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

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

ha, the chart

ahaha sniff the cart is a keeper

if bruno mars was singing the hook, i'd hear you tho

I think u guys are forgetting Eamon

i don't think this would make huge waves on the r&b format, even.

lmao @ bruno mars

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

The profanity is one of the biggest things the song has going for it. The same people who got a kick out of "Get Rage Against the Machine to be Christmas #1," will want to have this dominate the charts.

this song is an abomination, but the speed in which it has become popular is encouraging for us promoters of collective action. we are working on a similar song with a subversive message encoded.

the key to this song making a big splash on the pop charts is how soon it's going to be released to itunes et al -- striking while the viral-video iron was hot would be the smart move in this case, since so much of whether or not songs vault up the chart these days hinges on huge first weeks at retail outlets.

j0rdan you're nuts. everyone who liked 'gnarles barkley' is going to recognize 'hey that black dude from gnarls barkley' if they dont just straight up believe its a gnarls barkley song.

and stop comparing this to fukkin robin thicke & maxwell. like, seriously?? you think thats who pop audiences are gonna compare this to?

how is maxwell 'retro soul' for that matter, either? is anything that doesnt sound like ciara or the-dream 'retro' to u??

if anything the-dream's prince aping is as much 'retro' as maxwell's record was

i mean, maybe they fuck up the release along the lines of what maura's talking about, but thats the only way i dont see this at minimum going top 10 never mind top 40

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

are you saying that f--k you would have had a better chance to be a monster hit in 2003 than in 2010? if so, why?

This is going to be the freshmen-orientation jam of 2010. Post-radio single.

the "rage against the machine 4 no. 1!!!" movement ended up being strong because the x-factor is such a behemoth that people naturally would feel inclined to try to topple. this song isn't going to become a smash just because it has the word "fuck" in the title (not used particularly subversively)... what is the goliath it's going up against, the 'general state of pop music'???