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Route 9 in LEH : 3/27/2015 8:48 am
First things first, I'm not looking to get into a debate about true lyrics meaning and I'm not looking for those nitpicky lyric correctors. We will save that for another day and for a misinterpreted lyrics thread. Moving on, every single time I hear that stupid "Take Me to Church" song at work, an annoying chill rushes up my spine when I hear the " that looks tasty. That looks plenty."...man... that might be the worst thing I've ever heard in a song, and that is saying a lot...or very little

You?
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Big Al for the win, and  
ktinsc : 3/27/2015 11:50 am : link
you can include quite a bit of John Lennon's utopian drivel to the steaming pile that has been accumulated here.
1-877 Cars for Kids....  
Reb8thVA : 3/27/2015 11:50 am : link
no explanation needed.
This line is like nails on a chalkboard to me  
SwirlingEddie : 3/27/2015 12:26 pm : link
just because of the grammar:

In this ever changing world in which we live in...
Come on, Sir Paul! You can do better than that!

Otherwise, most cringeworthy to me goes to - Paul Anka!
Havin' My Baby

I won't even stoop to posting the lyrics here.


At the OP  
fkap : 3/27/2015 12:27 pm : link
mind immediately went to any number of Beatles tunes. The vast majority of their tunes are smarmy vomit or nonsensical drug induced lyrics that people go to great lengths to defend.

One of the first AC/DC tunes I heard was Shook me all night long. the line of "she told me to come, but I was already there" almost ruined them forever for me.
Second Headhunter on "Honey."  
manh george : 3/27/2015 12:30 pm : link
"See the tree how big it's grown
My friend it hasn't been too long,
it wasn't big."

I don't know who wrote this song,
But you can see his brain is blown,
his grave I'll dig.
RE: Beatles  
pjcas18 : 3/27/2015 12:32 pm : link
In comment 12206307 Gman11 said:
Quote:
Come Together

They must have really been into LSD when they wrote that one.


What the hell were they on when they wrote "we all live in a yellow submarine"?
RE: gman11  
Section331 : 3/27/2015 12:43 pm : link
In comment 12206323 jnoble said:
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that song was pretty much all John. He was still in his late Beatles 'write a bunch of nonsensical lyrics' phase that started with I Am The Walrus and continued unabated until the end.


I Am the Walrus was purposely written to be inane. Lennon had read about a schoolmaster at his former school giving kids writing assignments to decipher Beatles lyrics. Allegedly, when Lennon finished "Walrus", he said, "let the little fuckers figure that one out!"
How is Train  
Pete in MD : 3/27/2015 1:15 pm : link
only mentioned once on this thread?

Quote:
Oh I swear to you
I'll be there for you
This is not a drive by
Just a shy guy looking for a two-ply
Hefty bag to hold my love
When you move me everything is groovy
They don't like it sue me
Mmm the way you do me
My favorite:  
moose53 : 3/27/2015 1:24 pm : link
"Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have the recipe again
Oh, No!"
I know  
jnoble : 3/27/2015 1:26 pm : link
don't get me wrong, I'm one of the biggest Beatle fans you'll ever meet. But the more I thought about it as I got older the more apparent it was that Lennon was largely mailing it in lyrically 1967 and after:

Good Morning Good Morning: taken partially from a TV cereal commerical

Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite: taken almost word for word from an old poster

I Am The Walrus, Everybody's Got Something To Hide, Hey Bulldog, Glass Onion, Dig a Pony, Come Together, Across The Universe, Whats The New Mary Jane (unreleased)...all pretty much just random words and thoughts shoehorned into a song

Please hold off on flaming me as a Beatle hater...I love almost all these songs! I'm just being honest. I really think John just stopped giving a crap about writing really good lyrics after meeting Yoko. The heroin addiction didn't help much either circa the Let It Be sessions.



I'll go with a new one  
beatrixkiddo : 3/27/2015 1:34 pm : link
Truffle Butter from Nicki Minaj... Absolutely trashy and disgusting. Seriously, who the hell comes up with this as a thing.
well, the early stuff isn't much better  
fkap : 3/27/2015 1:36 pm : link
ooh I need your love, babe, guess you know it's true. Hope you need my love, babe, just like I need you. HOld me, love me, hold me, love me. aint got nothing but love, babe, 8 days a week.


Listen. Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? I'm in love with you


and when I touch you, I feel happy inside. It's such a feeling that my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.
Jnoble, I'm not sure if your response was to me,  
Section331 : 3/27/2015 1:37 pm : link
not implying you're a Beatle hater at all, just saw it as an opportunity to pass along what I think is a really funny aside about Walrus.

Although I completely disagree about many of the songs you list. Glass Onion is one of my favorite Beatle tunes. It was written as a companion piece to Alice in Wonderland, where everything is opposite (the walrus was Paul? No, it was John; I told you about the fool on the hill? No Paul told us about the fool on the hill, etc).

And you may be missing the humor in "Everybody's Got Something to Hide". If you look at the "monkey" as a bad habit, or a skeleton in the closet, I find it to be pretty funny.
She's a Lady - Tom Jones - love the song. but these lyrics would  
PatersonPlank : 3/27/2015 1:40 pm : link
not survive today:

Well, she's all you'd ever want
She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner
But she always knows her place
She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine

Well, she's never in the way
Always something nice to say, and what a blessin'
I can leave her on her own
Knowin' she's OK alone and there's no messin'
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine


RE: She's a Lady - Tom Jones - love the song. but these lyrics would  
Victor in CT : 3/27/2015 1:49 pm : link
In comment 12206607 PatersonPlank said:
Quote:
not survive today:

Well, she's all you'd ever want
She's the kind I like to flaunt and take to dinner
But she always knows her place
She's got style, she's got grace, she's a winner
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine

Well, she's never in the way
Always something nice to say, and what a blessin'
I can leave her on her own
Knowin' she's OK alone and there's no messin'
She's a lady
Oh, whoa, whoa, she's a lady
Talkin' about that little lady
And the lady is mine



Interesting that you (and many others) think these lyrics would not fly today, yet the rappers can routinely refer to women as bitches, hos, sluts and worse, thoroughly degrading and graphicly shouting how they would use and abuse them, and yet there is no problem or outcry.
Lyrics with dumb grammar--that isn't hip-hop or ebonics  
manh george : 3/27/2015 2:16 pm : link
"If you ever find someone new, you know he'd better be good to you, because if he doesn't (isn't?), I'll be there."

OK, class, conjugate the verb "do be."

"Always somethin' greener on the other side of that hill, I was born a wrangler and a rambler and I guess I always will."

Will what?


do be  
BobOnLI : 3/27/2015 2:21 pm : link
do be do?
section331  
jnoble : 3/27/2015 2:22 pm : link
Sorry for the misunderstanding...I DONT hate those songs! At all! I was just thinking off the top of my head of the John Beatle songs that he seemed to write the words for in a haphazard incoherant way or just copy-pasted from somewhere else.

btw, if Whats The New Mary Jane was released as an offical song on the White Album as originally intended it would've been lumped right in with Revolution 9 as one of their least liked. It sounds like a bad high school demo by a couple of stoned kids.
The Black Eyed Peas  
jnoble : 3/27/2015 2:23 pm : link
My Humps

Enough said. Effin' terrible.
OK you want the stupidest lyrics ever?  
Gman11 : 3/27/2015 3:20 pm : link
Here ya go.

My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that I'm sure
She smiled me on the subway
She was with another man
But I won't lose no sleep on that
'Cause I've got a plan

You're beautiful, you're beautiful
You're beautiful, it's true
I saw your face in a crowded place
And I don't know what to do
------
Wait, I thought he had a fucking plan. What happened?
And what do the first two verses have to do with anything? My life is brilliant? Yeah, but you're a dim bulb. lol

Bird, bird  
BobOnLI : 3/27/2015 3:24 pm : link
the bird is the word!
Brutal  
mirwin : 3/27/2015 3:31 pm : link
“Boy I send them bloods at your ass like a tampon.”- Lil Wayne Tha Carter IV
RE: Creativity of a 5 year old huh? ...  
Shockstarr80808 : 3/27/2015 3:41 pm : link
In comment 12206043 Jon said:
Quote:
I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Let's go and see the stars
The milky way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours



Confused, are you defending Nickelback? lol

I think thats a Kravitz song no?
iggy  
Nitro : 3/27/2015 3:42 pm : link
ig
Link - ( New Window )
you can't just say "Iggy"  
Greg from LI : 3/27/2015 3:46 pm : link
I thought you were linking a song by the real Iggy, and I wanted to find you and punch you.
"Elenore" by the Turtles...hands down  
JAG50 : 3/27/2015 4:17 pm : link
"I really think you're groovey, lets go out to a movie" Really?
JAG50  
manh george : 3/27/2015 4:29 pm : link
The thing is, nearly all of the Turtles songs were written either stoned, or with tongue implanted deeply in cheek.
RE: RE: Creativity of a 5 year old huh? ...  
Jon : 3/27/2015 4:43 pm : link
In comment 12206911 Shockstarr80808 said:
Quote:
In comment 12206043 Jon said:


Quote:


I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Let's go and see the stars
The milky way or even Mars
Where it could just be ours




Confused, are you defending Nickelback? lol

I think thats a Kravitz song no?


No and yes. Just adding to the sucky, childish lyrics spirit of the thread
I'm sure there are countless songs to consider  
pganut : 3/27/2015 4:54 pm : link
But "Barbie Girl" and "I'm Too Sexy" are two that jump to mind rife with shyte.
Mike Douglas  
Big Al : 3/27/2015 5:06 pm : link
The men in my little girl's life.
Victor in CT - yes, kind of strange isn't it  
PatersonPlank : 3/27/2015 6:09 pm : link
rap can degrade all they want, but I would bet a song like She's a Lady would bring an uproar. Just my opinion.
RE: I'm a Rush fan and this hurts to admit but...  
timintey : 3/27/2015 7:38 pm : link
In comment 12206338 jnoble said:
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except for a couple numbers, almost every song on the Snakes and Arrows album makes me cringe lyrically. Ditto "Wish Them Well" and "The Garden" on Clockwork Angels.

Blasphemy...if you want to bash Peart, go back to Test for Echo. Dog Years and Virtuality are awful..
although not to cringe in the way  
mdc1 : 3/27/2015 7:43 pm : link
this thread suggests about a song, but sometimes listening to those great Steely Dan songs reveal some really dark stuff when interpreted several ways.
RE: My favorite:  
mdc1 : 3/27/2015 7:47 pm : link
In comment 12206572 moose53 said:
Quote:
"Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
and I'll never have the recipe again
Oh, No!"


we agree on that and what is weird is that the music has some nice harmonic stuff going in it and then those whacko lyrics are laid over it. Maybe they could not figure how to create a vocal line over it.
My choice  
mdc1 : 3/27/2015 7:50 pm : link
that song "Unbelievable" by EMF. mumbles....your unbelievable for very long minutes...hype guys shouting in the background. Total shit.
90% of all pop songs  
mattlawson : 3/27/2015 9:09 pm : link
Is anyone coming up with anything were an actual singer/songwriter shit the bed? The Rush ones are intriguing...
"They made us drinks to drink...  
kelsto811 : 3/27/2015 9:40 pm : link
We drunk 'em...got drunk
entire ringeworthy songs  
imphree : 3/28/2015 4:24 am : link
Macarena in any language (Los del Río & the Bayside Boys)
Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Poker Face - Lady Gaga (appropriately she named herself after the hideous lyrics below)
Daddy Don't You walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
Billy Don't Be a Hero - Paper Lace
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
More Fool Me - Genesis (on Selling England By the Pound)

The entire song isn't bad, but Queen's
All we hear is
Radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Radio, someone still loves you!

sucks!
John Lennon utopian drivel?  
aquidneck : 3/28/2015 5:01 am : link
Hey ktinsc, I'm sure Lennon had someone in mind when he wrote this:
Working Class Hero - ( New Window )
mphree  
Klaatu : 3/28/2015 8:51 am : link
Billy Don't Be a Hero was sung by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.

Paper Lace did The Night Chicago Died.
MacArthur Park  
prh : 3/28/2015 12:53 pm : link
Inane lyrics, with a rotten performance by Richard Harris.

...  
Route 9 in LEH : 3/28/2015 1:33 pm : link
Say what you wanna say, and let the words fall out. I want to see you be brave. Ugh. This I feel will just open the floodgates for every annoying girlfriend. No! I don't want you to be encouraged to keep talking and "speak your mind"
RE: Christ  
Mark C : 3/30/2015 12:43 am : link
In comment 12206324 Greg from LI said:
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Mark C is a clown, that's nothing new, but for this question your pick in Folsom Prison Blues? Seriously?

Thanks Greg, I see you're still incapable of encountering an opinion you don't share without resorting to name calling. You're as self-assured as ever... But as to the OP, the question was what lyrics make you cringe. I love the song; just find that line a little cringe-worthy.
GnR's song Used to Lover Her  
SomeFan : 3/30/2015 9:40 am : link
"I used to love her, But I had to kill her."

Depending on how your love life is going, those are either the most cringeworthy or best lyrics ever.
Radio Ga ga is very embarrasing  
PatersonPlank : 3/30/2015 10:42 am : link
.
Lesser known rapper - Canibus: Second Round KO  
Wellington : 3/30/2015 10:55 am : link
But he is popular for the "beef" he got into with LL Cool J. This is the song that he put out to dis LL first... There is one line in particular that is disastrous:

Quote:
Somebody that he gotta know is better than him
but he feelin himself, cause he's got more cheddar than him
Well let me tell you somethin, you might got more cash then me
But you ain't got the skills to eat a ni***'s ass like me


It just blows my mind that's in there hahaha.
lmao Wellington  
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy : 3/30/2015 11:02 am : link
I'd go with "If You Seek Amy" by Britney Spears.

Just awful on so many levels. I feel embarrassed that it took me a couple of listens to finally get what she was saying.
started from the bottom now we here  
Les in TO : 3/30/2015 8:33 pm : link
started from the bottom now my whole team f***ng here

yeah drake, you and your crew started from the bottom, living in a community that is the rye, NY equivalent in toronto.
yep  
Route 9 in LEH : 3/30/2015 8:42 pm : link
Drake is such a fucking vagina
that Jar of Hearts song  
santacruzom : 3/30/2015 9:36 pm : link
You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul.

Bruno Mars lyrics are pretty gay too. Literally... NTTAWWT.
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