Ashnikko - Fuck Me In Shibuya (Lyrical Breakdown)

This is one of my least favorite Ashnikko songs, but I want to break down all her stuff. And even her "bad" songs have some good bars, so...

The song's headline is a double: Ash went to Japan with her producer Raf Riley to gather inspiration for this album. She had sex with a man while in there (not Raf, someone else), and he not only fucked her, but fucked her over (=treated her "badly or unfairly").  

The lyrics have a lot of references to Japanese culture - karaoke, futon, Pokémon, izakaya, lolitas, the word kawaii, and a couple of other more subtle references: Ash being a yandere character and of the double nature of sexuality in Japan, on this song we get the twisted side (the other side being the conservatism).

Fuck me in Shibuya, wish I never knew ya

Got a cold heart, icicle sticking through ya

Let's do karaoke, I'm begging him to choke me

Lay him on my futon and blow like I got no teeth

Role play, I could school ya, Pokémon, duel ya

German headmistress like "Das ist gut, ja?"

Izakaya smoky, act like you don't know me

Ten steps behind me, creepin' on the low-key (Low-key)

He fucked her over so bad she wishes she'd never met him. His heart is cold like an icicle, stabbing her.
It seems that they sung karaoke together and then had rough sex - choking, a blowjob, roleplay stuff. And there's a double for Pokémon duels.
The German sentence translates to "This feels/is good, right?".
She's schooling him, being the headmistress.
Izakayas are similar to pubs or tapas bars - you sit at a bar and order alcoholic beverages and small salty snacks. It could be the snacks that have a smoky taste in them, or that the izakaya is smoky, it's hard to see in there. Ash and the guy have sex and then end up in the same izakaya, and he acts like he doesn't recognize Ash, but then follow her to her hotel/somewhere when she leaves the izakaya.

Lolitas line the block to my cheer squad

Puppy dog eyes, give me teardrops

Wrapped up in himself like a slipknot

And checkin' his reflection in my lip gloss

Fuck me in Shibuya (Wow, wow, wow)

Fuck me in Shibuya

All the lolitas want to be a part of Ash's cheer squad, so they're lining up the block. Ash used to be a cheerleader when she was in school.
Puppy dog eyes mean those big, teary-looking eyes that make you go "aww". This emoji: 
🥺
But they're not working on Ash - he can give her all the puppy dog eyes he wants to, she needs real tears, real emotion.

If someone is "wrapped up in themselves" it means they're self-absobed and self-obsessed. The slipknot is a double - a slip knot is a type of knot where you wrap the rope with itself to create it. Slipknot is also a band Ash listened to a little bit when she was a child.

As for the "checking his reflection in my lip gloss" - I've heard a few female rappers use that expression and I'm not quite sure what they mean... What comes to mind, though: 1) she's feminine and isn't ashamed to be, wearing lip gloss 2) he's below her, because he's able to see his reflection on her lip gloss - if he was towering over her, like men often are because they're taller than women, he wouldn't see his reflection - maybe he's shorter than her, but I also think it's symbolic - he's figuratively below her 3) he doesn't just happen to take a look at his reflection, he's checking it actively - he's "taking a look in the mirror", as they say, realizing what he's done wrong.

Fuck me in Shibuya, wish I never done it to ya

Meet me at the corner store, thirty minutes sooner

Is there something in the water, is it solar, is this lunar?

He lickin' on my neck, the rats watching from the sewer

I can't wait, I can't wait, not just anybody's date

Tuck a napkin down your shirt and sauce me like a steak

The girls call me kawaii, they pinchin' on my face

We'll synchronize our steps, you can follow in our wake

She wishes she'd never fucked with him.
I think this is a different guy - she meets him in the corner store and 30min after they're at an alley making out, and the rats are watching them. She'd want more than kissing, though - she saying she "can't wait" and would like for him to eat her pussy. Hence the napkin and the steak.
Ash has multiple bars in different songs that reference her new age religious beliefs (witchcraft, mostly) - in here we have the "lunar water" and "solar water". Some people practicing new age religions / witchcraft believe that the sun or the moon charge water with their energy and are therefore better i.e. for rituals than plain old tap water. You "charge" the water by leaving it in the sun or in the moonlight for a certain amount of time - I've mostly seen lunar water on my Tiktok and it's normal tap water that's been left sitting on the window still overnight and after that it's lunar water and can be used in rituals.
Here, I think Ash is wondering (a bit playfully) if the Shibuya water supply has something in it, that's making her this promiscuous.

The lolitas think Ash is cute and are now her (cheer) squad, equal to her. I assume they're equal, because they're synchronizing their steps, whereas the men are following them. Much like the guy from the last verse. You want to creep ten steps behind me, you stalker? Fine, walk there, that's an appropriate place for you. "Follow someone's wake" means follow their example. 
It has also been a tradition in many countries, including Japan, for the wife to walk three steps behind their husbands, to show him respect. Ash is turning that the other way around - Ash and the lolitas are in the front, the creepy stalker is the one following them, literally and figuratively.

Lolitas line the block with their eyes low (Eyes low)

Tie you to the bed with the blindfold (Blindfold)

Got you in a trance, making time slow

Ma-ma-ma-makin' time slow

Another sign of respect - not looking someone in the eyes like an equal, but keeping your eyes lowered, looking at the ground.
When you look at the ground, though, you can't really see anything that's going on around you.
How do you make a man, who is allowed to look at any direction he wants to, see even less? Blindfold him. He's also in a trance, mesmerized by Ash, time feels slower than it is, and he can be blindfolded for a loooong time... Obvious sexual double.

Taste it, I laced it, silhouette, you traced it

Pinch your dimple cheeks and lock you in my basement

"I'm kidding, I'm kidding," with a twitch in my eye

Call me baby all you want, I'm a bitch in disguise

At the highest vantage point as the sun goes down

I'll push you off the balcony when no one's around

Crimson dusk in the streets, kissing the cheeks of these hunnies

Receding to the west as the night turns funny

Passerby stare me down and I think I've gone mad

Police pull up say, "Baby girl, you've been bad"

Act like you don't know me

Act like you don't know me

Fuck me in Shibuya

Fuck me in Shibuya

Fuck me in Shibuya

Fuck me in Shibuya

If you "lace" someone's drink, it means you drug them. He tastes it and "traces" it back to Ash, but it's too late. He drank it already and loses his consciousness. (The "silhouette" is a double, because "trace" also means the outline of something.) Ash is "kidding" with a twitch in her eye about being a yandere - a stereotype in manga/anime of a girl who is nice and sweet when you first meet her, but who later turns into a psychopath. Laces your drink and takes you to her basement. Or pushes you off the balcony.

There's some doubles in the storytelling - yandere-Ash pushes the guy off the balcony at sunset, when the sun is setting and the sky is the color of crimson. The streets look crimson, because the sun is so low. Crimson is also the color of blood - his blood, when he's laying on the street, after she pushed him off the balcony.

As the sun sets in the West, yandere-Ash also returns to West, and has committed the perfect crime - they had a one night stand, he pretended to not know her, which is yandere-Ash's motivation for the murder, but also her alibi - he didn't tell anyone about her, it was like they'd never met. She was just on a business trip and then returned to the UK. She's still a bit scared of getting caught, though - a passerby stares at her and she thinks they must know what she's done, and that soon the police are gonna pull up and arrest her.

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