@Smasher: Is "Got to Give it Up" a song about rape? Because I can't hear it, and after looking at the lyrics transcript, I can't see it either.
By the way, Pharrell's album Girl seems to be full of songs like the two songs mentioned in the title. They all seem to be the kind of songs that "Blurred Lines" was trying to imitate but sounding mediocre in the process.
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He ignored half the title. That's why I said that.
"Blurred Lines" is about as disco as early Talking Heads. Which is to say, musically speaking, disco-inspired, but minimalist and synthesized. The only difference really is that Talking Heads covered way different subject matter in their music.
edited 24th Jul '14 11:36:12 AM by Odd1
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.I dunno, my You Tube channel has "NEO" at the end of it, and it's arguably better than my old, copyright-stricken account.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.I think I'll just put a controversial opinion here:
I think "Got to Give it Up"... kinda sucks. It sucks for all the same reasons "Blurred Lines" sucks musically: it sounds like it was cheaply made with random rhythmic drumming and bass playing.
Pharrell has been using the template of "Got to Give it Up" in all his 70's R&B throwback tracks that he's been producing lately, and all of them actually improve on the original template. Yes, even "Blurred Lines" (the most blatant imitation of "Got to Give it Up"); despite its disgusting lyrics and awful rap section, at least it fills up the track with some harmonies.
Please help out our The History Of Video Games page.I think the lyrics alone make Got to Give it Up better by Blurred Lines by default.
Also Pharrell needs to stop aping it whenever he feels like making something retro. It's just lazy. And coming from me, that's saying something.
edited 11th Aug '14 6:54:26 PM by PhysicalStamina
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.
"Got to Give it Up" is so boring though. And not in a "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny way either; Marvin has had much better songs like "What's Going On", "I Want You", and "Sexual Healing".
"Blurred Lines" may be many things, but it's not that boring.
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I'm sure you know of how "Blurred Lines" was inspired by (or blatantly ripped off) "Got to Give it Up." But I'm not here to talk about that.
What I'm really wondering, being an aficionado of disco, is how both of those songs are classified as "disco". If they're really disco, they're certainly a very atypical kind of disco. The kind of disco I'm familiar with has an 8-beat groove with a distinctive bass-cymbal-snare-cymbal beat and a lot of guitar strumming and strings, and those two songs aren't like that. Are there any other songs of that kind?
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