"Call Me" vs. "Call Me Maybe"

That said, everyone I know IRL that even knows who Robyn is also listens to a lot of other pop and r&b as well as rock and whatever else. I'm sorry you guys are surrounded by idiots.

haven't listened much to robyn in the past couple of years ;_;

by the way, i'm not really making the argument for CMM being all that deep or profound - i never knew what 75% of the lyrics were until i'd heard it five times a day for like three weeks, a level of exposure that most people probably won't get; what i think vaults it into a truly great song is how the lyrics actually reward knowing what they are - the complexity's there if you want it, and if you don't, it's still ridiculously fun to realize it's just come on the radio

the fear of pop (as seen in the comments beneath eg my fact piece on garage pop remixes) is itself the most teenage possible trait

truth bomb

eh, regardless of how people in comments sections act, there's nothing inherently immature about being skeptical/hostile towards pop music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpIHph07Mo

Seriously, though, the strings in "Call Me Maybe:" is that a sample, or was that hook written for the song?

it's not nicked from a classical recording or anything, if that's what you mean. sounds like a synth patch to me.

there's nothing inherently immature about being skeptical/hostile towards pop music.

Skepticism is a virtue, period. But pop music isn't a genre.

never said it was. it's an institution.

it is kind of funny that everyone* loves Robyn to death because she's a miserable gloomy mess covered in glitter and Pop Rocks

I don't see how that makes her any more or less authentic than CRJ, who is a bundle of delighted nerves covered in glitter and Pop Rocks

* this word was specifically chosen to drive Lex insane

I thought the word that did that was "angular".

the angular string motif that pops up on the refrain of "Call Me Maybe"

i don't know why people are so caught up in "the target age" of a particular song or artist anyway? what, you can't empathise with the perspective of someone outside your own rigidly self-defined identity? that's weird to me. or maybe you're just scared of being taken for a teenage girl? lol.

I can empathise with "Party in the USA" or "Never Say Never" too, it doesn't mean I have to like them

looking back, I am not even sure what "angular" was meant to signify in musical terms, and it's something I used to say constantly

I guess I was feeling too good for "jagged" or something

I first heard "angular" around the time when "post-modern music" was said with straight faces by deejays.

There is such a thing as postmodernism, Alfred!

as a synonym for "college rock"?

Only if it's postmodern, I guess!

i forget who said this, but there's a quote i ran across recently: people who say they aren't misogynists mean women their own age; go 20 years in either direction and the story changes.

but does anyone on ILX listen to music marketed to tween boys? some dude excepted.

I like a lot of Green Day and Linkin Park

also Awolnation

I still listen to The Cure.

it's an interesting question. idk if hardrock/chartrock/poppunk stuff is as strongly coded to age.

there are also a bunch of ppl on the boards who will defend Rick Ross and Soulja Boy

ppl even dig Drake and Chris Brown

but does anyone on ILX listen to music marketed to tween boys? some dude excepted.

― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:46 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

most of ILM, dude

people on this board have such an asinine, self-serving idea of how what i listen to is different from what they listen to

Not sure I'd call it 'self-serving' (though I have in fact congratulated myself recently on not listening to Train)

sorry al. I wasn't trying to be a dick.

it's cool, moment of haughtiness, i've put it behind me

and yeah the Cure are a pretty teenagery band. their audience is pretty gender-neutral though. Rick Ross and Soulja Boy I'll definitely concede.

SD, you seem more than almost anyone else on her to be involved in your local scene, not only the diff't types of people making music in Baltimore, but you even some attuned to like the radio programming, the rap stations, the rock stations, the pop stations, which is where I thought most of your interest in the various Billboard charts and the championing of certain quote-unquote uncool radio fare had its roots in the first place. You seem really into how music shapes and is shaped by your immediate environment, in what almost seems like a psychogeographical sense. That's kind of super-awesome imo (though I'm probably way off tbh)

that's very kind of you to say. i'll allow you to continue not listening to Train.

would not call rick ross music marketed to teen boys

i'll rep for "bonfire"

would not call rick ross music marketed to teen boys

he gets his big tits out often enough

It is faintly fucking hilarious that people will actually try and represent that teenboy coded music is not at all represented on a board that spends as much time discussing and addressing *metal* as ILM.

But, y'know... cat, pigeons, and a whole lot of squawking would probably be the result if I went any further with that sentiment.

brb just died laughing (xpost)

I like both of these songs, and also Robyn.

Didn't see it, but Nightline had a story on "Call Me Maybe" last night. Elsewhere, Ted Koppel died a thousand deaths.

i'm enjoying this lots
http://mabsonenterprises.bandcamp.com/track/call-me-maybe-acapella-147-times-exponentially-layered

― nathey, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:36 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, by the end that's abrasive and hypnotic and incredible.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:54 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKVS0eI85I

Nuff said.

damn, you know what's a motherfucking EAR WORM?

i voted for "call me" without hesitation or regret, and it's not like i'd do any different now, but i've come to like "call me maybe" a hell of a lot more than i did at first. doesn't have anything on blondie's seductive rush, but it does a damn good job of capturing the dizzy buzz of new infatuation. and it gets stuck in my head real bad. tbh, i think silly videos of people singing along to it helped sell me. like how watching a dumb comedy with a happy crowd is always better than home alone.

recently found out that "call me" is produced by giorgio moroder

and it is! he's done some good work.

you can just barely tell on the single but his influence on this extended version is prominent (bit too much so maybe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVPowtP2PM

most underrated part of this thread was when frogbs thought lex was a woman

tbh, i think silly videos of people singing along to it helped sell me.

I didn't need this to love the song but I agree that there's something quite endearing about people singing along to it, especially how it seems to reduce otherwise very macho looking guys to making fools of themselves.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7shl2wlkk1qawcqfo7_250.gif

the best bit of the US Olympic swim team's "call me maybe" video