# Pop Song - DNCE, Cake by the Ocean

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 3, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-dnce-cake-by-the-ocean/747821 "2016-03-03T12:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-dnce-cake-by-the-ocean/747821/1 "2016-03-03T12:07:50Z")

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Have you heard this? [DNCE - Cake By The Ocean - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74)

Band with one of the old Disney Jonas Brothers as the vocalist, a solid rhythm section and a girl Korean guitarist who plays solid Nile Rodgers dance-funk chanky riffs.

It’s a nice piece of dancey-pop confection that still feels like a band made it. On the “Uptown Funk” or “Get Lucky” scale, it is a couple of notches lower, but fun. I suspect that if **Snowboarder Bo** ventures into this thread, he will hate this song 😉

Apparently the title is a reference to something one of the (I believe) Swedish producers said. They were trying to describe a drink to get a girl and confused Cake by the Ocean with a Sex on the Beach. Kinda funny.

Heard it at random in the car when my daughter had radio control and it caught my attention.

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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-song-dnce-cake-by-the-ocean/747821/2 "2016-03-03T13:07:33Z")

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I find it pretty enjoyable as well. I will probably forget about it by a couple years from now, but for now it keeps things lively.