For some reason, I miscalculated and the Random Fridays have made it to 2010 a week early. Oops.

Usually, I stick the video after I blather, but the video's messages are so much a part of what I want to write about that I have to include it first:

The video adds extra dimensions to the song, which on its own is a declaration of class war. Watching Cee Lo go from grade school to high school to college, we see that he was hated not only because he had no money, but also because his lack of money meant he had shitty jobs serving the gold diggers, because he was an uncool geek, because he was a big guy in a skinny world. The visuals fit perfectly with the audio, tying the nostalgic feel of the arrangement to memories of back in the day. The video is as catchy as the track itself.

And that's remarkable, because "Fuck You" is one of the catchiest songs you'll hear. The hook is perfect, the melody engaging, and the only problem with the track is that you'll hear it so often you'll get sick of it (you may have already reached this point). Take my word for … five years from now, it'll pop up on shuffle play, or someone will crank it up at a party, and it will sound fresh all over again, and you'll wonder why you ever put it on the shelf.

The title/catch phrase matters, as well. Attaching what is still the "worst" cuss word to such a fine classic is pop transgression at its finest. People with young kids know what I'm saying … more than one of them spoke out on Facebook and Twitter about how they wanted to keep their kids from hearing the song, because one listen was all it took to turn it into the tyke's new sing-along. But keeping it away from the kids was impossible, because mom and dad wanted to hear it, too. (The "radio" version, "Forget You," doesn't work nearly as well because it's the wrong kind of compromise … that Cee Lo gave us the perfect pop song and called it "Fuck You" is so much more inviting than a similar-but-sanitized just-another-pop-song called "Forget You.")

Still, it's such a great song, it survives even the radio version. Hell, it almost survives the Gwyneth on Glee version: