The Encroaching Ubiquity of I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas

good picks for a wedding

xp yea truth be told i wd be hard-pressed to say this or any song is for ppl who don't care about music

altho that is an interesting question. cuz i definitely kno ppl who like, don't care about music. but i don't know what they listen to, when they do listen to music.

HMMMM

you can't dance stupid to "billie jean"
this song is for stupid dancing, like silly dancing

i don't LIKE it, i'm not all "man, this is a great track" but for bouncing around stupidly with an all-ages crowd, most of whom i will never see again? ok, fine.

i hate stupid dancing: Ironic Dancing Must Be Destroyed

that's ok if you hate it, but grandma and aunt wanda love it

COUSIN wanda

:D

i have this new dance floor strategy i'm trying out: if i don't like the song, or if i don't feel like moving my body, i don't. HAHAHA!

xp yea truth be told i wd be hard-pressed to say this or any song is for ppl who don't care about music

altho that is an interesting question. cuz i definitely kno ppl who like, don't care about music. but i don't know what they listen to, when they do listen to music.

― janice (surm), Friday, July 30, 2010 11:42 AM (5 minutes ago)

off the top of my head, another example would be "who let the dogs out". no one bought the baha men album, no one listens to that on their ipod. it's meant for ubiquity. it's made so that people who don't pay attention to music can still feel like they're in the know when they hear it at a ball game, or on tv.

I think the days of the week are in there for the 3-to-7-year-olds on the dance floor. It works like one little, two little, three little Indians.

Invocations to stupid dancing can be classic in the right hands. The last minute or so of this for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYgntQFE0io

Another thing that will likely give this song a long life is the low expectations in the lyrics. It's not saying this wedding day is going to be the best day of our lives or this Bat Mitzvah is going to blow our minds.

(Actually I meant about 2mins 45 into that)

dancing isn't something that belongs just to the professionals either! if someone feels like dancing badly or stupidly to a song they like they're allowed, you fucking fascists!

i also love this song! tho i also take exception with the encroaching bit of the thread title. this thing has been pretty ubiquitous for awhile

But it's gonna reach some Camptown Races level shit.

A side note, Wanda is normally Aunt Wanda in discussions like this but I thought maybe Aunt Wanda doesn't yet really know about "Crazy" so, better play it safe.

btw I just danced to this song at a fam party bcz my aunt, frustrated with the "Celebration" and "Play That Funky Music" etc being played by DJ because "I don't want to feel old", requested "some young people music like Lady Gaga." This came on, and it was good enough for her. And good enough for me.

DJ is now playing "Juicy," so bye!

My mother (who is in her mid-50s) informed me the other day that she likes this song. Sort of made me feel like I have failed as a son.

haaah

you can't dance stupid to "billie jean"

you can mimic MJ!

any way you can dance to the Black Eyed Peas, you can dance that way a million times better to Michael Jackson. just sayin. this is basic music science.

i hate when white people do fake "rap" dances. makes me want to punch them.

off the top of my head, another example would be "who let the dogs out". no one bought the baha men album, no one listens to that on their ipod. it's meant for ubiquity. it's made so that people who don't pay attention to music can still feel like they're in the know when they hear it at a ball game, or on tv.

― 'ello govna, Friday, July 30, 2010 11:52 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No one bought the Baja Men album, but Black Eyed Peas went double platinum with this album, which would have been like 8 times platinum in the Baja Men's day

I bought that baha men album lol

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v622/thingummy99/Picture3-1.png

I like this bit.

you can't dance stupid to "billie jean"

my best friend texted me from the wedding she was at last night, saying she participated in a dance off to Billie Jean. she won.

Report for the ground, July 2010. I went to my boss's boss's boss's 68th birthday last night. In addition to "September" and "Play That Funky Music" and "I've Had The Time of My Life" and "Oh What A Night," the top-shelf wedding-type band only played one song newer than "Like A Prayer": "Party in the U.S.A."

baha men didn't have a dozen or so previous hits

Haha, I was having dinner the other night with my mom and her boyfriend -- both in their sixties -- and he was giving her shit for not having heard of "Who Let the Dogs Out." He was like, "It was everywhere!"

yeah, him otm

i hate when white people do fake "rap" dances. makes me want to punch them.

what's the difference between a 'fake rap dance' and a 'real rap dance'? can white people do real rap dances? what kind of dances are white people allowed to do to rap music?

i don't know if this is what Whiney meant by "fake rap dancing", but i'm not a fan of joke dancing. back in school, most of the guys i knew were too self-conscious to just dance, so they had to make it into a big joke. i'd rather see really bad dancing then a bunch of guys acting like clowns and taking up space.

what's the difference between a 'fake rap dance' and a 'real rap dance'? can white people do real rap dances? what kind of dances are white people allowed to do to rap music?

― iatee, Sunday, August 1, 2010 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh yeah he means jokey ironic "lol ... dancing" dancing

BTW the mention of "Oh What A Night" and the recollection of how I felt about this when it was huge helps me understand how the BEP-haters here feel about "I Gotta Feeling." I cannot deny the former is extremely catchy but I HATE it -- and I think my reasons for hating it parallel in some sense people's reasons for hating "I Gotta Feeling" -- I see the reference to 1963 as a cynical grasp at the sympathy of old people (see also: "Old Time Rock and Roll," "Summer of '69") in the same way you guys see "Mazel Tov" as a cynical grasp at the sympathy of bar mitzvah MCs.

I have no good theory to explain why I reject "Oh What a Night" and accept "I Gotta Feeling." Will think about it and tell you guys if I come up with anything.

uh yeah he means jokey ironic "lol ... dancing" dancing

like how long does this sort of dancing go on? do people carry on their ironic dancing three, four, five songs in a row? actual question, it's hard for me to imagine an "ironic" dance lasting longer than a minute or two unless it was like a genuinely ironic piece by Alvin Ailey or something

like if you are at places where people are just "ironic" dancing all night long are you maybe dancing @ Actors Theatre or something?

I better be careful not to smile or laugh or somewhat jokingly attempt a move I can't quite pull off next I'm dancing, someone from this thread might be there and murder me or something

a3rosmith otm

in my life I honestly don't think I've seen anyone 'ironically dance' for more than 20 seconds and never on a dance floor. if there's a 40 yo white dude on a dancefloor and a rap song comes on, I don't think it's 'ironic' if he does something sorta goofy. I mean, is this person supposed to turn into an authentic hip hop dancer? are they supposed to resort to their white person traditions and just square dance or something? it's hard to imagine a way that they'd be able to be racially insensitive using dance moves.

I should say that I'm sensitive about this because more than once after being seen dancing a little I'll hear "underrated aerosmith seemed to be making fun of the entrance music by dancing funny to it" and I'll be like "hey fuck you that is how I dance you fuckin assholes"

i'm with some dude. jokey/ironic dancing is a lot of fun. anybody who's ever attempted to dance like bryan ferry in the "same old scene" video, or like a dude from the detroit new dance show, or like a dude in a jam and lewis video, knows what i mean

I better be careful not to smile or laugh or somewhat jokingly attempt a move I can't quite pull off next I'm dancing, someone from this thread might be there and murder me or something

― The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Sunday, August 1, 2010 6:47 PM (9 minutes ago)

There's a difference between trying something and laughing because you feel goofy, and being an ironic ass just to get attention. Like I said this was mostly in college, I don't notice it much anymore when I go out. Mostly because I avoid frat boy hangouts.

This song is so nothing...

Oh how I long for the days when "Time of Your Life" was the ubiquitous one.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:37 (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prescient

heh

"i gotta feeling" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "the time" and i hate "i gotta feeling"

"Time of Your Life" is a disaster

ditto "Here's to the Night"

the word "encroaching" being in this thread title still cracks me up

"boom boom pow" is also still a hundred times better than this song