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

i like it a lot.

(Did they send you the new album or the greatest hits? The best of has those "El Tiburon" and "El Venao" which are great except I'm probably forgetting their actual titles since I don't know Spanish.)

Maybe Chuck didn't hear the songs where Cee-Lo talks about murdering people, easy to miss that if you just play it in the background. And if anything this one is less r&b than the last one...

oh forget it, I like too much music. I must learn to cultivate my hate a little more.

So yeah, I guess that does disqualify me on the Cee-Lo credibility front! Carry on, then.

I'm listening to Cee-Lo now, and I guess I get what some/most of you feel about it. Might be a sequencing issue, some of the harder cuts towards the middle/end of the record. I haven't changed my mind though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc&feature=player_embedded

this is better than i expected from the title (i can imagine it being in something like a judd apatow film) but he seems too in love with himself these days. too much 'arent i clever' smugness in his voice. i know hes trying to hit that retro 60s market with the new album but i still wish he would just go back to the type of stuff he used to do in goodie mob. his believable 'pop' moments are pretty hit and miss.

i think its that hes susceptible to way more corniness as a singer than he ever was as a rapper. he needs to get over his dre3000 crisis and ditch the singing.

wtf r u talking abt that song is great?

that song is cool, i was talking more about the other stuff ive heard that i think is from the new album.

This song is just awesome. I have listened to it at least 10x since yesterday morning. "Ain't that some shit!" <3 <3 <3

Leftsetz is busy spreading the word about this on his twitter and e-mail, and discussing the youtube and how it can't get on the radio. Catchy but retro and noveltyish imo.

i feel bad for everybody who clicks on that, but at least they'll know my suffering

I kinda thought this song would have more of a lasting legacy but it seems (at least, in my parts) to have fizzled. does anybody still bump this where y'all live?

the song was huge enough that people were fightin over singing it at karaoke nights here and now I can't really remember the last time I heard anybody do it. haven't heard it at a party in ages either, or a club (but admittedly I don't go to many of them).

novelty wore off too fast I guess? I mean that's what did it for me - loved the song but now I can't barely stand it anymore, not cos it's a bad song but cos it's kinda like a baseball that's been hit too many times and the core is starting to unravel

idk I got no sleep and was re-reading this thread...sue me

at first i thought you meant 'closet freak', i forgot about that OTHER song

you mean fuck you or crazy?

oh there were two?

was talkin about "Bright Lights, Big City" iirc

This seems like a p comprehensive "no" right here tbh

I can't even remember the last time I heard it accidentally, ie even in censored form in a store or something.

it sold over 6 million in the us which is huge, but i haven't heard it in... maybe years now

i still hear "crazy" sometimes

I feel like I heard "Forget You" all the time in supermarkets, Subway, etc., and definitely at weddings, Christmas parties, etc.

"Fuck You", on the other hand, has completely disappeared.

heard *hear

http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/cee-lo-green-went-atlantas-bubbling-rap-scene-rb-superstardom

not yet read but it's LENGTHY

still:

What’s the Cee Lo Green philosophy?

“I don’t give a fuck.” But I care the most, so it’s very ironic.

a close friend interviewed him back in the world party days and said he was just an insufferable conversationalist who was constantly trying to make DEEP POINTS in the worst possible way.

i still love the guy in spite of myself.

fake deep definitely feels like a big part of his persona/brand, but when he's rapping it usually works for him

Opening track of Still Standing would agree

Someone is singin "Fuck You" at karaoke tonight (badly).

People are reacting like it's Christopher Cross.

This song dead.

I read somewhere that Pharell intended to give "happy" to Cee Lo but somethin thwarted it and he ended up with it for his solo record

it sounds like a cee lo song

it really does. i'm sure Cee-Lo would've sung it better but i think the hammy showbiz aspect of his delivery now would've made it a less fun, less actually happy-sounding record.

otm

surprised a scratch version with carlito hasn't leaked

prob as soon as it falls out of the top ten

this starts tonight, such a weird fucking world we live in
http://www.tbs.com/templates/splashpage.jsp?oid=1252428
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2gDfR3Qvzo

I can't even

at least that longer ad you linked says "Cee-Lo's old group, Goodie Mob," the shorter ad they actually run on TV just gives the impression that they're, like, members of his entourage or something

getting his dudes paid

somehow i doubt the money from the group's post-reunion activity is being split 4 ways equally.

def not but still

this was TERRIBLE btw

I am shocked

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cee-lo-green-pleads-contest-slipping-ecstasy-woman-article-1.1921615

some discussion started about that over here: cee-lo's "closet freak"

it really sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV8SQerjYvg

really weird but also fire

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/business/media/cee-lo-green-strikes-pop-star-gold-without-a-gold-album.html?_r=0

saw this guy at a prince tribute show in between larry graham and the time at the weekend.
he was the worst, obv.
backing band that seemed to be playing/miming to backing tapes.
and topped off by THAT voice, which goes beyond an acquired taste, to a taste which i am trying to make sure i never acquire.

q - how did people back in the goodie mob days ever believe he was the 'star' of goodie mob, and that what they really wanted, was whole albums of cee-lo singing? possibly the worst development to come from the dungeon family.

oops. meant to link this instead -
https://twitter.com/noz/status/747279777715752960?lang=en-gb
the dream of the modern musician is to become so popular that you can reliably earn money while making music that nobody actually likes

he was a good rapper at one time imo

i feel like it was mostly Cee-lo who decided that what the world needed was a whole album of him singing. He did a fair amount of rapping on his first couple solo albums iirc. Anyway I wouldn't fault anyone who heard, say, "I Refuse Limitation" and thought he was brilliant.

i still think some of the songs on the record with 'fuck you' are good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBhdIcb84Hw

forgot he covered band of horses on that album hah

First two solo albums have so much good stuff

not sure how you could not see/hear why he was considered the star?

yeah the first two albums are really good. Dangermouse was the turning pt.

it was a smart move monetarily but yeah i jumped completely off the boat at Gnarls barkley

still one of the all time great verses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CssC-DY4lO8

I really loved the first two solo albums, they were such unique things back then, and he definitely was a good rapper with memorable persona(s). And of course it helped that he was still doing rap music (with occasionakl singing) then, not this weird soul pastiche. But yeah, as nice as "Crazy" was, everything that came after it (including the Gnarls Barkley album) was a massive disappointment, and of course that ecstacy roofie rape is unforgivable, I haven't been able to listen to anything by him since.

"not sure how you could not see/hear why he was considered the star?"

it was more a sort of 'how could we' question. i was a big goodie mob fan. cell therapy was one of my favourite DF songs. and i liked the first cee-lo album, even the songs he sung back then. though closet freak i thought did not work, and the second album (and most of his solo career) seemed to be inspired by closet freak. i like some gnarls songs. but overall, i think his solo career is a mess, filled with songs that do not suit him (then again, might just be me wishing he would just do what he used to do).

one month passes...
#2 this week (behind Gaga)

― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Thursday, February 24, 2011 5:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

deej was right

this is a mom song
sounds like a song a mom would like
with the piano and that "chang-chang-changa-chang" guitar
and a guy singin all sweet over it
your mom's going to dance to it at your wedding
after she's had some wine

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:48 PM bookmarkflaglink