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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
i am literally an unfrozen caveman so whiney otm
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:21 (ten 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, 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 (ten 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 (ten 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, July 17, 2014 12:48 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thumbs up!
― goole, Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:35 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
the first two seconds of fancy are killer tho
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 July 2014 18:48 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
btw Paris Hilton has a new single out
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:09 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
most humans enjoy laughter
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:15 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
calling people spastics and mouthbreathers is highly delightful, yes
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:16 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
I'm sorry I was unaware that mouthbreathers were an oppressed minority
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
He should call them stupid hos instead.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I told y'all they'd show up.
― how's life, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:18 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
Billy Joel's general existence is offensive
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
man even at the 9/11 memorial concert? for shame shakey
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6T2B3Vhtzk
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
i have no beef with weird al but goodnight saigon is pretty great tbh
― a biscuit/donut hybrid called “bisnuts” (stevie), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
xpost lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
I love goodnight saigon and most of Billy Joel from storm front & before
AS SHARP AS KNIVESKNIVESKNIVESKNIVES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
still keep hoping someone will take the reins and do the billy joel track by track thread. have heard/loved 'goodnight saigon' a million times but apparently have been too...moved by it's story to catch 'spastic like tameless horses' before.
― balls, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
can a mod get the offensive reference three posts ago
we CAN'T have refs to the piano man on this board
― Euler, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
didn't know billy joel was on $t0rmfr0nt
― guwop (crüt), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
plus the cadence of that line is cool, weeee came in spas tic...like tameless hor ses
i know i know take it to the billy joel thread I'll stop
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:12 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ballot poll coming someday!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
"Goodnight Saigon" was always the song that I would ask my parents to fast-forward through whenever we listened to the Greatest Hits cassette on car trips.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link