instant party from a can: party rock anthem v. i gotta feeling

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'party rock anthem' is really charmless and half assed, 'i gotta feeling' is pretty well pieced together and it's biggest flaw, it's 'naffness' is arguably it's biggest strength, definitely one of those handful of black eyed peas that i wish were just a little bit better (usually i wish they were less ott busy - basement jaxx barely had what it takes to pull that off (and that's arguable), bep sure as fuck don't) but find myself enjoying if not actively seeking out anyway. somehow the passable songs make me despise bep even more than the outright abominations.

party rock anthem!

ie 'party rock anthem' just seems a really dull sign of where we are now, 'i gotta feeling' is how we got there.

balls otm

'I got a feeling' is so forced though! and there's some choice reverb on a bleep.

i mentally pair "Party Rock Anthem" more with "Give Me Everything," the song it replaced at #1 and resembled in many ways, except "Give" has better singing, rapping, and production and everything else than "Anthem"

i really like party rock anthem

I pair the two of these together because they've reduced partying to the idea of partying

i think the most actual pleasure i have gotten out of bep (outside of fergie's 'no brainer' in planet terror) is one night my sister and i had a nasty/stupid argument and we're riding out to some relatives in the country to do xmas, sitting in the dark in her car in silence, seething, and listening to npr and this guy is interviewing will i am, and at one point (tbf the host had kinda spurred him down this train of thought) will i am is talking about the diversity of styles he works in and says 'if you were to hear my humps and let's get it started and boom boom pow and don't phunk w/ my heart and i gotta feeling back to back you would have NO IDEA that any of those were by the same group' and my sister and i both burst out laughing at the stupidity of this statement, any enmity between us dissolved. will i am's hack formulas and deluded ego save xmas.

will i am has made pure shit so consistently that makes party rock anthem easier to everlook too

I pair the two of these together because they've reduced partying to the idea of partying

― dayo, Saturday, September 10, 2011 8:50 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

in a substantially different way than the whole long history of party songs?

these two have captured the imagination of the nation like no other

mazel tov!

PRA has better drum sounds
IGF makes me wanna suicide myself

these two aren't worth a drop of sweat off kool and the gang's balls.

I submit to you: the playlist of DJ JEFF HUNTER

http://www.djjeffhunter.com/mbtop200.htm

suck it will i am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M&ob=av3e
saturday night yall

man, how do I shot writing about music for baout.com

http://top40.about.com/od/specialoccasions/tp/partysongs.htm

hahaha

http://top40.about.com/od/top10lists/tp/top-100-party-songs.09.htm

prediction: at some point will i am unleashes a brostep 'electric slide'

i feel like there's such a self-loathing just under the surface with LMFAO -- like they're fucking scions of Motown and they're making the dumbest garbage with the laziest hooks and defiantly mornic rapping and most cynically dancefloor-ready beats possible, probably at first just to get laid and not just be bored rich kids but be famous bored rich kids, and now it worked a little too well and we all have to deal with their horrible bullshit

i mean the last time a Gordy forced their way onto the pop charts at least we got a memorable MJ hook out of the deal

I am kind of shocked at this unanimous consensus between about.com and DJ JEFF HUNTER that IGF is the greatest party song ever made

but who has been to more parties than DJ JEFF HUNTER, I ask you? who is a greater authority on what gets a party shaking?

http://www.mikesmobiledj.com/top_300_requested_party_songs.htm

perhaps MIKE'S MOBILE DJ would like to disagree...but wait! they have IGF at the top too!

damn i have party rock anthem on right now

i hope this comes on the radio when i go to taco bell

finally a dissenting opinion... from DJ WHITE HAWK

http://www.djwhitehawk.com/all-time-top-party-songs-best-party-songs.html

wow that site is beautiful

colby o'donis says list is otm.

Scooch?

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday

it's kinda amazing how universal these lists are. i think if you were playing, say, a wedding, in liverpool tonight then the biggest tunes would be 'sex on fire', 'use somebody', 'human' (the killers rather than the human league, unfortunately), 'party rock anthem' and 'i gotta feeling'. ''a town called malice' too. something by the stereophonics would prob be in there also. it amazes me how banal the general public's taste is, you'd think michael jackson or stevie wonder or something would get people up but they're nothing compared to 'build me up buttercup' or 'dignity' by deacon blue. totally derailed thread but all these songs remind me of each other. of these i prefer 'party rock anthem', mate of mine who djs in one of lpool's top bars says it reminds him of bizznizz 'don't miss the party line'. don't hear that myself.

pretty sure "don't stop til you get enough" still gets the party going

some dude, when was the last party you went to

parties in general, parties where people dance, or weddings where people dance (which is what i was talking about in response to 'or something')?

all of the above

if it was michael jackson it would most likely be 'thriller' or 'billie jean'. people don't seem to like being surprised.

dayo do you really want detailed answers to those 3 questions or...yeah nevermind

pra is a jam imo

if it was michael jackson it would most likely be 'thriller' or 'billie jean'. people don't seem to like being surprised.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, September 11, 2011 3:44 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah people can't get with deep cuts like 'don't stop till you get enough', what is some dude even talking about

it amazes me how banal the general public's taste is

just for once I'm not gonna drop Marlon Brando scrawling "exterminate the brutes", i'm just gonna suggest that a lot of personal assumptions are crammed into this phrase and that i don't feel like you're trying to understand what a general public is, or how individuals within that category might relate to music or partying, or what the point of taste is, or why some music is more popular than other music, or how attitudes to mass culture can shade into a weak solipsism that proposes that most "other people" are stupider than we are, somehow

DJ JEFF HUNTER is clearly a wedding dj, and that list is the canon you might as well get worked up about people liking to watch stupid sitcoms or buy oversized suv's or something as try to deny that that list is the (ugly) truth

anyway i'll take PRA at this point cause i haven't had to play it 8000 times yet - bep's been the go to party-in-a-can song for how many years running already? also the beat's a hair better and those harmonies are kinda nice. i'm sure i'll get sick of it soon enough though

"instant party from a can" is a really good descriptor for these.

i hate "i gotta feeling" more but only cuz it's way more ubiquitous - don't think i've ever heard "party rock anthem" in the wild and in fact had to look it up to work out what it was. it's probably the worse song but i blame "i gotta feeling" for so much.

the general public can have really good taste fyi. pop is in a really bad place right now and i haven't quite worked out why, but i'd sooner blame a panicking and conservative music industry.

for a couple of months i was singing "AND A MERZBOW SONG COMES ON" so often i started to forget what the actual line was

I love that song. I am not ashamed. Well, maybe just a little.

it's easily the best thing associated with a cyrus since the second and third seasons of doc

"Boot Scootin' Boogie" or whatever it was was kind of a jam.

lol dude that's like the country equivalent of if someone said to you "i like that snoop dogg song, hard knock life"

stop

― D-40, Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hatin is bad

― D-40, Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i've started saying this irl

xp haha, I know. I was just playin'.

Those two songs are inextricably linked in my mind tho. Probably cause they're the only two country songs I knew when I was a kid.

Our lesbian PE teacher made us do the electric slide to both.

Is that a euphemism or

:o

i still can't believe j0rdan called it a classic

― some dude, Sunday, September 11, 2011 6:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are we talking about the same j0rdan because I can totally believe this tbrr

every day i'm shufflin

― some lady (La Lechera), Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"party rock anthem" sounds really perfect in the dvd ad for tyler perry's madea's big happy family

haha i figured out today that it reminds me of that music they were always playing in six flags ads a couple or so years back. (was that 2 unlimited, too?)

No venga boys

yeah there you go.

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL STRONGO

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I wish all these post-Guetta pop songs that remind me of Geht's Noch and it's squeaky synth squelch could integrate the same jacking percussion and rhythms, instead of the plodding stomp that's so ubiquitous now.

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party rock anthem is better

yeah it's authentically stupid while I Gotta Feeling sounds like it was grown in a lab

i'd still dance to Party Rock Anthem, "I Gotta Feeling" sounds like a song used in bars to indicate shift change

You can laugh at party rock, but only groan at I've got a feeling.

The only really really bad part of PRA is “you’re naked now!” Which I have a lot to say about when you consider how many little kids’ parties this song soundtracked.

I’m like that freaked out dog on the Krusty The Clown show when I hear this shit

I still think it’s an effective party song but that line nags at me.

I Gotta Feeling is more sanitized.

"i gotta feeling" still better sorry

“i gotta feeling” = national sales conference kickoff music

i gotta feeling, and that feeling is 'gas'

The best thing about either of these songs is Clyde Carson rapping (on ILM-approved hyphy classic "Lightweight Jammin") the line b****es catchin feelings like will.i.am. Just a super gratifying arrangement of syllables, even if he grocery-bags the punchline a second later by singsonging "Tonight's gonna be a good night."

The second best thing is "Sorry For Party Rocking." Not the actual song, just the title/concept.

I chuckle everytime I think about the synth breakdown in party rock. Just feels like something Tim Heidelberg would come up with, with zoom in/zoom + spinning of the camera from 45 to 315 degrees on a 240p phone camera filming a woman tweaking on a green screen of a raging party backdrop.

We just want to see you........ shake that
WUMWUMWUMWUMWAMDAWAMDAWAMWAM

Like it really could be a DKR song

The thing about I Gotta Feeling is the touch of mournful nostalgia underneath. Like, you're pre-loaded for wistful reminisces about that girl whose number you wish you got, or that last Four Loko that you wish you drank. In seriousness though, the song often brings a tear to my eye. An optimistic song from a time long gone, after which we've experienced some not-very-good nights indeed.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (Do it)
Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday (Do it)

"I Gotta Feeling" is the song you play to kick off the bar mitzvah. "Party Rock" is what you play when the sugar and pizza has kicked in and the kids are going wiiiiiiiiild.

Put another way, when "I Gotta Feeling" comes on we joke how stupid it is, but when "Party Rock" comes on we don't need to say anything, because we know it. You could even say we feel it.

Both complete shit.

So it's a tie?

Both of these songs rule

Can't get into the party without a tie.

The second best thing is "Sorry For Party Rocking." Not the actual song, just the title/concept.

the actual song is almost impressively terrible

lol ppl acting like "party rock anthem" is not also corporate team building workshop music

which one of the two do you think I heard during teambuilding meetings

(it weren't LMFAO that's for sure)

everybody just have a good time

my main problem with “party rock anthem” is they sing the chorus like they’re trying to calm everybody down instead of light everyone up. I think I prefer that shitty Macklemore “the ceiling can’t hold us” thing.

lmao

"everyone, please calm down. contrary to the rumors spreading earlier, party rock is indeed still in the house tonight and has not been postponed as incorrectly stated earlier"

It’s to calm them before the beat drops, so they can bring it back up again for the “shake that” part. It basically ensures the shaking of that.
Afaict that is

I used to run a summer camp, and the camp song/dance during the morning meeting was I Gotta Feeling. I would play it through the PA via a cable to the audio jack on my phone (I did not participate in the dance or in fact get up on stage at all except for certificate presentations at the end of the course.) The kids seemed to like it fine, I didn't hate it, actually I had never heard it before as was mostly out of the country from 2002 to 2016 and it sounded i dunno, acceptable. Then one day I got in my car and my phone connected via bluetooth at an uncomfortably high volume and with the improved quality of the audio I could hear for the first time how tinny, hollow and cheap-sounding it was.