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

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

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/1295642165974-1.gif?w=270&h=199

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

i mean look doe, fun are just straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish; and i'll fucks with that over kermit the sumner calling the wahmbulance

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.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, June 11, 2012 9:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, I doubt they brought in an actual acoustic instrument to play that part.

yeah, pretty sure that's a synth

straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish

I'd run like hell to avoid any of these signifiers in isolation, let alone in combination.

"We Are Young" is one of the worst singles of the decade. It just has this soul-sucking, tampon commercial soundtrack sounding vacuousness.

misplaced comma?

No, it's not a soul sucking tampon.

fun are just straight out indiemo as balls-out musical theatre rock of ages 2042 ish

it's actually pretty consistent with repping for 21st century breakdown

I don't know what these two songs are either; "we are young" just makes me think of that cool Supergrass tune.

Just go with that. It's much better.

Gotye is a lot like Moldy Peaches.

feat Kimbra Dawson

misplaced comma?

Ha yes! I'm incoherent with hatred for this song. It may very well be as bad as "What's Up", which is my gold standard for terrible singles.

i never wanna hear either of these songs ever again

I did have a bit of an existential crisis/depersonalization experience when I realized I'm going to have to hear "but you didn't have to CUT ME OFF" for the rest of my life.

How a board can produce this thread So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads? and still not call this basically a draw, smh.

You didn't have to crut me off.

you know what is a better song than these songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4e-eXWbbs

otmfm

horseshoe ftw

why isn't Rod Stewart covering Mandy Moore songs

sometimes I feel like I live in a totally different universe from the rest of you

well, you're in the Northeast.

so is ENBB!

I mean, I don't dislike Mandy Moore or anything but she's never been someone who I thought would generate devotion

I had a cousin who was really into her when he was 5. Now he's gay.

how old is he now – 12?

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?

The syntax is worse than that: "So if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, I'll carry you home." That's not even a sentence.

well he's super drunk and high by that point, I'd expect some incoherency

I'm with DJP - the Mandy Moore song is bloody dreadful. I think I might have to avoid this thread before I forget that non-godawful music exists.

It would have been a lot better if you guys were talking about Mandy More.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xS0fDLkj8

DJP - She's cute and seems like a total sweetheart. Also, she's been really great in a couple of movies. Candy is the only MM song I really know and it's a solid pop song. She's v likeable and just seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.

One big strike wrt to Mandy Moore? She's married to Ryan Adams, so she has questionable taste in men.

Alfred, 17.

x-post - I don't consider that a strike against her.

so she has questionable taste in men

see also: Andy Roddick

I don't know, I like Ryan Adams' music most of the time, but by all accounts he's a complete and total asshole.

Which seems like the complete opposite of Mandy.

they've been together since 08 or something and they're still pitching twitter woo

that's like 10 years in celebrity-time and probably 50 in ryan adams-time