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Bad song lyrics.

jaybe

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We've got the best and now - the worst. I know it's hard to choose, there are so many.

I'll start with Paul Simon's new one.

'I'll stand guard outside your door
Like a postcard of a Golden Retriever.'


What ?
 
jaybe said:
We've got the best and now - the worst. I know it's hard to choose, there are so many.

I'll start with Paul Simon's new one.

'I'll stand guard outside your door
Like a postcard of a Golden Retriever.'


What ?

There are so many, I'm always cringing at some song but I'm drawing a blank right now. I'll have to turn the radio for an hour or so and I'll come up with something.
 
From Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending:

;quote]Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead[/quote]

The word "dead" doesn't really belong there, but it's tolerable. A few seconds later:

Don't leave me hangin'
In a city so dead

Uh Avril, there are other words besides "dead".
 
Definitely true! Avril needs to seriously rethink her lyrics...
Another funny one is Disturbed:

'Bring the violence, it's significant
To the life if you've ever known anyone.'

Could it be any more sloppily written?
 
We have yet to touch on the horrors of modern "songwriters'" mistakes. If you really want to be driven to tears, turn on the local rap radio station. Those idiots wouldn't know lyrics if they bit them in the glutteus maximus.

Some examples from famous/popular songs:

(Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani)
Ooooh ooh, this my shit, this my shit.
Let me hear you say this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S


We're so proud of you, Gwen. You know how to use profanity and make it sound stupid, and you can spell bananas. Maybe one day you'll pass the first grade!

(My Humps by the Black-Eyed Peas)
You love my lady lumps (love),
My hump, my hump, my hump (love),
My humps they got you...


o_O Whoa, there! Talk about repetitive. Nothing more happens in this song than them repeating the words "my humps." According to Wikipedia, "humps" in this song refer to Fergi's butt and "lumps" refer to her breasts. I have heard much more creative and romantic ways to describe breasts. I would never descend to calling them...yes. Let's move on, shall we?

(I Wanna Love You by Akon) (This I had to pull off of the ITunes top ten list...)
I see you windin’ and grindin’ up on the floor
I know you see me lookin' at you and you already know
I wanna love you, you already know


...well, I don't want to love you! I don't think anyone is going to be dancing on the floor in the way he's describing (looking like an imbecile, that is), look up, and say, "Oh, gee, that guy over there is staring at me. Maybe it's because my skirt is so short? Nah, he must want to fall in love with me." Yeah. I can see that happening.

The rest of that song appears to be too profane for me to post the lyrics, but that's the best sample out of the entire song.

It really horrifies me what is happening in the popular music scene. People are actually being pleased by complete lack of creativity and a bunch of talentless people talking and grunting and "rapping" as profanely and violently as possible about sex and drugs, and nothing interesting.

For this reason, my music tastes retreated underground. None of the people my age seem to be intelligent enough to figure out why. One girl was absolutely horrified that I didn't know of a single one of the rap songs she listed as her favorites, and demanded to know what I could possibly dance to if I hated rap. She rolled her eyes when I said electronic goth music. But at least it doesn't sound like an old car trying to start.
 
(I Wanna Love You by Akon) (This I had to pull off of the ITunes top ten list...) [I said:
I see you windin’ and grindin’ up on the floor
I know you see me lookin' at you and you already know
I wanna love you, you already know[/I]

the real lyrics to that song non edited are
"i see you winding and grinding up on that pole,
i know you see me looking at you and you already know,
i wanna F*ck you"

just terrible!!
 
XD. No, it gets worse than that. One part describes the process of f*cking, if memory serves. Society, how low can you sink into your own filth?
 
XD=LOL. Sorry. I confused a lot of people with that when I first joined. I use it so often chatting with my friends that I sometimes forget the rest of the world isn't aware of its existence. =^_^= <-but that is my famous kitty smiley!
 
I recently discovered in an Eminem song that the rapper invites someone to "kiss my black ass." I mean, really. That is dumb. And the girl who told me this kept listening to the album, telling me how great it was as she sat next to me in the bus. I bluntly told her that I would never waste my money on the trash she was listening to--mostly because she kept acting so horrified that I didn't like Akon, Eminem, and everything else she liked. I'm rude when I get irritated.

There used to be some hunting required in finding awful songs, but now that's what is popular. I know I'm smart, but surely I'm not that much smarter than everyone else that I'm listening to actual music and they're listening to what equals out to Barney-level lyrics with so much profanity in them that it loses its effect and sounds like a toddler discovering words his parents didn't want him to hear.

Ooh, yeah. They're cool. I'm just the nerdy girl who doesn't know what she's missing.
 
The 'lovely lady humps' thing is hilarious. It worked on that level. Didn't Will Farrell sing a bit of that in Blades of Glory?

Check out Monster Magnet for ridiculous lyrics. I like their music, it's very obvious that they spend much of their time inebriated.

"I've been locked in your pocket for the last hundred days
When I don't get my bath I take it out on the slaves"

And the immortal line "Spacelord, mother-mother" (or is it "mutha-mutha"?)
 
Hey, hey, Raven girl! Don't you pollute XD. It does not equal LOL. Not at all! LOL is a horrible thing that must die. XD is just a smiley face with really tightly closed eyes, like they do on South Park sometimes. Bah on you, girlie!

Also, I'd like to add a couple lines from Garbage's "When I Grow Up":
'Happy hours, golden showers
on a cruise to freak you out'

I don't know if this is just because I'm a somewhat kinky gal and I know a little more than perhaps I'd like to sometimes, but golden showers has some very creepy images cropping up for me every time I hear the lyrics.
 
Valk, the lyric is "Kiss my white naked ass." He never once called himself black.

Eminem FOREVA, DAWGS. *Twitch, bulge*.

No, seriously, I love his music.

You want bad lyrics? Listen to Fall Out Boy. I'll admit I like some of the tunes, but the lyrics are best left ignored.

EDIT! THIS IS NEEDED: Valk, I read the line about what you mistook for a lyric and then commented. Not sure if you'll ever come back to read this thread, but after reading your full post, I have to say you are irritatingly pretentious. And no, you're not that smart to. Cheers!
 
50 cent:

We're in the club doing the same old two step
Gorilla Unit cuz they say we bugged out
Cuz we don't go nowhere without toast
 
Without toast? Like, seriously? ::goes to check:: Oh, my.

And...I happen to like Eminem and Akon, Raven. I somehow didn't realize you'd posted twice until Seven pointed it out, but you gotta admit that it's more a matter of to each their own. Not all rap is awful. Some of Eminem's music is really wonderful to listen to. A lot of it has a great beat, and the words aren't always about pimps and hos. My boyfriend introduced me to Akon with a song featuring Konvicted, Don't Matter. It's a song I love to listen to because of how utterly sweet it is. Not all rap is bad, and it's a bit bitchy to say it is. Just keep an open mind. ^_^ Life's way happier that way.

Though, I will admit that girl sounded like she needed a boot to the head in the worst of ways.

Also, personally, I find some of The Beatles' stuff to be a bit oddly worded:

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from standing in the English rain
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo goo joob
.
 
Without toast? Like, seriously? ::goes to check:: Oh, my.

And...I happen to like Eminem and Akon, Raven. I somehow didn't realize you'd posted twice until Seven pointed it out, but you gotta admit that it's more a matter of to each their own. Not all rap is awful. Some of Eminem's music is really wonderful to listen to. A lot of it has a great beat, and the words aren't always about pimps and hos. My boyfriend introduced me to Akon with a song featuring Konvicted, Don't Matter. It's a song I love to listen to because of how utterly sweet it is. Not all rap is bad, and it's a bit bitchy to say it is. Just keep an open mind. ^_^ Life's way happier that way.

Though, I will admit that girl sounded like she needed a boot to the head in the worst of ways.

Also, personally, I find some of The Beatles' stuff to be a bit oddly worded:

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come
You get a tan from standing in the English rain
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob goo goo goo goo joob
.


don't know where you got the idea that I ever said 'all rap is bad.' this thread is titled bad lyrics. if you read the good lyrics thread, you'll see I quoted Talib Kweli (my favorite MC)

I love hip hop, the underground stuff, REAL hip hop. trust me, I know which kinda rap is good, and which is bad. the stuff you hear on the radio is the crap (bit****, guns, sex, drugs)
 
I'm surprised no one mentioned this. Now, I've never taken any prejudice against anyone for what they like to indulge in for entertainment, but still, I have to ask.

Lyrics. Heavy Metal. For real?


BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
 
I nominate all the songs by Manowar for lyrics like:

May your sword stay wet like a young girl in her
Pride
Hold your hammers high


Progressive rock also is a good source of silly lyrics like this one from ELP:

Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder
 
XD. No, it gets worse than that. One part describes the process of f*cking, if memory serves. Society, how low can you sink into your own filth?

The guy served jail time for auto theft, not exactly your friendly neighborhood well-rounded citizen.:rolleyes:
 
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