Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again' takes YouTube top spot from 'Gangnam Style'

[Lex Icon]

That song is shit, why does it have so many views? Ugh.

it doesn't have to be good to be popular.. ever listened to the radio?

[TheFirstOnes]

DONT! The song is the worst!

Seriously though you may enjoy it, I hated it the second I heard it :P

Too late, just heard it.

....

Never hated a song so much in my life, like fuck me.

[Saverem]

Yeah the song is tied to the "Fast and the Furious" movies which make over a billion dollars a movie. It's not a very good song IMO.

I like it. Do I think it's 3b views good? Hell naw.

[Beardless Man]

Yeah the song is tied to the "Fast and the Furious" movies which make over a billion dollars a movie. It's not a very good song IMO.

Even more so, See You Again took a couple years to hit that point. Gangnam Style manage to hit record views in the shortest amount of time. So, nothing worth bragging about.

[unfilteredJW]

This thread is people stating their subjective opinions as objective and going out of their way to say they've never heard of something.

In other words, children gonna be childish.

[Serpha]

This thread is people stating their subjective opinions as objective and going out of their way to say they've never heard of something.

In other words, children gonna be childish.

So what does that make you? Nvm, don't care.

View count means nothing, it has 15 mln likes and 500k dislikes. As far as I know you can only like video only once so most of those views are the same people.

[Eleccybubb]

This thread is people stating their subjective opinions as objective and going out of their way to say they've never heard of something.

In other words, children gonna be childish.

I've genuinely never heard of Despacito.

On topic. Song is a good tribute to Paul Walker and it really isn't that bad imo.

[Dug]

So what does that make you? Nvm, don't care.

View count means nothing, it has 15 mln likes and 500k dislikes. As far as I know you can only like video only once so most of those views are the same people.

Lots of people don't bother with the like/dislike system they simply watch a video and move on. At least I know I don't.

[Swalload]

It's not a very good song IMO.

It's Wiz Khalifa, the fuck were you expecting?

[Rennadrel]

So? Both are utter shit by talentless posers who should be fired out of a cannon and into the sun.

[Orby]

Not my type of music, music on the radio now days sounds all the same, I cannot tell most artists apart anymore :P

[King Shark]

I vaguely remember this song from having watched the movie. RIP Paul Walker. Stopped listening to rap after 2010, and haven't even listened to a single rap artist that wasn't already an established act prior to 2001; save for a very select few. And Wiz ain't one of 'em. It appears I've officially hit the "get off my lawn" and "Crazy kids, this isn't music/ back in my day" stage of my life. That's pretty fucking depressing come to think about it. Probably missing out on some good shit.

But if the number of hits on Youtube have become a metric for quality of content, then I might be dodging a bullet. Because that isn't music, and back in my day that shit would have gotten thrown in the trash with the rest of the demo crap. Now get off my lawn. Crazy kids.

[Deleted]

Garbage ''song''.

[Zenfoldor]

Never watched it, heard of it, heard of the singers or watched fast and furious. I think it all sucks, tbh.

[Bryntrollian]

RIP Paul Walker

[Mehrunes]

Wiz Khalifa talking normally (at times with autotune or something like that) with some music with playing in the background doesn't qualify as singing to me. And while the other guy is a musical giant when compared to Khalifa, outside of that comparison his pitch of voice is just annoying. At least the song quality fits the quality of the Fast and Furious franchise perfectly.

[Logwyn]

Yeah the song is tied to the "Fast and the Furious" movies which make over a billion dollars a movie. It's not a very good song IMO.

Its amazing what crap movies can make at the box office. You must be counting merchandising as well. Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious are the only two that made over a billion world wide.

[Deleted]

I'd never heard of it either until this thread. Having watched it now, it's obviously just the Fast & Furious fans racking up the views as an elegy to Paul Walker. As a song it doesn't deserve the popularity is has IMO.

To be fair, I saw him at a concert in London with 23 other artists. Now I don't like pop music so much,(Mrs dragged me to go there) however, he was one of 4 artists who put their soul into it. He was literally crying at the end of his performance, real passion still. Other ones just lipsynched.

[Kraenen]

Both boring songs

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To be fair, I saw him at a concert in London with 23 other artists. Now I don't like pop music so much,(Mrs dragged me to go there) however, he was one of 4 artists who put their soul into it. He was literally crying at the end of his performance, real passion still. Other ones just lipsynched.

don't you only think he has soul because of his race?

[Atrea]

It amazes me to hear that there are people who haven't heard this song before.

It is played 20 times a day on the radio. It is played in public places - grocery stores, shopping malls - on television and I have even heard it as hold music before.

If you've truly never heard the song - even in part - you either live in a non English-speaking part of the world (and even then, it's probably played everywhere anyway), or you actively avoid pretty much all public places and plug your ears when you hear the first few bars of any sort of music played in public that is not in line with your tastes.

I'm not a huge fan of the song itself, but I can't wrap my head around the kind of social life a person must have in order to have never heard the song before.

I mean I guess it's possible, but realistically it's more likely that you just don't recognize it because you weren't really paying attention.