reluctant to listen to "Handy" because I still haven't heard "Fancy"
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I've only heard the CSNFallon version, the Weird Al one's funny enough on its own
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:45 (nine years ago) link
hahaha crabbits, you need to just respond with a link to the uncensored #THICKE vid
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
reluctant to listen to "Handy" because I still haven't heard "Fancy"― guwop (crüt), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:40 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI've only heard the CSNFallon version, the Weird Al one's funny enough on its own― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:45 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:40 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:45 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://greatlakesoutdoors.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/unfrozen-caveman-lawyer.jpeg
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
lol at "Mission Statement," pretty great idea. Parody would be a little more perfect if it sounded a little less 'digital.' The solo is dead on though.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
yeah weird ppl haven't heard a song that gets less exposure in the culture than the #20 song would've gotten ten years ago. it's almost like the monoculture is dead or something.
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of great how totally avoidable the worst chart shit is
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm not saying it's weird they haven't heard the song, I'm saying it's stupid that they would rather post about it on a message board than take the 2 seconds to pull it up on YouTube before listening to a parody of it
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
So I don't understand, are some posters contending that Word Crimes is actually some kind of meta comment on internet grammar sticklers and that's why he built an entire song out of things that have gotten really boring/unfunny to complain about ("OMG LITERALLY USED TO MEAN FIGURATIVELY" etc.)
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
it's weird ppl wouldn't want to pull up some song on youtube that pretty much nobody has anything positive to say about
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
it's great but the weird al iggy azalea parody is less absurd and hilarious than the real thing
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
*Curiously looks up what was #20 ten years ago*
Hmm, I think I've been exposed to Fancy more than I have to Christina Milian's Dip It Low, but I understand your point.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
I hope that Weird Al at least had the class to include a shoutout to Charli XCX
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:48 (nine years ago) link
i've heard 'happy' and 'radioactive' like a dozen+ times out in the wild (and 'royals' several dozen) but never heard 'fancy' or 'blurred lines' without youtubing them, its weird how arbitrary a cross section of chart music you get without seeking it out.
i think i knew all of the songs in the polka though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
it's weird ppl wouldn't want to pull up some song on youtube that pretty much nobody has anything positive to say about― balls, Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― balls, Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The number one song that nobody had anything positive to say about.
― how's life, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
I have heard parodies of Fancy (the Weird Al one and a couple of really shitty ones on Facebook) more than I have heard Fancy
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Moodles otm: Link to the bizarre piece shout-out piece being referenced:
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/05/29/3443070/why-doesnt-iggy-azalea-give-charli-xcx-a-shout-out-in-fancy/
― intheblanks, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
fancy is used in a bunch of ads now, so that makes it more inescapable.
dip it low is amazing and everyone should listen to it more.
also weird al's dancing in the handy video really puts it over the top
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
"word crimes" is going to get a sudden numbers boost the first week of september.
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
i am literally an unfrozen caveman so whiney otm
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:39 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not everyone gets paid-not-paid to keep up with this shi
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Where did hit songs get more exposure 10 years ago? On Myspace?
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:48 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thumbs up!
― goole, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I'm not saying it's weird they haven't heard the song, I'm saying it's stupid that they would rather post about it on a message board than take the 2 seconds to pull it up on YouTube before listening to a parody of it.
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
lol when I saw "last updated by Whiney" in Site New Answers I figured he literally took a shit on the thread
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
the first two seconds of fancy are killer tho
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
I've said this multiple times elsewhere; just about everything about "Fancy" should be repellent to me but somehow it coheres into something... kind of great.
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
I hate it if only because it finally managed to made Charli XCX annoying to me.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
I think I'd heard Fancy before without realizing what it was...? Maybe I thought it was a Nicki song. At any rate, I have already totally forgotten the hook, so apart from everything else wrong with it, it's a shitty song
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
that "fancy" thinkpiece is so bizarre. of all the things to write, and after going to the trouble of getting an actual university professor to answer your questions, repeatedly asking "but what about charli xcx??? but what about charli xcx????" is dumb
i agree with djp re: "fancy", it's a banger. i'm half-disappointed that iggy's album is shit (would've loved trying to rep for her, she's nowhere near as awful as she's made out to be), half-relieved (bc she's so #problematic), but i'm fine with the song. i think the best thing about it is the sheer chutzpah of opening it with "first things first, i'm the realest". irl lol every time. not even just "real" which is an actual arguable case but REALEST. amazing.
i didn't know you were talking about more interesting things than this comedian in here, only came in to register disapproval of that dickish grammar nazi song where he calls people spastics and mouthbreathers. exhibit 9390228022 of comedians being a wretched fuckwit who gets off on kicking down and mocking others.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
btw Paris Hilton has a new single out
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
so you know, rather than lecture us you could go fawn over your pretty blonde rich no-talent racist
that must be the first time anyone has ever criticized Weird Al for being mean to people
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
lol Dan
xp
lol i can't even remember the last time i typed paris hilton's name? and what is it with this dude that makes everyone get snippy in his defence
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
most humans enjoy laughter
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
He's got a 30+ year history of being one of the most delightful people on the planet.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
what is it with this dude who's been around 30 years that makes someone comedysplain his "terribleness" having heard A song
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
calling people spastics and mouthbreathers is highly delightful, yes
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
i appreciate it when you tell me about comedy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
guys guys we all know lex and whiney are remarkably stupid, proudly ignorant, and generally morally bankrupt manchildren, i think we can move on. let's not make another thread about the 'let's talk about me' guys.
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I think we've established in some other discussion here that spastic has different connotations in the UK than it does in the US, and mouthbreathers is fairly innocuous as an insult.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I'm sorry I was unaware that mouthbreathers were an oppressed minority
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
He should call them stupid hos instead.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I told y'all they'd show up.
― how's life, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
let's all be friends
how about we play
WHEEL
OF
FISH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
this was news to me, thank you for teaching me something, music comedy man!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
For those of you just joining us, today we're teaching poodles how to fly.
― how's life, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
]In his song 'Goodnight Saigon', Billy Joel tells the story of young American soldiers going to Vietnam, naive on arrival and some going back home in body bags in the end. He sings, "We came in spastic like tameless horses, we left in plastic as numbered corpses." The lyrics are in no way offensive in this American context. - beg to differ
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
"we came in spastic like tameless horses" is one of the dumbest things I've ever read, so I enjoyed that article (xpost)
― chinavision!, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link