Cee-Lo Green-Fuck You!

“Wow, a soul singer singing and using offensive language?” I mean, remember Eamon’s “Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back)?” or Jack Ingram’s similar “Love You?” Either way, it’s been done before and to me at least, the concept is still funny.

On August 21, 2010 reading my twitter feeds, I came across various messages about soul singer Cee-Lo Green’s single that is bluntly titled “Fuck You” I thought “C’mon, you’re not even trying man!” But, after hearing it, I thought this is hilarious!

The song is basically about a guy who’s separated and bitter about it. But at the end, it’s not because he hates her…but because he misses her.
This is a very poppy southern soul sound that is reminiscent of the soul music I grew up listening to when I was a kid. Lyrically, I wouldn’t expect to hear Al Green or Otis Redding sing anything like this whatsoever, although my immature mind would have loved to hear it though.

Production and instrumentation-wise it’s like a fusion southern soul and sunny pop sound. Although the production on “Fuck You” is not necessarily modern, I would describe it as more of a refurbishing of a retro sound.

Listen for yourself, this is hilarious. I’m totally buying the album.

It seems that 50 Cent even jumped on the track “pause-mixing” style and did a freestyle on it…