I don't know what I hate more: cismen singing about marriage or "I love my body when a man wants me". Fuck both of them.
― 7 @ the Golden Shovel (sassarfrasco), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 03:38 (nine years ago) link
can't wait till these show up in the top 77
― dyl, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
"all about that bass" by a miiiile
― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
would you like "all about that bass" more or less if you were to learn that the original inspiration for the line "i'm all about that bass, no treble" came when meghan trainor was reading old ilx pages and thinking of things she could have posted to troll geir hongro?
― Treeship, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:58 (nine years ago) link
No.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
man there were so many worse things on both halves of each list
that said, "Rude"
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
Neither of these songs is actively terrible. But the "no treble" metaphor is worse than the misuse of the word "rude"
― a shitprism, if you will (fgti), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
It took 35 years for a song to turn me against the bass. Easy vote.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:18 (nine years ago) link
All About That Bass was more ubiquitous, right?
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
All About That Bass is hilarious
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
Rude was one of those songs I had just kind of absorbed somehow by osmosis, never even knew there was a current band called MAGIC!
Meghan Trainor's presence is definitely much more felt in the world right now.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 05:29 (nine years ago) link
^^^ this. but i can understand the urge to load up some extra hate on either of these. feel like "all about that bass" stuck around longer and a more annoying hook in the first place.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:04 (nine years ago) link
I heard "Bass" for the first time today! It's nominated for Song of the Year, Record of the Year? Congrats to popists!
― a shitprism, if you will (fgti), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
Hey, don't pin that shit on us.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:12 (nine years ago) link
what does that even mean
― qualx, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:36 (nine years ago) link
"rude" is great. "bass" is goat spittle
― soyrev, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.lovehearttshirts.com/shop/images/171/I+LOVE+MUSIC+BLACK.jpg
― Gombeen Dance Band (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
Arrgghghhhh Rude is awful
― warm winds and clear skies, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 07:24 (nine years ago) link
Though All About That Bass has these weird derivative influences from Blurred Lines
― warm winds and clear skies, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
If anyone's on the fence, please don't overlook Rude's guitar solo, almost certainly the worst guitar solo to ever hit pop radio.
http://youtu.be/PIh2xe4jnpk?t=2m27s
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 09:51 (nine years ago) link
"rude" is much easier to ignore for whatever that's worth
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:34 (nine years ago) link
i also feel pretty optimistic that i won't have to hear from magic for much longer whereas i feel real trepidation that trainor won't be going away any time soon
(case in point, i have actually heard trainor's follow-up singles, which are EVEN WORSE)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard "Rude" (I don't think?) and I intend to keep it that way. it peaked here at #51 so it's been very avoidable.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:46 (nine years ago) link
This is hard. First time I heard/saw the video to Rude I had difficulty wrapping my head around the fact it wasn't from 1996.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
Do you think that anyone has told Meghan that bass = base = crack? I mean that was the not even subtext of superbass
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:59 (nine years ago) link
on the weekend I kept seeing an ad for a compilation album or something which was soundtracked by AATB but censored the word "bass". not really sure what they're trying to achieve there
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:12 (nine years ago) link
Thought this was going to be the Dinosaur Jr song
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
― example (crüt), Monday, January 19, 2015 9:25 PM (Yesterday)
― no Mmmmbob (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
rude is worse for trying to bring back to life an entire subgenre of '90s dude rock that should have stayed dead. trainor idgaf either way.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
as shit as all about the bass is at least i can see why its a hit and people like the catchy tune. Rude is straight up bad and wtf likes it?and what omar says above
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
both songs have crossed over from painfully heinous to enjoyably heinous for me, more genuinely impressed by the pile-up of hooks in "bass" than "rude," but "rude"'s guitar solo was probably the biggest lol Top 40 gave me this year. so this is hard!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
omg that guitar solo, does that normally get cut out of the radio version? I swear I've never heard that before and that's at a serious "shreds" level of incompetent.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
sirius has never denied it from me
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
i had never heard "rude" before today it sounds like a toilet
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I always thought the line was "No Trouble"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:54 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The video kind of makes them look like a "real band" (apology in advance for rockism), like the guy manages to almost not seem like he was farm-raised from birth to be a pop star.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
I get almost an inverse vibe from Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I've loved Rude unconditionally since I first heard it on satellite radio, but listening to the song with the video actively devalues it. It's so dopey and the lead singer is the aesthetic equivalent of a sandwich left in the rain.
AATB however is just godawful, and I dont even need to see the video to get bad vibes from it. It takes a reasonably catchy melody and childish teehee wordplay and stretches whats basically a 2 minute song to 5 or 6 torturous minu--*scrolls up to check actual length of the song*--WHAT, IT'S SHORTER THAN RUDE?!
That says it all right there, Bass is repetitive to the point of torture and I hate it
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
"Bass" is honestly nothing compared to the horror of "Dear Future Husband"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
...Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.
otm, one of many things i like abt it
― no Mmmmbob (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
http://yesterdaysisland.com/2011/articles/17.phphttp://www.sonicbids.com/band/meghantrainor/audio/53178939867b8618174f30d7/http://youtu.be/N5GzaLf3IL4
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
"Overdrive" is particularly hilarious
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Also loving the possible future username "MeghanTrainorVietnam"
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Wow that "Rude" solo. It's like C3P0 with a nearly dead battery channeling Andy Summers. But then the song goes into that vaguely pretty Richard Marx-ish prechorus. It's a pretty sucky song all told but has some nice moments.
I don't get what is so bad about "All About the Bass"? Sounds like pretty standard, generic bubblegum pop to me.
― theboyqueen, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
butts r great
butt...not this one
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Both songs are awful. Meghan Trainor comes across in interviews as being incredibly grateful for and amazed by her success. Dude from Magic! acts like his one-hit wonder status is his birthright. Also it's easier to imagine Jar-Jar Binks singing "Rude".
In summation, fuck these songs.
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
i can, and often have, imagined jar-jar binks singing all about that bass
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
djp why are you reading/watching interviews with these ppl
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/26a332889991dc40713bbedc664cb60f/tumblr_inline_nfk7f9GqtK1qzqvun.gif
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's true. you guys don't get us at all.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
everyone says that and I just don't see it -- it wouldn't have become a no. 1 hit if this were the case. this is one of those things where it pretty much establishes itself that critics and/or internet-types are disconnected from 50% of the actual population and what they find romantic
― katherine, Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:15 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Whereas reading the song in the simplistic way the other 50% of the population allegedly reads it and then snobbishly hating on it means you are "connected" to them?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I mean, Ronald Reagan used Born in the USA as a campaign song, not everyone gets everything.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Reagan was dumber than 100 percent of the ppulation.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
pollution comes from trees
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
...did I just get called a snob for liking magic!
― katherine, Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
can I cash this in somewhere
― katherine, Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
yeah but only for rudecoin
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Rudecoin ilx posterStep to me, you're over
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
you cant blame this on us, its you who came through here with your autotune and your car alarms and your horse races, oblivious to the destruction that was being caused
― saer, Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
^ speaks for the trees
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Rude is really about the right to ring strangers' doorbell and loudly demand shit at 3 am
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
i have done this. i thought it was a party. but no.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
I went to a club yesterday and they played these two songs next to each other. Sequence was: uptown funk, alabada bass and rude. I was sober. People were singing along. It was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a club.
Dj cut the Rude song before the guitar solo.
― the QT conundrum (Moka), Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 January 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
RUDECOIN
― MrExplorer, Thursday, 29 January 2015 09:32 (nine years ago) link
'Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?''No, because your music's shit and you're crap at songs'
*slams door*
― UK Horseshit Cru (dog latin), Thursday, 29 January 2015 10:45 (nine years ago) link
why you gotta be so rudeI write for Bieb and Akon too
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
i feel nothing
― example (crüt), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm done with ilx how could this happen
― MrExplorer, Friday, 30 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
i like "rude"
the zedd remix is great
― J0rdan S., Friday, 30 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
clearly the only answer is a mashup of the two
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 30 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
according to a quick google at least three separate mashups exist
― katherine, Friday, 30 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Why you gotta be all about that bass?Tough luck my friend but the answer is NO TREBLE.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 30 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
They're showing this NBA All-Star party thing on ESPN rn, and Magic! is the musical guest.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
oh shit and it's T minus 10 minutes till 4:20 on the west coast!!!!
― da croupier, Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
OK, it's a Celebrity Charity game, and one of the players is Sarah Silverman.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
TS: "Foul" vs. "All About Those Dunks"
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
I'm gonna marry her anyway
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
any excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/KVZX4fSkmb4WYVDVbs/giphy.gif
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
The Meghan Trainor hate on this site is bizarre, lol
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
did u know that she put out new music recently and plans to release an album? first single sounded like a zumba class
― dyl, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
I'm sad that there weren't a million thinkpieces written about this song/video by Meghan Trainor's aunt: https://youtu.be/pKU8k2TMwOw
― No organ. (crüt), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
i don't think most of us think about Meghan that frequently. I think more about the shitty Magic! song, mostly cos I heard it in a damn Fuddrucker's today
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Someone mentioned she was among ILM's most-hated artists, and I've seen evidence of that as these old threads have bubbled up...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I think the guys in magic were just dummies who faceplanted into a number one whereas trainor is actually releasing this garbage with malicious intent.
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
i haven't heard a song of hers since the awful "Lips are Moving" so I might be shielded from all this
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Rude has been much easier to avoid for me. So All about that bass.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
xp "Lips are Moving" is a fine song... though my friend hates it, too. What is it that puts you guys off so much?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
I don't like her voice, not really into soca music, don't dig the melody.
but, I'm not exactly a heavy pop listener either.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link