[1] The song is a comedy hip hop and pop-rap track that takes its concept from the 2003 movie Freaky Friday, being about Lil Dicky and Chris Brown swapping bodies.
"Freaky Friday" is a comedy hip hop song featuring a pop rap light-synthed Mustard and Benny Blanco production.
[5][6] Lil Dicky stated during a 2018 interview with TheGrio that, not having released anything for three years prior to "Freaky Friday", he wanted to prove himself making "the best song [he] could've done".
"[4] Days prior to releasing "Freaky Friday", Dicky premiered it to rappers Drake and Kanye West, receiving a positive feedback.
In the song Dicky is euphoric waking up as Brown, and rejoices because he is rich, handsome, famous, surrounded by beautiful girls and able to sing and dance.
He gets angry and threatens him, but Dicky warns him that beating him would only mean hurting himself, making him realize that he doesn't want to, because he loves himself, that being the key for both to go back into each others' bodies.
[15] The Michigan Daily commented that "sonically, “Freaky Friday” is extremely basic, with a thin chord progression and beat akin to last year’s hackneyed hit, “I’m the One.” The track is much more entertaining when paired with the elaborate and extended music video, the driving force behind the growing popularity of the new single.
[18] The Ringer wrote positively of the track: "while Lil Dicky is still fishing for the same easy laughs that he has been for years, he is now going all in on the kind of satirical rap that has earned groups like the Lonely Island, or even Weird Al Yankovic, a legitimate level of respect.
"[19] Stereogum deemed the song as "humorous, catchy, and contagiously fun", saying it features a "gold-plated hook sung by Brown and impeccable if unremarkable pop-rap production".
"[21] The music video, along with the lyrical content of the song itself, takes its concept from the 2003 movie Freaky Friday, and features cameos from Jimmy Tatro, Ed Sheeran, DJ Khaled and Kendall Jenner.
The video then ends with cameos from Ed Sheeran, DJ Khaled and Kendall Jenner, where Lil Dicky is then in possession in all of their bodies.