i've heard this song 25 times today. haven't heard any beatles.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 22 August 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
this song is so boring and i haven't seen anyone mention it until ten minutes ago. on this thread.
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see why people dig this song but between the E6 track for the xbox/atari line (which is like the tenth best on that album) and Harry Nilsson's "You're Breaking My Heart" for the "omg he said fuck you" this is just yet another faux-motown ditty in a time of plenty.
― da croupier, Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Glad I'm not the only one who's made a Cee-Lo/Nilsson connection. I wrote something similar in the other cee-lo thread.
And Whiney OTM. This song was as much a hit in the "internet viral video" sense as it was anything else.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the video has 120,000 hits, it's A SENSATION
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the youtube I saw had it at 300,000 in a day.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
tape store, u pick some random shit to all caps on
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Ebullient, but I still like "Yamaha" better this summer.
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder how blogs would have reacted to joe tex's "aint gonna bounce no more (with no big fat woman)" back in the day
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
no, not really.
also, to answer whiney, "Party In The USA"
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"party in the usa" is a pretty good answer actually
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
whether this is the first time someone with cred tied a decent song to a novelty hook for profit in the internet age, this is a solid example of it
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
but p4k type crits didn't even hop on board to Miley at all. my point is that this is a pop moment AND a critical moment, all in 24 hours
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ie the world outside Singles Jukebox
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess if you pick and choose the xact terms of yr category then yeah its totally the best eg.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I'd personally put the Weezer "Pork + Beans" video drop in this category, but I realize it probably didn't garner the same enthusiasm this did from blogs of all shapes and hipness
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
it def had a similar moment only everyone was saying "this video is funny" not "this song is GREAT", which is the point of my argument
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"Gold Digger" and "My Love" were so much bigger than this, not that it matters because this song is unremarkable retro zzz
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
also "Umbrella" and "Single Ladies" and I really don't see that much hype about this song, I get that you're a fanboy or whatever and I'd be throwing around the same hyperbole if Cassie had a second hit, but NO
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
think people are still missing whiney's original point, which was just when was the last time blogs from all walks were praising a dropped youtube featuring only lyrics by bringing up Kid A and the popular hits of 03
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for reading my thesis, Tape Store and supplying an argument to a totally different one, you're making my weekend totally not frustrating
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"umbrella" is another good answer
"singles ladies" no and "my love" had a weird release because of SINGLE CLEARANCE ONLY or w/e that voice over was
& i don't think that whiney is a cee lo fanboy
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you really arguing that Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" had more instant (24-hour) critical love than any of those songs I just named because that's total bullshit
I look forward to rereading your thesis in two months.
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the thing about "fuck you" is that it's retro enough to appeal to older people, while cee lo has enough cred in both indie and pop worlds because of gnarls to warrant mention + goodie mob for rap blogs
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
like, i agree with whiney that "fuck you" dropped and then all of a sudden that video link was everywhere
it was like the bieber slow down thing tbh
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't follow whiney's cee-lo posts, but i based that comment off this comment on the new sufjan (lol) thread:
CeeLo put out a song today who gives a shit
― travis markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 21, 2010 3:07 PM (Yesterday)
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
did "umbrella" "gold digger" and "crazy in love" get a lot of media attention pre-video? i honestly don't recall, but i think a link or two would probably be more educational than "that's total bullshit"
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i think "umbrella" is the best counterargument
whiney is right in that lots of people didn't care about "party in the usa" because it was miley
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish Usher had dropped a lyrics-in-motion video for OMG
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
we could probably clear a lot of lazy pre-albums drops if artists had to make one
sorry, i don't have the time to gather all the articles and blog posts from 2004, 2005 and 2007, but then again i don't see a list of sites going crazy about this song either
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
but 700k listens on youtube isn't that big of a deal
i think whiney ref'd three fairly disparate ones, no?
― da croupier, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah "My Love" was going to be my example but "Umbrella" is definitely the biggest instant overnight talking point song of the last few years
― richie goingham (some dude), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i might concede to "Umbrella"
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure ILX was the second place to see that outside of the original forum where someone created it.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, no
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
and this Cee-Lo song is a great example of how meta and accelerated consumption has become where, within minutes of hearing it, people anticipate its popularity and despair over its eventual omnipresence and the memes it will inspire. Some of doing that even before the second chorus.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
no, hes right xp
reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
1.6 million people have listened to that bieber thing on soundcloud
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the revolution starts here
― christopher dullan (Tape Store), Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw the amount of links to the bieber thing that i would expect to see if the fucking president was shot
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao
― k'naamean (zvookster), Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway this cee-lo thing is fun but its a little more "max in college" and i am pathological about hating shit that all the casual music fans/non rap fans/'media people' on my tumblr dashboard go nuts over so
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing makes me want to hate a song more than a bunch of 'journalists' and 'bloggers' enjoying it
nope, ILX had it first. I posted it on ILE when it had 1,000 hits and it was still the 16th. Reddit posted it on the 17th, a few hours later.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ILX: home to Bieber fever.
― Cunga, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i still haven't head beiber cuz the mp3 is down and i'll be damned if i'm gonna listen to a 30 minute stream of anything
― eat, pray, love, fly @ u face (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
unless it's one of your speeches
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― Cunga, Sunday, August 22, 2010 4:17 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dont want to be a dick but unless you are the guy who made it... the guy who did it put it on reddit
― max, Sunday, 22 August 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link