This makes sense to me. I find myself in recent years going long periods of time without listening to any of the music of my youth so that I can occasionally turn it on and enjoy it again.
Aw. One of my favorite 80s tunes. I still listen to that album, too! (“Rhythm of Youth” really is a solid, infectious (don’t even, guys) synth pop album.) Crazy-ass video, though.
Couldn’t disagree more, I think that song is badass. I’d rather hear music like that, which doesn’t take itself too seriously, than any of the overwrought melodramatic crap that makes up much of this thread and much of music on the radio in general.
I have ranted about this song before, but “Picture” by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow (two artists I despise).
Why do I hate it? THE LYRICS MAKE NO DAMNED SENSE.
So, you haven’t heard from him in 3 nights and you’re whining about it while banging some other dude. TRUE LOVE!
I detest “Walking in Memphis” in every aspect.
Blasphemy!
Other than the rhythm of the violins (barely a saving grace here) this overwrought pretentiousness always bummed me out when I was a kid.
And funny - still does!
Basically - the weaksauce emoting of “Can you give it all, to me” and dreary pleading of “How can we liiiiiiiiiiive?” still absolutely just rankles my drankle.
Oh and that budgie-on-bath-salts wailing synth riff isn’t doing me any favours.
Heh, now that we’ve basically gotten all the true dreck out of the way with*, now the selections will get less and less odious, making things here possibly a little more interesting.
*Or maybe, as KC mighta said - “We’ve only just begun.”
I can’t believe we found something actually interesting about this song, but it appears that a lot of people disagree over this.
This youtube video attempts to answer this by isolating the vocals: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fdKtiXgEcCQ
In the original, I can clearly hear ‘lady’. But apparently the official lyrics say it’s baby, and in the one live performance where you can see his lips, he’s clearly singing ‘baby’. But then, in that video it also sounds like ‘baby’, whereas in the original all I can hear is ‘lady’. I can clearly hear the L and the D, not two B’s.
On the other hand, it could also be an unintentional auditory illusion. The best example of that is the McGurk effect, which can be a very powerful illusion: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU
The one thing that makes me kind of smile about this song – and this is a music nerdy sort of thing – and one that I literally only noticed about three or four weeks ago when I heard it on the radio: It’s the cliche I-vi-IV-V progression, just displaced two chords over. So, it’s IV-V-I-vi. Somehow, I literally never noticed that until a few weeks ago.
Big whoop.
No, it’s not that big a deal, of course. But, like I said, form a music nerdy point of view, I found it interesting, since I never noticed that it’s one of the most common music progressions just displaced over a couple of bars, and, for me, it’s more like, how the fuck did I not notice that before?! sort of thing. No, it doesn’t make it a good song, of course. (But, honestly, I think it’s a perfectly serviceable pop tune, which may be/is damning it with faint praise.)
How about “If” by Bread?
Every couple I can think of who had this sung at their wedding got divorced.
Well if we are going to talk about mis-hearing words and even when you KNOW what the correct lyric is you STILL hear the wrong word, please pardon my hijack because I have to share that in Billy Joel’s Moving Out there is this line:
If he can’t drive with a broken back
At least he can polish the fenders
Annnnd, somehow I got in my teen-aged brain decades ago:
N***er can’t drive with a broken back
:eek::mad::eek::mad:
I have no idea why that is what I heard when this song was first in rotation on the radio, but there ya go. I am stuck with it and that is what I hear. Every time.
I even knew that wasn’t the correct lyric at the time (like they would say that on the radio in the 80s) but I simply cannot UN-hear it.
I am not even going to bother to ask if anyone else hears it that way, I accept it is my anomaly to bear.
Ok, in regards to the above, for whatever asinine reason, I always heard ”Mirror in the bathroom” as “nigger in the bathroom.” A Googling shows me that there was at least one other person who heard that, too. No fucking clue, either, why I heard it that way, but, as above, there ya go.
Is that from the same song?
“That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” by Carly Simon. 1971. Downbeat and depressing whiney-rock.
A good friend’s husband had this sung at his 1st wedding, so yeah, he was obviously divorced. That is the 1 and only case I know of, but your theory holds up in my experience.
“Back in Black”. Just an ugly, ugly sounding song.
More recently, “Havana” is driving me insane with its irritatingly irritating… and unforgettable… simplicity and stupidity. One of my worst earworms in years.
Because I’ve spent my life DEEPLY regretting knowing about the first song, the big hit that I could NOT avoid. It’s not like I said, “This may be the worst song I’ve ever heard. I MUST hear his entire oeuvre.” I was blissfully unaware of this. It’s actually a typically bad 80’s song, and not aggressively, offensively bad like, “Break My Stride”. I might actually use my time machine to kill Hitler if THIS had been his big hit, and, “Break My Stride” had never been recorded.