FourFiveSeconds- new collab. with Rihanna, Kanye and Paul
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The lyrics to the song ring a bell with me.
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paulfan11:
favoritething:
Impossible to know, but as you said earlier, there's a lot of overlap. Many people say they don't like hip hop and rap in general, and there are many possible reasons for that. Sometimes it's not racial, but sometimes it is.
I'm also not a big fan of country music, does that mean I'm a racist for not liking that genre? As Bruce said, it becomes dangerous when calling out somebody as a racist, especially because they don't like a certain genre of music. Everybody is different and there will be some things one person enjoys that another person won't!
Not all hip hop artists are black, so that has nothing to do with it. I don't like hip hop in general. It's that "rapper's attitude" they all seem to have. The Gangsta mentality. All that turns me off. That's all there is to it.
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Hold me back I'm 'bout to spaz is my favorite line. Poetry.
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I prefer Bip Bop, Bip Bop Bop, Bip Bop Bip Bop Band.
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Shawn:
I prefer Bip Bop, Bip Bop Bop, Bip Bop Bip Bop Band.
Band? Shouldn't that be Bam?
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No. 5 in the UK on the singles chart. Lovely to see Paul in the top 10.
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The fact that she refers to us as the F-ING Beatles is a disgrace! And quite frankly disreseptful to everything we've achieved, years before she was born. Really rude. Typical of todays Pop generation
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Michelley:
No. 5 in the UK on the singles chart. Lovely to see Paul in the top 10.
It flopped here in the US
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MACCATTACK:
The fact that she refers to us as the F-ING Beatles is a disgrace! And quite frankly disreseptful to everything we've achieved, years before she was born. Really rude. Typical of todays Pop generation
"Us"? "We"? So you were actually in the Beatles? Maybe it's time to calm down and stop taking this so personally.
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MACCATTACK:
Michelley:
No. 5 in the UK on the singles chart. Lovely to see Paul in the top 10.
It flopped here in the US
No it didn't. It zoomed up to No. 54 based on ONE day of downloads. You really are a dumb troll and you should be ignored from now on.
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Just noticed on the UK singles chart, not only is FourFive Seconds at No. 5, but Paul's track with Kanye, Only One, is back up the chart to No. 74 (from no. 91 the previous week), boosted no doubt by the video that came out last week. So Paul is the co-writer and contributing musician on 2 songs in the top 100 this week. It's been a while since that happened, I'd guess. I'm not sure how well the Rihanna song is going to do on the Billboard 100 since that chart is no longer based solely on sales but also on some weird formula combining actual sales with radio play and streaming. But maybe it'll land somewhere in the top 10??
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Michelley:
Just noticed on the UK singles chart, not only is FourFive Seconds at No. 5, but Paul's track with Kanye, Only One, is back up the chart to No. 74 (from no. 91 the previous week), boosted no doubt by the video that came out last week. So Paul is the co-writer and contributing musician on 2 songs in the top 100 this week. It's been a while since that happened, I'd guess. I'm not sure how well the Rihanna song is going to do on the Billboard 100 since that chart is no longer based solely on sales but also on some weird formula combining actual sales with radio play and streaming. But maybe it'll land somewhere in the top 10??
I'm not the radio expert, but just based on the fact that it's been consistently at #3 or 4 on iTunes all week means it will almost certainly debut higher in Billboard than "Only One." "Only One" debuted at #35 after being around #8 on iTunes all week, and it was an iTunes exclusive, which the new song is not (it's #29 on Amazon's digital song sales chart right now). Radio play will help, and so will the video, whenever that comes out, and especially if they do perform on the Grammys.
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Billboard projects that this song may move up to the Top 25, but not the Top 10. http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6458169/ask-billboard-can-kanye-rihanna-paul-hit-no-1-on-the-hot-100
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Kestrel:
Shawn:
I prefer Bip Bop, Bip Bop Bop, Bip Bop Bip Bop Band.
Band? Shouldn't that be Bam?
Good question. I can't actually be certain what he is saying. Sometimes it sounds like bam, bang, and/or band. The live versions don't make it any clearer, either. Anybody wish to confirm the correct lyric? Sorry, I don't mean to get off topic, here. Maybe this should be a separate thread (never thought I'd suggest a thread about Bip Bop lyrics. Guess this is what I get for being so sarcastic ).
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Shawn:
Kestrel:
Shawn:
I prefer Bip Bop, Bip Bop Bop, Bip Bop Bip Bop Band.
Band? Shouldn't that be Bam?
Good question. I can't actually be certain what he is saying. Sometimes it sounds like bam, bang, and/or band. The live versions don't make it any clearer, either. Anybody wish to confirm the correct lyric? Sorry, I don't mean to get off topic, here. Maybe this should be a separate thread (never thought I'd suggest a thread about Bip Bop lyrics. Guess this is what I get for being so sarcastic ).
I've always heard it as Bam, but I can't say I've seen official lyrics for it.
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MACCATTACK:
The fact that she refers to us as the F-ING Beatles is a disgrace! And quite frankly disreseptful to everything we've achieved, years before she was born. Really rude. Typical of todays Pop generation
And People were saying that the Fucking Beatles Would Never Drop years before she was born. Like The Stones, and every Frustrated post-Beatles rocker that I've ever talked to. Even Neil Innes said that in a song. I think I like her statement better. What we achieved in all those years was our freedom, or what's left of it. Too many people defend freedom until freedom p*i*s*s*e*s* them off.
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Ane:
MACCATTACK:
The fact that she refers to us as the F-ING Beatles is a disgrace! And quite frankly disreseptful to everything we've achieved, years before she was born. Really rude. Typical of todays Pop generation
"Us"? "We"? So you were actually in the Beatles? Maybe it's time to calm down and stop taking this so personally.
Yes, MACCATTACK was actually the little-known "7th Beatle" (after Brian Epstein and George Martin). This gives him authority to pronounce what is or is not embarrassing. Show some respect!!!
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favoritething:
Michelley:
Just noticed on the UK singles chart, not only is FourFive Seconds at No. 5, but Paul's track with Kanye, Only One, is back up the chart to No. 74 (from no. 91 the previous week), boosted no doubt by the video that came out last week. So Paul is the co-writer and contributing musician on 2 songs in the top 100 this week. It's been a while since that happened, I'd guess. I'm not sure how well the Rihanna song is going to do on the Billboard 100 since that chart is no longer based solely on sales but also on some weird formula combining actual sales with radio play and streaming. But maybe it'll land somewhere in the top 10??
I'm not the radio expert, but just based on the fact that it's been consistently at #3 or 4 on iTunes all week means it will almost certainly debut higher in Billboard than "Only One." "Only One" debuted at #35 after being around #8 on iTunes all week, and it was an iTunes exclusive, which the new song is not (it's #29 on Amazon's digital song sales chart right now). Radio play will help, and so will the video, whenever that comes out, and especially if they do perform on the Grammys.
To clarify, "FourFiveSeconds" debuted last week at #54, based on one day of downloads, as was noted above. It's been pretty consistently sitting around #3 on iTunes and is somewhere around #25 on the Mediabase Top 40 airplay chart (and is getting radio action on a couple other formats as well). I'm not sure about the streaming component or how that's monitored, but the available data strongly suggest it at least getting into the top 30, maybe into the low 20s. So I'm not surprised that Billboard projects it reaching the top 25. Meanwhile, "Only One" is #54 on iTunes and continuing to do decently -- but not nearly as spectacularly as the Rihanna track -- on radio, so it's likely to return to the Hot 100, but probably not higher than the 70s or 80s. By the way, to address the prior post, the Hot 100 hasn't been based solely on sales for decades. Radio has always been a component, at least in the modern era. The more newfangled stuff like streaming got added a few years ago. They do seem to make an effort to keep the chart connected with how listeners are accessing songs, which of course is constantly in flux.
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Bruce M.:
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Michelley:
Just noticed on the UK singles chart, not only is FourFive Seconds at No. 5, but Paul's track with Kanye, Only One, is back up the chart to No. 74 (from no. 91 the previous week), boosted no doubt by the video that came out last week. So Paul is the co-writer and contributing musician on 2 songs in the top 100 this week. It's been a while since that happened, I'd guess. I'm not sure how well the Rihanna song is going to do on the Billboard 100 since that chart is no longer based solely on sales but also on some weird formula combining actual sales with radio play and streaming. But maybe it'll land somewhere in the top 10??
I'm not the radio expert, but just based on the fact that it's been consistently at #3 or 4 on iTunes all week means it will almost certainly debut higher in Billboard than "Only One." "Only One" debuted at #35 after being around #8 on iTunes all week, and it was an iTunes exclusive, which the new song is not (it's #29 on Amazon's digital song sales chart right now). Radio play will help, and so will the video, whenever that comes out, and especially if they do perform on the Grammys.
To clarify, "FourFiveSeconds" debuted last week at #54, based on one day of downloads, as was noted above. It's been pretty consistently sitting around #3 on iTunes and is somewhere around #25 on the Mediabase Top 40 airplay chart (and is getting radio action on a couple other formats as well). I'm not sure about the streaming component or how that's monitored, but the available data strongly suggest it at least getting into the top 30, maybe into the low 20s. So I'm not surprised that Billboard projects it reaching the top 25. Meanwhile, "Only One" is #54 on iTunes and continuing to do decently -- but not nearly as spectacularly as the Rihanna track -- on radio, so it's likely to return to the Hot 100, but probably not higher than the 70s or 80s. By the way, to address the prior post, the Hot 100 hasn't been based solely on sales for decades. Radio has always been a component, at least in the modern era. The more newfangled stuff like streaming got added a few years ago. They do seem to make an effort to keep the chart connected with how listeners are accessing songs, which of course is constantly in flux.
Im glad they both flopped. Less people hear it, less people know about. I was worried he would have appeared and lipsynched with kathy perry at the superbowl, But we let her embarrass herself. Hopefully he blows off the grammys after Rihanna dropped F bombs on us regarding our legacy The fact we didnt show up to the Superbowl pre-party with Rihanan and Kanye shows that the masses have spoken, and Paul took the hint. He still is a business man and needs to sell 200,000 plus tix in Japan. The Japanese dont like these flavor of the month acts like Rihanaa and Kanye, and will reject us if we collaborate with them. Can you imagine playing 3 shows at the 50,000 seat+ Tokyo Dome and it being 1/2 full for all the shows. That would be embarrassing.
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Bruce M.:
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Michelley:
Just noticed on the UK singles chart, not only is FourFive Seconds at No. 5, but Paul's track with Kanye, Only One, is back up the chart to No. 74 (from no. 91 the previous week), boosted no doubt by the video that came out last week. So Paul is the co-writer and contributing musician on 2 songs in the top 100 this week. It's been a while since that happened, I'd guess. I'm not sure how well the Rihanna song is going to do on the Billboard 100 since that chart is no longer based solely on sales but also on some weird formula combining actual sales with radio play and streaming. But maybe it'll land somewhere in the top 10??
I'm not the radio expert, but just based on the fact that it's been consistently at #3 or 4 on iTunes all week means it will almost certainly debut higher in Billboard than "Only One." "Only One" debuted at #35 after being around #8 on iTunes all week, and it was an iTunes exclusive, which the new song is not (it's #29 on Amazon's digital song sales chart right now). Radio play will help, and so will the video, whenever that comes out, and especially if they do perform on the Grammys.
To clarify, "FourFiveSeconds" debuted last week at #54, based on one day of downloads, as was noted above. It's been pretty consistently sitting around #3 on iTunes and is somewhere around #25 on the Mediabase Top 40 airplay chart (and is getting radio action on a couple other formats as well). I'm not sure about the streaming component or how that's monitored, but the available data strongly suggest it at least getting into the top 30, maybe into the low 20s. So I'm not surprised that Billboard projects it reaching the top 25. Meanwhile, "Only One" is #54 on iTunes and continuing to do decently -- but not nearly as spectacularly as the Rihanna track -- on radio, so it's likely to return to the Hot 100, but probably not higher than the 70s or 80s. By the way, to address the prior post, the Hot 100 hasn't been based solely on sales for decades. Radio has always been a component, at least in the modern era. The more newfangled stuff like streaming got added a few years ago. They do seem to make an effort to keep the chart connected with how listeners are accessing songs, which of course is constantly in flux.
Oops, I didn't mean to say "debut" in my post, and I thought I had gone back and edited that. Oh well. And a song that's about to hit the Top 25, when there's not even a video yet, is certainly not a flop, as all but one of us (hint: not talking about Bruce!) seem to be able to recognize. I don't expect this song to be up there with Rihanna's biggest hits (some of her fans are turned off by it because it's such a departure), but its breeziness should carry it into the Top 10 as it gets more exposure. And I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a club mix (or several) eventually.