[Dr. Evil]
Riiiiiiiiight…
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Just like Livin’ La Vida Loca?
yea man, thats like right on. i hate all this stupid shit that people like. youre right about people just going with the flow, man. everybody on this board is like that. the other day, some dude called me a stupid motherfucker, and i was like “yeah i am a stupid motherfucker” cause i wanted to go with the flow and think what everybody else thought so theyd think i was cool. but led zep? they were posers. my favorite band is abba. an youre right about that stupid band charts. i hate charts. they had that one song “number one” and that was shit but everybody liked it.
paulberserker.
You are way off, pal.
The worst song EVER was that piece of piss, “You say he’s just a friend.”
I think it was BizMarkie or some such thing. If it was meant to be a joke, it was the worst joke ever perpetrated on a music buying public. Even if it was given away with toasters that gave you the answers to the SAT’s, it was not remotely worth it.
Hey ya, however, Is the most fun I’ve had with pop in many moons. 
You’re a fascinating fellow Homer J. Generally this board scares off idiots pretty quickly, but you’ve been here 4 months. That’s odd.
I really suggest you read your own posts. I don’t know precisely what you were going for - probably “young, highly self-aware, and with a true open mind”. You missed.
It’s like the crap in your brain has crap for brains.
Naturally, feel free to hate "Hey Ya’’, but the randomness of your post coupled with its eye-gouging combination of self-pity and self-promotion was quite apalling.
Official old lady asking:
Who in the hell is Fatman Scoop?
Y’all don’t want to hear me. You just want to dance.
I’ve never heard this song – and I’m still supposedly young and with it.
Trigonal Planar, dude click on the link on post #59.
Homer J, Ilsa_Lund, anyone else… Do you want to join a discussion about current music? I am in shock that there are people my age still stuck on Led Zeppelin, or in the past at all. This is your one chance in life to go to concerts and look cool while you are there. Don’t spend it listening to classic rock dude.
I’ll post in here .
Don’t be dissin’ old school, boy!
Just like it isn’t automatically crap just because it gets played on the Top 40 stations, it isn’t automatically crap because it’s old.
[QUOTE=bookbuster]
Trigonal Planar, dude click on the link on post #59.
Homer J, Ilsa_Lund, anyone else… Do you want to join a discussion about current music? I am in shock that there are people my age still stuck on Led Zeppelin, or in the past at all. This is your one chance in life to go to concerts and look cool while you are there. Don’t spend it listening to classic rock dude.
Umm, dude? I was whooshing Homer J… There’s plenty of new music I love. I am also trying to get to a Radiohead concert if they come near here.
Weird, I hit the “Quote” button…
Another thing; hating the Beatles? Bullshit, man. Nothing that you listen to would be here without them.
I thought “Lose Yourself” by Eminen would be the hands down winner for best record during the upcoming Grammys. I think it will win best song (Hey Ya! is not nominated.)
But Hey Ya got it all: a very funny song, with some of the best lyrics this year (and the only song in history to make “duh” work), great beat and procession, and very danceable. It just might beat Eminem.
Ilsa, Ive listened to your shit over about a million posts now.
SHUT, THE FUCK, UP!
Guess what? I have THE NEWS: OTHER FORMS OF MUSIC EXIST THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING BEATLES!
How about Techno? Hip Hop? What a debt they owe to McCartney/Lennon.
Ilsa, you are a twat. Of the highest order. Fuck you.
I think this is what’s hilarious about him. I mean, I don’t think the Fatman Scoop song is a work of art - it’s pretty shit, actually, but still, he’s just there hollering in to the mic. there’s no rhymes or anything, just this guy hollering. I’ve gotta admire his chutzpah. But what exactly does Fatman Scoop have to with Dre, 'Kast or Hey Ya?
Oh yeah, you really set yourself apart from the herd. You don’t listen to what everyone your age is listening to. You listen to what everyone your parents’ age was listening to. You don’t even have the guts to follow a current trend.
Maybe in 20 years time, Hey Ya will be safe enough for you to pay attention to. Until then, how about you get off the high horse and engage in you own pop culture rather than leeching off someone else’s?
So what? I say this every time the question of hating the Beatles comes up: Sure, I respect the innovations they made. Some fine production, nice songwriting. And hell, plenty of bands I like are big Beatles fans. But it doesn’t mean I’ve got to go around slavishly adoring every piece of shit the Beatles made. Because there’s a huge amount of crap there.
As much as I am for Eminem getting beaten, preferably with a lead pipe, defeating him in a music contest isn’t exactly a mark of high achievement. But then again, we are talking about the Milli Vinilli Grammys here. It’s obvious to me that by listening to Eminem, your mind’s self defense against bad taste was weakened which made you vulnerable to the Outkast earworm and thus your brain was devoured. Now you wander the earth as a pop zombie with vile plans to infect the rest of us. Well back! Back! I say!
Blackclaw tries to thwart off Capacitor’s advance with a Disturbed CD.
Obviously I don’t take any of this too seriously. I am uncertain what it is that causes some folks to love a song and others to detest the same song. I hate Hey YA. Really really hate it. I cannot really claim any musical knowledge that allows me to attempt and justify why I hate it so. The mere thought of the song instantly irritates me. I’d much rather be indifferent about it.
Sidetrack: The biggest influence the Beatles can be said to have had on modern music is how bands are marketed, in my opinion (Elvis more or less led the way, but he was marketed as an individual, not a band). As far as musical chord structure, they weren’t doing anything that hadn’t already been done before; as far as recording prowess they were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of new recording technology and sound engineering techniques; and they came along when a huge generation of young music fans was casting around for music they could call their own (yawn, Bill Haley, that’s mom’s music). Any reasonably talented band, I think, could have stepped into the same situation and done fairly well for themselves. The Beatles just happened to be the ones who did.
Regarding the OP: I’m really glad I haven’t heard this song yet. Every time I see this thread title—and after reading about the song here—I get the song “Hey Now” stuck in my head. Only now it’s “A Hard Day’s Night” because of the Beatles thing.
I would hate to base my opinion of a song on how eye-catching the video is. I still hate it when people refer to “You Can Call Me Al” as the song with Chevy Chase in it.
As a music appreciator of nearly every genre, I have to say I LOVE this song!
“Now don’t have me break this thing down for nuttin’! Now I wanna see y’all on your baddest behavior.”
From the first time I heard the song I fell in love with it, and danced outrageously to it every single time–In my house, in my car, and in the club. I can’t help it, the song makes me dance. 
Now, Blackclaw wonders why he (she?) has such an aversion to this song, and other people love it so much. I can’t say I’ve run across Blackclaw before, so I don’t know much about him/her?, but I have a weird theory.
Perhaps liking certain types of music has something to do with how musically inclined you are, or how much rhythm one has. It really can’t be based on genetics or what your parents listened to. In some cases it’s based on what your peers listen to, but other kids rebel and refuse to follow what their peers like…Very interesting question Blackclaw!
I think the responses my thread recieved, rather than ‘detroying’ my response, simply reinforced them. You see, i dont say i listen to Led Zep because i want to sound different, granted i am in the minoirty of youth to listen to them, but thats not my fault, thats just how it is. Furthermore I never once mentioned that i dont listen to modern music, counting crows, powderfinger, the strokes, the beatles, the vines, muse, ocean colour scene etc etc. they are all albums in my cd collection. Listening to music shouldn’t (but seems to if this board is anything to go by) be about the decade it was in, or how old i am but simply if its good music. Thats the problem, im actually being chastised because I made an effort, and conscious effort to discover some good music, yes through my parents, through local bands, through a whole variety of mediums. However because of this i recieve abuse. You may say i was attacked due to the written quality of my post but i doubt it. This is the whole problem with the SDMB, its fully of people who are the norm, yet, and crucial, think they are outside the social norm. I’m not interested what you think of me as a person or what image i seem to present but evidently you all seem to know, because like all of todays youth, and obviously some of the previous generation you are obessed with social grouping, with image, with activly attacking someone who is different. Ulitmately I suspect (and know) I have a broader, more rounded and better cd collection and music appreication that the vast majority of people my age and the people who like songs like Hey YA and Fatman Scoop.
P.S Earl of CC if you were as intelligent as you like to try and make yourself sound you would be able to work out that if i joined in october 2002 i would now have been here for 14 months, but then you cant be expected to take the time to work out that.
Does that Song 2 by Blur has finally been replaced as the anthem of x-treme marketers everywhere?
Woo hoo!