The Worst of the Worst of the Worst: "Rude" vs. "All About That Bass"

are we voting for which one is worse?

Yup. Sorry, should have mentioned--these were the two "winners" of the two previous Worst Song polls. Vote for your least fave.

I'd still vote for "Rude" even if all I knew about either song were the above screen caps.

"Rude" is just all kinds of awful. Gets my vote.

"rude" after a few listens becomes strangely...charming? "all about that bass" still straight up heinous

Stalin vs Hitler

I've found it fairly easy over the last year to ignore Rude. Not so with All About That Bass.

I don't know what I hate more: cismen singing about marriage or "I love my body when a man wants me". Fuck both of them.

can't wait till these show up in the top 77

"all about that bass" by a miiiile

would you like "all about that bass" more or less if you were to learn that the original inspiration for the line "i'm all about that bass, no treble" came when meghan trainor was reading old ilx pages and thinking of things she could have posted to troll geir hongro?

No.

man there were so many worse things on both halves of each list

that said, "Rude"

Neither of these songs is actively terrible. But the "no treble" metaphor is worse than the misuse of the word "rude"

It took 35 years for a song to turn me against the bass. Easy vote.

All About That Bass was more ubiquitous, right?

All About That Bass is hilarious

Rude was one of those songs I had just kind of absorbed somehow by osmosis, never even knew there was a current band called MAGIC!

Meghan Trainor's presence is definitely much more felt in the world right now.

man there were so many worse things on both halves of each list

^^^ this. but i can understand the urge to load up some extra hate on either of these. feel like "all about that bass" stuck around longer and a more annoying hook in the first place.

I heard "Bass" for the first time today! It's nominated for Song of the Year, Record of the Year? Congrats to popists!

Hey, don't pin that shit on us.

what does that even mean

"rude" is great. "bass" is goat spittle

http://www.lovehearttshirts.com/shop/images/171/I+LOVE+MUSIC+BLACK.jpg

Arrgghghhhh Rude is awful

Though All About That Bass has these weird derivative influences from Blurred Lines

If anyone's on the fence, please don't overlook Rude's guitar solo, almost certainly the worst guitar solo to ever hit pop radio.

http://youtu.be/PIh2xe4jnpk?t=2m27s

"rude" is much easier to ignore for whatever that's worth

i also feel pretty optimistic that i won't have to hear from magic for much longer whereas i feel real trepidation that trainor won't be going away any time soon

(case in point, i have actually heard trainor's follow-up singles, which are EVEN WORSE)

I haven't heard "Rude" (I don't think?) and I intend to keep it that way. it peaked here at #51 so it's been very avoidable.

This is hard. First time I heard/saw the video to Rude I had difficulty wrapping my head around the fact it wasn't from 1996.

Do you think that anyone has told Meghan that bass = base = crack? I mean that was the not even subtext of superbass

on the weekend I kept seeing an ad for a compilation album or something which was soundtracked by AATB but censored the word "bass". not really sure what they're trying to achieve there

Thought this was going to be the Dinosaur Jr song

All About That Bass is hilarious

― example (crüt), Monday, January 19, 2015 9:25 PM (Yesterday)

rude is worse for trying to bring back to life an entire subgenre of '90s dude rock that should have stayed dead. trainor idgaf either way.

as shit as all about the bass is at least i can see why its a hit and people like the catchy tune. Rude is straight up bad and wtf likes it?
and what omar says above

both songs have crossed over from painfully heinous to enjoyably heinous for me, more genuinely impressed by the pile-up of hooks in "bass" than "rude," but "rude"'s guitar solo was probably the biggest lol Top 40 gave me this year. so this is hard!

omg that guitar solo, does that normally get cut out of the radio version? I swear I've never heard that before and that's at a serious "shreds" level of incompetent.

sirius has never denied it from me

i had never heard "rude" before today
it sounds like a toilet

I always thought the line was "No Trouble"

This is hard. First time I heard/saw the video to Rude I had difficulty wrapping my head around the fact it wasn't from 1996.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:54 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The video kind of makes them look like a "real band" (apology in advance for rockism), like the guy manages to almost not seem like he was farm-raised from birth to be a pop star.

I get almost an inverse vibe from Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.

I've loved Rude unconditionally since I first heard it on satellite radio, but listening to the song with the video actively devalues it. It's so dopey and the lead singer is the aesthetic equivalent of a sandwich left in the rain.

AATB however is just godawful, and I dont even need to see the video to get bad vibes from it. It takes a reasonably catchy melody and childish teehee wordplay and stretches whats basically a 2 minute song to 5 or 6 torturous minu--*scrolls up to check actual length of the song*--WHAT, IT'S SHORTER THAN RUDE?!

That says it all right there, Bass is repetitive to the point of torture and I hate it

"Bass" is honestly nothing compared to the horror of "Dear Future Husband"

...Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.

otm, one of many things i like abt it

http://yesterdaysisland.com/2011/articles/17.php
http://www.sonicbids.com/band/meghantrainor/audio/53178939867b8618174f30d7/
http://youtu.be/N5GzaLf3IL4

"Overdrive" is particularly hilarious

Also loving the possible future username "MeghanTrainorVietnam"

Wow that "Rude" solo. It's like C3P0 with a nearly dead battery channeling Andy Summers. But then the song goes into that vaguely pretty Richard Marx-ish prechorus. It's a pretty sucky song all told but has some nice moments.

I don't get what is so bad about "All About the Bass"? Sounds like pretty standard, generic bubblegum pop to me.

butts r great

butt...not this one

Both songs are awful. Meghan Trainor comes across in interviews as being incredibly grateful for and amazed by her success. Dude from Magic! acts like his one-hit wonder status is his birthright. Also it's easier to imagine Jar-Jar Binks singing "Rude".

In summation, fuck these songs.

i can, and often have, imagined jar-jar binks singing all about that bass

djp why are you reading/watching interviews with these ppl

http://media.tumblr.com/26a332889991dc40713bbedc664cb60f/tumblr_inline_nfk7f9GqtK1qzqvun.gif

With Magic!, the interview was how I found out the song existed; it was passed around as a "look at this tool and his terrible music" lol and then suddenly every radio station was playing "Rude" and that joke wasn't funny anymore(TM)

With Meghan Trainor, she showed up on The Today Show and I was surprised by how nonplussed and excited she was. Then she sang "Your Lips Are Moving" and I thought "this isn't that good but at least it sounds like it's making an attempt to not be terrible"

omg that gif

it was truly the highlight of the whatever music awards that was

also that they were still playing their one hit rather than one of the two yet-to-chart follow-ups was encouraging

though meghan seems primed become the millenials' helen reddy or something

My reaction to AATB is "ugh, of course this is a huge hit." My reaction to "Rude" is "what the fuck is this, how is this a hit?"

on Y-100's morning show last week the deejay goes, "Alright! That was Meghan Trainor with 'All About That Bass'!" His colleague goes, "Uh, no, that was 'Lips Are Movin'." He goes, "Shut up." Uncomfortable silence, followed by hysterical laughter.

Magic! is this years Fun.

let's not forget that twenty years ago "baby i love your way" by big mountain was a hit, twenty years before that "i shot the sheriff"

clapton's "i shot the sherrif" i mean

not sure which band should be more offended xp

america has a soft spot for doofy white reggae, i mean we just gave sting a kennedy center honor

all fun needs is an exclamation point

oh c'mon fun's had multiple hits including a duet with a superstar, they're several tiers above a one-off novelty band and at least at the level of a wang chung.

If anyone's on the fence, please don't overlook Rude's guitar solo, almost certainly the worst guitar solo to ever hit pop radio.

http://youtu.be/PIh2xe4jnpk?t=2m27s

― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:51 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this sounds like one of those "shreds" videos!!

The "Rude" guitar solo makes the one in "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" sound positively muscular.

tbh i would listen to entire album of rude songs if it meant never having to hear trainor's baby squirrel betty boop joke voice again

no you wouldn't

tbf i'm pretty sure rude is the only song they ever recorded

whoops mixed up the band name and song name no one cares

my reaction to "rude" (first heard on the jukebox as some cancon thing) was "this is gonna get blurred lines-ed to death but it's ultimately kind of innocuously pleasant." my reaction to "all about that bass" was a mixture of "the kids still like hairspray, don't they" and "this sounds like a C-list radio disney track that will be half-heartedly promoted even by radio disney."

voted aatb but I really don't hate either of them as much as I feel I am supposed to (that one comes closer though)

"the kids still like hairspray, don't they"

ha this is OTM

my version of this reaction was "I guess people really miss Duffy?"

i repeat: "rude" is actually good, and was one of the more interesting songs on american radio in the past year (low bar, granted)

i repeat: lemonade was a popular drink and it still is

Rude has all of the ingredients of something I should hate, and yet I can't hate it. It's really not that bad.

I thought "Bass" was kinda cute on first blush, but it didn't hold up well. I got very tired of it. I never liked "Rude" at all. For me addlepated girl-group pastiche trumps frat-bro cod reggae.

Rude's lyrics win this for me. The whole childlike whining through the chorus about this girl, then ending with "I wanna marry you anyway" = induce teeth grating

I have a different take on this:

"Rude" is more pseudo-ska fodder for Sublime-worshipping dude bros who are generally horrible people, or at best have poor priorities, make bad decisions and need to grow up. This song gives them something else to listen to while taking a bong hit.

"All About That Bass" opened up more discourse into topics such as self esteem from body image, fat shaming and our cultures very complicated and damn near hypocritical opposing forces of being one of the fattest nations ever while having a media that promotes unrealistic body shapes as the norm and billions are spent dealing with weight. Despite sounding like a throwaway pop song, in the age of social media and slacktivism, it had legs beyond that.

The choice is pretty clear to me.

Hammer where did you say that originally? i need to know if i can trust your future posts

NYCNative i think the poll is about musical content, not sociological extrapolations re: probable audience

sublime worshipping dude bros are all in their 70s now and every single #1 hit for the past 5 years has spawned mountains of thinkpieces, fuck a "discourse" lol

NYCNative i think the poll is about musical content, not sociological extrapolations re: probable audience

My criteria for what I like and dislike about music is my own and I don't believe you or anyone can tell me otherwise.

qualx seems unaware that there's a whole new generation of dude bros out there with their tribal tatoos. I had the misfortune of sitting in a pizza place attached to a bar filled with them just a week ago - lots of vapid conversation heard over a jukebox playing Drowning Pool, Bob Marley and yes, Sublime.

Can we talk about how unworthy Rude is of its AMAZING Zedd remix? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Q4-wcPDBQ

qualx seems unaware that there's a whole new generation of dude bros out there with their tribal tatoos. I had the misfortune of sitting in a pizza place attached to a bar filled with them just a week ago - lots of vapid conversation heard over a jukebox playing Drowning Pool, Bob Marley and yes, Sublime.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:08 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people who listen to drowning pool, bob marley and yes, sublime, do not really factor into the success of six-week #1 hits

a song is not going to stay at #1 for six weeks because of any demographic smaller than "young people"

Sorry, but those people exist and are a demographic. I don't like them either but I am cognizant of the fact that just because I don't like a group of people doesn't mean they don't exist. I also feel they exist in far greater numbers than you suspect.

And just because I said the song appeals to them doesn't mean it appeals ONLY to them. Sheesh.

this was not a thread i was expecting to get sheeshed in

why you gotta be so rude

the thing is, i would love it if a GOOD song touched on any of those issues re: body image etc etc, it's just tjay aabtt does this in the hackiest and least thought out way possible, like someone posted the title to their facebook, waited two hours, and gathered the lyrics from comments and imageshares posted only by their immediate family. it's not insightful, it doesn't mobilize and it doesn't even have the excuse of being clever or inventive. they got to 'bass/treble' and stopped.

why you gotta be so rude

see in addition to being not very bad at all the song has incredible conversational utility

'rude' is at least funny for how surprised and let down the dude is at the failure of his halfassed, badly planned attempt to win over the jackass dad, 'awww Maaaaaaaaaaan! This bites!' ...particularly in the video where he apparently is trying this on an impulse at eleven am on a saturday, having had the idea at the spur of the moment on the way to the mall... what went wrong???!

the thing is, i would love it if a GOOD song touched on any of those issues re: body image etc etc, it's just tjay aabtt does this in the hackiest and least thought out way possible, like someone posted the title to their facebook, waited two hours, and gathered the lyrics from comments and imageshares posted only by their immediate family. it's not insightful, it doesn't mobilize and it doesn't even have the excuse of being clever or inventive. they got to 'bass/treble' and stopped.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:43 AM (1 hour ago)

otm, but you forgot the part where it completely fucking rules anyway

It certainly rules a "worst of the worst of the worst" poll, that's true.

victory!

Rude's lyrics win this for me. The whole childlike whining through the chorus about this girl, then ending with "I wanna marry you anyway" = induce teeth grating

― dutch_justice, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 12:58 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's not whining about the girl, he's whining about her rude dad, maaan.

i've never been more sympathetic towards the antagonist in a song than I am with the dad in "Rude."

I have a different take on this:

"Rude" is more pseudo-ska fodder for Sublime-worshipping dude bros who are generally horrible people, or at best have poor priorities, make bad decisions and need to grow up. This song gives them something else to listen to while taking a bong hit.

"All About That Bass" opened up more discourse into topics such as self esteem from body image, fat shaming and our cultures very complicated and damn near hypocritical opposing forces of being one of the fattest nations ever while having a media that promotes unrealistic body shapes as the norm and billions are spent dealing with weight. Despite sounding like a throwaway pop song, in the age of social media and slacktivism, it had legs beyond that.

The choice is pretty clear to me.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:47 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Honestly if this is going to be the criteria for evaluating pop songs going forward, it's going to be a very boring future.

'rude' is at least funny for how surprised and let down the dude is at the failure of his halfassed, badly planned attempt to win over the jackass dad, 'awww Maaaaaaaaaaan! This bites!' ...particularly in the video where he apparently is trying this on an impulse at eleven am on a saturday, having had the idea at the spur of the moment on the way to the mall... what went wrong???!

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 8:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IMO this is exactly the charm of the song.

rude is the song our tedious dystopian future deserves

Couple weeks ago on the M11 bus going up 10th Ave around 6PM. A middle-aged woman and her teenage I guess daughter plunk down next to me on the back bench. "Could you make room for my friend?" Sure no problem. So she's not yr daughter? Whatever. They're both wide-eyed and enthusiastic, speaking loudly and soliciting eye contact like, well, tourists from the midwest or mildly nutty attention-seekers. Suddenly they break into song. "I'm all about that bass etc" Just the chorus hook, over and over, in unison. Desperately looking around now like why won't these grumpy commuters join in the fun? Finally the older one NUDGES me and asks "Have you ever done karaoke?" "Uh no." Decide not to say I've always wanted to. "WELL WHY NOT?" I don't have an answer and at this point everybody else in the bus is busy hiding behind cell phones or newspapers. Undaunted, the dynamic duo resume their duet. "No Treble!"

voting Rude

when/if I do karaoke it'll be "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" or "Smoke On The Water"

m coleman's post is a vision of transit hell

"Rude" was originally based on a real-life situation. The lead singer of Magic!, Nasri, had been in an unhealthy relationship with a previous girlfriend. One day, after his girlfriend was mad at him and started to become harsh, Nasri began singing the lines "Why you gotta be so rude/ don't you know I'm human too" in what he describes a "dark vibe." However, the concept did not work with the band well so it was revised and eventually made into a man talking to the disapproving father of his lover.[1]

Genre: reggae fusion

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 14 July 2014 14:53 (6 months ago) Permalink

One day, after his girlfriend was mad at him and started to become harsh, Nasri began singing the lines "Why you gotta be so rude/ don't you know I'm human too" in what he describes a "dark vibe."

I hope this means the girlfriend was still there, becoming harsh.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 July 2014 15:31 (6 months ago) Permalink

I was half-expecting the next sentence to be how they found the girlfriend's body in a closet, all deformed like she'd watched the video from The Ring

― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 14 July 2014 15:33 (6 months ago) Permalink

continuing to become harsh

meghan trainor comes up on the related videos if you're watching taylor swift songs on youtube, thus is more unavoidable for my personal demographic

i just watched half of rude, i am worried it will infect my youtube recommends

Brad hilarious & otm itt

"the kids still like hairspray, don't they"

Dunno, but I do! "Bass" is a kitschy trifle I've heard maybe five times total and don't hate it. I have a pretty high tolerance for this kind of stuff. Voted "Rude."

An interesting theory about Rude: there may be more to it than meets the eye. Nasri is apparently of Palestinian descent, and the video subtly suggests the father is Jewish. At 1:21, he clearly mouths "L'Chaim" while toasting his daughter's presumably Jewish suitor. At 1:41, a Jewish star is visible on the peephole of the door, and indeed, at 1:48, the father literally looks at Nasri "through" the Jewish star, as Nasri sings "I'll never get your blessing til the day I die." Israel cannot accept the Palestinian people unless they are dead. Hence the plaintive "don't you know I'm human too?"

lol sike

these two really are a pair - banal heteronormative minstrelsy that can seem overfamiliar to the point of negligibility or excruciatingly foul depending on how you approach it. "this one is like whatever, but this one feels like the end of days" and you could be talking about either

oh god they could totally record a duet

a Peter Frampton cover

it is funny how so much stuff today feels like mid-80s rehashes but these both reek of 70s schmaltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79r_XaUU7yE

this would be a great way for them to move the sound forward, synergize their brands and celebrate the birth of damien

FWIW, I think Anaconda is far worse than either of these songs and yet it made the 77 best list.

"anaconda" is slight and protracted enough that i get its haters but for the self-awareness re: "dumb shit" alone i rank it higher

Rude has that brilliant guitar solo to save the song from critical oblivion.

that solo is truly amazing, it sounds like it was recorded direct to Garage Band through the worst filters/patches he could find.

While being inspired by the shreds videos on youtube.

I will not vote because I cannot understand how could these, admittedly mediocre-but far from awful, tracks could be the finalists in a year of piles of truly horrible songs to choose from.

banal heteronormative minstrelsy

argh, least helpful dismissal award. bad croupier, bad.

lol sorry it's not helpful

that's a neat way to complain about someone using words without denying their accuracy

well, "banal" is too subjective to quibble over. no issue there. it's the "heteronormal minstrelsy" that i find objectionable, laden as it is with the implication of moral condemnation. i don't see trainor's passing mention of "boys" as heteronormative in any but the most meaninglessly generic sense. and "minstrelsy" invokes something that has no clear place in this discussion, only fouls the well.

but that's just me.

i understand if your brain did a tire screech after those words but i followed them with that can seem overfamiliar to the point of negligibility to acknowledge that their offensiveness on those level is subjective, but that the raw igredients are there in a white reggae song about the denial of dowry and a boogie about how boys will still fuck you if you have da booty-booty da booty-booty

i'd almost sympathize with the idea that dropping those words will likely lead to a thread derailment, but not if you're the first one to call them out

really i can only care so much about the message of either of these songs

i apologize for thinking the word "negligible" would keep people from thinking i'm asking for them to grab pitchforks

my intent was merely to underline how either of these songs can seem completely noxious or mere piffle, not to get knees jerkin

the "da booty-booty da booty-booty" part always makes me think of "shipoopi"

the raw igredients are there in a white reggae song about the denial of dowry and a boogie about how boys will still fuck you if you have da booty-booty da booty-booty

― da croupier, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:35 AM (20 minutes ago)

fair enough, wasn't looking to derail

"I'm all about that bass etc" Just the chorus hook, over and over, in unison.

This is exactly like what listening to the original song is.

"Because you know I'm all about that bass, bout that bass, no treble" *hmm thats all I've got* *better repeat it four times* *okay thats my chorus* *oh here at the end I'm out of lines* *what do I do?* *oh I'll just repeat the chorus four times!* WHICH IS ALREADY JUST THE HOOK FOUR TIMES

was just remembering some writer talking about a metaphor being so bad that it was a "single entendre"

Bass is bad but easy to laugh about/at and a lot of fun to bother people with. There's a certain glee people get from hating it. That's worth something. And Trainor voice is kind of fun to do a bad impression of. ALABADA BASS BADA BASS in the middle of a convo can get a laugh.

rude is just so joylessly hopelessly awful and offensive and there's just nothing. NOTHING. i hate it and i don't even have fun hating it. it adds nothing to anything. it just makes any 3 minutes in your life where it comes on or comes up worse.

What's worse is that a coworker of mine who I respect quite a bit but had never talked abt music with (he does mention that he used to be a musician somewhat frequently which may have been a red flag but I was dumb) recommended this band when I finally asked him about non-work stuff (and I led with "what is the last good record you listened to"). My judgement of other people's music taste has evaporated almost completely in the past 10 years or so -- like whatever the fuck you like, and really nothing's garbage to me anymore -- but for the first time in a while I had to conceal a face of utter contempt. If he had said Bass, I would've been like "haha yeah that song." But he said Rude, and I was like "...I can never talk to this guy about music again."

TL;DR Rude takes this one and it isn't even close.

I voted Bass because I get a sick sort of pleasure at how bad the guitar solo is in Rude.

ways you can get glee from "rude"

1. the guitar solo
2. singing the chorus when mildly affronted by someone
2. bringing the song up in conversations about vampire weekend

yeah 'rude' is obviously a garbage song

2. blasting it loudly from your car while driving past a college at 4:20pm

I didn't even know that 'Rude' had a guitar solo, but then every single time I've heard it, it's been on the radio in the office.

http://youtu.be/EIjbZgqDD2Y

this exists, thankfully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA

kind of wish they had shaved off the partial bar at the end to make it loop perfectly

maybe it's because I grew up with so much music that sounds like it, but Rude seems only passively bad while Bass is actively so. Plus, both songs will inspire imitators, and Trainor seems like she is breaking new ground for her special brand of shittiness which is worse than having to ignore yet more white guy reggae tracks.

If xhucx were in this thread I'll bet he'd agree with me that Magic! "swing harder" than Vampire Weekend

i never thought i would be the kind of guy to derail a perfectly good hate-some-songs threads to defend vampire weekend's artistry against obvious trolling but man.... these are some low blows

also: is (was) rude as ubiquitous on top40/hotAC radio in the states as it was in canada? i think i remember hearing that the guy is from canada so i always attributed its heavy rotation to cancon requirements. i remember waking up once to a 5 minute interview with him on my alarm (in a block that is usually 60 mins of nothing-but-pop-songs) and just thinking "if i were to die in my sleep why didn't it happen before i woke up to this boring fucking dude talking about how this song is about EXACTLY WHAT THE LYRICS ARE ABOUT"

"Rude" was #1 for six weeks in the US, apparently only went to #6 in Canada

'rude' is like the super polite canadian version of ice cube's 'givin up the nappy dug out'

Oh no, don't get me wrong, Vampire Weekend's lyrics are a cut above because they drip with evidence of having attended expensive liberal arts colleges

yeah, shit's obviously artisinal

i can see no ill coming from the spectre of Magic! hanging over Ezra Koenig, he might even give that calypso voice a rest

oops

anal

yeah, shit's obviously artisinal

― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer)

Aaand I'll be taking that thank u!

Oh my, why are you guys comparing Ezra's voice to Rude! vocalist. Stop.

Magic! "swing harder" than Vampire Weekend

I'm dying

Magic!'s rhythm section is quite good though, Vampire Weekend's is not even comparable.

part of the reason i like the song is what the rhythm section does in the bridge

and in the second half of the chorus

I even like their whiteboy reggae groove, I think they do it better than most.

Rude is so bad it puts me off of weed

The thing about "Rude" is that it is aural herpes

you mean it's catchy?

infectious

No it's sexually transmitted?

Dancing in the rude video might be worse than the song.

also: Video Connections: the "Rude" video and this one....

I'm having a beer in the Charlotte airport and this shit just came on. Eyeballing anybody who is vibin to this so I can throw my glass at them. Thank fuck the median age is 63.

let em know you're all about that bass

The Magic! singer looks like Dustin Hoffman crossbred with Pauly Shore

"My criteria for what I like and dislike about music is my own and I don't believe you or anyone can tell me otherwise"

just trying to help you understand the poll brer

and i like rude's shitcanned solo tbh. its ruddy tunelessness struck me as intentional/a pretty interesting thing to have on the radio in a time when pop has hardly any solos at all (let alone the guitar variety)

the solo is the only redeeming moment in the tropical shitstorm that is 'rude'.

like toploader covering the mighty mighty bosstones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw

1:12. It reminded me of "Rude"

rude is so much worse, come on

i despise "rude." this guy is whining about his hurt feelings while his girlfriend is faced with either a bitter family rift or a painful romantic breakup. truly the rude one........is him.

read the lyrics to this song and you just know that in the unspoken coda, the woman in question ends up locked in a dog cage with a water bowl and a piss bucket:

Saturday morning jumped out of bed
And put on my best suit
Got in my car and raced like a jet
All the way to you
Knocked on your door with heart in my hand
To ask you a question
'Cause I know that you're an old-fashioned man, yeah

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but the answer is 'No'

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
Yeah, no matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude

I hate to do this, you leave no choice
Can't live without her
Love me or hate me we will be boys
Standing at that altar
Or we will run away
To another galaxy, you know
You know she's in love with me
She will go anywhere I go

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, 'cause the answer's still 'No"

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Rude

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say, I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but 'No' still means 'No'!

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Why you gotta be so rude?

I dunno, I kind of picture more she dates him for like three months then breaks up when she goes off to college and he gets a job at whatever the 2015 equivalent of a video store is

i believe it was molly lambert who said the song is better when you pretend he said "murder" instead of "marry"

"Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?" is creepiest possible way that you can ask for your in-laws blessing and no right-thinking person would say "okay, sure!" to it so I really don't know what this entitled douchebag is whining about, and I say this as someone who DID actually call his in-laws before proposing to make sure they didn't secretly hate me

xp: Molly Lambert OTM

on the flipside, "tough luck, my friend" is the awesomest way a father could respond to that

xp That's the whole fun of the song though! That's what I feel like the haters are missing. The dude just shows up on the doorstep with nothing whatsoever to recommend him as a mate all "can I plz marry your daughter?" And the dad is like "very sorry, but I do not approve of you as a marriage partner for my daughter" and he's like "GOD! WHY ARE YOU SO RUDE! I'M A HUMAN BEING MAAAAN!"

I generally do not listen to songs by people I want to beat to death

yeah i don't think "haters" are missing that, so much as not enjoying it through an ironic critical distance

But I think it's pretty much baked into song that his request is implausible though, for real.

little about nasri suggests to me that he's the new randy newman, painting a portrait of a hapless douche millenial

Well I don't know, I read it that way. I guess it's fun to read it that way regardless of Nasri's intent.

"ah what a wry mockery of a romantic trustafarian i've created here...now to add the perfect touch...the dopiest of guitar solos..."

I don't think it's a "wry mockery" but I think there's some gentle/playful self-awareness about being an unrealistic youth.

well he's admitted the original lyric was an attack on an ex-girlfriend that was altered to a more benign tale of starcrossed love, so there's definitely an awareness that he's being a candy-ass

You know how in that Sublime song the dead guy says "I can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot" and proceeds to have the worst guitar solo ever recorded? The one in this song gives that a run for the money.

But I think it's pretty much baked into song that his request is implausible though, for real.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, January 23, 2015 5:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone says that and I just don't see it -- it wouldn't have become a no. 1 hit if this were the case. this is one of those things where it pretty much establishes itself that critics and/or internet-types are disconnected from 50% of the actual population and what they find romantic

yeah, it's true. you guys don't get us at all.

everyone says that and I just don't see it -- it wouldn't have become a no. 1 hit if this were the case. this is one of those things where it pretty much establishes itself that critics and/or internet-types are disconnected from 50% of the actual population and what they find romantic

― katherine, Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:15 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whereas reading the song in the simplistic way the other 50% of the population allegedly reads it and then snobbishly hating on it means you are "connected" to them?

I mean, Ronald Reagan used Born in the USA as a campaign song, not everyone gets everything.

Reagan was dumber than 100 percent of the ppulation.

pollution comes from trees

...did I just get called a snob for liking magic!

can I cash this in somewhere

yeah but only for rudecoin

Rudecoin ilx poster
Step to me, you're over

pollution comes from trees

you cant blame this on us, its you who came through here with your autotune and your car alarms and your horse races, oblivious to the destruction that was being caused

^ speaks for the trees

Rude is really about the right to ring strangers' doorbell and loudly demand shit at 3 am

i have done this. i thought it was a party. but no.

I went to a club yesterday and they played these two songs next to each other. Sequence was: uptown funk, alabada bass and rude. I was sober. People were singing along. It was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a club.

Dj cut the Rude song before the guitar solo.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

RUDECOIN

'Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?'
'No, because your music's shit and you're crap at songs'

*slams door*

why you gotta be so rude
I write for Bieb and Akon too

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i feel nothing

I'm done with ilx how could this happen

i like "rude"

the zedd remix is great

clearly the only answer is a mashup of the two

according to a quick google at least three separate mashups exist

Why you gotta be all about that bass?
Tough luck my friend but the answer is NO TREBLE.

They're showing this NBA All-Star party thing on ESPN rn, and Magic! is the musical guest.

oh shit and it's T minus 10 minutes till 4:20 on the west coast!!!!

OK, it's a Celebrity Charity game, and one of the players is Sarah Silverman.

TS: "Foul" vs. "All About Those Dunks"

I'm gonna marry her anyway

any excuse to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA

https://media.giphy.com/media/KVZX4fSkmb4WYVDVbs/giphy.gif

The Meghan Trainor hate on this site is bizarre, lol

did u know that she put out new music recently and plans to release an album? first single sounded like a zumba class

I'm sad that there weren't a million thinkpieces written about this song/video by Meghan Trainor's aunt: https://youtu.be/pKU8k2TMwOw

i don't think most of us think about Meghan that frequently. I think more about the shitty Magic! song, mostly cos I heard it in a damn Fuddrucker's today

Someone mentioned she was among ILM's most-hated artists, and I've seen evidence of that as these old threads have bubbled up...

I think the guys in magic were just dummies who faceplanted into a number one whereas trainor is actually releasing this garbage with malicious intent.

i haven't heard a song of hers since the awful "Lips are Moving" so I might be shielded from all this

Rude has been much easier to avoid for me. So All about that bass.

xp "Lips are Moving" is a fine song... though my friend hates it, too. What is it that puts you guys off so much?

I don't like her voice, not really into soca music, don't dig the melody.

but, I'm not exactly a heavy pop listener either.