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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Feb 4, 2009 18:05:43 GMT -5
I just want to hear what you all think....this song to me is TERRIBLE and honestly if I was Weezer I would either sue or take back authorizing using this sample.
Cannot believe its going for Modern adds next tuesday (FMQB)
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Post by David on Feb 4, 2009 18:06:50 GMT -5
This song is horrendous.
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Post by Young Money on Feb 4, 2009 18:20:59 GMT -5
What sample of Weezers is it?
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Feb 4, 2009 18:27:51 GMT -5
Say It Aint So. From the Blue Album
And i wish it i could say it wasn't so!
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Post by American Idiot on Feb 4, 2009 20:40:37 GMT -5
I decided to give this a listen since I saw it was going for adds on FMQB, and I have to agree this is a complete p.o.s. that should not be heard by anyone's ears it's that freaking bad.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Feb 5, 2009 0:45:02 GMT -5
I'm gonna hold off bashing the song for now. Yes, the Weezer sample gets under my skin because a) radio won't leave it alone, so I can barely stand to listen to "Say It Ain't So" as is, and b) this was the Weezer video where they play hackey sack in the backyard, which plays right into the hands of this goddamn song.
Yet, looking beyond the song's instant familiarity (and obviously, this kind of thing will only be happening more and more with samples as time goes on), it's not that awful otherwise. What sucks, though, is that the whole MySpace generation is increasingly making music sound cheaper and cheaper and is largely producing a glut of novelty acts/songs. (The Eminem tone in Asher's delivery doesn't help anything.)
Yet Asher Roth is actually an MC MTV wrote up at the beginning of the year as one to watch for in '09, so I'm not gonna write him/this off just yet.
Heck, if you take this song as laboriously detailed satire, which would obviously go over the heads of the mass audience (I can't see giving Asher that much credit, though), it's actually humorous.
Unfortunately I can see Alternative radio take to this one, due to the familiarity of the Weezer sample, but also its similar appeal as, say, Rehab's "Sittin' at a Bar."
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Post by WotUNeed on Feb 5, 2009 17:22:56 GMT -5
Heard it the other day. Lame. Even if it is a satire, the idea's all right, but the execution sucks.
I don't hate it, though, either. Wouldn't nominate it for worst song of '09 or anything. Just no desire to revisit it.
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Post by PHOBES on Feb 17, 2009 0:17:06 GMT -5
Alternative: 63 50 ASHER ROTH I Love College 126 93 33 0.395 Rhythmic: 46 34 ASHER ROTH I Love College 743 543 200 4.511
Alternative and Rhythmic? Really?
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Feb 17, 2009 2:27:24 GMT -5
Alternative and Rhythmic? Really? Have you heard it? Alternative for the Weezer sample and Rhythmic (as opposed to Urban or Pop just yet) because it's suburban hip hop by a buzzworthy MC. This will probably be a Top 10 Pop song soon enough, though.
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Post by PHOBES on Feb 17, 2009 15:17:53 GMT -5
Alternative and Rhythmic? Really? Have you heard it? Just a clip, enough to have no desire to listen further. I get why alternative and rhythmic would play it, I just didn't think it'd chart. And I especially can't believe it's almost top 30 on rhythmic. I would think pop would play this before either of those, to be honest.
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Post by Acid Eyes on Feb 17, 2009 15:54:21 GMT -5
I though this was harmless (stupid yes, but harmless) unless I heard about the Weezer sample.
If you are gonna sample a classic, the new product better be good. This is not.
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Post by halo19 on Feb 17, 2009 19:52:20 GMT -5
The bad thing about this possibly being his first hit is that it might be killing his credibility and career before either can happen. Also, I kind of wish the song could have been released before Rock Band was conceived because it makes it hard to be more open-minded about the Weezer sample.
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Post by fran182 on Mar 7, 2009 18:37:27 GMT -5
Today, it reached top 40 on Mediabase Alternative:
43 40 ASHER ROTH I Love College 302 238 64 1.001
36 stations playing.
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Post by Ron57 on Mar 8, 2009 0:04:05 GMT -5
Catchy song. Bad meaning, and not something I would usually listen to, but I sorta like it lol.
Btw, according to Wikipedia, it also takes samples from Waiting on the World to Change by John Mayer.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Mar 8, 2009 3:37:35 GMT -5
I love it.
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Post by fran182 on Mar 8, 2009 11:21:39 GMT -5
I love this song! Sure the lyrics are crappy, but the "Weezer" sample works really well and it's catchy as hell.
As a party song it's good. Glad that it's doing well but this kind of novelty songs usually lead to one-hit wonders career... It's not safe that he will ever have other CHR/Top 40 hit and about Alternative radio, I think everyone agrees that it's only charting because it samples a song from a core artist.
This song got me interested in this guy's music. I'll definitely download his new album when it leaks...
Some chart peaks stats:
#6 on itunes (Currently it's #10) #22 on Hot 100
It's top 40 on Mediabase CHR/Top 40 with a +500 bullet, top 40 on Mediabase Alternative with a +60 bullet and #21 on Mediabase Rhythmic with a +350 bullet.
Should debut on BB Modern Rock this week.
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Post by Minor Scratch on Mar 8, 2009 11:26:29 GMT -5
Another white rapper having success on the Alternative format. Nothing new.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 29, 2009 9:06:19 GMT -5
I just heard the song on the radio for the first time (debuting on AT40) and the Weezer sample wasn't there. Did they end up sending a different mix to Pop radio or could Asher not get the sample cleared? (Which would be hilarious and a sick burn. )
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Post by My Life Is A Stereo on Mar 29, 2009 17:35:52 GMT -5
I don't know the details but yes, the radio version does not have the Weezer sample. It's talked about more in the CHR-Pop thread. I try to put myself in a "college" state of mind to get why anyone likes this ..... yet still, I have a serious problem getting anything out of it. This is one song that may have an audience, somehow, but I'll never get why. It's just atrocious to me.
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Post by pen on Mar 29, 2009 17:47:54 GMT -5
I don't know the details but yes, the radio version does not have the Weezer sample. It's talked about more in the CHR-Pop thread. I try to put myself in a "college" state of mind to get why anyone likes this ..... yet still, I have a serious problem getting anything out of it. This is one song that may have an audience, somehow, but I'll never get why. It's just atrocious to me. Having graduated from college only two years ago, I never participated in any of the kind of behavior that is talked about in the song. I wonder if that makes me a boring person. But then I think, why would I look on memories like that fondly? It's kind of a catch-22, and really makes me wonder if culture clash is possible within your own culture.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Mar 30, 2009 1:43:16 GMT -5
Yeah, "I Love College" is just a laundry list of pathetic frat boy clichés.
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Post by G-Reg on Mar 30, 2009 1:50:07 GMT -5
If you are gonna sample a classic, the new product better be good. This is not. Exactly. EXACTLY. Not only did he take my one of my favorite songs of all time and put it in an awful song... but it is the ONLY catchy part of the song. People are grooving out to "Asher Roth" when it is really a great Weezer hook with an annoying kid babbling on "I love college, I love drinking, I love women, I love college." Seriously, I love college, and I love drinking... but this is just terrible. Absolute fucking garbage. I could have made this song.
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