"Call Me" vs. "Call Me Maybe"

i would've voted even for Tweet's "Call Me" over CRJ

I'm honestly torn. "Call Me" was one of the first 45s I ever bought and that song has been a semi-constant in my life since I was about 12. However, I'm beyond infatuation with "Call Me Maybe" and it will probably be my track of the year unless something else swoops in to replace it.

"Call Me" is great and all but I've always counted it as a lesser Blondie single for whatever reason and "Call Me Maybe" is pure Pop Utopianism and I feel I'd be betraying "the moment" by voting against it so Carly Rae Jepsen guys NO REGRETS.

"Call Me Maybe." Don't think I like a Blondie song after Eat to the Beat.

You guys must be insane. Blondie, without question.

I actually feel the same way about "Call Me Maybe" as I do about "We Are Young": huge chorus, nothing verses. "Call Me" seems so obviously to be the better song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCM5nK87mE

this should sway some votes

i think i like the verses of "Call Me Maybe" more than the chorus actually

I like Carly Rae's song, like a four-fifths "teenage dream" though
blondie's is aight

i think i like the verses of "Call Me Maybe" more than the chorus actually

― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:20 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah easily

middle-eight is best though.

Really? I kind of hate the middle eight.

"Call me" and not because of an 'omg how could you vote for the NEW one' thing, it's just a way better song

I don't mind the CRJ song but this is easily Blondie.

The middle-eight is what elevates it from generic if well-assembled teen-pop into a huge pop moment.

Would"ve voted for Tweet
Love Blondie's Call Me a massive amount but it's CRJ no question

CRJ

I prefer Blondie's more direct entreaty

The middle-eight is what elevates it from generic if well-assembled teen-pop into a huge pop moment.

is the "I missed you so bad" part that's pretty much indistinct from the chorus the "middle eight"? that part is pretty weak & pandering. I guess pandering is a good thing in pop, though.

I guess the "your stare was holdin..." part is the actual middle eight. I'm not actually sure what defines a "middle eight" in a song that's verse-chorus-verse.

some of you guys are massively overrating "Call Me Maybe"

otm

I prefer Blondie's more direct entreaty

CRJ is pretty 'direct' in the video... (Think "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot")

Debbie Harry was on the Muppet show a lot - she gets many cool points for that. But Call Me was never my favourite Blondie song - I'd go X Offendor or Rip Her To Shreds - andI too am swept up in the pop momentum of CMM. Also, she's Canadian! WE'RE TAKING OVER.

My vote for "Call Me Maybe" was more by default. I think it's fine--it's not "Crimson and Clover" or anything, but it's a good pop song. "Call Me" was pretty good in American Gigolo, but it's part of that morass of 10 million songs I've heard 10 million times.

Also, she's Canadian! WE'RE TAKING OVER.

I just watched the video to CMM again. It confirms my vote.

I love Blondie but Call Me isn't one of my favorite songs by them. Call Me Maybe is fucking awesome though so that.

I'll admit when I hear "Call Me" now it kind of makes me want to put on "Children Of The Grave" instead

real actual heresy: CRJ might be hotter than DH

crazy talk

End of the year, kids are working on board games, so I couldn't resist bringing up this thread. On-the-spot reportage: Kiandra votes for "Call Me" (which she already knew).

CRJ might be hotter than DH

Have you gone mad, man?!

Picture I was going to post of DH to prove how otherworldy beautiful she is includes her vagina 0_o (Search for Blondie Dr X and you too can see it) but rest assured, DH is hotter than most women, even pretty little CRJ.

yeah that's absurd, jepsen looks out of dark crystal somewhat

voted 'call me maybe', partly 'call me' is overrated (though it does bridge 70s moroder and 80s moroder in the best possible fashion), partly still can't get over corgi rae jepsen

That's like calling trumps. (xpost)

Clemenza: will you be at the next Secret Canadian Meeting to plan the world's next favourite boy band?

haha this thread is like vintage 2002 ILX so I can't even get mad

FFM: sssshhhhhh....ixnay on the meetnay.

crap, they're gonna take away my OHIP card :(

... you're having a nmeet?

As much as I love Blondie, "Call Me" has always felt too cold & clinical; a marker of how remote they briefly became at the apex of their imperial phase. Whereas "Call Me Maybe" is perky and lovable. As I prize perky/lovable over cold/clinical, CRJ it is.

some of you guys are massively overrating "Call Me Maybe"

― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:59 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd like to see the result of "Call Me Maybe" vs "Since U Been Gone"

I've been blind to the similarities btw "Call me maybe" and "Teenage Dream" til now, blinded by string glissandi prbably

Ripped jeans, skin was showing

x-post - OMG THAT WOULD BE SO HARD DJP

yeah that's absurd, jepsen looks out of dark crystal somewhat

Yep. She's in the Gelfling club along with the Olsen twins. Not to say that she's not totally hot because she def is but Debbie Harry is just amazing.

Picture I was going to post of DH to prove how otherworldy beautiful she is includes her vagina 0_o

this is still cracking me up btw

Not sure I'd call it 'self-serving' (though I have in fact congratulated myself recently on not listening to Train)

sorry al. I wasn't trying to be a dick.

it's cool, moment of haughtiness, i've put it behind me

and yeah the Cure are a pretty teenagery band. their audience is pretty gender-neutral though. Rick Ross and Soulja Boy I'll definitely concede.

SD, you seem more than almost anyone else on her to be involved in your local scene, not only the diff't types of people making music in Baltimore, but you even some attuned to like the radio programming, the rap stations, the rock stations, the pop stations, which is where I thought most of your interest in the various Billboard charts and the championing of certain quote-unquote uncool radio fare had its roots in the first place. You seem really into how music shapes and is shaped by your immediate environment, in what almost seems like a psychogeographical sense. That's kind of super-awesome imo (though I'm probably way off tbh)

that's very kind of you to say. i'll allow you to continue not listening to Train.

would not call rick ross music marketed to teen boys

i'll rep for "bonfire"

would not call rick ross music marketed to teen boys

he gets his big tits out often enough

It is faintly fucking hilarious that people will actually try and represent that teenboy coded music is not at all represented on a board that spends as much time discussing and addressing *metal* as ILM.

But, y'know... cat, pigeons, and a whole lot of squawking would probably be the result if I went any further with that sentiment.

brb just died laughing (xpost)

I like both of these songs, and also Robyn.

Didn't see it, but Nightline had a story on "Call Me Maybe" last night. Elsewhere, Ted Koppel died a thousand deaths.

i'm enjoying this lots
http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/call-me-maybe-acapella-147-times-exponentially-layered

― nathey, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:36 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, by the end that's abrasive and hypnotic and incredible.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:54 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKVS0eI85I

Nuff said.

damn, you know what's a motherfucking EAR WORM?

i voted for "call me" without hesitation or regret, and it's not like i'd do any different now, but i've come to like "call me maybe" a hell of a lot more than i did at first. doesn't have anything on blondie's seductive rush, but it does a damn good job of capturing the dizzy buzz of new infatuation. and it gets stuck in my head real bad. tbh, i think silly videos of people singing along to it helped sell me. like how watching a dumb comedy with a happy crowd is always better than home alone.

recently found out that "call me" is produced by giorgio moroder

and it is! he's done some good work.

you can just barely tell on the single but his influence on this extended version is prominent (bit too much so maybe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVPowtP2PM

most underrated part of this thread was when frogbs thought lex was a woman

tbh, i think silly videos of people singing along to it helped sell me.

I didn't need this to love the song but I agree that there's something quite endearing about people singing along to it, especially how it seems to reduce otherwise very macho looking guys to making fools of themselves.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7shl2wlkk1qawcqfo7_250.gif

the best bit of the US Olympic swim team's "call me maybe" video

Basically every dude I was referring to in my post above exists on a scale of 1 to Ryan Lochte.

Basically every dude I was referring to in my post above exists on a scale of 1 to Ryan Lochte.

ha, yes well that too

tim you know there have been rumours than ryan lochte is dating or has dated k michelle???!!

http://c684645.r45.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/kmichelle-ryan-lochte-e13437380957802.png

if only it was teedra we could make a backstroke joke

She would be his type of chick I imagine.

OTOH his mom says he only does one nighters

xpost - applause

i suspect k michelle is into boys who only do one nighters

i dunno (insert zero f*cks given joke)

mom lochte 'walked that back' as they say here

Basically every dude I was referring to in my post above exists on a scale of 1 to Ryan Lochte.

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:04 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

(otm)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m943l3oocu1r0p8d9o1_r1_1280.jpg

University of Chicago FTW

ugh that is like the groupon of college acceptance letters!

haha

givin carly rae a bad name imo

if people don't reply they'll send one out that says "you didn't have to cut us off"

We feel so rough,

U of C

haha again

did we do Steve Kardynal's Call Me Maybe chat roulette video itt? It kind made me feel better abt the human race.

It was posted somewhere on ILM, but I don't think it was in here. (rolling pop?)

http://khu.music.s3.amazonaws.com/songify_504f595206928.mp3

Haha, this is great! Did you make it?

"So Carly Rae Jepsen, guys, No-oo-ooo-oooo Reg-ret-sss"

applause

Aw, thanks! Yes, made by mine own fair hand, inspired by Farrah Abraham. There's one on the Bieber thread as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPetUwLDdA

adorable!

OMFG

hahahaha I am just now hearing mike t-diva's song, amazing