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

noz otm but i like jack black so

First play of the clean version of F**K You tonight on Trevor Nelson's Radio 1 show 7pm - 9pm. There's a lot of debate about how there can possibly be a clean version but we won't spoil the surprise. Tune in.

please be farts, please be farts

I mean, honestly, is this the first time critics have all universally spazzed out over a pop song RIGHT AWAY since "Hey Ya?" Like even "Crazy" took a while to take off.

Also, back in the Hey Ya days, there was no twitter/facebook and blogs were still sort of vanity projects. This seems kind of unprecendented in being a song """""everyone"""" loves in the span of 24 hours.

i don't love this song, i think it's terrible

NEW CEE-LO SINGLE IT FLY @ U FACE

ha

go on and tell u little boyfriend

^^^^ I KNOW

pretty much the best 1 second of music this year!

don't get all the "AW MAN CEE-LO AIN'T THAT GREAT A SINGAH KNAWMEAN". i mean nobody said the dude was Luther Vandross, but he has a cool singing voice that is sprinkles of Al Green mixed with some James Brown-esque rawness. i always loved his vocals at the beginning of Dungeon Family's "Crooked Booty"

dunno who yr railing against there santa. ryan pitchfork hates on cee-lo's voice?

mostly the original post, which I realize is like 6 years old, but that's the latest album of Cee-Lo's I've heard (cuz I never listened to the Gnarls Barkley other than "crazy" and "transformers).

I mean, honestly, is this the first time critics have all universally spazzed out over a pop song RIGHT AWAY since "Hey Ya?" Like even "Crazy" took a while to take off.

Also, back in the Hey Ya days, there was no twitter/facebook and blogs were still sort of vanity projects. This seems kind of unprecendented in being a song """""everyone"""" loves in the span of 24 hours.

― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 22, 2010 9:04 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is an odd thing to say. lots and lots of popular singles in the last few years had like an instant reaction across the internet.

there is a rictus-grinning "hey cos we all like retro huh guyz!" communal aspect to it all i guess

as in the communal aspect is built-in, ppl vibing off other people rather than a personal relationship to the song

just heard this. made me smile through almost the whole sone (except where he mimics someone whining). i love it. and the choir -- especially delivering those lyrics -- is an inspired touch.

makes me think of amy winehouse type classic soul facsimiles and thats a bad thing

you are a facsimile of suck

i just played it for my wife. she loved it.

you are a facsimile of suck

― the master of unlocking (San Te), Domingo, 22 de Agosto de 2010 11:48 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

man, don't be like those twilight fanboys. It's just my opinion.

i agree with whoever upthread said this will be a monster hit. but so far, it doesn't look like it's commercially available (well, legally, anyway).

I mean, honestly, is this the first time critics have all universally spazzed out over a pop song RIGHT AWAY since "Hey Ya?" Like even "Crazy" took a while to take off.

Also, back in the Hey Ya days, there was no twitter/facebook and blogs were still sort of vanity projects. This seems kind of unprecendented in being a song """""everyone"""" loves in the span of 24 hours.

― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 22, 2010 9:04 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is an odd thing to say. lots and lots of popular singles in the last few years had like an instant reaction across the internet.
--richie goingham (some dude)

cool name one

bon iver, skinny love.

all the critics were like, "f--k YEAH."

I can picture this song at the end of an Adam Sandler movie in 2015 and everybody going 'oh, no...'

Reaction to "Single Ladies" was pretty immediate. Most other "instant reaction" type moments of the last decade weren't very recent... The Black Album, The Grey Album, Hey Ya, Marshall Mathers LP & The Eminem Show, Trapped In The Closet, Kid A, Crazy In Love, Work It, American Idiot, You Know You're Right...

"Fuck You" is instantly catchy with horribly embarrassing lyrics.. I hear no soul within this song at all, especially compared to "Crazy."

I can see this song's lyrics appealing to fans of mainstream lowest-common-denominator country music.

http://imgur.com/Pbcnm.jpg

checking for soul

Soullessness. It got squeezed out. There's not much.

i don't agree with whiney that it's the first pop song that people have immediately creamed over since "hey ya" but i will say that i've personally seen people who NEVER post things on the internet about music ever (facebook friends, sportswriters etc) post a link to the song with a note about how amazing it is, how it's the best song ever etc

i don't really remember this reaction to a song across the spectrum in a long ass while, but then again, anecdotal

as in the communal aspect is built-in, ppl vibing off other people rather than a personal relationship to the song

― r|t|c, Sunday, August 22, 2010 8:43 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

youre overthinking it

how much of this reaction would go to any popular retro track

i dont think its the retro sound that is making this resonate w/ people. the profanity in the chorus alone means ppl arent getting into this for a 'sounds like motown!!' vibe -- or theyre digging how it takes a familiar template & adds some contemporary language for being pissed off abt an ex on top, pretty universal feeling. not sure whats so 'horrible' about the lyrics

im defending this now cuz i know im gonna be sick of it in one week but i dont really see any 'irony' in his performance that noz is talking about here either ... certainly that was true in his 'dressed as characters from lebowski'-era shit but this is just a song at this pt?? & i 'get' why my irl friends think its a funny song

raphael saadiq's like, "damn, guess i should have swore."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qur_IWsj8mE

Electric Six, "Flashy Man" (2008)

He won't apologize because he's not sorry!
He's the xbox to your atari
Watch out, here comes the flash!

raphael saadiq's like, "damn, guess i should have swore."

― da croupier, Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:12 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was basically the same logic behind amy winehouse's success (obv a bit more dimension to that but not dissimilar)

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.

(tenth best track on Flashy, I mean, there's umteen better lines than the "xbox/atari" one)

the profanity in the chorus alone means ppl arent getting into this for a 'sounds like motown!!' vibe -- or theyre digging how it takes a familiar template & adds some contemporary language for being pissed off abt an ex on top

the line after the double-dash gets at it. the appeal of the song is, to me, (a) the compelling groove and vibe combined with (b) deploying that chorus/cuss-phrase in a song where you wouldn't expect it. once you get familiar with it, tho, it may lose it's appeal fairly fast (which is maybe why you think you'll be sick of it in a week).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02lXLiFsRtE

1972

ha that is a pretty bogus bite

cool song

still like this more than 'crazy' -- the production alone just feels looser

Deej is otm, it'll get old fast. But the other key thing about it besides retro+catchy tune+omg swear words is the ebullience of it. The whole thing is fun, it takes a lot of pleasure in its pissiness. The vibe of the song sets the chorus up so that it feels joyful.

it does a good job sounding both pissed & accepting

Despite the "hook" elements actually being more like hurdles, I gotta admit this song is growing on me.

Reaction to "Single Ladies" was pretty immediate. Most other "instant reaction" type moments of the last decade weren't very recent... The Black Album, The Grey Album, Hey Ya, Marshall Mathers LP & The Eminem Show, Trapped In The Closet, Kid A, Crazy In Love, Work It, American Idiot, You Know You're Right...

― billstevejim, Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:28 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, remember how when "American Idiot" and "The Black Album" leaked there was posts on Gawker and Wall Street Journal and Perez Hilton within 24 hours? I'll never forget where I was when that happened!!!! What moments that made me feel connected to everyone all at once i will treasure them

i've already forgot where i was when this song dropped so

but tbf i wasn't reading gawker, wsj and perez

oh wow but you fucking heard about you piece of shit

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.