rude is worse for trying to bring back to life an entire subgenre of '90s dude rock that should have stayed dead. trainor idgaf either way.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
as shit as all about the bass is at least i can see why its a hit and people like the catchy tune. Rude is straight up bad and wtf likes it?and what omar says above
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
both songs have crossed over from painfully heinous to enjoyably heinous for me, more genuinely impressed by the pile-up of hooks in "bass" than "rude," but "rude"'s guitar solo was probably the biggest lol Top 40 gave me this year. so this is hard!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
omg that guitar solo, does that normally get cut out of the radio version? I swear I've never heard that before and that's at a serious "shreds" level of incompetent.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
sirius has never denied it from me
― da croupier, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
i had never heard "rude" before today it sounds like a toilet
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I always thought the line was "No Trouble"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
This is hard. First time I heard/saw the video to Rude I had difficulty wrapping my head around the fact it wasn't from 1996.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:54 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The video kind of makes them look like a "real band" (apology in advance for rockism), like the guy manages to almost not seem like he was farm-raised from birth to be a pop star.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
I get almost an inverse vibe from Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
I've loved Rude unconditionally since I first heard it on satellite radio, but listening to the song with the video actively devalues it. It's so dopey and the lead singer is the aesthetic equivalent of a sandwich left in the rain.
AATB however is just godawful, and I dont even need to see the video to get bad vibes from it. It takes a reasonably catchy melody and childish teehee wordplay and stretches whats basically a 2 minute song to 5 or 6 torturous minu--*scrolls up to check actual length of the song*--WHAT, IT'S SHORTER THAN RUDE?!
That says it all right there, Bass is repetitive to the point of torture and I hate it
― MrExplorer, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
"Bass" is honestly nothing compared to the horror of "Dear Future Husband"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
...Trainor, it's like she tries very hard to project this "knowing" vibe like she's "been around the block a few times" but it's not convincing at all.
otm, one of many things i like abt it
― no Mmmmbob (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
http://yesterdaysisland.com/2011/articles/17.phphttp://www.sonicbids.com/band/meghantrainor/audio/53178939867b8618174f30d7/http://youtu.be/N5GzaLf3IL4
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
"Overdrive" is particularly hilarious
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Also loving the possible future username "MeghanTrainorVietnam"
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Wow that "Rude" solo. It's like C3P0 with a nearly dead battery channeling Andy Summers. But then the song goes into that vaguely pretty Richard Marx-ish prechorus. It's a pretty sucky song all told but has some nice moments.
I don't get what is so bad about "All About the Bass"? Sounds like pretty standard, generic bubblegum pop to me.
― theboyqueen, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
butts r great
butt...not this one
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
Both songs are awful. Meghan Trainor comes across in interviews as being incredibly grateful for and amazed by her success. Dude from Magic! acts like his one-hit wonder status is his birthright. Also it's easier to imagine Jar-Jar Binks singing "Rude".
In summation, fuck these songs.
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link
i can, and often have, imagined jar-jar binks singing all about that bass
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
djp why are you reading/watching interviews with these ppl
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/26a332889991dc40713bbedc664cb60f/tumblr_inline_nfk7f9GqtK1qzqvun.gif
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
With Magic!, the interview was how I found out the song existed; it was passed around as a "look at this tool and his terrible music" lol and then suddenly every radio station was playing "Rude" and that joke wasn't funny anymore(TM)
With Meghan Trainor, she showed up on The Today Show and I was surprised by how nonplussed and excited she was. Then she sang "Your Lips Are Moving" and I thought "this isn't that good but at least it sounds like it's making an attempt to not be terrible"
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link
omg that gif
it was truly the highlight of the whatever music awards that was
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
also that they were still playing their one hit rather than one of the two yet-to-chart follow-ups was encouraging
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
though meghan seems primed become the millenials' helen reddy or something
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
My reaction to AATB is "ugh, of course this is a huge hit." My reaction to "Rude" is "what the fuck is this, how is this a hit?"
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
on Y-100's morning show last week the deejay goes, "Alright! That was Meghan Trainor with 'All About That Bass'!" His colleague goes, "Uh, no, that was 'Lips Are Movin'." He goes, "Shut up." Uncomfortable silence, followed by hysterical laughter.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Magic! is this years Fun.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
let's not forget that twenty years ago "baby i love your way" by big mountain was a hit, twenty years before that "i shot the sheriff"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
clapton's "i shot the sherrif" i mean
not sure which band should be more offended xp
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
america has a soft spot for doofy white reggae, i mean we just gave sting a kennedy center honor
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
all fun needs is an exclamation point
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
oh c'mon fun's had multiple hits including a duet with a superstar, they're several tiers above a one-off novelty band and at least at the level of a wang chung.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
If anyone's on the fence, please don't overlook Rude's guitar solo, almost certainly the worst guitar solo to ever hit pop radio.
http://youtu.be/PIh2xe4jnpk?t=2m27s
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:51 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like one of those "shreds" videos!!
― een, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:56 (nine years ago) link
The "Rude" guitar solo makes the one in "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" sound positively muscular.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
tbh i would listen to entire album of rude songs if it meant never having to hear trainor's baby squirrel betty boop joke voice again
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
no you wouldn't
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
tbf i'm pretty sure rude is the only song they ever recorded
whoops mixed up the band name and song name no one cares
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
my reaction to "rude" (first heard on the jukebox as some cancon thing) was "this is gonna get blurred lines-ed to death but it's ultimately kind of innocuously pleasant." my reaction to "all about that bass" was a mixture of "the kids still like hairspray, don't they" and "this sounds like a C-list radio disney track that will be half-heartedly promoted even by radio disney."
voted aatb but I really don't hate either of them as much as I feel I am supposed to (that one comes closer though)
― katherine, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
"the kids still like hairspray, don't they"
ha this is OTM
my version of this reaction was "I guess people really miss Duffy?"
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
i repeat: "rude" is actually good, and was one of the more interesting songs on american radio in the past year (low bar, granted)
― soyrev, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
i repeat: lemonade was a popular drink and it still is
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
Rude has all of the ingredients of something I should hate, and yet I can't hate it. It's really not that bad.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
I thought "Bass" was kinda cute on first blush, but it didn't hold up well. I got very tired of it. I never liked "Rude" at all. For me addlepated girl-group pastiche trumps frat-bro cod reggae.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:45 (nine years ago) link
Rude's lyrics win this for me. The whole childlike whining through the chorus about this girl, then ending with "I wanna marry you anyway" = induce teeth grating
― dutch_justice, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
I have a different take on this:
"Rude" is more pseudo-ska fodder for Sublime-worshipping dude bros who are generally horrible people, or at best have poor priorities, make bad decisions and need to grow up. This song gives them something else to listen to while taking a bong hit.
"All About That Bass" opened up more discourse into topics such as self esteem from body image, fat shaming and our cultures very complicated and damn near hypocritical opposing forces of being one of the fattest nations ever while having a media that promotes unrealistic body shapes as the norm and billions are spent dealing with weight. Despite sounding like a throwaway pop song, in the age of social media and slacktivism, it had legs beyond that.
The choice is pretty clear to me.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 06:47 (nine years ago) link
Hammer where did you say that originally? i need to know if i can trust your future posts
NYCNative i think the poll is about musical content, not sociological extrapolations re: probable audience
― soyrev, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 06:56 (nine years ago) link
sublime worshipping dude bros are all in their 70s now and every single #1 hit for the past 5 years has spawned mountains of thinkpieces, fuck a "discourse" lol
― qualx, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 06:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm gonna marry her anyway
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
any excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb9dg1R1oPA
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/KVZX4fSkmb4WYVDVbs/giphy.gif
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
The Meghan Trainor hate on this site is bizarre, lol
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
did u know that she put out new music recently and plans to release an album? first single sounded like a zumba class
― dyl, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
I'm sad that there weren't a million thinkpieces written about this song/video by Meghan Trainor's aunt: https://youtu.be/pKU8k2TMwOw
― No organ. (crüt), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
i don't think most of us think about Meghan that frequently. I think more about the shitty Magic! song, mostly cos I heard it in a damn Fuddrucker's today
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Someone mentioned she was among ILM's most-hated artists, and I've seen evidence of that as these old threads have bubbled up...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
I think the guys in magic were just dummies who faceplanted into a number one whereas trainor is actually releasing this garbage with malicious intent.
― how's life, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
i haven't heard a song of hers since the awful "Lips are Moving" so I might be shielded from all this
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
Rude has been much easier to avoid for me. So All about that bass.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
xp "Lips are Moving" is a fine song... though my friend hates it, too. What is it that puts you guys off so much?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
I don't like her voice, not really into soca music, don't dig the melody.
but, I'm not exactly a heavy pop listener either.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link