New Rihanna/Kanye/Macca song - FourFiveSeconds

Guys, here is where it's at at the moment: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...mccartney-part-2.404060/page-12#post-11965322

 

I thought so too.

 

Here's my take on the song:

It's a nice little song. Nothing great, not bad. It proves once again Rihanna can sing without autotune. Kanye's performance wasn't all that great. Paul Stepped aside and let those two do what they do best.

As to the recording itself: They used the wrong mic for Rihanna. Her voice sounds a bit dull in the mix. Kanye's vocal sounds too bright, and seems to be a couple of decibels louder than Rihanna.

All in all, a nice song.

It's also nice to see a thread (partly) about Kanye without all the usual Kanye and Kim-bashing that gets those threads locked.

About Kanye: Maybe he just needs to work with, and mingle with more musical legends. He should probably take some singing lessons. The man has talent, and is probably a good guy, even though he says and does some monumentally bone-headed things, he just needs more exposure to the rest of the music world.

 

Yikes. Love to see a copy of Paul's handwritten lyrics on that one.

 

I am so happy for you!

 

you mean Billy Shears? Correct?

 

Top #5UK Hit Single! (5 Wks on the chart)
http://www.officialcharts.com/singles-chart/

UK Singles Charts 1st March 2015
#1 Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding
#2 Take Me To Church - Hozier
#3 Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
#4 Earned It - Weeknd
#5 Four Five Seconds - Rihanna/Kanye West/McCartney



Four Five Seconds video with cool drums

 

Four Five Seconds Moves Up #6 to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100! (...and gaining more streams).

Rounding out the Hot 100's top five, Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney's "FourFiveSeconds" rebounds 6-5 (after rising as high as No. 4 two weeks ago), adding top Streaming Gainer honors. The fab three's single blasts 36-10 on Streaming Songs with a 53 percent surge to 5.8 million after it was added to Spotify and other streamers. (Vevo on YouTube clicks continue to account for the majority, 61 percent, of its streaming activity.) The track bumps 10-8 on Radio Songs (77 million, up 10 percent) and slips 4-5 on Digital Songs (156,000, down 10 percent).

"FourFiveSeconds" additionally spends a fourth week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, rewriting McCartney's longest reign on the tally. His sole prior No. 1 on the list, "The Girl Is Mine," with Michael Jackson, led for three weeks (Jan. 15-22-29, 1983).

 

McCartney with another #1, and of all places, the hip hop charts?!

To me it's not even a hip hop song?

 

I've had to endure reading far worse on this forum, my friend. Keep 'em coming

 

I won't take up any unnecessary space in this thread by adding my joke outtakes here. But search them out in other threads that are more appropriate.

 

Surely, the outtakes would be the ones we haven't heard...

 

Of course. Presenting stuff we have all heard already isn't releasing outtakes, it's releasing a "Deluxe Edition."

 

What I find funny, and kind of sad, too, is that Paul can't get to the top of the carts alone anymore. He needs contemporary artists to hitch a ride with. It's just the changing of the guard.

 

Well, it's not even a Paul Song... it's a Rhianna Song, which Paul is involved with.
Either way I still think McCartney is impressive for having had a #3 album on the US Charts while in his 70's, some two years ago. It's easy for contemporary younger artists to get atop the charts while in their heyday; the real test is to see whether or not Rhianna -- like Paul now -- can still be in the Top 5 when she is in her 70s.

 

I don't really find it sad. Nobody Paul's age can get a top 40 hit by themselves. Heck, these days once an artist reaches their 40s it's nearly impossible to get a hit (see Jennifer Lopez and Mariah Carey last year).

 

What can be described as "sad" with a pop-record. Nothing imo.
What can be described about as sad that a73 year old man don t conquer the hit-parade by himaelf. Nothing.
What can be sad about an older artist co-working with younger artists. Nothing.
What I would describe as a bit sad is "fans" who project their own feelings towards a certain artist and react like spoiled children if the artists make moves in a direction not to the liking of the "fans".
It s also a bit sad to read "music-lovers" attacking certain artists and music- genres .
Imo

 

Amen!

 

Up to #3 in the UK. So it's the first top three song by a solo Beatle since Got My Mind Set On You in 1987.

 

I note that All Day also entered at 18, so McCartney has two singles in the UK top 20. That last happened in 1989 when My Brave Face and Ferry 'Cross The Mersey were in the charts concurrently.

 

Some time, around 1995 or so, the former R&B charts on Billboard was merged into the hip-hop/R&B charts, partly due to the success of Mary J. Blige's hip-hop infused recordings. So that name's been around 20 years. Nothing about the track screams R&B either.

 

Singer-guitarist and rising star (least in the UK) James Bay did a great cover of the song at the BBC Live Lounge:

 

I actually preferred that to the original (and kudos to him for whatever he sang instead of "spaz").

To be honest, after initially hating this song, I've come to really like the melody, but the lyrics still blow chunks, IMO. Seriously..."four or five seconds from wilding" is about as pretentious as it gets.