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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.