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

x-post - lol I probably would too.

TY, Mr. Strongo. You are a voice of reason.

also death is too good for those responsible for both these songs.

I'm confident that Ms. Moore, should we ask, would agree.

gotta be honest, 'we are young' sounded fantastic at the mall of georgia last friday night.

okay i know "we are young" except i had never heard the verses before and they are unfortunate

strongo!

i feel like if i met mandy moore i might actually say, "omg you're so pretty!" so it's really a blessing i never meet famous people i'm borderline obsessed with.

― horseshoe, Monday, June 11, 2012 9:11 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf your actual reaction would probably be "omg you're so tall!"

MM and I are the same height. She was prob wearing heels when you met her too.

Why do I know that? I shouldn't know that.

whoa cool al

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

So am I. It sounds like a xylophone to me.

enbb you're so tall!

:p

I assume Mr. Adams was not with her or you'd have mentioned it, right?

yeah didn't see him anywhere, think she just had a manager dude and the aforementioned incompetent people from the company she was a spokesperson for

i heard "somebody that i used to know" on the radio approximately 500 times this weekend and it totally worked and has been in my head all day and the first thing i did when i got home today was watch the video on youtube.

i predict i will hate it in 2 days.

"we are young" - i originally thought it was a woman singing this but its not! i also at one point thought it was the arcade fire, but i guess its also not.

when i initially saw the "Somebody" video i was all oh fuck this shit and would turn off the song every time it came on for a month or two, but eventually tolerance turned to a pretty strong fondness

curious to see how well it does on Pazz & Jop, may even be on my ballot

I will admit that it's been running through my head all day. I am blaming you, fyi.

:)

these songs are about as alternative as steve winwood

― da croupier, Monday, June 11, 2012 3:03 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw it is adorable that you can say this with any degree of seriousness or conviction

this blows goats

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 June 2012 23:04

gotye vs goat eyes

it is adorable to find myself quoted after catching up on this thread through an endless mandy moore tangent

this whole thing couldn't be more adorable if it was a mandy moore movie

i'm glad you agree my snark from 7 hours ago is more interesting than all this shit

anyhow i'll admit this stuff is more alternative than winwood, though I'm not sure it's much more alternative than the work of the former kara's flowers

"alternative" is a slippery, ephemeral concept. mandy moore is a real person who shook my hand.

^ that's like what someone says when they wake up in the police station

I'm kind of annoyed when this thread stops talking about the cool Mandy Moore stuff

seriously

so grumpy!

guys, she is somebody that i used to know. for a few minutes, last friday.

<3!

YOU FIXED HER TELEPROMPTER

hey i love mandy moore but i wouldn't want her in some ilx chart chatter any more than i'd want her in a friday the 13th movie

it was a meet-cute!

xp gtfo

keep my sex and and my vomit-churning gore/gotye separate, thank you

but she is a joy and both of these songs are so dull

was she in one of those? damn i need to see that (xpost)

The other day, I saw this group of young people, upper middle school maybe, or maybe high school, walking down the street some sunny afternoon, sharing earbuds and belting "We Are Young" at the top of their young lungs, and I thought, man, fuck you young people.

Anyway, if it's the end of the night, and the bar is closing down, why does the song's singer need to reiterate that he'll take you home ... tonight? It's redundant. Like "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight." When else is he going to take you home tonight? Tomorrow?

lol i just remembered -- the mandy moore thing was a big girl scout gathering at the washington monument, as i was leaving afterward i heard some girl scouts singing "we are young" v enthusiastically

It didn't have to be her who sang it, but it needs to be a duet.

Well yeah because it has two parts narratively

I am 98% sure that she does a better job than B1asko would have though

the mandy moore thing was a big girl scout gathering at the washington monument

okay are you sure you aren't apearing in the upcoming Mandy Moore Romantic Comedy Project

90% sure

the week before i was at the monument for a cancer walk thing and ran the prompter for Gabrielle Union, didn't get to meet her though

should probably start a 77 rolling scrolling teleprompter adventures threads so i don't make a habit of mucking up threads w/ namedropping, but the mandy moore thing itt could not be unremarked upon

Love fun.

― la musica de harry frogbs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 11, 2012 7:28 PM

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lol

whiney was v incredulous when i registered surprise that he's into "we are young" on some other thread

voted for fun. i'm definitely over "we are young" at this point, but think the album as a whole is great. it'll probably end up in my top ten for the year.

gotye song is the worst.

otm

now listening to the acoustic version of "Why Am I The One" you posted in the Format thread, BradNelson...dudes are talented, songs are strong...when this is the stuff that's topping the charts, the world is OK

gotye tune is a jam, voted that

fun. album is prolly not gonna be top 10 for me, but maybe top 20