I think someone already linked the NPR rendition here but it may have been at the other place.
Also I'm lukewarm on Lee Ann Womack.
It's a total guilty pleasure. Watch the music video. It ends with a twist.
Gotye > Maybe > [ most things ] > Fun.
That said I'm fascinated by the sophisticated agrammaticality of the song title. Total texter catnip.
I hate Fun. Fun, no. Fun is fine. Fun. is no fun.
I knew Fun, I worked with Fun; and sifu you're no Fun.
Oh. That's where that meme comes from.
So, that song is cute and also annoying. I kept looking down to see if it was almost over, but I was also involuntarily kinda...twitching in time to the music.
I listened to it once, thought "meh, it's inoffensive enough", have been getting it stuck in my head since, but have no desire to listen to it again. So whatever that category is.
My 15-year-old and I have been bonding over punk rock and noisy indie. The drive up to Roanoke was fun (not Fun).
Eek, missed period. This better be manopause and not a fourth kid on the way.
This song sounds exactly like an annoying pop song and yet I keep wanting to listen to it.
I woke up with the "Fun." song was stuck in my head the morning of my dissertation defense. That did not help with my stress (and was unstuck by the huge increase in stress over that morning but it ended happily so).
Did we know you defended within the lifespan of Fun.? I did not, at least. Congratulations!
I liked it quite a bit the first few times, but it's way overplayed even for a Top 40 song. After the 5th or 6th listen, I started wondering why there was so little progress between the choruses.
I suspect I'm over thinking it.
Congrats hydrobatidae!
To the OP, it isn't bublegum, but in the category of smart old-fashioned pop Nikki Jean's debut is quite good.
Thanks, everybody. It was only a week and a half ago so it doesn't seem real yet (and I'm waiting on my supervisor so I can officially submit which is super annoying).
I think the song was available to get in my head because of a Unfogged thread - it was like you were all there with me.
I'm with 17. I guess it's a current song, eh? And I had no idea what we were talking about with regard to 'Fun".
For those who are unfamiliar with the song, it was linked in this post. As 6 notes, the video is good, provided you watch all the way to the end.
I have started listening to a lot of top 40 radio because my kids like it. It is all pretty good.
2: My life feels complete, wow that I've heard Nina Totenberg say "I missed you so so bad!"
Heebie is right. I feel like we're in a sort of OK top 40 phase right now, after feeling the opposite for a few years.
Of course, top 40 doesn't mean what it once did.
They had a top 40 in . . . nope.
I never listen to normal radio anymore. The SqueezeServer is right now set to some Flemish station that is playing Ute Lemper.
I like that Jessie J song, "Price Tag".
It's loosely based on a children's book.
I never listen to normal radio anymore.
No, me either. And I only really use the satellite radio for news and sports. The rest of the time, my iPod is plugged into the car stereo.
37: I wonder what is says for the future of radio that my almost-80-year-old mother has Sirius in her car. (It's also set on the Outlaw Country channel -- no idea what that's about.)
Outlaw Country is great -- it's just Americana type music.
Also "Liquid Metal" is excellent. And it's nice to have the BBC. I do like that satellite radio.
Oudemia hates Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. She is un-American!
I feel like I'm finally giving in to Top 40 radio after years of fighting it that started with Ricky Martin back in nineteen ninety-something because who has the energy, really?
Yes, that fun. song is awful and is stuck in my head, so what? The less attention you pay to it the faster it goes away.
Wait, what?! I am just wondering what is up with elderly ladies from NJ listening to alt-country!
(Or does the Ute Lemper make me un-American? Glass houses*, Blumchen!!!)
*Glashauser?
What did the elderly NJ ladies listen to back in the day?
the Nineties station is also kind of great. WHOOMP THERE IT IS.
When I was growing up we mostly listened to big band-y, Frank Sinatra-y type stuff, but clearly that was my father's era, not my mother's. Come to think of it, in high school she'd ask me to play Elvis Costello in the car and semi-recently she bought a Vampire Weekend cd for herself because she liked it when I played it.
45: Now all I can think of when I hear that song is the (repulsive, vulgar) Luv's commercial: POOP THERE IT IS! (complete with diaper blow-out animation).
Where is flip to decry our godless culture?
Where is flip to decry our godless culture?
Too busy being happy, apparently.
47: More expulsive than repulsive.
the sophisticated agrammaticality of the song title. Total texter catnip.
There must be some kind of recency illusion here; surely this tacked-on "maybe" is not new.
Ahem, now in the right thread....
Jessie J is pretty darn great, and I keep pressing play on "Call Me Maybe" even though I know I shouldn't....
the Nineties station is also kind of great. WHOOMP THERE IT IS.
You know about Backspin, right? All the old-skool hip-hop you could want.
(And yeah, Outlaw Country is pretty great.)
Backspin is also lovely. The modern-day hip hop station seems to me to suck, but I can't tell if that's because I am lame.
"Call Me Maybe" is cute and annoying and totally catchy, and I love it. Because for the first time there's an earworm that I don't mind but my kids HATE and I can finally get back at them for singing that "Umbrella-ella-ella" song at me for all those years.