oh paper planes. i mean it's a really good track. but still i don't think it should be this high. on kala alone there were like 4 better songs, including "boyz" which is my fav m.i.a. single
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't even like "boyz" but "bamboo banga", "bird flu" and "hussel" are all way way above "paper planes"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hussel" sux, dude.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I think part of the mass appeal of "Paper Planes" has to do with the sample it's based around. I mean, I'm not saying everyone is a big stan of "Straight to Hell," but it's a legitimately pleasing sound. On top of that, "Paper Planes" is right catchy.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
still holding out hope for Trap Goin Ham
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 20:33 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think this would be the greatest achievement in ilm history; even better than the animal collection rickroll.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I voted for 'Trap' but yeah no chance it appears.
― Eljero Elia Michele (pandemic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 3:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
oh god no not this again, please no, anything but this
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"hussel" is definitely the best track m.i.a.'s ever done.
i still have no idea which bit of "paper planes" is the clash sample, lol
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
noooooooooooo
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
can we just not talk about this again, please? honestly
Yeah, I didn't mean to initiate SAMPLE WARZ '10, but that bit of "Straight to Hell" is a goddamn fine sample.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"Paper Planes" is not the best song on Kala but I like it and I'm glad it did well.
xp to Rev: get yer ears checked son, "Hussel" is hotness (although best track on the album honors is a tossup between "Bamboo Banger" and "$20")
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, paper planes is fantastic, head and shoulders above anything else on kala. strikes me as the kind of album that people buy for the single and aren't exactly disappointed with, but...
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
white ppl responsible for an asian chick ever making good music, The Sun states.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ooooookay...before this devolves, I'd better put up #2.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw should '1 Thing' beat 'Umbrella' by less than 40 pts then I accept responsibility seeing as I gave it 40pts and 'Umbrella' zero.
― Eljero Elia Michele (pandemic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
pandemic deserves high fives.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
02. RIHANNA ft. JAY-Z "Umbrella" (2007) [974.5 points, 41 votes, 3 first place votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvBfHwUxHIk
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
wow -- really did not think "1 thing" was gonna win
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
no it fucking isn't
I mean, it's head and shoulders above "Jimmy", "The Turn" and "Mango Pickle Down River" but so is everything else on the album, including the dubious Timbaland song
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
in the full decade list can we man up and just pick one or two the-dream songs because that guy got killed by vote splitting
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
best part of umbrella is the drum sound imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also "Umbrella" is still mad overrated although Rihanna gets a big "yesssssssssssssssssssssss" for the video
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol garageband
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
also holy shit @ the points jump between these
if jay-z wasn't on it umbrella would be the best.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
umbrella is a jam but i'm always surprised that it's considered like a universal jam.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah points jump is crazy -- nothing like that in the albums poll
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it's pretty easy to remove jay-z from the track
people always trash Jay's verse on that but I feel like the song is totally bolstered by having that as its intro and i kind of like how he fits every possible rain pun possible into those 8 bars
― Davey Mo Coulier (some dude), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't there a Jay-Zless remix of the tune?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
jay is tolerable--i hardly ever remember that he's there unless i actually listen to the song
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i think at the time people were rightfully like "this verse sucks!" cuz it was still sort of at the point where a jay-z guest verse (let alone to open the song) was some sort of event song, but in reality it's pretty much just okay and doesn't affect the song at all
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Its not a terrible verse but it just seems like the first part of his downfall.
Rihanna is ONLY 22? Fucking hell I have done nothing with my life and yet her career is p much perfect
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2177pHMT0
But yeah, apparently "Umbrella" has a wide universal appeal, because this rather crappy cover version was a big hit too (in Finland and Germany at least).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i think there is some unspoken rule that umbrella has to be considered amazing by everyone on earth (except my father) and that's why it placed so high
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pfG6j-cuw
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Embedding disabled because Youtube loves us, I'm guessing.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like if you went 35 seconds forward
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought the jay verse sucked at the time and it kind of does, but i've made my peace with it now, and probably wouldn't choose to listen to any of the jay-less versions of "umbrella" over the original
i liked how rihanna added an extra syllable to umbrella - um-ber-ell-a - and then lil mama added a fifth syllable in her remix - um-bub-er-ell-a - and i kept waiting for someone to add a sixth but no one was man enough :(
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"umbrella" really is just insanely massive
both "Don't Stop The Music" and "Disturbia" are better; this is basically just as bad as "Unfaithful"
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I think "Umbrella" is probably the last super-massive-mega-huge-worldwide single we've seen, and it's three years old now. I really have no idea where (or who) the next one will come from, but it's probably not this year.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad Romance felt a bit like that.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"viva la vida"
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
J Fever otm. "umbrella" was prob the most overplayed radio hit of the last five years, everyone i know got incredibly sick of it.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
terius told me he originally wrote "umbrella" with britney in mind, as a mother singing to her children; though iirc he did tell different stories to different journalists about that song
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm never sick of "umbrella"
― the boy boy young messi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah now that summer is over it is easy to love again, like hey ya or crazy in love are now.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link