Show Me How
A single of February 28, 2018, later track 15 of Oncle Jazz, and the sample behind Joey Bada$$'s "Show Me".
Men I Trust, from Oncle Jazz (2018)
"Show Me How" was released as a single on February 28, 2018 and is track 15 of Oncle Jazz (2019). Orlando Weekly calls it the band's best-known single, riding the bedroom-pop wave with Clairo, Cuco and Rex Orange County. Two versions are on Bandcamp, the album version and a garage session on Forever Live Sessions (2020); we do not know which one our upload is. We could not verify its writers, recording date, studio, producer or personnel, and found no official video and no statement from the band about its meaning. One listener reads it as a narrator who loves her partner more than he loves her and says she will wait; The Fader describes its drifting patience. These are listener readings, not the band's words.
The producers Statik Selektah and Heavy Mellow sampled it for "Show Me" on Joey Bada$$'s 2022 album 2000, and Stereogum's Chris DeVille noted brief sample clearance issues. The band joined Joey Bada$$ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on November 2, 2022, a date inferred from a November 3 article. The song also opened their NPR Tiny Desk (Home) concert, published June 16, 2021, recorded at a cabin on the St. Lawrence River with Proulx, Caron, Chiriac, Cedric Martel on bass and Eric Maillet on drums; the band said they reunited at the cabin, jammed and recorded our session. We found no covers and no chart history, and the setlist.fm page that loaded belonged to another artist, so no play count is known.
On stage
- 2021-06-16, NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, Quebec Opened the set, filmed at a cabin on the St. Lawrence River.
More songs by Men I Trust
Sources
- Men I Trust, Wikipedia
- Joey Bada$$ and Men I Trust on Fallon, Stereogum (2022-11-03)
- Men I Trust bring dream pop to Orlando, Orlando Weekly (2025-11-19)