Can we please normalize two men being a completely reasonable solution to one man’s limitations? Like, why are we out here settling for one guy who can maybe do three things well when the math literally works out in your favor if you just double the roster. One of them texts back, one of them goes down like it’s his religion, one of them shows up with food when you’re hungover and the other one doesn’t ask questions about where you were last night. That’s EFFICIENT. Women have been told our whole lives that needing attention is clingy and that being sexually satisfied is somehow a personality flaw. Fuck that. Two men who both know the arrangement and are both committed to making sure you’re the priority? This is a goddamn ecosystem running on purpose. You’re running at full capacity with two people who both signed on for it. The audacity of the one-man system when THIS was an option the whole time. The girl in the song knows what she wants and she’s finally getting all of it. Ideal, until it’s not, which is where Brooke Falls lands with ‘2 Boyfriends.’
Brooke wrote this watching a real polyamorous couple and what she saw was not the Pinterest version of the arrangement. “I wrote this song about a polyamorous couple,” she told us. “I was fascinated by their relationship dynamic.” And honestly that tracks, because whoever this girl is, she is a whole character study worth following around. Then Brooke drops the detail that shifts everything: “She had 2 boyfriends, but didn’t seem to like either of them.” Wait, what? She’s running the whole operation and she’s annoyed by both of them? I need a damn minute with that. “The boyfriends would always hang out together, even when she wasn’t around. I could assume she was jealous of their friendship.” So the two guys she recruited for her ecosystem became each other’s people and now she’s on the outside of her own situation. That’s the whole twist and it’s a good one.
‘2 Boyfriends’ sits in this dreamy alt electro-pop space that wraps around you before you register what’s happening. Brooke’s vocals float over cool electronic textures with this quality that sounds fascinated and slightly envious at the same time which is exactly the right energy for the story she’s telling. The verses feel close and almost conspiratorial like she’s narrating the whole mess from across the bar into her phone. Then the chorus opens up into something more wistful. The production has this sultry quality that sneaks up on you. Hardest shit to pull off.
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Brooke drops us straight into the contradiction. ” She’s got 2 boyfriends / But she hates men / She smokes cigarettes with them / At the dive bar again. “ The dive bar detail is everything. This is a Tuesday night habit with three people sharing an ashtray and a situation nobody formally agreed to. The fact that she ended up here despite herself is the kind of irony that only makes sense when you’re already living it.
Then the arrangement shows its real shape. “Her boyfriends like to hang out / When she’s not around / She’s envious of the way they / Walk through the town, town, town, town.” The guys built their own thing inside her setup and now she’s watching them move through the world with this easy camaraderie she can’t access. Watching two people you’re supposed to own just be free with each other gets under your skin in a way that’s fucking hard to explain out loud. The “town, town, town, town” feels like her brain stuck on the image, unable to drop it.
Brooke’s chorus is where she steps out of observer mode and into wanting and it hits. “I wish I could be her / On a Friday, Saturday / And on the weekends / I pretend I’ve got 2 boyfriends / That come to play with me / Come to play with me.” She’s watching this jealous annoyed girl and still wants the fantasy version of what she has. The weekend daydream of two people showing up just for you survives the reality check every time. “Come to play with me” is suggestive in this light, teasing way and then Brooke just drops: “KISSSSING / Come to play with me.” That stretched-out word sitting right in the middle of the song is more seductive than a whole explicit verse would be. I played it back three times.
Her third verse gets specific. “Well, her bio says / ‘Men are a disease’ / She watches them while they / Flirt and they tease.” Her Instagram bio says men are a disease and she’s got two of them and she’s watching them flirt with each other. I once had a situationship where I felt more left out of his friendships than included in our actual thing and that feeling is a specific kind of hell. She built the whole arrangement and she ended up in the same spot.
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Then comes the detail that finishes the whole picture. “On National Girlfriend Day, she / Gets two posts / Only double-taps on the one she / Likes the most, most, most, most.” Two posts on National Girlfriend Day sounds like winning the arrangement lottery until you realize she’s playing favorites inside her own setup. That double-tap detail is so specific it almost hurts. Someone in this triangle is always fucking keeping score and the “most, most, most, most” is her turning it over and over, unable to let it be equal.
Brooke Falls is Philadelphia’s most theatrical problem and she knows it. This is a girl with a full musical theatre background who decided the stage wasn’t enough and took that dramatic, expressive energy straight into bedroom pop, and honestly the genre is better for it. She’s been building this thing since 2020 when ‘Blueberry Pie’ introduced her sound, followed by ‘Petals’ and ‘Feverdreamer’ in 2021. Then ‘1994 Jeep Laredo’ dropped in 2022 and crossed 30k streams, which for an independent artist doing it her way is not nothing. She kept that momentum rolling through 2024 with ‘CRY!’ and ‘The Cycle’ and came into 2025 swinging with ‘I Love Being Young!’ and ‘FLING!’ Now she’s got a full debut electronic pop album coming March 13th, 2026, and if ‘2 Boyfriends’ is any indication of where she’s headed, we’re not ready. Brooke makes music that puts you in a whole emotional state with no exit strategy.
So, yeah, two boyfriends feels like the perfect gig for girls like me who get absorbed in one guy but can’t resist the temptation of others. It’s heaven or hell depending on who’s asking and honestly the only people whose opinion matters are the ones already in the arrangement. As for girls experiencing this, you can call them slutty or greedy or whatever makes you feel better about the fact they’re getting everything they want and you’re still out here negotiating with one man who can’t even text back. The math sounds perfect on paper but ‘2 Boyfriends’ is what happens when the fantasy actually shows up and turns out to have opinions, feelings and a whole lot of needs nobody budgeted for.
