The Encroaching Ubiquity of I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas

this song panders so much to the wedding/bar mitzvah crowd, and people eat it up. pretty banal song.

'ate this song

"wedding/bar mitzvah crowd" equals, um, the kind of human being who loves pop music? You seem to think the fact my grandma can dance to this song is a strike against it instead of the glorious miracle that it is.

If this were easy to do wouldn't Kool and the Gang have been knocked off before now?

"wedding/bar mitzvah crowd" does not equal an insult, but it definitely does not simply equal "the kind of human being who loves pop music" eitha

glorious miracle is a bit much. it's catchy enough, but i get bored with it after about 20 seconds.

i didn't realize your grandma loves pop music so much

I don't get it, who doesn't dance at weddings? I am not trying to be difficult, it's that I truly don't understand what group of people you mean "the wedding/barmitvah crowd" to exclude!

lolllllllllll "glorious miracle" i didn't even see that

i'm sorry but that's good

ohh come on eephus everybody knows that there are certain songs that are better-suited for a wedding/bar mitzvah

it's not just like any pop song

The wedding/bar mitzvah crowd was not meant as an insult! This song was designed to have the broadest possible appeal, from 6 year olds to 80 year olds. Music that has to appeal to such a mass audience is usually really simple. Sure it's fun to hear at said event, but I don't want to hear it anywhere else.

correction - "wedding/bar mitzvah crowd" not an insult to those people (which is pretty much everyone), more an insult to the song

this song was made so little kids and old people can dance together
it's gonna be kind of stupid and bouncy

― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:17 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

lol i'm trying to imagine RIDE at a bar mitzvah

this song's ubiquity is STILL ENCROACHING???

haha where have you been?

Avoiding being encroached.

i think i've been to maybe two weddings as an adult and never been to a bar mitzvah

the "mazel tov" line never sticks out or seems like an important part of the song, don't know why people talk about it so much.

also this song is WAY less calculated to always be played at certain events than the other biggest new wedding staple of the past couple years, "Single Ladies"

the mazel tov line isn't important to the song, it was stuck in there to make it a bar mitvah staple. that's what makes it calculated.

i agree that "single ladies" has become a new wedding staple, but i feel like it was unintentional, whereas "i gotta feeling" was written from the start for this purpose. "single ladies" doesn't have that multi-generational appeal that's gonna get granny on the dance floor.

as cynical and calculated as the whole BEP enterprise is, I really have a hard time believing the line wasn't thrown in there as just a funny thing to say, as opposed to will.i.am stroking his chin and saying "y'know, our music is already played at almost every kind of celebration in America, but we really need something to break into that elusive Jewish rite of passage market."

After which he directed his hologram to visit Mars and check out what song the annual fhlurg-zaxchler ceremony would fall for.

I was at a wedding last weekend and IGAF trumped 'Single Ladies' easily. Nowhere near the nights' big winner which was Tony Christie's 'Is this the way to Amarillo' which had about 80% of the room up and dancing.

when i got married a couple years ago the only relatively recent pop hits i played during the dances were "Step In The Name of Love" and "Rock Your Body." the last wedding I went to a few weeks ago, though, "Single Ladies" and Gaga were big. can't remember if "I Gotta Feeling" was played but it probably was.

lol some dude

total celebration domination

Saying this song is for the "wedding/bar mitzvah crowd" is like saying "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is for the baseball crowd or "Taps" is for the funeral crowd, or Carmina Burana is for the window-into-the-underworld crowd. They're songs for occasions, not folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnzCyIQ5Qy0

you guys realize that maybe 20% of all pop hits are about partying and celebrating and can be generically applied to just about any kind of upbeat gathering?

yeah but how many of them say L'CHAIM

i don't think it's intentionally "we gotta break into this jewish market" but rather it seems like they wanted to capture as wide an appeal as possible for "generic celebration song". they're the BEPs after all. two of them just bop around and don't even sing.

"Why is this good night different from all other good nights?"

I haven't heard this but I know it's absolute fucking terrible shit that you should all be ashamed to like even if you can't help liking it sincerely

I like IGAF when it came out but I didn't really love it until it made the spine to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNzrwh2Z2hQ

btw that was a post very much in character and I am sorry if it caused offence

you guys realize that maybe 20% of all pop hits are about partying and celebrating and can be generically applied to just about any kind of upbeat gathering?

― The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Friday, July 30, 2010 2:31 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but not all songs about partying and celebrating can be applied to any upbeat gathering.

Saying this song is for the "wedding/bar mitzvah crowd" is like saying "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" is for the baseball crowd or "Taps" is for the funeral crowd, or Carmina Burana is for the window-into-the-underworld crowd. They're songs for occasions, not folks.

― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, July 30, 2010 2:22 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

same difference.

bottom line is there are certain upbeat, celebratory songs that fit these occasions more than others. and again, this isn't a negative thing necessarily. i think the "mazel tov" was included for humor, but i also think it must've registered how convenient it would be to have it as a party shout-out.

same difference -- meaning, i think that the comment in question meant to say that this song was intended for crowds at weddings, not for people who attend weddings in general.

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

I honestly don't think I have ever seen anything dorkier than this video.

i hate this song so much, and i'll never get why the "mazel tov" line is meant to be funny. it's so WEAK, it's not even that catchy - i don't think i could remember how it went until like the 50th time or whatever, the beat is negligible, the chorus is boring, as some dude says it's subject matter common to maybe 20% of pop, most of which does it massively better...i think rev put it well on one of the EOY lists, it's a good-times party song for people who don't really party very often.

i don't get why wedding disco songs are lionised so much.

Because weddings are lionized?

I heard this song in a club in Kampala that was otherwise playing afropop, dancehall and US hip-hop and R&B and it was pretty packed with both locals and tourists. Then the DJ played this song and suddenly there were only white people left on the dancefloor.

weddings are fun, but "your uncle will want to dance to it" is not a positive quality in a song imo

Depends on the uncle. (Most of mine look like they prefer to chill.)

nah imo there is something beautiful about songs that can unite people. some of them suck, of course, but some of them don't.

weddings are fun, but "your uncle will want to dance to it" is not a positive quality in a song imo

Still butthurt about 'How Many Licks' clearing the dancefloor?

this song's ubiquity is STILL ENCROACHING???

encroaching in the Smash Mouth "All Star" sense

l'chaim >>> mazel tov, clearly

and yeah some dude otm, even though I'm not a big fan of this song (it's ok), if it can get my cheeseball uncle to dance drunkenly and stupidly, I call that a plus.

hehe yea i agree, but i also think a lot of the songs that would do that would not be found on my iPod

There are songs that have wedding disco classic status thrust upon them (I think Rehab might be the most recent but there are dozens of them) and there are those that are clearly contrived for the purpose (Single Ladies, I Gotta Feeling), both of which sort of feel like they're trying way too hard.

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