As Marathon Monday quickly approaches, students are scrambling to prepare for one of the biggest days on Boston College’s campus. From buying outlandish outfits to planning when to make the trek off-campus and back, MarMon is a day that finds students doing the most to celebrate one of Boston’s greatest traditions.
This celebration comes to a head with the Mile 21 Concert, which is held in the Mod Lot at 10:00 a.m. With the announcement of Saweetie as this year’s headliner, many students flocked to their music-listening app of choice to familiarize themselves with the artist.
Though known for her songs “Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat)” and “My Type,” Saweetie’s lack of mainstream popularity leaves the extent of her concert setlist likely unknown to many. But The Heights is here to help with a playlist of our own to better your Mile 21 Concert experience.
Starting out with Saweetie’s top hits, it’s songs like the two above that launched Saweetie into the spotlight in 2019 and are sure to be crowd favorites at the concert. The pinnacle of her career came in 2021 with “Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat).”
But Saweetie had spent years before growing her music persona.
Starting out by posting clips of freestyles to her Instagram, Saweetie’s big break came with the song “ICY GRL,” her 2017 debut single initially released on SoundCloud. Once gaining traction, the song landed Saweetie a record deal with Warner Records and a double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
“Manicures and pedicures, I’m always tip top / When they say I’m not hot, all these lies need to stop / ‘Cause I’m icy, wifey, haters wanna fight me,” raps Saweetie at the beginning of “ICY GRL.”
Saweetie then created her own record label, Icy Records, in 2018 and released her major label debut EP, High Maintenance, shortly after. The EP features hits like “ICY GRL” and the 49-second title track “High Maintenance.”
The playlist also includes songs from Saweetie’s next EP, ICY, released in 2019. With “My Type” on it—Saweetie’s first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100 list—ICY also has one of her many notable collaborations with “Tip Toes (feat. Quavo).”
Saweetie began collaborating with other popular artists in 2020, and many of her top songs are now the result of those partnerships. From her “Tap In” remix with Post Malone, DaBaby, and Jack Harlow to a feature on Ava Max’s “Kings & Queens Pt. 2 (feat. Lauv and Saweetie),” Saweetie has built her career with the help of some of the biggest names in pop music today—potential for a surprise performance for the Mile 21 concert.
Many of Saweetie’s recent setlists have included collaborative songs, like “Back to the Streets (feat. Jhené Aiko)” and “Closer (feat. H.E.R.).” With a repertoire of impressive partnerships built up over the years, Saweetie has a fair amount of sleeper hits to pull out at Mile 21.
“I ride around town ’til I leave / I gave the boy around, spit him back to the streets / Like, la-da-dee-da-dee-da,” sings Saweetie in the chorus of “Back to the Streets (feat. Jhené Aiko).”
Saweetie’s personal hits and striking collaborations are what helped to land her on the Forbes 30 under 30 Music List in 2020, the year of her first beauty collaboration and the launch of her own virtual educational content series, Icy University.
Since releasing her hits, Saweetie has performed throughout the United States and continued to write new music. Performing her then-newly released song “Icy Chain” on Saturday Night Live in 2021 and releasing her EP THE SINGLE LIFE in 2022, Saweetie has been a consistent artist since her first Instagram post.
Saweetie might not be mainstream anymore, but her hit songs and collaborations are sure to be thoroughly entertaining for the Mile 21 crowd. And who knows, maybe BC students will be rewarded with a well-deserved surprise performance from Doja Cat after a long school year.
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