Girls Like U
Thomas Geelens · R&B / Pop
Reviewed 2026-02-24
The Roast
“"There aren't many girls like you." Thomas. Buddy. This is the most recycled line in R&B history. Usher said it. Chris Brown said it. Every SoundCloud producer with a reverb plugin has said it. Your chorus is basically a physical inventory — shape, face, lips, waist, sweat, perfume — it reads like a TSA pat-down set to music. You didn't write a love song; you wrote a checklist.”
Sally's not done with you yet.
Drop a URL, screenshot, or file and Sally will give you the honest truth.
The Bright Side
The production is smooth enough that nobody will focus on the lyrics. Which, honestly, might be the best thing that could happen to them.
Hardest Sneer
“Your chorus reads like a TSA pat-down set to a beat.”
Think your work can survive this?
Drop a URL, screenshot, or file and Sally will give you the honest truth.
Issues (5)
"I'm Gonna Enjoy the View" — Telling a Woman She's Scenery
Receipt
"I'm gonna enjoy the view / 'Cause there aren't many girls like you" — You just reduced an entire person to a landscape. "Enjoy the view" is what you say at the Grand Canyon, Thomas, not to someone you're allegedly into. And "there aren't many girls like you" is the lyrical equivalent of "you're not like other girls" — the most recycled compliment in R&B since Usher had a career. You're not special for saying it.
Fix
Tell us WHY she's unlike others. What specifically makes her irreplaceable? A specific memory, a habit, a quirk — anything more personal than "I like looking at you." Right now your chorus could be about literally any attractive person on earth.
Rhyming "Down" With "Crown" and "Down" With "Gown" — The -OWN Epidemic
Receipt
Verse 1: "time is slowing down / only you can wear the crown." Verse 2: "Look up when you're going down / You're a queen in a perfect gown." Both verses lean on the exact same rhyme family. Your rhyme dictionary has one page and it's the -OWN page.
Fix
There are approximately 170,000 words in the English language. Explore the other 169,994 that don't end in -own. A thesaurus is free. So is Google.
"Pull Me Deep Into Your XTC" — When Wordplay Needs Medical Attention
Receipt
"Pull me deep into your XTC / You're a queen in a perfect gown" — You dropped an ecstasy abbreviation and immediately followed it with "queen in a perfect gown." Pick a lane, Thomas. Is she royalty at a ball or at a rave? The tonal whiplash here could cause actual injuries.
Fix
Commit to a consistent tone within each verse. You can be explicit OR poetic, but switching between "XTC" and "perfect gown" in consecutive lines sounds like two different songwriters fighting over the aux cord.
"Love Myself in You Call That a Win" — Punctuation Left the Chat
Receipt
"Love myself in you call that a win" — Is this a double entendre or a sentence that got lost? There's no comma, no pause, no breath. It reads like an autocomplete prediction. "Love myself in you..." and then Siri just finished the thought.
Fix
Add a dash or comma: "Love myself in you — call that a win." One piece of punctuation. World of difference between wordplay and word vomit.
The Bridge Goes Absolutely Nowhere
Receipt
"That devious smile / That look in your eyes / It's driving me wild / Every part of you is paradise" — Four lines, zero new information. You've spent two verses and two choruses telling us you find her attractive. The bridge is supposed to take the song SOMEWHERE new. This bridge is a dead end.
Fix
Use the bridge to surprise us. A vulnerability, a specific memory, a plot twist. "Every part of you is paradise" is what AI generates when you prompt "write romantic lyrics." Give us something a machine couldn't write.