The Worst of the Worst of the Worst: "Rude" vs. "All About That Bass"

you mean it's catchy?

infectious

No it's sexually transmitted?

Dancing in the rude video might be worse than the song.

also: Video Connections: the "Rude" video and this one....

I'm having a beer in the Charlotte airport and this shit just came on. Eyeballing anybody who is vibin to this so I can throw my glass at them. Thank fuck the median age is 63.

let em know you're all about that bass

The Magic! singer looks like Dustin Hoffman crossbred with Pauly Shore

"My criteria for what I like and dislike about music is my own and I don't believe you or anyone can tell me otherwise"

just trying to help you understand the poll brer

and i like rude's shitcanned solo tbh. its ruddy tunelessness struck me as intentional/a pretty interesting thing to have on the radio in a time when pop has hardly any solos at all (let alone the guitar variety)

the solo is the only redeeming moment in the tropical shitstorm that is 'rude'.

like toploader covering the mighty mighty bosstones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw

1:12. It reminded me of "Rude"

rude is so much worse, come on

i despise "rude." this guy is whining about his hurt feelings while his girlfriend is faced with either a bitter family rift or a painful romantic breakup. truly the rude one........is him.

read the lyrics to this song and you just know that in the unspoken coda, the woman in question ends up locked in a dog cage with a water bowl and a piss bucket:

Saturday morning jumped out of bed
And put on my best suit
Got in my car and raced like a jet
All the way to you
Knocked on your door with heart in my hand
To ask you a question
'Cause I know that you're an old-fashioned man, yeah

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but the answer is 'No'

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
Yeah, no matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude

I hate to do this, you leave no choice
Can't live without her
Love me or hate me we will be boys
Standing at that altar
Or we will run away
To another galaxy, you know
You know she's in love with me
She will go anywhere I go

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, 'cause the answer's still 'No"

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Rude

Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say, I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but 'No' still means 'No'!

Why you gotta be so rude?
Don't you know I'm human too?
Why you gotta be so rude?
I'm gonna marry her anyway

Marry that girl
Marry her anyway
Marry that girl
No matter what you say
Marry that girl
And we'll be a family
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Why you gotta be so
Rude
Why you gotta be so rude?

I dunno, I kind of picture more she dates him for like three months then breaks up when she goes off to college and he gets a job at whatever the 2015 equivalent of a video store is

i believe it was molly lambert who said the song is better when you pretend he said "murder" instead of "marry"

"Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?" is creepiest possible way that you can ask for your in-laws blessing and no right-thinking person would say "okay, sure!" to it so I really don't know what this entitled douchebag is whining about, and I say this as someone who DID actually call his in-laws before proposing to make sure they didn't secretly hate me

xp: Molly Lambert OTM

on the flipside, "tough luck, my friend" is the awesomest way a father could respond to that

xp That's the whole fun of the song though! That's what I feel like the haters are missing. The dude just shows up on the doorstep with nothing whatsoever to recommend him as a mate all "can I plz marry your daughter?" And the dad is like "very sorry, but I do not approve of you as a marriage partner for my daughter" and he's like "GOD! WHY ARE YOU SO RUDE! I'M A HUMAN BEING MAAAAN!"

I generally do not listen to songs by people I want to beat to death

yeah i don't think "haters" are missing that, so much as not enjoying it through an ironic critical distance

But I think it's pretty much baked into song that his request is implausible though, for real.

little about nasri suggests to me that he's the new randy newman, painting a portrait of a hapless douche millenial

Well I don't know, I read it that way. I guess it's fun to read it that way regardless of Nasri's intent.

"ah what a wry mockery of a romantic trustafarian i've created here...now to add the perfect touch...the dopiest of guitar solos..."

I don't think it's a "wry mockery" but I think there's some gentle/playful self-awareness about being an unrealistic youth.

well he's admitted the original lyric was an attack on an ex-girlfriend that was altered to a more benign tale of starcrossed love, so there's definitely an awareness that he's being a candy-ass

You know how in that Sublime song the dead guy says "I can play the guitar like a motherfucking riot" and proceeds to have the worst guitar solo ever recorded? The one in this song gives that a run for the money.

But I think it's pretty much baked into song that his request is implausible though, for real.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, January 23, 2015 5:26 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone says that and I just don't see it -- it wouldn't have become a no. 1 hit if this were the case. this is one of those things where it pretty much establishes itself that critics and/or internet-types are disconnected from 50% of the actual population and what they find romantic

yeah, it's true. you guys don't get us at all.

everyone says that and I just don't see it -- it wouldn't have become a no. 1 hit if this were the case. this is one of those things where it pretty much establishes itself that critics and/or internet-types are disconnected from 50% of the actual population and what they find romantic

― katherine, Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:15 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whereas reading the song in the simplistic way the other 50% of the population allegedly reads it and then snobbishly hating on it means you are "connected" to them?

I mean, Ronald Reagan used Born in the USA as a campaign song, not everyone gets everything.

Reagan was dumber than 100 percent of the ppulation.

pollution comes from trees

...did I just get called a snob for liking magic!

can I cash this in somewhere

yeah but only for rudecoin

Rudecoin ilx poster
Step to me, you're over

pollution comes from trees

you cant blame this on us, its you who came through here with your autotune and your car alarms and your horse races, oblivious to the destruction that was being caused

^ speaks for the trees

Rude is really about the right to ring strangers' doorbell and loudly demand shit at 3 am

i have done this. i thought it was a party. but no.

I went to a club yesterday and they played these two songs next to each other. Sequence was: uptown funk, alabada bass and rude. I was sober. People were singing along. It was one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a club.

Dj cut the Rude song before the guitar solo.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

RUDECOIN

'Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?'
'No, because your music's shit and you're crap at songs'

*slams door*

why you gotta be so rude
I write for Bieb and Akon too

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.