Spyke
lemm.ee

I once worked a 12 hour shift at a MarketPro computer show booth where, I shit you not, the booth next to us was selling computer speakers and the guy running it let his child play Around The World on repeat all day.

No other songs

No break

No reprieve

Just almost 12 straight hours of Around The World.

I loved that song, but to this day I can't tolerate hearing it without triggering something akin to PTSD

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No argument here. As annoying I found it, kid was still an absolute legend

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Oh my friend, if you think that version has not been sent to me many many times since this story happened, you are sorely mistaken.

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Me in 2024 when a robotic voice says "Around the world" any even number of times

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Anyone who hasn't heard the live version of this from Alive 2007, go bless your ears and heart with it right now. Absolutely one of the greatest live albums ever made.

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ULS
lemmy.ml

Around the world around the whiirrlled.

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feddit.nl

Brilliant song indeed, but where’s the praise for Michel Gondry’s iconic videoclip?

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They used a talkbox, so technically it's the voice modulating the synth carrier.

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feddit.ch

This seems to be one of the things i am too young to understand. So can any one of you boomers explain ?

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lemmy.zip

As someone into lyrics and complex songs, that song bored me to tears. The repetitiveness is a right turn off for me. Even a monkey can be learned to copy and paste, but the real musical talent is in transitioning into new melodies.

It is the same as with the "Push me, and then just touch me" song.

I can't listen to either of them without getting irritated to how little effort was put in them.

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The amount of "I don't listen to 'pop genre' music" energy coming from this comment is so unreal that I have to assume this is deliberate troling.

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