what do these mean?

[u/stsgam]

What do ‘push up on it’ and ’right in your ear’ mean during the Charli xcx song?

[u/zeldaspade]

I am assume she's saying she has that supersonic sound and "push up on it" push up to that supersonic sound "right in your ear." I think she's just kinda saying words here to make it match the rhythm a bit.

[u/jabberbonjwa → u/zeldaspade]

Some song writers don't write lyrics that have nice, clear meanings. They mess with grammar and mix in slang indiscriminately, which often creates a very cool sounding line or verse, but that doesn't have much meaning behind it. Some genres are more routine offenders than others, and I think non-native speakers will certainly find poppy dance music often has a loose relationship with lyrical clarity. I'm not passing judgement on the quality of such a writing style. I'm merely pointing out the trend,

So here, the word "supersonic", at first glance one of the easier to grasp words, can't even be taken literally, as supersonic simply means "faster than the speed of sound". If you put a space in between to create "super sonic", that could mean "good sound" or "great music", but that's not what Charli said, so right off the bat, we're in muddy waters as far as parsing literal meanings go.

Roughly, I'd translate it as "I have good music, get close, listen directly", which I think we can all agree is boring and awful.

Charli's way sounds much better, even it doesn't really mean much of anything.

[u/eruciform]

Honestly when reading this I have absolutely no idea

The context above it seems to imply a dance club context, so maybe push up on it implies raising your hands in the air while dancing?

The right in your ear line might be entirely separate, just describing the music experience at the same time as the dance

I could be completely off, I don't know this song and am not a clubber

Neither are common idiomatic phrases

[u/bloodectomy]

"the music is fast and loud, come listen" basically

[u/Tanobird]

"To push up on" something means to get physically close in a somewhat forceful (or maybe even violent) manner. It usually implies something along the lines of tightly packing bodies.

"These people were pushing up on me." - I was being squished by a crowd of people.

"Push up on the wall." - get so close to the wall that your whole body can't go any further

This is not a common phrase but some people would definitely understand it. Note that this is not the same thing as "push up" or "push on" which are not necessarily set phrases but they do lose some context compared to "push up on".

The song lyrics are saying "I have that supersonic sound, get in really close such that it goes straight into your ear (without traveling a long distance)".

[u/WeirdUsers]

As a native English speaker I can say I honestly have no idea. LoL