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Kheldarn just wait until you see the sorts of hats pharrell wears. WOW.
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BigFactory posted:You should get out of the house more. That's not healthy. Yep - because if he had gotten out of the house more, he probably would have bumped into Pharrell filming the "Happy" video right on his very own street! How crazy is that? But unfortunately, Kheldarn is obviously some agoraphobic freakshow who, for whatever reason, doesn't inundate himself in every single aspect of popular culture. Poor Kheldarn... perhaps now you'll take this for what it is - an opportunity to listen to every song and learn about the artists of those songs so you're never called out on the Internet like this again. I'm going to bet 90% of the American public never knew who the gently caress Pharrell was until "Get Lucky" and "Happy" dropped. Get over yourselves and your encyclopedic knowledge of pop music - it's nothing to be proud of.
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Jul 22, 2014 13:55
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Pharrell was a star producer long before Get Lucky and Happy. His music's even been on a Weird Al album before!
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Jul 22, 2014 14:07
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berzerkmonkey posted:I'm going to bet 90% of the American public never knew who the gently caress Pharrell was until "Get Lucky" and "Happy" dropped. Get over yourselves and your encyclopedic knowledge of pop music - it's nothing to be proud of. Knowing about pop music is a hell of a lot less annoying that these people who beam with pride on having not heard of <popular thing>.
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Jul 22, 2014 14:15
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yep - because if he had gotten out of the house more, he probably would have bumped into Pharrell filming the "Happy" video right on his very own street! How crazy is that? But unfortunately, Kheldarn is obviously some agoraphobic freakshow who, for whatever reason, doesn't inundate himself in every single aspect of popular culture. I want to stuff you in a locker so bad.
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Jul 22, 2014 14:17
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Knowing about pop music is a hell of a lot less annoying that these people who beam with pride on having not heard of <popular thing>. BigFactory posted:I want to stuff you in a locker so bad. Ah, that explains it - you're still in high school.
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Jul 22, 2014 14:29
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You should also check out beyonce, she's a pop artist and is pretty cool. Haven't heard of that other guy who sings with her but he's ok I guess.
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Jul 22, 2014 14:41
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berzerkmonkey posted:I don't recall him "beaming with pride" about not knowing who Pharrell was. He just said that he didn't care about who Pharrell was. No, it's not him, but countless times poo poo like that comes up. Like "what's this popular song that people are talking about? I SO don't know about it." 
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Jul 22, 2014 15:18
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:No, it's not him, but countless times poo poo like that comes up. Like "what's this popular song that people are talking about? I SO don't know about it." Ok, well, yeah, that is douchey, if that's the case. Back to Al: The more I listen to "Mission Statement," the more I goddamn love it. In the video, at around 2:09, what is drawn on the whiteboard after the paisley, but before the flowers? Are they just some weird, acid-trippy shapes, or are they supposed to be something?
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Jul 22, 2014 15:57
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Mission Statement is a great way to end. It's got a lot of layers and unlike a lot of his other stuff, it's parody (not of the original song itself, obviously) with much more sarcastic bite. If you think about it, most of Weird Al's songs are parodies only in the loosest sense. They aren't so much making fun of the original song as much as they are sort of mad-libbing it up in a clever way. The video itself is very clever and I love the whole whiteboard theme to add to the usual corporate cliches. I think he did well to choose this as his last release. Of the 8, this video will foster more conversation and thus be remembered longer.
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Jul 22, 2014 16:31
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Overwined posted:The video itself is very clever and I love the whole whiteboard theme to add to the usual corporate cliches. Pretty sure it's a play on those RSA Animate videos. Probably would've been funnier if he'd done it as a TED talk. howe_sam posted:Pharrell was a star producer long before Get Lucky and Happy. His music's even been on a Weird Al album before! He's responsible for multiple songs on Mandatory Fun. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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howe_sam posted:Pharrell was a star producer long before Get Lucky and Happy. His music's even been on a Weird Al album before! Interesting. What other album(s) was his music on?
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berzerkmonkey posted:Ah, that explains it - you're still in high school. Well I never.
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Kheldarn posted:Interesting. What other album(s) was his music on? At least Trash Day, as a member of The Neptunes.
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Kheldarn posted:Interesting. What other album(s) was his music on? A lot of them.
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Kheldarn posted:Interesting. What other album(s) was his music on? The one that first came to mind was Drop It Like It's Hot which was part of the polka on Straight Out of Lynwood (he co-produced, co-wrote, and performed on the original track). Checking The Neptunes production discography on wiki(which is longer than my arm) says he also co-produced/wrote Hot in Herre. It wouldn't surprise me if there were other songs he's produced in the polkas from Poodle Hat on, The Neptunes are ubiquitous. comes along bort posted:He's responsible for multiple songs on Mandatory Fun. Pharrell produced Blurred Lines too, didn't he.
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howe_sam posted:Pharrell produced Blurred Lines too, didn't he. Get Lucky was in the polka medley too, so that's three songs on the album.
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comes along bort posted:Pretty sure it's a play on those RSA Animate videos. Probably would've been funnier if he'd done it as a TED talk.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:The Mission Statement video was really good, I loved the art style. I am sad that Inactive didn't get a video, but I think I'll live. Maybe some day... Inactive was going to have a video but the guy that was doing it never finished it. Hell he barely even started.
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Articles popping up that seem to confirm what many suspected would be the case earlier this week. Mandatory Fun is Weird Al's first No.1 Album. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/weird-al-mandatory-fun-takes-top-charts-article-1.1876326 http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/07/22/charts-weird-al-is-number-1-sells-twice-as-many-cds-as-last-weeks-topper
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wahoo. probably helps that his album sales aren't limited to birthdays through out the year for this one! but happy that it happened
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yep - because if he had gotten out of the house more, he probably would have bumped into Pharrell filming the "Happy" video right on his very own street! How crazy is that? But unfortunately, Kheldarn is obviously some agoraphobic freakshow who, for whatever reason, doesn't inundate himself in every single aspect of popular culture. berzerkmonkey posted:Ah, that explains it - you're still in high school.
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Budget Cop posted:everyone knew who pharrell was before get lucky and happy because he's been a loving pop superstar for years now. she wants to move? drop it like it's hot?? the god damned neptunes??? the vast majority of people don't know or care who produced the music they are listening to, nor are they aware of every single artist that contributed to a given track. most people would say drop it like it's hot is a snoop dogg song, and leave it at that. i know it's very hard for music nerds to understand this, but it's true.
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:the vast majority of people don't know or care who produced the music they are listening to, nor are they aware of every single artist that contributed to a given track. most people would say drop it like it's hot is a snoop dogg song, and leave it at that. i know it's very hard for music nerds to understand this, but it's true. Marketed Gum posted:Your willful ignorance of popular artists is neither something to be proud of nor something that anyone else gives a poo poo about. Also, given the choice between "music nerds" posting here and people who go out of their way to comment on how they're not familiar with popular music, I would absolutely choose the former every time.
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weird al is obviously a music nerd so i dont know where the smugness about not knowing the originals comes from i guess it's rad to be a dilettante 
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stay depressed posted:weird al is obviously a music nerd so i dont know where the smugness about not knowing the originals comes from i guess it's rad to be a dilettante It comes free when you order a case of warhammer miniatures.
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stay depressed posted:weird al is obviously a music nerd so i dont know where the smugness about not knowing the originals comes from i guess it's rad to be a dilettante I actually feel a little bad about not being familiar with a lot of the material on the album. 
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BigFactory posted:It comes free when you order a case of warhammer miniatures. They even got a Pharrell one. Dude's everywhere.
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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:the vast majority of people don't know or care who produced the music they are listening to, nor are they aware of every single artist that contributed to a given track. most people would say drop it like it's hot is a snoop dogg song, and leave it at that. i know it's very hard for music nerds to understand this, but it's true. I know almost nothing of music. I have less than 300 songs and I think that's too much tbqh Edit: I've also never heard of Happy before this album.
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Jul 23, 2014 22:56
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There's clearly two kinds of weird al fans and one of them holy moly those guys
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I like some pop music. It's good to have an open mind about where good music can come from, and consequently it's pretty harmless to give a song/artist a minute of your time to see if you like a song. That said I feel sadly pretty out of touch because I'm only aware of about three of the songs parodied in Mandatory Fun. Foil led me to Royals, which is okay, and I've never heard Blurred Lines for example. It's hard to not be aware of pharrell though, I don't know how you would manage. He has his fingers in so much goddamn music. Someone mentioned Drop It Like It's Hot being a Snoop Dogg song so how would you ever know Pharrell had a part in it? Is that serious because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCodgL9cvk Anyway I understand if you don't like pop music because most of the time I don't but you do yourself no favors by being deliberately ignorant of it.
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RC Cola posted:I know almost nothing of music. I have less than 300 songs and I think that's too much tbqh Can you fill us in on your song collection? We should play bingo.
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hemophilia posted:I've never heard Blurred Lines for example. Stop bragging, you braggart.
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hemophilia posted:That said I feel sadly pretty out of touch because I'm only aware of about three of the songs parodied in Mandatory Fun. Foil led me to Royals, which is okay, and I've never heard Blurred Lines for example. It's hard to not be aware of pharrell though, I don't know how you would manage. He has his fingers in so much goddamn music. Someone mentioned Drop It Like It's Hot being a Snoop Dogg song so how would you ever know Pharrell had a part in it? Is that serious because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCodgL9cvk I never even heard of him until I heard Get Lucky, but then again I don't go out of my way to learn trivia about music that I don't like to listen to. I never said that it was impossible to find this stuff out, only that most people don't know or care and I stand by that. How many people who listen to the radio do you think even know what a producer does? I'd guess not very many. Now consider that people who don't know what a producer does are unlikely to care who the producer is. And before you sanctimoniously chide me for being proudly ignorant of pop music, I'd like to add that I'm also proudly ignorant of anime, comic books, and pick up artistry, and just because one of these things is more popular than the others doesn't make it inherently more worthy of my attention.
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Every song Weird Al parodied on this album was my first exposure to the original. I am completely ignorant of current pop music. I take no pride in that, but I'm also not at all ashamed.
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I don't really think ignorance in anything is necessarily something to be proud of unless it's like ignorance of the easiest way to get child porn or something. So I guess ignorance of anime is cool.
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Edit: well, everything I've said was just said, I'm slow. BigFactory posted:Can you fill us in on your song collection? We should play bingo. 'Everything but country and rap' should be on there. Also, with regards to Pharrell, whoever said no one cares who produces a song, I kind of agree. When songs come out, most people who hear it are made aware of the artists, if they didn't know them already, but not so much who's behind the mixing board, calling the shots. I've certainly heard the songs he's worked on, but had never heard his name or of the Neptunes until Get Lucky came out, and everyone was talking about him. I don't say it as a point of pride, because I actually find that I'm usually aware of stuff like this. Learning about all that he's done is like walking through the unexplored woods behind your house and there's some massive cave you never knew was there. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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