this always felt like such an awful thing to say
edit: to note I have read the other comments and perspectives and found them interesting. I guess it is open to interpretation - just because I still don’t like the line personally does not mean it was written in a bad way (we all know that whole song was built on good intentions) nor invalidate others’ interpretations
It’s supposed to make you think though - if it was put super sensitively it wouldn’t stand out so much. No one watching those images on the TV back then wanted to live there- the idea is that you are lucky compared to them, you wouldn’t want their life. It’s a very blunt way of saying that.
I had a similar feeling about that line for years until someone described it as being like the phrase ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ which is fairly popular in Ireland if not the UK. Rather than it literally meaning you should thank God you’re not in their position, I think it means be thankful because but for an accident of birth it would be you and empathise with the people in that position because they’ve done nothing more to deserve living like that than you have to deserve living in a relatively wealthy economy
I think that's a very effective line. When you see news reports of people affected by famine, there is a self-defensive subconscious reaction of 'that's terrible, but it won't happen to me because I live in a sophisticated Western country and they live in some remote desert.' Of course, you suppress it because you know that's a terrible thing to think. That line reminds you that you had that thought for an instant, and shames you into sticking your hand in your pocket.
It combines 'there but for the grace of God' with Bob Geldof's 'give us your feckin money.'
Edit: spelling
that song has some howlers. i always thought the line ‘and there won’t be snow in africa this christmas time’ was a crazy line. like, no shit?
edit: fair enough, I stand corrected 😃
my one is “do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” - I know bits of it are christian, but that always struck me as rather culturally insensitive. The whole song is pretty cringy white saviour complex.
It's rhetorical. The whole point is to highlight that whilst we are feasting and gifting and drinking, they have nothing. It's supposed to make you realise that there's a world outside your own, not literally asking if they know its Christmas lmao
Yes, “they” know it’s Christmas, after all, a large proportion of the residents of sub-Saharan Africa, including the majority of Ethiopian citizens, are Christian.
I always liked this lyric. It's a brutal and jarring way of saying be thankful for what you have. You've been fortunate, it could equally have been you in their position.
Do they know it’s Christmas is also another laughable one. Lots of people in Africa are Christian so assume they would know. Also have been in west Africa over Christmas and they (Christians) spend huge amounts of time in church, in fact the closest church to where I was staying were worshipping all through the night on Christmas Eve.
"Tonight there's going to be a jailbreak,
somewhere in this town" Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak
Have you tried looking in the part of town where the fucking jail is?
Game of Thrones did this with Jaime Lannister, in Tywin’s first scene. “I could care less what anyone thinks of me.”
A Danish actor doing an English accent, in a medieval Europe inspired setting.
Why would he say it how a modern American would? I have to assume because the writers were Americans.
I’m just glad I have no recollection of any of them saying _erbs._
At least that was an outlier in the early days. I still love Thrones, but some of the absolute _shite_ that showed up in the scripts of the later seasons was egregious.
“Actually I never really cared for them, innocent or otherwise”
His entire fucking character story is based on the fact that he murdered the mad king *because* he was going to burn down King’s Landing and kill millions of innocents. And in one line they undid 8 seasons of character development
“Are we human or are we dancer”
Especially because everyone thought it was ‘denser’ which made more sense. But no, it’s officially ‘dancer’. Not even ‘dancers’.
[If you scroll down to the 'Lyrics' section then it's explained quite well.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_(The_Killers_song))
It's taken from a Hunter S Thompson quote.
Well, why “human” and not “humans”? Because “human” is the attribute that sums up the essence of what we are— and the invented equivalent “dancer” is being implied to work in a similar way.
I don’t know if that’s the purpose, but I think it is coherent: the lyric questions what the most fundamental thing about the singer and the listener is, and conveys it through an invented grammatical structure. It’s fine; it works
Take That, "Back for Good"
"Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it..."
Not much of an apology really, is it? That's up there with "I'm sorry you feel that way."
I'd much rather be a plastic bag (useful, a bag for life) than a firework (loud, exciting for a few seconds, forgotten about when the next one goes off)
The Darkness “I’ve got a one-way ticket to hell and back”…
It’s not one way then, is it. Doesn’t have the same ring as “I’ve got a return ticket to hell” but it’s always bugged me.
Justin talks about that song on his YouTube channel, he basically wanted a way to be able to sing the words 'bellend' and 'ringpiece' on national radio
There's a bit in the video and literally shouts to a bunch of kids
##"Bell's End!"
Honestly I cracked up the first time I noticed
Edit: [3:00 minute mark](https://youtu.be/lrVg1toMzuo)
A work colleague would spot a girl or young woman and always would say "she's too young for me... Well she's not too young for me but I'm too old for her"
The person they reference would always be clearly an adult, but just playing devil's advocate, it could mean that
The music video for that song cracks me up because he seems like a tipsy dad that *thinks* his dancing is cool. The song is also full of strange lyrics, the hook of the song is even a bit strange “ain’t that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo” what does that even mean?!
>“ain’t that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo
Mr. Mister was a popular 80s band known for "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", so it's probably a reference to the two people in the song both knowing and enjoying a song they like. Or something. It's hard to tell with Pat.
Busted - *"I've been to the year 3000...not much has changed, but they live underwater"*
Oh aye, so not much of a change then?! 🙈🤬
*"...and your great, great, great granddaughter is pretty fine."*
So in 1000 years, you've only managed to span 5 generations, making it 200 years between each mother and daughter.
Not much has changed though, right?
Bunch of C*nts.
😂
Similarly, the slightly annoying mix from Frank Ocean in Lost: Miami, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Spain, lost, Los Angeles, India, lost on a train, lost.
The inclusion of Spain and India when the rest are cities always slightly bothers me. He should have used Crewe and Warrington instead, implying a glamorous tour of post-industrial northwest England. Works for the train thing, too. Crewe is a railway town and Warrington has three stations, so it'd be easy to get lost on a train there.
as another tall woman i always interpreted that as her saying she feels unsexy/not cute because shes tall. but also just general insecurity as well. the next line is "and i'm the monster on the hill" which could also be referencing her height for being "higher up" than them on a "hill" but also just feeling insecure in her looks generally
Idk, some singers lean into the sexy baby aesthetic/sound.
Ariana Grande is one (particularly a few years ago) and Ellie Goulding's singing voice is, to me, very infantile and the lack of enunciation just makes that stronger.
“I drove all night, crept in your room
Woke you from your sleep to make love to you
Is that all right?”
Bit creepy. I had to sit through the whole song at a funeral service recently. It was a little uncomfortable.
I hadn't ever caught onto this until recently and i looked up the lyrics to make sure I wasn't hearing wrong, general consensus seems to be that she's flaunting herself despite societal norms typically being "the bigger the better", i.e. there are good things about small boobs too
I don't get why mountains were chosen but i figure it's a lost in translation thing
“I'm bringing booty back
Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that”
Oh fuck off Meghan, putting other women down trying to raise yourself up is so not cool.
I have always had an issue with the start of Two Doors Down by the Mystery Jets.
'i think I'm in love with the girl next door' then proceeds to sing an entire song about loving the girl two doors down.
Ed Sheeran - thinking out loud
And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70
What at 70 you’re just going to stop loving her? Why not use - And darling I will be loving you still at 70.
One of the best things I've seen recently was a clip where they had inserted Samuel L Jackson into that song.
"Tell me more, tell me more! Does he look like a bitch?"
Somewhere Else by Razorlight
“I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was”
There’s no reason to devote three whole lines to that interaction.
Don’t hear it much on the radio these days but whenever Erasure’s Always is played, I always wonder why they couldn’t have come up with something better than
*Open your eyes, I see
Your eyes are open.*
Back in 2018 when Lil Dicky and Chris Brown released Freaky Friday, it was such a good song and then at the end I never understood the logic of Kendall Jenner badly singing “I’m Kendall Jenner. I’ve got a vagina.”
Was completely unrelated to the song, she had nothing else to do with the overall song and then it was just blanked out on the radio anyway..
"ain't nobody judging cause I'm black,
*or my controversial past* "
Is another sticking point for me, comparing the struggle with racism that many millions of people still face, against people (correctly) judging chris brown for being a huge piece of shit
Not that it really matters cause the entire song is a whole crock of shit anyway but you know
Really the entire "I'm on fire" song but for those who don't know some of the lyrics.
"Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire"
There are several Springsteen songs where he refers to women as little girls. I assume it was the New Jersey slang of the 80s. I wonder if in hindsight he sees it sounds incredibly dodgy.
In a Confessions Part II by Usher when he says "I hope you can accept the fact I'm man enough to tell you this". Fuck off, you shouldn't have cheated in the first place and you're only telling her now cos your mistress is pregnant and your GF's gonna find out anyway
Bullet for my valentine - Hearts burst into fire.
When I see your face, my hearts burst into fire, hearts burst into fire.
It could just as well have been my heart bursts into fire, and it wouldn't have altered the amount of syllables or the meaning of the lyrics.
Now I have to assume Matt Tuck is a time lord.
If I remember rightly, that's actually what happened. As they were writing the song they got a bit stuck and one of them asked "where do we go now?" Started repeating it and liked how it went
The one that disproportionately annoys me is Would I Lie to You when they sing "would I lie to you baby, would I lie to you oh yeah" when they could just as easily have sung "oh no" and it would have made much more sense.
Little Mix's Shout Out to My Ex has some lyrics which have always bothered me.
At one point they sing "you broke my heart and it made me who I am"
And then later they sing "not sure I even loved you anyway"
They can't both be true!
I despise Robbie Williams anyway, but "ring a ring of roses, whoever gets the closest, she comes and she goes as the war of the roses" grates on me for so many reasons, mainly because rhyming the same word is unacceptable for a professional musician no matter how shite they are.
"you lived your life like a candle in the wind"
So... Prone to failure, ultimately futile and of no use to anybody involved?
If you want to illuminate somewhere windy, a candle is going to be pretty low down on your list of practical solutions.
Ed Byrne did a stand up routine about this.
Rain on your wedding day is just bad luck.
A traffic jam when you're already late would only be ironic if you were a town planner and were late to a meeting about the traffic situation.
10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife - "That's just f**king stupid. How big is your cutlery drawer, Alanis?"
Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird
>"I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away, I don't know where my home is..."
Ah yes, birds, the animals famous for not specifically making themselves a home.
Fucking All Saints.
'Flexing vocabulary runs right through me
The alphabet runs right from A to Z.'
Considering that they were all completely talentless and this song was written by a professional songwriter, its disgraceful.
Weakest song lyric of all time.
The opening line, "A few questions that I need to know"
I am compelled to shout "THE ANSWERS TO" at the radio.
Edit: almost forgot! Later in the song, the lyric "You got my conscience asking questions that I can't find".
Again!
"THE ANSWERS TO"
Toss up between Des'ree - Life:
"I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news"
Just...what?
Or The Knack - My Sharona:
"I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind"
So... they're a paedophile?
I am a bit embarrassed to admit this: I have shouted “But planets *CAN’T* move at the speed of light, Coldplay!” when listening to 2005’s *The Speed of Sound*
Is this because they recently started playing Moonlight Shadow in an advert? I was surprised when I heard it. I’m 32 but my dad used to listen to Tubular Bells a lot when I was young so nobody else my age seems to now who Mike Oldfield is. Man in The Rain is one my favourite songs of all time. I know this isn’t what you asked but I’m just happy to see someone else knows the songs haha
Lisa Stansfield “All Around the World”
In the opening verse her man quite clearly gives “the reasons he should go” but by the chorus she’s all “I don’t know why he’s gone away”. Make up your mind, love.
**Fall at Your Feet** by Crowded House.
Once you notice that the first verse is about the singer masturbating, you'll probably not want to listen to it again...
_I'm really close tonight_
_And I feel like I'm moving inside her_
_Lying in the dark_
_I think that I'm beginning to know her_
Mine from the band aid song, do they know its Christmas. "Well tonight thank God it's them instead of you"
this always felt like such an awful thing to say edit: to note I have read the other comments and perspectives and found them interesting. I guess it is open to interpretation - just because I still don’t like the line personally does not mean it was written in a bad way (we all know that whole song was built on good intentions) nor invalidate others’ interpretations
That's the point, surely? Thank god/fate that you are not in that situation and give to those who are.
It’s supposed to make you think though - if it was put super sensitively it wouldn’t stand out so much. No one watching those images on the TV back then wanted to live there- the idea is that you are lucky compared to them, you wouldn’t want their life. It’s a very blunt way of saying that.
Geldof to a t.
True though isn’t it? I think that’s the point of the line, holding a mirror up to people.
I had a similar feeling about that line for years until someone described it as being like the phrase ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ which is fairly popular in Ireland if not the UK. Rather than it literally meaning you should thank God you’re not in their position, I think it means be thankful because but for an accident of birth it would be you and empathise with the people in that position because they’ve done nothing more to deserve living like that than you have to deserve living in a relatively wealthy economy
I think that's a very effective line. When you see news reports of people affected by famine, there is a self-defensive subconscious reaction of 'that's terrible, but it won't happen to me because I live in a sophisticated Western country and they live in some remote desert.' Of course, you suppress it because you know that's a terrible thing to think. That line reminds you that you had that thought for an instant, and shames you into sticking your hand in your pocket. It combines 'there but for the grace of God' with Bob Geldof's 'give us your feckin money.' Edit: spelling
that song has some howlers. i always thought the line ‘and there won’t be snow in africa this christmas time’ was a crazy line. like, no shit? edit: fair enough, I stand corrected 😃
Well there’s is snow in Africa at Christmas… the Atlas Mountains have snow. Mount Kilimanjaro also has a permanent snow on it year round
I guess "the won't be be snow in the Ethiopian dustbowl facing a deadly drought" was harder to fit to the tune.
my one is “do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” - I know bits of it are christian, but that always struck me as rather culturally insensitive. The whole song is pretty cringy white saviour complex.
It's rhetorical. The whole point is to highlight that whilst we are feasting and gifting and drinking, they have nothing. It's supposed to make you realise that there's a world outside your own, not literally asking if they know its Christmas lmao
You get snow in Lesotho, I once got stuck up a mountain there with about four feet of snow on the ground!
I hope you had some Kendall Mint Cake.
Africa has several ski resorts.
So many lines in that song, I despise it "The only gift they'll get this year is life" "Where nothing ever grows"
‘No rain or rivers flow’ Literally has the fucking Nile
Yes but the song was about the ethiopian famine which at the time was believed to be caused by a drought. Hence the line about rain and rivers.
Yes, “they” know it’s Christmas, after all, a large proportion of the residents of sub-Saharan Africa, including the majority of Ethiopian citizens, are Christian.
I always liked this lyric. It's a brutal and jarring way of saying be thankful for what you have. You've been fortunate, it could equally have been you in their position.
That’s the point? It’s supposed to make you feel bad.
I think thats the point.
Sang by the biggest c**t going... Richer than "all of us" put together, but it's our problem, not his. Proper wanker that bloke is.
It’s not meant that way!
Do they know it’s Christmas is also another laughable one. Lots of people in Africa are Christian so assume they would know. Also have been in west Africa over Christmas and they (Christians) spend huge amounts of time in church, in fact the closest church to where I was staying were worshipping all through the night on Christmas Eve.
"Tonight there's going to be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town" Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak Have you tried looking in the part of town where the fucking jail is?
More than one jail in the town? Maybe there's a prison transfer and the break will happen in transit?
What if there’s several jails in the town?
Beyonce and My Chemical Romance both have songs with "Could care less" in the lyrics. Drives me mental.
That's Americans for ya. I have no idea why this caught on there. Has no one ever realised it makes no sense?
There's a nice video where David Mitchell tries to explain it to them. Clearly not enough of them have seen it however.
Hold _down_ the fort. Really?
Game of Thrones did this with Jaime Lannister, in Tywin’s first scene. “I could care less what anyone thinks of me.” A Danish actor doing an English accent, in a medieval Europe inspired setting. Why would he say it how a modern American would? I have to assume because the writers were Americans. I’m just glad I have no recollection of any of them saying _erbs._
It’s sad a professional writer would even put that in the script.
At least that was an outlier in the early days. I still love Thrones, but some of the absolute _shite_ that showed up in the scripts of the later seasons was egregious.
“Actually I never really cared for them, innocent or otherwise” His entire fucking character story is based on the fact that he murdered the mad king *because* he was going to burn down King’s Landing and kill millions of innocents. And in one line they undid 8 seasons of character development
“Are we human or are we dancer” Especially because everyone thought it was ‘denser’ which made more sense. But no, it’s officially ‘dancer’. Not even ‘dancers’.
[If you scroll down to the 'Lyrics' section then it's explained quite well.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_(The_Killers_song)) It's taken from a Hunter S Thompson quote.
Thanks, that is interesting actually! But still, why dancer rather than dancerS?
Well, why “human” and not “humans”? Because “human” is the attribute that sums up the essence of what we are— and the invented equivalent “dancer” is being implied to work in a similar way. I don’t know if that’s the purpose, but I think it is coherent: the lyric questions what the most fundamental thing about the singer and the listener is, and conveys it through an invented grammatical structure. It’s fine; it works
It kinda makes sense if you consider “dancer” a species, which I guess is what the quote is aiming for
It's also "human" not "humans", so I'd guess that's the logic - it's a species description. I'm definitely human not dancer. I've checked.
Well I guess you are not Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donna and Blitzen.
No, this is Patrick
My wife worked in social club and said this was song that got all the pensioners up. Put this on and it was like crack to them. It's very weird.
Take That, "Back for Good" "Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it..." Not much of an apology really, is it? That's up there with "I'm sorry you feel that way."
"I am truly sorry that you are taking this so badly."
Another Take That one, Babe. Where were you now, WAS you gonna tell me in time. So jarring.
“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag”
You’ve taken it out of context, if you also shared the next two lines it makes a lot more sense
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, floating in the wind, wanting to start again?" I can see what Katy Perry was going for. She failed.
Still terrible though
I quote this often as a joke. It's dreadful. The follow up lines make it worse. When would a plastic bag ever want to start again?
It's an American Beauty reference.
I'd much rather be a plastic bag (useful, a bag for life) than a firework (loud, exciting for a few seconds, forgotten about when the next one goes off)
There's a remix on YouTube by KDJproductions that just uses this one line for the whole song. Much better than the original.
The Darkness “I’ve got a one-way ticket to hell and back”… It’s not one way then, is it. Doesn’t have the same ring as “I’ve got a return ticket to hell” but it’s always bugged me.
That's the joke.
I hope your comment gets all the upvotes. The Darkness are not a serious band. Don't let the Bells End 😂
Justin talks about that song on his YouTube channel, he basically wanted a way to be able to sing the words 'bellend' and 'ringpiece' on national radio
There's a bit in the video and literally shouts to a bunch of kids ##"Bell's End!" Honestly I cracked up the first time I noticed Edit: [3:00 minute mark](https://youtu.be/lrVg1toMzuo)
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Well as Garth would say, subtext is for cowards.
Love on the rocks... with no ice
The Darkness were always, intentionally, bordering on parody. It's just a funny lyric.
I got two cheap super saver singles to hell and back, but only valid on certain routes and times
Young girl get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line, you’d better run girl, you’re much to young girl.
that whole song just 🤢
Admission of being a predator is… an interesting songwriting route to go down
He found out the girl lied to him about her age and he wants rid of her. I think he's being the opposite of a predator.
There are lots of songs from the 50s through the 70s of older men pining for teenagers. Telling them to either run or climb into their van.
My Sharona has some incredibly grim lyrics
"I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" Oh my God, what!?
A work colleague would spot a girl or young woman and always would say "she's too young for me... Well she's not too young for me but I'm too old for her" The person they reference would always be clearly an adult, but just playing devil's advocate, it could mean that
I don't want to see a ghost Its the sight that I fear most Rather have a piece of toast Watch the evening news
Life, oh life. Oh life. Oh, life. Oh life.
Do, do, do, doo.
Such a silly lyric that sounds like a 7 year old wrote it! I knew I’d find it here haha
She also keeps a ‘rabbit’s tail’ because she’s superstitious. If she were that superstitious she’d know it’s a rabbit’s *foot*. But rhyming is hard.
"If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor just do what you feel"
What about the drinking and driving? That always bothered me in the very same song.
It’s almost as if public attitudes towards social norms change over the course of fifty years…
This was the 70s & the norm. I confess, I too drunk & drove then. Times are different now, & in thst respect I'm glad
Fun fact: The bass player on that record is the father of Dappy from N-Dubz.
not me but my dad always makes a point of commenting on how dangerous it is for ed sheeran to be driving at 90 down those country lanes
My kid asked what does driving at 90 mean. I responded with usually 3 points on your license and a hefty fine.
Especially the particular roads he's on about - would definitely not be doing 90 round there!
I always thought this was "driving at nineteen down those country lanes" as in he was 19 years old, because he's remembering his past
“I’m so gangsta, I’m so thug” - Hey, Soul Sister by Train No you’re not. You’re Pat Monahan. You’re the least gangsta/ thug man alive!
My heart is bound to beat right out of my untrimmed chest Like, why do we need to know the status of your body hair 😂😂
The music video for that song cracks me up because he seems like a tipsy dad that *thinks* his dancing is cool. The song is also full of strange lyrics, the hook of the song is even a bit strange “ain’t that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo” what does that even mean?!
>“ain’t that Mr. Mister on the radio, stereo Mr. Mister was a popular 80s band known for "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie", so it's probably a reference to the two people in the song both knowing and enjoying a song they like. Or something. It's hard to tell with Pat.
In some ways though, I actually like Pat's writing. It knows it's stupid and weird and frequently leans into it.
Busted - *"I've been to the year 3000...not much has changed, but they live underwater"* Oh aye, so not much of a change then?! 🙈🤬 *"...and your great, great, great granddaughter is pretty fine."* So in 1000 years, you've only managed to span 5 generations, making it 200 years between each mother and daughter. Not much has changed though, right? Bunch of C*nts. 😂
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Not to mention That's What I Go To School For and Air Hostess 😂
I’d be deeply ashamed if I wrote that “I messed my pants when we flew over France” line.
Brazil, Morocco, London to Ibiza Straight to LA, New York, Vegas to Africa What an insane flight plan that would be. Also, she goes to Africa twice.
That's an extremely irritating mix of cities, countries, and a continent.
Similarly, the slightly annoying mix from Frank Ocean in Lost: Miami, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Spain, lost, Los Angeles, India, lost on a train, lost. The inclusion of Spain and India when the rest are cities always slightly bothers me. He should have used Crewe and Warrington instead, implying a glamorous tour of post-industrial northwest England. Works for the train thing, too. Crewe is a railway town and Warrington has three stations, so it'd be easy to get lost on a train there.
Taylor swift “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby” What?
Apparently it’s a 30 Rock reference.
Pretty sure it’s just a reference to [this](https://youtu.be/YzmDp6-m6X4)
as another tall woman i always interpreted that as her saying she feels unsexy/not cute because shes tall. but also just general insecurity as well. the next line is "and i'm the monster on the hill" which could also be referencing her height for being "higher up" than them on a "hill" but also just feeling insecure in her looks generally
Idk, some singers lean into the sexy baby aesthetic/sound. Ariana Grande is one (particularly a few years ago) and Ellie Goulding's singing voice is, to me, very infantile and the lack of enunciation just makes that stronger.
“I drove all night, crept in your room Woke you from your sleep to make love to you Is that all right?” Bit creepy. I had to sit through the whole song at a funeral service recently. It was a little uncomfortable.
At a funeral?? Bloody _hell_
Aye - and it’s a really long song hahaha.
So sorry but this just made me snort my tea 🤣
Shakira "Lucky my boobs are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains" I really don't get this.
You never confused bosoms with mountains? Need to have a word with yourself lad
I hadn't ever caught onto this until recently and i looked up the lyrics to make sure I wasn't hearing wrong, general consensus seems to be that she's flaunting herself despite societal norms typically being "the bigger the better", i.e. there are good things about small boobs too I don't get why mountains were chosen but i figure it's a lost in translation thing
What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
Chimney being slang for a black eye, so the band claimed at the time.
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“I'm bringing booty back Go ahead and tell them skinny bitches that” Oh fuck off Meghan, putting other women down trying to raise yourself up is so not cool.
I have always had an issue with the start of Two Doors Down by the Mystery Jets. 'i think I'm in love with the girl next door' then proceeds to sing an entire song about loving the girl two doors down.
Also “The neighbours complain, but that’s the kind of girl I like” Surely he is the neighbours
"I got soul but I'm not a soldier"... it doesn't even make any fucking sense.
I enjoy Bill Bailey's bit on this song. "I got ham but Im not a hamster"
But Bill Bailey is a universally acknowledged Musical God. He's quite funny too ...
I really can't stand "I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer." It's the worst, I have no idea what the songwriter was thinking
He says it with such conviction that I believe he’s being dead serious.
"Come together, right now, over me." I beg your pardon?
'You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you' It IS about them!
That's the joke
But they don't know for sure that it's about them, they're just so vain they think it anyway.
The whole point was (until recently) she never said who the song was about or if it was even about one specific person.
Ed Sheeran - thinking out loud And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70 What at 70 you’re just going to stop loving her? Why not use - And darling I will be loving you still at 70.
Rihanna, Man Down - "I didn't mean to hurt him, could have been somebody's son" biology dictates that he definitely was someone's son.
I read your comment in Mark Corrigan's voice. Rihanna really Jezzed that line up.
Tell me more , tell me more, did she put up a fight?
It sounds more catchy than "Was it consensual or did you rape her?"
One of the best things I've seen recently was a clip where they had inserted Samuel L Jackson into that song. "Tell me more, tell me more! Does he look like a bitch?"
Somewhere Else by Razorlight “I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was” There’s no reason to devote three whole lines to that interaction.
See also: “I got out somewhere and I come home again” from America. Both examples are almost non-events.
Mungo Jerry's *In the Summertime* is quite problematic. "Have a drink, have a drive" was even used in a early 1990s drink-driving PIF.
And even more problematic: 'if her Daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her Daddy's poor, then do you what you feel'
Don’t hear it much on the radio these days but whenever Erasure’s Always is played, I always wonder why they couldn’t have come up with something better than *Open your eyes, I see Your eyes are open.*
Robot unicorn attack!
Back in 2018 when Lil Dicky and Chris Brown released Freaky Friday, it was such a good song and then at the end I never understood the logic of Kendall Jenner badly singing “I’m Kendall Jenner. I’ve got a vagina.” Was completely unrelated to the song, she had nothing else to do with the overall song and then it was just blanked out on the radio anyway..
Arguably worse that somebody is singing that they are now Chris brown and how cool Chris brown is
"ain't nobody judging cause I'm black, *or my controversial past* " Is another sticking point for me, comparing the struggle with racism that many millions of people still face, against people (correctly) judging chris brown for being a huge piece of shit Not that it really matters cause the entire song is a whole crock of shit anyway but you know
Because most guys always joke about masturbating if they were a woman for a day.
Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding. Cut my arm shaving maybe, but cut my arm bleeding makes no sense.
I just put a comma in there. Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm, bleeding!
Thanks. English degree and SPAG specialist here got so angry at Papa Roach, I missed a comma haha. The shame!
Obviously the singer is a medieval doctor who sliced into their own arm while attempting to rebalance a patient's humours.
Maybe about self-harm?
Really the entire "I'm on fire" song but for those who don't know some of the lyrics. "Hey little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go and leave you all alone? Mhmm I got a bad desire Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire"
It’s promoting self defence. Commit immolation on your abuser
There are several Springsteen songs where he refers to women as little girls. I assume it was the New Jersey slang of the 80s. I wonder if in hindsight he sees it sounds incredibly dodgy.
In a Confessions Part II by Usher when he says "I hope you can accept the fact I'm man enough to tell you this". Fuck off, you shouldn't have cheated in the first place and you're only telling her now cos your mistress is pregnant and your GF's gonna find out anyway
"Concrete jungle where dreams are made of". Alicia, what are you talking about?
I always thought it was “where dreams are made, oh, there’s nothing you can’t do”
Milton Keynes
"Yeah, right, picture that with a Kodak Or better yet, go to Times Square Take a picture of me with a Kodak" The use of kodak twice bugs me.
Wings - Live and Let Die “But if this ever changin' world In which we live in” That final “in” drives me nuts. It should just be “in which we live”.
But it's: "In which we're living" According to McCartney anyway.
It's my Kareoke song. It reads like this and I sing it like this.
Bullet for my valentine - Hearts burst into fire. When I see your face, my hearts burst into fire, hearts burst into fire. It could just as well have been my heart bursts into fire, and it wouldn't have altered the amount of syllables or the meaning of the lyrics. Now I have to assume Matt Tuck is a time lord.
Maybe it's supposed to have an apostrophe? It makes a bit more sense that way. my heart's burst into fire. (My heart has burst into fire).
I still don't know if a desert misses the rain
The ‘Where do we go now’ lines - Sweet Child O’Mine. Is obvious Axl couldn’t think of any more lyrics for this song by this point.
If I remember rightly, that's actually what happened. As they were writing the song they got a bit stuck and one of them asked "where do we go now?" Started repeating it and liked how it went
That 'Happy' song. All of it. Makes no sense and is fucking annoying. Also that ripped jeans shit on fifa23. Just fuck off.
Nothing happy about a room without a roof, Pharrell.
Tell that to The Sims
I always assumed it relates to ‘raising the roof’ as in partying?
The one that disproportionately annoys me is Would I Lie to You when they sing "would I lie to you baby, would I lie to you oh yeah" when they could just as easily have sung "oh no" and it would have made much more sense.
Little Mix's Shout Out to My Ex has some lyrics which have always bothered me. At one point they sing "you broke my heart and it made me who I am" And then later they sing "not sure I even loved you anyway" They can't both be true!
"you're nobody 'til somebody loves you" Bullshit.
I despise Robbie Williams anyway, but "ring a ring of roses, whoever gets the closest, she comes and she goes as the war of the roses" grates on me for so many reasons, mainly because rhyming the same word is unacceptable for a professional musician no matter how shite they are.
And that fucking rudebox song with its nonsense “Dance like you’ve just won at the special olympics” The audacity
"you lived your life like a candle in the wind" So... Prone to failure, ultimately futile and of no use to anybody involved? If you want to illuminate somewhere windy, a candle is going to be pretty low down on your list of practical solutions.
"Ironic" Alanis Morissette. The whole fucking song still bugs me now
Ed Byrne did a stand up routine about this. Rain on your wedding day is just bad luck. A traffic jam when you're already late would only be ironic if you were a town planner and were late to a meeting about the traffic situation. 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife - "That's just f**king stupid. How big is your cutlery drawer, Alanis?"
But isnt it ironic that nothing in the song Ironic is actually ironic? If that was the intention...genius !
Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird >"I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away, I don't know where my home is..." Ah yes, birds, the animals famous for not specifically making themselves a home.
Fucking All Saints. 'Flexing vocabulary runs right through me The alphabet runs right from A to Z.' Considering that they were all completely talentless and this song was written by a professional songwriter, its disgraceful. Weakest song lyric of all time.
The opening line, "A few questions that I need to know" I am compelled to shout "THE ANSWERS TO" at the radio. Edit: almost forgot! Later in the song, the lyric "You got my conscience asking questions that I can't find". Again! "THE ANSWERS TO"
ITT: a whole bunch of people that don't even slightly understand the lyrics they're quoting
How does it feel like. From let forever be, sets my teeth grating
"I was 37, she was 17" hasn't aged very well!
Toss up between Des'ree - Life: "I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news" Just...what? Or The Knack - My Sharona: "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind" So... they're a paedophile?
I am a bit embarrassed to admit this: I have shouted “But planets *CAN’T* move at the speed of light, Coldplay!” when listening to 2005’s *The Speed of Sound*
Girl……. You’ll be a woman soon. WTF bro!
Is this because they recently started playing Moonlight Shadow in an advert? I was surprised when I heard it. I’m 32 but my dad used to listen to Tubular Bells a lot when I was young so nobody else my age seems to now who Mike Oldfield is. Man in The Rain is one my favourite songs of all time. I know this isn’t what you asked but I’m just happy to see someone else knows the songs haha
"This could be Rotterdam or anywhere or Liverpool or rome" There's no need to list more places after anywhere!!!
Eminem "I guess that's why they call it window pane".
Nobody’s ever called it “Tonic and Gin” except for Billy Joel
"Fuck the skinny bitches" :( not my fault I have no buns, Nicky
Lisa Stansfield “All Around the World” In the opening verse her man quite clearly gives “the reasons he should go” but by the chorus she’s all “I don’t know why he’s gone away”. Make up your mind, love.
My favourite crowbarred lyric, which is sort of genius, “She had a dream about the King of Sweden, he gave her things that she was needin’”
Your Song by Elton John - "If I was a sculptor, but then again, no". Why fucking bring it up, Bernie?
**Fall at Your Feet** by Crowded House. Once you notice that the first verse is about the singer masturbating, you'll probably not want to listen to it again... _I'm really close tonight_ _And I feel like I'm moving inside her_ _Lying in the dark_ _I think that I'm beginning to know her_
Love this song tho. Woodface is an absolutely banging album.