Which might sound like the best or the worst thing ever depending on your taste. This explains why this thing is a hit at the moment.
― Moka, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
These are both true, I say:
The guitar solo in "Rude" has some pretty cool texture for a top 40 song in 2014.― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:08 PM (52 minutes ago)This solo is like a shreds video.― how's life, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:03 AM (1 hour ago)
This solo is like a shreds video.― how's life, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:03 AM (1 hour ago)
― alpine static, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I must have turned it off before the guitar solo every time I've heard it... checking it out now
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
oh my gosh what is this cocked-wah monstrosity
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
it's like the guitarist spent hours in the studio trying to achieve a tone that could rival the band's frontman's voice for sheer obnoxiousness
... although honestly, it's the groovelessness that grates, far more than the tone
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
the only single good thing about that solo is the singer isn't singing but that's only good in a twilight zone world where you're forced to listen to the song and not able to shut it off.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
hahaha....it's a bizarre solo, for sure.
i just can't figure out why i don't hate everything about this. even the solo i find a bit endearing.
the worst part of the whole package is *watching* the singer guy. as long as i don't closely watch the video, i'm ok.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
I'm on board with this song all the way through "Saturday morning, jumped out of bed. "
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
Rude is a song I would never tire of punching
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
I don't even hate "rude" and find the "this is so unquestionably creepy!" angle really, really overstated -- it went No. 1, because a lot of listeners probably find it charming
― katherine, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
(i.e. it's aimed at the crowd who hears "can I have your daughter for the rest of my life" and thinks "what a romantic proposal, and asking her father's permission, like an old-fashioned gentleman," not "WOW POSSESSIVE #RUDE")
That creeps me out more! Like it's a deadening reminder that a huge part of the population totally digs all those like #BeARealMan #RomanticMenDoThis #It'sRomanticToBeOwnedByYourMan type hashtag advice blogs etc.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
and let's not forget: the lead singer has a horrible haircut. She'd be spending the rest of her life with Chris Cornell in '99.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 22:48 (nine years ago) link
In a Grantland article, Stephen Hyden compared the guitar solo in "Rude" to Michael Winslow making guitar noises into a microphone. That's all I picture now.
― Gibbtronix (Ryan Gibbs), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
loool
― how's life, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
the fact that music twitter would consider this guy asking dad if he can marry his daughter a horrifying, unforgivable affront on females everywhere is positively shocking
― alpine static, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
it isn't just music twitter, or at least it has spread to People Who Pay Attention To Stuff Lena Dunham Says Twitter
― katherine, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6157840/lena-dunham-ingrid-michaelson-magic-rude
Surely this tweet is meant to be taken as pretty 'light' commentary on an underwritten popular song? It's like tweeting "Yes, but has anyone given any thought to who'll bring the dogs back IN?" I mean, it definitely points up the icky aspect of the song, but it's not framing it as "a horrifying, unforgivable affront on females everywhere."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
'canadian reggae singer'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
Doctor Casino otm. "Casually pointing out dumb stuff in stupid song" very different from calling something a "horrifying, unforgivable affront"
― intheblanks, Thursday, 17 July 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
Whoa at that solo I hadn't noticed it until now.
― Moka, Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
the solo is the only joyful part of the song, or at least the only part that brings me joy
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 17 July 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
that solo should be to 2014 as Farrah Abraham was to 2012
― alpine static, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:58 (nine years ago) link
singer of rude reminds me of this guy for some reason https://bellobitesback.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/harold-and-kumar.jpg
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 July 2014 07:27 (nine years ago) link
oh god are we at the "what's wrong with holding a door open for a lady?" bit now?
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, 17 July 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/magic-nasri-atweh-rude-interview/
Q: Where are you now?A: Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
Ugh. :(
― Gibbtronix (Ryan Gibbs), Friday, 18 July 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
that is the best URL
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 18 July 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Britain has so far snubbed 'Rude' completely and doing so is probably our greatest achievement since inventing the internet.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 July 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
i finally actively listened to the guitar solo last night and holy shit how had i not noticed it before
― da croupier, Friday, 18 July 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
it's really the only legitimately funny part of the song
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 18 July 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't forget males
― mattresslessness, Friday, 18 July 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
honestly I didn't even process the message of the song while I was listening to it because I was too busy imagining how many different ways the lead singer could meet a sudden, grisly death
then after I realized what the song was about I decided on hammers to the face
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 18 July 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
sorry i posted that thing about an affront to females, blah blah blah. i take it back, should've kept my mouth shut and stuck to the music. srsly.
― alpine static, Friday, 18 July 2014 18:28 (nine years ago) link
― Daphnis Celesta, Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:30 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no, but we're at the "it betrays a very internet-outrage-bubble-engulfed mindset to think that most people, i.e. the people who made this no. 1, find this remotely creepy." at least with "blurred lines" the general pop-culture consensus was that it was a little sleazy at best
― katherine, Saturday, 19 July 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Hope Kyle Mooney is already preparing a parody for SNL.
― jaymc, Saturday, 19 July 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Even on the poppy side, you have somebody positive like Taylor Swift; I don't necessarily like her by her music, but I respect that she's making catchy songs for young people. They're loving it. She's a positive person. She's elegant. And I think that's great. It's not just about music. It can't all be about music when you talk about the pop world. For Magic! it is. We're all about music.
This guy doesn't make a ton of sense sometimes.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Probably only because singles in the UK get released to iTunes months after the rest of the world, fully expecting it to replace that terrible will.i.am song at #1 in about 2 weeks
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
it's a list on radio 1 and #23 on itunes on preorders alone and isn't released until tomorrow
― uberweiss, Saturday, 19 July 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 20 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
katherine i feel like there's a distinction between a thought that isn't widely considered ugly/regressive and whether a thought is ugly/regressive, i don't think it takes a special Twitter Avant-Liberal mentality to find the whole "asking somebody's parents for their hand" steez to be...i dunno, "douche indicative" if not "douche positive"
beyond which i guess is a conversation about ways of expressing certain thoughts which i don't think Hank Magic! is gonna come out of glowingly either
― Daphnis Celesta, Sunday, 20 July 2014 01:05 (nine years ago) link
"it betrays a very internet-outrage-bubble-engulfed mindset to think that most people, i.e. the people who made this no. 1, find this remotely creepy."
yeah, obviously, fair enough...it doesn't mean that a section of listeners are wildly off-base if they do find it creepy
― Daphnis Celesta, Sunday, 20 July 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
I just read the Grantland piece that was mentioned upthread--can I just say, I don't think nearly enough attention is being given to the actually-outrageous fact that THE DUDES IN THIS BAND MET WHILE WORKING ON CHRIS BROWN'S "DON'T JUDGE ME"
― bernard snowy, Sunday, 20 July 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
two princes gave us this. http://mydickband.bandcamp.com/track/two-dicks
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Sunday, 20 July 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 21 July 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah "Rude" is being played on R1 several times a day at this point
"Yes, but has anyone given any thought to who'll bring the dogs back IN?"
rofl
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 July 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
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― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 21 July 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
Cheryl Cole is about all that will stop Rude from going to #1 in the UK this week.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 21 July 2014 01:01 (nine years ago) link
good luck uk
― mattresslessness, Monday, 21 July 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link