Non-Urban Music Song of the year?
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I'm gonna quote a youtube user from the Fireflies video:
"the first time i heard this i thought it was years old!! but then i heard people talking about it and im like wtf. i guess i was wrong."
Is exactly what I was thinking. It sounds so original yet familiar and old. I like it.
Song of the year? It is musically. Catchy lyrics? Not really. But that's what makes it great. It makes you feel like you are listening to it for the 1st time each time.
but...it depends how you are asking.
Popularity? Best song?
If you factor those:
Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me is a close contender as far as popularity. Isn't it?
I don't even like country and it surprised me.
also, I know it's old...but Paparazzi is everywhere still.
Honestly: There isn't really a stand out track this year.
at least not like previous years like "In Da Club"
"the first time i heard this i thought it was years old!! but then i heard people talking about it and im like wtf. i guess i was wrong."
Is exactly what I was thinking. It sounds so original yet familiar and old. I like it.
Song of the year? It is musically. Catchy lyrics? Not really. But that's what makes it great. It makes you feel like you are listening to it for the 1st time each time.
but...it depends how you are asking.
Popularity? Best song?
If you factor those:
Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me is a close contender as far as popularity. Isn't it?
I don't even like country and it surprised me.
also, I know it's old...but Paparazzi is everywhere still.
Honestly: There isn't really a stand out track this year.
at least not like previous years like "In Da Club"
My favourite singles of the year:
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And Lisztomania, but someone already posted that.
It probably sounds familiar because, as Pitchfork pointed out, it's so ridiculously similar to The Postal Service.
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Except that Such Great Heights is a great song... :noworry:
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[youtube]00ZHah-c0hQ[/youtube]
And Lisztomania, but someone already posted that.
It probably sounds familiar because, as Pitchfork pointed out, it's so ridiculously similar to The Postal Service.
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Except that Such Great Heights is a great song... :noworry:
This isn't a case of two bands having a similar sound, it's a case of one band flagrantly plagiarising another band's song. It's clear as day.
Even if it wasn't deliberate, surely at some point Adam Young must have listened back to it and thought "Oh shit, I've just remade Such Great Heights. Maybe I shouldn't put that one on the album..."
Fill your boots.
Even if it wasn't deliberate, surely at some point Adam Young must have listened back to it and thought "Oh shit, I've just remade Such Great Heights. Maybe I shouldn't put that one on the album..."
Fill your boots.
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and I don't think "Fireflies" sounds that much like "Such Great Heights". It's a better song regardless. Catchier melodies, more striking hook, more accessible, etc.
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and I don't think "Fireflies" sounds that much like "Such Great Heights". It's a better song regardless. Catchier melodies, more striking hook, more accessible, etc.
Everything has been done before.
Dr. Dre is rightfully regarded as a genius, for example, and many would cite "The Chronic" as his career highlight. However, musically the vast majority of "The Chronic" was nothing more than slowed down samples from the P-Funk (George Clinton's two bands, Parliament-Funkadelic) movement. Dre even called the sound G-Funk and wore a Funkadelic shirt in the video for "Dre Day". He even got George himself on a track that didn't make the cut for "Doggystyle".
Does that diminish Dre's creative uniqueness? Of course not. Dre took something, and made into something else to appeal to a different market.
If Owl City was indeed inspired by The Postal Service, who let me state again, were not the inventors of ambient electronic synth pop, then he took something that was underground and indie niche, and commercialized it.
For the record, I don't consider the download of music to be "basically stealing" it.
I don't get my panties in a twist when I track the bootlegging of my own band's music (for the record, something like 400,000 unauthorized downloads of our last album from various torrent trackers, forums, etc). In Seattle I even saw CD bootlegs of our albums in an Indian store, with random ass artwork and songs from other albums tacked on. I didn't say anything about it, I didn't really care that much.
Unauthorized downloading happens. Trying to stop it is A) futile and B) just gonna prevent you from building a fanbase.
That's why I offered my own EP as a free download with the option to pay for it too. It worked. Although 90% of people download it for free, the ones that do pay for it respect the stance enough to pay good sums for it. I've had more than a few people pay $20+ for my 3-song EP.
Future monetization of music will not be through selling physical/digital copies of the music itself. That day is done. I've given guest lectures at Universities to media degree students and that's been one of the main topics of conversations. I'll be doing the same next year at DIY music conventions.
Dr. Dre is rightfully regarded as a genius, for example, and many would cite "The Chronic" as his career highlight. However, musically the vast majority of "The Chronic" was nothing more than slowed down samples from the P-Funk (George Clinton's two bands, Parliament-Funkadelic) movement. Dre even called the sound G-Funk and wore a Funkadelic shirt in the video for "Dre Day". He even got George himself on a track that didn't make the cut for "Doggystyle".
Does that diminish Dre's creative uniqueness? Of course not. Dre took something, and made into something else to appeal to a different market.
If Owl City was indeed inspired by The Postal Service, who let me state again, were not the inventors of ambient electronic synth pop, then he took something that was underground and indie niche, and commercialized it.
For the record, I don't consider the download of music to be "basically stealing" it.
I don't get my panties in a twist when I track the bootlegging of my own band's music (for the record, something like 400,000 unauthorized downloads of our last album from various torrent trackers, forums, etc). In Seattle I even saw CD bootlegs of our albums in an Indian store, with random ass artwork and songs from other albums tacked on. I didn't say anything about it, I didn't really care that much.
Unauthorized downloading happens. Trying to stop it is A) futile and B) just gonna prevent you from building a fanbase.
That's why I offered my own EP as a free download with the option to pay for it too. It worked. Although 90% of people download it for free, the ones that do pay for it respect the stance enough to pay good sums for it. I've had more than a few people pay $20+ for my 3-song EP.
Future monetization of music will not be through selling physical/digital copies of the music itself. That day is done. I've given guest lectures at Universities to media degree students and that's been one of the main topics of conversations. I'll be doing the same next year at DIY music conventions.
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