coccatino
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Post by coccatino on Mar 7, 2007 14:52:22 GMT -5
If I have to hear "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt one more time, someone might get hurt. The lyrics to that song sound like a poem that I would have written when I was 12... that I would then be so disspaointed with that I would have taken it outside and buried it in the backyard, gone back inside, put on some flannel, and listened to Vitology. Seriously, and now he gets to date Petra? Not cool.
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Post by eatmyshorts on Mar 10, 2007 14:37:25 GMT -5
Avril Lavigne, "Sk8er Boi". "But all of her friends stuck up their nose And they had a problem with his baggy clothes." Nose? Singular? What, they're sharing one between them all? you might as well have put every verse to that song! and just look at th ename! that song has some of the worst most pathetic lyrics ever. |
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Post by sarahbot on Mar 10, 2007 16:45:39 GMT -5
coccatino, not to mention the fact that the song's not romantic. Radio stations, just because it's called "You're Beautiful" doesn't make it a love song. It's about a guy on drugs who spots an ex-girlfriend and want to get back with her even though she has a boyfriend. "But I won't lose no sleep on that, 'Cause I've got a plan." Not sweet, not beautiful, just wrong.
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Post by PoolMan on Mar 13, 2007 16:57:52 GMT -5
The king of them all, I think, is Paul McCartney's "But if this ever-changing world in which we live in..." In which we live in? Come on, Paul. And not a week later, from Justin's Idiocracy review: "of which I'm undoubtably a part of ". Tee hee! |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Mar 13, 2007 20:55:30 GMT -5
coccatino, not to mention the fact that the song's not romantic. Radio stations, just because it's called "You're Beautiful" doesn't make it a love song. It's about a guy on drugs who spots an ex-girlfriend and want to get back with her even though she has a boyfriend. "But I won't lose no sleep on that, 'Cause I've got a plan." Not sweet, not beautiful, just wrong. I love when that happens. Michael Stipe of R.E.M. likes to tell about how, back in the 80s, people were calling radio stations requesting "The One I Love" for their sweethearts... apparently not listening to the song enough to realize the lyrics are darkly ironic and refer to "the one I love" as "a simple prop to occupy my time." Ah, love! -D |
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 13, 2007 21:04:42 GMT -5
I know Sting finds the fact that people play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police at weddings funny. It's a song about a stalking, jealousy, and obsession.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Mar 13, 2007 22:04:19 GMT -5
I know Sting finds the fact that people play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police at weddings funny. It's a song about a stalking, jealousy, and obsession. So's "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthew Band. -D |
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coccatino
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Post by coccatino on Mar 14, 2007 11:13:22 GMT -5
I know Sting finds the fact that people play "Every Breath You Take" by The Police at weddings funny. It's a song about a stalking, jealousy, and obsession. So's "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthew Band. -D A friend of mine played '2 out of 3 ain't bad' at her wedding. "I want you... I need you.... but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you- don't be sad, cause 2 out of 3 ain't bad." I don't want to include that song in the bad lyrics discussion, but it never ceases to amaze me how people do not listen to the lyrics to songs at all. My sister's favorite song for the longest time was Lola by The Kinks. She even wanted to name her daughter Lola. She sang along with the song every single time she heard it, but never really listened to the words and put together the fact that Lola is a man. good times. |
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Post by Spiderdancer on Mar 14, 2007 12:12:56 GMT -5
So very true.
I remember as far back as high school listening to classmates sing along to Barbie Girl by Aqua (remember that one?). I don't consider those bad lyrics - I think they're actually sort of clever - but it's a song that mocks pop culture and, well, the Barbie mentality. So of course, since God has a sense of humor, it became a huge teeny-bop hit with EXACTLY the class of shallow, perky girls the ENTIRE SONG MAKES FUN OF.
Ha ha.
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Post by DarthShady on Mar 18, 2007 16:28:32 GMT -5
So very true. I remember as far back as high school listening to classmates sing along to Barbie Girl by Aqua (remember that one?). I don't consider those bad lyrics - I think they're actually sort of clever - but it's a song that mocks pop culture and, well, the Barbie mentality. So of course, since God has a sense of humor, it became a huge teeny-bop hit with EXACTLY the class of shallow, perky girls the ENTIRE SONG MAKES FUN OF. Ha ha. I love that Barbie Girl was also the favorited song in my entire elementary school -- and it had strangely sensual themes. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge Queen fan, but this line from Sweet Lady kinda confuses me: "You call me sweet/like I'm some kind of cheese" |
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Post by sarahbot on Mar 18, 2007 23:21:17 GMT -5
That reminds me of another weird cheese lyric, from the N Sync song "Celebrity." Yes, yes, fish, barrel, I get it. But I would listen to this song and find it just plain odd.
"If I didn't have cheese like every day
Would you still wanna be with me"
It's a song about a guy wondering if his girlfriend would be with him if he wasn't rich & famous. And cheese? Cheese? I mean, cheese is kinda expensive, especially the nice stuff. But is it really so ritzy as to keep you with someone you don't like? Actually, it reminds me of the 900% or so tax on cheese in the Thursday Next books.
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Post by DarthShady on Mar 19, 2007 9:15:54 GMT -5
It's official: cheese always makes for the most odd subject matter in music.
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Post by Magill on Mar 19, 2007 9:58:02 GMT -5
Cheese can be slang for "money," which makes sense for the N Sync song.
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 20, 2007 13:50:09 GMT -5
It's a Heartache:
"It ain't wise to need someone
As much as I depended on
You"
Bad rhyme aside, the word "need" OR the word "depend" should be used twice, not both since "as much as" is used. It just messes up the whole thought.
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Post by Thumbscrews McGee on May 7, 2007 18:14:27 GMT -5
There's a line in the song "Amsterdam" (I'm not sure who wrote it) that always seemed like the author put it in so he/she could write the rest of the song and then forgot to go back and change.
"In the port of Amsterdam there's a sailor who drinks
and he drinks and he drinks, and he drinks once again"
It's the "once again" part that bothers me.
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