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

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.

CRAZY by gnarls barkley :( :( :|

hey ya

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/frownieface.jpg

those 2 in partic, barf

Both were played at the wedding I was at last month so there you go. By a wedding band no less.

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, July 30, 2010 10:16 AM (50 minutes ago)

OTM. This is music for people who don't care about music. It serves its purpose, but let's not champion a song for appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Aren't those both just songs that were such absolute ginormous hits that it makes sense to play them at motley gatherings like weddings, b/c you need songs that you can assume at least 3/4 of the inattentive, non-musico audience knows, likes, and will be happy to hear? I mean a wedding is not an indie club where you have to dig deep and play a song that peaked at #20 ten years ago to get people delighted and surprised - - - you can play "Crazy" and even shy Cousin Wanda, who owns five CDs and hasn't thought about that song in years, will have the time of her life. How is this a bad thing?

it's not for cousin wanda. but for me and plenty of other people it's sickening.

and it's not "either obscure hit from 10 yrs ago or HEY YA"

plenty of stuff in between!

Oh yeah, sure, I mean, I'm sick of "Hey Ya" too, but I'm also sick of "Celebration" and "September" and what have you but it's hard to say those are sucky and bad for that reason. Weddings have gotta be tough to DJ, is all I'm saying.

'september' i always like somehow

it's true, it is hard to say that such songs are bad for that reason alone -- it's just that Crazy and Hey Ya are PARTICULARLY shite. like my blood boils.

Last wedding I was at had kinda weird music. Lots of anonymous worldbeat, then like four Paul Simon songs in a row, then "Bust a Move" and "Ice Ice Baby."

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jenandlaw
1 hour ago

I'm so sad for the people who live their lives this way, think it is fun, and don't realize the emptiness. That isn't sarcasm... it's genuine grief and compassion.