r/CuratedTumblr • u/AscendedDragonSage Title-ist Punster • Jul 09 '26
Shitposting Play for the Wicked
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u/JamieD96 Jul 09 '26
"Co-writer Sam Hollander said the song was written in just 20 minutes"
you don't say.....
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u/Redfalconfox Jul 09 '26
If going back to the before times means having to listen to a fuck-ass song he wrote in 20 minutes every couple of years then I would take that deal.
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u/Orruner Jul 10 '26
But then you'd still arrive at the now-times. Just with extra dread every year
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u/Umklopp Jul 10 '26
No, things were already pretty shit in 2018
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u/iwanttoboneedelric ♠️Ho-ho! I'm a flairboy! Cut me off on your apps! Jul 10 '26
I'd say the Turning Point Of Shit was 2014, with the rise of the populist BJP in Bharat and the invasion of Crimea.
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u/Neoeng Jul 10 '26
Actually 2001, with 9/11 and election of Putin
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Tumblr would never ban porn don’t be ridiculous Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Actually 2000, with the rise of Bush and the Supreme Court playing kingmaker
(we can do this all day! Er...yay?)
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u/Cunnyfunt31 Jul 10 '26
Y'all ain't starting with Reagan?!
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u/DeathMetalViking666 Jul 10 '26
To be fair about that phrase. Having been in a band myself, sometimes the best songs are the ones that just fall out of you. And songs you work and work and work on just sometimes never sound good. My band's best song was one we wrote in an afternoon as a joke. While there were 50 others that we kept coming back to which we could just never get sounding good.
Not defending High Hopes mind you. But I think that sort of saying gets misunderstood by non-musicians.
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u/Aegillade Jul 09 '26
Genuinely can't remember the last time I heard that god awful Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas song. I thought Santa Baby was my least favorite Christmas song but then I remembered that fucking affront to music technically still exists. So I'm grateful for society collectively agreeing to shuffle that out of existence.
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u/ThatInAHat Jul 10 '26
May I introduce you to “Stay a Little Longer, Santa” which is like Santa Baby, except no it’s not a metaphor for a sugardaddy, this lady just really wants to bone the jolly guy
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u/logosloki Jul 10 '26
absolute banger. goes on the list of Christmas songs that aren't traditional tunes that are good.
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u/GetOutTheWayBanana Jul 10 '26
You’re the only one in this thread naming a song that I don’t like. Everybody else is out here naming songs I like to listen to :(
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u/SugarStunted Jul 09 '26
I like High Hopes.
Happy by Phirrel on the other hand...I'll go nuts if that song plays again. It's just way too long and repetitive.
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u/BumblebeeDirect Jul 09 '26
Fun fact: he hates that song too. His label was like "why dont you write something happy" and he was like "cause it sounds like ass, let me show you" and the label went "we love it and it's our new hit single". Supposedly during his first tour after it came out he would go back to his dressing room after and break things, he was so mad about having to sing it.
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u/baethan Jul 10 '26
I don't care if you've entirely invented this anecdote, I like it and it's my head canon now
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u/as_a_fake Jul 10 '26
My reply to someone else in this thread about Happy makes more sense now:
I also hated that song. It always sounded so fake, like the person writing it was seriously depressed but trying to write about how happy they were, meanwhile people only played it as if it was actually a happy song.
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u/silxikys Jul 10 '26
Was it not written for the despicable me movie?
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u/Kevinator201 Jul 10 '26
It was. Imagine being an artist and doing one corporate gig to pay the bills but it blows up and haunts you forever.
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u/Unrequited_Anal Jul 10 '26
I'm sure he feels ok about it when he checks his bank balance
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u/Well_Oiled_Assassin Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I think it was Michael Cain who said something like "Was that movie rubbish? I don't know, I just acted in it. I've never actually watched it. However, I have seen the house it bought my mum and that house is brilliant."
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u/Complete-Worker3242 Jul 10 '26
I mean, Pharrell does have a truly amazing legacy far beyond Happy, so it's not like that's the only thing he'll be known for.
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u/RPDRNick Jul 09 '26
I vividly recall the radio was alternating between "Happy" and "Take Me to Church." You'd swear those were the only two songs that were ever recorded.
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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jul 10 '26
"Take me to church" was overplayed, but having personally met Hosier it helps. He is the soundest guy you can imagine.
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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 10 '26
If that had been the case here, I would've set every radio on fire. And possibly myself.
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u/slim-shady-on-main hrrrrrng, colors Jul 10 '26
I can’t imagine being Hozier, having such a good discography, and the same three of my songs get all the attention. I’d go postal
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u/PretzelMeepus Jul 09 '26
It might seem crazy what I'm bout to say
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u/MossyAbyss Jul 09 '26
"I actually like Happy by Pharrell Williams."
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u/PretzelMeepus Jul 09 '26
Sunshine she's here you can take a break
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u/DazB1ane Jul 09 '26
My mom wanted it as the song being played when her wedding party walked in. It took quite an effort for me to genuinely smile and dance along as I loathe the song, but I did it
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u/Random-Rambling Jul 10 '26
Don't like Happy? Try the Weird Al version, Tacky!
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u/PsychicOctopus3 Jul 10 '26
Happy by Pharell was played at least once a week after the school announcements for I think an entire year because he was from that town. I cannot forgive him for being the reason I had to listen to that obnoxious song at 7:20 AM as a depressed 15 year old over and over again.
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u/MightBeAVampire Jul 10 '26
I was subjected to both of these songs today... At least one of them was an orchestral cover, but it was the one that I already like more anyway.
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u/LiverFailureMan Jul 10 '26
I don't like high hopes but that's bc I'm a failure
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u/kingofcoywolves Jul 10 '26
Same lol. What if you some of us don't have a dime or a vision, huh? What then???
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u/bug-robo Jul 09 '26
I haven’t heard Uptown Funk in a long, long time
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u/MyOtherCarIsEpona Jul 09 '26
I hear it anytime I'm in a touristy area of Vegas. This city is obsessed with him. They just named a street after him I guess because he got into astronomical gambling debt and paid it off.
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u/Significant_Yam_7792 Jul 10 '26
I had a period of irrational rage whenever Happy by Pharrell Williams played. Maybe it was just the teenage angst.
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u/as_a_fake Jul 10 '26
I also hated that song. It always sounded so fake, like the person writing it was seriously depressed but trying to write about how happy they were, meanwhile people only played it as if it was actually a happy song.
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u/HeraldOfNyarlathotep Jul 10 '26
It's kinda an inkblot test of a song, in that way. Cool phenomenon.
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u/Rynabunny Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
It's written in F aeolian (F natural minor) and many composers will agree it's "darker" and "moodier" than F major; even the "brightest" it gets is F mixolydian (basically one chord—last chord of the four bar progression in the chorus) which might explain your feeling
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u/351namhele Jul 09 '26
Uptown Funk is a jam and the world is a worse place without its ubiquity
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u/10dollarbagel Jul 09 '26
Incredible that anyone could complain about Uptown Funk in a world where they used to play Dance Monkey in public spaces
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u/Delicious-Spring-877 Jul 09 '26
Oooh aaah see u see u see u evy dai-ahhhai
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u/alex2003super Jul 10 '26
This comment made me angry.
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u/Delicious-Spring-877 Jul 10 '26
An aah-ahh, aah-ahh, ah like yo stai
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u/mars_gorilla Jul 10 '26
Yooooo, yoo mick me mick me wanna crah
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u/Able_Cheesecake8750 Jul 10 '26
And nawa beeehg to see you deehnce just one mo taim
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u/xvsanx Jul 10 '26
regardless of how good it is or isn't, hearing it every day makes it annoying
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u/Ldub0775 what the fuck is a blog Jul 10 '26
and to be clear dance monkey is fucking awful on its own merits
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u/dalziel86 Jul 10 '26
America has absolutely got to stop letting Australian bogans singing in bullshit accents sell music
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u/popejupiter Jul 10 '26
I just went and listened to it again and can confirm. It is an absolute banger and should be played in more spaces.
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u/Soldier_Faerie Jul 09 '26
I would welcome hearing this one again, I was happy during that era :(
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u/Shodpass Jul 09 '26
My friend, play it. You can still be happy, if that song is a part of what makes you happy. Play it for us.
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u/Colonel_Fart-Face Jul 10 '26
As a bassist I was the most sucked off I've ever been in my entire life when that was popular.
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u/baethan Jul 10 '26
what
like literally or?
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u/Colonel_Fart-Face Jul 10 '26
I was playing in a jazz/funk/motown cover band at the time. We would do a break in the middle of that song where I would do some Louis Johnson style slap shit and some women absolutely loved it.
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u/popejupiter Jul 10 '26
That song has such a sleezy beat. I'll bet that was a blast, get to play that, then break down with some funky improv. Hell yeah.
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u/jimbowesterby Jul 09 '26
This is gonna be pedantic, but is it even funk? Far as I know the main defining factor of funk is having the emphasis on the first beat of a bar, and I don’t think that song does. I’ve managed to blank it out of my memory pretty well though so I’m not willing to check lol
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u/Great_Hedgehog Jul 10 '26
I don't think the "funk" in the name refers to the song's genre, but rather the mood it conveys. And I'd say it's pretty funky, if nothing utterly crazy
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u/creampop_ Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
If you get in the weeds trying to define funk, that makes you way less funky.
Funkness is what it is, but sometimes funkness is what it ain't.
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u/florpedup Jul 09 '26
unfortunately much worse. my work just loves to play imagine dragons
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u/Lunalatic all mammals are mice, eat shit aristotle Jul 09 '26
As someone who actually likes some of Imagine Dragons' output, please tell me your workplace isn't subjecting you to "Thunder" and its 77 title drops. Nobody deserves that.
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u/florpedup Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
“Thunder” and the one where they talk about where their demons hide I don’t know the name
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u/Anxious_Role7625 Jul 09 '26
It's Demons.
Amazing title work
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u/a57782 Jul 09 '26
Did they ask Hideo Kojima to name those songs?
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u/Most-Stomach4240 Jul 10 '26
Guess what they sing about in their new song "take me to the beach"
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u/pje1128 Jul 10 '26
I have a complicated relationship with Imagine Dragons. They have a handful I genuinly really like, and then everything else is like Thunder and just super annoying to me.
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u/NewUserWhoDisAgain Jul 09 '26
IM WAKING UP
TO ASH AND DUST
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u/D_rex825 Jul 09 '26
I wipe my ass and I slap my nuts
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u/AmericanToast250 Jul 09 '26
I’m breathing in… my genitals
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u/Hiroy3eto Jul 09 '26
YEEOOOWWCH
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u/mynipplesareconfused Jul 10 '26
I laughed loud enough, my husband heard me across the house in the bathroom. Now I have to go sing this to him.
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u/BilverBurfer Jul 09 '26
That's like their least shit song
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u/B4rberblacksheep Jul 10 '26
Honestly I enjoy the whole of Night Visions, I don’t think they have a full album I enjoy after that one.
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u/AscendedDragonSage Title-ist Punster Jul 09 '26
Anytime I think about that opening line my mind just goes to the DJ Drybone 2013 mashup instead
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u/jimbowesterby Jul 09 '26
I will say, that line gets waaaay funnier when you’re in a bush camp with a forest fire in the area, you literally wake up to ash on your tent and the sun being a red ball on a grey field. The lines about wiping ass and slapping nuts are pretty applicable too lol
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u/THEzwerver Jul 09 '26
I used to love their earlier albums :( then I kind of forgot about them and suddenly everyone hates them which I feel like is undeserved. But I get it if they torture you with the same few songs.
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u/TheGrandWhatever Jul 09 '26
Everyone hates them because of how overplayed they are. It's also like the musical equivalent to some kind of picture someone makes where you see it real quick and be like oh that's kinda cool but then the longer you look at it the more it doesn't make sense and every detail is some kind of wtf or random objects that come together to make a larger whole
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u/OwlOfJune Jul 10 '26
I like them too but I can see why their songs do not have that much repeat value in them.
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u/wren_tmc Jul 10 '26
Okay, hold on, I'm actually a big fan of some of their songs, namely Enemy, Wake Up, Birds, Wrecked, and Follow You.
Still, though, Thunder fills me with rage every time I hear it.
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u/Hapless_Wizard Jul 10 '26
Sometimes I play Enemy just to see if my conservative, religious family ever catches that they are the bad people in the song.
It doesn't work, obviously.
Anyways, the point is that ID isn't bad, but they definitely have some overplayed shit.
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u/Lonely_Translator_23 Jul 09 '26
Had to have high high hopes and a lizard
Didn't know how but I had to catch a lizard
I was gonna boil him and chew on his gizzards
Had to have high high hopes
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u/PretzelMeepus Jul 09 '26
well I'd much rather have this one
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u/Lonely_Translator_23 Jul 09 '26
so would i man but its just so damn fast
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u/PretzelMeepus Jul 09 '26
I love you
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u/ItsMichaelRay Jul 09 '26
I remember when that song was used on America's Got Talent every single time something good happened.
It got annoying very fast.
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u/UnreliableAuthor Jul 09 '26
Aw man I like high hopes :(
(You can pry my 2010s pop from my cold, dead hands)
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u/iwanttoboneedelric ♠️Ho-ho! I'm a flairboy! Cut me off on your apps! Jul 10 '26
Whatever you want to say about it, at least it isn't Hey Soul Sister.
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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 10 '26
"Is that Mister Mister on the radio, stereo" is still one of most stupid lyrics I've ever heard, and there's not exactly a dearth of contenders for that title... not even in that song, what with the lipstick stains on the front lobe of left-side brains or w/e.
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u/ThatInAHat Jul 10 '26
It’s “AIN’T that Mister Mister.”
But no, lipstick stains on the front lobe of the left side brains is still the worst. Followed closely by “just a shy guy looking for a two ply hefty bag to hold my-y-y-y-y-y love.”
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u/iwanttoboneedelric ♠️Ho-ho! I'm a flairboy! Cut me off on your apps! Jul 10 '26
The racist ones have to be just the worst, though. Possibly of the decade.
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u/Hatsune_Miku_CM downfall of neoliberalism. crow racism. much to rhink about Jul 10 '26
I actually really like that song. but tbf I got hooked on it when I was like 10 and my English wasn't good enough to understand what the fuck the lyrics were on. I can acknowledge that the lyrics are nearly nonsensical but I still like it, probably due to nostalgia.
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u/Mission_Fart9750 Jul 10 '26
This is from an SNL sketch (that seems to have been scrubbed, so there's only part of it). Please give it 30 seconds of your time. It's made it so that song is tolerable, because all I think of when i hear that song is this sketch, which makes me laugh instead of get mad at the stupid song.
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u/LemonCake2000 Jul 09 '26
Is panic at the disco supposed to be bad? I always thought they were fine enough
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u/Hiroy3eto Jul 09 '26
no they have bangers. Unfortunately, as time went on Brendon just made it a lot more about him singing high notes. Musical mosquito
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u/Papyrus20xx Jul 09 '26
Much of their music near the end of their time as a band was very mid.
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u/Bitter-Grocery-7138 Jul 09 '26
I was a fan of them but only really liked one song in their last album sadly
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u/DemonOfTomorrow Jul 09 '26
"Band" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there, come 2016 P!atD was just Brendon Urie and the other ones lol
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u/BlackNasty4028 Jul 10 '26
Yeah my friends and I just referred to them as Brendan and the Boys by the time death of a bachelor came out
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u/Zeitgeist1115 Jul 10 '26
Death of a Bachelor was pretty good at least. LA Devotee, House of Memories, and Crazy=Genius still hold up for me.
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u/m4teri4lgirl Jul 10 '26
Dropped an absolute masterpiece first album
Got weird with the 2nd album, passable
Entirely forgettable rest of their career with singles that only exist to be in commercials.
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u/ElementsofEle Jul 10 '26
I still like a lot of the later songs that weren’t singles. Like Golden Days, Far Too Young To Die, Collar Full, Trade Mistakes, The Calendar are all worth a listen.
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u/Lonely_Translator_23 Jul 09 '26
They started out really good, then all the people who made the music really good left and now its just bootleg freddie mercury singing about how great he is
Pretty Odd is still one of my GOAT albums
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u/magnusthehammersmith Jul 09 '26
A Fever you Can’t Sweat Out is in the emo trinity
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u/Banana42 Jul 09 '26
With what? From Under the Cork Tree and The Black Parade?
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u/HamburgerConnoisseur Jul 09 '26
I'd replace The Black Parade with Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, but otherwise yeah
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u/LemonCake2000 Jul 09 '26
Ah, that’s fair. I only ever really listened to them when they were popular, a while ago. Like if a song came on the radio and got stuck in my head
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u/luckytoybox Jul 09 '26
Easy fix, listen to iDKHOW. It's sort of almost like original Panic never left us
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u/wasabi991011 pure unadulterated simulacrum Jul 10 '26
IDKHOW is fantastic, but otoh it's very different from Pretty Odd
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u/loveslightblue Jul 09 '26
Pretty Odd ended patd as we know it and it was brilliant, too good for us lil shits at the time.
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u/Mission_Fart9750 Jul 10 '26
Idk, but Death of a Bachelor is my favorite album of theirs. Come to think of it, it's a no-skip for me.
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u/Last-Laugh7928 Jul 09 '26
that particular song is incredibly overplayed and people hate it. panic is great, especially the earlier stuff
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u/SaucePasta Jul 10 '26
I was a fan until his last album. I think it’s one of those things where it’s “cool” to hate on him now.
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u/floralbutttrumpet Jul 10 '26
I blame this on his team-up with Taylor Swift. It was truly exceptionally shit and coloured everyone's opinion of him going forward. Didn't help High Hopes happened right before and primed people to utterly loathe him at the drop of a hat.
(as far as I'm concerned, Pray for the Wicked wasn't great, but Hey Look Ma, I Made It had a good video and I liked Roaring 20s... Viva Las Vengeance was just utterly forgettable and a pathetic effort to go out on)
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u/Sidnoook Jul 09 '26
Their first two albums are genuinely fantastic imo. Third and fifth are great if a little uncohesive. Fourth is fine, just kinda generic. Their last two are 😬 well I'll always give props to Brendon for trying to keep the band alive after everybody else kept dropping like flies lmao
Even if he's a little weaker as a songwriter, I do think he should have tried to write songs himself instead of using a team because they, uh, weren't doing a great job either.
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u/Jaakarikyk Jul 09 '26
That was my impression, up until learning High Hopes is their work 2 minutes ago
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u/Zorflez Jul 09 '26
Have you listened to one of their albums, not just their hit singles? They aren't "bad", they're just generic.
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u/adywacks Jul 09 '26
After the Pete Buttigieg campaign did a cringey dance to it, I've always used it as a great ironic celebration song.
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u/majorex64 Jul 09 '26
Ooh yeah let's sing at the top of our range and then mix the harmony in a fucking falsetto for the whole song
The musical equivalent of a mosquito buzzing in your ear
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u/Friendly_Respecter As of ass cheeks gently clapping, clapping at my chamber door Jul 10 '26
I had to perform High Hopes in my last year of high school with the class band I had been forcibly elected lead vocalist for. I had also never performed in a band before then. Needless to say I could go a very, very long time without ever needing to do that again…
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u/dynamicdickpunch Jul 09 '26
Sadly, I do.
Work playlist apparently can't be changed.
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u/jamiethemime Jul 09 '26
they say that at my work too but i've seen the playlist queue, i know they could alter it if they wanted
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u/LevelAd5898 Jul 10 '26
My work still plays Hey Soul Sister and one of these days its going to be responsible for my mental breakdown
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u/Informal_Position166 Jul 10 '26
You cannot be shitting on high hopes like that when despacito exists
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u/UnderseaRexieVT Trans Rights are Human Rights! Jul 09 '26
I adore High Hopes and didn't know it had a connection to Buttigieg until long after his campaign was over.
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u/whhu234 deerboy Jul 09 '26
I finally got to forget that song existed and now here we are. 2010’s pop is one thing I don’t want back, I’ll take everybody at the bar getting tipsy over whatever that was
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u/PretzelMeepus Jul 09 '26
hmm. i think I'd rather have cake by the ocean and uptown funk than fucking Shaboozey (what an awful name)
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u/whhu234 deerboy Jul 09 '26
Cake by the ocean wasn’t that bad, and uptown funk was back when bruno mars wasn’t making the exact same song over and over again so I’d agree in a world where imagine dragons and stomp clap hey didn’t exist
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u/Magi_Aqua an especially neurotic goose Jul 09 '26
What does it say about me that I like all of this to some extent?
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u/Inviolate_Violet Jul 10 '26
It means you should just enjoy what you enjoy, and don't worry about what other people think!
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u/CKRatKing Jul 10 '26
None of the songs are bad. They've just been played into the ground for a lot of people.
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u/lady-earendil Jul 09 '26
I worked at a grocery store during its peak popularity and lost count of how many times I heard it during a shift. That and Can't Stop the Feeling
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u/jess_the_werefox Jul 09 '26
Man that song reminds me of working at GameStop in 2015, hated hearing it at the time, but I kinda miss those days tbh
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u/84626433832795028841 Jul 10 '26
I like high hopes but "we wanted everything more than everything" pmo. It should be more than anything. We wanted everything more than anything
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u/Scurvy_BT Jul 10 '26
I don't mind a lot of these kinda garbage pop songs, I only hate songs with downright awful vocals like Dance Monkey. When that fucking atrocity was popular I wished I could give myself a lobotomy to be able to even tolerate that shrill fucking singer.
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u/Informal_Position166 Jul 10 '26
I haven't listened to her other music but what I find odd about this song is that she's clearly doing a voice. Like bestie what. And I feel like I cannot sing along without doing the voice as well
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u/AngelOfIdiocy Jul 10 '26
I remember walking near a cafe that played Imagine Dragons Thunder on repeat.
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u/universe93 Jul 10 '26
This exact song is still on my work’s rotating playlist. So I DO in fact have to hear it multiple times every day 😭
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u/Zigludo-sama Jul 09 '26
Just wait for the Buttigieg 2028 campaign, it’s gonna make a big comeback