"Blurred Lines" vs. "Get Lucky"

Oh man, this question actually came up among co-workers the other day. I couldn't choose...

Meanwhile, what a fizzle this year's "contest" turned out to be. These two were so far out in front that the next song in line peaked before Memorial Day.

http://www.billboard.com/charts/summer-songs

me neither! aint heard. xp

They are both beautifully nondescript.

One middling, the other okay

0:34 in = action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d-xHySyH04

The answer is #Beautiful

my wife and i argue about this very question on a daily basis

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The answer is #Beautiful

― lex pretend, Monday, July 22, 2013

it's certainly mine but it's peaked in the American top fifteen

who would have guessed that 2013 would be Pharrell's phoenix comeback and one of his most successful years ever !

"Strandbar" is mine, but it peaked at #4,893 for an hour one day last month.

GET LUCKY

yeah #beautiful is great but it's nowhere near the success of the two monster summer hits.

#Beautiful, that's the one that sounds like The Police, right?

funny also that these two songs are massively inspired by 70s hits. more precisely, by 1977/1978 songs !

so after the 90s revival we're back to the 70s !

everything will always go back to the 70s, it is our cultural northstar

I'm sick to death of one of these, so the other one.

fun, infectious song that borrows about 70% of its appeal from another song
vs
the dullest "song of the summer" in modern memory

sorry Hurting but people who call "Get Lucky" dull should be drawn & quartered

"Infectious" just about describes it.

fun, infectious song that borrows about 70% of its appeal from another song
vs
the dullest "song of the summer" in modern memory

― Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Monday, July 22, 2013 10:40 AM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

glad to see another vote for 'get lucky'

"let's raise the bar / and our cups to the stars" is possibly an even lamer lyric than "this is free love / that's what we are made of"

although it is sort of adorable, as if ELIZA the computer psychoanalyst were tasked with writing superclub lyrics

I realize that no one really listens to it for the lyrics, but pretty much every line in that song is awful

I mean starting a pop song with "Like the legend of the phoenix"

the vowel sounds are cool

raising the bar to the stars is a great idea

taxi home could be expensive though

I especially hate the unnatural way the emphasis falls in "We're up all night to get SOME"

Vulture interviews Times Squares passersby:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/07/17/2.o.png/a_560x0.png

LOL i know!! it's as if pharrell doesn't know english and has been given a phoenetic treatment of the lyrics! every time i hear that line - OK almost every time, like 90% - i imagine an austrian dude, or a serbian guy with headphones on, reading of a sheet of paper: "weer up al nite tu git SUM"

i've been thinking that "jack" by breach might sneak in as a dark horse song of the summer for a certain set. i've gone from liking it to hating it to coming back around to it; the filthy instrumental hook has echoes of "horny horns" imo

comfortably blurred lines tho i like get lucky just fine

summon ienjoyhotdogs

i prefer get lucky. i even prefer the video for that one, which is very hypnotic to me.

there's not a get lucky video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EofwRzit0

This is a NOT official music video that I've made from "Get Lucky" SNL Ad (30 second teaser). There is no official video yet.

also that video is terrible

@1:34 -- "If you wanna leave I'm with it" -- Nile smiles suggestively at Pharell -- Pharrell smiles back at Nile

Pharrell always still comes off as a basement music nerd singing and mugging in front of a mirror. Totally unconvincing as a frontman.

projecting

that doesn't mean it's not true

Yep, connected to the runaway #1 and #2 song of the summer is totally frontin'

I dislike Pharrell but Nile Rodgers' joy -- he looks so happy to be remembered and, more importantly, hired-- helps.

pharrell giving hope to the common man

just singing badly mixed curtis mayfield covers into his shure in his basement between shifts at the grocery store

blurred lines, mostly for spilling over with hooks, but I like both

it's marvin gaye but w/e, xp

i know but pharrell's voice sounds more curtis than mavin

marvin*

inasmuch as a fart sounds more like pavarotti than domingo

man u h8 pharrell hard

btw wd d/l pharrell's exploration of farts ft 3 tenors

we fart all night to get lucky

Pharrell can't be that bad if he clears Hurting's bowels so efficiently.

Any song with a # in front basically says "I'm out of ideas"

Blurred Lines 4eva

we're up all night to fart retweets

I like Both these songs a lot but about equally but let's be real g votes for "Body Party"

obv this isn't the place to complain about knock-offs, but I don't get what makes "Body Party" more than a "Promise" re-write, unless it's the Future cameo or the "My Boo" sample.

like, "Blurred Lines" has enough going on that I don't get restless and actively wish I was listening to "Got To Give It Up", but "Body Party" def has me wishing I'd put "Promise" on

and by putting the Curtis Mayfield impersonator on top of the Chic track and adding the vocoder bit, "Get Lucky" conflates enough templates to avoid seeming a lesser straight xerox too

blurred lines is a blatant marvin jack tho. all three of these songs something something retromania

why would i have referenced "got to give it up" if i didn't know it was a blatant marvin jack

for a rap critic you're pretty weird about familiar rhythm tracks

huh? just saying all three songs arent exactly unprecedented

yeah but no one said otherwise

i noted that thicke added a bunch of lyric/vocal hooks to the "got to give it up" groove, and that "get lucky" synthesises a lot of '70s templates, but that I hadn't figured out what exactly Ciara did with "Promise" on "Body Party" to make it notable. Saying "oh it's all old shit" is like ok?

yeah "Blurred Lines" has so many little vocal melodies and rhythmic elements, none of which are directly bitten from "Got To Give It Up," just the overall sound/vibe, that it has a lot of staying power for me.

only like it the tiniest bit more than "Get Lucky," though, both are great.

"Blurred Lines" Sounds like a bad impersonation of Beck jacking Prince.

o_O

how quaint, a challop

xxpost

I like both songs, but doesn't this more accurately describe "Get Lucky?"

I'm leaning "Blurred Lines." It sounds like everyone's having as much fun as Nile is in the DP clip.

I had no idea i was posting on a board full of disgusting savages

this thread seems pretty split so i have no idea what side you're on

Bordeaux vs. Burgundy.

"Blurred Lines" sounds worse if you know the Marvin tune it's taking from. It's like when a young woman looks exactly like her father, when you know her father really well and have been friends with him for a long time. It's distracting and spoils her attractiveness for you maybe because your thinking of her dad when you see her.

no blurred lines there, homie, that shit is just gross

otm

that jack handey book has ruined me for a week. sorry

swinging some votes "get lucky"'s way: listen to it on a beach

i dunno i think i have come to the opinion taht Blurred Lines is nothing special, and bordering on "kinda sucks." i realize i'm in the minority.

i love Get Lucky but have certainly heard it plenty of times.

my personal bullshit opinion on these songs is that get lucky sounds dry and studied and blurred lines sounds tossed off and rushed in all the right ways.

Get lucky

Easy call

i've developed an intense dislike of crowds singing along to the chorus of get lucky. it wasn't made to be sung along to. just sounds so awkward, makes me cringe and also makes the melody sound really really flat and dull.

snob

criticizing the lyrics of Get Lucky when there's a line that goes
"what rhymes with hug me?"
in the other song, shameful

btw the answer is rugby

qiqing OTM

it sounds better when pharrell's singing it because he sings it with more of a staccato kind of phrasing, but when it's a crowd singing along it sounds so laboured

also fu xxpost

don't remember Get Lucky doing any "good girl" horseshit implying women are flirty and drunk because they want to fuck your seedy ass

"Blurred Lines" is fine but is at least one chorus too long. A good summer jam doesn't wear you down - "Crazy" managed to get in under three minutes and would have been unbearable at this length.

"Get Lucky" is more fun to get stuck in your head because you can at least bop down the street to the words of the chorus, whereas "Blurred Lines" has this really kind of sickening wheezy blurred sound to the vocals. That's also a huge part of its hookiness, obviously, but it makes it way more exhausting to have it going round and round in circles. BHHLUURED HLHIIIHHNES.... blugh.

Get Lucky was my song of the spring, I think it's almost already too long in the tooth to be #1 for summer

feel like no one has been arguing the merits of french robots v canadians which is some tyson v spinks shit

robin was born and raised in l.a., he just has dual canadian citizenship through alan

oh, even worse

tyson vs spinks who has just had his hands cut off

if "get lucky" cut to robots saying "up all night to get lucky" about a minute in and stayed there for an hour or two, it'd have a shot.

but

blurred lines is sort of the "rico suave" of music

as opposed to the Rico Suave of aftershave?

love both of these and even though the '22nd best single of 2005' thing jess (i believe) said about 'blurred lines' rings supertrue and 'get lucky' feels like a small miracle - a new good daft punk single, daft punk and nile rodgers all over my radio in 2013, good new disco - but despite this (and w/ the caveat that if i could somehow i would vote for just the first 30 seconds of 'get lucky' where's it's just niles guitar gliding around the floor and then the beat really kicks in, maybe the most sublime moment i'm hearing on the radio this year) i'm voting 'blurred lines'. titties. feel like 'i love it' should be in here though i guess that was everyone's single of last summer/fall/winter and the current saturation it's achieved provokes more regret than elation.

Another Vote Cast For 'Blurred Lines': "Titties," Says Balls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/07/07/PH2009070702215.jpg

"titties"

There's a really nice Mobius Strip like quality to "Blurred Lines," like it has no beginning or end, it's just sort of passing through. Always happy to hear it come on the radio. Always happy to hear "Get Lucky," too. And in fact I heard "Got to Give It Up" on the radio today, too, which I don't think is a coincidence.

"got to give it up" blows both these songs out of the water let's be honest. at the same time think the constant comparisons to "got to give it up" are a little unfair to "blurred lines", it doesn't seem any more especially indebted than a hundred dfa tracks were to "disco inferno". i guess the difference is "blurred lines" doesn't approach "got to give it up" while three or four of those dfa tracks were actually better than "disco inferno".

fuck outta here, nothing is better than disco inferno

First four seconds, especially.

dfa made some cool shit dont get me wrong, but disco inferno is a religious experience, no comparison

"Got to Give It Up" rules.

The song, "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", written solely by Jackson and recorded the same year as "Shake Your Body", took even more of Gaye's approach with the entire song, using percussive instruments as the basis of the song and a continued funk guitar riff, that was also present on "Got to Give It Up". Jackson sings most of the song in falsetto though he also adds tenor vocals in the bridge. Jackson and producer Quincy Jones added in strings to make the song different and an original. Much like the party chatter in "Got to Give It Up", Jackson added in vocal chatter, however, the chatter would later be debated as two people having a verbal argument while the tape was recording (a woman could be heard hollering "man I hate your ass anyway!"). Jackson and Jones allowed the argument in the recording.

my personal bullshit opinion on these songs is that get lucky sounds dry and studied and blurred lines sounds tossed off and rushed in all the right ways.

yes. could do with about 100 less background "woo"s in BL.

I haven't been able to listen to Blurred Lines since I heard it in the pub and someone pointed out that it sounds a bit like Whipping Piccadilly by Gomez. Get Lucky by default.

I mean it doesn't really but there's something of the forced jaunty knees up about both that's kind of grim even overlooking Blurred Lines's general skeeziness.

Nile Rodgers is on one of these duuuuuuuuuh

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ feel like some of yall blurred lines partisans dont understand logic or math or something

i blame the teachers

Love Nile. Nile has also played on a ton of shit.

this is not shit ergo get lucky wins

it's airless and unfun, which any real nile fan should be decrying from the rooftops

"get lucky" makes me want to marry nile rogers and live in a nice little house somewhere near water

"blurred lines" makes people think i am crazy in my car

"got to give it up" blows both these songs out of the water let's be honest.

― balls, Monday, July 22, 2013 9:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck outta here, nothing is better than disco inferno

― neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, July 22, 2013 9:19 PM (Yesterday)

Only one of those will actually get my vote in tuomas's disco poll, tbh.

yeah but disco inferno is still p great

Srsly, tho, such an avant/dissonant moment:

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n48/ionian2006/DiscoInfernoIntrojpg.jpg

it's airless and unfun, which any real nile fan should be decrying from the rooftops

I love Got to Give It Up -- but Blurred Lines does an admirable job writing a new tune on top of the Gaye groove without feeling so indebted to the original you can't enjoy the new one.

So probably Get Lucky by a nose simply because I've already dug this for a few months. But both these songs are great party jams. Not that I go to parties anymore. But they help me imagine attending a good one.

both do seem like party jams for people who don't go to parties any more, yes

But which one to bears listen to?

20 Signs You're At A Bear Pool Party (Topical Gay Poll #2)

to do

That should be a shirt design to be sold in yoga centers everywhere! I call it!

Still waiting for the inevitable "you the hottest fish in this place" shirts.

*cough* I didn't know that "Get Lucky" was Daft Punk (or Pharrell) until actual yesterday, I just thought it was a better-than-average summer hit for the bottle-service set.

And I liked it? When I heard it was Daft Punk I was like "oh is that why people are talking about new Daft Punk in disappointed tones"

only bad people who are wrong are using those tones

both do seem like party jams for people who don't go to parties any more, yes

yeah definitely the elderly to blame for this, as usual.

or like, people who are also 30.

Then I was told Panda Bear also guests, in my head I visualized a Daft Punk version of "Baa Baa Black Sheep"

both do seem like party jams for people who don't go to parties any more, yes

ronan please just fucking killfile me for the love of god if you can't see a single post i make without having to think of a snide tuppence to add

actually just didn't like the post, wasn't the only one it seems. perhaps don't express faintly offensive opinions if you don't like people dissenting.

lol, lex's problem is that other people are being snide

i do hope you'll be policing the many other zing-happy ilx posters with that maxim

i don't really have a problem with other people dissenting, i have a problem with YOU, ronan, being a weird crepey cunt

And the elderly

Zing!

Whole argument is spurious anyway, both these songs are massive among actual young people.

plus strength and point of both songs is their middle agedness

dunno if it's a strength so much as what makes them both fine but no more

they're both pretty blokey in a dorky kind of way

old people can't be up all night to get lucky, this is madness

the answer to the question is still "#beautiful", anyway

up all night with a dodgy bladder maybe

name five better middle aged hit anthems this year

the getting lucky part certainly drops off

well "Tom Ford" ain't one of them

horndog robots vs. horndog fat albert

ha "#beautiful" is also kind of middle aged in its own way

old people can't be up all night to get lucky, this is madness

the getting lucky part certainly drops off

No.

#Thicke's douchey bouffant and aviators and those weasely little looks he shoots the camera, plus the shadow of his notorious assman dad, makes it hard for me to hear BL objectively, though I love the groove (and Marvin Gaye, of course). Maybe he's just the new Tom Jones.

only one song mentioned itt is actually boring music for old people and that song is "#Beautiful"

Also Thicke is just charmless, like watching a middle ranking Regional Sales Manager dry-humping drunk girls at an office party. Justin, or to be honest pretty much any major male pop singer right now, would be able to pull it off so much better.

I feel a tinge of disappointment a few bars into "Get Lucky" when "Night Fever" doesn't kick in.

For a second I always think it's "We Are Family."

for a second I think: http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/picts/Yamaha_PS-20_detail1.jpeg

Either way, you're voting blue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU3CYs77Ku4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6PEboTpcfI

the clinton one is pretty perfect :-/

especially when he does that little nod

both those are great

i set a google calendar alert to notify me every hour on the hour that lex likes "#Beautiful," so you can stfu now

lmaoo

blurred lines btw

Why choose?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dcwbp05dQM

Its a The Bobs style acapella mashup, and pretty listenable as these things go.

My commute is roughly 12 minutes and in that time this morning I heard "Get Lucky" on 3 different stations, one of which followed it with "Blurred Lines"

Lex is right, the answer is #Beautiful.

However, between these two songs, which are both great, i prefer 'Blurred Lines'.

if your commute is only 12 minutes long then you already got lucky imo

Lucky dog. My commute's six minutes.

y'all must drive fast, talk about some blurred lines

hey hey hey

2013: The Year 'What Rhymes With Hug Me?' Broke

This morning:

Me: Which do you like better, "Blurred Lines" or "Get Lucky?"
The kids; "Get Lucky!"
Me: Wow, both of you? Why do you like "Get Lucky" so much more?
The kids: It has robot voices!

This morning:

Me: Which do you like better, "Blurred Lines" or "Get Lucky?"
The kids; "Get Lucky!"
Me: Wow, both of you? Why do you like "Get Lucky" so much more?
The kids: It has robot voices!

My kids saw the video before the single wad released and were instantly hooked.

yeah but "Blurred Lines" has T.I. voices

http://www.mainbyte.com/ti99/ti_front.jpg

Texas Instruments?

the very same, josh

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

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rockist

when i hear blurred lines i think it is from the seventies! i'm like oh that song ... from the seventies

that's how i feel when i hear get lucky

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lmao fuckin landon

Nile and Pharrell wouldn't have played at FDR's victory party :(

well no bc they werent alive

and they lacked appropriate robot technologies and funk, too, man i thought u were smarter than this smh

nah bro they could've worn this:

http://joshuakemble.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/fdr.jpg

this new evidence is a v impt development in the case
still no funk

is there something inherently competitive about these two songs? both were on colbert tonight, one in absentia and one live. that was kinda weird.
maybe there's something i'm missing here?

Tonight Viacom told Colbert at the last minute that he couldn't have Daft Punk on because they are going to be on the VMAs, so he booked...Robin Thicke in their place.

xp they are both really simple, retro dance tunes and they were the biggest hits of the summer

blurred lines i sbetter

the people say otherwise

yeah biggest hits of the summer, could also be a p&j 1-2 punch (unless i'm forgetting something?), both feature pharrell, both unabashedly ape '70s sounds (chic, marvin gaye).

guess i shouldn't be surprised that these results are tilted toward daft punk. it's a tuff one for me, so i didn't vote.

https://vine.co/v/huLqTxdBg1h

"Treasure" as third option (or fourth).

Somehow after hearing Blurred Line a million times I can never remember how it starts. It always starts in my mind with "Maybe I'm goin deaf." It's like it's not really a song, it's just an infinite loop, a ringtone.

*Lines

It's like it's not really a song, it's just an infinite loop

o. t. m.

It's amazing how many songs on the radio are like this.

errybody getup

ringtones aren't infinite, they're like 16 seconds

and it gets nightmarishly stuck in my head like that, just these shrieking voices going "YAHHH YAHHHHIIIIIIIIEEEE/dunnunnuh dunnuh/dunnunuh dunnuh/dunnunununuh dunuh/YAAAH YAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!"

Weird, the intro is the part that gets stuck in my head the most.

For a while my brain went "I hate them lines! I hate them lines!" all day

Of all recent chart hits to say is one long loop, "Blurred Lines" is a weird one -- love it or hate it, it's got so many distinct vocal melodies and frequently quoted lines. And the intro is so recognizable before the verse starts!

well, it is two chords back and forth in equal numbers of bars throughout the entire song

Yeah, and the verse-chorus transition isn't really dramatized, or built up, and it basically feels like it fades in at the beginning and fades out at the end....it's pretty much "Nyan Cat" in my reckoning. I totally feel the "loop" thing.

I mean, it's a groove-driven song. Hardly the only song on the radio built on a 4 bar loop. We could talk about how something like "Started From The Bottom" has the same vocal melody in the chorus and the verses.

Yeahhhhh but it doesn't have the same air-pudding quality that suggests that what you've caught is only an isolated snippet of a 24-hour groove. Maybe it's just how faceless all of the vocal performances are, and the total lack of rhythmic variation. There's not any, like, "part." You know, a moment where the rhythm switches up, or the rap goes to double-time, or the background drops out for the delivery of a key line, or anything that could be a signpost saying "ahh, that part, i'm at about the two-thirds mark through this thing."

Well, after the T.I. verse there's the "shake your rump" bridge where everything but the drums drop out, and then a part where everything but the bassline drops out.

yeah casino somehow it sounds like you haven't heard it enough

can't blame him for that tbh

esp weird to suggest that you can't tell where in "blurred lines" you are on a thread where it's compared to "get lucky"

"Blurred Lines" sounds like a long, underpaid summer spent working at a brokedown amusement park.

it most definitely does not sound like the Adventureland OST

but it does sound like getting stuck for two hours at the "It's a Small World" queue.

funny hearing anti-disco arguments in 2013

"it's just some guy in falsetto saying doo-doo-doo for 5 minutes!"

i swear that KC is just singing the same song over and over

I hope ice-cream trucks in 2020 will be replace "Turkey in the Straw" with "Blurred Lines."

er, will replace

Ha, I thought as I was writing that, "I'm going to get nailed on the disco thing." I will confess to not being a disco head but I do think we could draw distinctions between good disco and bad disco - or failing that, disco which translates well into the format of a pop single and disco that doesn't. "Get Lucky" has some signposts, something resembling a sequence of parts, "ooh here's the vocoder thing, now it's on!", whatever. My knowledge of "Blurred Lines" is mainly based on hearing it constantly in fragments - clock radio before I turn it off, in a shop already playing when I walk in - so maybe that contributes to my sense that it has no discernible beginning, end, or middle?

Basically, I just wanted to say that Hurting's description lined up with how the song sounds to me, and how nightmarish it becomes when it's stuck in your head.

My knowledge of "Blurred Lines" is mainly based on hearing it constantly in fragments - clock radio before I turn it off, in a shop already playing when I walk in - so maybe that contributes to my sense that it has no discernible beginning, end, or middle?

yeah i figured you had no idea what you were talking about

"i have yet to hear the song in full but i feel confident that there is no clear structure"

here's an easy clue to remember: the beginning of Blurred Lines is the Got to Give It Up part

I'm sure I've heard it in full, it just sounded like fragments when I did.

Basically Blurred Lines sucks and gives me a headache.

ok dad

I think if you hear a song in fragments enough times you have basically heard it in full.

dude do you really need me to explain to you that picking up on the dynamic structure of a song might require at least one concerted listen straight through? or at least one should do that before pronouncing it doesn't really exist?

you might allow that i am probably exaggerating to say i've *never* heard it straight through, the fucking song was inescapable for like three months

There's even a pretty video to make the process easier.

i'm at school right now but i'll try watching it with the sound off, maybe that'll help

it's just the animated gif at the top of this thread for three minutes, right?

yeah i see nothing to discredit my reading, just a lot of people milling around, as if in a slightly desaturated, pinkish-yellowish Purgatory, scattered randomly with declarations of "#THICKE" so frequent as to lose any capacity to provide momentum or direction.

you're only trolling yourself, dude

it's not really a disco thing though. Blurred Lines has a really standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus structure. It just happens to have the same chord progression throughout like a million other rock and pop songs.

same as get lucky really

except get lucky has the chorus repeated through a vocoder near the end to distinguish it, unlike the samey mush of blurred lines, with its falsetto intro, rap break and drop-out breakdown, all of which just blends together into a blase wash, especially when you're only hearing it in full when you can't find something at cvs

I will confess to not being a disco head but I do think we could draw distinctions between good disco and bad disco - or failing that, disco which translates well into the format of a pop single and disco that doesn't.

guess Moroder, Summer, and Patrick Cowley are bad disco.

No....?

The thing about ''Blurred Lines'' is that it manages to make the rap break, falsetto intro, etc., *sound exactly the same as everything else in the song.* There really might as well not be guest stars at all. #THICKE

i miss how alex in nyc would just come up with a quality death fantasy or pun and leave the analysis to people who've heard the song

i kinda do like the fractured fever dream state some hit songs exist in for a while when you only hear them for 45 seconds at a time in passing. sometimes get less interesting or appealing once you know them by heart.

lurkers

"Blurred Lines" sounds like a long, underpaid summer spent working at a brokedown amusement park.

I remember waiting in line at an amusement park a couple of weeks ago and hearing Blurred Lines and thinking that no song could be more appropriate for waiting in line in hot weather surrounded by sweating pre-teens eating various junk foods.

I liked blurred lines at first, but just thinking about it for more than 2 seconds generally means it will remain stuck in my head for the rest of the day. I associate it with headaches.

waiting in line in hot weather surrounded by sweating pre-teens eating various junk foods

blurgh lines

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0xToZLlI3Eo/Tgx1Bj9m9sI/AAAAAAAAI78/AyEFs0OkJkw/s200/chris_hansen.gif

"i see you brought a robin thicke cd...what's that for?"

It starts "BUM-BUM-BUM 'Everybody get up!'"

There, I helped.

Lately when I'm at the bar more people sing along and twerk to Blurred Lines.

leave the analysis to people who've heard the song

Are you suggesting, dear sir, that I was merely proposing punishments over music I hadn't actually listened to?

oh, take a compliment

To be fair, I actually didn't mind Robin Thicke .... until "Blurred Lines," which it to say now I think he should have his _____ ____-off in a _________ by a __________ with a grudge.

What rhymes with _____? HEYAYEAHAYEAHYEAH

http://www.paulinasmashfansite.zoomshare.com/album/MASH%20cast%20outside%20their%20roles/images/aa6a971a852023d7ef09b802e415b0cf_11527676490/image.jpg

still kinda love the song, love that it's really easy to find (if i just scan thru the radio stations for twenty minutes or so it's gonna pop up somewhere), my experience has been weirdly similar to casino's - i've heard it all the way thru maybe five times (including the one time i watched the two videos) but have caught fragments an insane amount and everytime i have almost no idea where i am in the song when i come in, it always takes a few seconds at least (and those seconds can seem like a long time if i come in at wheezed out 'baby can you breathe') and when it ends i'm always caught unware (obv never the case w/ 'get lucky')(or w/ 'got to give it up' really). having defended casino i will now note that at a party once when i was playing an electro/hip-hop track that owed some debt to moroder and cowley he asked me to put some good dance music on, specifically tom petty.

lol

i will never hear the end of this tom petty story, of which i still have no memory

and i freely concede to not being on the same level as alex in nyc, i should probably leave this kind of thing to the pros

everytime i have almost no idea where i am in the song when i come in, it always takes a few seconds at least (and those seconds can seem like a long time if i come in at wheezed out 'baby can you breathe')

god i hate to keep this stupid debate going, but how many songs do you flip by where you know within one second what pre-chorus or chorus you're on? and it's weird to defend the claim that the all the verses and breaks are nondescript by quoting one

i will never hear the end of this tom petty story, of which i still have no memory

and i freely concede to not being on the same level as alex in nyc, i should probably leave this kind of thing to the pros

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, September 3, 2013 6:33 PM

http://img.pandawhale.com/58025-Daft-PunkPharrell-quotGet-Luck-8E34.gif

croupier it's weird to pretend like there's not an oneiric moebius quality to it

one thing i do kinda hate about the song (or i guess more billboard or THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN) is that the station i hear it second most on (after ilx fave magic 102) is this r&b station and whereas once upon a time i would've delighted in the fluid playlist at work (the...blurred lines if you will) w/ something so straight pop and disco could get heavy r&b radio play, shades of elton john or blondie crossing over (aware that thicke's career is based in r&b but i'm hearing this alot more than i ever heard 'hey ya' on r&b or hip-hop radio). instead it's just a reminder of how the game has been rigged.

croup if you want to go toe to toe w/ me on some radio name that tune one day come down to georgia. I WILL DESTROY YOU. unless they play 'blurred lines'.

you're saying not just that you can name the tune, balls, but which chorus is which based on one second! i mean i'd get call me maybe fast but i wouldn't be like "ah, this would be 1:30 in"

and yeah, it's one long groove but i think the verse lyrics and breaks are actually atypically memorable, so anyone saying it's just a vertigo of nonsense, is probably an old dude who's heard it three times.

i mean shit i have no idea what zedd's "clarity" is about and it attacks me every time i get in the car, but i've turned around on enough pop over the years to know that there's probably SOMETHING appealing about it if my thirtysomething ass bothered to sit still, and that its probably not some magical kool-aid bomb of nothingness arbitrarily floating up the charts.

girls in the club randomly shouting "you're the hottest bitch in this place to each other" at different times cuz they JUST CAN'T REMEMBER when it actually happens

they're even adding words to the quote because WHO COULD REMEMBER

you're saying not just that you can name the tune, balls, but which chorus is which based on one second! i mean i'd get call me maybe fast but i wouldn't be like "ah, this would be 1:30 in" - o yeah, easy. who can't do this.

i think you're confusing randomness w/ a loop. aleatoric music /= looping music. lack of familiarity (or at least deliberate, focused listening) is probably the culprit but at the same time it ain't like i ever had this problem w/ la bouche.

more like ya douche

plz don't dis la bouche

Lately when I'm at the bar more people sing along and twerk to Blurred Lines.

― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 5:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they twerk. to blurred lines. at a bar. srsly?

america is big, ny bars are boring, i guess i can see it, but...

I'm in Western MA, trust me, you don't want to see it.

I can't believe Get Lucky won and by so many votes...

Pharrell singing?

I have never heard "blurred lines" but I live in Seattle and don't have a car and from what I've heard it's about rape so I would've voted for the "get lucky" which promotes enthusiastic consent as far as I can tell

"Blurred Lines" is more explicitly about enthusiastic consent imo

there seemed to be a lot of people on the Daft Punk thread who have hangups about Pharrell singing too, how did you guys live through 2000-2003 without enjoying like 20 classic songs?

i was definitely bitching about this dude that sounds like Gene Ween imitating Curtis Mayfield stinking up choruses at that time, check the archives

i softened on his voice circa his solo album and find him fine on "Get Lucky" thought that follow-up song they played part of during the VMAs was painful

silby just read this and you're up to speed

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/524352_10151725760984731_696341720_n.jpg

the mein kampf of the tumblr social justice community

i don't think we need to look so far from home for that tbf

You alright!! I learned it from watching you!!

have we discussed the female disenfranchisement angle yet

lol

What's gonna happen this fall, is what I want to know.

i like that rvw though. we are entertained

also give him one thing, 'blurred lines' totally is the song big mouth billy bass sings in 2013

so the hits of the summer are basically alpha male ("I know you want it") vs beta male (staying up all night waiting to "get lucky" (lol it's not gonna happen)).

k3v idk if you watch breaking bad but if so did u enjoy "feel like there's some cool feminist subtext/s" in that thread cos i'm still laughing tbh

so the hits of the summer are basically alpha male ("I know you want it") vs beta male (staying up all night waiting to "get lucky" (lol it's not gonna happen)).

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:44 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

weeeeee've
come too faaaaar
to give uuuuuuup
who we aaaaaaaare

more like Turd Lines. fuck that song

ouch

skid maaarks

k3v idk if you watch breaking bad but if so did u enjoy "feel like there's some cool feminist subtext/s" in that thread cos i'm still laughing tbh

― r|t|c, Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:45 PM (Yesterday)

ha no i do not

should be noted for the record that there's nothing particularly wrong w/ the oft-referenced plax post, just endlessly memeable

it was plax right or was it tape store? memory's the first thing to go they say

blurred lines = dominant 7th chords
get lucky = minor 7th chords

OTm7

Listen to the instrumental version of Blurred Lines. It takes a lot of imagination to hear verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge etc...without vocals. I understand the zzzzzzz about 4 bar ad nauseum posted above. Get Lucky has pretty traditional build/release in the instrumental/percussion tracks (although with the same underlying 4 bar structure).

Of course, this may be a pro/con depending how you feel about good use of vocal vamp in radio pop.

One little subtle thing "Get Lucky" does that provides more energy in its second half is shift the hihat from an 8th note groove to a 16th note groove when the breakdown hits.

That's subtle? That's like, what the whole song is about.

Both are great, though, I don't really get people who try to build a case against either/both.

It's the places and situations where I hear "Blurred Lines" that suck, mostly.

I think I finally reached "Blurred Lines" breaking point a couple days ago.

Still love both tho

that one definitely grates from overexposure more easily

never gonna tire of hearing "blurred lines"

yeah it's shocking how much i've heard it on the radio and yet only earlier this week was the first time i actually switched the station while it was playing. it's just a massively replayable song -- naturally the kind that'll break radio records.

Get Lucky is nice

http://splicetoday.com/pop-culture/painting-the-walls-or-something

"blurred lines" would be cooler if they had just sampled "got to give it up".. we probably would've gotten one or two decent re-edits out of it at least.

both of these songs feel somehow mediocre in spite of how fun they are. its like 2 chainz

U had to work in a 2 Chainz diss somehow

Otm tho

maybe they feel fun in spite of how mediocre they are. either way

Thank you, Rob Sheffield: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blurred-lines-the-worst-song-of-this-or-any-other-year-20131206

How can this poor guy aspire to be Marvin Gaye with vocal chops better suited to the Fred Durst songbook?

Never heard Robin Thicke's vocal chops as an issue before, in a heavily auto-tuned top 40.

it's funny bile but i don't get why people are acting like whimsical bile is such a breath of fresh air. is it just that most "epic takedowns" tend to be more "this song is representative of a cultural element i find repugnant" these days and less "oooh i hate these hooks so muuch"?

It's funny bile. I won't stand for quips at the expense of 'Save the Best For Last' though.

zzzzzzz

He is wrong about blurred lines in geometry. There definitely is such a thing as a blurred line, though it's not something you can do an image search for any more unfortunately.

cool article about how the song sucks because it sounds like a marvin gaye song and something sheffield made up about math, maura otm

zzzzzzz

― maura, Friday, December 6, 2013 11:51 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought that rant perfectly encapsulates the irritated, incoherent rage that goes through my body every time I hear the song (or "Get Lucky" for that matter), which I find so immediate and piercing that I have problems articulating exactly why the song gets on my nerves so much but I feel very strongly that everyone within a ten-foot radius knows that I'm DISPLEASED

otm -- it's like me with Michael Buble

the rage is v enjoyable

also "Unworthy of four-fifths of Robyn's name," is a hilariously specific and nonsensical assertion

also as a frequent user of "I wish <non-anthropomorphic thing X> had a face so that I could punch it," I feel like the entire thing is written specifically for me to bask in

surely he's just trying to be funny? i mean among the other things already mentioned he misquotes "get lucky" so he can pretend the first line is about boners while also pretending that one of the most straightforward lyrics in "save the best for last" is somehow incomprehensible

It's okay -- I mean, Alicia Keys deserves worse.

She's unworthy of one-fifth of a required household object.

lol at slide show jockeys like d-40 'yawning' at rob sheffield

seriously if there's a time any of you have in yr entire careers bettered something than that dude can crank out on a coffee break feel free to provide the link (one condition: no slide shows). shades of lance stephenson going after lebron only rob sheffield sure as fuck ain't a lebron but then again you guys ain't lance stephenson either.

And one more thing...what you choose to call hell, he calls home.

hey hey hey

I bet Rob Sheffield is bad at basketball

seriously if there's a time any of you have in yr entire careers bettered something than that dude can crank out on a coffee break feel free to provide the link (one condition: no slide shows). shades of lance stephenson going after lebron only rob sheffield sure as fuck ain't a lebron but then again you guys ain't lance stephenson either.

― balls, Friday, December 6, 2013 4:00 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i like rob sheffield in general, i just think irrational rage at that song is silly

but maybe u should get his balls out of your mouth balls

get those mouth balls out of the closet.

i can throw down, balls, you know i can :P

you can't disagree with rob sheffield hes the lebron james of music writing!

rob sheffield sure as fuck ain't a lebron but then again you guys ain't lance stephenson either. he might be mike miller. just one ugly white dude.

the piece is ehhh by Sheffield's standards, Maura can talk because those F2K things basically did this better a bunch of times yearly

by my lights it's five months too late

Or she can talk because she's right

Lol @ balls criticism litmus test tho

lol @ the concept of 'credibility' being a bridge too far for you

perpetua w/ rape jokes

idk what you're talking about but u remind me of someone

Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss rob sheffield if you've ever been involved in the creation of a slideshow

also as a frequent user of "I wish <non-anthropomorphic thing X> had a face so that I could punch it," I feel like the entire thing is written specifically for me to bask in

― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, December 6, 2013 2:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it's like he got paid to write a silly nonsensical ilx post

and yeah i like sheffield fine too but that sort of 16 year old's tumblr post is a little beneath him and rolling stone (.com) but then again who am i kidding, it's writing about music on the internet town

hand it to sheffield though for coming up with an even less convincing critique of the song than the dopes 5 years out of their undergrad women's studies class have been autopiloting all year

Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss rob sheffield if you've ever been involved in the creation of a slideshow

― rap steve gadd (D-40)

yeah this isn't remotely my point but i'm hardly surprised such a shitty writer should have such awful reading comprehension. buzzfeed's hiring btw.

your point is that i can't have an opinion about a rob sheffield piece because you think i'm not a good writer

that opinion is stupid.

i mean, look, i'm engaging with you even though you're a message board troll w/ no bylines to speak of. because that actually isn't pertinent to a discussion about a particular piece of writing

balls being p ott in this thread no surprise considering that his using his own lab job to troll whiney ("gues hs who will have a job in 5 yrs!") went a long way towards inventing dude's new steez

i assume we're going through this jblount vs deej smear routine bc it's roughly the 10th anniversary of the last time it happened.

my point is someone who calls someone out for tossing out a better version of what they've devoted their lives to is either being profoundly dishonest or profoundly stupid (or maybe both in yr case). i mean jesus christ how fucking depressing is it that someone as talented as maura takes pride in f2k??? that someone as completely devoid of talent and cynically somehow proud of it as yrself or perpetua might offer as an admittedly thought out and well argued attack as 'zzzzz' is fucking laughable. his worst work is a better example of yr best work. unless, again, you can provide a link that the lazy who cares its only the internet and who cares its only pop music impulse at work is not in fact 100% of what's going on in yr and perpetua's garbage. feel free to provide the link for whatever listicle you look to when you tell yrself that what you're doing is any way making a contribution instead of just a sign of how fucking far we are from ellen willis or whoever. while you're at it maybe google 'lebron james' so you'll know who the fuck he is, maybe you'll even get a slideshow out of all the references you'll suddenly get afterward.

and again it's just rob sheffield we're talking about, dude's maybe half a degree better than yr average hack, he makes chuck eddy look like john leonard. do you know just how lazy and cynical a writer you have to be for rob sheffield to be someone whose jock you can't carry? cut and paste a wikipedia page into a listicle cynical and lazy.

yes definitely CALLING SOMEONE OUT here, not just echoing 'zzz' @ the idea of someone getting super heated abt the most mildly 'ok' no. 1 hit in recent history

did perpetua run over your dog? is rob married to your sister? writing paragraphs of invective abt 'slideshow jockeys' on a saturday night def seems like a productive use of time when you could be brainstorming content for zings.txt

what i'm gonna watch duke play football instead?

solid revive

i assume we're going through this jblount vs deej smear routine bc it's roughly the 10th anniversary of the last time it happened.

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, December 8, 2013 2:33 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. i feel like i'm at a reunion concert.

featuring the new downloadable track "slideshow jockey"

Biggest hit of the company holiday party last night.

why were you displaying an ILX fite at work

thing is despite his ilx rep + working for rap game buzzfeed deej is a good writer who writes long thoughtful things that you don't have to click through pretty regularly. i don't know who rob sheffield is but if his deal is hilarious takedowns of ubiquitous pop tunes then that doesn't really seem like deej's deal at all really. and he writes a lot about rap that is nowhere to be found on wikipedia, or pretty much anywhere... hate the game not the player i guess. loved the spirit of the posts tho, balls kiu

Rob Sheffield is an arch poptimist so it's quite funny seeing him really hate a record as big as Blurred Lines, though I don't think the zingers connect. It feels rushed.

i liked the description of the marvin gaye song as breezing into a party already grooving full blast

also "Adam Sandler taking a falsetto hate-whizz on Marvin Gaye's grave"

He's not a poptimist.

mb balls confused deej with whiney

that word has no meaning. Besides, the dude loves Pavement and the Minutemen.

Isn't he? I thought that was his schtick. Ten years ago he was the only Rolling Stone writer raving about dance-pop iirc. Doesn't mean he can't like indie-rock as well.

aren't all poptimists agnostic indie fans tho?

i think alfred means he is not a poptimist because poptimist has no meaning therefore no one is a poptimist

Loving pop music doesn't make you a poptimist -- it means you're sane.

Ok whatever, I don't want to debate definitions. Sheffield usually reps for the year's biggest pop hits therefore it's funny to see him take such an extreme dislike to one for once. Is that better?

Anyway the guy's been writing since the late eighties, has a long rap sheet, wrote two books, and adores John Taylor.

Sheffield usually reps for the year's biggest pop hits therefore it's funny to see him take such an extreme dislike to one for once. Is that better?

I'll rep for big pop hits but loathe Rihanna and Drake. There's no contradiction.

he said it's funny not hypocritical

however relatively self-deprecating and knowing, it's grumpy Rolling Stone "fuck this big hollow hit song, not a mark on the music of 20 years ago" from a guy you wouldn't associate with that.

aren't all poptimists agnostic indie fans tho?

Explains why that Sky Ferreira album is such a big hit on ilm

i'd say "agnostic indie fans" makes a good portion of the older folks (m)aligned with that term, but of the twentysomethings not so much

the "pitchfork likes hey ya?!" battles ARE a decade old

feel like it still applies

pitchfork also still likes "ya hey" so

aside from all this happiness 84:38 was a nonsense result completely worthy of ilm

A year ago it would've been unheard of for a Robin Thicke song to do almost half as well in a Daft Punk song in an ILM poll, though, so that's actually a pretty 'close' result

Didn't mind Rob attacking "Blurred Lines," part of me (about 63%) hates it too. I was very sad, though, when he went after Cat Stevens.

the real point is that the mariah carey/xtina lou reed christmas duet has a chance of being weirdly listenable

the mimi/lulu lullabyes

blurred lines indeed

"Blurred Lines" features on "The England Players' Playlist", a compilation of songs chosen by England players ahead of the World Cup.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT) Shareholders Meeting last week:

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

does anyone think "Happy" is better than both of these songs?

yes i do

happy>get lucky>blurred lines

interesting. i don't and kind of assumed nobody did.

songs about the elusive nature of joy>songs about wanting to bone>alan thicke's son
is how i break it down

It's possible I've been subjected to "Happy" far more than "Blurred Lines" by a factor of ten.

songs about wanting to bone Alan Thicke's son

"Happy" is def. better than "Blurred Lines" but then that's a pretty crummy plink-plonk Pharrell beat imo, like a bunch of others he did before his comeback that no one cared about. actually it's probably not too similar to any one beat he did before, just I had similar issues with it (crappy drums, weak keyboard sound)

xp
groin pains

"Happy" is miles and miles and miles better than either of these songs.

"Come Get It Bae" is the same level of irritating earworm as "Blurred Lines"/"Get Lucky", only slightly more tolerable.

happy>get lucky>blurred lines

Yeah, but with a whole lot more arrows between Lucky and Lines.

I enjoy "Happy" sometimes but it feels so coercive to me

I think Happy is way better than both of these songs as well. Happy is probably my favorite goofy summer song since Crazy.

forgot who said this on twitter (pushinghoops?) but "happy" feels like an argument, which sorta ruins the vibe

@loosejoints (not exactly a rockist party pooper) went waaaayyy in on "Happy" as soulless corporate entertainment

and this was before the walmart shareholders meeting!

haha tru

"Happy" is okay, like the little descending harmony part in the chorus is pleasant, but I get really annoyed when people act like it's their jam

conversely, "Blurred Lines" is obnoxious but if I see people really getting down to it I find it kinda heartwarming

I have a softspot for "Happy" fan videos.

forgot who said this on twitter (pushinghoops?) but "happy" feels like an argument, which sorta ruins the vibe
--le goon (J0rdan S.)
The mood stabilizer sheen is one of the things I love about it. The song is not as convincing as it presumes. (Tho yeah the fan vids shorten the cognitive gap.)

I think part of why I enjoy the song as much as I do is that I came to it through fan videos first. The official video (and the extended 24-hour thing) is cool but the "happy"ness feels a little more studied/forced and less happy.

i'm basically w/crut on this one. "happy" occupies the "hey ya" niche for me - i'm not mad, but it's hard to fathom the meaning it seems to hold for people (not to mention the process of imagining what a room without a roof feels like, which i have never actually successfully done, despite subconsciously attempting to whenever i hear the song. whatever that inchoate frustrated feeling produced by a failed metaphor is, "happy" isn't it)

@loosejoints (not exactly a rockist party pooper) went waaaayyy in on "Happy" as soulless corporate entertainment

― uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Monday, June 9, 2014 9:45 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh it really is. it's the soundtrack to organised team building days in terrible offices. i don't hold a candle for either "blurred lines" or "get lucky" but almost every time i hear "happy" the thought crosses my mind that it might be the most annoying song ever. it's like an awful xmas song except there's no time of year that you can get away from it.

i heard it on a caribbean beach last week about 17 rum punches down and it almost sobered me up tbh. i had to walk swiftly along the beach and out of earshot.

:D

lex otm

luckily my kids like this song better off that soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJRTeCMvGc

i really try not to be the resident antipop curmudgeon but if those three songs are the choice then

fortunately they're not the choice

oh thinking about pop songs that genuinely sound like joy to me just makes these three even worse. actually it's a bit like realising how popular george clooney and sandra bullock are. it comes with the depressing realisation, that i really don't want to think, that so many people are just so fucking boring and basic and that's the only explanation

i work a lot of conferences and conventions and i have probably heard "Happy" at every single one of them for the past 4 months. i don't hate it or anything, amazingly (the bridge with the claps very nearly redeems the whole thing for me), but it's kind of funny how totally pervasive it is in corporate environments.

it's ok, i just prefer every other recent Pharrell hit (and almost every song on G I R L) to it.

i was telling people that "happy" was underrated before it became a thing but now i can't stand to hear it

it's in the "not you it's me" bin personally

blurred lines slays the other two, but happy is especially anodyne

oh thinking about pop songs that genuinely sound like joy to me just makes these three even worse.

But really, this being ILX, we all know that other people's happiness sounds incredibly embarrassing, right?

i work a lot of conferences and conventions and i have probably heard "Happy" at every single one of them for the past 4 months

^^ this. I walk into the student union building every morning and it's playing on the PA system with in-house video of dancing students and administrators. It's music for Orwell's proles. Beyond this, though, "Happy" even last summer reminded me that I loathe songs that insist on a kind of rictus grin joy. It's fucking coercive.

i really try to avoid the concept of "overrated," but i feel like "Happy" is severely overrated by our planet

i don't mind it per se, but wtf why is it such a thing

i mean, i get it. the teenagers that danced to "Shake Ya Ass" is now old enough to have kids, so of course "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands (Neptunes Remix)" is going to be the thing that unites generations.

ARE now old enough, oops

see? it's fucking with your sentences

pharrell is maybe a ray parker jr but "happy" is no "ghostbusters"

and he hasn't recorded an "I Still Can't Get Over Loving You"

"Blurred Lines" vs. "Get Lucky" vs. "Happy"

(Guess I have no interest in polling this year's top 2 song-of-the-summer contenders.)

yall are weird and have some shit to work out

Every time i hear the dude go "hey hey hey" in Blurred Lines, my amygdala fires up and i have to punch somebody. God, that fucking voice. "Hey hey hey!" Shut the fuck up.

I don't think "Clap along IF you feel like a room without a roof" is coercive, or an argument.

if u wanna get classical, conditional statements are a form of argument

i dont because whatever man

it's a invitation

yall are weird and have some shit to work out

Letting this pass b/c I image the lex version of "sounds like joy" are awesome grimy tuneless sex jams.

today,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5YBFG1CGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7N9wjgGpfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHh2-6jmnU

I stand corrected.

we all know that other people's happiness sounds incredibly embarrassing, right?

when they're happy for stoopid reasons, sure

I detect glee in that post.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110223003914/glee/images/4/45/GLee-Season-2-Promo-Wallpaper-glee-15819121-1922-1243.jpg

http://nygossipgirl.com/blog5/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/glee-on-tyra-banks-show.jpg

lol dammit

hahahaha

and this was before the walmart shareholders meeting!

meh, at least that dickhead's not the POTUS, declaring WalMart to be "green"

I feel like this link is appropriate after the discussion upthread

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/06/10/in-other-thai-news-military-bans-criticism-in-schools-releases-happiness-song

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/08/celebrity-musicians-contest-blurred-lines-court-ru.html