savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
In the respect that pop music is supposed to piss older people off it could not possibly be any better than it is now.
Old folk shake fists at the pop charts
- Thread starter ska invita
- Start date
ska invita
back on the other side
this got to 11 in UK charts
heres the lyrics
parents - what age is this appropriate for in your opinion?
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
What's your size? (Size)
Add, subtract, divide ('vide)
Daddy don't throw no curves (curves)
Hold up, I'm goin' wide (wide)
We could just start at ten (ten)
Then we can go to five (five)
I don't play with my pen (pen)
I mean what I write
Yeah-yeah, whoa-whoa-whoa
I just can't help but be sexual (whoa)
Tell me your schedule (yeah)
I got a lotta new tricks for you, baby
Just sayin' I'm flexible (I will)
I do what I can to get you off (I will)
Might just fuck him with my makeup on (I will)
Eat it like I need an apron on (yeah, ay)
Eat it 'til I need to change my thong (yeah, ay)
We could do it to your favorite song (yeah, ay)
Take a ride into the danger zone
You know my nigga be buggin' me
I just be wonderin' if you can fuck on me better
Itchin' for me like an ugly sweater
Need it in me like a Chuck E. need cheddar
I need to know (yeah)
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
You're exciting, boy, come find me
Your eyes told me, "Girl, come ride me"
Fuck that feeling both us fighting
Could he try me? (Yeah) mmm, most likely
Tryna see if you could handle this ass
Prolly give his ass a panic attack
Sorry if I gave a random erection
Prolly thinkin' I'm a telekinetic
Oh, wait, you a fan of the magic?
Poof, pussy like an Alakazam (yeah)
I heard from a friend of a friend
That that dick was a ten out of ten
I can't stand it, just one night me
Clink with the drink, gimme a sip
Tell me what's your kink, gimme the dick
Spank me, slap me, choke me, bite me (ew)
Uh, wait, I can take it (ah)
Give a fuck 'bout what your wifey's sayin' (yeah)
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
heres the lyrics
parents - what age is this appropriate for in your opinion?
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
What's your size? (Size)
Add, subtract, divide ('vide)
Daddy don't throw no curves (curves)
Hold up, I'm goin' wide (wide)
We could just start at ten (ten)
Then we can go to five (five)
I don't play with my pen (pen)
I mean what I write
Yeah-yeah, whoa-whoa-whoa
I just can't help but be sexual (whoa)
Tell me your schedule (yeah)
I got a lotta new tricks for you, baby
Just sayin' I'm flexible (I will)
I do what I can to get you off (I will)
Might just fuck him with my makeup on (I will)
Eat it like I need an apron on (yeah, ay)
Eat it 'til I need to change my thong (yeah, ay)
We could do it to your favorite song (yeah, ay)
Take a ride into the danger zone
You know my nigga be buggin' me
I just be wonderin' if you can fuck on me better
Itchin' for me like an ugly sweater
Need it in me like a Chuck E. need cheddar
I need to know (yeah)
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
You're exciting, boy, come find me
Your eyes told me, "Girl, come ride me"
Fuck that feeling both us fighting
Could he try me? (Yeah) mmm, most likely
Tryna see if you could handle this ass
Prolly give his ass a panic attack
Sorry if I gave a random erection
Prolly thinkin' I'm a telekinetic
Oh, wait, you a fan of the magic?
Poof, pussy like an Alakazam (yeah)
I heard from a friend of a friend
That that dick was a ten out of ten
I can't stand it, just one night me
Clink with the drink, gimme a sip
Tell me what's your kink, gimme the dick
Spank me, slap me, choke me, bite me (ew)
Uh, wait, I can take it (ah)
Give a fuck 'bout what your wifey's sayin' (yeah)
Wanna know what it's like (like)
Baby, show me what it's like (like)
I don't really got no type (type)
I just wanna fuck all night
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa (oh, ooh, mmm)
Baby, I need to know, mmm (yeah, need to know)
I just been fantasizin' (size)
And we got a lotta time (time)
Baby, come throw the pipe (pipe)
Gotta know what it's like (like)
Yeah-yeah, oh-whoa-whoa
Baby, I need to know, mmm
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Filth. 
Well I've gone through the charts today, and I will say that Raye/070 Shake's Escapism and LF System's Afraid to Feel are both excellent. The latter of which is sort of wow.
Inside Track: LF System ‘Afraid To Feel’
The ear‑catching tempo changes of LF System’s hit ‘Afraid To Feel’ provided a unique challenge for mix engineer Scott Rosser.www.soundonsound.com
edit: The Shakira song is good as well
Just found out that Afraid to Feel spent 8 weeks at no.1 last year. The charts are not in a bad way.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I'd question whether Chuck E Cheese uses actual cheddar.
Is it not just an American industrial simulacrum?
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Is Brian Adams still number 1?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Deep meaningful lyrics there, presumably the singer is supposed to be an Orion? hence the green skin.
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Not a patch on Nana Mouskouri
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
This seems like a good thread to share my dad’s best mate’s incisive analysis of the last 70 years of popular music:
“Elvis was OK and it was good music to get your arms round a girl on a Saturday night but the Beatles and everything else afterwards? Just a load of bloody noise”
“Elvis was OK and it was good music to get your arms round a girl on a Saturday night but the Beatles and everything else afterwards? Just a load of bloody noise”
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Explicit lyrics are hardly a new thing. Here's the lyrics to Sheena Easton's Sugar Walls from 1984:
My sugar walls
My sugar walls
Where I came from there's a place called heaven
That's the place where all the good children go
The houses are of silver, the streets are gold
But there's more where you come from, my sugar walls
Blood races to your private spots
Lets me know there's a fire
You can't fight passion when passion is hot
Temperatures rise inside my sugar walls
Let me take you somewhere you've never been
I can show you things you've never seen
I can make you never want to fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls
Take advantage, it's alright
I feel so alive when I'm with you
Come and feel my presence, it's raining tonight
Heaven on earth inside my sugar walls
Let me take you somewhere you've never been
I can show you things you've never seen
I can make you never want to fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls
I can tell you want me, (my sugar walls) it's impossible to hide
Your body's on fire, admit it, come inside (my sugar walls)
Ah (my sugar walls) oh
Come inside (my sugar walls), my sugar walls (my sugar walls)
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls (my sugar walls)
(Sugar Walls = vagina, in case you've led a sheltered life)
It was a hit in the US (peaked at 9 on the Hot 100, no. 1 in the dance charts). It scraped into the UK charts at no. 95.
Written by Prince, of course, whose Little Nicky inspired Tipper Gore's PMRC and Explicit Lyrics stickers.
I guess the big difference in the streaming age is there's less power for the gatekeepers, such as radio programmers, to keep explicit lyrics away from listeners. In the olden times if a song didn't appear on radio or TV or become an underground hit it was unlikely to bother the charts. Nowadays there's all sorts of online ways a song can find an audience.
No.5 in the UK charts this week is Venbee & Goddard's Messy in Heaven:
I heard Jesus did cocaine on a night out
Eyes wide open, dilated, but he's fine now
And if his father ever finds out
Then he'd probably knock his lights out
Gets a little messy in heaven
Once upon a time that could've caused all kinds of controversy, but no-one seems to have paid any attention as no-one really cares about the charts any more.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Last edited:
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
Please spoiler, not everyone wants to read that kind of negativity on a Friday morning.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Fuck sake. OK then.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
A bit like living in East Lothian: it’s not Glasgow, but it has its good points.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
I think I'd prefer Glasgow to here, so no argument from me.
ska invita
back on the other side
someone was saying that the current charts is filled with folky and countryish songs, i thought id click through
www.officialcharts.com
i swear if someone told me 3/4 of these were made by AI I would believe them
it all just sounds so weird and processed - very very strange to me
Official Singles Chart Top 40 | Official Charts
The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV, the Top 100 is published exclusively on OfficialCharts.com. View the...
www.officialcharts.com
it all just sounds so weird and processed - very very strange to me
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Dunno if this was a chart thing, or if there was a chart 90 years ago, but popular music has always been bawdy
I've spent three months of this year in an office that has Heart FM on most of the time. I don't want to be too snobbish as apart from anything they play a few good songs, but it's the same 15-20 songs day in day out. The team that have the radio are obviously fine with that and in fact only complain when something like Amy Winehouse or Beyoncé is played because they're "a bit all over the place". Not that this is current chart music for the most part but I think there is a hard truth that a lot of people just want something a) familiar, ie. a song they already know or something that sounds like a song they already know b) polished and bland and pitch corrected c) a familiar artist who is a bigger media star in some way d) something they can sing along to.
I had a similar experience working in a physio gym in a convalescent hospital for older folks. They had a Max Bygraves cassette where he did this giant medley of these old songs Yes We Have No Bananas etc. He had good voice and I like those old songs but every single arrangement was exactly the same. In terms of the backing band they played much the same thing constantly for the whole cassette. They all loved it. Familiar/character they know/singalong/no surprises.
I don't want to be too snobbish...
That's not how I think about music at all, but it's how it is for a lot of people. And that's alright really. It's how it's always been and I think the music industry reflects that, sometimes to a bigger degree, sometimes to a lesser degree. The only new thing is the pitch correction/rhythm correction technology which is training people to like music that is perfectly in tune (to equal temperament which is actually weird thing) and perfectly on the dot rhythmically. I regard that as a shame.
I had a similar experience working in a physio gym in a convalescent hospital for older folks. They had a Max Bygraves cassette where he did this giant medley of these old songs Yes We Have No Bananas etc. He had good voice and I like those old songs but every single arrangement was exactly the same. In terms of the backing band they played much the same thing constantly for the whole cassette. They all loved it. Familiar/character they know/singalong/no surprises.
I don't want to be too snobbish...
That's not how I think about music at all, but it's how it is for a lot of people. And that's alright really. It's how it's always been and I think the music industry reflects that, sometimes to a bigger degree, sometimes to a lesser degree. The only new thing is the pitch correction/rhythm correction technology which is training people to like music that is perfectly in tune (to equal temperament which is actually weird thing) and perfectly on the dot rhythmically. I regard that as a shame.
ska invita
back on the other side
Absolutely, nothing wrong with a sing song and Yes We Have No Bananas is TOO GOOD for the Tik Tok generation
, but as you say the thing that makes it unlistenable to me is the production aspects, literally sounds AI to me .... Plus arrangements that came from Talent show covers.Funny the complaint about Beyonce from your sample as Fold Em (or whatever it's called) is the one tune in the charts that sounds innovative and human to me, and its hardly out there
story
Changing the facts
I’ve always said Knotted, just as with any other artistic endeavour (theatre, literature etc) there are the cognoscente, and then there’s everyone else, who likes Coldplay, Ke$ha, and jukebox musicals. People say “Oh I love this!” and I think you don’t have any idea if you like it or not, you recognise it, it’s familiar.
I’ve had to admit that’s yes, I’m a snob about music.
I’ve had to admit that’s yes, I’m a snob about music.
story
Changing the facts
How is Amy Winehouse “A bit all over the place”? She absolutely stays in her lane, and her lane is in the main road of music.
And Beyoncé is Beyoncé to the bone. She’s not unpredictable or wayward in any way at all, she even comes up on predictive text with the accent and everything.
What do they mean by a bit all over the place?
They’re both great.
And Beyoncé is Beyoncé to the bone. She’s not unpredictable or wayward in any way at all, she even comes up on predictive text with the accent and everything.
What do they mean by a bit all over the place?
They’re both great.
ska invita
back on the other side
Yes but also tastes are formed through repetition and an industrial process, not in a vacuum.... Pop music is not an idealistic free market
story
Changing the facts
Oh for sure. You can easily trace the progression and copycat building through the decades, as well as the occasional sudden lurches into left field when there’s been a breakthrough hit.
ska invita
back on the other side
Also times when grass roots culture puncture the machine.... Right now the machine is back in total control
Absolutely, nothing wrong with a sing song and Yes We Have No Bananas is TOO GOOD for the Tik Tok generation
To appreciate my point listen to this. The songs maybe good but they're pulverised into a consistent paste that just rolls on.
It's an older song (Single Ladies I think) that Heart has on repeat. And actually to be fair it is quite rad.
story
Changing the facts
Yep. Agreed.
I was including roots music of all kinds as “left field”. C’mon, if they think Amy and Bey are “all over the place” then even Lover’s Rock and the Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack are gonna be way too radical for them.
story
Changing the facts
That track slaps ! It still slaps! And it was released 16 years ago.
Imagine if they had to listen to WAP….
Similar threads
