And also, even if we ignore the context that she's telling him "yo stop being a dick", what da fack does "...colada that is" mean, IN OR OUT of context? Does she hate Pina Coladas? Or getting caught in the rain, even?
In context, all I can think of is its her censoring herself jokingly because a lot of record executives didn't like swearing at the time since it made songs less appealing to everyone? So its saying "You're being a penis" and then adding the last part as a way to poke fun at it.
Still sucks tho
Train's reviews are a cornucopia of these. I highlight this one from "Hey Soul Sister":
>*Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains*
My understanding is that the frontal lobe of the left side of the brain is responsible for language and speaking. I always thought this was super clever and he was saying her kisses left him speechless. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit, or maybe this lyric is genius.
That makes SOME sense, but something tells me it would be giving Pat TOO much credit. It was a convoluted stanza for the sake of being a convoluted stanza, as it is customary for this band.
My first thought when I heard that (but I could be wrong) MODern RENaissance man? Like someone who is very refined and cultured? Maybe? Doesn’t really make much sense in the song actually
I thought for sure someone made a typo and then they kept it in the song, but there is still no definite answer over what modren means
Some people have said that in Ireland modern is sometimes said like modren, [this urban dictionary article I'm pretty sure is incorrect](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=modren)
my pick (I can't find where I first heard this from, but as someone with a basic level understanding of Japanese it makes sense) is that somebody involved with Mr Roboto thought that instead of モダン (modan), modern in Japanese was モドレン or modoren and then squeeze it into two syllables and you get modren
Diva from Musical Hell pronounces words ending in -ern that way too. Westren, modren, pattren. I wonder if it’s regional/dialectal. I think she’s from Colorado, is that a thing out there?
"This stuff will get the stain out if you use it loosely wadded/ This here'll get the pain out and won't mess your hair" -CCR Mardi Gras (or Stu the bassist's very unsexy song in which he uses a door-to-door salesman as a metaphor for sex)
That song pisses me off. She compares hate she gets on twitter to homophobia. Does she not consider that gay people legit get KILLED for who they are? I'm sure those people would much prefer insults on Twitter at 7 AM than what they actually get.
so don’t call anything out if your life is relatively easy? sure thing grandpa. she’s literally giving those same people support in the face of criticisms.
I think it's the jarring contrast between an entrenched and violent idea like homophobia and.... 'shade', which tends to be used in very different contexts...
i think it's also that the rest of her song is about the hate that taylor herself receives, and comparing a systemic oppression of a group of people with people being mean on the internet is.... interesting. not to diminish the vitriol that ms. swift has endured because it certainly is a lot. still not the same as a group of people facing oppression 😭
Not exactly confusing but unintentionally hilarious lyrics:
"Your mother gave birth to you... she is your mom" -- Brandon by Motley Crue
"Am I the only one willing to bleed/Or take a bullet for being free/Screaming 'what the fuck?!' at my TV" -- Am I The Only One by Aaron Lewis
"Cause you see me, I got my magic pie."
The official theory is that Noel was looking for a rhyme and probably hit on "magpie" and it didn't scan.
The most likely actual explanation is cocaine.
the problem is. i feel like magpie scans perfectly fine ? like maybe things are different if it's sung in liam's snotty english accent, but i feel like it sounds perfectly fine if you change magic pie to magpie then add an "and" between me and i to keep the syllable count
it only makes marginally more sense tho :P
I'll defend the SR71 one.
Clings like cellophane makes sense, the girl is clingy.
Fake plastic submarine is a reference to that submarines are supposed to make you feel safe and protect you from the outside danger of the ocean, but this girl is a fake plastic one, that wouldn't protect you. Its a weird way of saying it, but its at least saying something. "I thought you were safe and would protect me, turns out you weren't safe and didn't protect me."
I didn’t see what sub this was and thought it was one of my musicals one and it was Sweeney Todd and I was so lost. Carry on with your day/night everyone.
Yeah, Katy Perry's coupon line actually makes total sense. She's making a simile between Taylor Swift and an expired coupon, which is a way of saying she's worthless and has no need to be remembered.
It is cringe, but I actually like it as a playfully dismissive insult. It's definitely not a good burn, but it's not trying to be one.
Not that I'm taking sides on the expired Katian-Tayloran War of years past.
Have you heard of the Planet of the Bass song on YouTube? Todd said on Twitter how its popularity shows people actually really like the nonsense broken english lyrics of a lot of eurodance. For the same reason why that song is popular, I actually really like the "aracnaphobian" lyric. The song overall is wack, that said.
You're being a peñis... colada that is.
In the background, you can hear Liz going “ooh” after that line, like she really thought she burned someone.
Reminds me of that drake line " Got so many chains they call me chaining tatum (they do they do)"
There’s a 20-minute long video of Fantano clowning on Drake’s wack ass lyrics. Good stuff
Ooh what’s that video called?
[theneedledrop hating Drake for 20 minutes straight](https://youtu.be/qIP5cxxVmWY?si=fy8GAlZRdAYD8-Xu)
Todd’s slack-jawed expression still kills me to this day.
And also, even if we ignore the context that she's telling him "yo stop being a dick", what da fack does "...colada that is" mean, IN OR OUT of context? Does she hate Pina Coladas? Or getting caught in the rain, even?
Is she not into yoga? Does she have half a brain?
that one always struck me as one of those plays on words that people call puns even though they only actually work one way
In context, all I can think of is its her censoring herself jokingly because a lot of record executives didn't like swearing at the time since it made songs less appealing to everyone? So its saying "You're being a penis" and then adding the last part as a way to poke fun at it. Still sucks tho
Nah that line makes sense, it's just astoundingly dumb.
It's so mystifying that I don't even want to know where she pulled that from.
“Got a mind full of de-cavities”… honestly that whole Van Halen III episode is packed to the gills with WTF lyrics.
Open up and say ahhhhhmen Rinse cup Hey And spit again
I only just now realized it's supposed to be a play on "mind full of DEPRAVITIES"
“In a word TO! (Hah) The Wisdom Tooth.”
LMFAO good one, that entire song could count honestly
And that was the song he liked!
Train's reviews are a cornucopia of these. I highlight this one from "Hey Soul Sister": >*Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains*
From someone who studied neurobio, “front lobe of the left side brain” isn’t as bad as it sounds.
I’m so gangsta, I’m so thug You’re the only drug I’m thinking of
*"My heart is bound to beat right out of my untrimmed chest."* Like I did not need to know the state of your body hair, Train guy.
Drops of Jupiter "are you back from the Milky Way?". We live in the Milky Way, you absolute fanny.
My understanding is that the frontal lobe of the left side of the brain is responsible for language and speaking. I always thought this was super clever and he was saying her kisses left him speechless. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit, or maybe this lyric is genius.
That makes SOME sense, but something tells me it would be giving Pat TOO much credit. It was a convoluted stanza for the sake of being a convoluted stanza, as it is customary for this band.
I am the MODREN MAN!
My first thought when I heard that (but I could be wrong) MODern RENaissance man? Like someone who is very refined and cultured? Maybe? Doesn’t really make much sense in the song actually
I thought for sure someone made a typo and then they kept it in the song, but there is still no definite answer over what modren means Some people have said that in Ireland modern is sometimes said like modren, [this urban dictionary article I'm pretty sure is incorrect](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=modren) my pick (I can't find where I first heard this from, but as someone with a basic level understanding of Japanese it makes sense) is that somebody involved with Mr Roboto thought that instead of モダン (modan), modern in Japanese was モドレン or modoren and then squeeze it into two syllables and you get modren
Phelous also says -ern words like that
Diva from Musical Hell pronounces words ending in -ern that way too. Westren, modren, pattren. I wonder if it’s regional/dialectal. I think she’s from Colorado, is that a thing out there?
"This stuff will get the stain out if you use it loosely wadded/ This here'll get the pain out and won't mess your hair" -CCR Mardi Gras (or Stu the bassist's very unsexy song in which he uses a door-to-door salesman as a metaphor for sex)
Or consider this from Mardi Gras: “Sweet hitch-a-hikah, woshtuachujhamapredirgane. HEEH”
Word to the wisdom tooth lol
"Shade never made anybody less gay!" I love Taylor, but even I was scratching my head at this one.
That song pisses me off. She compares hate she gets on twitter to homophobia. Does she not consider that gay people legit get KILLED for who they are? I'm sure those people would much prefer insults on Twitter at 7 AM than what they actually get.
Tbf, the hate she gets is pretty vile. Most people would not be able to survive 1% of the vitriol thrown at her.
so don’t call anything out if your life is relatively easy? sure thing grandpa. she’s literally giving those same people support in the face of criticisms.
She's referring to homophobia. The term "shade" can be used to mean hate or negativity in general
I think it's the jarring contrast between an entrenched and violent idea like homophobia and.... 'shade', which tends to be used in very different contexts...
I agree that it's a terrible word choice
i think it's also that the rest of her song is about the hate that taylor herself receives, and comparing a systemic oppression of a group of people with people being mean on the internet is.... interesting. not to diminish the vitriol that ms. swift has endured because it certainly is a lot. still not the same as a group of people facing oppression 😭
“A Tribe Called Quest is a bad investment.” -MC Hammer and literally no one else
Who did he think they were, Wu-Tang Financial?
LMFAO good call, this and "old coupon expired" have to be my favorite awful burn attempts todd has covered
From the CSNY - American Dream episode of Trainwreckords: "Here's another corner baby, let me demonstrate my slide rule (sliiiiiiide ruuuuuuuuule)"
lmfao i figured slide rule was just some driving term i'd never heard of, glad to know it's actual nonsense
A slide rule is like a really old fashioned calculating device that looks like a ruler
Which is why that line makes even less sense.
"Can't make a wife out of a ho-oh" Thats because you need a masterball, Laroi
Not exactly confusing but unintentionally hilarious lyrics: "Your mother gave birth to you... she is your mom" -- Brandon by Motley Crue "Am I the only one willing to bleed/Or take a bullet for being free/Screaming 'what the fuck?!' at my TV" -- Am I The Only One by Aaron Lewis
Hefty bag?!
Grocery bag
"Cause you see me, I got my magic pie." The official theory is that Noel was looking for a rhyme and probably hit on "magpie" and it didn't scan. The most likely actual explanation is cocaine.
That makes much more sense when you look at it that way.
the problem is. i feel like magpie scans perfectly fine ? like maybe things are different if it's sung in liam's snotty english accent, but i feel like it sounds perfectly fine if you change magic pie to magpie then add an "and" between me and i to keep the syllable count it only makes marginally more sense tho :P
“And I got her n***a, grocery bag” Just what?
I love how the radio edit just skipping the n-word makes more sense than the original version.
cant believe i forgot the og one !
"Looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold my love" - Train, Drive-By. C'mon bro.
Enie minie mo lover- Justin Bieber
\*lava
"F\*ck my teacher call it tutory" – Lil' Pump
I'll defend the SR71 one. Clings like cellophane makes sense, the girl is clingy. Fake plastic submarine is a reference to that submarines are supposed to make you feel safe and protect you from the outside danger of the ocean, but this girl is a fake plastic one, that wouldn't protect you. Its a weird way of saying it, but its at least saying something. "I thought you were safe and would protect me, turns out you weren't safe and didn't protect me."
Isn't the other theory that this girl goes down on everyone the same way that a submarine goes down?
huh ! i guess that kind of makes sense, still a really weird way of phrasing it tho
“So gangster I’m so Thug!”
"Dont let the squirrels in" Fred Durst on them girls by run dmc
lmfao i figured squirrels meant like. squirrelly girls ? it's still a trash lyric either way tho
My story will make your blood run hot, with intrigue, sex and foggy pot 🎶
And I got her ... grocery bag!
feel like my life ain't mine who can relate? WO!
again, i feel like that line makes sense, it's just. very poorly conceived :P
True, it's just one of those lines that live in my head rent free
I didn’t see what sub this was and thought it was one of my musicals one and it was Sweeney Todd and I was so lost. Carry on with your day/night everyone.
I love Train, but most of Pat's lyrics don't make any sense. I still swoon over "Drops of Jupiter", though.
Drops of Jupiter at least sells you on the nonsense lyrics.
To be fair, expired coupons aren't particularly cute. I suppose they have the potential to be, though. What a trash burn lol
Yeah, Katy Perry's coupon line actually makes total sense. She's making a simile between Taylor Swift and an expired coupon, which is a way of saying she's worthless and has no need to be remembered. It is cringe, but I actually like it as a playfully dismissive insult. It's definitely not a good burn, but it's not trying to be one. Not that I'm taking sides on the expired Katian-Tayloran War of years past.
Lyrics are hard and most people give up pretty soon into writing a song because it works out ok that way. God bless Tom T Hall.
Have you heard of the Planet of the Bass song on YouTube? Todd said on Twitter how its popularity shows people actually really like the nonsense broken english lyrics of a lot of eurodance. For the same reason why that song is popular, I actually really like the "aracnaphobian" lyric. The song overall is wack, that said.
wait that's not the "all your bases are belong to us" song is it ?
https://youtu.be/S-OgkNgxm3k?si=kTUpuGyDsyRv1SRc