Subtitled: Things that make you go ‘Blecccch’ or Post a lyrical line that makes you cringe.
There have been numerous Cafe Society film themed threads over the years that are similar to Warburton’s recent Top 10 Worst Quotes or Lines From the Movies. I’m hard pressed (even with assistance of the search function) to come up with a list of Cheesy Lyrical Lines From The Music World on the SDMB – or as our moderator would put it: CHEESY LYRICAL LINES FROM THE SOI-DISANT MUSIC WORLD.
I look at it this way, there are countless more lyrics from songs than there is dialogue from film – so there’s got to be at least one threadful of bad lines we can compile. Off the top of my head, I’d say[ul][li]Ween has come up with stuff cheesier than “I’m the king of the world!”[]Mojo Nixon could best “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” without any effort.[]Swayze’s “Ditto” to Demi Moore’s “I Love You” was corny, but can’t hold a flame to Captain Beefheart’s Magic BandSpeaking of bands, My guess is The Bonzo Dog Bad has written more cringe-worthy lines than Top Gun’s “You can be my wingman any time”.[/ul]So, I guess what I’m asking is: Do you have a line from a song you’d like to contribute? I’ll get the ball rolling with a line heard at last year’s Grammy Awards Show - A true chestnut in the anals of modern music:[/li][quote]
Now I wanna see y’all on y’all baddest behavior - Lend me some suga’, I am your neighbor
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The Love Song, Broadway, Heavy Metal, Rap, Rock and Pop worlds are at your mercy.
Almost every word from the Association’s Cherish reeks of bad cheese, but here’s my favorite line
I was beginning to think that I could never find
The words that would make you want me
That had the right amount of letters, just the right sound
That could make you hear, make you see
That you are driving me out of my mind
And while everyone is familiar with MacArthur Park and the cake and the rain, I prefer this lesser-remembered line
Pressed between love’s hot irons, like a striped pair of pants
Scandal came up with a lyric that routinely makes me cringe in their 80s hit Goodbye to You, if only because the pauses are exactly long enough for your brain to figure out the lyric that’s coming next. Here, I’ll prove it:
Could I have loved someone like the one I see in you?
I remember the good times baby now,
As I get older, my music guilty pleasure file gets more and more packed, a recent addition being good ol’ Neil Diamond. But that guy can slip a crap line in there with the best of 'em- “The song you sang to me/The song you brang to me” ?!?
And the one from “I Am, I Said” about the fucking chair. Jeebuz.
But pretty much the entire song “Ramrod” is a self-parody of the car/penis motif.
Let your hair down sugar and pick up this beat
Come on and meet me tonight down on Bluebird Street
I’ve been working all week, I’m up to my neck in hock
Come Saturday night I let my ramrod rock
How dare you take my line? I came in here expressly to post that one and I thought I’d almost made it… but no. Denied. It’s actually “Songs you sang to me, Songs you brang to me…” The thing is, I love that song, but can’t stomach the “brang”. What’s a girl to do?
I don’t really know that it qualifies, but I’m getting damn sick and tired of hearing the words “rock steady” together. From that 80’s song (was it Cameo?) to Marc Broussard. Ugh.
Especially Marc Broussard, I think: “When I get there, you better to be ready to rock steady”
I can’t fight this feelin’ anymore.
I’ve forgotten what I started fightin’ for.
It’s time to bring this ship into the shore
And throw away the oar
Forever.
Oh, I thought of another one. Those of you who eschew country music, this one is from cutie-pie (but horrible lyricist) Clint Black.
It’s just as real as the wild horses
You would have to have to drag me away.
Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey”. All the lyrics, but especially:
“She wrecked the car and she was sad
And so afraid that I’d be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be
Guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck”
You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I’d rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I’m only just beginning to see the real you
And sometimes when we touch
The honesty’s too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides
Nobody will ever top Train’s amazingly lame “Drops of Jupiter”
God, that’s funny. Any song that can drop in late 90’s Generation Starbucks references to both “soy latte” and “tae-bo” - terms than in ten years no human on this planet will ever use - surely ranks as the most quickly DATED lyrics ever written.