The Interweb’s all abuzz about the new single from Cee Lo Green, the can’t-be-more blunt “Fuck You.”

Naughty language is enough to get an artist noticed all right, but what makes this track truly stand out is the beat that Cee-Lo’s forthright retort is set against. The lyrics are all his, but Elektra labelmate Bruno Mars brought the music, crafting a bouncy backing track that echoes Sixties-era Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.

The genius of this new collaborative contrast is that neither Motown legend could have ever reponded to a love gone south so, um, directly, in their heyday, making Cee-Lo’s very modern and very explicit response one that bears repeating. The uncensored text-centric clip has already garnered over 2.8 million YouTube views:

You still can’t play “Fuck You” on radio or TV, no matter how catchy, so Cee-Lo’s cleaned up his act and recorded a milder version, “Forget You.” That switch gives Cee-Lo a very good shot at topping “Crazy,” the 2006 hit he had as one-half of Gnarls Barkley, which spent seven weeks at #2 (thanks, Nelly Furtado) and sold over two million copies.

Let’s not forget, of course, that Lily Allen was the first to give the salty phrase a sugary pop twist. Last year’s “Fuck You (Very Much),” written with Greg Kurstin (him again!), was a bit more twee — the radio version replaced the word with the sound of a kazoo, for crying out loud — so it seems that with the right beat, some guys are lucky fucks.

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