# Dumbest song lyrics in recent memory? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017 "2008-10-29T00:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/1 "2008-10-29T00:44:05Z")
I nominate “Sex on Fire” by Kings of Leon. If your sex is on fire, you need to see a doctor about some antibiotics, pronto. Your nominations? ---
**Author:** ![Clivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@Clivas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clivas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/2 "2008-10-29T03:03:28Z")
“My lovely lady lumps” I don’t care how hot a woman is, if she starts telling me about her lady lumps, I’m outta there. “I cry when angels deserve to die” Stupid on multiple levels. The whole “So what” song by pink. I don’t know exactly what to pinpoint because the minute the song comes on I start screaming “STUPID! STUPID! STUPID” while jabbing toothpicks into my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/3 "2008-10-29T03:13:04Z")
I heard some horrible warbaling about someone being “like a bird” and “not knowing where thier home is”. :rolleyes: Homing Pidgens, the whole “Capistrano” thing, migration patterns… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/4 "2008-10-29T13:19:42Z")
[QUOTE \ The whole “So what” song by pink. I don’t know exactly what to pinpoint because the minute the song comes on I start screaming “STUPID! STUPID! STUPID” while jabbing toothpicks into my ears.[/QUOTE] I’d say it’s the sing-song, irritating juvenile tone and since you’ve been fortunate enough _not_to get past the first “na na na na na na " it’s best to count your blessings. Let me just say the chorus contains the lyric"and you’re a tool”. Jeez, what is it with Pink. I know she’s supposed to be a “bad girl” but what is she, 10? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/5 "2008-10-29T13:40:06Z")
“Closer than my peeps you are to me.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/6 "2008-10-29T13:42:18Z")
“I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name.” … name the fucking horse! - Courtesy of Richard Jeni, deceased. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/7 "2008-10-29T13:45:39Z")
All Saints - “Never Ever”. Lyrics: “Vexing vocabulary runs right through me The alphabet runs right from A to Z” WOW, REALLY?!?!??!!??! ---
**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/8 "2008-10-29T17:57:46Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > “Closer than my peeps you are to me.” Shit! I know the song but can’t think of it. A little help please? ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/9 "2008-10-29T18:04:15Z")
Paralyzer by Finger Eleven Most of the lyrics are pretty dumb, but this is the worst one, IMHO. “I hold on so nervously to me and my drink. I wish it was cooling me.” The annoying things is, it’s a good song other than the lyrics. Whenever it comes on the radio I start bopping along with it. Then I remember the stupid lyrics and it spoils it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/10 "2008-10-29T18:18:34Z")
> [@GildedLily](#): > > Shit! I know the song but can’t think of it. A little help please? I had to google it, since I didn’t know either. Apparently it is a song by Shaggy called Angel. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/11 "2008-10-29T19:22:59Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > I had to google it, since I didn’t know either. Apparently it is a song by Shaggy called Angel. Which is loosely based on a song called [Angel of the Morning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_Morning). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/12 "2008-10-29T19:26:21Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > Which is loosely based on a song called [Angel of the Morning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_Morning). Yeah, I thought it was a parody the first time I heard it. I laughed until I found out that it was supposed to be serious. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/13 "2008-10-29T19:42:13Z")
B-a-n-a-n-a-s! ---
**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/14 "2008-10-29T20:04:55Z")
Hy hump. My hump my hump my hump. ---
**Author:** ![EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilHamsterOnCrack)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/15 "2008-10-29T20:19:20Z")
Without question, “YAHH!” by Soulja Boy. Literally 4 minutes of him yelling “Yah!!” into the microphone over (admittedly) a pretty catchy beat. Was on the radio here in Atlanta for a long time. The entire chorus is the words “Get out my face, ho.” over and over 8 times. It kinda makes sense as an expression of the annoyance of being suddenly famous, but still… very very dumb, ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/16 "2008-10-29T20:37:32Z")
_“Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world”_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/17 "2008-10-29T20:42:08Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > B-a-n-a-n-a-s! A song so dumb it’s sublime, so it may deserve it’s own category. Nelly: “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes” Chorus: “It is getting so hot, I’m gonna take my clothes off” Nominated for the lack of any effort to rhyme at all, or even to do something other than restate the same line. I remember how much this confused my poor dad the first time he heard it. In the 60s and 70s, rockers would write any stupid thing just to make a rhyme, but here was Nelly doing this. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/18 "2008-10-29T20:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Nelly: “It’s getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes” > Chorus: “It is getting so hot, I’m gonna take my clothes off” Take that back, jedi mind tricks are NOT dumb! ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/19 "2008-10-29T21:01:25Z")
At risk of being branded a heretic, I submit the following: > [@](#): > > He bag production, he got walrus gumboot > He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker > He got feet down below his knee > Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease > Come together right now over me 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017/20 "2008-10-29T21:14:19Z")
"Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house were born Into this world were thrown Like a dog without a bone An actor out on loan Riders on the storm Theres a killer on the road His brain is squirmin like a toad Take a long holiday Let your children play If ya give this man a ride Sweet memory will die Killer on the road, yeah" [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-song-lyrics-in-recent-memory/470017.md?page=2)