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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 7, 2013 13:52:12 GMT 2
Sometimes success on your first release can be a curse. For some reason, the public can't get enough of your first hit song and then they lose interest, and so the likes of Alanis Morissette, Daniel Powter and Hockey are often unfairly lumped in with novelty hits and dance shit in the One Hit Wonder bracket. As pleasing on the eye as she is, and as inescapable and intoxicating Call Me Maybe is, sorry, Carly Rae Jepsen - I imagine you'll be on that list too. And with a heavy heart, I believe today's band will be as well. Their breakthrough hit (I thought it was from their first record, a quick Wikipeida search shows it's not.. which kinda makes this entire introduction redundant) was SO big it could easily engulf them, and it'll be the only song they're known for. "We Are Young" is NOT what I'm picking today, but it's another track from Fun's second album that is getting selected. Described as "power pop" by Wikipedia, they combine heartfelt, broken-hearted pop with massive, punch the sky choruses and, unfortunately, one horrendous, ill-advised use of auto-tune on the second album. That one ALWAYS gets skipped. Anyway, here's Fun. (period intended) with "Carry On." www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7yCLn-O-Y0Fingers crossed they escape that One Hit Wonder status. |
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 7, 2013 21:21:21 GMT 2
The "power pop" label has already been appropriated to apply to bands like Sweet, Cheap Trick, and probably best applies to the likes of Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, and other pop punk bands today than stuff like this. I didn't know who sang We Are Young, and I heard this song just yesterday and didn't know it was the same artist. Looks like I'm fated to buy this album because both of those songs are fantastic. The lyrics are kind of meh on this one, but man the music and chorus are fucking powerful. Thanks for including this one I'd likely have forgotten about it since I don't much listen to radio.
[edit] Holy shit, this album is only $4 on Amazon mp3. SCORE!
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 7, 2013 21:34:53 GMT 2
Hey, glad to be of service. Four bucks is a steal on Amazon for the album, get that post haste. But remember to keep a watch for THAT auto-tuned track, lest you forget about it and end up hurling your MP3 player across the room in disgust. You have been warned.
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 8, 2013 21:11:35 GMT 2
Dude. There are TWO of them! What the fuck? The really shitty thing is the songs themselves are pretty good. They took perfectly decent rock tunes and then raped the vocals with auto-tune just for the fuck of it.  Still, good album excepting that bit of terrible decision making. |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 10, 2013 15:26:18 GMT 2
You know, I mentioned to Mrs C that you were thinking of buying the album, and the conversation went something like this;
"So did you mention the Auto-Tune?"
"Yeah, I told him they use it once and it's horrible."
"They use it TWICE."
"Do they?"
And, uh, yeah they do. My bad. I forgot. There's enough on there to still justify the purchase, though. I kinda took it for granted you'd have heard "We Are Young" because it was fucking everywhere for a few months. I think the band got their big break (in the UK, at least) because Glee covered the song before it was even released in Britain. I think that's where a lot of people (myself included) first heard the track.
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 10, 2013 22:45:11 GMT 2
Well, seeing that Itunes sells songs at the rape-tastic rate of $1.29 apiece now getting Carry on and We Are Young would cost almost 2/3rd of Amazon MP3's price for the full album. The first auto-tune is a still annoying, but it's not nearly as bad as in the 2nd-to-last song. That one is just plain shitty. With the album being as short as it is, I wouldn't have wanted to pay the usual $10-15 price for a handful of songs I like, but with the sale price it was definitely worth it just for the sake of adding more diversity to my iPod. Carry On actually came on it last night and my buddy at work demanded an explanation because I never listen to radio on my own accord and have never had a current hit in rotation. His reaction was pretty funny.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 13, 2013 14:08:06 GMT 2
"Wait a minute... this is a song that has appeared on a chart in the last year! What's happened to you?" You should have done this..  |
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 14, 2013 3:09:31 GMT 2
I've never gotten the pitch on the scream just right or I would have.
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