Tyler46
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Post by Tyler46 on Dec 28, 2005 18:52:12 GMT -5
Atrocious. Even crap is better than this. Good thing it's at -400 right now. Even if it's the holidays, i don't think it will regain its' bullet.
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Post by muscleclub on Dec 28, 2005 21:25:00 GMT -5
Yeah, this is pretty much the worst song on my list for 2005. #2 on itunes ... LOL. And here are some of the reviews from people who bought the song ...
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Dec 28, 2005 21:39:30 GMT -5
Awesome reviews.
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Post by Tyler46 on Dec 28, 2005 22:38:54 GMT -5
It shows how people will buy anything if it's popular or on top of the charts, without even hearing it...
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Post by MinusName on Dec 28, 2005 22:46:18 GMT -5
I love the reviews on this song, what I don't understand is with so many horrible reviews how does it manage to become such a hit!? I guess there are just too many idiots, drug rates must be rising.
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Post by John77 on Dec 29, 2005 1:31:51 GMT -5
Kill it now... please someone put this thing out of it's misery...
As for it being a hit, it's clear that CHR/Pop radio today is trying to cater to the 6-12 demo...
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Post by Krypton46 on Dec 29, 2005 9:58:55 GMT -5
Reading those reviews really puts a smile on my face. :)
I don't feel sorry for anyone who bought the song only to realize how crappy it is. Really, how can you set your expectations so high with a song called "Laffy Taffy"?
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Post by bubblepop15 on Dec 29, 2005 9:59:49 GMT -5
#1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart
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Post by Krypton46 on Dec 29, 2005 10:04:01 GMT -5
#1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart
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Post by MinusName on Dec 29, 2005 10:19:21 GMT -5
#1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart Fools. I think the average IQ of our country just dropped down to 70 - which is mildy retarded I think.
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Post by chartfreak on Dec 29, 2005 10:49:03 GMT -5
#1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart Fools. I think the average IQ of our country just dropped down to 70 - which is mildy retarded I think. So true. Such a shame.
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Post by britrocks16 on Dec 29, 2005 12:44:52 GMT -5
I can't believe this is #1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart!!! I think it sold well over 50k aswell. *throws up*
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Post by muscleclub on Dec 29, 2005 12:59:18 GMT -5
#1 on downloads? Oh MY! I did try to listen to the song many times ... Seriously, I never made it to the end! The funniest thing about that "reviews" page is the number of people who sent in theirs .... 2090 please! That must be a record for itunes!
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Post by top40dj on Jan 12, 2006 8:55:57 GMT -5
'Laffy Taffy': So Light, So Sugary, So Downloadable
By KELEFA SANNEH, The New York Times
(Jan. 12) -- Over the last year, so-called snap music has made an unlikely journey from Atlanta phenomenon to hip-hop laughingstock to mainstream juggernaut. It's the name some people have given to a dance-centric form of hip-hop, defined by light but propulsive beats and lyrics that often revolve around playful chants.
Dem Franchize Boyz have a snap-music hit with "I Think They Like Me (Remix)," which reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the rap chart. (It far outpaced the group's previous and better hit, 2004's "White Tee.") But snap music's best-known chant is "Shake that Laffy Taffy, shake that Laffy Taffy." That's the refrain from an utterly infectious song called "Laffy Taffy," by D4L. It has been hanging around the upper reaches of the Billboard chart since before Christmas, and last week it officially became the most popular song in America.
There's only one problem: people aren't buying the album. D4L released its debut album, "Down 4 Life" (Dee Money/Asylum/Atlantic), in November; according to Nielsen SoundScan, it has sold about 230,000 copies so far. That's considered a success if you're an alternative-rock group, but not if you're a Southern hip-hop group, and especially not if you're responsible for the biggest song in the country. In fact, it's one of the lowest sales totals for a chart-topping act in years.
In another category, though, D4L is setting sales records. Last week, the group sold 175,000 digital copies of "Laffy Taffy." That figure doesn't just set a digital-download record, it smashes the old one: the previous record-holder was Kanye West, who sold 80,500 digital copies of his hit "Gold Digger" one week last fall. D4L has now sold more than twice as many digital downloads as CD's. The group's members - Fabo, Shawty Lo, Mook B and Stoney - aren't just chart-toppers; they're music industry pioneers, too.
In news releases, Atlantic is spinning this as great news: a trail-blazing triumph for a forward-thinking label. No doubt the balance sheets tell a different story. You don't have to be a professional accountant to realize that the record company isn't making much money from D4L's record-breaking online success. The list price for D4L's album is $18.98, whereas the iTunes price for "Laffy Taffy" is 99 cents; even when you factor in the cost of CD production, digital downloads are no match for CD sales.
Still, those hundreds of thousands of 99 centses must be better than nothing. Throughout the 1990's, record companies all but stopped selling singles, in hopes that people would buy full-length CD's instead. Listeners who wanted one song instead of 15 were out of luck. Radio D.J.'s often found themselves playing songs that weren't even available except on albums. Hit singles often were not singles at all - were not, that is, available singly.
In the last few years, though, the idea of buying songs has been resurrected, thanks to iTunes and other legal music download providers. Billboard recently began including digital-download sales in the formula it uses to compile its pop charts. Just as the rise of the vinyl LP helped usher in an era of so-called album-rock, it seems likely that the rise of paid downloads - and the resurrection of the retail singles market - will have unpredictable musical side effects.
Which brings us right back to snap music. On the hip-hop prestige scale, goofy dance songs like "Laffy Taffy" don't rate very high. Even in Atlanta, which has produced more than its fair share of goofy dance smash hits (like "Whoomp! There It Is" and "Get Low," to name two of the biggest), dance-oriented hip-hop is often treated like a guilty pleasure. Tough-talking, lyric-oriented storytellers like T. I. and Young Jeezy get much more respect than D4L and Dem Franchize Boyz, whose hits are considered light club music, as opposed to heavy street music.
Of course this is a specious dichotomy, but the distinction between serious and frilly exists in many genres, and it often finds expression in consumers' buying patterns. For the serious stuff, you need the album; for the frilly stuff, a song might suffice. Young Jeezy has never had a song as big as "Laffy Taffy," but he has sold many more albums than D4L. In hip-hop as elsewhere, "album artist" isn't just a sales category; it's a music category, too. An elite one.
So despite D4L's success, it's a safe bet that Dem Franchize Boyz are hoping their career more closely resembles Young Jeezy's, even though their music doesn't. "I Think They Like Me (Remix)" came from a compilation called "Jermaine Dupri Presents ... Young, Fly & Flashy Vol. 1" (Virgin), which made a tepid debut at No. 43 on the album chart. Now Dem Franchize Boyz have a new emerging hit, "Lean With It, Rock With It," and a new album, "On Top of Our Game," due in stores Feb. 7. For the sake of both their reputation and their bank accounts, no doubt the members are hoping more listeners buy the CD than the single.
For now, though, it certainly seems as if snap music and digital downloads were made for each other. Easy and cheap, single-song downloads are the musical equivalent of an impulse buy, so maybe it's no coincidence that the biggest digital download in history (so far) is a cheap-sounding hip-hop track named after a sugary snack that's traditionally found near the cash register. The silly little song about candy was neither as silly nor as little as it first seemed.
The 99-cent model may well be unsustainable for major labels, which probably need to sell something more expensive to stay in business. But it might be helpful for smaller acts hoping to score a freak hit. With any luck, the next snap-music hit will be "What's Happenin'," the insanely addictive track from the as yet little-known group Trap Squad. (The refrain comes out in a nasal bleat: "Whass ha na na! Whass ha na na!" This isn't a song; it's a virus.) Here's hoping it soon comes to an iTunes near you.
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Post by MinusName on Jan 12, 2006 17:47:44 GMT -5
I think it's great that people aren't buying the album, who would waste their money? Seriously, is 99 cents not enough? Even a penny is too much, but that's just my opinion.
It's down to just +83, hopefully the bullet will be gone by the weekend and it will drop like a rock into one-crap hit wonderland!!
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Post by Krypton46 on Jan 18, 2006 13:51:00 GMT -5
If any song deserves to have a negative quadruple digit bullet, it's this one. Sorry for bringing this thread back to the first page.
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Post by muscleclub on Jan 18, 2006 14:09:32 GMT -5
If any song deserves to have a negative quadruple digit bullet, it's this one.
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Post by iceman on Feb 21, 2006 23:26:59 GMT -5
I was walking down the aisle of a grocery store today and this song was playing and a lady was kinda dancing to it. The thing was she was around 70 years old, no joke. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. She looked like she was in pretty good shape and liked to move but it still was funny to see.
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Post by Matt4319 on Feb 21, 2006 23:37:26 GMT -5
Oh man... my station has apparently been playing and pushing this song an unusual amount (it's only #14 on their playlist, but they've given away "Laffy Taffy" t-shirts and D4L CDs as prizes in the past week). It must be the station's #1 request. Yeah, the song is pretty bad.
Wow, in retrospect this is probably one of the bigger underestimations I've ever made on here. (...overestimations? What I mean to say is that the song is poison to the ears.)
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Post by ayoPiT0 on Feb 23, 2006 13:22:36 GMT -5
I still can't believe this song went to #1. Mind you I just found that out recently.
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Post by Rob64 on Feb 23, 2006 15:57:28 GMT -5
I just heard this song for the first time. It's horrible! My god! Radio played this junk?!?!
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