"We Are Young" vs. "Somebody That I Used To Know"

Loathe the first, can tolerate the second.

that's where i was at a few months ago but i straight up enjoy "Somebody" now. totally just making this thread in hopes of a landslide Gotye victory.

I know there are a lot of contrarians around here but I have to imagine there are very few ILM posters who are all "Woo fun.! Fuck Gotye!"

Woo fun.! Fuck Gotye!

i am that contrarian, sir

well i set my clever trap, let's just wait and see how many i can catch

xpost lol

have you guys heard the dude from fun. try to sing live? let me tell you, one thing it is not is "fun"

"We Are Young" kind of reminds me of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out," in that it starts at a sprightly tempo, then quickly slows down, and then stays at that slow, grinding, monotonous tempo for minute after minute until the song finally ends.

honest to god i wd rather listen to faux "last song at the school disco" than that annoying whiny Sting voice of gotye dude

hearing him try to sing in a controlled studio environment is no picnic either, tbh

"We Are Young" kind of reminds me of Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out,"

Yup. Voted "We Are Young."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/Mouse_Trap_Board_and_Boxjpg.jpg/250px-Mouse_Trap_Board_and_Boxjpg.jpg

neither of these tracks are about "singing" imo, i voted for the one that wd make a better Glee cover

It sounds like "Take Me Out" were "Take Me Out" lacking an interesting rhythm, good guitar riffs, and a singer who wasn't adenoidal.

neither of these tracks are about "singing" imo, i voted for the one that wd make a better Glee cover

― 'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death (Noodle Vague), Monday, June 11, 2012 2:03 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's no "would" here, they both exist if you want to listen and compare (i don't)

I like both of these songs, but I like the fun. one slightly better - mostly because I haven't been bombarded with shitty remixes of it yet like the Gotye one.

have you guys heard the dude from fun. try to sing live? let me tell you, one thing it is not is "fun"

yeah, last year. his voice was great

he was super off on the MTV Movie Awards

it's also pretty objectively hilarious that "We Are Young" is the direct result of an indie fuxx listening to Thank Me Later and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and deciding this hip hop thing is pretty exciting and oh how can we incorporate that influence into our music

hah shows how long since i saw Glee. anyway Gotse's voice just makes me wanna nut-punch him

You can ask the two singers to switch songs and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.

it's also pretty objectively hilarious that "We Are Young" is the direct result of an indie fuxx listening to Thank Me Later and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and deciding this hip hop thing is pretty exciting and oh how can we incorporate that influence into our music

he's an emo/pop-punk fuxx but yeah probably the same thing would've happened

neither of these songs are very good. "we are young" is more directly offensive, "stiutk" is blander/milder.

guys once upon a time there was this band called the format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXx7A-nyB18

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx97x2QtOQ1qa0woi.gif

I say don't you know
You say you don't know
I say... take me out!

is that song supposed to convince me that this dude has ever done anything that can be remotely described as "punk"? xpost

As a NZer, I'm duty-bound to vote against Kimbra.

well i guess that was their genre-bending second record but i don't know, the format were pretty universally appreciated by people in emo scenes, and dude's a huge pop-punk fan, is why i make the association

xpost

I hate them both but the other day I realized that Gotye sounds exactly like Sting during the chorus and now I keep picturing Sting singing it and it's weird.

if Sting sang it he wouldn't make you forget that he had expected to live his life without ever meeting this "somebody" again.

Gotye sounding like Ozzy is a much revelatory comparison than Sting imo

gotye song is a legit jam imo
fun. song blows

^^ gets it

yeah that's about it

I don't know about Ozzy. All I can hear is Sting. I'm telling you - it's uncanny.

gotye song is a legit jam imo

._.

no.

and yet... yes

it's really not uncanny. the Sting comparison is more of a cultural/aesthetic association than about the timbre of their voices.

No, it's his voice!

DAN, IT'S HORRIBLE. STOP IT. ALL OF YOU.

sheesh, you didn't have to cut me off

Finally I can say, legitimately, that

I HATE FUN

haha, this thread is truly the culmination of one of ILM's great running themes

the fun. song is one i impulsively change the station when i hear, but bc it's on so much, i can piece together the entire composition and still feel the full shitty experience

i am listening to this fun. song now for the first time ever

and having done so, am voting for gotye

like this is just really dull

I HATE FUN

Yes, I'm so glad I can proudly proclaim such a thing for once.

both are better than "young" by tulisa

otoh i don't really like the kimbra part of STIUTK

i have developed a weird kind of respect for the fun. song, even though i don't like it

The Kimbra part is vital to the structure of the Gotye song, imo. It didn't have to be her who sang it, but it needs to be a duet.

JF remember a couple weeks ago on FB you were like OMG I figured out who Gtoye sounds like? Was it Ozzy? Cause yesterday when I had this sting revelation I meant to go home and ask you on FB if it was Sting because I was so certain it would be. :/

m bison otm

We Are Young is a good enough movie trailer anthem, the other one is really boring

these songs are about as alternative as steve winwood

JF remember a couple weeks ago on FB you were like OMG I figured out who Gtoye sounds like? Was it Ozzy?

Yeah, that was after someone posted that observation in the Gotye thread.

alternative and hip-hop collide on maroon 5's "payphone" feat. Wiz khalifa

think y'all gotye haters just can't get with the subtle pleasures of the marimba

one of these is "oh this is quite int... oh it's this!"

The other is Sting/Ozzy does "Angel Eyes" Roxy, then a good singer jumps in like "Lazy line painter Jane"

If this NPR-bait beats out an (admittedly annoying) earworm pop anthem, ILX has truly *matured*

gotye opening always reminds me of the theme song to ms pacman

That fun. chorus is HUGE, but the rest of the song is really a slog.

The Gotye melody is pretty elaborate and successful, I think. Is the problem for most people with his voice? Also, is it widely known that the guitar part is a sample? I totally didn't realize that. The added xylophone is pretty key.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAny1bIApcA

"i met you as a katy perry impersonator in a cocktail bar..."

think y'all gotye haters just can't get with the subtle pleasures of the marimba

― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Monday, June 11, 2012 3:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i mean part of the appeal of "Somebody" for me that it's an international pop hit with a backing track that basically sounds like an '80s Tom Waits song

I wouldn't have cared before this thread, but seeing fun. used in a sentence is making me hate them from a grammatical standpoint.

that is the reason i am still hoping my nickname "Fun With A Period" will take off

sorry i don't think i'll ever be able to call you "fun with a period"

how about FWAP?

lol croup

apl.de.fwap

some "fun with a period" dude

"What about Fun With a Question Mark?"
"That's weird. And don't call me Mark."

listening to gotye again, i def hear '80s tom waits in the backdrop more than ozzy in the vocal

and actually, imagining tom waits' reaction is the first delight i've gotten out of this song since realizing he sings "your love" just like the outfield

IDGI to me it just sounds like a generic schmindie backing track

it is generic schmindie, but it also sounds like 80s tom waits. that's def a venn diagram in 2012

I mean I kind of get a male Norah Jones vibe from the verse, which is not even schmindie I guess

gotye opening always reminds me of the theme song to ms pacman

omg

I hope Gotye's success inspires Justin Timberlake to return as a more Phil Collins-like figure, to help millenials segue to a more adult contemporary mentality.

We Are Young is just really lumbering, especially during the chorus, it's straight out of that Snow Patrol school of 'writing an anthem in the way that some people know how to build a wall' with some Janelle tacked on. The Gotye song is perfectly pleasant.

I guess that makes Pharrell Steve Winwood.

wait, this Gotye is a #1 track?? It's not bad, just seems totally unremarkable.

I miss the Format...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCim_0MZ2qI

it's been the #1 song in the country for weeks

i'm totally #teamgotye in this one

"Call Me Maybe"

even tho "call me maybe" hit #1 it feels like a pop song that's still somehow bigger on the internet than it is irl

My perspective might be warped by the number of weddings I've gone to in the last couple months.

true. it's still only #2 tho ain't it? (xpost)

typo -- i knew it didn't hit #1.

how have i not heard "call me maybe" yet until right now

Zero interest in attempted viral lipdubs?

you are correct

still haven't heard "call me maybe"

Hey i just met you

And this is crazy

Your crush is gay

Become a lesby !

alex stefan 30 seconds ago [2 thumbs up]

gotye is the worst shit ever

Viral lipdups -- I think I got that from a hooker in Tijuana last year. OH!

lipdubs

i feel like i heard these 2 songs over and over this weekend, on the radio and just being out and about

m bison otm

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, June 11, 2012 2:55 PM

those Jeff Bhasker drums that sound like air being let out of an industrial hose are the worst, almost as bad as the song itself

I have a softspot for the maj3 to octave melodic leap in We Are Young. The chorus of the gotye one has a kind of neat meanderiness to it I guess. Both have shit verses.

Call Me Maybe / Somebody That I Used to Know >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We Are Young

┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐

let's leave Carly out of the discussion until the "wite people Hot 100 hits of 2012" poll

Because neither of these other 2 songs will obv apply there.

the "wite people Hot 100 hits of 2012"

If this is shorthand for our eoy poll, Gotye already placed #39 in 2011.

even tho "call me maybe" hit #1 it feels like a pop song that's still somehow bigger on the internet than it is irl

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 11, 2012 7:39 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o_0 "call me maybe" is the most irl-present organic pop hit since "super bass"

usda approved free range

The intro to Goyte sounds like it wants to be the intro to "Senses working overtime". And the chorus of fun. sounds like "A little respect" slowed down. My 6 yr old son loves Goyte, just so he can shout "didn't have to CUT ME OFF" as loud as he can. I hate both songs intensely. Spoiled ballot for me.

the fact that the two songs of this poll have managed to sustain a 100+ post discussion when ilm, generally, seems more tumbleweeds than ever, is a horrible indictment of you all. they're both terrible, i'm hazarding a guess that goaty is less awful but i can't recall how either go and i'm not about to change that

you're tired. go to sleep. forever.

lex, is that a challenge for us all to talk incessantly about The Afghan Whigs?

goat.ye

i don't know who the afghan whigs are but they can't be worse than these two

i can't recall how either go and i'm not about to change that...

i don't know who the afghan whigs are but they can't be worse than these two

I can't remember "Superbass."

HOW TO LIVE, imo

they're not, xposts

news flash, the internet is real life, especially if you were born after 1990 or so

gotye song is kinda great, fun. song is kinda not

Amon is a Gotye fan. Smdh.

i watched the fun. music video twice, both times to answer the q "which part has janelle monae again?"

Semi-Charmed Call - Mashup (Third Eye Blind vs Carly Rae Jepsen):

http://gotkasparaitis.blogspot.com/2012/06/semi-charmed-call-mashup-third-eye.html

hey a mashup, guess i'll fire up napster and download it over my college's ethernet

make sure it's T3

i am not a goyter fan but i can stand listening to the song. its a weird track (instrumentally) for radio fodder

you're tired. go to sleep. forever.

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, June 11, 2012 4:20 PM

lmao

unless thats a ref to something im missing, could be a nom for rolling hardman thread

"We Are Young" is the worst thing on the radio right now and that takes a lot of effort. "Somebody That I Used To Know" is decent.

itd be cool if fundot died in the fire they set

I didn't like The Format, and like fun. even less.

Gotye seems like a bro, even if more than half his album (and, I guess, his previous albums?) is boring.

Semi-Charmed Call - Mashup (Third Eye Blind vs Carly Rae Jepsen):

http://gotkasparaitis.blogspot.com/2012/06/semi-charmed-call-mashup-third-eye.html

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 June 2012 21:58 (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/9W6V6.gif

"we are young" sounds like a slowed down remix of a Fallout Boy (or Panic at the Disco!) song chorus

loling at that mash-up alfred posted

Loathe the first, can tolerate the second.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 11, 2012 10:46 AM Bookmark

exactly

fuck you all!

^^^ somebody that I used to know

wait, what is flopson mad about?

He doesn't hate fun.?

i'm MAD at this growing consensus that "somebody that i used to know" is acceptable or tolerable! it is NEITHER

do you prefer a kick in the shins or a bat biting on your nads

annoying whiny Sting voice of gotye dude

― 'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 June 2012

its always on the radio at work - and until today and this thread i thought it was sting

dunno the other one

Nah, it's both. Some days, it even sounds GOOD imo. xps

i just watched the video thats a really big apple where did they get that

you have awful taste in music! xp

Not completely. I just listened to that fun. song just to refresh my memory and it's even more insipid than I'd remembered.

Best thing about Somebody I Used to Know is you can sing "Senses Working Overtime" opening verse over the into.
hey hey
night fights day

itd be cool if fundot died in the fire they set

― am0n, Monday, June 11, 2012 2:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think Sting is a fine vocalist btw

itd be cool if fundot died in the fire they set

― am0n, Monday, June 11, 2012 2:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Monday, June 11, 2012 6:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Best thing about Somebody I Used to Know is you can sing "Senses Working Overtime" opening verse over the into.
hey hey
night fights day

I can def hear Mandy Moore doing it.

i never heard this Fun. song until now

this blows goats

or shit, nevermind i heard this chorus before, is this in a car commercial or something?

these guys should be shot in the town square.

I eye-roll whenever they both come on, but Gotye's success certainly puzzles me way more.

You could sing that over *that* song!

It's like fundot took every indie band's lousy crossover "hit" from the last 7 or so years, threw them in a blender, and made some slushy shit out of them. Drink up, suckers!

I can def hear Mandy Moore doing it.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CBitiaTkdY

mandy seems like a sweet gal, but holy christ is her music boring.

yeah that cover is really bad

she's so cute and sweet though

she also did "Drop The Pilot" (much better)

she has a tattoo of a sperm on her foot, I'm kind of in love with her

if she covers "We Are Young" I'm prepared to love it

but Gotye's success certainly puzzles me way more.

Nah, I totally get it. Of course, I'm an admirer of the song too, but I mean...I get why that one crossed over the way it did. That's some really highbrow-sounding shit for people who may buy three cds a year and quit listening to the radio when Sting stopped charting. If all these people collectively buy the cd or the single on iTunes together, it gets pushed up the charts by a unified force.

that gotye song, aside from whether you think it's good or bad or he's worthy or not etc., is a hell of a crazy earworm. someone should really figure out why that is. what's the particular progression/melodic line/voicing that makes it so hard to get rid of?

yeah that cover is really bad
she also did "Drop The Pilot" (much better)

I thought the best thing on that record was her Waterboys cover.

That's some really highbrow-sounding shit for people who may buy three cds a year and quit listening to the radio when Sting stopped charting. If all these people collectively buy the cd or the single on iTunes together, it gets pushed up the charts by a unified force.

soooo not true

It might be true of Adele, certainly not true of Goituh.

Adele is hugely popular with kids.

soooo not true

Actually, I work for a company that charts music and how it got where it is, so I kinda sorta know what I'm talking about. I mean, I know how and from where the song got popular. The who that made it popular is still a little mysterious.

there are probably thousands of people like my friends who read PFM regularly and downloaded STIUTK.

that's my point

when i first heard that song i figured it would be a big hit, sounded like a hit....i should be an A&R

i kinda dig it when uncool dad-pop/NPR stuff like this Adele gets really big one the basis of crazy undeniable pop hits like this and rolling in the deep because i think it gives poptimists fits

I'm not at all suggesting that this was the only demographic responsible for its success -- no song becomes a hit this sizable by appealing to a large cult (The Singles Jukebox reviewed it last fall; it took that long for word of mouth to keep yapping). Look at Foster The People.

Actually, I work for a company that charts music and how it got where it is, so I kinda sorta know what I'm talking about. I mean, I know how and from where the song got popular. The who that made it popular is still a little mysterious.

Let me know who should've given me the payola and I might've endorsed it.

Yeah, "Pumped Up Kicks" took a full year to go anywhere. xp

Love fun.; Gotey fucking sucks

You guys are not gonna believe this, but I'm in a Subway and the radio is playing Goety

whoa, craig kilborn

no I do believe you're in a Subway.

I'd take a picture of my turkey sandwich and the music if I could

perhaps his success is due to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetia

i believe

I think it's because I thought his name was "Gaultier".

Not necessarily because *I* thought so, etc.

1) DO NOT KNOCK MANY MOORE SHE IS A PERFECT ANGEL (nb I have never heard her music)

2) Flopson 100% OTM

3) I do not dilike that song because it sounds like Sting. I dislike it because it's shit and, more importantly, really f'ing annoying.

wait till Sting covers in on his upcoming standards album -- then you log will be sorry

*lot

Ordinarily, I don't like "Somebody That I Used to Know" enough to really go to bat for it, but this thread is making me puff up about it. Like, FUCK YOU YOU ALL SUCK...all over a song I merely like to hear on occasion!

Such is the power of Gotye.

Conversely, I will throw down on fundot anytime anyplace.

I feel the opposite. I don't hate it quite as much as I'm making out but I am surprised at some of the people here who I normally mesh with taste-wise repping for it.

I think I've managed to avoid the fun song completely, aside from that one parody video. Gotye blows goatyes, though.

*fist bumps enbb*

do y'all ride for fundot or something? cause if so you should probably gtfo permanently

lmao that this is going to tear this board asunder

TONIIIIIIIGHT

i don't "ride for it" but i would jump out of a moving car playing "somebody that i used to know" into one playing "we are young"

I also didn't know the Gotye song wasn't Sting, which is actually kind of a compliment (crut OTM). I think it's well-crafted. (Will defend Norah Jones's first album all day long too.) I like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco but the Fun. song really doesn't have much to it besides a chorus hook. It certainly doesn't have either of those bands' sense of rhythm.

I admit, the Ozzy comparison pretty much blew my mind.

^

Because it's completely mental?

Nah, once it was pointed out to me, I could hear it plainly.

OK, I guess I sort of see it on "cut me off" but in the very next line, he jumps to a register that I can't imagine Ozzy every singing in.

xpost

"ever"

Listen to it with Sting in mind next time - seriously.

Rev - hell no.

unless thats a ref to something im missing, could be a nom for rolling hardman thread

― am0n, Monday, June 11, 2012 5:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it wasn't, nom away

i guess this is a good thread to bring up that i met Mandy Moore the other day? she's v sweet and beautiful in person obv.

:O

Awwww. I wanna be bffs with her.

omg u met mandy!!!!!!!

so jealous!

This derailment is welcomed

I want to be bffs with mandy too

did you guys discuss her performance in american dreamz y/n?

She was great in 'Saved'.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE0MTk1NzM4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTUzMjYzMQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg

wtf

would love to know what her favorite Joan Armatrading album is!

loved mandy in saved -- also i frequently visit "candy", one of the turn of the millennium's great teenpop songs

also not that i've heard a marimba in a while but i'm p sure it isn't a marimba

Saved is so the perfect bored-watch-it-on-cable movie.

I never see it on. What network airs it most frequently?

In fact, I don't think I've seen it since it was in theaters.

lol @ the girls being most exciting about me meeting Mandy

long story short, i ran the teleprompter for an event she spoke at -- I got there for the rehearsal the day before, and had this huge script to format for the prompter, and was maybe halfway done when they put me onstage w/o telling me a) that we were doing something from the 2nd half of the script and b) that the speaker was Mandy Moore. so i see someone vaguely familiar in sunglasses onstage, then find the 'Mandy' part of the script and go woah that's her! and we have this really awkward rehearsal where the prompter script is full of blank space and unnecessary stage directions and she's struggling to read it and trying to complain about it as nicely as possible -- I call out "I'm working on it!" and probably sounded like I was made or something so she came over and introduced herself and was super nice about making sure we got it fixed. didn't get to talk to her the next day when we did the actual event, would've told her Saved was a dope movie if i got a chance (because it would've been weird to tell her how many times i've watched Chasing Liberty).

"like I was made" = mad, obv

aw

in a mandy moore movie you guys would have been trapped in the event venue alone somehow for like a week and bickered and fell in love

tbh Johnny Fever I haven't had cable in like four years

i want to say lifetime sometimes airs saved

maybe oxygen

Macaulay Culkin as ship's dumb but benign younger brother.

it's entirely likely she did not like me or assumed i hated her so it'd have to be one of those sassy rom coms where they don't get along at first. also the people w/ the company that hired her for the event were terrible and gave me script changes at the last possible minute that slightly fucked things up, so thoy're the villains fyi.

even as an awkward meeting though it was still a nice way to end a week where I ran a prompter for Rick fucking Santorum

can we rename this thread some dude met mandy moore??? i don't even know these songs and for a second thought it was a poll involving "love is a battlefield"

xp it's entirely likely she did not like me or assumed i hated her so it'd have to be one of those sassy rom coms where they don't get along at first. that is exactly the kind of movie i meant fwiw.

also know as a romantic comedy

lol

would've told her Saved was a dope movie if i got a chance (because it would've been weird to tell her how many times i've watched Chasing Liberty).

<3

i feel like thread derails about mandy moore are a great ilx tradition, takes me back to the jess/ethan era. i actually thought 'holy crap i should tell jess!"

in the blonde teen beasts war of 2000 (Aguilara, Spears, Simpson & Moore) is was Mandy who won out in terms of classiest career.

http://www.hairii.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Mandy-Moore-short-hairstyle-3.jpg

that is a picture of Mandy Moore

<3

love her shoulders

that was my fave haircut of hers

I would/could actually defend either of these songs, but my kids (ages 4 & 7) LOVE "We R Young" so much that they made me download it and play it for them as many as 5 times in a row in the car, and I still don't hate it. So I'll vote that, if partly for how funny it is to hear a 4-year-old singing along phonetically.

I'M HERE.

strongo, al met mandy moore!

good morning

i feel like if i met mandy moore i might actually say, "omg you're so pretty!" so it's really a blessing i never meet famous people i'm borderline obsessed with.

mm is like the strongo batsignal.

also death is too good for those responsible for both these songs.

x-post - lol I probably would too.

TY, Mr. Strongo. You are a voice of reason.

also death is too good for those responsible for both these songs.

I'm confident that Ms. Moore, should we ask, would agree.

gotta be honest, 'we are young' sounded fantastic at the mall of georgia last friday night.

okay i know "we are young" except i had never heard the verses before and they are unfortunate

strongo!

i feel like if i met mandy moore i might actually say, "omg you're so pretty!" so it's really a blessing i never meet famous people i'm borderline obsessed with.

― horseshoe, Monday, June 11, 2012 9:11 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf your actual reaction would probably be "omg you're so tall!"

MM and I are the same height. She was prob wearing heels when you met her too.

Why do I know that? I shouldn't know that.

whoa cool al

also not that i've heard a marimba in a while but i'm p sure it isn't a marimba

So am I. It sounds like a xylophone to me.

enbb you're so tall!

:p

I assume Mr. Adams was not with her or you'd have mentioned it, right?

yeah didn't see him anywhere, think she just had a manager dude and the aforementioned incompetent people from the company she was a spokesperson for

i heard "somebody that i used to know" on the radio approximately 500 times this weekend and it totally worked and has been in my head all day and the first thing i did when i got home today was watch the video on youtube.

i predict i will hate it in 2 days.

"we are young" - i originally thought it was a woman singing this but its not! i also at one point thought it was the arcade fire, but i guess its also not.

when i initially saw the "Somebody" video i was all oh fuck this shit and would turn off the song every time it came on for a month or two, but eventually tolerance turned to a pretty strong fondness

curious to see how well it does on Pazz & Jop, may even be on my ballot

I will admit that it's been running through my head all day. I am blaming you, fyi.

:)

these songs are about as alternative as steve winwood

― da croupier, Monday, June 11, 2012 3:03 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw it is adorable that you can say this with any degree of seriousness or conviction

this blows goats

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 June 2012 23:04

gotye vs goat eyes

it is adorable to find myself quoted after catching up on this thread through an endless mandy moore tangent

this whole thing couldn't be more adorable if it was a mandy moore movie

i'm glad you agree my snark from 7 hours ago is more interesting than all this shit

anyhow i'll admit this stuff is more alternative than winwood, though I'm not sure it's much more alternative than the work of the former kara's flowers

"alternative" is a slippery, ephemeral concept. mandy moore is a real person who shook my hand.

^ that's like what someone says when they wake up in the police station

I'm kind of annoyed when this thread stops talking about the cool Mandy Moore stuff

seriously

so grumpy!

guys, she is somebody that i used to know. for a few minutes, last friday.

<3!

YOU FIXED HER TELEPROMPTER

hey i love mandy moore but i wouldn't want her in some ilx chart chatter any more than i'd want her in a friday the 13th movie

it was a meet-cute!

xp gtfo

keep my sex and and my vomit-churning gore/gotye separate, thank you

but she is a joy and both of these songs are so dull

was she in one of those? damn i need to see that (xpost)

The other day, I saw this group of young people, upper middle school maybe, or maybe high school, walking down the street some sunny afternoon, sharing earbuds and belting "We Are Young" at the top of their young lungs, and I thought, man, fuck you young people.

Anyway, if it's the end of the night, and the bar is closing down, why does the song's singer need to reiterate that he'll take you home ... tonight? It's redundant. Like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight." When else is he going to take you home tonight? Tomorrow?

lol i just remembered -- the mandy moore thing was a big girl scout gathering at the washington monument, as i was leaving afterward i heard some girl scouts singing "we are young" v enthusiastically

It didn't have to be her who sang it, but it needs to be a duet.

Well yeah because it has two parts narratively

I am 98% sure that she does a better job than B1asko would have though

the mandy moore thing was a big girl scout gathering at the washington monument

okay are you sure you aren't apearing in the upcoming Mandy Moore Romantic Comedy Project

90% sure

the week before i was at the monument for a cancer walk thing and ran the prompter for Gabrielle Union, didn't get to meet her though

should probably start a 77 rolling scrolling teleprompter adventures threads so i don't make a habit of mucking up threads w/ namedropping, but the mandy moore thing itt could not be unremarked upon

Love fun.

― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 11, 2012 7:28 PM

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/1295642165974-1.gif?w=270&h=199

lol

whiney was v incredulous when i registered surprise that he's into "we are young" on some other thread

voted for fun. i'm definitely over "we are young" at this point, but think the album as a whole is great. it'll probably end up in my top ten for the year.

gotye song is the worst.

otm

now listening to the acoustic version of "Why Am I The One" you posted in the Format thread, BradNelson...dudes are talented, songs are strong...when this is the stuff that's topping the charts, the world is OK

gotye tune is a jam, voted that

fun. album is prolly not gonna be top 10 for me, but maybe top 20

i mean look doe, fun are just straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish; and i'll fucks with that over kermit the sumner calling the wahmbulance

also not that i've heard a marimba in a while but i'm p sure it isn't a marimba

So am I. It sounds like a xylophone to me.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, June 11, 2012 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, I doubt they brought in an actual acoustic instrument to play that part.

yeah, pretty sure that's a synth

straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish

I'd run like hell to avoid any of these signifiers in isolation, let alone in combination.

"We Are Young" is one of the worst singles of the decade. It just has this soul-sucking, tampon commercial soundtrack sounding vacuousness.

misplaced comma?

No, it's not a soul sucking tampon.

fun are just straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish

it's actually pretty consistent with repping for 21st century breakdown

I don't know what these two songs are either; "we are young" just makes me think of that cool Supergrass tune.

Just go with that. It's much better.

Gotye is a lot like Moldy Peaches.

feat Kimbra Dawson

misplaced comma?

Ha yes! I'm incoherent with hatred for this song. It may very well be as bad as "What's Up", which is my gold standard for terrible singles.

i never wanna hear either of these songs ever again

I did have a bit of an existential crisis/depersonalization experience when I realized I'm going to have to hear "but you didn't have to CUT ME OFF" for the rest of my life.

How a board can produce this thread So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads? and still not call this basically a draw, smh.

You didn't have to crut me off.

you know what is a better song than these songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4e-eXWbbs

otmfm

horseshoe ftw

why isn't Rod Stewart covering Mandy Moore songs

sometimes I feel like I live in a totally different universe from the rest of you

well, you're in the Northeast.

so is ENBB!

I mean, I don't dislike Mandy Moore or anything but she's never been someone who I thought would generate devotion

I had a cousin who was really into her when he was 5. Now he's gay.

how old is he now – 12?

Anyway, if it's the end of the night, and the bar is closing down, why does the song's singer need to reiterate that he'll take you home ... tonight?

The syntax is worse than that: "So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I'll carry you home." That's not even a sentence.

well he's super drunk and high by that point, I'd expect some incoherency

I'm with DJP - the Mandy Moore song is bloody dreadful. I think I might have to avoid this thread before I forget that non-godawful music exists.

It would have been a lot better if you guys were talking about Mandy More.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xS0fDLkj8

DJP - She's cute and seems like a total sweetheart. Also, she's been really great in a couple of movies. Candy is the only MM song I really know and it's a solid pop song. She's v likeable and just seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.

One big strike wrt to Mandy Moore? She's married to Ryan Adams, so she has questionable taste in men.

Alfred, 17.

x-post - I don't consider that a strike against her.

so she has questionable taste in men

see also: Andy Roddick

I don't know, I like Ryan Adams' music most of the time, but by all accounts he's a complete and total asshole.

Which seems like the complete opposite of Mandy.

they've been together since 08 or something and they're still pitching twitter woo

that's like 10 years in celebrity-time and probably 50 in ryan adams-time

x-post - Yeah, I know but I want to think he's not actually an asshole and they're cute together so whatever.

hay da croup whos more alternative don henley or toto

don sang with mojo nixon that has to count for something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-1Rr6E6Vsg

Regarding the "sounds like Ozzy" / "sounds like Sting" thing with Scrotye, the Ozzy comparison rings far more true to me. You can tell Gotye is singing at the top of his range, and that strain gives the vocal its urgency (listen to Ozzy in "Changes"--same thing). Whereas Sting's normal range is at least that high, so when he sings up there you don't get that strain. It colors the voice totally differently, and while I can hear the Sting comparison, it's Ozzy all the way. It's also the way Gotye starts each word with a soft attack and then swells in volume afterward; Ozzy does that as well, but Sting does not.

lol i just figured out what 'we are young' has been reminding me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bBWBG9r2o

Gotye remind me more of P Gabriel than Sting

I can see that as well. There's a kind of goiter-y throatmeat kind of thing going on, whereas Sting's is more just purely high/reedy (not sure if that's quite the right word).

This poll should be which artist is less likely to have a follow up hit.

Well, the Fun song was designed to be a hit. The Gotye was a fluke. So ... Fun is more likely?

Sting totally strained to hit those high notes. That's why he doesn't sing them anymore.

Also, he is old.

he never set the world on fire ;_;

So ... Fun is more likely?

eh, i guess their new single is charting in some way but the rest of the record is totally distinct from "we are young"

but i'm not good at predicting these things; "we are young" was out for almost a year before it hit

is the rest of the gotye album as good as this *~magnificent~* song?

problem with the Gotye album is that it ranges from "pleasant" to "acceptable" aside from "Someone That I Used To Know" and "Eyes Wide Open"

Will We Are Young at least help ut Janelle Monae's profile?

wouldn't she actually have to be on the song for that to happen?

the first song ive forgotten again already

i hope one day i will be able to forget the second song, it reminds me of being at work when the radio is on

I don't dislike either of these songs really but I am mad impressed and slightly envious of anyone who can keep that "toniiiiiiiighigh igheeeyigh ighighigt" line from getting stuck in his/her head

i really don't get how ppl thing goat.se sounds like sting, like AT ALL

i think it's time we accept that gotye is all '80s dude singers to all people, hence the #1 spot

Fun. is genetically engineered prom-rock, like some island of dr. moureau splicing of Vitamin C and Arcade Fire.

there's a similarity in timbre when they go up but Gotye's mid-range is much more open. Also, vintage Sting is much more comfortable on those notes than Gotye, who is really placing high in his head voice over his passagio. By comparison, Sting is barreling through his passagio and there's not that much of a timbre change throughout most of his range.

LISTEN IT WAS JUST ME I'M ONLY ONE PERSON AND I WAS APPARENTLY WRONG JUST FORGET I EVER MENTIONED STING GEEZ

I'm not actually mad, I've just had a lot of coffee.

if you sing that post like the chorus to 'somebody i used to know' it kind of works

ಠ_ಠ

♫ but u didn't have to flag my post ♫

http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/gotye-funny-bobby.jpg

lol

lol

oh no don't flag me :(

i dunno that i think it sounds like sting or whatever i just assumed it was sting or the police because its on the radio at work the whole time and thats the kind of thing that is on that station

i wish they'd play a different station or better still turn it off

I tell you what, I've had the Gotye song in my head for four days and am desperate to get it out. So far I've been singing every Blue Oyster Cult song I know...

This will help you

LISTEN IT WAS JUST ME I'M ONLY ONE PERSON AND I WAS APPARENTLY WRONG JUST FORGET I EVER MENTIONED STING GEEZ

No, I agreed with you.

Also, I can totally believe that it's a synth but it's definitely not even a synthesized marimba sound.

I mean, it could be the melodic sensibility/phrasing that reminded me of Sting more than the technical details of the voice.

i was sure that was going to be a link to versions of somewhere over the rainbow and not popcorn

Why does the xylophone (which I'm pretty sure is what it is) play the ABC song is what I want to know

"We Are Young" is one of the worst singles of the decade. It just has this soul-sucking, tampon commercial soundtrack sounding vacuousness.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:37 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm incoherent with hatred for this song. It may very well be as bad as "What's Up", which is my gold standard for terrible singles.

― I found him in a Bon Ton ad (Nicole), Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:15 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ditto

I'm sure there will come a time soon when I'll forget all about We Are Young. What's Up, however, hangs around like herpes. One of the shittiest songs ever bought and sold.

eh, i go months at a time without hearing "What's Up," would probably forget about it if people went a week without dwelling on how much it sucked. does it get played anywhere anymore, like even pop stations that play 90s Alanis songs or whatever?

I dunno if it does or not, but it's always lurking somewhere in my head ready to jump out and annoy me.

I heard it at karaoke last saturday :(

ha i like that song

much more than either of these, at least

the funny thing is that i was kind of surprised at how little either of these songs had been discussed on ILM before this thread, feels very cathartic to finally let it all out

These are the things I can do without.

I've gotten to the point I figure anytime someone brings up "What's Up" they're talking about the dance remix. Blame He-Man.

my fav version of "what's up" is dj miko

RIP GOTYE

he sampled a guitarist ;_;

wait what?

Carly Rae Jepsen replaced Gotye at #1 on the Hot 100, then decapitated him

carly rae fuckyouupson

Hey, I just met you
And this is crazy
But here's my number
I'm-a ruin you, cunt

lol

Carly Rae Jepsen replaced Gotye at #1 on the Hot 100

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

Last night I kept singing "you didn't have to CUT me OFF" over and over to myself to the point where my wife was all "are you going to sing that all night?" I immediately started singing "tonighighighighighight..."

if I'm found dead later this week, now you know why

That was me earlier this week (grrrr) but it's not been replaced by Call Me Maybe. Thank God.

Last night I kept singing "you didn't have to CUT me OFF" over and over to myself

:D

"tonighighighighighight" is the most vile use of melisma ever imo

the second one is the really egregious one, esp. in the MTV movie awards performance where dude turns it into "Tonigh-high-highhighhigh-highhighhighhight" with super audible hs

http://www.gpsmagazine.com/assets/TrafficJamAlert.jpg

is ILM talking about this song anywhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwC5BFX7rqQ

its been #1 in half the countries on the planet

awful

hahahahahaha oh boy

i was listening to it w/ friends in the music business and they were like "it sounds exactly like the stuff we play to amuse ourselves when we're smoking weed with friends and would never in a million years think to share with an a&r person"

other friends just got back from brazil a few months ago and said theyve never been somewhere where a single song was so omni-present-- every car, open window, store p.a., bar-band was playing it wherever they went

That's totally what it sounds like but at the same time I can absolutely see how it would appeal to the masses. I could see my mom thinking it was a "nice song".

Is that guy from Brazil?

That is aggressively terrible!

I keep wanting to sing the opening "Heeeey" part of "Hey Soul Sister" over it

xpost to WS thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOnb2mdlXYk

oh my god if i catch you

i could believe that song being huge... sounds like a train song

delishos, delishos

really hate that chord change

you guys are waaaayyy behind. half the planet has already moved on to the next Brazilian treat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwDLu_u2GHI

Weird. Now I hear Ozzy instead of Sting.

Last night I kept singing "you didn't have to CUT me OFF" over and over to myself to the point where my wife was all "are you going to sing that all night?" I immediately started singing "tonighighighighighight..."

Divorce-able offenses imo.

now he's just somebody that she used to know

i really love the kimbra part, especially the last line when she goes high on "used to know". i don't know why this song gives me so much pleasure, it's weird.

the backing harmonies on the chorus immediately after that are so great

Weird. Now I hear Ozzy instead of Sting.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Duck-Rabbit_illusion.jpg

i WANT to start hearing ozzy instead of sting

fun isn't goyte. i'm voting for that

fun isn't goyte.

fun isn't fun either

I agree, but still it isn't goyte

goyte isn't gotye

http://soundcloud.com/lil_jon/we-are-young-lil-jon-dj-1

drudge siren...?

my affection for "somebody that i used to know" continues to grow. i am confused. wondering if i should listen to other goyte songs but i also don't want to ruin it.

that is me all the way. i have occasionally listened to the follow-up single and gotten nothing out of it.

Chart (2011–12) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[5] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[6] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[7] 1
Brazil (Billboard Hot 100)[8] 1
Brazil (Billboard Hot Popular Songs)[9] 1
Bulgaria (IFPI)[10] 1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[11] 27
Colombia (National-Report)[12] 1
Czech Republic (IFPI)[13] 1
Denmark (Tracklisten)[14] 2
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[15] 2
France (SNEP)[16] 1
Germany (Media Control AG)[17] 1
Greece (IFPI Greece)[18] 1
Hungary (Dance Top 40)[19] 2
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[20] 2
Israel (Media Forest)[21] 1
Italy (FIMI)[22] 1
Mexico (Monitor Latino)[23] 6
Mexico (Billboard Mexican Airplay)[24] 11
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[25] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[26] 2
Poland (Polish Airplay Top 5)[27] 1
Romania (Romanian Top 100)[28] 1
Slovakia (IFPI)[29] 7
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[30] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[31] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[33] 81
US Latin Songs (Billboard)[34] 1
US Latin Pop Songs (Billboard)[35] 1
US Regional Mexican Songs (Billboard)[36] 32
US Tropical Songs (Billboard)[37] 10
Venezuela Top 100 (Record Report)[38] 18
Venezuela Top Latino (Record Report)[39] 1
Venezuela Pop/Rock General (Record Report)[40] 1

that is some catchy shit.

shit, number1 in Flanders AND wallonia, motherfucker is on point

That looks like my projected chart positions schedule for my forthcoming album release

On "Rockstargame"

this is Gotye's first #1 since "Desert Rose" isn't it?

my affection for "somebody that i used to know" continues to grow. i am confused. wondering if i should listen to other goyte songs but i also don't want to ruin it.

― bene_gesserit, Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:57 (Yesterday)

that is me all the way. i have occasionally listened to the follow-up single and gotten nothing out of it.

― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:59 (Yesterday)

His previously most ILM-approved joint is the Supermayer remix of Hearts A Mess from 2007, try that or the original (which was the year before)

i went from liking to hating all the way back to liking the gotye song, even though the beginning sounds just like Senses Working Overtime

also not sure why people already hate the kimbra but maybe she is more annoying in NZ. her voice is alright.

Her harmonies on the second chorus is the only part of the song I really like. (DJP otm)

Well, that and the bass in the intro.

is Kimbra even on the 2nd chorus? I always expect to hear her voice in the background after her verse ends but it sounds like all Gotye.

I am certain she's doing the higher harmony parts on both the lyrics and the background aahs, plus you can definitely hear her singing with him at the very, very end

omg... that 'eu si te pego' song has been inescapable in Mexico too but if I thought that one was annoying the english version is completely laughable. 'Eu si te pego' should translate as something like 'I'd fuck you' not 'if i catch you'. The lyrics in english sound so... wrong. Why would they even attempt to translate it?

See, if you English-speaking folks didn't have such a phobia for foreign languages we wouldn't have these sort of abortions in the first place.

Also you'd be able to see cool, original, international cinema instead of making remakes of it.

don't you take Naomi Watts and "The Ring" away from me.

I wont. The Ring is one of the cases where the remake is actually better than the original.

moka why are you prejudiced against delishos people?

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

Dogtye featuring Katra - Somedoggy That I Used To Know

I'm voting Gotye if only because that's the most brilliant parody I've seen in years.

hahaha what the

dying

btw i think i've heard both of these songs on the radio this week

we are young - 4/10
somebody - 8/10

i actually really like the goyte one, wow

that is all

I like how uneventful that parody video is.

That parody video has much better lyrics.

That's what I find so funny about it, it seems they realized it was too much work for a simple joke halfway through the process but were already in too deep to pull back and so we have this sort of beautiful, anticlimatic mess.

omg that parody video!

dude no

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/06/im_marco_rubio_so_call_me_maybe.php

fire that guy

I can't choose. Both make me reach for my revolver.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

omg the votes!

this song has permeated my dreams.

when i clicked on the thread i hopefully said "10 to 1" to myself -- not close, but 10 to 4 ain't bad either as far as vindicating my fun. hate

I don't mind hating fun in this instance.

i didn't know somebody that i used to know was the title of a new big song, so i kept wondering why not-indie-listening people were referencing elliott smith all over the place.

some of the gotye album is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk

this is a better parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Dldlfmr3U

“Hi, I’m Kimbra... and one day I’d love to be a pop star!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h7Sf6-K9JTI

cafe i had breakfast at today played an acappella smooth-jazz cover of "we are young"

the thread that keeps on giving.

cafe i had breakfast at today played an acappella smooth-jazz cover of "we are young"

― carly rae (flopson), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:40 AM (6 hours ago)

surely you mean "instrumental"

christ that fun. song is terrible~

really does bear repeating

the video with dude jumping up and down and yelling in slow motion just takes it to a whole other level of awful too

Just read that the Gotye song is the most Shazam'd track in (short) history.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4xE9rAY8k

Billboard also reported recently that "Somebody" is the 15th best-selling digital song of all time, and will soon be the first track to sell 6 million copies in under a year. the scale of its success is really pretty impressively massive.

Gotye outdoes the internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=opg4VGvyi3M

holy shit, did not know Pentatonix did a cover

http://youtu.be/hOKuAigsrec

god these guys are so badass

You are all Grammy voters.