohhh
Where is my husband!
