# What songs do absolutely hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934 "2003-05-13T13:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TwungTister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TwungTister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwungTister)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/81 "2003-05-14T21:36:05Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t even like this song, but in its defense, I think the lyric is “I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel, I’m cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor.” > Bleeeegghh. That would make more sense. Then I don’t hate the song so much, since I don’t have to wonder how BDSM fits into it. ::red face:: \* \*\<\\> ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/82 "2003-05-14T21:43:25Z")
**Livin’ La Vida Loca** And. . . . . **Who Let The Dogs Out?** Both make me wanna go Postal on _somebody’s_ ass! ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/83 "2003-05-14T21:47:43Z")
I can’t believe we’ve got this far without anyone mentioning the ALL-TIME most gagworthy song in the history of music … “I’ve Never Been To Me”. (pauses for everyone to say “oh yes you’re right, forgot that one”) A more recent contender is that absolutely GOD FUCKING AWFUL Destiny’s Child song about his brown eyes telling his soul and he’s so deep in love and we haven’t argued since and blech blech blech. Every time I hear it I think “yeah bitch, he’s fucking your sister behind your back …” ---
**Author:** ![Zweistein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/54ee81/32.png) [@Zweistein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zweistein)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/84 "2003-05-14T22:13:12Z")
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You When I hear this song, I don’t believe in life after death anymore. Nooooooooooooooooooooooo ---
**Author:** ![Aranea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aranea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aranea)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/85 "2003-05-14T22:33:51Z")
“I Hope You Dance” by (I think) Leanne Womack. Inspirational songs make me cringe. It’s as though Zig Ziglar and his ilk are penning the things and sending them out. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/86 "2003-05-14T22:52:49Z")
Ooh just remembered another one… \*The best thing about being a woman Is the prerogative to have a little fun and… Oh, oh, oh, go totally crazy-forget I’m a lady Men’s shirts-short skirts Oh, oh, oh, really go wild-yeah, doin’ it in style Oh, oh, oh, get in the action-feel the attraction Color my hair-do what I dare Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free-yeah, to feel the way I feel Man! I feel like a woman! \* Yup, being a woman to me means wearing short skirts and coloring my hair. Thanks, Shania. :rolleyes: And **TwungTister** , “What if GOD was one of us?” is also one of my most hated…except when sung by Dr. Evil. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/87 "2003-05-14T23:00:48Z")
Why did you have to remind me of “Butterfly Kisses” and “Dear Mr. Jesus?” I was just beginning to heal. For that, I give you LINKIN PARK: _crawling in my skin these wounds they will not heal fear is how i fall confusing what is real_ _But in the end It doesn’t even matter One thing / I don’t know why It doesn’t even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind / I designed this rhyme To remind myself how I tried so hard_ Feel the teen angst, suckers! ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/88 "2003-05-14T23:52:46Z")
Darryl Worley’s [“Have You Forgotten”](http://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics%5CD007300020002.asp) It’s amoving ballad about how we need to go to war with Iraq to get bin Laden. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/89 "2003-05-14T23:56:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FallenAngel \* > \*\* > So many great travesties here… So I’ll add a few > > Just about anything by… Pink Floyd. > \*\* You \*are[i/] the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/90 "2003-05-15T00:09:36Z")
[quote] During the standoff with David Koresh’s Branch Davidians in Waco, Tex., in 1993, the FBI played loud recordings of dental drills and rabbits being slaughtered…[and] **Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achy Breaky Heart** … [link](http://www.globeandmail.com/series/sleep/) [quote] ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/91 "2003-05-15T00:20:27Z")
I… I like “In The End.” Yes, by Linkin Park. I’d never normally admit it, but I do. Is that so wrong?! Sniff. And hey, don’t blame it on the teenagers. There are plenty of songs written for adults with lyrics far more idiotic. Please see almost every song in this thread. I also like the Natalie Imbruglia song. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/92 "2003-05-15T00:26:21Z")
I’d like to second **American Pie**. I cannot say enough times how I hate that song. I also hate that Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow song. Keep building the rockstar myth, Kid Crock. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/93 "2003-05-15T00:32:07Z")
I know “It’s Been Awhile” has already been mentioned, but I have to quote the single dumbest line in any song ever: “And everything I can remember is in the past it all may seem.” Anyone here remember the future? Moron. Incidentally, I’ve never heard “Dear Mr. Jesus,” but I think I hate it for the title alone. And “Hey Jude” is not the most annoying Beatles song ever. It’s third, behind “Why Don’t We Just Do it in the Road?” (because we’d get run over, Paul), and “Long and Winding Road,” (with Phil Spector angel choirs and over-the-top brass, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/94 "2003-05-15T00:36:27Z")
Hotel California truly sucks ---
**Author:** ![guy\_from\_wpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@guy\_from\_wpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guy_from_wpa)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/95 "2003-05-15T00:54:38Z")
It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry if I want to, Cry if I want to, Cry if I want to, You would cry too, if it happened to you. Lady, your party was 40 f-ing years ago, shut the f— up! Ooo, are we allowed to swear here? ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/96 "2003-05-15T01:41:56Z")
I’ll stick to single songs and avoid artists whose entire (or damn near entire) output I can’t stand like Shawn Mullins, Tim McGraw, Limp Bizkit, Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, the Grateful Dead, Lenny Kravitz, etc. “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Every local bar band plays this one, and every drunk looks at his girl all cow-eyed and says, “This one’s for you, baby,” when it starts. Plus one summer in college I was forced to listen to it everyday at the same because the girl who worked in the same office as I did at the time would call her favorite station and request it. She had done it for so long the station dutifully played it everytime. “South Side” by Moby and Gwen Stefani. Time slows down when this one comes on. When I first heard it I could swear thought Gwen was saying “Kill yourself” during the song. “Flirtin’ With Disaster” by Molly Hatchet. It reminds me of a really shitty time in my life. But along with “Highway Song” by Blackfoot, it also typifiies the worst of Southern rock to me. “21 Questions” by 50 Cent. The song seemed bland enough until I heard the line, “I love you like a fat kid loves cake.” Ladies, is that the kind of expression of devotion you want to hear these days? How can anybody take this doofus seriously as a rapper with lines like that? “Swingin’” by John Anderson. I never liked his voice but this song was so popular when I was young, I always thought it was dumb, but it gets more so as time goes on. “Bop” by Dan Seals. Supposedly a country song but it was so 80s pop sounding when it came out I felt it was being played on the wrong stations. To me most modern country-pop music sounds like bastard offspring of this one song. I blame this one song for Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Shania Twain, Toby Keith, and all the psuedo-country “divas” like Faith Hill and Lee Ann Womack. Country radio went downhill for me from the moment this song came out. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/97 "2003-05-15T01:54:24Z")
**In the Year 2525** by Zager and Evans **Watching Scotty Grow** & **Honey** by Bobby Goldsboro **Sometimes when we Touch** by Dan Hill ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/98 "2003-05-15T02:38:26Z")
No Doubt’s “Underneath It All.” The sugar-frosted sweetness of the song and the overenunciation of the singer (“DoooOOOOOOOoooo YoooooOOOOOOooooo Reeeeellllllleeee LuuuuUUUUUUvvvvv Meeeeee…”) all grate on me. Also, what the heck does it mean when she says: _You’ve used up all your coupons And all you’ve got left is me_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/99 "2003-05-15T03:45:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bup \* > \*\ ***koeeoaddi** , you take that back about [Little Green Apples](http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=1609). > > It is _not_ Bobby Goldsboro - at least the good version isn’t, and it _kills_. \*\* You’re right. My mistake **bup** , based on [this.](http://www.bobbygoldsboro.com/music.html) ::shudder:: But _kills_? Now _Reach Out_ and _Burnadette_ killed. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934/100 "2003-05-15T07:25:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwungTister \* > \*\* I keep getting Neil Young mixed up with Neil Diamond. \*\* And then I have to think of Neil Young sing _I am, I said_… ::shudder:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-absolutely-hate/174934.md?page=6)