5/17/2023 0 Comments St. elsewhere theme song![]() Knowing each collaborator’s respective histories-Cee-Lo’s tenure in Goodie Mob and psychedelic soul/hip-hop solo albums, Danger Mouse’s records with Jemini, Gorillaz, MF Doom, and The Grey Album-one would assume that this project would yield at least moderately interesting results. What could have stood alone as a grand one-off collaboration turned into one of the year’s most vibrant and joyous debuts. The UK has always had a stronger singles market, however, and the benefit of the dynamic duo of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse recording an entire album is that, to sound cliché, it’s all good. Still, they jumped on “Crazy” a lot faster than we did, with the exception of the bloggers and blog readers that took advantage of the single’s leak back in November. I hesitate to say that the UK is hipper than we are in the singles department, seeing as how a recent look at all their #1 singles since the dawn of the millennium reveals a motley crew of ex-Spice Girls mixed with Oasis, Westlife and most inane US singles. ![]() “Crazy,” meanwhile, is only in the thirties. At that time, the number one iTunes download in the US was Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day.” A month later and it’s still in the top 5. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.A lot has already been said about how quickly Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” shot to the top of the UK singles chart and instantly set a record for fastest selling download in the UK as well.
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