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02 September 2010

I love how painful the news stories are about this song.
posted by octothorpe 02 September | 21:08
Just saw this for the first time today- what a guy that voice has! (lol, you know what I mean).
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 September | 21:17
Oh man, I can't wait til this song is over. Which is also what I thought when I listened to it (after the 4 billionth time it was linked on facebook). It's cute at first, but man does it get repetitive fast.
posted by Eideteker 02 September | 21:34
Is it strange that I wish my friend Mike (the one that was on Idol) was the one singing this song? He could do it, and I want him to hit it big, lol.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 September | 21:39
I couldn't be prouder that Cee-Lo is from Atlanta. FUCK YOU! :D
posted by BoringPostcards 02 September | 21:47
Is it strange that I wish my friend Mike was the one singing this song?

Not strange at all. It's a damn hot Motown-ish song. The fact it ignores all censorship rules means he probably won't, which is a shame because it's the best Motown song written since there WAS a Motown.
posted by BoringPostcards 02 September | 22:06
I know. Too bad.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 September | 22:08
man does it get repetitive fast

Yeah, one more verse and one less chorus. Perhaps we'll get a Fuck You II.
posted by Ardiril 02 September | 22:10
I know. Too bad.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 02 September | 22:14
Oh, hoo hoo!
posted by msali 02 September | 22:24
man does it get repetitive fast.

There are too many notes!!
posted by BoringPostcards 02 September | 22:46
Haaaaaaaaaaa!
posted by Ardiril 02 September | 22:54
heheh
posted by Ardiril 02 September | 22:55
It tried to go beyond the shock value for a while (rhyming Ferrari and Atari) but fell back into cliches later in the song (rhyming golddigger with the n-word). Which was a letdown. It could have been REALLY awesome, not just almost awesome.
posted by oneswellfoop 02 September | 22:59
I dunno. Nicely produced but scarily misogynistic.
posted by Miko 02 September | 23:16
Not strange at all. It's a damn hot Motown-ish song.

It's this that keeps the worm in my ear. Ain't that some shit?
posted by WolfDaddy 02 September | 23:18
Miko, in that case here's 50 cent's defense of her, freestyling on this song ('she won't let your love turn her into a bum')
posted by Firas 02 September | 23:30
I dunno. Nicely produced but scarily misogynistic.

But most of it is about the new boyfriend! The song goes back, true... but it's definitely about the pair of 'em.
posted by BoringPostcards 02 September | 23:31
Mmmm yeah. Not sold. But whatever.
posted by Miko 02 September | 23:31
But most of it is about the new boyfriend!

Not really - the "you" in the song is directed at the girl at least as often as the guy. Not that I want to start one of THOSE threads - I don't have time anyway - but lighthearted as this is, I'm not super psyched about a song where a woman's decision not to pursue a relationship earns her a "fuck you." And whatever, the song's creation is one thing, its joyful celebration and admiration and viral sharing is another.

If this were a world in which this meme never got a whole lot worse than a pop video, that'd be one thing, but it's just another brick in the wall.
posted by Miko 02 September | 23:37
I see you riding round with the guy I love, and guess what, FUCK YOU.

The girlfriend in Cee Lo's song could be a boyfriend and nothing would change. He's talking about a relationship, not a person. It's his ex, and the person his ex is with. His ex is living it up with SOMEONE ELSE. Gender's irrelevant.

(ooo ooo ooo)
posted by BoringPostcards 03 September | 01:13
Don't worry about it BP. Actually the actual misogynistic part of the song from my perspective isn't so much "fuck you for dropping me for the other guy" (that's just a normal human emotion, are only women allowed to feel that?) but the whole "you're a gold digger" angle.
posted by Firas 03 September | 01:20
I'm not super psyched about a song where a woman's decision not to pursue a relationship earns her a "fuck you."

I hate to be the devil's advocate, but what if it was a woman singing about a guy that turned her down? Would people then be inclined to feel that the woman was better off and/or stronger for moving on?

On preview - what BP said. Gender is irrelevant. If it really is the 'gold-digger' angle that's upsetting, would it be just as upsetting if it had been about a woman being turned down by a 'gold-digging' guy?
posted by youngergirl44 03 September | 01:29
I enjoyed the song and the video.
posted by Specklet 03 September | 04:23
what if it was a woman singing about a guy that turned her down?

Man, there's enough hatred and anger in the world, especially sexual anger, enough to create a world in which there's plenty of sexually motivated violence too. It's not something I really feel like celebrating right now. Makes me sad that it's so entertaining. Whatever. It's a pop song, it's what we do, it's not the first or the last, and so it goes.
posted by Miko 03 September | 08:08
I also love the song. It made me go digging in my kids' music for more Cee-Lo and I was highly impressed by what I found.

You know, I've been dumped for richer women - yes. Yes I have. I could tell you bitterly about it at some length but I will not. - and the song I would have written about it would have been a far sight more toxic than this one. Relationships can suck. Breaking up is, of course, hard to do. The end of love hurts. People lash out and catharsis, which is what I would take this for, rather than a paean to sexual violence, is okay.
posted by mygothlaundry 03 September | 08:53
My husband is lucky he hasn't been home this week- I've been blaring this song and the Bed Intruder song nonstop.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 September | 09:18
I also found it went on for a bit, and mainly would like to point out that I think Mayer Hawthorne is making the best Motown since Motown. That's all.

He's not much of a dancer though.
posted by richat 03 September | 09:26
I just stay on the surface, smile & be boppy.
posted by chewatadistance 03 September | 11:12
In almost every relationship I've had, I've made more money than my S.O. and even I was cheering for the singer by the end of it.

I can't wait for a female singer to cover this. Or even better yet, for Molly Lewis to do a white-girl ukelele version.

Cover songs that use wildly different instrumentation and interpretation from the originals? Those are my anti-drug.
posted by TrishaLynn 03 September | 13:09
What Specklet said.
posted by deborah 03 September | 16:58
The lady responds (parody video)
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 September | 20:32
richat, that song and video slay me. It's like, MOTOWN except it's in Florida! :D
posted by BoringPostcards 03 September | 22:58
Oh, the parody's pretty good.
posted by flex 03 September | 23:41
I heard a cool song in 1990 vs in 2010
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posted by arse_hat 04 September | 01:01
Heh, the parody version comes from where I'm coming from. Not bad.

Love that, arsey. Except in my life, it was more like

2. Jot down small shreds of lyrics in a notebook and begin obsessive quest to ID song.
3. Call radio station (sometimes)
4. Sing and hum misremembered snippets of the song to friends. "Do you know a song that goes like this? "China cinnamon plus endorphin, la la la mmm mmm" usually to no avail
5. Make guesses about artist based on style and singer's voice and gender. At record store, flip through bins of records by likely artists, scanning obscure LP titles for any song whose name indicates it might possibly be the one.
6. Using a similar system, page through song lyric indexes at the library
7. If by chance song is heard again on radio, take people and furniture out while diving onto the radio, turning up the volume, shushing everyone, and listening ear to speaker fervently in case the DJ says the name

I probably had a constantly rotating list of about 10 songs I was "looking for" the whole time I was growing up, until the internet came along. When I got on the pre-web internet in 1992, one of the best things about it was "OMG, there are whole searchable databases of song lyrics out there!" When there was still almost nothing on the internet but weather, MUDs, joke archives, and Shakespeare archives, song lyrics were there.
posted by Miko 04 September | 08:18
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