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it's 4/4 but has a 5-bar chord progression which is a bit awkward yeah but that's also one of the things that makes it interesting

ufo, Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link

Five bars of 4/4, but also two extra beats stuck in between bars 3 and 4.

Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link

Part of the other reason this one endured is the main riff being simple acoustic chords, so lots of fratboys who brought guitars to parties or musicians that perform covers at bars and restaurants would play it incessantly. For years.

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:14 (one year ago) link

It even wound up in an episode of Scrubs, Ted's a capella group performing it at Janitor's wedding

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 April 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link

some of y’all hating on Hey Ya like the most unlistenable shit made on this planet and should hush.

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 7 April 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link

I still think it's a good pop jam, but overplay dulled it for me

But as ums said it don't really matter cos it's hardly peak Outkast to begin with

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 April 2023 11:43 (one year ago) link

I guess this is an opinion that belongs in this thread: I find Outkast in general to be really easy to overplay. I liked "Ms. Jackson" and "Rosa Parks" and "Hey Ya" and all the other hits when they were on the radio, but now they've reached "I know this song so well it's boring" status for me and I never need to hear them again.*

*does not apply to albums, songs that don't get a lot of radio play, or "Bombs Over Baghdad."

Lily Dale, Friday, 7 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link

I recall tuning into my local college station in 2003 and the dj was playing Hey Ya seemingly unaware that it was also the number one song in the country. The ascent to ultra-mainstream was so rapid.

Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Friday, 7 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link

Hey Ya blew my mind the first time I heard it on the radio and to be honest, it hasn't stopped. The song is evergreen for me.

Part of the other reason this one endured is the main riff being simple acoustic chords, so lots of fratboys who brought guitars to parties or musicians that perform covers at bars and restaurants would play it incessantly. For years.

― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Thursday, April 6, 2023 7:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Definitely saw a college guy with acoustic guitar just sitting on a campus bench strumming Hey Ya.

Get Lucky was a song that underwhelmed me when it first came out, but then I brainwashed myself into liking it for the sake of Nile Rodgers. "Like the legend of the phoenix" is one of the most tepid opening lines in music history.

peace, man, Friday, 7 April 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link

My affection for "Get Lucky" withered quickly too. I was all there for Nile Rodgers.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 April 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link

Random access memories is probably the album which most quickly dissipated for me, it’s just not that great.

omar little, Friday, 7 April 2023 15:30 (one year ago) link

bombs over baghdad sucks too!

kurt schwitterz, Friday, 7 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link

FPed

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link

did an outkast discog run recently and it's like five of the best albums ever made and idlewild

wrong thread for this i guess

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link

I'm losing my mind here.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 April 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link

There is no such thing as a bad record only a bad person for putting themselves in the trajectory of the object

saer, Friday, 7 April 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link

yeah when I got domed by that flying 78 I needed stitches

Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 April 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link

or a bad person for putting in a place where it shouldn't be. But if you shouldn't be there its your fault and not the person who made the record

saer, Friday, 7 April 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link

yeah when I got domed by that flying 78 I needed stitches

I am using record figuratively because all records are records including those that are in digital form

saer, Friday, 7 April 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link

Random Access Memories was terrible from the jump

castanuts (DJP), Friday, 7 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link

"fragments of time" is good

ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 April 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link

the chorus doesn’t deliver tho

the one with the strokes guy is good, “lose yourself to dance” is good until the robots start going ‘cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon, “touch” is pretty incredible, the rest doesn’t move me. “Game of love” would be alright if they had gotten Lou gramm to sing it.

brimstead, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link

lol even though I don’t like the album (and kinda hate it conceptually), it does bum me out that ppl are cooling on it because i remember ilx went pretty crazy for it at the time and it was good vibes

brimstead, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link

fragments of time’s chorus suits the mood, it doesn’t need a big pop hook imo

ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link

lol even though I don’t like the album (and kinda hate it conceptually), it does bum me out that ppl are cooling on it because i remember ilx went pretty crazy for it at the time and it was good vibes

― brimstead

I thought ILX was pretty crazy for loving it.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link

the Julian Casablancas track, which my local Argentine bar adores, makes me wanna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZV9LWFaBiM

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 April 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link

kylie’s “can’t beat the feeling” is perhaps accidentally a vv slightly similar-sounding precursor to “get lucky” and it’s better. Should have been one of Aphrodite’s singles.

omar little, Friday, 7 April 2023 19:58 (one year ago) link

I got swept up in the RAM hype a bit but in the end it didn’t have the tunes or much that lingered. Homework is still my top daft punk.

omar little, Friday, 7 April 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link

I would still kinda bop around if I heard "Get Lucky" and have residual affection, but I am almost completely oblivious to mainstream radio and rarely encounter it in the wild so it's not too overplayed for me

not as into Hey Ya (prob cuz of the weird rhythm stuff, thx as always to the ilx musos for explaining)

Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 7 April 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link

How is all this "i don't care for their big pop breakout, i'm more into their seminal work" a controversial music opinion?

enochroot, Friday, 7 April 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link

I just have to bash RAM whenever I get a chance

brimstead, Friday, 7 April 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link

RAM on

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 7 April 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link

I started getting into “Get Lucky” after seeing Chic do it multiple times. Pharrell’s vocals can go get fucked tho

castanuts (DJP), Friday, 7 April 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link

Chic must be so awesome live

NOT CONTROVERSIAL j/k

Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Friday, 7 April 2023 21:25 (one year ago) link

“Get Lucky” is horrible, infinitely worse than “Hey Ya”

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 7 April 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link

the only Daft Punk album I ever wanna listen to anymore is Alive 2007. it astounds me that a group so tapped into the soul of the dance floor and the idea of electronic music as a living organism put out something so tepid and strung out. I mean RAM is definitely a good album but I'm worn out just thinking about putting it on again

frogbs, Friday, 7 April 2023 21:48 (one year ago) link

yeah, Alive 2007 is the best Daft Punk album. I don't know if that's a controversial opinion, it certainly seems obvious to me. They just took all the best bits of their albums and mashed them together perfectly.

silverfish, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link

daft punk got lucky a few times by riding different waves of disco gentrification but their music is just not very interesting on the whole

Left, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link

it feels like dance music for straight people to me

Left, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link

someone will point out how popular [insert alleged daft punk banger here] was in gay clubs and I'll be like sure but that's part of the problem

Left, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link

is that something inherent to their music or a byproduct of their mass popularity?

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link

Alive 2007 is also the only Daft Punk album I listen to, but I really only need 20-30 minutes of it. There's a LOT going on and I just want to move on to something else after a point.

peace, man, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link

it feels like dance music for straight people to me


i agree with this tbh— i like Daft Punk okay but it’s definitely closer to the straight bro EDM quotient than the gay disco bathhouse quotient in my mind.

Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link

daft punk never made a great album

(but alive 2007 comes close, the discovery singles are undeniable, etc.)

ufo, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link

Agree on both of those posts though I would say homework really is one I'll always have a soft spot for, it still sounds pretty fresh.

omar little, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link

hmm, gay feelings very much in the mix of my Daft Punk love

sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link

could never really get into Alive 2007, felt like it flattened out a lot of what was cool about Human After All

sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link

retrofuturist cosplayers making house music can't help being a little queer but it's all relative

your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link

ooh I'd love to be a retrofuturist cop slayer!

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link


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