TS: "Two Princes" vs. "Rude"

hadnt ever heard rude before this weekend, am fine w/ it altho it makes me think of

Hi My father very root with me what can I do?

omg lol

told maura this weekend that if i hear "rude" one more time i'm going to start liking it

i kinda dig the drumming on it idk

You should listen to the album. Once more ppl hear that i feel like it'll be popist catnip

Was Rude big in the US or UK? I've never heard it before. It's awful alright.

Two Princes is better by all means. I don't think it's one of the best songs of the 90's (not close) but I do believe it defines the decade pretty well. It kind of captures the blend of pop that dominated the decade. It could fit in every montage scene from every 90's family film or sitcom.

"Was Rude big in the US or UK?"

dude it's about to go No. 1 here (here being the US)

This could do for the word "rude" what Alanis did for "ironic" 20 years ago. But while irony as a concept might not get introduced until 10th grade lit class, most people learn what being rude is when they're quite young and why does this guy not seem to understand it?

created an offshoot poll over on ile.

Her Hand in Marriage

You should listen to the album. Once more ppl hear that i feel like it'll be popist catnip

if this happens so help me god

"Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life"

Grrrrrrrross.

this song is gross that dude is gross

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11113/111130545/3580810-9049500674-jar-.j.jpeg

"Whya yousa gotta be so wude?"

"Rude" was originally based on a real-life situation. The lead singer of Magic!, Nasri, had been in an unhealthy relationship with a previous girlfriend. One day, after his girlfriend was mad at him and started to become harsh, Nasri began singing the lines "Why you gotta be so rude/ don't you know I'm human too" in what he describes a "dark vibe." However, the concept did not work with the band well so it was revised and eventually made into a man talking to the disapproving father of his lover.[1]

Genre: reggae fusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdX9geon6U

One day, after his girlfriend was mad at him and started to become harsh, Nasri began singing the lines "Why you gotta be so rude/ don't you know I'm human too" in what he describes a "dark vibe."

I hope this means the girlfriend was still there, becoming harsh.

I was half-expecting the next sentence to be how they found the girlfriend's body in a closet, all deformed like she'd watched the video from The Ring

how random that this was on the front page after I just watched this video for the 100th time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaJ_2uEs10I

lol DJP

Fuck! It's being played in my city's radio stations now.

All is lost.

Moka where are you from? For some reason I think I assumed you were Canadian which I guess is not true because it was a hit there months ago

"Rude" is now the number one song in America. Good grief.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6157715/magic-rude-hot-100-iggy-azalea-fancy-sam-smith-disclosure-latch

Good company here:

No 'reg'-ular No. 1: "Rude" (the 1,037th Hot 100 No. 1 all-time) brings reggae stylings back to the chart's summit, marking a rarity. Other reggae rulers in the Hot 100's nearly 56-year history: Sean Paul's "Get Busy" (2003); Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" and "Angel" (both in 2001); Ini Kamoze's "Here Comes the Hotstepper" (1994); fellow Canadian Snow's "Informer" (1993); Maxi Priest's "Close to You" (1990); Eric Clapton's "I Shot the Sheriff," written by reggae king Bob Marley (1974); and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" (1972).

(Reader, and Canada's own, Blair Buchta, recently pointed out in an email that "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker & the Aces was one of the first reggae hits to reach the top 10, rising to No. 9 in 1969.)

The guitar solo in "Rude" has some pretty cool texture for a top 40 song in 2014.

Hearing it today again on the radio. This time it reminded me of Incubus circa Morningview

"Get Busy" still bangs

I was listening to top 40 radio and they played this god damn song twice in two hours.

Important info, listen up

"Magic" becomes the first word to serve as the title of a No. 1 Hot 100 song and an act with a Hot 100 leader (excluding the exclamation point at the end of the band's name …)

Moka where are you from? For some reason I think I assumed you were Canadian which I guess is not true because it was a hit there months ago

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 02:57 (Yesterday) Permalink

lol did you maybe subconsciously think "Moka" referred to Moka Only

Hearing it today again on the radio. This time it reminded me of Incubus circa Morningview

― Moka, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:13 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...filtered through 311 'Amber'

"Get Busy" still bangs

― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:16 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

always more of a Like Glue guy but still

there's literally nothing good about 'rude', 'two princes' is 'love at first sight' compared to it.

The guitar solo in "Rude" has some pretty cool texture for a top 40 song in 2014.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:08 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This solo is like a shreds video.

I'm from Aguascalientes, Mexico. I used to live in Mexico City and all the trends are up to date in there but in this city we get the trends from 4 to 8 months later.

Hearing it today again on the radio. This time it reminded me of Incubus circa Morningview

― Moka, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:13 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...filtered through 311 'Amber'

― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), miércoles 16 de julio de 2014 18:39 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And then interpreted by Train.

Which might sound like the best or the worst thing ever depending on your taste. This explains why this thing is a hit at the moment.

These are both true, I say:

The guitar solo in "Rude" has some pretty cool texture for a top 40 song in 2014.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:08 PM (52 minutes ago)

This solo is like a shreds video.
― how's life, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:03 AM (1 hour ago)

I must have turned it off before the guitar solo every time I've heard it... checking it out now

oh my gosh what is this cocked-wah monstrosity

it's like the guitarist spent hours in the studio trying to achieve a tone that could rival the band's frontman's voice for sheer obnoxiousness

... although honestly, it's the groovelessness that grates, far more than the tone

the only single good thing about that solo is the singer isn't singing but that's only good in a twilight zone world where you're forced to listen to the song and not able to shut it off.

hahaha....it's a bizarre solo, for sure.

i just can't figure out why i don't hate everything about this. even the solo i find a bit endearing.

the worst part of the whole package is *watching* the singer guy. as long as i don't closely watch the video, i'm ok.

I'm on board with this song all the way through "Saturday morning, jumped out of bed. "

Rude is a song I would never tire of punching

I don't even hate "rude" and find the "this is so unquestionably creepy!" angle really, really overstated -- it went No. 1, because a lot of listeners probably find it charming

(i.e. it's aimed at the crowd who hears "can I have your daughter for the rest of my life" and thinks "what a romantic proposal, and asking her father's permission, like an old-fashioned gentleman," not "WOW POSSESSIVE #RUDE")

That creeps me out more! Like it's a deadening reminder that a huge part of the population totally digs all those like #BeARealMan #RomanticMenDoThis #It'sRomanticToBeOwnedByYourMan type hashtag advice blogs etc.

and let's not forget: the lead singer has a horrible haircut. She'd be spending the rest of her life with Chris Cornell in '99.

In a Grantland article, Stephen Hyden compared the guitar solo in "Rude" to Michael Winslow making guitar noises into a microphone. That's all I picture now.

loool

Xp yeah I'm sure it's just coincidence, but it made me laff

Also, re: the charge of Breezy collaboration: it's obviously a little different if you're a young hired-gun trying to make a name in the industry (&/or make rent) than if you're Busta Rhymes... I don't think I would write them off entirely on those grounds, if I didn't already previously detest their music.

"you guys like reggae music?"

So why are all these Great White North folks jammin’?

substantial Jamaica-->Toronto diaspora in the 60s and 70s, IIRC

Cheryl Cole'S new single blocked "Rude" from debuting at number one in the UK. Britain is the best.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/crazy-stupid-love-secures-cheryl-a-place-in-official-chart-history-books-3295/

Somehow I had managed to completely escape "Rude" until this weekend, where it rudely violated my ears three separate times. Holy shit this song. This is like the "Hotel California" of shitty American cod-reggae.

the lead singer wrote one of the best justin bieber songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4em3LKQCAQ

feel like this is like if New Radicals decided to go ska for their first record lol

except Nasri's actually a more successful songwriter maybe than gregg alexander?

new radicals were great stfu

obv

Cheryl Cole'S new single blocked "Rude" from debuting at number one in the UK. Britain is the best.

Will you still love it when "Rude" will be the new number one next Sunday? It's outselling everything else at the moment, and no end in sight.

Tough luck, UK. :(

has anyone mashed up the chorus of "Rude" w/ footage of Ferguson police department yet

why the hell would someone do that

"the zeitgeist"

anyway, sorry for the dumb joke... when I woke up this afternoon my brain had already made the weird connection between Magic! & the police (via The Police), & I got a few guilty lols from the mental image