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174-CeeLo Green-Forget You.

2010-Number 1 single.

Best Bit-At 2.53. Both the explicit version and the clean version tell the same story, but the clean version does it in a more gentlemanly manner.

CeeLo Green was born Thomas DeCarlo Callaway on May 30th, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. His first venture in to the music business occurred in 1991 when he was one of the four founding members of Southern Hip-Hop group the ‘Goodie Mo-B,’ Green stayed part of the group until leaving during the recording of their third studio Album ‘World Party’ in 1998, to pursue a solo career. He issued his first two solo Albums in 2002, and 2004, but in between those releases he had met Brian Burton in 2003, who was working under the stage name of ‘Danger Mouse.’ The pair would team up to form ‘Gnarls Barkley,’ releasing two studio Albums in 2006, and 2008, and seven singles, including the critically acclaimed UK Number 1 single, and Billboard Number 2 hit ‘Crazy,’ in 2006. CeeLo Green has since gone on to release a further four studio Albums between 2010-2020, and there has been a total of 39 singles issued between 2002-2020.

‘F..k You,’ or ‘Forget You’ as it is alternatively known, was the first of seven singles released from CeeLo Green’s third solo studio Album ‘The Lady Killer’ from 2010, the song was co-written by Green, along with the songwriting/production team of Bruno Mars, (see also best songs 40) Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, and Brody Brown, who collectively worked as ‘The Smeezingtons.’ The song has met with great success selling in excess of 6 million copies in America, and has passed the one million mark in the UK.

‘Forget You’ has two meanings according to CeeLo Green, he has explained,’It’s a fictitious account of love lost, but it’s a trial that we’ve all been through some time or another, and I think that’s why people can relate to it. He has also disclosed that the lyrics are also aimed with his then record label, ‘Electra Records,’ and his dispute with them over creative differences.’I did ‘F— You’ to be an a–hole, to be spiteful toward the label, because it had taken about three years to do ‘The Lady Killer’, and I just felt that after recording almost 70 songs I could not please them.’ Bruno Mars has said that when he came up with the piano riff, he thought it was an old Soul riff from the 1960’s, or 1970’s, he said,’I guess I’d know by now if it wasn’t original. When Cee-Lo got in there and sang, we all got the chills.’

‘See you driving ’round town with the girl I love, and I’m like forget you. I guess the change in my pocket wasn’t enough, I’m like forget you, and forget her too.’