2010 ADAMMY SONG OF THE YEAR- CEE-LO- "FUCK YOU"

Bitter, yet beautiful.

This is the best crossover song in years.

It's an instantly lovable classic slice of pop/soul, with an unusually blunt chorus.

The song takes a giant leap to immortality when the bridge kicks in: Cee Lo hilariously sob/sings this entire part. Asking "WHY????" before the double shot of the background singers making the famed Prince "Owwaahhh!" noise followed by an I-just-stubbed-my-toe "OWWWW!". A little slice of genius.

When the song kicks back into the chorus, if you aren't loving life, you are fucking dead and not worthy of ever listening to music. Don't fear the f-word. The "Forget You" radio version loses the impact overall, but it's still better than anything else that you'll hear on modern top 40 radio, so take what you can get.

This is an absolute masterpiece, and it may be the best 3 and a half minutes we have received from the musical gods in YEARS.

Yes, this song is so great that it brings tears to my eyes. That is the ultimate test.

Love

I have spent my whole naive life assuming that the pain of rejection at the hands of a woman I feel a strong attraction to is as bad a feeling as there can be.

It happened to me many times from age 13 to 25 or so, and I don't think I ever really recovered from any of them.

I have been basing this on my own selfishness.

Since I'm single, I haven't really considered this before, but thanks to Van Morrison's "T.B. Sheets", I now have:

To have a partner, a loved one, a wife, who gets sick and loses a battle with a disease is the most heartbreaking real aspect of life that one can imagine.

It is inescapable, there are no easy answers, there are no silver linings.

People can go on with their lives, but they are never the same afterwards. They deserve all of our love and support in some way that I can't figure out.

Life is a beautiful gift, but it is not always easy. The best way to live is to give what we can to help others who are struggling with it more than we are.