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

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.

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)