Macklemore, "Same Love"

you're literally a year too late for that

Before the chatter was about whether hip-hop was finally ready or whatever, and mostly about patting Macklemore on the back for his daring, but at the time the song wasn't actually making any waves in hip-hop or having any notable impact on hip-hop charts or radio. Whereas now (according to the way Billboard does the charts at least), the song is actually doing something, which could inspire another wave of navel gazing. Now that I check, it's not just rising on those chart's either. It gained a new peak on the Hot 100 too, is rising on itunes and is building on radio. It could become a legitimate hit, which is what it hadn't really been up to this point, despite being a much discussed song.

The 'daring' there should be in massive sarcasm quotes.

It's completely inescapable here right now :|

rising on the hot 100 = rising on r&b/hip-hop songs now, btw. the data used in both charts is now compiled in exactly the same way so they don't really represent anything different w/r/t audience anymore.

but yeah i am hearing the song on the radio more now and i have to bite my tongue in the car while my friends all praise it

about 5 of my friends seem to post this on FB every two weeks.

heard this on the radio today, it made me cry, omg i love weddings

the more i listen to it the more i can feel my support for gay men pulsating

there's a man on the radio saying "if i were gay", omg i love 2013 so much thanks obama!!

I deal with condescending white liberal Seattlites day in and day out and I have never, not even once when encountering these folks, thought to myself, "you should rap."

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 5:40 PM Bookmark

qft

does anyone else listen to this song and just poop their pants

i played this song for my gay teacher and he started crying and i started crying and the whole class started crying and applauding me and my bravery and that's when the soviets finally attacked

when i grow up i want macklemore to eat my asshole

i think the level of hate being evinced for guy is kinda sad tbh

― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp)

i agree, the guy's not a great rapper or even a good one but his songs are catchy as hell. (i remember saying the same thing about jay-z at one point)

i have never heard "same love" but i read the lyrics and they seem pretty on-point for a chart rapper. rev i would be v interested to read your takedown.

haha i am realizing that if i like the hooks i should be praising ryan lewis? the guy looks like such an immense douche though. :(

i have never heard "same love" but i read the lyrics and they seem pretty on-point for a chart rapper.

It's a pretty corny song from a musical standpoint. But yeah, there's nothing wrong with the lyrics. I think there's a good argument that it would've been braver to have the hook sung by a dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUw4Qh9uFK8

heard this on the radio today, it made me cry, omg i love weddings

i agree, the guy's not a great rapper or even a good one but his songs are catchy as hell. (i remember saying the same thing about jay-z at one point)

O_O

emphasis on the content in parentheses

can i get a what what to these bitches from all of my uncles who don't love hoes, because they're homos

lol

Neanderthal you laugh but that was a pretty uncontroversial opinion for awhile; i don't take any credit for its originality

i agree, the guy's not a great rapper or even a good one but his songs are catchy as hell. (i remember saying the same thing about jay-z at one point)

i have never heard "same love" but i read the lyrics and they seem pretty on-point for a chart rapper. rev i would be v interested to read your takedown.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 7:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i am realizing that if i like the hooks i should be praising ryan lewis? the guy looks like such an immense douche though. :(

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 7:41 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

people upthread saying catchiness in music is unimportant made me wonder if i was reading an alternate universe ILM

it's making me wonder when the last time such an explicitly political protest song had some chart burn.

green day's politics are murky at best, and then We Are the World 25 or w/e?

Maybe Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice," which was 2006, but seems like an eon ago

I'm not really familiar with the lyrics, but didn't Born This Way cover similar ground?

The piano is playing "Waiting on the World to Change"

Or maybe it's "People Get Ready"

I think there's a good argument that it would've been braver to have the hook sung by a dude

how's life hates lesbians

"Born This Way" > this > "Where is the Love"

http://www.shopworldph.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Jansport-Elefunk-Core-Series-Messenger-880x1024.jpg

Neanderthal you laugh but that was a pretty uncontroversial opinion for awhile; i don't take any credit for its originality

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 2:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh I know, I was actually one of those folks in my early 20s! well except that I hated him outright so I could listen to backpackers rap about the filthiness of tap water and how the periodic table was dope

did you

ok i figured it out, it was driving me nuts

"I Love College" by Asher Roth. it's in the same key and everything.

as for the content of the lyrics, i kinda don't care because he's a shitty boring rapper, although i'm sure this song will continue chart ascension throughout the next few weeks.

KROQ loves white rappers.

I like Macklemore as a rapper, he sounds precocious

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2006956/butt-head-slapping-beavis-o.gif

he sounds precocious in the sense that he sounds like a self-impressed 15-year-old, which is not charming at all for a 30-year-old

that's just what being 30 is now right?

Macklemore is usually posted by my friends on FB, followed by the phrase

"I DON'T EVEN USUALLY LIKE RAP, BUT...."

haha yes I've experienced this.

Like a self-impressed kid is exactly what I was going for with precocious, yeah.

C'mon guys, you liked it when Kreayshawn did it. Or what about Kitty Pryde?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-kidz-bop-version-of-macklemores-thrift-shop-is-the-worst

Amazingly, as horrible as this is, it's more charming than the original

when i grow up i want macklemore to eat my asshole

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 23 June 2013 00:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

slept on post imo

this dude's gonna sell out a third night at Key Arena tomorrow. sorry, Rev :(

Macklemore must be stopped

i heard this song on the radio the other day. its about respecting gay people. it's really bad

and it's not really that respectful of gay people!

he could prob sell out a week's worth of key arena. surprised he didn't just go for safeco

oh, I guess the shows are in december and safeco would be a less than ideal venue at that time of year. oh well, macklemore fans can freeze for all I care.