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

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

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)

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"

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

i wish Usher had dropped a lyrics-in-motion video for OMG

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

but 700k listens on youtube isn't that big of a deal

i think whiney ref'd three fairly disparate ones, no?

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

yeah, i might concede to "Umbrella"

it was like the bieber slow down thing tbh

I'm pretty sure ILX was the second place to see that outside of the original forum where someone created it.

uh, no

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.

no, hes right xp

reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker

1.6 million people have listened to that bieber thing on soundcloud

the revolution starts here

i saw the amount of links to the bieber thing that i would expect to see if the fucking president was shot

lmao

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

nothing makes me want to hate a song more than a bunch of 'journalists' and 'bloggers' enjoying it

reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker

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.

ILX: home to Bieber fever.

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

unless it's one of your speeches

reddit had it, then ilx had it, then hoos posted it to facebook, then i posted it to gawker

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, 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

we started lolcats too

dont want to be a dick but unless you are the guy who made it... the guy who did it put it on reddit

Then that settles that.

it's great, nowhere near as distinctive as "crazy", but definitely worth the attention its been getting. that it's a deliberately retro novelty track doesn't take anything away from it afic. will be fun to listen to for the rest of the summer and that's good enough for me.

and i say that through gritted teeth, cuz i fucking LOATHE the whole "fuck you, bitch, fucking golddigger" angle.

didn't know people were talking about this so much
fwiw:
1) nice musically
2) abysmal lyrically
3) kinda hope it won't grow on me, but afraid it most likely will
4) sounds like a hit
5) "this is better than crazy" = getthafuckouddaheah

50 Cent chimes in with the obligatory "sorry I'm rich and therefore better" freestyle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk_zLhKIE24

(good old Curtis, always trying to keep his name in the papers. but how his verse didn't reference Vitamin Water is beyond me)

i can't hate on that

this song is like if Smashmouth decided to go a little 'edgy'

ugh. that criticism alone might turn me against this song.

there is nothing worse than the thought of smashmouth going a little "edgy."

nothing makes me want to hate a song more than a bunch of 'journalists' and 'bloggers' enjoying it

― max, Sunday, August 22, 2010 3:06 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hmm i thought u might join me in 'when i see ilxors acting like theyre more perceptive than my irl friends i rmde'

i still think this song is way better than 'crazy' & i know cee lo is persona non grata around here for not recording goodie mob records that half of yall havent even listened to in the first place -- omg gnarls barkley is so uncool!! -- but this song is good \oO/ & for the love of god theres nothing inherently wrong w/ being retro -- its how it is about it -- this doesnt even read purely as 'retro' to me any more, unless youve got saadiq dressing up like sam cooke it def codes more as 'man dont you hate feeling this way in real life, look a song has captured that mood'

the ppl on my tumblr that dig it, the ones i know in rl, the facebook friends, etc. -- i dont see any comments like "man this is like when they used to make GOOD MUSIC" or anything ... i mean im sure there are ppl out there doing that but ppl will do that to anything -- but the predominant mood im reading is ppl who just straight up identify w/ the song concept

whiney's right that this feels like a bigger event than most of the songs mentioned itt .... not sure why hes aggro about it, one listen to this song & it felt like an across the board smash

hmm i thought u might join me in 'when i see ilxors acting like theyre more perceptive than my irl friends i rmde'

― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Sunday, August 22, 2010 8:52 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha it has nothing to do with whoever being perceptive, i really have no opinion about this song, i just hate my industry, and my tumblr dashboard, and people

yeah i mean tbf i know ill be supertired of this shit w/in the week -- i just think its worth observing that as far as you can craft these things, its immediately understandable why this is doing so well

honestly would be surprised if this was a hit, but we'll see

seriously??

i mean i dont know to what degree the profanity will be an issue, but thats p much the only thing stopping this from being bigger than crazy

you realize that "crazy" was #2 in the country right?

yes

i agree, i don't see this being a hit. i REALLY like this song but i'm also a little surprised at the "universal" or w/e critical appreciation it is supposedly getting, but that's probably b/c i'm not paying attn

there's plenty of things going against this -- it's not 2003 anymore where shit like "crazy in love" & "the way you move" are all in the radio. the radio -- espn mainstream pop radio -- sounds a whole hell of a lot different now then it did then, and to say that "fuck you" would sound remarkably out of place would be in understatement -- second of all, 'cee-lo green' has never had a solo hit & his name carries no recognition with relevant pop audiences. it might be able to get radio play on r&b stations and could chart on the hot 100 too, but unabsahedly retro shit like robin thicke's "magic" or fucking maxwell whose new shit was HUUUGE on r&b stations barely scraped into the top 40 if at all

so while agree that it's been ALL OVER the internet in a weird & notable way, i don't think that it's gonna be the #1 song in the country in the year 2010

and if it becomes a hit it is not going to be bigger than a single that was #2 for seven weeks

if MIA couldn't sniff the cart with "xxxo" after "paper planes", i'm not sure cee-lo has much hope, even in a post-"crazy" world