I don't even know what plays at the grocery store, I rarely pay attention.
my Publix supermarket plays obscure Boz Scaggs, stuff like Jude Cole and Jennifer Paige and Bill Withers...I heard "Don't Disturb This Groove" last month.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
My daughter is sick today we are watching Frozen
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Oh 'Cups' was in Pitch Perfect? I really liked that film.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
My son's fifth grade class put on a play last week, and there was a part in the middle where the kids danced to "Happy". Everyone in the audience, kids and adults, went absolutely batshit. Lots of suburban moms shaking their stuff in the aisles.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
I guess I was hearing pop (or country) everywhere more when I lived in Regina tbh. (I moved across the country last summer and heard "Blurred Lines" in diners and fast food places across North America!) Tbf, the grocery store that is closest to my current apartment plays Joy Division and Jane's Addiction. So, yeah, if you're always in a bigger city, it might very well be easier to escape some of these things?
Frozen is awesome btw and I'm going to admit that I don't know what "Happy" is before I check out for the day.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
My 7-year-old niece enjoys singing "Let It Go" over and over. I love her, but her singing voice ain't the greatest.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:56 (ten years ago) link
my cat won't stop meowing "lovefool" by the cardigans
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
just picturing this...
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
guys I'm pretty sure that all of your experiences can be extrapolated from mine and I listen to pop all the time so I don't know how you can claim that you don't hear it???!?
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
did someone says somehthng? Whats/? rock
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
People Love Watching 'Happy' Pharrell Cry for Oprah (Video)
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
don't you guys want to know what that's about?
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=happy&l=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2z8TpFV748
― waterbabies (waterface), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Happy was in Despicable Me 2 before it was a hit #earlyadopter #dadswag
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
tbh those of you who don't grocery shop to the strains of delilah are missing out
― maura, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
I loved the post of all magazine covers. We can all relate to those times when you walk past a news stand and the cover blares Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" at you at a deafening volume
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Christ what a nightmarish vision
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Lady Gaga puking on a human face, forever
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=101
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
They should make Us Weekly with that little chip they put in greeting cards that play 30 secs of a tune
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
ums, you shouldn't be giving that stuff away like that!
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
here's happy and blurred lines for those who still haven't heard them yet
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
forks, what are those links? I keep getting a weird error message about "unusual traffic from your computer".
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
i love the big showstopping frozen song. it's the best part of the movie!
my kids and their school have a talent/variety show tonight at the grange hall. i'll report back. got a lot of adele last year. rufus and his friend are doing ANOTHER of monsters and men song. *sigh* that's two years in a row. kinda hoping for a "wrecking ball". little kid solo at a keyboard doing stuff like that can make you cry like a baby a la langley music school.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
sigh, they're youtube links to "don't worry be happy" and "got to give it up"youtube doesn't think i'm funny either
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Is Bobby McFerrin some kind of joke to you?
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
YouTube otm
jk don't worry be happy now
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
*whistles a sad tune*
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:43 (ten years ago) link
y'know i was working a show that bobby mcferrin headlined last year and at the end a couple of ushers wouldn't stop yelling "don't worry be happy!" during the encore applause and i thought at first they were making fun of him but as it happened they were just telling him to sing it. he completely ignored them.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
So you could go and watch Bobby McFerrin live and not even get to see 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'? What kind of next level bullshit is that?
― Doran, Friday, 18 April 2014 07:55 (ten years ago) link
i'm assuming you're being facetious but on the off chance you're not: mcferrin has had a 25 year career since 'don't worry be happy' that includes about twenty albums and multiple grammy wins. don't worry will likely be the first line of his obit but it's not at all indicative of the range, scope and excellence of his work or of his pretty spectacular live performance
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 08:20 (ten years ago) link
Bollocks to that
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Friday, 18 April 2014 08:48 (ten years ago) link
songs the kids did at the school talent show last night:
"wiccan lullaby" (!!!)
"ode to joy" (zzzzz...)
"falling slowly"
"shady grove" (bluegrass fever)
"letters i never sent"
"i am not a robot"
"up above my head" (trad gospel)
"i like to moo" (think this might have been an original...)
"gentle arms of eden" (commie folk)
"fur elise" (zzzz...)
"turning tables"
"the lion sleeps tonight" (trad zulu)
"maxwell's silver hammer"(trad paul)
"pompeii" (i dug this. never heard it. death rock.)
"royals"
"mountain sound"
"say something"
"drive by" (trad train)
"wagon wheel" (old crow song. the girl who sang it can really sing!)
"sing together" (more train!)
― scott seward, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
and there was more. it was endless. it was like 3 & a half hours of sitting in the grange hall. i took multiple smoke breaks.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
sounds awesome
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
don't worry, will likely
― Vinnie, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
For the record, I was being facetious. Being a fan of Wire, The Fall and suchlike, I'm all about bands not 'playing the hits' if they so wish. (Although I can't say I know much about Bobby M.)
― Doran, Saturday, 19 April 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Post of magazine covers was a direct response to a poster saying that pop stars are not on magazine covers fwiw.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 April 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
And my original point was not that pop music is absolutely inescapable for everyone as much as that it still seems relatively prevalent in the environment in a similar way as it used to be; I was also saying, just as much, that pop music was escapable before the Internet. I actually thought ums made some fair points in response to this btw (particularly to do with the limits on purchasing options for people in smaller markets pre-Internet) so thanks to him.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 April 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://metro.co.uk/2014/04/13/nine-things-the-kids-of-today-will-never-understand-about-britpop-4696887/
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, i read that article a couple of weeks ago. half those things have nothing to do with Britpop. also - do kids these days not try and sneak into drinking establishments?
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
vshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/27/britpop-and-me-looking-back-not-in-anger-eva-wiseman
Britpop was our moon landing, except janglier. It was our Summer of Love, our Nelson Mandela's presidential years, our fall of the wall. It was the awkward suburban girl's Wonderful World of Colour. The never-kissed's big bang.
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
gonna venture that was not written with an entirely straight face
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
The ATP news feed on my fb posted a link to some Anthony bourdain yells at cloud piece on dance music and all the comments were ppl telling them off, lol. I suspect mischief on ATP's part. Didn't read the piece but seems like a candidate for this thread.
― paolo amusing eclectic revivals (wins), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah I skipped that one too
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
This kinda makes me want to back in time and not get bored w Britpop after a year or so purely to annoy Taylor Parkes
http://thequietus.com/articles/15092-blur-parklife-anniversary-review
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
related to earlier discussions: how editor's choices of title skews author's meaninghttp://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/how-saloncom-rewrote-my-headline-and-turned-me-into-an-internet-troll.php
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 April 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
that taylor parkes article is briliant and doesnt belong here
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link