Tuesday, July 17, 2012

GOTYE RAE JEPSEN: Yes, an enterprising soul has mashed up "Somebody That I Used To Know" and "Call Me Maybe."  Has he created an abomination that must be destroyed or an all-powerful fusion of Songs of the Summer?  Discuss.

10 comments:

  1. I'm no fan of either song, but that mashup is pretty terrible. Strip whatever personality each original song had - in both vocals and instruments - and you're left with a lifeless mess that pretty much sums up everything I hate about current popular music.

    For my money (and because I'm a gay man Of Almost A Certain Age), the song of the summer SHOULD be Madonna's "Turn Up The Radio", her best song since, at least, "Hung Up".

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  2. The Pathetic Earthling12:00 PM

    I recently learned that "Somebody That I Used to Know" wasn't a Sting song featuring some Croatian singer I was supposed to already know about.

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  3. Not actually Pomplamoose's best work. They have a great YouTube channel with clever covers, but this isn't one of them.

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  4. Too busy.  I thought I was going to short circuit listening to that.

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  5. I liked it. 

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  6. Watts2:29 PM

    Wasn't "Hung Up" basically an ABBA cover? NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

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  7. Randy2:52 PM

    Hee!  Well, it had an ABBA sample in it, but like any good song that used a sample, it morphed it into something else.

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  8. J. Bowman5:39 PM

    Also, as a bit of a nit, it's more a Song of This Past Winter.

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  9. isaac_spaceman6:53 PM

    Madonna's "Turn Up the Radio" is definitely the best Madonna song I've never heard of since "Hung Up."   

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  10. Anonymous6:15 AM

    The best Call Me Maybe is still the Jimmy Fallon/Roots effort using children's instruments...

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