for once I agree, worst song ever

for once I agree, worst song ever

Neil Walker

Member #210

April 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Saw this on BBC, the lyrics are just so bad. Even the tune makes Dizzy's sound good

"gotta choose which seat shall I sit in", "Today is Saturday and the day after is Sunday" are just so deep and thought provoking.

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Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

Maybe Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England is writing lyrics now?

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Vanneto

Member #8,643

May 2007

Fresh and daring, I love it!

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Slartibartfast

Member #8,789

June 2007

Reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gx3nn6LS6g&feature=relmfu

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23yrold3yrold

Member #1,134

March 2001

Knew what it was going to be from the thread title. When I was first shown this I didn't even get through the chorus ... close, bye.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

... :'(

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StevenVI

Member #562

July 2000

Holy crap, that is terrible. Looks like everyone agrees, based on the size of the red bar under the video.

Edit: I just noticed that it says, "As seen on: tosh.comedycentral.com" -- is it supposed to be funny? It looks like it's supposed to be serious.

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

From what I could gather it is intended to be a serious video... It wasn't made by Comedy Central; only featured on a show (for funnies).

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July 2003

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blargmob

Member #8,356

February 2007

I was one of the first viewers on scene to watch that video before it exploded into this crazy publicity thing.

I feel important 8-)

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Dizzy Egg

Member #10,824

March 2009

Neil Walker said:

Even the tune makes Dizzy's sound good

Meh, I knew they were good...no wait

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Ron Novy

Member #6,982

March 2006

The robots have been taking over. The revolution started with Auto-tune and vocal prism. Very soon the world will be talking and singing in a very monotone voice.

That's it! I'm going to do a song with a funky back beat and me singing with Auto-Tune set to a single D#. I'll do it live with acoustic guitar and a loop in the background. I'll call it "Mighty sharp" and it will have some questionable lyrics that most people won't understand.

Anyone have an annoying loop I could use that's in D#? 8-)

Then the 'official video' can be a bunch of cats being chased by dachshunds (wiener dogs).

I'll be rich before the end of the month. >:( :-/ :-[ :'(

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jhuuskon

Member #302

April 2000

I've witnessed a trend that crap producers are most eager to attribute a sucky vocal performance to expensive hard-/software.

The Autotune is relatively subtle in the track. Her performance simply is crap. She sings with the most annoying nasal known to man. The Autotune is probably on the same preset as in Bruno Mars' Grenade (albeit with a bit less smoothing).

If anything, cranking autotune's smoothing^[1] to zero to the max could've actually saved the track.

The genious thing is the people behind the video make a nice amount of moolah. The more people sread how they hate it, the more people will flock to watch it and spread the word of hate. Guess who pockets the easy cash from youtube ad revenue?

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or whatever the parameter was called. It controls the rate at which auto tune forces the incoming signal to home in on the desired pitch. Turning it down to zero causes the "auto-tune" effect when the plugin instantaneously and inhumanly changes pitch

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axilmar

Member #1,204

April 2001

Reddit had quite a few funny threads about this song. This song is entertaining, but not in the way its creators imagined.

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Neil Walker

Member #210

April 2000

Ron Novy said:

Anyone have an annoying loop I could use that's in D#?

I can give you one in C#

for(int i=0;i<10000000;i++) 
  System.Console.WriteLine("ha ha. ha ha {0}",i);

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

jhuuskon said:

...could've actually saved the track.

Nothing could have saved this track for me. What I hate about it are the "lyrics". You can't even call those lyrics. If anybody spent more than a minute "writing" them then they should probably poke a fork in their eye and call it a career. Worse still, if somebody "freestyled" them then they should drink a glass of gasoline and chase it with a lit match to ensure they never attempt to do so ever again. I absolutely hate lyrics that don't rhyme and/or don't have any real meaning. The only part about this track that is even remotely pleasant is the background beat, but there's nothing special about that. It's the same standard beat you hear in a lot of pop and hip hop songs... So basically this song is a tired beat and completely unnecessary sing-talking.

That said, the girl that did it acoustically with a guitar (last video in Dennis' post) actually turned it into something I could tolerate. She has talent. I still wouldn't want to hear it again (the song sucks and I think she knows it too), but at least she made it suck less.

jhuuskon said:

I don't really mind the company that made the video making money from it. It is entertaining in a sick way. It's just not enjoyable. What annoys me is that people are actually buying the track and the "artist" is actually making money on it, even if "only" a few 10s of thousands (almost a year's income for many people)... That's the really sick part.

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July 2000

bamccaig said:

I absolutely hate lyrics that don't rhyme

That is your complaint?! There's a lot of music out there that isn't rap.

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and/or don't have any real meaning

Oh wait, you're not even talking about rap.

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What annoys me is that people are . . . making money on it . . . That's the really sick part.

Yeah, it really REALLY pisses me off to know that people make money making things I don't personally care for. Like Pepsicola -- they've got nothing on Coca-Cola! The fact that they are allowed to make money is truly sick! Or Huggies diapers, when we all know that Pampers are superior. And don't even get me started on Apple!

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Ron Novy

Member #6,982

March 2006

jhuuskon said:

The Autotune is relatively subtle in the track.

BULL SHIT! L0L!

It's like they mapped it out on a keyboard and piped the MIDI directly into the plug-in or the box. There might be some pitch bending in the MIDI but it's a very heavily auto-tuned vocal track. Of course there are worse when it comes to Auto-tune but this is pretty thick...

Auto-tune adds tuned harmonic distortion as well which is why it sounds kind of nasally... But her voice is pretty nasally when she sings "Friday Friday."

I actually have the box and the plug-in. Just need to remember what closet they're hiding in. Yes, Auto-tune is coming out of the closet. It's totally gay. :-/

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Neil Walker

Member #210

April 2000

If auto-tune is good enough for X-Factor/American Idol it's good enough for me. They are producing the raw talent of the future.

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Ron Novy

Member #6,982

March 2006

Neil Walker said:

If auto-tune is good enough for X-Factor/American Idol it's good enough for me. They are over-producing the raw talent of the future.

FTFY. :-/ :'(

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bamccaig

Member #7,536

July 2006

StevenVI said:

That is your complaint?! There's a lot of music out there that isn't rap.

No, but this is basically a poor attempt at rap... She's not singing. She's sing-talking, which is basically a really crappy impersonation of rap. Most lyrics in all genres rhyme some, even if not always, but if they don't it's because the lyrics are actually being sung in a pleasant/interesting way. If you take out the rhyming and the singing then all you have is talking over music... If that's considered singing then I guess we're all singers because we've all done that.

StevenVI said:

Oh wait, you're not even talking about rap.

The good rap music is always saying something in the lyrics (even if you don't relate/agree with what they're saying). You must listen to shitty rap music if you don't think they're saying anything...

StevenVI said:

The entire planet seems to be in agreement that the song sucks. At the same time, you have idiots actually buying the thing. Probably because it's "popular" and they think that always means it's cool... Clearly not always the case.

There was a video on YouTube of two kids listening to it. One of them was showing the other one. The guy first seeing it just kept saying "this is stupid, this sucks", and the other kid was "singing" along to it. When questioned for liking it his only real comment was "it's really popular ... it has half a million views". :-X It seems American youth will do anything to be one of the crowd... :-/