(Ella ella, ay ay ay) Under my umbrella (Ella ella, ay ay ay) Under my umbrella
(Ella ella, ay ay ay)Under my umbrella (Ella ella, ay ay ay ay, ay ay)
Times 3
Is this all it takes to become rich and famous??? if so tell your record executive to call me.
What’s this world coming to. Sick kids in the world and these so called music “artists” are getting paid millions. —Annoyed At Overpaid No Talent Music Artists
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.
This better not be about my boy Bieber!
Those lyrics your posted are genius OB…at least compared to such timeless classics as:
“You a stupid ho, you a, you a stupid ho
You a stupid ho, you a, you a stupid ho
You a stupid ho, you a, you a stupid ho
You a stupid ho, you a, you a stupid ho
You a stupid ho, you a, you a stupid ho:
and who could forget:
“And I was like
Baby, baby, baby ooh
Like baby, baby, baby noo
Like baby, baby, baby ooh”
I had to laugh at the “urban contemporary” classification. I guess it sounds a lot better than “boybandesque trash”.
well of course those don’t measure up to the intellectual classics of yesteryear, like
‘when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie’
or
‘mairsie doats like dosey doats and little lamziedivy’
or ‘shoe bee doobie doo’
Essen mein pfantzallonen, Salieri
– ♥Wolfie♥
G.D.M., That should be mares eat oats, does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. Just to correct you on the words in the songs. But yes, it does sound like you wrote.
yes, my mum taught me the ‘real words’ decades ago, but the song is actually titled ‘mairsy doats’ . she used to do a little hop and skip while singing it to me, too.
reminds me, i will add ‘innagaddadavida’ to the list of classic lyrics.
I’m staying out of this musical debate as I fear being called a “raging lunatic” again.
As was mentioned OB, it’s not just today’s music that has taken this route.
As an example, may I submit “Da Da Da” by Trio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZviYmTMpBXE
Hey GDM, did you know that a kiddleedivy too. Wouldn’t you?
These “artists” gear their muzak toward the herds of intellectually-constipated teens & tweens because they dominate the market by blowing their allowance on the albums, i-tunes. Also the radio shitfucks contribute by overplaying them so that “umbrella ella ella ella” seems real catchy after the 50th time and the mind-numbing affect allows for the underlying subliminal messaging to sink in better.
…if someone could only find away to destroy the ..auto-toon machine..then all this “music” would go away 🙂
hey avast, a kiddleeedanyting if it comes in a box with a cartoon on it.
ivan, does that translate to ‘eat my shorts’ ?
2 words ….
Gangnam style !
IMO it can’t get worse than that …& a stuttering, drunk nonrhyming rapper with a lisp & a mouth full of condum wrappers can’t beat that for just, damn terrible !
Not that, I’m picking on Koreans or their music …I’m speaking purely from an English perspective !
Jawohl, liebechen.
i love that gangnam style song, esp when done with christmas lights in a BIG way. and the romney version was priceless.
ivan, sweetcheeks, not even with chocolate on ’em, and i shudder to think what may masquerade as chocolate…
Welcome to 2007, OP. Also, if you actually did some research, More, you‘d know that Gangam Style is a parody of the ostentatious culture of the region of Gangam in Seoul (the capital of South Korea).
LOL – No danger GDM. I’m not The Pardoner from Chaucer >; )
“Thou wouldest make me kiss thine olde breech,
And swear it were a relic of a saint,
Though it were with thy fundament depaint’.”
No more Pope Benedict/Emperor Palpatine jokes.
I has a ecclesiastical sad.
an indulgence indeed…..have been twitting pope jokes all day
Alright OP.
I agree completely.
The whole ‘well they write their own lyrics’ thing breaks down when the lyrics are auto-tuned (kudos to cookerguy for that), inane drivel targeted for ease of memory by 5-15 yr olds.
No you’re not sexy… you obviously don’t know it.
You don’t … and shouldn’t WANT… the moves like Jagger.
I will not call you… NEVER.
and it’s New York, New York… there isn’t a third one, you stupid bitch. You should know, you live there.
And what the hell is a Nikki Minaj? Talking to bass and acting like a gangsta wanna be sista’ clown on acid is not something to be celebrated….
Fuck me, we’re all doomed. Pop and hip-hop have replaced actual music.
I don’t like all kinds of music, (which should come as no surprise at this point) but I certainly only appreciate ACTUAL music.
Yeah OB, because getting a record deal, selling millions of albums, in an age where people, especially the young people that mostly buy your record, can get it for free in a matter of seconds, selling out multiple world tours and winning Grammys is just soooo easy.
I’m not a Rihanna fan at all, and I’ll admit she’s not the best singer we’ve ever seen but things don’t come easy. Have you ever written a song? Ever tried to make a name for yourself even locally? It’s fuckin tough. Sure, good looks don’t hurt, admittedly, but maintaining that isn’t easy either, she’s probably in the gym 5 days per week. There’s a lot of music out there I really dislike, instead of sitting around telling people how much I hate the Black Eyed Peas, or gossiping about Taylor Swifts latest shitty relationship, I just spend that time looking for music that I do like.
That Umbrella song touched millions of people. Think you can do better? We’re waiting.
GDM you just brought back some very fond memories of my mother singing the very same song to me :)! As silly as it was, reminiscing about it warmed my heart. Thanks for that 🙂
Ohhhhh old people. It’s called pop music. It has been around for a long time. The genre bends and changes shape depending on the times and tastes of it’s biggest consumer-The Teen, but there has always been disposable, uninteresting, easy to consume music/lyrics.
Oh and they’re not “getting paid” millions. They are making, as in creating, millions. They only get a small portion of the revenues they generate.
“And what the hell is a Nikki Minaj? Talking to bass and acting like a gangsta wanna be sista’ clown on acid is not something to be celebrated….”
Sure it is! Next you will be dissing Bjork?
Who the fuck is Bjork? Did she get peed on by R. Kelly?
Nah, man.
Phhht – she wishes.
Bjork is really good. Fantastic voice.
Rihanna does have some good tunes. Not the ones that are usually released for popular consumption … Princess of China acoustic is stellar though. It takes way way way too much energy for me to continually hate something I cannot change. “… just spend that time looking for music that I do like” Very good advice. There’s so much exciting stuff happening in music. It’s just unfortunate that it doesn’t get much press … what else is new. As we all know video killed the radio star. Who knows, maybe they called Bob Marley’s music crap when it first came out? Maybe some still hate it. Ah, I dunno.
Steve That was funny. 🙂 🙂 I haven’t laughed that hard in a long while. 🙂
Bjork is an Icelandic chick who tries to sing.When she sings she sounds like she’s gargling with R. Kelly’s piss.
I’ll never understand the attraction of Bjorks ‘sound’.
Boru no. “… tries to sing.” She does yell and scream, but her singing voice is actually very impressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvoEZXop4zM (if you can “suffer” through it, lol) I would love to see her (and many others) live.
She’s no Buffy Saint Marie amIright? AmIright? I love how everyone thinks that music obtained perfection during their formative years, completely by coincidence, anyone else notice that?
Preach FS. http://coreyturner.files.wordpress.com/201…
LOL