FourFiveSeconds- new collab. with Rihanna, Kanye and Paul
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Nancy R:
RMartinez:
graystoke:
beatlesfanrandy:
He has a writer's credit on it, guess that makes it as legit a collaboration as any he did with anybody.
Of course it's a "legit collaboration". Proclaiming he should have a #1 single attached to his discography is another matter. No-one can pick him out of the recording, so how does that warrant a performer credit and a #1? I can't hear him on George's "All Those Years Ago" either but George says he sang on it. Does that mean he should get a #2 added to his discography?
Well, it's turning out he was in the room for every song John wrote, so now he co-wrote every John Lennon song.
Whaa? I know you were jk, but please.
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Kanye basically admitting he is stupid to the world: https://www.facebook.com/LiberalAmerica.org/photos/a.189557011193079.1073741828.180213475460766/477933205688790/?type=1&theater
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Kathryn O:
Kanye basically admitting he is stupid to the world: https://www.facebook.com/LiberalAmerica.org/photos/a.189557011193079.1073741828.180213475460766/477933205688790/?type=1&theater
Yes, obviously a dumb thing to say, and he said it in 2009, but he has also said this: 'You should only believe about 90 percent of what I say. As a matter of fact, don?t even believe anything that I?m saying at all. I could be completely fucking with you, and the world, the entire time.'
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favoritething:
RockyRaccoon68:
This song is as much Paul McCartney as Uptown Funk is Mark Ronson. Don't see anyone saying he doesn't deserve to be credited.
Or "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" by Quincy Jones (vocals by James Ingram) in 1981. Or "Just The Two Of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr. (vocals by Bill Withers).
BTW good taste favouritething
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Frank:
favoritething:
RockyRaccoon68:
This song is as much Paul McCartney as Uptown Funk is Mark Ronson. Don't see anyone saying he doesn't deserve to be credited.
Or "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" by Quincy Jones (vocals by James Ingram) in 1981. Or "Just The Two Of Us" by Grover Washington, Jr. (vocals by Bill Withers).
BTW good taste favouritething
I second that emotion!
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FourFiveSeconds moves up to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. Highest charting song (and first Top 5) for Macca since Say Say Say in 1983. RamblinRed
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#4. Probably the peak position then? Difficult maybe to top the attention after the Grammy... In sports you have gold #1, silver #2, bronze #3, so......
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Very disappointing. It's #1 or bust at this point for Macca.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
#4. Probably the peak position then? Difficult maybe to top the attention after the Grammy... In sports you have gold #1, silver #2, bronze #3, so......
Uh, what? Anyway, it's still rapidly rising on radio, so there's a good chance it hasn't peaked yet.
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It's behind the songs that have been the top 3 for the last few weeks Uptown Funk Thinking Out Loud Take Me To Church It was the greatest gainer in Digital Sales and also a big gainer in radio play (and it still isn't in the top 10 there). #1 is going to be difficult but top 3 is still very possible. Have to keep an eye on Taylor Swift's new song that is moving up very quickly. McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
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RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
That's exciting! parlance
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RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
Not in the UK he wouldn't be. Stan Laurel was 85 when 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine' got to #2 in the charts in 1975. Well, he would have been 85 had he not died 10 years earlier but hey, lets not split hairs here,
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Kestrel:
RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
Not in the UK he wouldn't be. Stan Laurel was 85 when 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine' got to #2 in the charts in 1975. Well, he would have been 85 had he not died 10 years earlier but hey, lets not split hairs here,
Wow! The amazing things I learn on this forum!
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Kestrel:
RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
Not in the UK he wouldn't be. Stan Laurel was 85 when 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine' got to #2 in the charts in 1975. Well, he would have been 85 had he not died 10 years earlier but hey, lets not split hairs here,
...that and the fact it was lifted, scratches, pops and glitches straight off the soundtrack from Way Out West...recorded in the 30's!!! Fair bloody effort from Stan and Ollie!
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I have the 45 of it somewhere!
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Kestrel:
RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
Not in the UK he wouldn't be. Stan Laurel was 85 when 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine' got to #2 in the charts in 1975. Well, he would have been 85 had he not died 10 years earlier but hey, lets not split hairs here,
And it was recorded in 1936, when he was just a youngster!!!
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RMartinez:
Kestrel:
RamblinRed:
McCartney is the oldest person ever to chart in the top 5. RamblinRed
Not in the UK he wouldn't be. Stan Laurel was 85 when 'Trail Of The Lonesome Pine' got to #2 in the charts in 1975. Well, he would have been 85 had he not died 10 years earlier but hey, lets not split hairs here,
Wow! The amazing things I learn on this forum!
You have those surprise number one hit songs over there... the Combine song was another #1 hit...wasn't that the one that kept Silly Love Songs from reaching #1 in the UK?
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Paul is #1 in Australia, perhaps his most elusive yet deprived market, this is an achievement
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Fly Paul Fly to Australia:
Paul is #1 in Australia, perhaps his most elusive yet deprived market, this is an achievement
A very, very tenuous #1 in my opinion. Seems to me he was more like a guest muso. Tom Scott didn't get a solo performer credit on Listen To What the Man Said, all he got was a general album listing credit (Afro on congas anyone?). That was a #1 for Paul McCartney and Wings, not Paul McCartney, Tom Scott and Wings, yet his sax solo stars in the song. On Forty or Fifty Seconds or whatever it is, you can't hear a note from Paul. If we hadn't been told he was on it, we wouldn't know. This isn't something in the usual vein of a duet or trio, where each credited performer can be heard singing a verse separately (as West and Rhianna clearly do) or in unison. Ultimately, he is being credited but this whole saga smacks of some serious coattail riding. Giddy-up!
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It has become his biggest hit in thirty years but I think it's been done some compromises for it to happen. For me, it belongs more among guest appearances and collaborations than on a Paul McCartney Greatest Hits compilation. At least technically.