Gotye - C or D

I'm pretty sure it isn't nostalgia talking when I claim "All That Money Wants" and "Peek a Boo" are more outré than anything coughed up by the late nineties modern rock chart.

Jezebel article reads song correctly, lambastes song as if it did that by accident

I imagine an Al Smith type pronouncing it GOI-TUH.

it's kind of stupid that Jezebel felt the need to write a female rebuttal to Gotye's lyrics in "Someone" since that's what the 2nd verse of the fucking song

is

Chris is one of the handful of guys I know who read (a) read Paul Grein (b) read Paul Grein's column before glancing at the charts.

Wow, how have I never come across Paul Grein until now.

it's kind of stupid that Jezebel felt the need to write a female rebuttal to Gotye's lyrics in "Someone" since that's what the 2nd verse of the fucking song

Even worse was the "oh I knew about the rebuttal in the 2nd verse, honest" comment the author posted after other commenters politely pointed out that this was a remarkably thick article.

lol

Finally heard this on a Top 40 radio station, but it's a different mix than the original:

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

@ Gotye's US label

"This won't work on radio"
"Can we...make it sound more like late nineties Sting?"
"Jackpot!"

Wow, how have I never come across Paul Grein until now.

Probably because he writes for Yahoo! and most of us don't usually turn there for quality writing about anything, much less music.

this song sucks

Probably because he writes for Yahoo! and most of us don't usually turn there for quality writing about anything, much less music.

For most of the eighties and nineties he wrote "Chart Beat" for Billboard though -- chart nonsense for non-sports nerds.

Pre-Fred Bronson?

mais oui!

this song sucks

rong

it is pretty good

into it

Well, that top 40 version is pretty lame.

It sounds good between Katy Perry and "Starships," i.e. ear relief but no more.

my top 40 station plays a remix too but it's even more dull than that one

For most of the eighties and nineties he wrote "Chart Beat" for Billboard though -- chart nonsense for non-sports nerds.

well that would have been precisely the time before i had regular access to Billboard, hence why i was unfamiliar with the name. i wasn't trying to knock him btw, his column seems good, just that i never expect to find anything of quality on Yahoo!

still keep reading this as "goyte"

good song anyways, not a favorite

Must've read Grein back when I was photocopying the Hot 100 at the library, but the name doesn't ring a bell. Not like Joel Whitburn (to whom I wrote a fan letter), at least.

Younger (not entirely young) co-worker playing Somebody on repeat this morning.

http://www.spin.com/articles/gotye-bummed-glee-did-him-wrong

aww crap just developed InstaCrush because of that picture

Just glad for him that he got to #1 before the Glee cover version could get these first.

There's something ironic about a song being so popular that they need to remix it to get it airplay on top 40 ...

a lot of pop stations are fine playing the original version, some aren't. same thing happened with "Somebody Like You" last year, some stations were so flummoxed by the idea of playing a quiet piano ballad that they used a garish dance mix instead.

Yeah, but clearly the song is massively popular, so ... people like it? Presumably the original version?

They didn't remix Kanye's "808s" stuff, did they?

This "radio mix" is hilarious

"omg the percussion is too subtle, someone fire up Garageband STAT"

why would 808s & Heartbreak get remixed? these songs aren't 'rhythmic' enough for some pop stations, nobody's going to add a drum machine to a record that already has a drum machine to make it more radio-friendly

i mean i'm guessing the only stations choosing the Gotye or Adele remixes over the originals are the ones known as 'rhythmic top 40 stations'

I didn't think it was the lack of drum machine that made this a problem for top 40, but rather the lack of brisk tempo and a big beat. The Kanye stuff when it was on the radio was like this weird oasis of quiet and space floating interrupting all the usual stuff. They didn't artificially boost its tempo with a pre-fab backbeat.

that Spin page won't show any photos or text for me, and I updated Firefox three days ago. sort it out Whiney

They didn't remix Kanye's "808s" stuff, did they?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 9:16 AM Bookmark

why would 808s & Heartbreak get remixed? these songs aren't 'rhythmic' enough for some pop stations, nobody's going to add a drum machine to a record that already has a drum machine to make it more radio-friendly

― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, April 23, 2012 9:20 AM Bookmark

the rar/r&b station here played a remixed version of "Love Lockdown" with a backbeat

rap* although i guess these days .rar/r&b is a close enough approximation

I didn't think it was the lack of drum machine that made this a problem for top 40, but rather the lack of brisk tempo and a big beat. The Kanye stuff when it was on the radio was like this weird oasis of quiet and space floating interrupting all the usual stuff. They didn't artificially boost its tempo with a pre-fab backbeat.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 23, 2012 12:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

"Heartless" sounded like a ton of other stuff already on the radio at the time, wasn't very quiet at all, and that was the only song off that record that was really big on radio. didn't know about the "Love Lockdown" remix Rev is talking about, though.

heard the Gotye remix on a pop station for the first time today, god that's terrible.

actually ashamed I didn't think of this myself. Missed opportunities!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/181314_10150895930179907_501504906_9510972_551997056_n.jpg

lol

the first time i heard the song in passing i thought that was what that line was about

Hearing him on SNL again reminded me: I ctrl+f-ed it and apparently I'm the only one here who thinks he sounds like Ozzy, especially in the chorus?

Oh, Google is my friend. Apparently I'm not the only one on the whole of the internet to think this.

ha, never would've occurred to me on my own but i can hear it

i think it might be specifically the doubling or reverb used on his voice on "Someone" that's probably similarly to the way Ozzy's voice was mixed circa Blizzard of Ozz

Oh it's been bugging me for ages who he reminded me of. Ozzy is totally it.

Shit. You guys are right. And now I'm pissed off, because I can't UNhear it.