"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

http://25.media.tumblr.com/e68716eb74dd018939dd98b9230d2ddc/tumblr_mmkbdsDyya1qm2npdo1_500.gif

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

"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