(it was just a drunk text)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
this song is hilarious
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
before i press play: comedy meme y/n?
― lex pretend, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
t lex: no just a bad club track, lazily cashing in on meme-momentum
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
feels kinda too on-the-nose to be even a little funny. hey what's a selfie, what are people who take selfies like, let's just throw it on a generic beat lolol.
― some dude, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
it's been discussed a little bit already over on GTFO rolling worst music of 2014 (along with Nina Nesbitt's possibly even worse song "Selfies")
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
i am pro the entire concept of selfies but the dumb mainstream media seizing on it like a dog with a bone as if it was a fascinating new phenomenon really means the word itself makes me break out in hives
― lex pretend, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
― lex pretend, Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
it's literally paris hilton's "drunk text" updated for 2014
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
man annoying-"young"-deadpan-people-monologuing-over-dance-music is an established art form, ppl think they can just halfass it― worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:46 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Mark my words, it's going to be bigger than "Valley Girl".― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Monday, March 17, 2014 3:27 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
― some dude, Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
i think the real criticism is that it's a bit mean spirited but the writing is pretty funny "she bought all her instagram followers. who even goes out on mondays?"
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
pouring one out for dev
miss kittin was really last decade's queen of this
― lex pretend, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i don't think this one is really half-assed. it's just a bit... branded
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
well yeah the mean spirited part is the depiction of "what are people who take selfies like". the writing doesn't really elevate the premise much, though, if this originated on a sketch show people would be like 'eh i kept waiting for the really funny part and it never got there.'
― some dude, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
drunk text is gr8 tho it's like bret e ellis wrote a track, this sucks
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
And yeah valley girl comparison otm
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
"it's not even summer. why does the dj keep playing 'summertime sadness'" is a good joke
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
there's a pithiness to this that i'm really into. "she's so short and that dress is so tacky. who wears cheetah?"
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
i think this sort of distorts the way selfies actually operate irl in the name of having a branded hashtag but the verses are dope otherwise imo
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
It's poor writing tho unless the dj played it more than once which they didn't xxp
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
like maybe it will be an interesting time capsule when it's as old as valley girl is now but as the jokes are sub-lonely island i kinda don't need to hear it until 2035 or something.
― da croupier, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
valley girl is not an interesting time capsule it's a piece of shit
― every moser (wins), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
This was one of the few tracks on Music Choice's EDM channel that I didn't hate.
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
I wanted them to mix it with "Flash"
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM
if #selfie has a TV moment as odd as this one that'd be cool
― da croupier, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
so was "bufu" like "skeet" in 03 where no radio programmer knew what it meant
― da croupier, Saturday, 29 March 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Feel like this is relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_RFWpm5dg
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 29 March 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
This is on Dim Mak???? What happened to Dim Mak!!??
― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
I guess every generation gets the "Short Dick Man" it deserves
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
Dim Mak had a good reputation to ruin!!??
― some dude, Saturday, 29 March 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Dim Mak has about the wackiest trajectory of any record label I'm aware of
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 29 March 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
how did they get david hasselhoff for this video? david hasselhoff doesn't come cheap. #greatestactorofalltime
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 29 March 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
This is the official Worst Shit Ever.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I fully recognize that this is terrible and yet I still found it delightful while cleaning the condo
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
"Valley Girl" sometimes credited/blamed with popularizing overuse of the word "like"
― Lee626, Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
when this act is done -- in, say, 15 minutes from now -- a better act should resuscitate the outstanding name "the chain-smokers."
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 29 March 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
These type of things are fleeting, though.
I wouldn't read too much into it and just enjoy it for the five minutes it'll last.
― ∞, Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Maybe short-lived would be a better word.
― ∞, Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8Yt-P614w
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/arts/music/the-chainsmokers-perform-selfie-at-highline-ballroom.html?_r=0
― posi riot (some dude), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
It's amazing that Dim Mak used to put out EPs by the Gossip and now basically have a novelty song with the undertone of "women are inhuman monsters"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
it's almost as if the vision and talent behind the label is as skin-deep as the character in the song.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
lol it's almost as if dim mak was literally founded by steve aoki
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
chaki tell me a funny story about this ddude
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 April 2014 02:54 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I'd mind this song nearly so much if the non-speaking parts weren't so fucking lazy
― Vinnie, Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
skimmed that Times review on train, had violent fantasy
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
^^^ postmodern man
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
video needs more david hasselhoff.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 2 May 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
this song really did disappear more quickly than i could've hoped for
― some dude, Friday, 2 May 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
can some better group claim the name "the chainsmokers" now, cuz they should.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 2 May 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
doggy, it's not a good name.
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Friday, 2 May 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
i did not foresee these guys actually becoming big/having longevity
― dyl, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
no. 1 song in the USA
great piece by chris molanphy:http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/08/26/why_the_chainsmokers_closer_featuring_halsey_is_no_1_on_the_hot_100.html
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 27 August 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
i secretly bumped this thread b/c i actually kinda like the song :X
― dyl, Saturday, 27 August 2016 06:04 (seven years ago) link
the ann powers article for npr is actually the more essential bit of writing about the song tho
― dyl, Saturday, 27 August 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/08/24/490536815/lady-sings-the-bros
i missed everything after "#selfie," so i feel like "closer" is like if frank zappa followed "valley girl" with "time after time."
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Saturday, 27 August 2016 06:21 (seven years ago) link