"Blurred Lines" vs. "Get Lucky"

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Which of the two runaway leaders in 2013's song-of-summer derby will make you remember with fondness the sunburn you sustained these last few months?

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Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 13:51 (twelve years ago)

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

jaymc, Monday, 22 July 2013 13:52 (twelve years ago)

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 13:54 (twelve years ago)

me neither! aint heard. xp

playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 July 2013 13:56 (twelve years ago)

They are both beautifully nondescript.

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

One middling, the other okay

first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 July 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

0:34 in = action.

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:01 (twelve years ago)

The answer is #Beautiful

lex pretend, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:20 (twelve years ago)

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

call all destroyer, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:22 (twelve years ago)

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:23 (twelve years ago)

The answer is #Beautiful

― lex pretend, Monday, July 22, 2013

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

first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)

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

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:27 (twelve years ago)

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:27 (twelve years ago)

GET LUCKY

neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

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

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:29 (twelve years ago)

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

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:31 (twelve years ago)

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

AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 22 July 2013 14:31 (twelve years ago)

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

neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:36 (twelve years ago)

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

Simon H., Monday, 22 July 2013 14:37 (twelve years ago)

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, 22 July 2013 14:40 (twelve years ago)

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

loosely inspired by Dr. Dre (crüt), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:44 (twelve years ago)

"Infectious" just about describes it.

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 14:44 (twelve years ago)

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'

乒乓, Monday, 22 July 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)

"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"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:02 (twelve years ago)

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

Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:03 (twelve years ago)

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

Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:03 (twelve years ago)

the vowel sounds are cool

loosely inspired by Dr. Dre (crüt), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:04 (twelve years ago)

raising the bar to the stars is a great idea

if you lose your way tonight that's how you know the map's not right (NickB), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:04 (twelve years ago)

taxi home could be expensive though

if you lose your way tonight that's how you know the map's not right (NickB), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:04 (twelve years ago)

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

Cap'n Conserv-a-pedia (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:05 (twelve years ago)

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"

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:08 (twelve years ago)

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

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:09 (twelve years ago)

comfortably blurred lines tho i like get lucky just fine

mundane peaceable username (darraghmac), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:10 (twelve years ago)

summon ienjoyhotdogs

r|t|c, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:12 (twelve years ago)

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

Treeship, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:18 (twelve years ago)

there's not a get lucky video!

loosely inspired by Dr. Dre (crüt), Monday, 22 July 2013 16:21 (twelve years ago)

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

Treeship, Monday, 22 July 2013 16:27 (twelve years ago)

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

loosely inspired by Dr. Dre (crüt), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:18 (twelve years ago)

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

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:39 (twelve years ago)

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

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:41 (twelve years ago)

projecting

neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

that doesn't mean it's not true

undescended listicle (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

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

Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)

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

first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)

pharrell giving hope to the common man

neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:48 (twelve years ago)

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

neil degrasse (m bison), Monday, 22 July 2013 18:48 (twelve years ago)

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

da croupier, Monday, 22 July 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)

"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)

nova, Monday, 9 June 2014 20:23 (eleven years ago)

xp
groin pains

smooth hymnal (m bison), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:28 (eleven years ago)

"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.

On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Monday, 9 June 2014 20:37 (eleven years ago)

happy>get lucky>blurred lines

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

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:33 (eleven years ago)

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

uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:37 (eleven years ago)

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

₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:40 (eleven years ago)

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

le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:43 (eleven years ago)

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

uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

and this was before the walmart shareholders meeting!

le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:47 (eleven years ago)

haha tru

uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:47 (eleven years ago)

"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

macklin' rosie (crüt), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:48 (eleven years ago)

I have a softspot for "Happy" fan videos.

₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 June 2014 21:50 (eleven years ago)

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.)

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:01 (eleven years ago)

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.

₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:04 (eleven years ago)

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)

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

@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.

lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:12 (eleven years ago)

:D

Who whom kissed? (imago), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:13 (eleven years ago)

lex otm

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

Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:15 (eleven years ago)

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

Who whom kissed? (imago), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:15 (eleven years ago)

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

lex pretend, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:18 (eleven years ago)

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.

some dude, Monday, 9 June 2014 22:39 (eleven years ago)

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

le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:44 (eleven years ago)

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

dn/ac (darraghmac), Monday, 9 June 2014 22:52 (eleven years ago)

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

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

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 9 June 2014 23:13 (eleven years ago)

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

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 9 June 2014 23:14 (eleven years ago)

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.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:35 (eleven years ago)

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

da croupier, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:39 (eleven years ago)

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.

some dude, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:40 (eleven years ago)

ARE now old enough, oops

some dude, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:41 (eleven years ago)

see? it's fucking with your sentences

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:41 (eleven years ago)

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

da croupier, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:42 (eleven years ago)

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

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:43 (eleven years ago)

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

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 01:05 (eleven years ago)

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

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 01:05 (eleven years ago)

yall are weird and have some shit to work out

smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 01:58 (eleven years ago)

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.

brimstead, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 04:08 (eleven years ago)

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

timellison, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 04:24 (eleven years ago)

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

i dont because whatever man

smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 04:29 (eleven years ago)

it's a invitation

yall are weird and have some shit to work out

sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 04:57 (eleven years ago)

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

lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 09:41 (eleven years ago)

I stand corrected.

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 12:11 (eleven years ago)

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

when they're happy for stoopid reasons, sure

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:19 (eleven years ago)

I detect glee in that post.

Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:20 (eleven years ago)

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

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:25 (eleven years ago)

lol dammit

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:25 (eleven years ago)

hahahaha

On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:26 (eleven years ago)

and this was before the walmart shareholders meeting!

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

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 14:30 (eleven years ago)

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

uppers epilepsy sh@kedown (The Reverend), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

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

the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:37 (nine years ago)


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