Logic - 1-800-273-8255 Analysis - Def Jam Recordings

Context:
"1-800-273-8255" is a song by American rapper Logic, featuring guest vocals from American singer/songwriters Alessia Cara and Khalid. It was released on April 27 2017, through Visionary Music Group and Def Jam Recordings, as the third single from Logic's third studio album, Everybody. The song's title is the phone number for the American National Scuicide Prevention Lifeline. Produced by Logic and 6ix, it was written by the three recording artists, along with the 6ix and Drew Taggart of The Chainsmokers. "1-800-273-8255" eventually peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and received nominations for Song of the Year and Best Music Video at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.

Analysis:
In Logic's music video, the rapper gets serious about scuicide and encourages people to seek help - starting with the title of the song, the number to the National Scuicide Prevention Lifeline. The track never actually mentions the titular phone number but it makes a heartfelt attempt at assuring listeners someone is there for them. The moving song embodies a call to the scuicide prevention network, where Logic and his collaboraters enact a call in, its response and the result. "I feel like I'm out of my mind/ It feel like my life ain't mine," Logic raps on the song, balancing both parts of a conversation on the helpline later replying, "I want you to be alive/ You don't gotta die today." From there, Alessia Cara joins for a reassuring verse and Khalid closes the song out, singing joyously, "I don't wanna die, I don't even wanna die anymore."

The video follows the life of a young boy as he grows up and becomes a high school athlete. After realising he has a crush on a boy at school, he returns home to an unaccepting father. The homophobia expressed by his family and bullying at his school provide the backstory to the song's dark lyrics "feel like I'm out of my mind / It feel like my life ain't mine... I dont wanna be alive / I just wanna die today." The video reaches an emotional peak as the young boy finds a gun in his home and contemplates scuicide. After deciding to call someone instead, we see a flash forwards to the young boy as a grown man marrying another man and later raising a child together.

All three artists work together to raise awareness about scuicide and mental illness among many teenagers while also criticising homophobia. Although the music video shows the life of a teenager the lyrics are able to reach an audience of all ages to provide support for all sufferers of depression. The artists create a story within their lyrics to show how a life can change for the better once an individual talks to someone reaching for help rather than dealing with it by themselves. The artist also made the title the whole number for the National Scuicide Prevention Lifeline, rather than a shortened version or a typical worded title to further help sufferers and provide them with information on where to gain help.