Why don't we have a Carly Rae Jepsen thread yet?

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Byron I'm w/ you on this song being like, the only classic top 40 banger this decade has produced so far (aside from Mr. Saxobeat, obviously), but the video's terrible. Come on.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

 

[Byron The Bulb]

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

classic top 40 banger

Modern classic, obvs. We write our own history nowadays.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

yo this is a club banger for you Alfie? This is like your 3 6?

 

[MFer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Dldlfmr3U#ws

 

[Jingus]

I like the video's self-deprecating tones. Most videos try so desperately hard to make the singer look cool or seductive or badass or deep or mysterious, there's not many that show the artist being willing to laugh at themselves. But the song itself sounds like every other synthetic corporate pop song I've ever heard.

Carly Rae Jepsen's sudden rise to fame at such an advanced age gives hope to mid-20somethings everywhere.

Honest question; do you have any artistic skills that you could use to rise to fame yourself?

I could totally see Byron publishing a collection of his short stories, most of which are about teenagers coming of age on a beach. The book gets some good reviews from smaller newspapers and journals, but is either ignored or treated with apathy by the larger trades. Byron then leverages this success into a tenured position as an English professor at a state university, where every few years he cranks out a book-length essay on pop culture analysis which somehow always manages to center around young women in skinny jeans. He keeps meaning to finish that novel he's been working on, but he never finishes his revisions and the book has now crept above one thousand pages. Eventually he gets caught banging his TA and is fired, but he manages to trip and fall into marrying a rich cougar so it's all okay.

I already told him what he should be doing... movie reviews.

Or that, he could totally do that. Hey, Byromite, let's team up and do an underground review show! You can be the slender aloof hipster, I'll be the fat drunken redneck, it'll be magic. The vicious hurt-feelings argument over Transformers 3 will be EPIC. We can occasionally have Bob Barron on as a guest correspondent and we'll mock him and stuff.

 

[Edwin]

I would drench this girl in semeun. I added the u for Canada.

 

[KOAB]

the song is awful; pretty girl

 

[BurningPirateShipSex]

I would drench this girl in semeun. I added the u for Canada.

I'd say there's no 'u' in semen, but that would be a patently false statement.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Knowing all the words to this song helped get me laid the other night, I'm pretty sure. It's place in the pantheon is secure.

 

[KOAB]

but does this song get ya facesat action

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

doubt it

 

[KOAB]

I only learn the lyrics to songs that will def. get my face sat upon.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Gucci Mane Ft. Rocko & Plies - Mouf (2012)

 

[Star Ocean 2]

This is a nice example of a "wait for the chorus" song. Pop songwriting has gotten to the point where nobody even tries to write interesting verses anymore. There's no attempt at a melody or creating interesting lyrics. There verse is basically a formality, an interchangeable almost-lost relic that is included merely as something to stretch the song time up to the requisite 3:00 or so, and take up space before the chorus, or "good part," comes. Enjoyment of songs no longer comes from the entire composition being good, we now willfully settle for the anticipation of the familiar chorus while tolerating the verses. This is also probably why the chorus is repeated, like, 17 times at the end. Might as well hammer it home to guarantee the masses will continue to hum it all the way into the next song that plays (at least until the chorus of that one picks up).

 

[KOAB]

The only one keeping the great songwriting alive in pop music is Katy Perry. Firework is this generation's Man in the Mirror.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

This is a nice example of a "wait for the chorus" song. Pop songwriting has gotten to the point where nobody even tries to write interesting verses anymore. There's no attempt at a melody or creating interesting lyrics. There verse is basically a formality, an interchangeable almost-lost relic that is included merely as something to stretch the song time up to the requisite 3:00 or so, and take up space before the chorus, or "good part," comes. Enjoyment of songs no longer comes from the entire composition being good, we now willfully settle for the anticipation of the familiar chorus while tolerating the verses. This is also probably why the chorus is repeated, like, 17 times at the end. Might as well hammer it home to guarantee the masses will continue to hum it all the way into the next song that plays (at least until the chorus of that one picks up).

Nah man, the verses here are pretty integral.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Who are we to disagree with Liam Neeson?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=fWNaR-rxAic&p=n thanks internet for making my life just a little bit easier.

 

[Precious Roy]

this song is terrible

WTF is wrong with you Byron?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Just keep listening to it. Soon you'll understand.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I was at a bar like a week or so ago, and when Call Me Maybe was playing, a bunch of dudes were singing it and shit, and I thought of Byron and how the girls like that but I don't think those guys would be singing it if they didn't come in with girls but it was definitely a crowd favorite

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Semi-Charmed Call - Mashup (Third Eye Blind vs Carly Rae Jepsen)

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Sesame Street: Share It Maybe

Finally a version of the song I can get down to.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

lol Byron sees this get bumped and he comes here immediately. Probably has an alert on his phone to notify him whenever someone posts in it.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Based on the chat last night, I decided to do some investigating. I was talking to this girl today (Age: 20) and I asked her if she liked this song. She said she had never heard of it. See guys, not every 20 something girl loves this song.

 

[KOAB]

I bet the chick in your av loves it.

 

[KOAB]

Semi-Charmed Call - Mashup (Third Eye Blind vs Carly Rae Jepsen)

You just shitted on my childhood dawg.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I bet the dude in his sig loves it.