Bad Lyrics

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

That one song by Tim McGraw. I think it's called "I Like It, I Love It". Yes, yes. It's country. I know. I'm from KY. This stuff was force fed to me. Anyway... Tim's the only country artist as a whole that I like and his songs comprise 80% of the FEW country songs I like. So all that aside, this REALLY bugs me every time I hear that song:

"I throwed out my shoulder but I won her that teddy bear".

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!! Everything about that REALLY bugs me. I mean, come on. I've heard artists use really bad grammar before and I could excuse it (sort of) because I realize the word was hard to rhyme otherwise, or it just fit with the mood or whatever. But oh man. This really gets me. It just totally perpetuates the stereotype that people from the South are a bunch of dribbling idiots that don't wear shoes and never learned how to read. Hmmm...well maybe a lot of country songs do that. But still!
Aside from that I just can't stand it because I'm really big into grammar and spelling. Not saying I'm perfect with it, but glaring mistakes get to me. Every time I hear that lyric it makes me cringe. EVERY time.

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[Spiderdancer]

So you can't listen to "Live and Let Die" without having a seizure? I know the song you're talking about, since my parents made us listen to country until we were old enough to have our own cars and radios which we could tune to the local rock station (or in my case, sometimes the oldies, though increasingly they play 60's/70's and I mostly HATE white 60's music). But I digress. It bugs me too.

I know many of us are probably familiar with Dave Barry's Bad Song Survey, but I still can't get over the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. This song has to be heard to be believed.
I mean, soft rhyme is one thing, but this song doesn't even try. "Lake that they call Gitchee Gumee" with "Storms of December come early" is merely one example; there is not ONE SINGLE LINE with a strong rhyme, and none of the weak ones are well-chosen.

It's just bad.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

spiderdancer said:

So you can't listen to "Live and Let Die" without having a seizure?

Haha. Honestly I would have written that lyric on here a while back if someone hadn't beaten me to it (forgot who). It does always bug me, but it can't get to me like the Tim McGraw one. Probably because it conjures up feelings of whenever people asked stupid questions like do I wear shoes all the time or do we have CD players in our cars. I can't help but remember stuff like that when I hear a popular country artist just glaringly and pointlessly use a word like "throwed". Ugh.

[Spiderdancer]

But... I don't have a cd player in my car...

(groan of anguish)

I console myself with the fact that it is a light purple Chrysler Cirrus, roughly the opposite of anything resembling a "country" or "cowboy" mode of transportation.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

You know, it's totally acceptable (yet thoroughly frustrating) not to have a CD player in your car. It's just the fact that people think we're so backward that NO ONE IN THE STATE has a car with one in it. *sigh of complete exhasperation at people's ignorance*

This all brings to mind that fact that I don't have a CD player in my car over here. I thought these people were supposed to be more advanced. Granted, the thing is like 12 years old, hehe.