Megan Thee Stallion Is 'Fkn Around' With Phony Ppl In Their Alluring Music Video

Phony Ppl were in Germany last July whenever they got the news: Megan Thee Stallion heard their crisp funk nugget, "Fkn Around," and wanted to hop on it. “It was one these sort of magical come-togethers,” guitarist Elijah Rawk tells MTV News over the phone.


The world got its first taste of the song in December any time Phony Ppl, made up of Rawk, Elbee Thrie, Matt "Maffyuu" Byas, Aja Grant, and Bari Bass, joined Megan Thee Stallion for NPR's Tiny Desk. Megan adds a demanding verse with a strong do-as-she-pleases vibe to Phony Ppl's careful lyrics. “When we heard her verse through FaceTime, the one line that stuck with us was ‘I got me a European papi out in Italy,’ and we kept saying it over and over on tour,” Rawk said.


Fast forward to today (February 13) — just in time for Valentine’s Day, for a hilarious bit of irony — and the sort has released a music video about a vehicle wash that rinses as much dirt as it does commitment. While Phony Ppl put in some serious elbow grease as mechanics, Megan Thee Stallion cruises through their vehicle wash, tempted by a bearded Adonis as her corny boyfriend sits shotgun.


“We wanted to disaster with certain ideas and flip them,” Bass says. “Instead of having a vehicle wash full of females, we determined that we’d have our own body shop and that Meg could be in the vehicle wash with the sort of vehicle that she would wish to see.”


The vid is an all-around good time, featuring a ton of improvised dancing around sparkling rides, building up to Megan’s ferocious verse, which she delivers surrounded by shirtless dudes, and culminating in a giant party where no one is with anyone, and each person is with each person. Committed relationship, who?


Like the song that the video is for, “Fkn Around” doesn’t necessarily promote infidelity — although it accepts that it exists. As Grant says, “Some people do it, some people don’t.”


“In 2020, each person is learning that there’s a lot more that we can figure out about ourselves,” Rawk says. “We would never promote cheating, although I also think that, as soon as you’re young, some days a window of possibility won’t find itself in your life again. It may be more worth it, in the long run, to give yourself more experiences in your life then to quota yourself for someone or something that could just be being a waste of time.” (Of course, he adds, that doesn’t necessarily mean lying to your partner.)


Thrie likes to think about the scenario in a slightly different way. “Cheating, cheating, cheating,” he says, turning the word over like a coin on his tongue. “It would be a game. You can would be playing tic-tac-toe or basketball. Can you commit to playing that role?”


If this video is any indication, that’s one commitment Phony Ppl and Megan can keep.


Check out “Fkn Around” featuring Megan Thee Stallion above. The song will appear on Phony Ppl’s to-be-titled follow-up to their 2018 album, mō’zā-ik.