"We Are Young" vs. "Somebody That I Used To Know"

but Gotye's success certainly puzzles me way more.

Nah, I totally get it. Of course, I'm an admirer of the song too, but I mean...I get why that one crossed over the way it did. That's some really highbrow-sounding shit for people who may buy three cds a year and quit listening to the radio when Sting stopped charting. If all these people collectively buy the cd or the single on iTunes together, it gets pushed up the charts by a unified force.

that gotye song, aside from whether you think it's good or bad or he's worthy or not etc., is a hell of a crazy earworm. someone should really figure out why that is. what's the particular progression/melodic line/voicing that makes it so hard to get rid of?

yeah that cover is really bad
she also did "Drop The Pilot" (much better)

I thought the best thing on that record was her Waterboys cover.

That's some really highbrow-sounding shit for people who may buy three cds a year and quit listening to the radio when Sting stopped charting. If all these people collectively buy the cd or the single on iTunes together, it gets pushed up the charts by a unified force.

soooo not true

It might be true of Adele, certainly not true of Goituh.

Adele is hugely popular with kids.

soooo not true

Actually, I work for a company that charts music and how it got where it is, so I kinda sorta know what I'm talking about. I mean, I know how and from where the song got popular. The who that made it popular is still a little mysterious.

there are probably thousands of people like my friends who read PFM regularly and downloaded STIUTK.

that's my point

when i first heard that song i figured it would be a big hit, sounded like a hit....i should be an A&R

i kinda dig it when uncool dad-pop/NPR stuff like this Adele gets really big one the basis of crazy undeniable pop hits like this and rolling in the deep because i think it gives poptimists fits

I'm not at all suggesting that this was the only demographic responsible for its success -- no song becomes a hit this sizable by appealing to a large cult (The Singles Jukebox reviewed it last fall; it took that long for word of mouth to keep yapping). Look at Foster The People.

Actually, I work for a company that charts music and how it got where it is, so I kinda sorta know what I'm talking about. I mean, I know how and from where the song got popular. The who that made it popular is still a little mysterious.

Let me know who should've given me the payola and I might've endorsed it.

Yeah, "Pumped Up Kicks" took a full year to go anywhere. xp

Love fun.; Gotey fucking sucks

You guys are not gonna believe this, but I'm in a Subway and the radio is playing Goety

whoa, craig kilborn

no I do believe you're in a Subway.

I'd take a picture of my turkey sandwich and the music if I could

perhaps his success is due to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetia

i believe

I think it's because I thought his name was "Gaultier".

Not necessarily because *I* thought so, etc.

1) DO NOT KNOCK MANY MOORE SHE IS A PERFECT ANGEL (nb I have never heard her music)

2) Flopson 100% OTM

3) I do not dilike that song because it sounds like Sting. I dislike it because it's shit and, more importantly, really f'ing annoying.

wait till Sting covers in on his upcoming standards album -- then you log will be sorry

*lot

Ordinarily, I don't like "Somebody That I Used to Know" enough to really go to bat for it, but this thread is making me puff up about it. Like, FUCK YOU YOU ALL SUCK...all over a song I merely like to hear on occasion!

Such is the power of Gotye.

Conversely, I will throw down on fundot anytime anyplace.

I feel the opposite. I don't hate it quite as much as I'm making out but I am surprised at some of the people here who I normally mesh with taste-wise repping for it.

I think I've managed to avoid the fun song completely, aside from that one parody video. Gotye blows goatyes, though.

*fist bumps enbb*

do y'all ride for fundot or something? cause if so you should probably gtfo permanently

lmao that this is going to tear this board asunder

TONIIIIIIIGHT

i don't "ride for it" but i would jump out of a moving car playing "somebody that i used to know" into one playing "we are young"

I also didn't know the Gotye song wasn't Sting, which is actually kind of a compliment (crut OTM). I think it's well-crafted. (Will defend Norah Jones's first album all day long too.) I like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco but the Fun. song really doesn't have much to it besides a chorus hook. It certainly doesn't have either of those bands' sense of rhythm.

I admit, the Ozzy comparison pretty much blew my mind.

^

Because it's completely mental?

Nah, once it was pointed out to me, I could hear it plainly.

OK, I guess I sort of see it on "cut me off" but in the very next line, he jumps to a register that I can't imagine Ozzy every singing in.

xpost

"ever"

Listen to it with Sting in mind next time - seriously.

Rev - hell no.

unless thats a ref to something im missing, could be a nom for rolling hardman thread

― am0n, Monday, June 11, 2012 5:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it wasn't, nom away

i guess this is a good thread to bring up that i met Mandy Moore the other day? she's v sweet and beautiful in person obv.

:O

Awwww. I wanna be bffs with her.

omg u met mandy!!!!!!!

so jealous!

This derailment is welcomed

I want to be bffs with mandy too

did you guys discuss her performance in american dreamz y/n?

She was great in 'Saved'.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE0MTk1NzM4MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTUzMjYzMQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg

wtf

would love to know what her favorite Joan Armatrading album is!

loved mandy in saved -- also i frequently visit "candy", one of the turn of the millennium's great teenpop songs

also not that i've heard a marimba in a while but i'm p sure it isn't a marimba