"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
All About That Bass is hilarious
― 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
With Magic!, the interview was how I found out the song existed; it was passed around as a "look at this tool and his terrible music" lol and then suddenly every radio station was playing "Rude" and that joke wasn't funny anymore(TM)
With Meghan Trainor, she showed up on The Today Show and I was surprised by how nonplussed and excited she was. Then she sang "Your Lips Are Moving" and I thought "this isn't that good but at least it sounds like it's making an attempt to not be terrible"
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link
omg that gif
it was truly the highlight of the whatever music awards that was
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
also that they were still playing their one hit rather than one of the two yet-to-chart follow-ups was encouraging
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
though meghan seems primed become the millenials' helen reddy or something
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
My reaction to AATB is "ugh, of course this is a huge hit." My reaction to "Rude" is "what the fuck is this, how is this a hit?"
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
on Y-100's morning show last week the deejay goes, "Alright! That was Meghan Trainor with 'All About That Bass'!" His colleague goes, "Uh, no, that was 'Lips Are Movin'." He goes, "Shut up." Uncomfortable silence, followed by hysterical laughter.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Magic! is this years Fun.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
let's not forget that twenty years ago "baby i love your way" by big mountain was a hit, twenty years before that "i shot the sheriff"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
clapton's "i shot the sherrif" i mean
not sure which band should be more offended xp
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
america has a soft spot for doofy white reggae, i mean we just gave sting a kennedy center honor
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
all fun needs is an exclamation point
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
oh c'mon fun's had multiple hits including a duet with a superstar, they're several tiers above a one-off novelty band and at least at the level of a wang chung.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:51 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like one of those "shreds" videos!!
― een, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:56 (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