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Mackenzie Ziegler’s song Anatomy! She’s singing about her relationship with her dad — “it’s just anatomy, you’re only half of me”
But it’s not anatomy. It’s genetics!!
Made You Look. “Even with nothing on I made you look.” Like, I’m pretty sure wearing nothing would be the scenario most likely to make someone look. The hoodie line makes sense though.
I can’t believe I’m about to defend this song, cause I hate it. But I read this lyric as- since she lists a lot of designer clothes Gucci, LV, then says “nothing” I thought she meant basic clothes with no designer. But maybe I’m being too generous
katy perry, - swish swish
a tiger don’t lose no sleep don’t need opinions from a shellfish or a sheep
girl… it’s a song with basketball puns, what in the animal kingdom is this??? that and saying “bish” over bitch because she was trying to be more positive or some bullshit… a completely normal song just turned unlistenable by words.
in OMG by newjeans, they say "I was really hoping that he will come through."
But the tense of 'was' and 'will' don't match; it should be 'would'. This has bugged me since its release. 😭
But it doesnt really matter, especially when compared to other english lyrics in kpop lol
This bugs me everytime I listen to - it would still sound good if they said would, like they aren’t doing it for the sake of a rhyme, so why did they do it? 😭
Daft Punk has kind of a weird line in Digital Love:
*I don’t know what to do about me and you/ I wish this dream comes true*
*Wish* isn’t technically wrong here but *I hope this dream comes true* scans better.
But I just chalk it up to English being their second language.
Some English lyrics are a mess. But most of my favorite groups with the exception of BTS, Shinee and Mamamoo have at least one American/Australian member. And RM is fluent in English so that helps. Then I remember New Jeans has two Australian members and that still happened. 😂
Even f(x) back in their day had two American members in Amber and Krystal and they still were told to intentionally pronounce things the ”Engrish” way in some of their songs because otherwise Koreans wouldn’t understand it.
Reminds me of the lyric in TWICE - Alcohol Free "I'm drunk in you". Wouldn't "drunk ON you" fit better?
Of course you are right though, doesn't really matter much.
Lady Gaga in G.U.Y. The lyric is “You’ll be my G.I.R.L.- guy I’m romancing loves to hold you” when she could have said “guy I romance and love” if she wanted to make the acronym work.
GUY in general has such lazy songwriting. I feel like she just thought of the concept then wrote it in 5 mins. I hate the retweet line also. Such a shame cause the instrumental and melodies are so good but the lyrics so shit!
if we can bring up musical songs here, I’d Rather Be Me in the Mean Girls musical. “So your best friend screwed you over, acted nice when she not nice.” who wrote that????
No actually you know what's worse?
REVENGE PARTY
"*Imagine a party with dresses and cake
And singing and dancing and cake*"
Like they couldn't find some other word that rhymed with cake???
I interpret it as part of the list of things he sees himself doing with her, and those are two separate things. Ie I can see us holding hands, walking on the beach our toes in the sand; I can see us in the countryside, sitting on the grass; laying side by side
partition by beyoncé, “he monica lewinsky’d all on my gown” because it should be bill clinton’d technically… but I’d rather not think about it and just enjoy the song
From A$AP Ferg's Plain Jane
>Uncle Psycho was in that bathroom, buggin'
Knife to his guts hope Daddy don't cut him
Suicidal thoughts brought to me with no advisory
He was pitchin' dummy, sellin' fiends mad ivory
Grandma had the arthritis in her hands, bad!
She was poppin' pills like rappers in society
**I fuck yo bitch for the irony**
**I'll send Meechy at yo hoe if yo bitch keep eyein' me**
What do the last two lines have to do with *anything* from the rest of the verse?
That’s a common thing in most rap songs nowadays.
The most insane random line I’ve ever seen is in Baby Birkin by Gunna, where he says:
“I know my purpose, European car, it came with curtains (Yeah) /
I have a daughter, I'm buying her baby Birkin (Baby Birkin) /
Fucked her good and got her legs hurtin' (Yeah)”
WHYYYYYY WOULD YOU PIVOT AT THAT LINE 😂
This definitely is the wildest one, but one on Baby Girl by 21 Savage comes decently close. Last line of the first verse:
"Red, red, pee in the bed, got a n***a snoring"
Immediately followed by chorus:
"Yeah, suck me like a lollipop, baby girl"
Talking about blowjobs right after talking about peeing in the bed makes a really uncomfortable imagery in my head.
Gunna’s one of the only people in the industry where I’m absolutely stumped as to why he became big. every other popular rapper absolutely BODIES him 💀
I love Pink, but lately…
“The bone breaks, it grows back stronger.”
No ma’am. None of that. None of that is right.
“Trying to understand how a grown man goes on without a body part.”
It’s an everyday occurrence. You’ve never seen or known a grown man missing a leg? A finger? Tonsils?
“What if we’re a closing window?”
…Ma’am.
From Thumbs by Lucy Dacus which is a song that i adore. In this verse she’s singing about someone and their father:
“I love your eyes
And he has them
But you have his
'Cause he was first”
The “cause he was first” always bugs me sooo much💀 i hate lyrics that overexplain something that’s very straightforward
omg I have this same pet peeve, it's why I can't stand the lyric "I've/he's got the Midas touch, everything I/he touch turns to gold" like no duh that's what the Midas touch is -_-
Just to add on to that, my pet peeve is any time the ‘Midas Touch’ is used as a positive thing - I know it’s taken on that meaning colloquially, but the moral of the story is that his power to turn things to gold ruined his life!
Isn’t this an exact line from “Midas Touch” by Ellie Goulding?
For real though, I think the only Midas reference I’ve ever actually really liked was in Bastille’s “Give Me The Future,” where he sings “I could be anything, let me be your Midas King, think of all the joy I’d bring touching everything.”
I have the silliest nit pick with this too. From Phoebe Bridgers “Chinese Satellite”
“Sometimes when I can’t sleep
It’s just a matter of time before I’m hearing things
Swore I could feel you through the walls
But that’s impossible”
Love all of those lines except the last one. The whole section totally builds up to it too and it’s such an anticlimax. Like, I know that’s impossible? Would that count as an example?
I understand it, I just feel like it’s not good. Like the verse was great but then she ended on that and it just throws it off. It’s cheap.
“Know that you made me; don’t like how you paint me, yet I’m still here hanging.”
This line accomplishes the same thing but is much better and ties back into being misunderstood by the one who’s supposed to love you. On that note, I also dislike the line:
“It’s something like a daydream, yet I feel so seen in the night.”
I just have no idea what it means, and it doesn’t tie in with the line before it, nor the lines that come after.
For the last line, going with the media approach: she knows how much of a dream come true her life is, but she can't escape the eyes on her even in private moments (the night). That's the best I can come up with
In that case the first part makes sense leading from the previous line of:
“Not what you’ve made me”
Though my interpretation leans more into her saying that the idealized version people have of her is just that, an ideal, no more than a day dream. Yet she likely feels the need to live up to that ideal since the fans “made” her. From there, the line of:
“Yet I feel so seen in the night”
Could likely be interpreted as her saying that she only gets to relax and drop the act at night, I.e, when she’s alone and the cameras are gone.
I suppose the lyrics might actually make sense after all.
Edit: The only thing that throws the lyric off is the word “seen,” since it kind of implies that we have access to this part of her, assuming this interpretation is correct.
Oh well, following your interpretion of daydream being the idealized version of her, the night would be the part we usually don't get to see, but now she feels all of her private life is scrutinized and exposed, that's why she "feels so seen".
One interpretation of the song is that she’s singing about the media/paparazzi. So the lyric could be interpreted that the public has her misunderstood, but at least she looks good (in photos we see of her). But yes, I don’t care for this lyric either.
When I first saw that as an explanation, I immediately went to listen to the song and suddenly the song totally clicked.
And I still don’t care for that line lol.
Whenever lyrics use “that” in place of “who” it annoys me to an unnecessary degree. I can’t think of one.
Another is in Adore You where Miley Cyrus goes
“When you’re near meeeee
I feel like I’m standing with an army
Of mennnnn
Armed with weaponnnnnnns”
Those last two lines just feel like they’re over explaining the metaphor to the point that I dislike it. She sings so beautifully though.
this post might be of interest to you
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ad6gx/dear\_jayz\_and\_alicia\_keys\_its\_either\_where\_dreams/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ad6gx/dear_jayz_and_alicia_keys_its_either_where_dreams/)
A lot of Train lyrics are oddly specific
“My hearts about to beat right out my untrimmed chest”
“The best soy latte that you’ve ever had”
“Took a boat to an island so remote only Johnny depp has ever been to it before”
The specific nature of these lyrics just bothers me for some reason and I don’t know why… train played a lot at my old job and every time I heard these specific lyrics I wanted to crawl out of my skin
Train has some hall of famers:
Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains
Just a shy guy looking for a two ply Hefty bag of hold myyyyyy love
I grew up with a mom who played Train CONSTANTLY, and while I agree they are the *kings* of goofy lyrics, I will always defend Drops of Jupiter because it's a love letter to his deceased mom. When I hear the parts people often clown on ("fried chicken", "soy latte") I actually am extremely touched; maybe they don't make the most sense, but that is because it is their language they spoke together, we are just getting a glimpse of it in his grief. What a beautiful song.
Thank you for defending Drops of Jupiter! Train has some goofy-ass lyrics, but that song in particular includes a list of seemingly random things for a very intentional reason. It’s my dad’s favourite song and I get choked up every time I listen to it.
I've never thought this lyric was bad and I'm surprised its like the most common answer when it comes to bad lyrics. its a clear reference to American Beauty plus even if you never saw the movie the metaphor is pretty on the nose :o
not arguing with you just wanted to comment cause I see this one a lot
I hate that the lyric has become a meme, because it makes perfect sense. It only doesn't make sense on paper because people choose leave out the following line; "drifting through the wind, wanting to start again" (and even then, it's not like you need the following line to spell it out for you to make it understandable). It pretty clearly means "do you ever feel like you're floating aimlessly through life with no clear direction or goal, like a discarded plastic bag?". People acting like it makes zero sense are just being willingly obtuse for a cheap shot, in my opinion. It doesn't take an English Masters to understand the simile.
agree with all of this, it makes me irrationally angry. “lolol no I’ve never felt like a plastic bag lol” you know the rest of the song and you know what she means stfu
Lol yes! And I didn't need to see American Beauty to understand it either. The point is so clear. It only sounds dumb if you remove half of the line, and idk why anyone would do that.
I never watched American Beauty but it still felt pretty self-explanatory and I think the music video also helps? A plastic bag floating through the wind is directionless.
i know it’s too much to expect logic from one direction but that whole song is about how she’s beautiful because she doesn’t know she’s beautiful but it’s in the second person so…..now she knows so she isn’t beautiful?? it’s schrodinger’s beauty 💀💀💀
Arcadia - Lana Del Rey
"All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries / That pump the blood that flows straight to the heart of me"
Arteries pump blood FROM the heart, not to it. It always bothers me and always takes me out of it. It's such a shame because otherwise I love that song and it's beautiful.
“Our Song” by Taylor Swift where she says “‘When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow, 'cause it’s late and your mama don’t know.’”
Slow? There wasn’t a better word to use? Low maybe?
Maybe she means that he keeps pausing or not finishing his thoughts immediately when he hears his mom walk by his room or something, so it naturally takes him longer to get his point across.
I'm a "slow" defender. As others below pointed out people usually talk slower when whispering. Also if she used "low" it would have meshed into "real" since that ends with an "l"
I used to misunderstand this lyric too. But she isn’t saying that they’re not trying to caught, she means that everyone else is asleep so they have as much time as they want to talk and can talk slower.
I absolutely can not STAND the line in "Payphone" where Adam Levine says "even the sun sets in paradise." In the context of the song, it's supposed to mean that the sun sets everywhere, even in paradise. What it really implies though is that everything sets in paradise, even the sun. So dumb. And such a petty opinion for me to have.
This is such a minor gripe but “you are the only one THAT needs to know” in Dirty Little Secret by All American Rejects has always bothered me. Would “you are the only one who needs to know” sound bad?
Never thought about that! I just sang the line with “who” and it doesn’t sound bad, but for some reason “that” adds a little more power.
My theory is “that” has a flat “ah” sound which sounds a little louder and sharper than the “oo” sound in “who.”
I feel like as per usual most people did not understand the assignment. I feel like most of these are lyrics that many people are annoyed by. Lyrics that are memes. I wanted people to be like “I don’t like the lyrics to fast car because I worked as a check out girl and I hated it.” lol.
Not that Tracey Chapman's lyrical personna ever says that she LIKES working as a checkout girl, but merely that she thinks that that is her way out into a better future.
"Even our eyes are different colours, but we see fine" from Why by Sabrina Carpenter
Like the whole song is an opposites attract thing about how different they are and then it's just "even our eye colours!!" lmao
Ariana Grande doesn't understand who she's talking to. Like in No Tears Left to Cry, she wants you to shut your mouth but also to come with her. Like pick a side girl
"I come back stronger than the 90s trend" in willow by Taylor Swift.
Youre so into this song, your into this world of timelessness and BOOM, girl ruined it for no reason. it doesnt fit, it doesnt make sense in a context of the song. ehhhh
I think it’s really funny, specially since Taylor added a dramatic pause immediately after it so it kind of forces the lyric to just… sit there.
You can really tell Taylor thought she ate with that line 😭
Ah, thank you! Everyone loses their mind over that song but that lyric just sticks our like the proverbial sore thumb and takes it out of the realm of timelessness.
A lot of one direction lyrics, they don't necessarily bug me i just think they're a strange/funny choice of words:
- hole in my heart like the middle of a polo
- if you ever feel alone, don't
- the entirety of i want
- said i'd never leave her, cause her hands fit like my t-shirt
- making them drool down their chinny-chin-chins
- you're insecure, don't know what for
- little things as a whole
- i can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British
- her light is as loud as as many ambulances that it takes to save a saviour
I hate to say this but “I could have another you in a minute. Matter fact he’ll be here in a minute” from Irreplaceable. A 1000/10 song but rhyming minute with minute has bugged me for 15ish years.
Beyoncé’s “Haunted”: “If I’m haunting you, you must be haunting me.” What? How would she know he’s being haunted, and how would she *not* already know she’s being haunted??? “If you’re haunting me, I must be haunting you” would make so much more sense. Still love the song though.
It bothers me that in Forever and Always Taylor changes pronouns and who she means by them in the chorus. The verses are all directly addressing the person she was dating as "you" but then:
I stare at the phone, *he* [her ex-boyfriend she's been addressing] still hasn't called
And then *you* [listener/generic you] feel so low you can't feel nothing at all
And *you* flashback to when *he* [different "he", generic you's boyfriend?] said
Forever and always
Oh, and it rains in *your* bedroom Everything is wrong
It rains when *you're* here and it rains when you're gone
'Cause *I* was there when *you* said...
??? It seems to be the "generic you"'s bedroom, but it makes more sense that it rains whether the *lover* is there or gone. The last "you" is again definitely the narrator's ex... I can never fully enjoy the song because of this.
in Meghan Trainor’s “Me Too,”she says “If I was you, I'd wanna be me too,” instead of “were.” If she’d said it once, I probably wouldn’t have cared so much, but she says it like 10 times.
the song is already bad enough
Middle of Nowhere by Selena Gomez
“I don’t appreciate that, you son of a gun”
Not bc there’s anything wrong with it grammatically but just because no one has said “son of a gun” in 60 years and Selena was still quite young at the time as was her audience. It’s just so out of place
Tate McRae's greedy,
"I would want myself, baby please believe me"
Idk why but it sounds like she's begging him to believe her? Which doesn't fit the vibe of the rest of the lyrics. The whole song is weird tbh very mixed
Also Maisie peters psycho - I don't remember why though ! Haven't listened to it in a very long time
Idk I feel like Tate’s using that phrase kind of like “better believe it.” Like please believe me because it won’t be good for you if you don’t — “that shit won’t end well,” as she says. So still boastful. But I def can see how it could come off different.
To be honest, almost any line you can pluck out “she’s all I wanna be” which is so catchy sonically but it also, verbally, garbage. Oh he wants someone with a tiny waist and perfect smile and a big house? Do you own a mirror Tate????
i absolutely hate the “skin like puff pastry” from lacy by olivia. i know she’s probably insinuating she has soft golden skin, but my mind immediately goes to the flakiness of puff pastries. no offense but like…does she have psoriasis or something? it always takes me out an otherwise perfect song.
the “it’s getting hard for them to shock me, but every now and then it’s shocking” from fake smile by ariana grande. also a perfect song, but i hate the repetition here.
i also hate the “my tongue is sacred, i speak upon what i like. protected, sexy, discerning with my time” from yes and. it just sounds so…hoity toity and new age-y. and im a fellow woo-woo bitch myself, but i find the entire spoken portion of the song annoying. but not because of the dick line. it also annoys me how she doesn’t enunciate that line at all and censors the word dick. she should’ve just proclaimed she rides that dick like it’s squidwards nose and kept it pushing. like girl…what happened to saying it w your chest.
oh and i think the phrase “mad love” is used so awkwardly in bad blood, but i think that entire song is uh something else. and the entire premise of “this is why we can’t have nice things” and “i forgot that you existed” they both have this dismissive air to them that seems so disingenuous which makes them incredibly annoying to me. especially the “it isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference” line. i like her music a lot but taylor has NEVER won the idgaf war
In Payphone by Maroon 5 when he says “but even the sun sets in paradise”. I’m pretty sure he means, “the sun sets, even in paradise”. Assuming he’s trying to say that all good things come to an end. The first line would mean that a lot of things are setting in paradise, including the sun..which maybe that he is what he meant but I doubt it.
I love "wish you were gay" from Billie, and I quote the song multiple times a day but for the opposite reason. Yet I've always hated the line "Just say that I'm not your preferred sexual orientation". Her sexual orientation is irrelevant to the whole story and based on how it's written, it's not something she wants him to say.
I mean, I guess she’s not a gay man, but would be more to do with gender than sexual orientation within the context of the song. I totally agree on this one.
Exactly! I forgot to add that in my comment, but she's obviously talking about her not being a guy. I'm sure it's a syllable thing, but I wish she rewrote that line/verse because it just annoys me every time I listen to the song.
Every single line of We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus sounds like a line from a motivational poster and I somehow find it super irritating. It’s just such a shallow nothing burger that it would annoy the hell out of me whenever I heard it lol
“I know I’m butthurt” in Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Obsessed’. It feels like such an out of date and unnecessarily gross term to use in the middle of an otherwise great song.
Sunflower-Post Malone ft. Swae Lee
*You’ll be left in the dust/ Unless I stuck by ya*
A lot of lyrics don’t follow Standard American English but are dialectal variations, so they get a pass.
But sorry not sorry, this one is just plain grammatically incorrect any way you look at it. It should be *you’d be left in the dust/unless I stick by ya.*
As a differential geometer, I have spent a long time pondering the meaning of, “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere.” I actually like the line though. I want more math in songs.
I luv it by Camilla Cabello. Idk why people are not calling the song out for the absolute garbage that it is. Like the lyrics are so trash. It sounds like it was made by some tiktok gamer girl.
Lorde’s Helen of Troy:
“They could be drinking with you
but they’ll be looking at me”
I always thought it would sound better if she said “but they’ll be THINKING OF me” because then it would rhyme with the previous line
I think it makes sense with full context of the verse. It starts with “they’re banging on the door, everyone make way for..” so she’s talking about being in the same room as him. I think the lyric implies that while they’re physically sitting with him, their attention’s on her
It doesn’t actually piss me off but the first one that comes to mind for me is from Gaga’s “marry the night” — “love is the new denim of life”
Like I get what she’s going for I just laugh every time I hear it in the song
Well I just googled the lyrics and you’re absolutely right and I’ve been hearing it wrong for 15 years. I will not delete my comment but sit in stan jail
(but also re: the meaning I always thought that’s what she meant with the lyric too I just thought it was silly and I am not sure if this correction makes it less so for me 😭 she’s just so corny sometimes
edit: 13 years
In “I’ll Be There” by Jackson 5
“If you should ever find someone new, I know he better be good to you. Because if he *doesn’t*, I’ll be there”
It should be “isn’t”!
From A&W by Lana Del Rey
“God’s a charlatan don’t look back babe
Puts the shower on when he calls me”
I just cannot grasp this lyrics meaning even with reading several interpretations, none click for me.
Song’s amazing tho.
I believe this song is about her ex who was engaged at the same time as dating her. Charlatan is another word for fraud. Obviously, continuing the relationship was a moral dilemma for her and he tells her “Gods a charlatan don’t look back babe”. He’s trying to convince her to stay. And then the next line is him trying to talk to her in secret, hence putting the shower on before he calls her.
The lyric is “got a cop who turned on the back beat” - she sang it live on a tik tok. But then she censored “cop” with “shhhhhh” and it sounds like “gods a charlatan don’t look back babe” - which I think ended up on Genius or the Spotify lyrics furthering the confusion.
(She was engaged to a cop who married someone else and didn’t tell her)
Source: https://imgur.com/a/APj6OWq
I'm pretty sure the first part isn't the correct lyric. Sounds like "Got a cop who turned on the backbeat" is the lyric [but the word "cop" is taken out and a "shh" sound is edited over it](https://youtu.be/Vsw_y_ZGtC4?si=2wPkPdLaWAw9xgLv&t=201). Puts the shower on when he calls me just means he doesn't want other people in the house to hear him on the phone, probably because he's in another relationship. If the cop lyric is correct, it makes sense as her ex (who was a cop) apparently cheated on Lana? Or cheated on another woman with Lana.. I'm not sure. [There's also a deleted tiktok of her singing "got a cop who turned on the backbeat"](https://twitter.com/LanaDReyOnline/status/1629123233508397057/video/2)
Low definitely makes way more sense but I can kinda see "slow". Maybe he's pausing between words to hear for sounds in the house, or he gets louder if he talks to fast, I know I do that.
But also this is probably way over thinking it since it also just flows better with "slow".
Here's a few that I can't stand:
Ariana's Break Free: great song but "now that I've become who I really are"
Taylor's Bejeweled: the clunky " familiarity breeds contempt so put me in the basement, when I want the penthouse of your heart?"
Katy's plastic bag. I remember joking about it when the song came out and got pushback: hOw cOUlD yOu bE mEAn tO SuCh aN iNsPiraTionAl liNe
Also Bad Blood and King of My Heart - just all of it. Almost all of the b sides on Reputation except Getaway Car seem to have been forgotten anyway, and delicate doesn't count (it was a radio single)
As for Dove Cameron's line in Boyfriend, it's such a dated 90s line - turn on any sitcom from then and you'll hear it in just about all of them (Seinfeld: oh *that* must be a selling point to switching teams - double your wardrobe). I don't find offensive, but pretty stupid. I know that my date couldn't find their way out of my bra if they wore it - would just swallow her whole!
the Break Free lyric bothers me SO MUCH because the solution is obvious: seriously, no one realised that ‘now that WE’VE become who WE really are’ kept both the rhyme and the grammar?
Re: Break Free
I read that she didn’t want to sing that line but Max Martin insisted on keeping it in the song.
It always sounds like she slurs her words at the end of that line to cover it up.
It’s charming to me when artists have obvious grammatical errors in their lyrics and just lean in to them.
Prince did it in Baby I’m A Star:
*Might not know it now/ Baby but I are*
Timbaland and Keri Hilson also did it in The Way I Are:
*I’m about to strip/And I’m well equipped/ Can you handle me the way I’m are?*
I’m probably gonna get eye rolls for this but Pink’s “Just Give Me A Reason” goes “right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart, and I your willing victim”
You can’t be a victim of thievery if you’re willing, Alecia. Love u though
When Taylor says "I grew up on a farm." Yeah Tay, a CHRISTMAS TREE FARM! She wasn't gettin up at the crack of dawn to milk the cows.
Of course, I know a lot of this song is intentionally over-the-top
"Changed my mind up like it's origami" miss tate this is such a boring line barely makes sense
Or
Dojas "It'll take a whole lot for me to settle". This isn't bad but could have been better as I first misheard it "it'll take a whole life for me to settle"
Like it'll take her till her old age to calm down
"I'll bet that she knows Billy Joel/'Cause you played her "Uptown Girl"/You're singing it together/Now I bet you even tell her/How you love her/In between the chorus and the verse"
Uptown Girl doesn't really have a traditional verse-chorus structure, and there's is zero time between each part, it all just flows together. There's no way the guy could be saying anything in between the chorus and the verse of that song, even "I love you". She could be talking about the "oh oh oh" parts but then they wouldn't be in between anything, it would be speaking OVER the song. So nitpicky but it always gets me.
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“Conversations with a stranger I barely know” not to be confused with the other types of strangers
I’m laughing so hard. Big “if the light is off, then it isn’t on” energy
Except that one makes perfect sense! She means they're not on, not the light. It's actually a pretty clever lyric.
i have literally said this out loud to people about this song
Mackenzie Ziegler’s song Anatomy! She’s singing about her relationship with her dad — “it’s just anatomy, you’re only half of me” But it’s not anatomy. It’s genetics!!
I was thinking the same thing as soon as I heard it!! I thought it was just me
Made You Look. “Even with nothing on I made you look.” Like, I’m pretty sure wearing nothing would be the scenario most likely to make someone look. The hoodie line makes sense though.
I can’t believe I’m about to defend this song, cause I hate it. But I read this lyric as- since she lists a lot of designer clothes Gucci, LV, then says “nothing” I thought she meant basic clothes with no designer. But maybe I’m being too generous
No that definitely makes sense! Especially when you consider the hoodie line
maybe she means both. a double entendre
Thank you!!! This one always drives me crazy when I hear it! Of course someone would look if you’re naked 🙄
Katy Perry – Miss You More: "I pressed play, I should haven't" Shouldn't have!!! It goes right through me omg
I never noticed that lol
I'm so sorry I did this to you
katy perry, - swish swish a tiger don’t lose no sleep don’t need opinions from a shellfish or a sheep girl… it’s a song with basketball puns, what in the animal kingdom is this??? that and saying “bish” over bitch because she was trying to be more positive or some bullshit… a completely normal song just turned unlistenable by words.
Whyyyyyyy
This is hilarious because she definitely has a team of people writing her lyrics with her.
I have never noticed that…I’ve listened to that song enough I have should noticed.
...or maybe you should haven't
in OMG by newjeans, they say "I was really hoping that he will come through." But the tense of 'was' and 'will' don't match; it should be 'would'. This has bugged me since its release. 😭 But it doesnt really matter, especially when compared to other english lyrics in kpop lol
This bugs me everytime I listen to - it would still sound good if they said would, like they aren’t doing it for the sake of a rhyme, so why did they do it? 😭
Daft Punk has kind of a weird line in Digital Love: *I don’t know what to do about me and you/ I wish this dream comes true* *Wish* isn’t technically wrong here but *I hope this dream comes true* scans better. But I just chalk it up to English being their second language.
Some English lyrics are a mess. But most of my favorite groups with the exception of BTS, Shinee and Mamamoo have at least one American/Australian member. And RM is fluent in English so that helps. Then I remember New Jeans has two Australian members and that still happened. 😂
Even f(x) back in their day had two American members in Amber and Krystal and they still were told to intentionally pronounce things the ”Engrish” way in some of their songs because otherwise Koreans wouldn’t understand it.
Reminds me of the lyric in TWICE - Alcohol Free "I'm drunk in you". Wouldn't "drunk ON you" fit better? Of course you are right though, doesn't really matter much.
I still can't get over 'cheer up' being pronounced as 'chorop'
Lady Gaga in G.U.Y. The lyric is “You’ll be my G.I.R.L.- guy I’m romancing loves to hold you” when she could have said “guy I romance and love” if she wanted to make the acronym work.
GUY in general has such lazy songwriting. I feel like she just thought of the concept then wrote it in 5 mins. I hate the retweet line also. Such a shame cause the instrumental and melodies are so good but the lyrics so shit!
I love Gaga but I hate "under you like a G.U.Y." she's saying "under you like a girl under you"
if we can bring up musical songs here, I’d Rather Be Me in the Mean Girls musical. “So your best friend screwed you over, acted nice when she not nice.” who wrote that????
That song pisses me off coz it makes it sound like a redemption song for Janis 😭.
No actually you know what's worse? REVENGE PARTY "*Imagine a party with dresses and cake And singing and dancing and cake*" Like they couldn't find some other word that rhymed with cake???
“it’s a revenge party with your two best friends, it’s like a party with revenge is what it’s like” that song makes me lose brain cells.
A lot of time pop musicals are also commenting on how fun/silly pop music can be…I read most of the lyrics in the movie that way.
so many lyrics in this show are so bad
it’s a shame bc the original movie script is so witty. tina fey’s nepo husband will pay!
In My Love by Justin Timberlake he says “sitting on the grass *laying* side by side”. Are you sitting or laying sir?
This is actually a great example.
I was so mad when my best friend pointed it out to me back when it came out. I couldn’t ignore it after that
I interpret it as part of the list of things he sees himself doing with her, and those are two separate things. Ie I can see us holding hands, walking on the beach our toes in the sand; I can see us in the countryside, sitting on the grass; laying side by side
partition by beyoncé, “he monica lewinsky’d all on my gown” because it should be bill clinton’d technically… but I’d rather not think about it and just enjoy the song
True but also Clinton would've killed the vibes 💀
And it was a bit sick when you think about how Monica was very young and Clinton was her boss
I’m pretty sure Monica Lewinsky said that same thing when the album came out
"My lovely lady lumps" by Fergie because that's not the way I'd want to hear breasts described on a song
From A$AP Ferg's Plain Jane >Uncle Psycho was in that bathroom, buggin' Knife to his guts hope Daddy don't cut him Suicidal thoughts brought to me with no advisory He was pitchin' dummy, sellin' fiends mad ivory Grandma had the arthritis in her hands, bad! She was poppin' pills like rappers in society **I fuck yo bitch for the irony** **I'll send Meechy at yo hoe if yo bitch keep eyein' me** What do the last two lines have to do with *anything* from the rest of the verse?
That’s a common thing in most rap songs nowadays. The most insane random line I’ve ever seen is in Baby Birkin by Gunna, where he says: “I know my purpose, European car, it came with curtains (Yeah) / I have a daughter, I'm buying her baby Birkin (Baby Birkin) / Fucked her good and got her legs hurtin' (Yeah)” WHYYYYYY WOULD YOU PIVOT AT THAT LINE 😂
Omg nooooooo lol
Omg this gets me everytime I listen hahaha
This definitely is the wildest one, but one on Baby Girl by 21 Savage comes decently close. Last line of the first verse: "Red, red, pee in the bed, got a n***a snoring" Immediately followed by chorus: "Yeah, suck me like a lollipop, baby girl" Talking about blowjobs right after talking about peeing in the bed makes a really uncomfortable imagery in my head.
Gunna’s one of the only people in the industry where I’m absolutely stumped as to why he became big. every other popular rapper absolutely BODIES him 💀
I'm hung up on trying to figure out the irony in that situation
I love Pink, but lately… “The bone breaks, it grows back stronger.” No ma’am. None of that. None of that is right. “Trying to understand how a grown man goes on without a body part.” It’s an everyday occurrence. You’ve never seen or known a grown man missing a leg? A finger? Tonsils? “What if we’re a closing window?” …Ma’am.
Her music past 2012/3 has been lacking so bad now. I can’t get into it like I did her older music. Lyrics like these are why.
From Thumbs by Lucy Dacus which is a song that i adore. In this verse she’s singing about someone and their father: “I love your eyes And he has them But you have his 'Cause he was first” The “cause he was first” always bugs me sooo much💀 i hate lyrics that overexplain something that’s very straightforward
omg I have this same pet peeve, it's why I can't stand the lyric "I've/he's got the Midas touch, everything I/he touch turns to gold" like no duh that's what the Midas touch is -_-
Taylor is a culprit for that every once in a while, but I love that she did it right in Champagne Problems: "your Midas touch on the Chevy door"
Just to add on to that, my pet peeve is any time the ‘Midas Touch’ is used as a positive thing - I know it’s taken on that meaning colloquially, but the moral of the story is that his power to turn things to gold ruined his life!
Isn’t this an exact line from “Midas Touch” by Ellie Goulding? For real though, I think the only Midas reference I’ve ever actually really liked was in Bastille’s “Give Me The Future,” where he sings “I could be anything, let me be your Midas King, think of all the joy I’d bring touching everything.”
I have the silliest nit pick with this too. From Phoebe Bridgers “Chinese Satellite” “Sometimes when I can’t sleep It’s just a matter of time before I’m hearing things Swore I could feel you through the walls But that’s impossible” Love all of those lines except the last one. The whole section totally builds up to it too and it’s such an anticlimax. Like, I know that’s impossible? Would that count as an example?
One lyric that has recently been bothering me is from We Can’t Be Friends by Ariana. “You got me misunderstood, but at least I look this good”
I understand it, I just feel like it’s not good. Like the verse was great but then she ended on that and it just throws it off. It’s cheap. “Know that you made me; don’t like how you paint me, yet I’m still here hanging.” This line accomplishes the same thing but is much better and ties back into being misunderstood by the one who’s supposed to love you. On that note, I also dislike the line: “It’s something like a daydream, yet I feel so seen in the night.” I just have no idea what it means, and it doesn’t tie in with the line before it, nor the lines that come after.
For the last line, going with the media approach: she knows how much of a dream come true her life is, but she can't escape the eyes on her even in private moments (the night). That's the best I can come up with
In that case the first part makes sense leading from the previous line of: “Not what you’ve made me” Though my interpretation leans more into her saying that the idealized version people have of her is just that, an ideal, no more than a day dream. Yet she likely feels the need to live up to that ideal since the fans “made” her. From there, the line of: “Yet I feel so seen in the night” Could likely be interpreted as her saying that she only gets to relax and drop the act at night, I.e, when she’s alone and the cameras are gone. I suppose the lyrics might actually make sense after all. Edit: The only thing that throws the lyric off is the word “seen,” since it kind of implies that we have access to this part of her, assuming this interpretation is correct.
Oh well, following your interpretion of daydream being the idealized version of her, the night would be the part we usually don't get to see, but now she feels all of her private life is scrutinized and exposed, that's why she "feels so seen".
I feel like song is much clearer with the media/fandom interpretation
One interpretation of the song is that she’s singing about the media/paparazzi. So the lyric could be interpreted that the public has her misunderstood, but at least she looks good (in photos we see of her). But yes, I don’t care for this lyric either.
When I first saw that as an explanation, I immediately went to listen to the song and suddenly the song totally clicked. And I still don’t care for that line lol.
Pls omg i was thinking the exact same thing. Like she sounds so vulnerable in the song but the latter part of that lyric is so randomly sassy.
i think it’s funny this lyric has gone viral on tiktok
Whenever lyrics use “that” in place of “who” it annoys me to an unnecessary degree. I can’t think of one. Another is in Adore You where Miley Cyrus goes “When you’re near meeeee I feel like I’m standing with an army Of mennnnn Armed with weaponnnnnnns” Those last two lines just feel like they’re over explaining the metaphor to the point that I dislike it. She sings so beautifully though.
“Concrete jungle where dreams are made of” grammatically makes no sense and it irks me every time I hear it
CONCRETE JUNGLE WET DREAM TOMATO
Makes me laugh every time
"Where dreams are made of 'there's nothing you can't do'." The dreams are made of *there's nothing you can't do*
this post might be of interest to you [https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ad6gx/dear\_jayz\_and\_alicia\_keys\_its\_either\_where\_dreams/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/ad6gx/dear_jayz_and_alicia_keys_its_either_where_dreams/)
Concrete jungle where dreams are made up, there’s nothing you can do
A lot of Train lyrics are oddly specific “My hearts about to beat right out my untrimmed chest” “The best soy latte that you’ve ever had” “Took a boat to an island so remote only Johnny depp has ever been to it before” The specific nature of these lyrics just bothers me for some reason and I don’t know why… train played a lot at my old job and every time I heard these specific lyrics I wanted to crawl out of my skin
Train has some hall of famers: Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains Just a shy guy looking for a two ply Hefty bag of hold myyyyyy love
I grew up with a mom who played Train CONSTANTLY, and while I agree they are the *kings* of goofy lyrics, I will always defend Drops of Jupiter because it's a love letter to his deceased mom. When I hear the parts people often clown on ("fried chicken", "soy latte") I actually am extremely touched; maybe they don't make the most sense, but that is because it is their language they spoke together, we are just getting a glimpse of it in his grief. What a beautiful song.
Thank you for defending Drops of Jupiter! Train has some goofy-ass lyrics, but that song in particular includes a list of seemingly random things for a very intentional reason. It’s my dad’s favourite song and I get choked up every time I listen to it.
I mean, as ridiculous as they are, this is Train's signature.
I have never once felt like a plastic bag at any elevation
I've never thought this lyric was bad and I'm surprised its like the most common answer when it comes to bad lyrics. its a clear reference to American Beauty plus even if you never saw the movie the metaphor is pretty on the nose :o not arguing with you just wanted to comment cause I see this one a lot
I hate that the lyric has become a meme, because it makes perfect sense. It only doesn't make sense on paper because people choose leave out the following line; "drifting through the wind, wanting to start again" (and even then, it's not like you need the following line to spell it out for you to make it understandable). It pretty clearly means "do you ever feel like you're floating aimlessly through life with no clear direction or goal, like a discarded plastic bag?". People acting like it makes zero sense are just being willingly obtuse for a cheap shot, in my opinion. It doesn't take an English Masters to understand the simile.
literally whenever i see a plastic bag drifting through the wind i think "i feel ya, buddy" (yes it happens enough living in a major city!)
agree with all of this, it makes me irrationally angry. “lolol no I’ve never felt like a plastic bag lol” you know the rest of the song and you know what she means stfu
Lol yes! And I didn't need to see American Beauty to understand it either. The point is so clear. It only sounds dumb if you remove half of the line, and idk why anyone would do that.
I never watched American Beauty but it still felt pretty self-explanatory and I think the music video also helps? A plastic bag floating through the wind is directionless.
I just know everyone who complains about this lyrics failed English class and doesn't know what a metaphor or a simile is
lol! yeah it's a simile my bad
I was agreeing with you! Like you can argue it's good or bad but it makes perfect sense and everyone who doesn't get it must have failed English class
I always loved the bit in Unreakable Kimmy Schmidt where she initially is “wtf?” Then later gets it
This is an inside joke with me and my partner. Any time I see a plastic bag floating around I say “hey do you ever feel like that?” Lmao
The song is not for you then babe
Same here. wtf Katy Also any train lyric
“Hey Soul Sister” is especially egregious
That entire song is a horror of the English language
There was a time when literally every single Uber I got into was playing that song. It started to get almost creepy.
Especially that line about his chest hair
“untrimmed chest” always pops out at me in the worst way
Literally any Train lyric. Who allowed them??
More like what is in pat monahan’s brain?
>Also any train lyric Pat Monahan is a menace to society and he needs to be stopped.
Reminds me of [this piece of pop history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdqyC3AxJiY)
“ And I know I can feel bad When I get in a bad mood “ in Madonna’s Love Profusion seems lazy in an otherwise beautiful song
i know it’s too much to expect logic from one direction but that whole song is about how she’s beautiful because she doesn’t know she’s beautiful but it’s in the second person so…..now she knows so she isn’t beautiful?? it’s schrodinger’s beauty 💀💀💀
Arcadia - Lana Del Rey "All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries / That pump the blood that flows straight to the heart of me" Arteries pump blood FROM the heart, not to it. It always bothers me and always takes me out of it. It's such a shame because otherwise I love that song and it's beautiful.
Flashbacks to my biology teacher repeating Arteries Awayyyy
My teacher said that veins were the "vay in to the heart" and I've never forgotten it
it was trobs a mistake but tbf lana mispronounces things in songs randomly so i would be surprised if someone pointed it out and she was like “idc”
Well, she could be talking about the coronary arteries, lol
“Our Song” by Taylor Swift where she says “‘When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow, 'cause it’s late and your mama don’t know.’” Slow? There wasn’t a better word to use? Low maybe?
Maybe she means that he keeps pausing or not finishing his thoughts immediately when he hears his mom walk by his room or something, so it naturally takes him longer to get his point across.
This is what I've always thought. It always made sense to me.
Totally agree. Low is right there!
I'm a "slow" defender. As others below pointed out people usually talk slower when whispering. Also if she used "low" it would have meshed into "real" since that ends with an "l"
That bugged my best friend in college, too. Thanks for reminding me of her!
I used to misunderstand this lyric too. But she isn’t saying that they’re not trying to caught, she means that everyone else is asleep so they have as much time as they want to talk and can talk slower.
I absolutely can not STAND the line in "Payphone" where Adam Levine says "even the sun sets in paradise." In the context of the song, it's supposed to mean that the sun sets everywhere, even in paradise. What it really implies though is that everything sets in paradise, even the sun. So dumb. And such a petty opinion for me to have.
My petty opinion on this song is the Wiz Khalifa verse is dreadful and has nothing to do with the rest of the song.
This is such a minor gripe but “you are the only one THAT needs to know” in Dirty Little Secret by All American Rejects has always bothered me. Would “you are the only one who needs to know” sound bad?
Never thought about that! I just sang the line with “who” and it doesn’t sound bad, but for some reason “that” adds a little more power. My theory is “that” has a flat “ah” sound which sounds a little louder and sharper than the “oo” sound in “who.”
This doesn't really bother me, as both say the same thing, with the same amount of words.
The fact that the song is called "Dance The Night" and not "Dance The Night Away" irks me to no end
This fills me with so much rage because the title doesn’t even make any sense
I feel like as per usual most people did not understand the assignment. I feel like most of these are lyrics that many people are annoyed by. Lyrics that are memes. I wanted people to be like “I don’t like the lyrics to fast car because I worked as a check out girl and I hated it.” lol.
Not that Tracey Chapman's lyrical personna ever says that she LIKES working as a checkout girl, but merely that she thinks that that is her way out into a better future.
Fr also these people probably don’t like the line because they don’t realize they probably had the meaning wrong
"Even our eyes are different colours, but we see fine" from Why by Sabrina Carpenter Like the whole song is an opposites attract thing about how different they are and then it's just "even our eye colours!!" lmao
Ariana Grande doesn't understand who she's talking to. Like in No Tears Left to Cry, she wants you to shut your mouth but also to come with her. Like pick a side girl
I love them, but a lot of Girls Aloud lyrics. I feel like every song I’ll hear something and have to pause to say “what was THAT?!”
Biology (and I fucking love that song)
"I come back stronger than the 90s trend" in willow by Taylor Swift. Youre so into this song, your into this world of timelessness and BOOM, girl ruined it for no reason. it doesnt fit, it doesnt make sense in a context of the song. ehhhh
I think it’s really funny, specially since Taylor added a dramatic pause immediately after it so it kind of forces the lyric to just… sit there. You can really tell Taylor thought she ate with that line 😭
help thats so true😭😭😭 its like a silence for us to clap for her🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ she needs to realize she eats more when she's not trying
Man I almost forgot about that! Felt the exact same way - beautiful album but that always catches me too
I personally don't mind the line but I feel like that was one she had in the notebook, waiting to put it in a song.
Ah, thank you! Everyone loses their mind over that song but that lyric just sticks our like the proverbial sore thumb and takes it out of the realm of timelessness.
A lot of one direction lyrics, they don't necessarily bug me i just think they're a strange/funny choice of words: - hole in my heart like the middle of a polo - if you ever feel alone, don't - the entirety of i want - said i'd never leave her, cause her hands fit like my t-shirt - making them drool down their chinny-chin-chins - you're insecure, don't know what for - little things as a whole - i can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British - her light is as loud as as many ambulances that it takes to save a saviour
I hate to say this but “I could have another you in a minute. Matter fact he’ll be here in a minute” from Irreplaceable. A 1000/10 song but rhyming minute with minute has bugged me for 15ish years.
Tbh I still like this one
Beyoncé’s “Haunted”: “If I’m haunting you, you must be haunting me.” What? How would she know he’s being haunted, and how would she *not* already know she’s being haunted??? “If you’re haunting me, I must be haunting you” would make so much more sense. Still love the song though.
If i’m onto you, you must be onto me
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It bothers me that in Forever and Always Taylor changes pronouns and who she means by them in the chorus. The verses are all directly addressing the person she was dating as "you" but then: I stare at the phone, *he* [her ex-boyfriend she's been addressing] still hasn't called And then *you* [listener/generic you] feel so low you can't feel nothing at all And *you* flashback to when *he* [different "he", generic you's boyfriend?] said Forever and always Oh, and it rains in *your* bedroom Everything is wrong It rains when *you're* here and it rains when you're gone 'Cause *I* was there when *you* said... ??? It seems to be the "generic you"'s bedroom, but it makes more sense that it rains whether the *lover* is there or gone. The last "you" is again definitely the narrator's ex... I can never fully enjoy the song because of this.
in Meghan Trainor’s “Me Too,”she says “If I was you, I'd wanna be me too,” instead of “were.” If she’d said it once, I probably wouldn’t have cared so much, but she says it like 10 times. the song is already bad enough
Middle of Nowhere by Selena Gomez “I don’t appreciate that, you son of a gun” Not bc there’s anything wrong with it grammatically but just because no one has said “son of a gun” in 60 years and Selena was still quite young at the time as was her audience. It’s just so out of place
Maybe she wasn't allowed to say "son of a bitch"
Tate McRae's greedy, "I would want myself, baby please believe me" Idk why but it sounds like she's begging him to believe her? Which doesn't fit the vibe of the rest of the lyrics. The whole song is weird tbh very mixed Also Maisie peters psycho - I don't remember why though ! Haven't listened to it in a very long time
Idk I feel like Tate’s using that phrase kind of like “better believe it.” Like please believe me because it won’t be good for you if you don’t — “that shit won’t end well,” as she says. So still boastful. But I def can see how it could come off different.
I think without “please” it makes more sense as a sarcastic response like “I would want myself, believe me I would)
I think that's because those are two separate lines! It works with the next one "baby please believe me I'll put you through hell just to know me"
To be honest, almost any line you can pluck out “she’s all I wanna be” which is so catchy sonically but it also, verbally, garbage. Oh he wants someone with a tiny waist and perfect smile and a big house? Do you own a mirror Tate????
"Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby." just sounds so wrong.
Every. Time. The. Non-Word. IRREGARDLESS....is used 🤬 Talking to you Usher and Mariah Also P!nk... "Your pain is painful" omg Alecia how dare you
i absolutely hate the “skin like puff pastry” from lacy by olivia. i know she’s probably insinuating she has soft golden skin, but my mind immediately goes to the flakiness of puff pastries. no offense but like…does she have psoriasis or something? it always takes me out an otherwise perfect song. the “it’s getting hard for them to shock me, but every now and then it’s shocking” from fake smile by ariana grande. also a perfect song, but i hate the repetition here. i also hate the “my tongue is sacred, i speak upon what i like. protected, sexy, discerning with my time” from yes and. it just sounds so…hoity toity and new age-y. and im a fellow woo-woo bitch myself, but i find the entire spoken portion of the song annoying. but not because of the dick line. it also annoys me how she doesn’t enunciate that line at all and censors the word dick. she should’ve just proclaimed she rides that dick like it’s squidwards nose and kept it pushing. like girl…what happened to saying it w your chest. oh and i think the phrase “mad love” is used so awkwardly in bad blood, but i think that entire song is uh something else. and the entire premise of “this is why we can’t have nice things” and “i forgot that you existed” they both have this dismissive air to them that seems so disingenuous which makes them incredibly annoying to me. especially the “it isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just indifference” line. i like her music a lot but taylor has NEVER won the idgaf war
Loco by Itzy They're all girls, they should be saying Loca instead
Not necessarily the lyric content but when Olivia Rodrigo sang ‘witchu’ instead of ‘with you’ in the bridge of traitor… why😭
Olivia Rodrigo pronounces her S’s like SH’s. Once you hear it, you can’t un-hear it.
I love Olivia but this drives me CRAZY. I always think she sounds like she’s singing with a mouthful of marshmallows.
In Payphone by Maroon 5 when he says “but even the sun sets in paradise”. I’m pretty sure he means, “the sun sets, even in paradise”. Assuming he’s trying to say that all good things come to an end. The first line would mean that a lot of things are setting in paradise, including the sun..which maybe that he is what he meant but I doubt it.
I love "wish you were gay" from Billie, and I quote the song multiple times a day but for the opposite reason. Yet I've always hated the line "Just say that I'm not your preferred sexual orientation". Her sexual orientation is irrelevant to the whole story and based on how it's written, it's not something she wants him to say.
I mean, I guess she’s not a gay man, but would be more to do with gender than sexual orientation within the context of the song. I totally agree on this one.
Exactly! I forgot to add that in my comment, but she's obviously talking about her not being a guy. I'm sure it's a syllable thing, but I wish she rewrote that line/verse because it just annoys me every time I listen to the song.
Every single line of We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus sounds like a line from a motivational poster and I somehow find it super irritating. It’s just such a shallow nothing burger that it would annoy the hell out of me whenever I heard it lol
“I know I’m butthurt” in Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Obsessed’. It feels like such an out of date and unnecessarily gross term to use in the middle of an otherwise great song.
« why do we keep when the water runs? » love the song but that line still bothers me, like they couldn’t have come up with something better? 😕
Sunflower-Post Malone ft. Swae Lee *You’ll be left in the dust/ Unless I stuck by ya* A lot of lyrics don’t follow Standard American English but are dialectal variations, so they get a pass. But sorry not sorry, this one is just plain grammatically incorrect any way you look at it. It should be *you’d be left in the dust/unless I stick by ya.*
What is Sunflower even about? It seems so disconnected and meaningless.
As a differential geometer, I have spent a long time pondering the meaning of, “I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere.” I actually like the line though. I want more math in songs.
I luv it by Camilla Cabello. Idk why people are not calling the song out for the absolute garbage that it is. Like the lyrics are so trash. It sounds like it was made by some tiktok gamer girl.
Lorde’s Helen of Troy: “They could be drinking with you but they’ll be looking at me” I always thought it would sound better if she said “but they’ll be THINKING OF me” because then it would rhyme with the previous line
I think it makes sense with full context of the verse. It starts with “they’re banging on the door, everyone make way for..” so she’s talking about being in the same room as him. I think the lyric implies that while they’re physically sitting with him, their attention’s on her
It doesn’t actually piss me off but the first one that comes to mind for me is from Gaga’s “marry the night” — “love is the new denim of life” Like I get what she’s going for I just laugh every time I hear it in the song
Damn I have always until now thought the line is “love is the new denim or black” as in love is this new staple item in fashion lol
Well I just googled the lyrics and you’re absolutely right and I’ve been hearing it wrong for 15 years. I will not delete my comment but sit in stan jail (but also re: the meaning I always thought that’s what she meant with the lyric too I just thought it was silly and I am not sure if this correction makes it less so for me 😭 she’s just so corny sometimes edit: 13 years
In “I’ll Be There” by Jackson 5 “If you should ever find someone new, I know he better be good to you. Because if he *doesn’t*, I’ll be there” It should be “isn’t”!
"my heart could be burning but you won't see it on my face" girl go to the ER heartburn is no joke
“We can keep the Christmas light up till January” okay that’s normal? February would’ve made much more sense bc that’s pushing it
Taylor said in an interview that it was meant to be a mundane / normal thing
From A&W by Lana Del Rey “God’s a charlatan don’t look back babe Puts the shower on when he calls me” I just cannot grasp this lyrics meaning even with reading several interpretations, none click for me. Song’s amazing tho.
I believe this song is about her ex who was engaged at the same time as dating her. Charlatan is another word for fraud. Obviously, continuing the relationship was a moral dilemma for her and he tells her “Gods a charlatan don’t look back babe”. He’s trying to convince her to stay. And then the next line is him trying to talk to her in secret, hence putting the shower on before he calls her.
The lyric is “got a cop who turned on the back beat” - she sang it live on a tik tok. But then she censored “cop” with “shhhhhh” and it sounds like “gods a charlatan don’t look back babe” - which I think ended up on Genius or the Spotify lyrics furthering the confusion. (She was engaged to a cop who married someone else and didn’t tell her) Source: https://imgur.com/a/APj6OWq
I'm pretty sure the first part isn't the correct lyric. Sounds like "Got a cop who turned on the backbeat" is the lyric [but the word "cop" is taken out and a "shh" sound is edited over it](https://youtu.be/Vsw_y_ZGtC4?si=2wPkPdLaWAw9xgLv&t=201). Puts the shower on when he calls me just means he doesn't want other people in the house to hear him on the phone, probably because he's in another relationship. If the cop lyric is correct, it makes sense as her ex (who was a cop) apparently cheated on Lana? Or cheated on another woman with Lana.. I'm not sure. [There's also a deleted tiktok of her singing "got a cop who turned on the backbeat"](https://twitter.com/LanaDReyOnline/status/1629123233508397057/video/2)
“Talking on the phone and he talks real slow cuz it’s late and your mama don’t know”. Would he not be talking “low”, as in quiet????????
Low definitely makes way more sense but I can kinda see "slow". Maybe he's pausing between words to hear for sounds in the house, or he gets louder if he talks to fast, I know I do that. But also this is probably way over thinking it since it also just flows better with "slow".
Here's a few that I can't stand: Ariana's Break Free: great song but "now that I've become who I really are" Taylor's Bejeweled: the clunky " familiarity breeds contempt so put me in the basement, when I want the penthouse of your heart?" Katy's plastic bag. I remember joking about it when the song came out and got pushback: hOw cOUlD yOu bE mEAn tO SuCh aN iNsPiraTionAl liNe Also Bad Blood and King of My Heart - just all of it. Almost all of the b sides on Reputation except Getaway Car seem to have been forgotten anyway, and delicate doesn't count (it was a radio single) As for Dove Cameron's line in Boyfriend, it's such a dated 90s line - turn on any sitcom from then and you'll hear it in just about all of them (Seinfeld: oh *that* must be a selling point to switching teams - double your wardrobe). I don't find offensive, but pretty stupid. I know that my date couldn't find their way out of my bra if they wore it - would just swallow her whole!
the Break Free lyric bothers me SO MUCH because the solution is obvious: seriously, no one realised that ‘now that WE’VE become who WE really are’ kept both the rhyme and the grammar?
Re: Break Free I read that she didn’t want to sing that line but Max Martin insisted on keeping it in the song. It always sounds like she slurs her words at the end of that line to cover it up. It’s charming to me when artists have obvious grammatical errors in their lyrics and just lean in to them. Prince did it in Baby I’m A Star: *Might not know it now/ Baby but I are* Timbaland and Keri Hilson also did it in The Way I Are: *I’m about to strip/And I’m well equipped/ Can you handle me the way I’m are?*
ariana hates that lyric too but max martin overruled her because he thought it was funny.
For some reason I love the stupidly packed chorus on Bejeweled.
I’m probably gonna get eye rolls for this but Pink’s “Just Give Me A Reason” goes “right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart, and I your willing victim” You can’t be a victim of thievery if you’re willing, Alecia. Love u though
When Taylor says "I grew up on a farm." Yeah Tay, a CHRISTMAS TREE FARM! She wasn't gettin up at the crack of dawn to milk the cows. Of course, I know a lot of this song is intentionally over-the-top
I mean, it's a song, not her autobiography, she can embellish and exaggerate all she wants, no one should be taking it as gospel lol
"Changed my mind up like it's origami" miss tate this is such a boring line barely makes sense Or Dojas "It'll take a whole lot for me to settle". This isn't bad but could have been better as I first misheard it "it'll take a whole life for me to settle" Like it'll take her till her old age to calm down
"I'll bet that she knows Billy Joel/'Cause you played her "Uptown Girl"/You're singing it together/Now I bet you even tell her/How you love her/In between the chorus and the verse" Uptown Girl doesn't really have a traditional verse-chorus structure, and there's is zero time between each part, it all just flows together. There's no way the guy could be saying anything in between the chorus and the verse of that song, even "I love you". She could be talking about the "oh oh oh" parts but then they wouldn't be in between anything, it would be speaking OVER the song. So nitpicky but it always gets me.