Zulavay makes “Cool With Me” a relationship song where petty arguments keep colliding with a deeper certainty that the two people still want each other. The conflicts are ordinary rather than catastrophic, the kind of arguments that can accumulate without threatening the relationship itself. Beneath them is a simple fact: they are crazy about each other, even when they are getting on each other’s nerves.
What changes the mood is physical intimacy. After an argument, sex could act like the quickest way for the couple to find their way back to each other, not as a solution to whatever started the fight but as part of the relationship’s own rhythm. The bluntness of the premise gives the song its character because Zulavay does not dress up desire as something more complicated than it is. She is obsessed with him, arguments included, embracing a carefree romantic impulsiveness also found in Jessie Altman’s playful pop cut For The Hell Of It.
That makes “Cool With Me” less interested in the mechanics of a perfect relationship than in the particular one these two people have built. They argue, they want each other, they make up, and the cycle continues. Sometimes being good together does not mean being good at avoiding each other’s nerves.
