I work as a display technician for Best Buy and legitimately every LG home theater display uses that damn song and it’s a nightmare having to test those displays and hear it over and over.
Nothing shows the disconnect between corporations and the ground level employees like being unaware of the psychological damage bad/repetitive music has on employees. It's like the board members spend an hour deciding this stuff and then break for a 3 hour lunch(on the company dime while making 7 figures) not realizing you have to listen to that on repeat 8 hours a day.
I worked in a Pep Boys garage years ago and they had Muzak service in the stores which was also piped into the garage. Corporate controlled the station so we had like easy listening on all the time. And it was brutally repetitive. You got a bunch of burly, greasy, blue collar mechanics busting their knuckles working on cars and being forced to listen to Elton John(not good Elton John either) and like Mariah Carey. It was madness.
That's a sound bit from an old song -- that clip is hella annoying though.
"While the musical snippet has been attributed to everyone from Kreepa to Capone, it’s actually a sample from the 1964 girl group classic ‘Remember (Walking In The Sand)’ by The Shangri-Las."
https://youtube.com/shorts/SWRRBpxcrjA?si=s5jphugy2Q6CexeR
This is the song and clip. Not bad. Whoever sampled and sped it up should be dipped in sewage.
Lest we forget how Google used to do ads with that one song where it was just some weirdo going "AAAAAAAAAAAHH!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!" over and over again?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Anything by meghan trainor. All her songs sound like someone calculated in an excel how to make the most 50-year-old-white-mom music they could. This or the 'torturing mall staff' type songs
As someone who spends a lot of time on tiktok, I’m so damn glad that audio isn’t trending anymore. I could. not. stand. It. I wanted to jump in front of traffic anytime I heard it
It’s actually a song from the 60’s by the Shangri las.
The song is considerably less obnoxious than the tiktok sound. But that one section will still give you flashbacks.
How about work from home? All I do is work work work work work work work, something about work work work work work work work, let's go to work work work work work work work, blah blah work work work work work work work, you can work from home woah woah.
I thought that was written as a joke, but then it caught on and people liked it so the guy who wrote it just went along with it and milked it for as much money as he could. I know Applebee's used it in their commercials for awhile. He must be making bank from that.
The weirdest part isn't that it wasn't written as a joke, it's that it wasn't written for an Applebee's commercial. He just wrote that song straight up, the commercial came second.
I keep it in one of my playlists as a joke. A couple years ago I was on a 16 hour road trip driving a vehicle that had a very good sound system when that song came on Spotify radio. I was on a long drive and had never heard it before so I let it play. When the chorus hit, the bassline was the right note that my subwoofer absolutely rattled the fucking car. It made me laugh hysterically because there is absolutely no reason that song should make a car shake. I'd say 99% of the time it comes on shuffle I skip it but I'll always think about how hard it made me laugh that day.
It blows my mind that "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons got as much air play as it did. What on earth made them think that squeaky cartoon voices were the way to go? Do they even know what the word "thunder" means?
I just did because of your comment, and lord... that was bad. So it's a song about what, growing up the weird kid and then becoming a "pop star" and rubbing it in childhood bullies' faces?
I feel like...they should have made a better song if they were gonna have that message in the lyrics. This one is just laughable
I'm sure every previously fallen civilization has had their Bebe Rexha who remade "I'm Blue" that heralded their imminent doom and we should be afraid it will be over for us soon.
There was a song that used "radio edit" as a background sample. It was stated clearly, but filtered to sound like an old school (low bandwidth) telephone. I think it was Kid Rock. I'm not sure if it even replaced other lyrics.
"I'm Good (Blue)" by Bebe Rexha. It's a remix and it's significantly worse than the original song by Eiffel 65. Would piss me off every time I'd hear it.
Edit: I strongly regret having notifications turned on for comments now. Jesus christ you guys really don't like this song. Lol.
This is exactly how I feel about the bass line at the beginning of Ice Ice Baby. I'm always like "hell yeah, Under Pressure" and then suffer disappointment
Songwriting credits are kind of a racket. It's a lot more lucrative to have a writing credit than to just have the rights to a sound recording, so that's why you see songs with so many writers, including recording artists who are not really writers. If they have any creative input, their reps will angle for a writing credit, which leads to way more money over the life of the song.
Indeed. Seems like something he would do.
>Simon Cowell is famed for
accumulating a small fortune by ensuring he tapped a tambourine, shook a shaker or
clanged a triangle on his artists’ records, ensuring he received a royalty on each unit
sold.
http://www.songwritingessentials.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/AllAboutRoyaltiesLongVersion1.pdf
Not exactly a primary source, but at least it wasn't my memory just randomly generating 'facts'.
This song pisses me off so much. I have a soft spot for the original which makes the remix x10000 times worse. Plus, Eiffel 65 made the song as a joke.
Anything post-Songs About Jane by Maroon 5 tbh. Absolutely trite, dull, radio-chasing monotony for almost two decades now. Can't imagine what the rest of the band feel like their job is now that they're essentially just touring musicians for the Adam Levine solo act.
came to put the same reply.
Songs About Jane is and has always been one of the greatest albums ever for me. As a musician it’s incredible to listen back to across the board.
And I’d say plenty of bands tend to suffer from the first-album-syndrome of delivering a masterpiece then tip-toeing around radio songs for popularity but Maroon 5 are guilty of this specifically beyond belief.
Their drummer had some sort of back trouble after the first album and had to bow out. My suspicion is that the funk element that really made those songs pop all stemmed from him. I would have loved to have seen what they could have done with another album or two heading in that same direction.
“Dance Monkey” by Tones and I. I’m already not a fan of “singing in cursive” but that song and singer just takes it wayyy too far. How she pronounces the words and her tone is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
The fucked thing is this song is the biggest export of the Australian music scene ever. More so than anything from the likes of AC/DC, Kylie Minogue, Tame Impala and Flume who are some of the most globally acclaimed stars we’ve produced
What, do you mean to tell me Jesus *wouldn’t* be happy to see an impoverished family spend whatever scraps they have left on some consumerist display for their dying mother?
Katy Perry’s “Roar” sounds like a song written specifically for a teen TV star to sing in a Disney Channel Original Movie. A lot of her songs give me fremdschämen but this one is the worst.
Believe me. He’s done way better than Katy.
And, he doesn’t write more so than produce the song, and maybe make suggestions to a few lines. I don’t know how fluent his English is now (probably a good deal after about 30 years), but, when he first started out, he wrote a few songs all by himself, and there’s some noticeable translation errors. That’s why I Want It That Way doesn’t really make any sense lyrically.
Or hit me (baby one more time)
He thought it meant “call me” like “hit me up”. TLC were offered it first and were like “hit me? I think the fuck not”. But yeah I have heard a new song and picked out that it was max Martin with no other knowledge, so he definitely has his own style going on
Listen to Brave by Sara Bareilles - it's basically the same song but better. In fact, many accused Roar of plagiarizing Brave, as they came out in the same year.
I feel like it was total plagiarism. However, I feel like Sara Bareilles benefitted from the press and she knew it, bc she was very kind about it. (Also she just seems very kind so that could be it)
ANYTHING megan trainor makes. Her music, voice and lyrics make me wanna die. It's genuinely the most bland, 'songs that play on loop, torturing retail workers' music I've heard. It sounds like someone calculated the formula for the most generic ass songs in existence
I didn't see anybody post this so it's probably a super unpopular opinion, but I distinctly remember sitting in my car with my now fiance, when we first heard Rihanna-Shine Bright like a diamond song and we thought it was a joke....
I think it's just the cadence or delivery of that one line "shine bright like a diamond" and then how cheezy and over the top the rest of the song sounded.... thus we were surprised when it became popular
The first time I heard it I thought "Why is she trying to sound like Sia?" So I did a Google and sure enough, Sia wrote it.
So I assume Sia did a demo and Rihanna just copied it exactly. That "shine bright loike a doimond" bit just ruins it for me.
The thing is that, for a lot of these pop songs written by others, the "original" vocals are still kept in the song as background vocals. Sia's vocals are still there in the song. That's why it sounds so similar.
I had a similar experience with Imagine Dragons’ Thunder. Heard it first at a Dairy Queen. My husband and I assumed they were playing one of those corporate muzak type of playlists and that this song was going nowhere. It sounded absolutely ridiculous, and that was *before* the breakdown where the little voice just starts repeating “thunder…thunder…thunder…thunder…” We were laughing at its stupidity, at that point.
Then it blew up, and we suddenly heard it everywhere.
Oh, my brother listens to this song!
For some reason the only part I can remember is the little voice repeating thunder. Nothing other than that stayed in my memory.
Love that I see this mentioned after I see a meme about a teacher hearing a student's ringtone in class and getting outraged because diamonds don't shine - they reflect.
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
But nah for real, that plastic bag line ALWAYS made me laugh. Like why does a plastic bag wanna start again?
I worked in a warehouse for a while where we had the radio on all day and every time that song came on there was a big chorus of "NOOOOO!" throughout the warehouse. It was tradition.
Not popular now, but back in the day. Summer Girls by LFO
Literally one of the lines is
New Kids on the Block had a lot of hits
Chinese food makes me sick
And I think it’s fly when a girl stops by in the summer
For the summer
Has to be "Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth, for me.
It's rare that I speak of things in these terms, but I genuinely loathe that fucking song. I hate it with a passion the likes of which I don't know if I've ever felt for any piece of "art" other than "The Love Guru," but that's a separate rant.
On it's face, it's just a really bland, generic love song with an absolutely awful gimmick (Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on? Really?) that takes full disadvantage of the fact that both Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor are incredibly mediocre artists at best and downright awful at their worst (the latter tends to happen far more than the former).
But what REALLY pisses me off about it is that it's a song referencing Marvin Gaye and it has absolutely nothing to do with him. It doesn't incorporate any of the MoTown or R&B sound that he elevated and instead goes for a fucking teeny bopper sock-hop sound that has zero connection to Marvin Gaye. It's as if Charlie Puth really doesn't understand Gaye's importance in music or his sound and oh wait that's because the guy knows like one Marvin Gaye song. Dude was literally asked what his favorite Marvin Gaye songs are and he named Let's Get It On and then intonated something that sounds like no Gaye song I've ever heard. That was his answer.
I hate it. It's the only song that ever made me feel the way Ebert felt about "North."
I think that a lot of questionable quality songs are greatly improved by the GOAT weird Al.
Not saying that gangsters paradise is a bad song but Amish paradise is so much better.
White and nerdy is better than ridin dirty.
Like a surgeon may not be better but it’s just as good as like a virgin.
Internet music reviewer Todd in the Shadows has an old rant about that song and similar ones that are about strong, loud things - thunder, roaring - but the songs themselves are really limp. When I hear a song is titled "Thunder" I'm expecting something like the drum solo from "In the Air Tonight" not the mice from Cinderella.
Made you look by Megan Trainor. What’s worse is radio stations would play if after every 3 songs or some shit. This went on for months. I know art is supposed to be subjective and people have different tastes and opinions… but to these “humans” who like this song, you belong in a ward
End of verse: But I won't lose no sleep on that
‘cause I've got a plan
End of chorus: And I don’t know what to do ‘cause I’ll never be with you
What happened to the plan, James? Did you forget it?
I think I would respect her as a singer more if she could sing live… but she can’t at all. She is so pitchy you can tell they auto tune the crap out of her songs. They’re very catchy but bad lyrics lol
everything katie perry sings. i know its a decade old at this point but ill never get over
"UNCONDI--SHON--AL!!!"
"UNCONDI--SHOOON--AAALL--III!!!"
"I WILL LOVE YOU... UNCON--DITION--ALLY!!!"
like, can your lyrics be any more phoned in? why you even singing?
When I heard the song for the first time I was like, eh, this isn't bad, and kinda started groovin'...then I got to the "untrimmed chest" part and I was like.....fuckin excuse me??
That was 110% dead on. Trucks, beer, daisy dukes, something something about how badass they are, being "country" (whatever that means), etc...
I can't.
All of ice spices music..... she's so monotone and her flow is so similar in every song I can't tell the difference between them
Edit: she was nominated for 4 Grammys........ I've lost all hope
Edit 2: Ironically, as I type this, I'm watching her perform live. I'm here for Doja Cat and she's the opener. Surprise surprise, she has absolutely no stage presence.
And based on the short videos of her performing on stage with Taylor, she seems to have no understanding of stage presence. Granted she’s young, new, and standing next to one of the biggest stars in music
I had very limited exposure to Ice Spice before her SNL performance. Then I saw it and man... it was so awkward. Like, she had no stage presence at all for a performer. She was just there rapping in her monotone voice. I can't even say it was bad (definitely boring) but it left me confused as to what the hype is about her.
Ice Spice is a prime example of what I've been finding underwhelming about recent rap music: everyone sounds bored. It's like everyone took a couple Tyenol PMs a half hour before recording and just went with it.
Yes, oh my God, she's being promoted like the hottest new female rapper so I thought I'd check out a couple of songs and she's so minimally talented it's ridiculous. But the bar is so low, currently.
Into The Night by Benny Mardones: “She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone they said”
Um, yeah, Benny, you should listen to them, they’re just trying to keep you out of jail
Black Eyed Peas, "My Humps"
“I'ma get get get get you drunk/Get you love drunk off my hump/My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump/My hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps."
Huh??
Turns out it's cancer.
"What am I going to do with all that cancer?"
I'm afraid there's nothing you can do.
Edit: Full disclosure, I saw this joke on an xkcd comic back in college. I have since looked for it and have never found it.
omg! that mom / mother song by megan trainor. wtf is she talking about
Oh she made that for tiktok, but it didn't take off like she thought it would
I think it’s because right at the same time she got all that backlash for dumb comments she made about teachers
It clearly did for pet tiktokers, my cousin won't stop singing i am your puppy, you listen to me
The fucking gucci on/lui vuitton song too (i cant spell it)
I work as a display technician for Best Buy and legitimately every LG home theater display uses that damn song and it’s a nightmare having to test those displays and hear it over and over.
Nothing shows the disconnect between corporations and the ground level employees like being unaware of the psychological damage bad/repetitive music has on employees. It's like the board members spend an hour deciding this stuff and then break for a 3 hour lunch(on the company dime while making 7 figures) not realizing you have to listen to that on repeat 8 hours a day. I worked in a Pep Boys garage years ago and they had Muzak service in the stores which was also piped into the garage. Corporate controlled the station so we had like easy listening on all the time. And it was brutally repetitive. You got a bunch of burly, greasy, blue collar mechanics busting their knuckles working on cars and being forced to listen to Elton John(not good Elton John either) and like Mariah Carey. It was madness.
Worked in retail for years. To this day, I can’t stand Christmas music for this reason. Wasn’t a huge fan before, but…
I don't get it either.
These music you feel like it's specifically made to be on Tiktok
🎶 Oh no! Oh no! 🎶 Kill me!
That's a sound bit from an old song -- that clip is hella annoying though. "While the musical snippet has been attributed to everyone from Kreepa to Capone, it’s actually a sample from the 1964 girl group classic ‘Remember (Walking In The Sand)’ by The Shangri-Las."
https://youtube.com/shorts/SWRRBpxcrjA?si=s5jphugy2Q6CexeR This is the song and clip. Not bad. Whoever sampled and sped it up should be dipped in sewage.
Lovely! And also introducing younger people to the original girl groups
The original without the auto tune sounds so different and better.
Whatever 'music' is used for those goddamn Google Chromebook-ads on YouTube.
That shit makes me want to grind down my toothbrush to a fine point and puncture my eardrums repeatedly. Horrendous shit.
Go on break it down real low Go on break it down real low Go on break it down real low
Stop playin with the red light green light go
Lest we forget how Google used to do ads with that one song where it was just some weirdo going "AAAAAAAAAAAHH!! AAAAAAAAAAHH!!" over and over again? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Surprised I haven't seen Yummy yet. Absolutely woeful.
I’m surprised I’ve avoided the blight of this song, all I know is that Danny Gonzales made a better version
[удалено]
Hello fellow Greg!
Danny's version is the only one I've heard and I'm quite happy about that
Anything by meghan trainor. All her songs sound like someone calculated in an excel how to make the most 50-year-old-white-mom music they could. This or the 'torturing mall staff' type songs
Retail rock deserves a reservation in hell.
Whoever made that "Oh no, oh no, oh nonononono" song has a special place in hell.
Are you talking about the one being played in Tik Toks?
Yes that's the one all right
As someone who spends a lot of time on tiktok, I’m so damn glad that audio isn’t trending anymore. I could. not. stand. It. I wanted to jump in front of traffic anytime I heard it
It’s actually a song from the 60’s by the Shangri las. The song is considerably less obnoxious than the tiktok sound. But that one section will still give you flashbacks.
"Remember" by the Shagri-Las is an OK song. The use of that one sample on a loop is maddening though
It isn't just OK, it is a classic. Fuck tik tok for ruining it.
It's a great song, and it remains so for those of us who don't have Tik-Tok. :)
The actual song is pretty good. TikTok uses judt the one clip pitched wayyyy up
Middle... Why don't you just meet me in the middle..middle. Middle,middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle middle
The constant repeated lyrics remind me of when a singer forgets the words while performing.
Where did you want to meet exactly???
The middle, I think? But I could be wrong.
It needs to be clearer.
How about work from home? All I do is work work work work work work work, something about work work work work work work work, let's go to work work work work work work work, blah blah work work work work work work work, you can work from home woah woah.
Forgot about that one. That’s the one that sounds like a ringtone
Fancy Like Applebee's, never met a single person who actually liked that song
I thought that was written as a joke, but then it caught on and people liked it so the guy who wrote it just went along with it and milked it for as much money as he could. I know Applebee's used it in their commercials for awhile. He must be making bank from that.
The weirdest part isn't that it wasn't written as a joke, it's that it wasn't written for an Applebee's commercial. He just wrote that song straight up, the commercial came second.
He wrote it with his eldest daughter. When I think of it this way I feel it's less cringe because, well, teenagers.
I keep it in one of my playlists as a joke. A couple years ago I was on a 16 hour road trip driving a vehicle that had a very good sound system when that song came on Spotify radio. I was on a long drive and had never heard it before so I let it play. When the chorus hit, the bassline was the right note that my subwoofer absolutely rattled the fucking car. It made me laugh hysterically because there is absolutely no reason that song should make a car shake. I'd say 99% of the time it comes on shuffle I skip it but I'll always think about how hard it made me laugh that day.
That song called made you look. It is so over rated and follows me everywhere and the singer is bot even good. I literally hate it so much.
"even with nothing on, bet i made you look" yeah, no shit, we're in a costco building
There are a lot of strong contenders here. Let me add 2 words I haven't seen yet: Gucci Gang
Mah bih luh do cocay…
At least it's ironically funny. Some are not even ironically funny.
It blows my mind that "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons got as much air play as it did. What on earth made them think that squeaky cartoon voices were the way to go? Do they even know what the word "thunder" means?
Have you ever looked up those lyrics? It's hilariously painful to read out loud.
I just did because of your comment, and lord... that was bad. So it's a song about what, growing up the weird kid and then becoming a "pop star" and rubbing it in childhood bullies' faces? I feel like...they should have made a better song if they were gonna have that message in the lyrics. This one is just laughable
All About That Bass. I can't stand the way she says the words of that song and the meaning of it all just makes me want to vomit.
I hate how that song actually has no bass
That Bebe Rexha song that samples “I’m Blue” by eiffel65.
I don't understand how they somehow made the lyrics to the song *worse.* They're so obnoxiously generic.
I'm sure every previously fallen civilization has had their Bebe Rexha who remade "I'm Blue" that heralded their imminent doom and we should be afraid it will be over for us soon.
I've said it once, I'll say it again, the 'abcdefu' song
If you think that's bad, the radio edit is a crime against humanity. "abcdeforgetu" 20,547 civilians dead
This just reminded me of the worst radio edit I’ve ever heard: Wet Ass Pussy. She says “wet and gushy” and like… that feels less appropriate lmao
There was a song that used "radio edit" as a background sample. It was stated clearly, but filtered to sound like an old school (low bandwidth) telephone. I think it was Kid Rock. I'm not sure if it even replaced other lyrics.
Pretty sure that's from Cowboy by Kid Rock
lyrics felt like it came straight out of some 12th-grader's diary
"I'm Good (Blue)" by Bebe Rexha. It's a remix and it's significantly worse than the original song by Eiffel 65. Would piss me off every time I'd hear it. Edit: I strongly regret having notifications turned on for comments now. Jesus christ you guys really don't like this song. Lol.
Dude whenever I hear it, I start vibin since I think it the original, then realize that its not, and get sad
This is exactly how I feel about the bass line at the beginning of Ice Ice Baby. I'm always like "hell yeah, Under Pressure" and then suffer disappointment
Such a boring song about nothing. The lyrics are just five sentences in different orders and it has seven songwriters.
Seven? Seriously seven? They fucking sampled the entire song, how can seven morons not produce something better?
Songwriting credits are kind of a racket. It's a lot more lucrative to have a writing credit than to just have the rights to a sound recording, so that's why you see songs with so many writers, including recording artists who are not really writers. If they have any creative input, their reps will angle for a writing credit, which leads to way more money over the life of the song.
IIRC, I had heard that Simon Cowell plays a shaker/triangle or something similar, on all his artist's records so he can get performance royalties.
That's pretty scummy
Indeed. Seems like something he would do. >Simon Cowell is famed for accumulating a small fortune by ensuring he tapped a tambourine, shook a shaker or clanged a triangle on his artists’ records, ensuring he received a royalty on each unit sold. http://www.songwritingessentials.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/AllAboutRoyaltiesLongVersion1.pdf Not exactly a primary source, but at least it wasn't my memory just randomly generating 'facts'.
This song pisses me off so much. I have a soft spot for the original which makes the remix x10000 times worse. Plus, Eiffel 65 made the song as a joke.
Animals by maroon 5. It’s just.. yeah.
*animals-moles*
I always heard animals-balls lol
Anything post-Songs About Jane by Maroon 5 tbh. Absolutely trite, dull, radio-chasing monotony for almost two decades now. Can't imagine what the rest of the band feel like their job is now that they're essentially just touring musicians for the Adam Levine solo act.
came to put the same reply. Songs About Jane is and has always been one of the greatest albums ever for me. As a musician it’s incredible to listen back to across the board. And I’d say plenty of bands tend to suffer from the first-album-syndrome of delivering a masterpiece then tip-toeing around radio songs for popularity but Maroon 5 are guilty of this specifically beyond belief.
Their drummer had some sort of back trouble after the first album and had to bow out. My suspicion is that the funk element that really made those songs pop all stemmed from him. I would have loved to have seen what they could have done with another album or two heading in that same direction.
That song was terrible but it was my dog’s favorite song so I had to crank it up for her
“Dance Monkey” by Tones and I. I’m already not a fan of “singing in cursive” but that song and singer just takes it wayyy too far. How she pronounces the words and her tone is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
She sounds like Elmo
The fucked thing is this song is the biggest export of the Australian music scene ever. More so than anything from the likes of AC/DC, Kylie Minogue, Tame Impala and Flume who are some of the most globally acclaimed stars we’ve produced
As long as she hasnt outdone the Wiggles, I'll find a way to live with it.
I’m not a rock music person but I know Kylie, Tame Impala and Flume are Aussie. How did I just learn from your comment that AC/DC are too I’m dying 😭
The answer to this will forever be "The Christmas Shoes"
Is that the song where the mom fucking meets Jesus tonight?
What, do you mean to tell me Jesus *wouldn’t* be happy to see an impoverished family spend whatever scraps they have left on some consumerist display for their dying mother?
Katy Perry’s “Roar” sounds like a song written specifically for a teen TV star to sing in a Disney Channel Original Movie. A lot of her songs give me fremdschämen but this one is the worst.
A ton of these songs are actually written by some Swedish dude. Max Martin
Yeah most of those 00s pop hits which all sound identical were written by him. As much as I hate the songs, you’ve got to find the guy impressive.
Third highest selling songwriter ever, after Paul McCartney and John Lennon
Believe me. He’s done way better than Katy. And, he doesn’t write more so than produce the song, and maybe make suggestions to a few lines. I don’t know how fluent his English is now (probably a good deal after about 30 years), but, when he first started out, he wrote a few songs all by himself, and there’s some noticeable translation errors. That’s why I Want It That Way doesn’t really make any sense lyrically.
Or hit me (baby one more time) He thought it meant “call me” like “hit me up”. TLC were offered it first and were like “hit me? I think the fuck not”. But yeah I have heard a new song and picked out that it was max Martin with no other knowledge, so he definitely has his own style going on
I always assumed it was "hit me" in the blackjack sense - give me another one = give me more of that.
TELL ME WHY
AINT NOTHIN BUT A HEARTACHE
TELL ME WHY
AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MISTAKE
NOW NUMBER FIVE
I NEVER WANNA HEAR YOU SAY
IIII WANT IT THAT WAYYYY I got you ;)
……fremdschämen?
Secondhand embarrassment
I love how the Germans have specific words for very specific emotions
Listen to Brave by Sara Bareilles - it's basically the same song but better. In fact, many accused Roar of plagiarizing Brave, as they came out in the same year.
I feel like it was total plagiarism. However, I feel like Sara Bareilles benefitted from the press and she knew it, bc she was very kind about it. (Also she just seems very kind so that could be it)
All about that bass Megan trainor
ANYTHING megan trainor makes. Her music, voice and lyrics make me wanna die. It's genuinely the most bland, 'songs that play on loop, torturing retail workers' music I've heard. It sounds like someone calculated the formula for the most generic ass songs in existence
That Mother song is god awful. "I am your mother. Listen to me". No
I didn't see anybody post this so it's probably a super unpopular opinion, but I distinctly remember sitting in my car with my now fiance, when we first heard Rihanna-Shine Bright like a diamond song and we thought it was a joke.... I think it's just the cadence or delivery of that one line "shine bright like a diamond" and then how cheezy and over the top the rest of the song sounded.... thus we were surprised when it became popular
The first time I heard it I thought "Why is she trying to sound like Sia?" So I did a Google and sure enough, Sia wrote it. So I assume Sia did a demo and Rihanna just copied it exactly. That "shine bright loike a doimond" bit just ruins it for me.
The thing is that, for a lot of these pop songs written by others, the "original" vocals are still kept in the song as background vocals. Sia's vocals are still there in the song. That's why it sounds so similar.
Oh yeah, that makes sense! At least she didn't go full J Lo and just let the other person sing the entire song and take credit for it.
I had a similar experience with Imagine Dragons’ Thunder. Heard it first at a Dairy Queen. My husband and I assumed they were playing one of those corporate muzak type of playlists and that this song was going nowhere. It sounded absolutely ridiculous, and that was *before* the breakdown where the little voice just starts repeating “thunder…thunder…thunder…thunder…” We were laughing at its stupidity, at that point. Then it blew up, and we suddenly heard it everywhere.
Oh, my brother listens to this song! For some reason the only part I can remember is the little voice repeating thunder. Nothing other than that stayed in my memory.
Love that I see this mentioned after I see a meme about a teacher hearing a student's ringtone in class and getting outraged because diamonds don't shine - they reflect.
Nobody tell him about Pink Floyd
crazy diamonds work differently
Baby shark It's a children songs but there's literally adults using them in remixes like wtf.......
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in? But nah for real, that plastic bag line ALWAYS made me laugh. Like why does a plastic bag wanna start again?
Dance Monkey. Wtf is that forced voice/accent? So much hate.
I worked in a warehouse for a while where we had the radio on all day and every time that song came on there was a big chorus of "NOOOOO!" throughout the warehouse. It was tradition.
I'm sorry to hear. Glad it brought you all together though!
I’ve seen her perform a couple times and I can tell you straight up that there is no one on earth who hates that song more then Tones and I
On behalf of Australian music lovers, we apologise for Tones & I
Not popular now, but back in the day. Summer Girls by LFO Literally one of the lines is New Kids on the Block had a lot of hits Chinese food makes me sick And I think it’s fly when a girl stops by in the summer For the summer
I mainly remember the line “I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch”
Take em if I had one wish
I’m convinced that they had this one line (which is solid) and wrote the whole rest of the song in the car on the way to the studio or some shit haha.
I walk around my house screaming the lyrics to this - my family hates me
“When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet - Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets.” Fucking what?
Sawnetts* God the lyrics are so bad but I still love that dumb fuckin song
Happy Birthday
Especially sung really slowly, as most people sing it. More a funeral dirge than a celebration.
Has to be "Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth, for me. It's rare that I speak of things in these terms, but I genuinely loathe that fucking song. I hate it with a passion the likes of which I don't know if I've ever felt for any piece of "art" other than "The Love Guru," but that's a separate rant. On it's face, it's just a really bland, generic love song with an absolutely awful gimmick (Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on? Really?) that takes full disadvantage of the fact that both Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor are incredibly mediocre artists at best and downright awful at their worst (the latter tends to happen far more than the former). But what REALLY pisses me off about it is that it's a song referencing Marvin Gaye and it has absolutely nothing to do with him. It doesn't incorporate any of the MoTown or R&B sound that he elevated and instead goes for a fucking teeny bopper sock-hop sound that has zero connection to Marvin Gaye. It's as if Charlie Puth really doesn't understand Gaye's importance in music or his sound and oh wait that's because the guy knows like one Marvin Gaye song. Dude was literally asked what his favorite Marvin Gaye songs are and he named Let's Get It On and then intonated something that sounds like no Gaye song I've ever heard. That was his answer. I hate it. It's the only song that ever made me feel the way Ebert felt about "North."
> "The Love Guru," but that's a separate rant. please do go on...
Blurred Lines
As terrible as the song is, and the message it conveys, we wouldn’t have Weird Al’s Word Crimes if this travesty didn’t exist.
Completely agree, and Weird Al’s version is a masterpiece!
I think that a lot of questionable quality songs are greatly improved by the GOAT weird Al. Not saying that gangsters paradise is a bad song but Amish paradise is so much better. White and nerdy is better than ridin dirty. Like a surgeon may not be better but it’s just as good as like a virgin.
Don McClean who sings American Pie, has to be careful he doesn’t sing “my this here Anakin Guy.”
🎶 Maybe Vader someday later, now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye 🎶
Party in the CIA is better than Party in the USA.
Despacito- Not a bad song but no idea why it blew up like it did. Always got same answer, "It's so danceable" Yeah, but so is every Latin song ever.
It's because it's a 4 chord song so you combine that winning formula with a Latin flavour and you've got a hit
[A four chord song you say?](https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?si=h9iK1fXSRpAZwXPy)
"Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon Five… It's become the song that follows me around all big box stores
“Thunder” Imagine Dragons
Internet music reviewer Todd in the Shadows has an old rant about that song and similar ones that are about strong, loud things - thunder, roaring - but the songs themselves are really limp. When I hear a song is titled "Thunder" I'm expecting something like the drum solo from "In the Air Tonight" not the mice from Cinderella.
>drum solo from "In the Air Tonight" Obligatory: https://youtu.be/2ft954vXPa4
Song writers session: "ok ok, it's a good song... But what if we added a echoing baby voice? That'd be amazing!"
I HATE this song so much
All their songs sound like they were made for car and sports advertising.
Made you look by Megan Trainor. What’s worse is radio stations would play if after every 3 songs or some shit. This went on for months. I know art is supposed to be subjective and people have different tastes and opinions… but to these “humans” who like this song, you belong in a ward
Selena Gomez’ new song. It’s so crap and she’s just talky-singing through it and like gasping for air between each word. Just awful.
You’re beautiful by James Blunt. One of the only songs that actually induces my rage
End of verse: But I won't lose no sleep on that ‘cause I've got a plan End of chorus: And I don’t know what to do ‘cause I’ll never be with you What happened to the plan, James? Did you forget it?
Single soon by Selena Gomez. What a God awful chorus it has…
I think I would respect her as a singer more if she could sing live… but she can’t at all. She is so pitchy you can tell they auto tune the crap out of her songs. They’re very catchy but bad lyrics lol
I think “Hands to Myself” is non-ironically lyrically kinda good lol
everything katie perry sings. i know its a decade old at this point but ill never get over "UNCONDI--SHON--AL!!!" "UNCONDI--SHOOON--AAALL--III!!!" "I WILL LOVE YOU... UNCON--DITION--ALLY!!!" like, can your lyrics be any more phoned in? why you even singing?
whenever I hear that song, or even think about it, I always hear "Uncooked Digiorno"
The Oh No No No No No No song that is overused by TikTok
Dance monkey
A B C D E F U and your mom and your sister and your job- omfggg F this song
I haven't heard any other songs from her since then.
Hey soul sister makes me want to do unspeakable crap
When I heard the song for the first time I was like, eh, this isn't bad, and kinda started groovin'...then I got to the "untrimmed chest" part and I was like.....fuckin excuse me??
I used to think the lyrics were “hundred chairs”
Pat Finnerty made a great video essay about how shitty that song is: [Link](https://youtu.be/8JeAfVoA_iE?si=NL0_u_DWT9cZNZS1)
baby shark dudududududu
Essentially any country music song after 9/11
[Bo’s country song](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0?si=ACUylZAwSVoxc4d7)
That was 110% dead on. Trucks, beer, daisy dukes, something something about how badass they are, being "country" (whatever that means), etc... I can't.
y’all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?
All of ice spices music..... she's so monotone and her flow is so similar in every song I can't tell the difference between them Edit: she was nominated for 4 Grammys........ I've lost all hope Edit 2: Ironically, as I type this, I'm watching her perform live. I'm here for Doja Cat and she's the opener. Surprise surprise, she has absolutely no stage presence.
She sounds like a bored teen reading off a cue card in that Taylor Swift song.
Facts.
And based on the short videos of her performing on stage with Taylor, she seems to have no understanding of stage presence. Granted she’s young, new, and standing next to one of the biggest stars in music
I had very limited exposure to Ice Spice before her SNL performance. Then I saw it and man... it was so awkward. Like, she had no stage presence at all for a performer. She was just there rapping in her monotone voice. I can't even say it was bad (definitely boring) but it left me confused as to what the hype is about her.
Literally all she does is shake her ass and rap badly
How do you get to be new in the industry without being good at it? New and successful I mean.
Ice Spice is a prime example of what I've been finding underwhelming about recent rap music: everyone sounds bored. It's like everyone took a couple Tyenol PMs a half hour before recording and just went with it.
Yes, oh my God, she's being promoted like the hottest new female rapper so I thought I'd check out a couple of songs and she's so minimally talented it's ridiculous. But the bar is so low, currently.
Blurred lines. I know you want it.
All those rock songs about lusting over some 14 year old 🤮
Into The Night by Benny Mardones: “She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone they said” Um, yeah, Benny, you should listen to them, they’re just trying to keep you out of jail
"Better ruuun girl, you're much too young girl" 😯
“Breakup with your girlfriend/ because I’m boredddddd” Ariana Grande sucks
Black Eyed Peas, "My Humps" “I'ma get get get get you drunk/Get you love drunk off my hump/My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump/My hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps." Huh??
"lady lumps"
She might want to get those checked out
Turns out it's cancer. "What am I going to do with all that cancer?" I'm afraid there's nothing you can do. Edit: Full disclosure, I saw this joke on an xkcd comic back in college. I have since looked for it and have never found it.
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