Macklemore, "Same Love"

second quote should be some dude's second post, obviously.

I like it better this way, it's like a superior version of Amanda Palmer's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev poem

you don't know how to use the phrase "come up"

In the usage "to come up", yeah. But I've never heard "a come-up", which is what Macklemoo is doing here.

when used as a noun it's usually "on the come-up" (or "creepin on ah come up" in bone thugs terms)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lh1a6dTO1qei7y4o1_500.jpg

Oh ok. I never listened to Bone Thugs! I guess it has some legitimacy. It sounds really weird, especially the way he lets it out there twice in the same song.

i hope this will explain it once and for all from the website urbandictionary.com

1. come up
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A bargain, or a found item that is of value to the finder.
"One man's trash, that's another man's come up." - from Thrift Shop by Macklemore

lmao

hahaha

there are enough reasons to clown Macklemore without picking that shit out

still funny tho

hey i'm laughing at urbandictionary now

that's such a shitty line tho

every macklemore line just has this "look ma i'm rapping!!!" subtext

"that's great, honey"

lol oym

otm too

ha yeah

back at #1 with "Can't Hold Us" :/

I tried to listen to that "Can't Hold Us", but got as far as that "return of the mack" line before exiting the browser in protest.

i've switched the station many times due to this song

of course it is also #1 on r&b/hip-hop songs despite not registering on r&b/hip-hop airplay at all (correct me if i am wrong, sometimes i am bad at using the billboard site)

No, you're right. It's nowhere to be found on hip-hop airplay charts. Thrift Shop also only got as high as #47 there as well and even that was only after some stations probably felt compelled to play what was the #1 hip-hop song in the country at the time according to Billboard. Though that makes me wonder how their label approached getting them on the radio. Did they approach hip-hop stations who just had no interest in playing his songs, or did they avoid hip-hop radio entirely and only go for pop, alt, rhythmic and HAC radio?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd7rV6ZUjg

Posted mainly for advances in sunglasses fashion.

Anyone else get Bring Em Out vibes from Thrift Shop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuyxX5P5Xug

:(

You just compared one of my favorite rap songs to one of my least favorite rap songs.

Thought this was gonna be revived for: “Same Love,” same old shit?

Yeah Bring Em Out is all time, listened to Urban Legend yesterday. As sad as it is, am I wrong?

You are wrong.

K thx

awesome:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/al-madrigal-on-why-he-abhors-macklemore-ryan-lewi,98825/

The argument about his kids seems a little weak, of all the pop stars out there I don't think Macklemore is the one that's going to corrupt his heretofore innocent children.

I have had pretty much the same experience as this dude, particularly with the roomful of neighborhood kids all rapping along and saying "Pissssssssssss".

Also, my kid had apparently been listening to Poker Face on the radio the other day because he asked me to explain "bluffin' with my muffin".

yeah i mean rappers introducing kids to dirty words is not really a unique concept, i don't think he's really saying it is, just that that song was his experience and he hates the song for it. w/ "thrift shop" i suppose it's arguably more insidious because it's this fun song about funny clothes and it's slightly more relateable to little kids that the avg rap hit.

I mean, that's exactly it. This is just the 2010s version of 80s kids asking their parents what an aphrodesiac is after hearing Funky Cold Medina.

Dad, what does he mean "that's what happens when bodies start slappin' from doin' the wild thing"?

Except that Macklemore is worse than Tone Loc for any possible reason you could come up with.

along these lines, it cracked me up that "Afternoon Delight" was an AM easy listening staple when I was younger once I was old enough to get the lyrics

all the articles critical of "same love" i have seen are completely filled w/ comments by ppl defending it, claiming the author of the piece is stupid or ignorant or a bad writer (the latter always cracks me up b/c the comments are not very well written themselves), etc. :\\\\\

Indeed. Karen Tongson, who wrote the (quite excellent) article the Rev linked a few posts back, put up a response on FB about that kind of reaction.

to me i think its a weird/cool sign of progress that the al madrigal thing is a mexican american dad kvetching over raunchy lyrics by a white rapper

along these lines, it cracked me up that "Afternoon Delight" was an AM easy listening staple when I was younger once I was old enough to get the lyrics

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like all children, i assume, i thought afternoon delight was about spaceships

I wondered why my mom would giggle when I sang along and refused to harmonize with me; later on, I looked back on that decision and realized exactly how wise my mother actually was.

Thanks, Daniel Stern.

I agree w/Karen Tongston & I know what she's saying but I gave a big involuntary privileged eyeroll to "CHANGE HETEROSEXUALITY"

I think I've posted this elsewhere, but when he was 4 or 5, one of my kid's favorite songs was 3 by Britney Spears. I mean, it really has a certain appeal for people with rudimentary math skills.

Crut, I wanted a further elaboration on that as well.

"...dare to imagine beyond a certain kind of normativity, and challenge the power that adheres to these very categories"

Is this part, which directly follows "Change Heterosexuality", not a (brief) explanation of what she means?

idk. it's probably best that I don't explain why that rubbed me the wrong way because it's not really relevant that it rubbed me the wrong way.

That isn't really an explanation, imo.