Sexual Healing, a song that almost everybody loves, bothers me to no end. What’s this “Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!” crap? Can’t you see I’m sleeping? Whenever I hear it, I feel like kicking my husband in the shins.
Another well-loved song that I cannot stand: Sweet Home Alabama. Fuck you and your racist governor, Lynryd.
And to those two girls who have current songs about wrecking their ex’s cars. I hope you like jail, you vandals.
I frequently take issue with songs, which annoys my husband no end. “Why can’t you just enjoy it? Why do you have to listen to the lyrics?”, he says.
I can’t just ignore the lyrics. If they’re stupid, or offensive, the song is going to bug me and that’s it.
For what it’s worth, Biggirl, I loathe Sexual Healing, so you’re not alone in that one.
Well, of course you liked kissing that girl, Kate. That’s sort of the rason why you kissed her in the first place. I mean, it’s not like you go around putting your tongue on other people’s throats by accident. Am I right?
And don’t tell your boyfriend.
“Baby, I got sick this mornin’,
…
…
and when I get that feelin’,
I need sexual healing”
Ew.
Single Ladies, by Beyonce. Look, bitch, if you’re not quite over your ex, and he is still pursuing you, just sit down with him and talk things out once and for all, instead of getting drunk and dancing provocatively with some poor bastard who probably has no idea you’re using him to get back at your ex for not proposing when he had the chance. :mad:
Even worse than SHA is that Kid Rock monstrosity that rips off SHA. Whenever I hear it come on the radio I scream and quickly change the channel. One day it may cause an auto accident, “But judge, that Kid Rock Alabama rip off song came on the radio!” “Case Dismissed!”
Those are the words? All I can ever understand it “if you liked it you should have put a ring on it” and “whoa oh oh oh”. And then that gets stuck in my head on an endless loop and I want to hurt something.
I can’t think of one now, but I’m constantly yelling at the radio, wanting to stab the lyricist in the eye…
Joe
Me three. The worst is when you make a sarcastic comment about a particularly odious lyric, and the others look at you with mildly confused eyes as they chew their cud, wondering what the fuck are you nattering about, and you are just steaming over the stupidity…
Oh god yes – I like kissing girls, too. Very much, in fact. Do I then just go and make shitty pop songs about it that annoy everybody to hell and back? No! And if I can restrain myself, then, inconsequential pop pixies of the world, so can you.
Biggirl: I always listen to lyrics, and there are several well loved songs that I can’t stand because of what’s being said. But your take on “Sweet Home Alabama” is - although understandable - not what was meant.
I’m taking this from the wiki entry, but I’ve had this discussion before and tracked down the same statements.
In 1975, Van Zant said: “The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood. The general public didn’t notice the words ‘Boo! Boo! Boo!’ after that particular line, and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor.”[3] “The line ‘We all did what we could do’ is sort of ambiguous,” Kooper notes “‘We tried to get Wallace out of there’ is how I always thought of it.”[3] Journalist John Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for, suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace.[3] “Wallace and I have very little in common,” Van Zant himself said, “I don’t like what he says about colored people.”[3]
They wrote the song in response to Neil Young’s song “Southern Man.” Skynyrd felt like Young was painting all southerners as racist, and wanted to make a statement disputing that.
“The Future.” Because anal sex is apparently exactly as symptomatic of the degradation of society as crack, complete deforestation, and rape.
I like Leonard Cohen a lot, but when I realized the import of that line it pissed me off more and more until I couldn’t really enjoy that song any more.
Especially since Jill Sobule did a much better song with the same title years ago. (Love the video with Fabio playing her boyfriend/husband/whatever in it.)
Oh, here’s one that still bothers me. That song “Wildfire” where the pony by that name breaks out of his stall because of a “killin’ frost”? That means it kills young plants, stuff like that. It’s a huge leap from a bit of frost to the blizzard which somehow picked up really quickly. The guy’s numbskull girl, goes after the creature yelling its name, and they got lost in the blizzard and died.
What if God was one of us?
Quite possibly one of the stupidest songs ever written. To wit:
He’s trying to make his way home
Back up to heaven all alone
Nobody calling on the phone
Except for the pope maybe in rome
:smack: I’ve always heard it as Ooo Ooo Ooo.
Grrr. This is one of mine too. But for me, the Catholic kicks in and I have to go through a rant–He was one of us* and we tortured and killed Him!!!
*OK, not exactly since He was true God and true man, but… see what I mean! I’m just trying to listen to the radio here!
I always liked that stanza. It cracked me up. But then, I’m a lapsed Catholic so. . …
As to SHA, yeah that’s what they’re saying now after all these years but check out the whole thing:
In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth
*
Watergate don’t bother me, racist governors don’t either. And you know, deep down, it doesn’t bother you either. And the colored girls go ‘oo, oo, oo’.
Sweet Home Alabama doesn’t bother me so much, but some of the uses of it have. F’rinstance, it’s currently used in ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was also used as the main title in the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
These people have some serious geography lessons awaiting them.
Just name the damn horse already.
I’ve had the conversation a few times at parties, and I’ve never heard a woman say she liked that song. It makes me sick to my stomach!
Actually, when the CIA predicted the fall of the USSR, they based it on two statistics, the falling life expectancy for Russian males, and the use of anal sex as birth control because condoms and other forms were unavailable.
Most of the songs that drive me nuts are just sheer stupidity or poor grammar/word choice.
A recent one: Taylor Swift “Our Song”
“Our song is a slamming screen door,
Sneakin’ out late, tapping on your window
When we’re on the phone and you talk real slow
Cause it’s late and your mama don’t know”
Low, she talks real LOW, so her Mama doesn’t hear that she’s on the phone, numbskull! ! !
An older one: Garth Brooks “The Beaches of Cheyenne”
“They she just went crazy, screamin out his name
She ran out into the ocean, and to this day they claim
That if you go down by the water you’ll see her footprints in the sand
cause every night she walks the beaches of Cheyenne.”
“He” died in a rodeo, which means they really are talking about Cheyenne Wyoming. Wyoming is land-locked, idiot; there are no beaches!
Older still: Simon and Garfunkle “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
When youre down and out,
When youre on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
Ill take your part.
When darkness comes
And pains is all around,
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Sail on silvergirl,
Sail on by.
Your time has come to shine.
All your dreams are on their way.
I absolutely LOVEd this song. I shed tears every time I heard it. Until I found out that the “silver girl” was a needle, and the “bridge” was heroin.
Now when I hear it I just spit.
I hereby denounce this interpretation of Bridge over Troubled Water. It is and will always be a song about the healing powers of love and friendship. So there!
No, the colored girls go do-da-do…
The lyric isn’t saying racist governors don’t bother them. You have to remember, these guys were friendly with Neil Young, and a lot of this song was a poke back as his portrayal of southern people. The point about Watergate is “Yeah, there are some stupid people in our part of the world, but there are jerks elsewhere as well. My conscience doesn’t bother me that some southerners are jerks, just like Nixon’s actions shouldn’t make you feel guilty”
Yeah, a lot of rednecks have adopted this as their anthem, but it’s just plain wrong to think that the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were racists. Besides, Wallace wasn’t even their governor, as they weren’t from Alabama.