Why ?


Could it possibly be because some old has-been has taken a loop from it and screeched her own inane ramblings over it in a shallow but successful attempt to once more dupe the public into buying her bland, unoriginal, barely musical offerings?

269 replies on the 'Hung Up' thread and not one person has mentioned that the entire song is just an Abba loop ?


Didn't anybody else notice ?

It's not a HU thread, it's a thread about Madonna's new album and promo appearances. If you read the thread no one actually talks about HU (the song) only its chart success.

And for a has been that has her album at the #1 spot of 28 countries not to mention a top 10 single on the US chart with a dance song in an hip hop saturated environment shows you have shit for brains.

You people have to find more originality when bashing Madonna.

at any rate...*starts doing the running man as i sing this*:

Half past twelve
And I’m watching the late show in my flat all alone
How I hate to spend the evening on my own
Autumn winds
Blowing outside the window as I look around the room
And it makes me so depressed to see the phone
There’s not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Movie stars
Find the end of the rainbow, with that fortune to win
It’s so different from the world I’m living in
Tired of t.v.
I open the window and I gaze into the night
But there’s nothing there to see, no one in sight
There’s not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight...

There’s not a soul out there
No one to hear my prayer

Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Won’t somebody help me chase these shadows away
Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight
Take me through the darkness to the break of the day

--hold up: Blowing outside the window as I look around the room/And it makes me so depressed to see the phone

...it's "the gloom", innit? stoopid lyric sites!


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[Edited 11/25/05 8:36am]

jayaredee said:

Lest I be accused of having 'shit for brains' again, perhaps I will explain, not that I thought it needed explaining - the thread is tongue-in-cheek. I guess anyone who would be so dismissive of Madonna - and actually mean it - can't be aware of what she's been up to for the past 20 years, and could quite deservedly be given the accolade of 'shit for brains'. Equally, so could anyone who takes such an obviously over-the-top statement as being serious.

That aside, one can enjoy huge chart success and still be a has-been - Phil Collins has done it for years. And by has-been I mean musically, not commercially - I have never rated commercial success as a particularly useful yardstick in measuring musical ability, and that's really what it's all about.
Using a loop of someone else's hit as the lead single to promote your new album, particularly when you've got a track record like Madonna, to me shouts 'I've run out of ideas'.
Perhaps that's the bit I should've explained, but as I said, it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

Not that it even matters but I generally do like Madonna - I'm just not into 'hung up', and I think she's capable of much better (or used to be anyway - hence the 'has-been').

Finally, I'm not 'you people', I'm just me, one person.

And what the hell, it's Friday, here's some smileys :

jayaredee said:

Ok, I didn't read it - I just scanned it for 'abba'.

I don't remember that Abba song so I don't hear the sampling in Hung Up.
Was Gimme Gimme Gimme ever released as a single in the US?

thedoorkeeper said:

That flute loop samples Gimme, along with bass/beats arrangments

thedoorkeeper said:

I would've thought so. It was released in 1979 and they were well known in the US at that stage - they did a tour there that year too, so more than likely.

LightOfArtsaid:

I can't be sure because it's a while since I've heard 'Gimme' but it sounds to me like 'Hung Up' is just that sample with Madge's voice layered over it, and very little else. Quite surprising really, for a Madonna single (to me anyway).

AsylumUtopia said:[quote]

thedoorkeeper said:

I would've thought so. It was released in 1979 and they were well known in the US at that stage - they did a tour there that year too, so more than likely.

That would explain it - in 1979 I didn't own a car & had no job & had given up on pop music & was listening exclusively to Louis Armstrong.

thedoorkeeper said:

It was a big hit worldwide. So, it should be a single in the Us. It is not a great song, nor the best by abba. By the time of this realease disco was very close to death. It was kind of boring hit. I dont find Madonna version interesting either.
I definitly prefer Pop by U2.

Actually, I think the best ever version of Gimme Gimme Gimme was by Erasure. Pop classic.

I love "Hung Up" but I've never been much of an Abba fan

The only song by them that I like is "Dancing Queen".

all of Rap is samples so what difference does it make. janet has been surviving on samples for years now.

thedoorkeeper said:[quote]

AsylumUtopia said:

Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie hit # 3 in the UK , did not chart in the US. I dont know whether if that was becase it wasnt released here or flopped?

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...etherlands

newpower99 said:

it was not released in the US