Party Drugs

Album: Make My Head Sing (2014)
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  • "Party Drugs" explores Mayfield's days of doing drugs with a former boyfriend. "That song is about how nothing good comes from getting too f--ked up," she explained to Rolling Stone:. "You think you've got your life together and you're married and you got your career and then you've got to be careful because if you get too f--ked up, you can throw it all away."

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