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

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 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.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, August 21, 2010 10:26 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is pretty rong, Andre kinda started singing more and more over time and eventually making it part of a "bored with rap" pose but Cee-Lo has always sung way more (and way more capably) throughout his whole career.

although there totally is a cutesy smugness going on with a lot of his stuff, yes. i'm just not sure he'd have a lot to offer as a straight-up rapper at this point in his career.

i like this song. kinda hard not to. its certainly better than 'crazy'

is there any way in the world this song isn't the biggest hit of the year? it's going to be on everybody's grandma's facebook page by about monday afternoon.

many ways

mainly the song is called "fuck you"

will still be #1.

(as "F You" or something)

and anyway, however billboard deals with it, there are going to be approx. 800 million kids walking around singing it.

meh idk if it will be a hit but i looooove it

p-fork's song-of-the-year?

it's kinda fun (in a boring way), but just seems waaay too derivative for me on 1st hearing.

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

is this really what excites ppl in life? i mean...

http://tumblinerb.com/post/988418888/whats-your-thoughts-on-the-new-cee-lo-songs

noz totally spot on here

its certainly better than 'crazy'

wrong

When did subtlety die?

makes me think of jamie liddell type classic soul facsimiles but like thats not a bad thing

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.

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