# Most annoying and/or insipid song lyrics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172 "2003-06-16T07:16:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nikkimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7bcc69/32.png) [@nikkimo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikkimo)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/61 "2013-09-10T18:05:08Z")
\*\*it starts off with this solo… “Wherever you are my love will keep you safe My heart will build a bridge of light across both time and space” and a couple of lines after… “Wherever I am I will love you day by day I will keep you safe, cling on to faith, along the dark, dark way” nice sentiment but a bit unlikely in a hail of bullets\*\* ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/62 "2013-09-10T20:25:32Z")
> [@TeaRoses](#): > > Kiss is coming to town, so I get to hear snippets of “I Just Wanna Rock and Roll All Night, and Party Every Day” every time I listen to the radio. In its defense, it did lead to the classic “I like to rock and roll all night and part of every day. I usually have errands… I can only rock from like 1-3.” And I adore Springsteen as much as the next person but I have to cringe at “I swear I’d drive all night again/just to buy you some shoes/and to taste your tender charms”. And “nuns run bald through Vatican halls, pregnant, pleading Immaculate Conception” is annoying simply because if anyone knows what the Immaculate Conception is, it would be nuns for heaven’s sake! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/63 "2013-09-10T20:43:08Z")
My vote for the worst lyrics ever written: > [@](#): > > Right about now, the funk soul brother > Check it out now, the funk soul brother > Right about now, the funk soul brother > Check it out now, the funk soul brother. > > Right about now, the funk soul brother > Check it out now, the funk soul brother > Right about now, the funk soul brother > Check it out now, the funk soul brother ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/64 "2013-09-10T20:46:09Z")
Note: this thread is 10 years old. I’ll spare you the stupid zombie jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/65 "2013-09-10T20:49:29Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > Note: this thread is 10 years old. I’ll spare you the stupid zombie jokes. I will not miss an opportunity, zombie or no, to trash the song I hate most in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/66 "2013-09-10T20:59:01Z")
According to the billboards, Kool and the Gang is still working the casinos on the Redneck Riviera. So, for going on 40 years they’ve been singing: “That’s the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it uh huh uh huh!” I’ll not torture you with lyrics, but for your consideration, I submit: _Old Shep_ by Red Foley _Phantom 309_ and _Teddy Bear_ by Red Sovine. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/67 "2013-09-10T21:29:55Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > According to the billboards, Kool and the Gang is still working the casinos on the Redneck Riviera. So, for going on 40 years they’ve been singing: > “That’s the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it uh huh uh huh!” Unless Kool and the Gang did a cover version, that song is by K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Were they ones at the casino? Anyway, it’s been **nine** years since this thread has been active. Two of the artists mentioned–Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston–have passed on. We need some newer crappy songs to name and shame here! There’s been a lot since 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/68 "2013-09-10T21:48:19Z")
“What’s your name, who’s your daddy, Is he rich (is he rich) like me?” and “Tell her no, no, no, no, no-no-no-no-no, no, no…” mmm ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/69 "2013-09-10T22:27:05Z")
I hate that I know this, but I heard it on the radio, and it was so insipid that I had to Google it in order to hate it by name. Remember only God can judge us / Forget the haters cause somebody loves ya - Miley Cyrus It’s 2013, you’re really going to sing that - possibly the least original lyric and sentiment I’ve heard this century. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/70 "2013-09-10T22:32:48Z")
“We live in a world, a world on two different axles” - Kendrick Lamar, _Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe_ “It’s our God-forsaken right to be loved” Jason Mraz, _i’m Yours_ “New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of” Alicia Keys/Jay-Z (though I strongly suspect it was Jay-Z who came up with this particular atrocity), _Empire State of Mind_ :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Crimeney! Isn’t there anyone anywhere in the recording process with the education and standing to say to these knobs: “Those words don’t mean what you think they mean”? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/71 "2013-09-10T22:43:25Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I mentioned this song under the “worst song ever recorded” thread. Didn’t want to be redundant. But yes, those lyrics are just horrible. Another one to think about is Bob Seager’s “Blame it on Midnight.” Particularly the timelessly horrible line: “Until you’ve been beside a man, you don’t know who he knows.” That’s “Shame On the Moon”. And in looking it up, I realized that it and “Against the Wind” are effectively the same song. “Still the Same” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/72 "2013-09-10T22:43:29Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > I will submit every single Japanese and Korean pop song ever written after 1980. It hardly gets any worst. The first one that comes to mind is Cibo Matto’s “Know Your Chicken”. It’s awful. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/73 "2013-09-10T22:52:44Z")
Another one that comes to mind immediately is “If” by David Gates & Bread. It’s often sung at weddings, and every couple I’ve known who had it sung at theirs got divorced. A song with lyrics that DO make sense, but is NOT appropriate for weddings even though it’s often sung at them, is Extreme’s megahit “More Than Words”. It’s a guy telling his girlfriend that she’s history unless she has sex with him. :smack: And as many of you have already figured out, I’m a huge R.E.M. fan and have been almost from day one, and some of their early songs have no set lyrics. There was an alt-rock band that had some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s called the Cocteau Twins where nobody was any good at writing lyrics, so they just came up with syllables that matched the music, and that’s what was sung. I also remember hearing about a thrash-metal band called Obituary that could not provide a lyric sheet for the same reason. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/74 "2013-09-10T23:50:02Z")
This song was getting pretty old even when this thread was new, but I’d like to nominate “Love a Rainy Night” by Eddie Rabbit, which included these amazingly creative lyrics: 'Cause I love a rainy night Yeah, I love a rainy night Ooh, I love a rainy night Yeah, I love a rainy night Showers washed All my cares away I wake up to a sunny day 'Cause I love a rainy night Yeah, I love a rainy night Well, I love a rainy night I love a rainy night Well, I love a rainy night You can see it in my eyes Yeah, I love a rainy night Well, it makes me high Ooh, I love a rainy night ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/75 "2013-09-11T00:35:57Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > The first one that comes to mind is Cibo Matto’s “Know Your Chicken”. It’s awful. Incorrect. That song is great. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/76 "2013-09-11T02:32:49Z")
SO many to choose from: “MacArthur Park” Someone left the cake out in the rain and I don’t think I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I’ll never have that recipe again. “Watching Scotty Grow” Disgust disallows me from going there. “Christmas Shoes” I wanna’ buy these shoes for my mama please it’s Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size Could you hurry sir, daddy says there’s not much time…blah blah blah blah blah And of course there’s always the default to THIS PABLUM: 1-877-KARS 4 KIDS (yeah you know the rest; sorry for getting it stuck in everybody’s head) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/77 "2013-09-11T03:18:29Z")
'Don’t you remember you told me you love me, baby? You said you’d be coming back this way again, baby? Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby! I love you, I really do!" - “Superstar” by Karen Carpenter (It’s the “baby baby baby baby” line that really puts this over the top) “Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out? Who let the dogs out? (etc.)” - by someone whose name I can’t remember and refuse to google. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/78 "2013-09-11T03:47:31Z")
Most of these are just bad songs. I offer “Horse With No Name”. As a song (or at least as a record, a performance) I rather like it, but the lyrics! There were plants and birds. and rocks and things, There was sand and hills and rings. The first thing I met, was a fly with a buzz, And the sky, with no clouds. The heat was hot, and the ground was dry, But the air was full of sound. So, there were things were there? Interesting. And the heat, you would really describe that as being hot? The plants, birds, things, sand, hills, and rings (rings?😕) all reappear in a later verse. I mean, you wouldn’t expect him to manage different imagery at this poetic level for each verse, would you? This time he is describing the seashore rather than the desert. Who would have thought that both things and rings would be characteristic of two such very different environments? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/79 "2013-09-11T03:53:22Z")
An older one that I’ve been hearing a lot lately due to the Backstreet Boys getting back together or celebrating 20 years together or whatever they’ve got going on right now— _I don’t care who you are where you’re from what you did as long as you love me_ Really? So a 350 pound grizzly guy, who just got out of prison for rape and murder has a chance, as long as he’s into you? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172/80 "2013-09-11T04:27:12Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > Speaking of Ex Beatles, what about George Harrison? It doesn’t get much more insipid than “Crackerbox Palace” This will piss off a lot of people, but my entry today is the same as it would have been ten years ago: “Imagine.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-and-or-insipid-song-lyrics/182172.md?page=5)