forks wtf
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 17 April 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
i'm really frightened that charlie puth might actually become a thing
― dyl, Friday, 17 April 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
are you offering some pushback
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 17 April 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
goddamit safari autocorrect ruined my brilliant pun
puthback
lol
― dyl, Friday, 17 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
deej wtf
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
― dyl, Friday, April 17, 2015 11:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've never known what "become a thing" really means, but especially now if singing a #1 pop hit doesn't count
― some dude, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
"become a thing" = get his own thread on ilx
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: a thingWanz: not a thing
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
another example - LMFAO vs "Lauren Bennett and Goonrock"
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah i wouldn't worry too much about charlie pluth becoming a thing
― J0rdan S., Friday, 17 April 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
i dunno Sam Smith primed America for more simpering cry-singing
― some dude, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
charlie puth is way more marketable (and in more of a catbird seat, in that song) than lauren bennett or goonrock
― katherine, Friday, 17 April 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
also more punchable
― example (crüt), Friday, 17 April 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
oh i wasn't saying charlie puth is or isn't a potential thing (i think i'll let info about this guy come to me rather than seek it out), i was just trying to clarify how one could be "not a thing" and on a #1 hit
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
oh god i just looked up charlie puth on google
damn my curiosity
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
the lead singer from Magic! doesn't seem to have become a thing so lets not overestimate america's long term taste for punchable things
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 17 April 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
charlie bluth
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 17 April 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
i still haven't ruled out the possibility that Charlie Puth is just a hilarious Andy Samberg character
― some dude, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
while i'm proud america has shunned at least three potential follow-up singles to rude i wouldn't count those dudes out until the follow-up album tanks
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
if they were just some lucky nudniks who stumbled onto a novelty hit i'd say they were toast, but the singer is a successful pro songwriter and pretty immersed in the biz. this feels like saying candyman in the mirror, but there's still the possibility of "featuring Nasri" becoming a thing.
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaagh no no no no shut up shut up
― DJP, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
*says it three times while looking at billboard on my computer, annoying lyrical hook comes out of screen and kills me*
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
it's such a truly unknowable crapshoot who survives and thrives and who doesn't in the music industrytalent, money, connections, looks, originality, experience, past performance; nothing is a tell-tale indicator of successthe only thing that ever seems to work is hitching a ride on the zeitgeist but how the fuck do you plan that
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.2kmusic.com/prev-yD5ZTbMD_xY.jpg
is recording vocals using an earbud as your monitor a "thing"?
― example (crüt), Friday, 17 April 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
30 years ago a child would kick a ball on the street.
― some dude, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
he looks like if you took all the New Kids and morphed them into one face
― da croupier, Friday, 17 April 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
and then punched him in the nose a whole lot.
― Eric H., Friday, 17 April 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
there is one immediately telling difference between charlie and nasri though
― katherine, Friday, 17 April 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
(gestures to thread title)
(nasri is palestinian and not black, but the people choosing who gets to be the teen dream -- and the audiences who fall in line behind them, they're not off the hook -- are more likely to do so for someone who looks like charlie puth)
― katherine, Friday, 17 April 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
this week "earned it" becomes, with "happy" and "all of me", one of the three songs since 2010 to have gone #1 in all-format radio play (http://www.billboard.com/charts/radio-songs) that broke r&b radio before pop radio rather than the other way around. 2010 is the year when rihanna's "what's my name" was the only such song to do the same. (from 2009 going back to the first full year that billboard's hot 100 airplay chart was tracking an all-format panel [1999] several such songs would pull it off.)
― dyl, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
*'several such songs would pull it off each year' i should say
― dyl, Thursday, 30 April 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
*tears for Trap Queen*
― longneck, Thursday, 30 April 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Wait, how did this T-Wayne song suddenly enter at #17? Is it a thing?
― longneck, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
vine
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 May 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
also kylie jenner's instagram appears to be the smoking gun of what boosted it that high
― some dude, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
t-wayne signed a deal w/ 300 entertainment just like fetty wap so the radio play will prob start catching up any minute now...
― dyl, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Wow
― longneck, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Educate me on T-wayne
― 龜, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Check out D-wops of Jupiter
― polyphonic, Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
very interesting discussion here: https://youtu.be/odXOU2vKgc4?t=16m32s
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Saturday, 30 May 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
actually it gets very stupid very quickly
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Saturday, 30 May 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
god i hate peter rosenberg
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Saturday, 30 May 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
it is somewhat insightful but then the whole discussions seems to focus down on "i don't like records like 7/11" :|
― dyl, Saturday, 30 May 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
lmao at Ebro referring to "Latch" as a dance remix and saying very confidently that "the original was a straight R&B record"
― some dude, Saturday, 30 May 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
Lmao @ someone citing We Found Love's "timeless" lyrics. Also weird that it got brought up in a discussion about R&B when that song is pure dance on every level.
Also in what world are R&B artists servicing smart R&B to mainstream radio while handing over trendy "ratchet" songs to urban radio? If that is happening, radio clearly isn't picking them up, because it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack trying to hear R&B on a pop or HAC station.
― Greer, Sunday, 31 May 2015 00:03 (eight years ago) link
Also a lot of that low-key sounded like respectability politics.
― Greer, Sunday, 31 May 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
There's an element of that but I think there's also an understandable frustration about artists giving their best work to pop radio
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Sunday, 31 May 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link