Post by a Nick O! on Aug 27, 2010 1:28:14 GMT -4
This has been linked and discussed all over the Facebooks the past week or two, but I wanted to set up a place here for all of our opinions of it, especially for those of us who don't speak outside the Alternative forum at Pulse. What do we think, gentlemen?
I love the song. I love its sunny, jubilant, retro-feel, which is only made more fun by its defiant, unabashedly explicit lyrics. Not saying it'll be a #1 on my chart or anything, but if it has enough legs and doesn't flame out too quickly, it should nevertheless do pretty well there.
Last weekend, I was enthusing about it with a friend that it's another one of those rare, genre-defying, multi-format smashes in the waiting, a la Cee-Lo's own "Crazy" with Gnarls Barkley, or maybe closer to "Because I Got High," due to its extremely broad, taboo novelty. I don't exactly wish for that to happen, though. I don't want this song played out and burned to death by the end of the year. Its minefield of a title, I thought, would prevent this from flying so high, unless the label somehow whipped up a serviceable clean version.
Yesterday morning, I read on MTV News that the label was scrambling to put one together. Later that same evening (just last night, mind you) I was poking around All Access, looking for Pop songs on last week's chart I hadn't gotten a chance to play yet, and in the C's I saw "Cee-Lo - Forget You" with a new music label by it. It was just reported that morning that "Forget You" was being worked on and by 9:30 PM (if not sooner), it's already up on All Access.
Here's what I said on Facebook: Cee-Lo's song is way too catchy to stay off the radio, sure, but having him re-record it as "Forget You" for airplay pretty much neuters it and defeats the purpose. Fail.
Yet another person linked to the original today and comments were lamenting how annoying it'll be in a few months. I replied: What'll really be annoying in a few months is radio getting its hot little hands on "F(orget) You" and running it into the ground. The fact that such an upbeat feel-good song is called "F**k You" is the entire point and what makes it so much fun. I'd just as soon listen to another song entirely rather than listen to "Forget You," which will inevitably end up on the next Kidz Bop compilation.
Didn't think of it at the time, but should've added that it's like watching an R-rated (for profanity) movie on network TV. What's the point?
I love the song. I love its sunny, jubilant, retro-feel, which is only made more fun by its defiant, unabashedly explicit lyrics. Not saying it'll be a #1 on my chart or anything, but if it has enough legs and doesn't flame out too quickly, it should nevertheless do pretty well there.
Last weekend, I was enthusing about it with a friend that it's another one of those rare, genre-defying, multi-format smashes in the waiting, a la Cee-Lo's own "Crazy" with Gnarls Barkley, or maybe closer to "Because I Got High," due to its extremely broad, taboo novelty. I don't exactly wish for that to happen, though. I don't want this song played out and burned to death by the end of the year. Its minefield of a title, I thought, would prevent this from flying so high, unless the label somehow whipped up a serviceable clean version.
Yesterday morning, I read on MTV News that the label was scrambling to put one together. Later that same evening (just last night, mind you) I was poking around All Access, looking for Pop songs on last week's chart I hadn't gotten a chance to play yet, and in the C's I saw "Cee-Lo - Forget You" with a new music label by it. It was just reported that morning that "Forget You" was being worked on and by 9:30 PM (if not sooner), it's already up on All Access.
Here's what I said on Facebook: Cee-Lo's song is way too catchy to stay off the radio, sure, but having him re-record it as "Forget You" for airplay pretty much neuters it and defeats the purpose. Fail.Yet another person linked to the original today and comments were lamenting how annoying it'll be in a few months. I replied: What'll really be annoying in a few months is radio getting its hot little hands on "F(orget) You" and running it into the ground. The fact that such an upbeat feel-good song is called "F**k You" is the entire point and what makes it so much fun. I'd just as soon listen to another song entirely rather than listen to "Forget You," which will inevitably end up on the next Kidz Bop compilation.
Didn't think of it at the time, but should've added that it's like watching an R-rated (for profanity) movie on network TV. What's the point?
