Chris Sawyer

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Has Bad Bunny ever called a switchboard in his life? Was he a phone engineer in a past life? Was one of the 47 people who made this song? Is someone having a little joke. Why is no one else looking into this?!

(Maybe cos there are bigger things to worry about, Chris?)

Oh shush!

That is phone tones made into a song, right?? It sounds like I'm paying my council tax bill (shout out to UK council tax payers).

(Also, Newham Council, get the internet please?!)

Right, have a lost my mind? Entirely happy if the answer is yes.

Have a listen to the start of the song.

WHAT IS THAT SOUND?!

This is NICHE. I only know about DTMF cos I used to work in radio and once used an app that makes the noises (for Game Of Phones on Radio 1 if anyone remembers that??)

Now, it takes two seconds to find out that DTMF is OF COURSE an abbreviation of something else.

Or is it...

So DTMF is the world’s most streamed song at the moment. And no one else ON THE WHOLE INTERNET has mentioned this, so I’m probably wrong. But...

...when I first saw the letters DTMF my inner nerd thought, “what, DTMF, as in TOUCH TONES??”

I have a theory about why the new Bad Bunny song is called "DTMF" but it’s so nerdy I’m almost scared to post it.

I think it's to do with the beeps your phone makes when you have to “press 2 to speak to reception” or whatever. Hear me out…

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