I think lol but I'm obsessed with this song it's funtastic ;) lmao that was so bad. On August 21, 2012, British girl band and X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix sped up the original version of the song to celebrate their first anniversary as a band, as well as the release of their debut single "Wings". The band's version received mostly positive reviews; Perez Hilton praised the band for their "slowed down, acoustic, choral rendition" of the song and said that it may better than the original version of the song. He also commented that "each girl layers her voice to perfection to create a thick, unparalleled musical icing".
Rachel Ho of Starpulse said that the band "show off their powerful vocals as individuals, and harmonizing skills as group". The band's acoustic version was available as a bonus track after pre-ordering the band's debut album DNA . It was also included in the US and Japanese editions of the album, while the acoustic video was available on the DVD of the deluxe edition of the album. The band performed the song again on several other occasions; in December 2012, they performed it during the Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball. In March 2013, the band performed the song during an interview on SiriusXM Hits 1, while in May 2013 the band performed the song, along with acoustic performances of their own songs "Wings" and "How Ya Doin'?", during a session at Capital FM. The band's extensive touring, which has included playing Coachella, ensured that the groundwork was already in place for the act to grow, according to Fun's manager, Dalton Sim of Nettwerk Records.
"That's always the first thing that will get a song on the air, if it's a song we love and we think the listeners will love," said Lisa Worden, music director of KROQ. This song is about an elderly, drunken wwii veteran and his struggle between the past and the present. It is obvious his sanity is waning ("give me a second i, i need to get my story straight") and he is not sure what is happening in the bar that he is currently in. He had lost his wife while he was at war, but does not presently register this ("my lover, she is waiting for me just across the bar"). The artist juxtaposes his age and situation with the time during the war, when he was hopeful ("tonight, we are young") despite the trauma of the war and the constant bombings ("set the world on fire" "burn brighter than the sun").
He was injured in the war, and someone had to "carry him" to safety. As the song winds to a close, the veteran begins to become aware of the present time. He realizes that the war is over ("the world is on my side" "i have no reason to run") and that he didn't die ("the angels never arrived"). However, he came close, because of his injury ("but i can hear the choir") and is still unable to walk ("so will someone come and carry me home"). At the end of the song, you see that this senile, hurting veteran wants to use the rest of his empty, lonely life to help others as he was helped during the war.
The track initially only gained online media attention, but it did receive its first commercial radio airplay on Tampa Bay alt radio station 97X, debuting on September 19, 2011. However, it was soon covered by the television show Glee. It is also the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales, a record previously held by Eminem and Rihanna's "Love the Way You Lie" . "We Are Young" has been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is both Fun and Monáe's first charting single on the Hot 100, as well as their first number-one single. The song also topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destiny's Child's "Survivor" to do so.
The song was named 99th on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of All-time. To me, the song is about young lovers who're just now experiencing the intensity of falling in love with a person. In the song it says, "so if by the time the bar closes, and you feel like falling down, i'll carry you home. " meaning that in the end, he'll always be there to take care of her, even if he hurts her himself occasionally. In the chorus he sings, "so let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter, than the sun. " which I interpret as him saying that if encouraged their love, or even they themselves can ignite the world with their emotions and ideas for the future.
Then there was the time last November when they performed for the virtual Adult Swim Festival alongside the bassist Thundercat, playing his song "Them Changes" with the pop star Ariana Grande on guest vocals. For a few minutes, near the end, the song devolved into a series of increasingly spicy jazz riffs, leaving Grande bobbing gamely along. It was a weird moment, but somehow it didn't feel like a stretch for these two to be sharing the stage with a gigantic pop star.
Their music, freakishly complex and virtuosic as it may be, is not a "difficult" listen. It's sparkly, relentlessly melodic, infused with familiar reference points from funk, neo-soul, the left-field hip-hop of J. Dilla and Madlib, the electronic breaks of Aphex Twin and the loading-screen jingles of Nintendo — like playing Mario Kart while your roommate chops up Pharoah Sanders samples on his laptop. It's just that Beck and DOMi are, at their core, jazz musicians; the thrill is hearing them improvise, listening in on the meeting of two extraordinary musical minds.
The music video, directed by Marc Klasfeld, was filmed at David Sukonick Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The video showcases a bar fight in slow motion with the band performing on a stage in the bar. Some other portions of the video were shot in real time. The video opens with a girl (played by Rachel Antonoff, sister of the band's guitarist Jack Antonoff and ex-girlfriend of lead singer Nate Ruess) messaging another person on a HTC Titan.
On the screen was a text message reading "NOW!" implying that the message was possibly a signal to begin a flash mob. The girl then throws the smartphone into the middle of the bar, where it hovers in mid-air. As the first chorus begins, the girl gets a wine bottle smashed over her head as the patrons degenerate into a bar fight. Different types of food are thrown and smashed at various points in the video, most notably grapes.
Large amounts of flour and confetti are sprayed across the stage from the left and right. Streamers and a disco ball also fall from the ceiling. During the second chorus, various glassware is thrown around and, as a result, shatters. A couple kiss with food spread all over their faces, and Janelle Monáe walks into the center of the bar and sings the first half of her bridge in real time and the second in slow motion.
Monáe's role in the video was described as being the eye of the storm. It is also implied that Fun's performance mirrors the intensity of the bar's atmosphere, as their performance becomes more intense and energetic as the video progresses. The video concludes with Fun ending their performance as the girl from the beginning of the video walks out of the bar smiling.As of June 2021, the video has received over 900 million views on YouTube. "We Are Young" impacted US radio on December 6, 2011, entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 53.
The release of the Glee version caused a 1,650% jump in sales of "We Are Young" , and the song's appearance in the Super Bowl spot helped it explode at radio and at retail. The song began to climb up the charts immediately following the Super Bowl, climbing its way back up to eclipse its peak position. In the week following the Super Bowl, it rose 26 spots to number 63 on the Hot 100, and jumped from number 72 to 41 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. It eventually rose to number 41 and then rocketed up the chart to the top ten, peaking at number three. The following week, the song dropped to number six but rebounded back to number three on February 29.
On March 7, 2012, "We Are Young" ascended to the top position on the Billboard Hot 100. It remained at the number one position for six consecutive weeks, and is also the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales, a record that was previously held by Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" . "We Are Young" topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destiny's Child's Survivor . The song was the first song in 2012 to be certified by the RIAA 3 times platinum with sales of 3 million, and was later certified 5 times platinum on June 21, 2012. As of early January 2014, the song has sold 6,830,000 copies in the United States. When I first heard "Hard Life," by the British collective SAULT, I immediately texted it to my friends.
"I don't know if you've heard about this group," I would start the messages, "but I'm really vibing to this song." Then, I would paste a Spotify link and hit send. I used "vibing," a vague term, to distance myself from how vulnerable the song made me feel. Truthfully, I listened to "Hard Life" on repeat for weeks, mouthing the lyrics I'd picked up and reveling in its gospel-inspired sound. I grew up in a churchgoing family, and now that I no longer attended service, spiritually inflected music felt like the closest I would get to being saved. I wanted my friends, most of whom were Black women, to feel the hope I felt while listening and perhaps experience their own spiritual moment, too.
To begin wrapping your mind around Jacob Collier, the wizardly English singer-songwriter-arranger-producer, the place to start is not a recording or a music video or a concert. On the internet, you can find dozens of examples of Collier in professorial mode, or as professorial as it gets for a guy whose wardrobe leans to rainbow-colored Crocs and hats with ears. There are videos of him conducting master classes at the Berklee College of Music and the University of Southern California. There are clips of him explicating the harmonic structure of Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke." There are the Logic Breakdown Sessions, in which he examines his own music at the molecular level, walking step by step through the construction of his songs. Although "Stairway to Heaven" has been called "the best rock song of all time," it actually never charted. The track was never released as a single; instead, radio stations received promotional singles that have become collector's items.
"Like a Virgin" was Madonna's first #1 hit in the U.S. The track topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks. Its racy lyrics reportedly made it harder to find a recording studio and production team who would bring the song to life, but the finished product ultimately set Madonna apart from the horde of other 1980's pop singers. I think this song is about a guy who used to do a lot of drugs, but something bad happened one day while on them , so he didn't join his friends in the bathroom this time because he doesn't wanna risk something that bad again. His girlfriend is there at the bar as well, talking to some dude with sunglasses about the scar she got from that day.
The singer guy regrets and has tried apologizing for it millions of times, but he knows it's not enough and he really wants to make it up to her. I think it's about a guy who hit his gf ("my lover she's waiting for me just across the bar") who is drinking herself away trying to numb the pain ("scar") he gave her covered with sunglasses that make people ("ask bout a scar"). Through his numerous apologies, he tries to take "it" back so when the bar closes and she's drunken to the max and feels like falling down, he'll be there to carry her home. He says they're young so they'll set the world on fire and they can burn brighter than the sun could mean that starting over "tonight" will make the day brighter tomorrow. The song was originally released as part of the album Nina Simone in Concert in 1964. She performed the anthem at Carnegie Hall, springing the controversial lyrics on a majority-white audience.
While there were many who objected to, and even banned the song after its release, it became popular during the civil rights movement and was played by activists at demonstrations for years. "Hard Life," from "Untitled ," opens with a stiff, craggy drumbeat. When the main vocalist enters, it's to catalog a series of tensions, with the lyric "It's a hard life" as her repeated lamentation — but also to evoke a hopeful future. Window Swap made headlines during the mid-July vacation season, in a year when, for most of us, there was only the fantasy of escape.
The same week, the roots-reggae star Koffee released a single that sparkled with the thought of better times ahead. "Where will we go/When di quarantine ting done and everybody touch road? " she sang in Jamaican patois on "Lockdown," whose raucous chorus gave way to cool, spacious verses that showed off her pop instincts and let her lyrics shine. The news came via an advertisement in the country music trade publication Country Aircheck. "Here Tonight" will be Young's fifth radio single — thus far he has three No. 1 songs on the Billboard Country Airplay chart and one that peaked at No. 2.
The 2018 CMA New Artist of the Year nominee has gone platinum with every single he's released. The song was released in the fall of 2011, but a quick cover of it by Glee in December brought it to the attention of a larger audience and kick-started the song's ultimate success. An appearance in a Super Bowl ad finally gave Fun.'s own version of the song the spotlight it deserved, with it flying to number 3 on the charts after the commercial first aired.
Since its release some have also argued that "We Are Young" became not only a breakthrough for fun., but for indie pop as a mainstream genre. From there, sessions continued at Enormous Studios in Los Angeles, The Village Recorder to track the children's choir, and Abbey Road Studios to record the orchestral arrangements. The band invited Janelle Monáe to provide guest vocals on "We Are Young" through her friendship with Bhasker. After being played the song, Monáe was enthused and recorded her vocals in Bristol, England. Bhasker further mixed the song in a 44.1 kHz/24-bit Pro Tools HD session over almost two weeks, and the stereo mix was mastered using an L2 limiter and an API 550 EQ. Bhasker had just finished a long day in the studio with Beyoncé and had decided to give Ruess 10 minutes.
He had previously already canceled two meetings with him. The two began talking about music, and Ruess' desire to merge hip-hop beats and electronic effects with pop rock intrigued Bhasker, who invited Ruess up to his hotel room to show him some Beyoncé tracks he had been working on. "Slightly tipsy and feeling inspired," Ruess belted out the chorus for "We Are Young," which at that time was an unfinished composition. "We Are Young" is a song recorded by American band Fun featuring American singer Janelle Monáe. It is the third track on the group's second studio album, Some Nights , and was released on September 20, 2011 as the lead single from the album.
The song received acclaim from music critics, with many noting the song as a breakthrough for the indie genre and praising the song's catchiness. "We Are Young" has attained commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in several countries. And then, there's the way guys are conducting themselves. For a variety reasons, yesterday was going to be a heavier 21 and 12 personnel game for the offense. Accordingly, Cole Beasley only played 22 snaps and caught one ball, and you couldn't find a happier guy in the locker room after the game.
Promising second-year receiver Gabe Davis, similarly, played just 14 snaps, but was locked in and wound up with a key 16-yard pickup on a game-clinching drive that covered 85 yards in 12 plays. Even Stefon Diggs was held to two catches at Arrowhead, and he continued to carry himself like the captain he's become. So you have a unique mix of guys willing to play roles and wanting to spread the credit around (rookie Boogie Basham's giving Star Lotulelei credit for a sack he registered against the Texans is another example). And it's one more area where it sure looks like the Sean McDermott/Brandon Beane rebuild really hit it big. More writing god its been like 5 freakin' times I had to go back. Idk what else to put man wtf gosh how is this message short I seen many others shorter than this!
So why make us write alot I'm to lazy right now I'm just typying with one finger oh my gosh I know this message is short okay so this one kid went to this house and yelled I smell like green apples. I just wrote this cause this thing kept coming out and saying that this message was too short. I love this song it is my ring tone now I sing at school, home, and in shower I listen to it when I sad or lonely. We are young so lets set the world on fire what he means is if we set it on fire tonight the world will be brighter tomorrow.
It's about friends searching for love after failing miserably and doing bloody things at the bar such as getting high and drinking till they can't walk straight. But he states again that if even if he goes home alone, he'll be willing to carry her home. I think this is about a guy who lead a girl on, slept with her, made her think she was special, said he'd call her and never did. Now a couple weeks later she's at the bar confronting him when his friends leave him a lone for a little while ("my seat's been taken by sunglasses, asking about a scar"). She's wearing sunglasses in a bar because she's been crying so much. The story behind that is one of the many stories Questlove tells in his new book, "Music Is History." It's a year-by-year series of songs that have meant a lot to him from 1971, the year he was born, to the present.
He describes what makes each of those records important, the place they hold in his life and how they reflect what was happening in America at the time. The book also includes a collection of playlists he's put together, ranging from songs he learned through other groups' samples to short songs that help him think about how stories can be told with brevity. We'll be hearing some of the records he writes about. The song wasn't a hit when it first released, but Wonder performed it at concerts and events, advocating for the celebration of the civil rights icon.
Although several states made King's birthday a local holiday, some members of Congress still opposed making it federal. Wonder testified to Congress in 1983 in hopes of swaying the majority and continued his crusade as citizens across the country protested in solidarity. King's birthday was finally approved as a federal holiday in 1983, and all 50 states made it a state government holiday by 2000. Wonder's version of "Happy Birthday" is still traditionally sung at Black birthday celebrations and as a tribute to King.
Gaye didn't abandon his signature smooth tone, and he called for peaceful protests and an end to war and violence on a national level. Although the song wasn't as radical as some of the anthems released by other artists, Motown executive Berry Gordy was still hesitant to release it. After months of waiting, Gaye eventually gave an ultimatum—either they release the record or he would never record with Motown again.
