This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

Oooooh I'm gonna listen to that later, when everything seems to be going my way

The Kendrick song also has like a 2-minute steadicam shot in the video (for people who care about stuff like that).

check out the 77-second version from the soundtrack that originally went viral, the dressed-up re-recording they play on pop radio now is not nearly as good (xp)

it's an old country song that went semi-viral when some anonymous youtubers combined it with the cup dance (2009), culminating in the Pitch Perfect scene (2012), Anna Kendrick's hit (2013), and thousands of youtube covers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCOYJg9ps4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqDCGg0GYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yWlRTdF7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yWlRTdF7I

oops, didn't mean to post some many embeds, and didn't mean to post them in that order. also meant to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmXSOPDe5-Y

Oh that's the story. Huh. I heard that on the local pop station the other day and was a little baffled.

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

To be fair, no twee-er than a lot of early 60s folk-pop, New Christy Minstrels et al.

i still really like their first single "It's Time," though, that's one good-ass generic movie trailer-sounding song.

definitely

i can't stand that cups shit

just walked into the living room while mk2 was watching the reading stuff on tv.
it was this lot.
f*ck they are crap.

Wouldn't Gonad Migraines be Blue Balls?

the Anna Kendrick song is p much the only unobjectionable manifestation of the current folk obsession I've heard

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's kendricks "soulful" would-be blue notes that make her version hard to take

I've been really not listening to these guys a lot for the past few months. Pretty good so far.

I saw a magazine today that had a picture of them. The singer plays a big bass drum, or so I assume.

Keep it that way man, rly, I have their song in my head all the time atm

was listening to the radio today and a truly horrible rock song came on.
My wife asked "Who is this?" and I said, "I don't know probably Imagine Dragons or something."
the DJ later confirmed that I was right.

somewhat reminiscent of that famous Nick Cave quote -- "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

checking out on the prison bus

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

the folk process is still alive and well. it would be heartwarming if it weren't so nauseatingly twee.

― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think it's kendricks "soulful" would-be blue notes that make her version hard to take

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, August 24, 2013 6:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the fact that it sounds engineered to be used in a cell-phone commercial

my only real quibble with the song is that i would never miss talking to somebody who says things like "you're gonna miss me by my talk"

god, these guys are berklee dudes.

― how's life, Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:29 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha

also the fact that it sounds engineered to be used in a cell-phone commercial

:( I wonder how those girls are doing. The girls who made the first video. Paid? I hope so. I like their version. I don't know what it is that makes Anna Kendrick's version sound like Edward Sharpe, I think there is some "cell phone ad" production trick in place that I bet one could figure out if one were to play these songs on studio monitors but I would rather leave that mystery undiscovered

It's a revolution, I suppose

it's the tinkly something or other, all cell phone ads must have music with tinkly somethings or other

Heard the new song from these people on the radio, and I just knew it was their new song. It was like this perfect conflation of Maroon 5, fun., One Republic and other ... stuff.

"Demons"? i dunno what's very fun. (or "fun") or Maroon 5 about that one.

That it's lame?

I was thinking the vocals specifically, the same sort of not soulful singing from the soul, with massed sort of pinched high anono vocals

I wonder if this one will also be in the top 20 for an entire year like the last horrible song.

I'm glad I haven't heard "Radioactive" in a long while. That song was starting to make me suicidal.

i read that kendrick is performing w/ them at the grammys

"Demons" has been on the chart for 34 weeks and is still rising, from #7 to #6 this week. We're probably in for another yearlong Imagine Dragons track.

I accidentally heard some of this crap today and they sound like shitfucks.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, March 15, 2013 4:13 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

almost a year after this post ... but i cosign 1,000,000%

lol

how did Radioactive become a big hit. how can anyone who ever existed possibly enjoy that

i have it on excellent authority that women under 18 are nuts for these guys

i don't especially dig 'em myself but shit i'll take 'em in a heartbeat over like the killers or whatever

typed the letter 'i' into Youtube search, top 3 results are these cunts

how did Radioactive become a big hit

I think melodically it sounds not unlike a Coldplay tune.

I heard a tiny bit of one song this morning, it was pretty dull, I thought they were suppose to be a "rock band"?

People embrace the post-apocalypse these days. Also, prison dramas. And mediocrity.

"Radioactive" was just in the right place at the right time, the world was ready for grungestep

Radioactive isn't bad for 10 seconds until the horrorshit goes fecalith

I've never heard this band. I know they are Mormon just from their name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpb798UXWJc

it's where my mormons hide

This is the thread where we never listen to Imagine Dragons

^ this song (Anna Kendrick's Cups, not imagine dragons, obvs) is being taught in our nation's schools. My 4th-grader brought it home with him and this is the rhythm that's been driving our weekend.

i had no idea that that horrible kingdom come song i've been hearing absolutely everywhere and hating 24/7 is by them, what a disgusting piece of shit jfc

I have just knowingly listened to Imagine Dragons for the first time. They are rotten.