OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

This conversation is endlessly cycling. Can someone just post another stupid blog?

the husband of My Husband's Stupid Record Collection said on his radio show last week that the Mountain Goats are mediocre

I have never heard "What Does The Fox Say." I had never heard the "Cups" thing until my niece's high school show choir did it last weekend. I only ever heard "Blurred Lines" because it was playing by a DJ at a function I attended. I deliberately listened to "Get Lucky" because everyone was talking about its retro-disco sound. I had no idea that song on the P. Diddy car commercial was the "Happy" that everyone's discussing.

It's not like I don't listen to music -- I listen to tons of music! Even new music! I'm listening to new music right now! -- but you can avoid this stuff. It's simple.

WTF is 'Cups'?

(PS I don't even own a TV)

Lmao at branwell subtweeting this thread

I was thinking earlier about why I hate 'Happy' and that's because it's one of these songs that sounds like it was made for a car or bank advert. And now I find that it has been used already. See also that tragic 'I want to fly away' song by Lenny Kravitz

If only ILM were the sort of place where people's listening choices were met with instant cultural suspicion...

dog latin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8

(my son learned it in music class and now habitually performs it any time he is presented with a cup and a table)

https://www.google.ca/search?q=taylor+swift+magazine+covers&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=rtVPU6Jy6ubwAZ6YgMAP&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1240&bih=664

https://www.google.ca/search?q=katy+perry+magazines+covers&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ldVPU4XBD-XK8wGKlYCIBw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1240&bih=664

https://www.google.ca/search?q=lady+gaga+magazine+cover&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nNVPU7vRCajq8QG134G4BQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1240&bih=664

And I guess we go to different gyms, stores, and fast food places (although, yeah, they might be just as likely to play rock stations or dance mixes). Admittedly, my perception could be coloured by teaching young kids who want to learn Taylor Swift or One Direction or Jason Mraz or Katy Perry or Demi Lovato songs.

I mean, unless you're making a distinction where some of those are rock or country or musical artists as opposed to 'pop' artists.

I didn't hear "Blurred Lines" until I started listening to the "hip hop & hits!" station to and from work (because the oldies and classic rock stations were pissing me off, and college stations were hit-or-miss at best). By the time I heard it, it was like six months old or something.

I still haven't heard the Frozen song.

This conversation is endlessly cycling. Can someone just post another stupid blog?

― Evan, Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:46 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

And I guess we go to different gyms, stores, and fast food places (although, yeah, they might be just as likely to play rock stations or dance mixes).

I don't use a gym to work out, and I don't eat at fast food places, so there's two off the list. I don't even know what plays at the grocery store, I rarely pay attention. I think I heard 10,000 Maniacs there recently.

I still haven't heard the Frozen song.

Also heard that one for the first time at my niece's show choir. Along with "Love On Top" and, for the first time in its entirety and not just the chorus, "Bad Romance."

I don't even know what plays at the grocery store, I rarely pay attention.

my Publix supermarket plays obscure Boz Scaggs, stuff like Jude Cole and Jennifer Paige and Bill Withers...I heard "Don't Disturb This Groove" last month.

My daughter is sick today we are watching Frozen

Oh 'Cups' was in Pitch Perfect? I really liked that film.

My son's fifth grade class put on a play last week, and there was a part in the middle where the kids danced to "Happy". Everyone in the audience, kids and adults, went absolutely batshit. Lots of suburban moms shaking their stuff in the aisles.

I guess I was hearing pop (or country) everywhere more when I lived in Regina tbh. (I moved across the country last summer and heard "Blurred Lines" in diners and fast food places across North America!) Tbf, the grocery store that is closest to my current apartment plays Joy Division and Jane's Addiction. So, yeah, if you're always in a bigger city, it might very well be easier to escape some of these things?

Frozen is awesome btw and I'm going to admit that I don't know what "Happy" is before I check out for the day.

My 7-year-old niece enjoys singing "Let It Go" over and over. I love her, but her singing voice ain't the greatest.

my cat won't stop meowing "lovefool" by the cardigans

just picturing this...

guys I'm pretty sure that all of your experiences can be extrapolated from mine and I listen to pop all the time so I don't know how you can claim that you don't hear it???!?

did someone says somehthng? Whats/? rock

People Love Watching 'Happy' Pharrell Cry for Oprah (Video)

don't you guys want to know what that's about?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=happy&l=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2z8TpFV748

Happy was in Despicable Me 2 before it was a hit #earlyadopter #dadswag

tbh those of you who don't grocery shop to the strains of delilah are missing out

I loved the post of all magazine covers. We can all relate to those times when you walk past a news stand and the cover blares Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" at you at a deafening volume

Christ what a nightmarish vision

Lady Gaga puking on a human face, forever

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=101

They should make Us Weekly with that little chip they put in greeting cards that play 30 secs of a tune

ums, you shouldn't be giving that stuff away like that!

here's happy and blurred lines for those who still haven't heard them yet

forks, what are those links? I keep getting a weird error message about "unusual traffic from your computer".

i love the big showstopping frozen song. it's the best part of the movie!

my kids and their school have a talent/variety show tonight at the grange hall. i'll report back. got a lot of adele last year. rufus and his friend are doing ANOTHER of monsters and men song. *sigh* that's two years in a row. kinda hoping for a "wrecking ball". little kid solo at a keyboard doing stuff like that can make you cry like a baby a la langley music school.

sigh, they're youtube links to "don't worry be happy" and "got to give it up"
youtube doesn't think i'm funny either

Is Bobby McFerrin some kind of joke to you?

YouTube otm

jk don't worry be happy now

*whistles a sad tune*

y'know i was working a show that bobby mcferrin headlined last year and at the end a couple of ushers wouldn't stop yelling "don't worry be happy!" during the encore applause and i thought at first they were making fun of him but as it happened they were just telling him to sing it. he completely ignored them.

So you could go and watch Bobby McFerrin live and not even get to see 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'? What kind of next level bullshit is that?

i'm assuming you're being facetious but on the off chance you're not: mcferrin has had a 25 year career since 'don't worry be happy' that includes about twenty albums and multiple grammy wins. don't worry will likely be the first line of his obit but it's not at all indicative of the range, scope and excellence of his work or of his pretty spectacular live performance

Bollocks to that

songs the kids did at the school talent show last night:

"wiccan lullaby" (!!!)

"ode to joy" (zzzzz...)

"falling slowly"

"shady grove" (bluegrass fever)

"letters i never sent"

"i am not a robot"

"up above my head" (trad gospel)

"i like to moo" (think this might have been an original...)

"gentle arms of eden" (commie folk)

"fur elise" (zzzz...)

"turning tables"

"the lion sleeps tonight" (trad zulu)

"maxwell's silver hammer"(trad paul)

"pompeii" (i dug this. never heard it. death rock.)

"royals"

"mountain sound"

"say something"

"drive by" (trad train)

"wagon wheel" (old crow song. the girl who sang it can really sing!)

"sing together" (more train!)

and there was more. it was endless. it was like 3 & a half hours of sitting in the grange hall. i took multiple smoke breaks.

sounds awesome