I am feeling very cynical about Cee-Lo's new album

whiney is otm itt

jesus christ whiney do you get a million dollars if this is the FIRST SONG EVER everyone cared about at the first time? calm down.

i've heard this song 25 times today. haven't heard any beatles.

lol

this song is so boring and i haven't seen anyone mention it until ten minutes ago. on this thread.

I can see why people dig this song but between the E6 track for the xbox/atari line (which is like the tenth best on that album) and Harry Nilsson's "You're Breaking My Heart" for the "omg he said fuck you" this is just yet another faux-motown ditty in a time of plenty.

― da croupier, Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Glad I'm not the only one who's made a Cee-Lo/Nilsson connection. I wrote something similar in the other cee-lo thread.

And Whiney OTM. This song was as much a hit in the "internet viral video" sense as it was anything else.

the video has 120,000 hits, it's A SENSATION

the youtube I saw had it at 300,000 in a day.

tape store, u pick some random shit to all caps on

Ebullient, but I still like "Yamaha" better this summer.

wonder how blogs would have reacted to joe tex's "aint gonna bounce no more (with no big fat woman)" back in the day

no, not really.

also, to answer whiney, "Party In The USA"

"party in the usa" is a pretty good answer actually

whether this is the first time someone with cred tied a decent song to a novelty hook for profit in the internet age, this is a solid example of it

but p4k type crits didn't even hop on board to Miley at all. my point is that this is a pop moment AND a critical moment, all in 24 hours

ie the world outside Singles Jukebox

i guess if you pick and choose the xact terms of yr category then yeah its totally the best eg.

haha I'd personally put the Weezer "Pork + Beans" video drop in this category, but I realize it probably didn't garner the same enthusiasm this did from blogs of all shapes and hipness

it def had a similar moment only everyone was saying "this video is funny" not "this song is GREAT", which is the point of my argument

"Gold Digger" and "My Love" were so much bigger than this, not that it matters because this song is unremarkable retro zzz

also "Umbrella" and "Single Ladies" and I really don't see that much hype about this song, I get that you're a fanboy or whatever and I'd be throwing around the same hyperbole if Cassie had a second hit, but NO

think people are still missing whiney's original point, which was just when was the last time blogs from all walks were praising a dropped youtube featuring only lyrics by bringing up Kid A and the popular hits of 03

thanks for reading my thesis, Tape Store and supplying an argument to a totally different one, you're making my weekend totally not frustrating

"umbrella" is another good answer

"singles ladies" no and "my love" had a weird release because of SINGLE CLEARANCE ONLY or w/e that voice over was

& i don't think that whiney is a cee lo fanboy

Are you really arguing that Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" had more instant (24-hour) critical love than any of those songs I just named because that's total bullshit

I look forward to rereading your thesis in two months.

the thing about "fuck you" is that it's retro enough to appeal to older people, while cee lo has enough cred in both indie and pop worlds because of gnarls to warrant mention + goodie mob for rap blogs

like, i agree with whiney that "fuck you" dropped and then all of a sudden that video link was everywhere

it was like the bieber slow down thing tbh

i don't follow whiney's cee-lo posts, but i based that comment off this comment on the new sufjan (lol) thread:

CeeLo put out a song today who gives a shit

― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 21, 2010 3:07 PM (Yesterday)

did "umbrella" "gold digger" and "crazy in love" get a lot of media attention pre-video? i honestly don't recall, but i think a link or two would probably be more educational than "that's total bullshit"

i think "umbrella" is the best counterargument

whiney is right in that lots of people didn't care about "party in the usa" because it was miley

i wish Usher had dropped a lyrics-in-motion video for OMG

we could probably clear a lot of lazy pre-albums drops if artists had to make one

sorry, i don't have the time to gather all the articles and blog posts from 2004, 2005 and 2007, but then again i don't see a list of sites going crazy about this song either

but 700k listens on youtube isn't that big of a deal

i think whiney ref'd three fairly disparate ones, no?

yeah "My Love" was going to be my example but "Umbrella" is definitely the biggest instant overnight talking point song of the last few years

yeah, i might concede to "Umbrella"

it was like the bieber slow down thing tbh

I'm pretty sure ILX was the second place to see that outside of the original forum where someone created it.

uh, no

and this Cee-Lo song is a great example of how meta and accelerated consumption has become where, within minutes of hearing it, people anticipate its popularity and despair over its eventual omnipresence and the memes it will inspire. Some of doing that even before the second chorus.

no, hes right xp

reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker

1.6 million people have listened to that bieber thing on soundcloud

the revolution starts here

i saw the amount of links to the bieber thing that i would expect to see if the fucking president was shot

lmao

anyway this cee-lo thing is fun but its a little more "max in college" and i am pathological about hating shit that all the casual music fans/non rap fans/'media people' on my tumblr dashboard go nuts over so

nothing makes me want to hate a song more than a bunch of 'journalists' and 'bloggers' enjoying it

reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker

nope, ILX had it first. I posted it on ILE when it had 1,000 hits and it was still the 16th. Reddit posted it on the 17th, a few hours later.

ILX: home to Bieber fever.

i still haven't head beiber cuz the mp3 is down and i'll be damned if i'm gonna listen to a 30 minute stream of anything