# Name one thing more cringeworthy than pop country. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448 "2019-01-26T16:45:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/61 "2019-01-29T11:03:46Z")
[quote=“SigMan, post:56, topic:828448”] Screeching voices and screeching guitars WTF? [/QUOTE] A “metal” friend of mine once played a video for me that sounded just like that. I told him I didn’t like it. He grinned and responded, “Why? Is it too loud? Too extreme? Too hardcore?” I replied, “No. It’s boring.” He didn’t know what to say after that. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/62 "2019-01-29T12:39:28Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Nava, I’ll see your TV cringepop and raise you [a herd of depressed elephants failing to mate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw). At least I think that’s what’s going on here. Mother of God. I think both Zarathustra and Strauss just woke up and got out of their respective graves so they’d be able to commit suicide. The only one of mine that’s a bad execution is Iglesias, and that shows mainly if you actually understand the song\*; the rest are original and sounding as intended. - it’s sung from the point of view of someone drinking themselves to death after their lover left them. To me the JI version sounds more like a Movie Stupid Cheerleader having just discovered the paint in one of her nails is chipped. ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/63 "2019-01-29T14:35:59Z")
> [@bump](#): > > The problem there is that Bloodspot is kind of lame as bands like that go… Nevertheless they’re out there and there’s more like them. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/64 "2019-01-29T17:16:17Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Nava, I’ll see your TV cringepop and raise you [a herd of depressed elephants failing to mate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw). At least I think that’s what’s going on here. > **[Portsmouth Sinfonia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia)** > > The Portsmouth Sinfonia was an English orchestra founded by a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art in 1970. The Sinfonia was generally open to anyone and ended up drawing players who were either people without musical training or, if they were musicians, ones that chose to play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Among the founding members was one of their teachers, English composer Gavin Bryars. The orchestra started as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble ... It’s apparently sort of an in-joke and performance art- supposed to be bad. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/65 "2019-01-29T17:21:24Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Mother of God. I think both Zarathustra and Strauss just woke up and got out of their respective graves so they’d be able to commit suicide. The only one of mine that’s a bad execution is Iglesias, and that shows mainly if you actually understand the song\*; the rest are original and sounding as intended. My Spanish isn’t good enough to quite see what’s so bad about that Las Ketchup song- it seems kind of Spice Girls-ish mixed with the Macarena. Not good, but not that bad. That koala song though… eek. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/66 "2019-01-29T20:17:53Z")
> [@bump](#): > > My Spanish isn’t good enough to quite see what’s so bad about that Las Ketchup song- it seems kind of Spice Girls-ish mixed with the Macarena. Not good, but not that bad. Throw a good measure of [Rapper’s Delight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM) into the mix. I dunno, I should hate the Las Ketchup song, given that you couldn’t escape it anywhere in Europe in a long gone summer, but I always have the video in mind, and the three ladies are real eye-candy, that soothes my pain inflicted by the music. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/67 "2019-02-04T19:25:53Z")
We used to call Christian Rock “Jesus is my boyfriend” music. However, I have to say there are some pretty talented Christian Rock bands out there, and some pretty good Christian Rock has been done by bands not associated with the genre. The Doobie Brothers (“Jesus is Just Alright”), Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck (“People Get Ready”), Norman Greenbaum (“Spirit in the Sky”) come to mind. But if you think country is bad, and pop is bad, and bluegrass is bad, and rap is bad, let me introduce to you Gangstagrass, which mixes them all together: [Gangstagrass - Long Hard Times to Come](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWM10Us5co) [Gangstagrass - I’m Gonna put You Down](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezRhtnWWUUc) ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/68 "2019-02-05T12:17:18Z")
Hah! Justified. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448/69 "2019-02-05T21:25:32Z")
> [@bump](#): > > My Spanish isn’t good enough to quite see what’s so bad about that Las Ketchup song- it seems kind of Spice Girls-ish mixed with the Macarena. Not good, but not that bad. > > That koala song though… eek. Oh, Las Ketchup are a lot better than the Macarena; at least they didn’t manage to piss off half the country while trying to copyright something they hadn’t written (la Macarena was originally a military cadence). Mainly it’s the combination; except for JI, whose style I just can’t stomach, the other four have all been “The Summer Hit” one year or another. El Koala actually wasn’t aiming for that target but damn me if he didn’t split it in half. Other beauties with lyrics related to those of El Koala include [la puta de la cabra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrIy0_GPD_Q) (that fuckin’ goat), a representative of Rural Bakalao; [La Ramona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpzDkJ6Ldk4), which was directly intended as the Spanish version of a redneck joke (except back then we didn’t know what a redneck was, we just had our own _pueblerinos_); or [el tractor amarillo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Z8vUIk9s8), this one written when we already knew what a redneck was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-one-thing-more-cringeworthy-than-pop-country/828448.md?page=3)