I think I would have thought it was “mad show man.”
Michael Bolton, Can I Touch You… There?
Hands Up Baby - though it needs a little explanation.
The song was used as a jingle for Club Med, to advertise its hotel near Chichen Itza.
The lyrics, I assume unintentionally, reminded me of the fact that human sacrifices were carried out at that site in which the ancient Mayan priests tore the hearts out of their victims:
That association has made me smile ever since …
There’s an Irish folk song about the Troubles in the North: “The Town I Loved So Well.”
It’s supposed to be sad and touching, but it always cracks me up when I hear the line “There was music there in the Derry air.”
It sounds like people are making musical farts.
That’s not even close to the most ridiculous song recorded by a wrestler. Take “Hulkster in Heaven” by Hulk Hogan.
Going back to the “teenager in trouble” genre, the alltime winner has got to be “Run Joey Run” by David Geddes.
Oh God, that was both painful and hilarious!
“Daddy please don’t, it wasn’t his fault…”
The lyrics of the second verse of the UK national anthem, “God Save the Queen” (or King, when there happens to be a male reigning) were definitely not intended to be funny, but can anyone today sing about “knavish tricks” without suppressing laughter?
For Americans who want to sing along, the tune is the same as “My Country, 'Tis of Thee”, AKA “America”
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God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen. -
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!
If you truly can’t decide that, you haven’t listened to the rest of the song: all of it is a burn. There is nothing unintentional about that line being funny.
decades ago there was a song where I always laughed at the line “if this isn’t love that we’re making, then I don’t know what it is”*
what were we making again? making cookies? making time? oh, yes, making love. :rolleyes:
*it’s possible I am remembering it wrong, of course I just tried to google it and didn’t find the song I meant. I didn’t mean a Weird Al song.
I know the song as a whole is a burn; “you should go and [del] fuck [/del] love yourself” is pretty obvious I guess I just never took J-Biebs as capable of being intentionally funny. Part of me can picture him seriously saying to someone “oh yeah? Well my mama don’t even like you and she likes everyone. Hmmmmph.” Either way, it makes me smile.
I think The Bran Flakes understood very well how unintentionally funny that song is. Their 2001 cover really ramps up the camp on the voice-overs and especially the sobbing finale.
I almost forgot to mention “The Lack Thereof Song”, properly known as Inside Out by Eve 6.
“I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds (rhymes?)
But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside”
Who the hell says “lack thereof” besides, I don’t know, an attorney? Why not put a few "heretofore"s and smattering of "ergo"s to make it really edgy.
Another word you can’t get enough of in rock and roll is “cumbersome”. Seven Mary Three must have been on page three of their letter- a-day calendar when they wrote that one. Rocking out to a song that repeats the word “cumbersome” is funny enough but once I got it in my head to sing “I have undone my cummerbund” there was no chance of me ever listening to that song with a straight face again.
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
“Harder to Breathe” by Maroon 5: Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe - YouTube
If the song’s lyrics were more clever, it could be a tragic reflection on how an abuser doesn’t understand the impact of their behavior. Instead, it comes off as the singer trying to sound tough but failing miserably as they fall into self-pity. Bonus for incredibly douchebaggy lyrics aimed at a woman: “I have the tendency of getting very physical/So watch your step 'cause if I do you’ll need a miracle”. He’s literally threatening to beat a woman, then (a few lines later) trying to inspire her not to give up on the relationship. It’s the violent version of “Somebody that I Used to Know” by Gotye (another unintentionally funny self-pity song).
Those words are beloved of stuffy-sounding scientists. (A quick grep of my own articles turns up about a dozen instances.) But using them in song lyrics? Maybe if you’re Tom Lehrer.
I thought of mentioning this but for slightly different reasons. I’ve always thought of Adam Levine as the stereotypical wimpy, Jewish nebichle. I remember seeing a video of him rapping at his Bar Mitzvah; what a douche. On top of that, the video (not sure if it was this song) shows him with a woman who is tiny, even for model standards, and he’s barley bigger than she is. Hearing him trying to be tough is just funny. And pathetic. Ditto the song “Wake Up Call”
“Six foot tall, came without a warning so I had to shoot him dead”. Mr. Levine, I know six foot tall is an absolute giant to you but I think most men wouldn’t find that in and of itself intimidating.
“All I Need” by soap opera star Jack Wagner.
‘Friday’ by Rebecca Black probably counts as unintentionally funny if you’re not too annoyed to laugh.
This turns out be more of a mondegreen, and the song isn’t funny overall, but Keith Urban’s You’ll Think of Me has a line in the chorus that goes "take your cap and leave my sweater. . . ". I always thought it was “take your cat and leave my sweater” which still isn’t particularly funny except I always pictured it as the cat was *wearing *his sweater. It’s actually not a bad song and I always liked the mental giggle I got.