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to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

564 replies

WTAF · 14/12/2011 21:44

In the car today, radio on, and they start playing All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield. Instantly I felt the rage creeping up.

'Been around the world and I, I
I can't find my baby,
I don't know why, why he's gone away '

YES YOU FUCKING DO, LISA! Allow me to refer you to your own words, not 30 seconds ago, when you said (and I quote):

'We had a quarrel, and I let myself go
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad'

And then, and then, LISA, you go on to say

'I did too much lying, wasted too much time'

So you do know, you know exactly why he's gone away, so you should just STFU and concentrate on finding him to apologise. Not singing that bullshit trying to make us feel sorry for you, when clearly it is all YOUR FAULT.

I feel better for that. Anyone else?

OP posts:
Saturdaynightbeaver · 18/12/2011 00:29

Lip up fatty by the way

MrsShrekTheThird · 18/12/2011 00:28

[click]
Grin

Saturdaynightbeaver · 18/12/2011 00:25

Oh yes, Mrs. Shrek, I have hundreds more where that came from

MrsShrekTheThird · 18/12/2011 00:24

(and pmsl)

Saturday, did you write that book of awful jokes my 8yo ds is reading? Wink

Saturdaynightbeaver · 18/12/2011 00:18

With regard to Katie Perry's "did you ever feel like a plastic bag?", one shouldn't mock as this is a real and very dangerous disease. I was tested for it once - I am not suffering from the disease but I am, in fact A CARRIER!!

thisonehasalittlecar · 17/12/2011 23:52

percy/kimdeal (pedant alert): the Ethiopian Christian Orthodox church doesn't celebrate Christmas until January so the question "Do they know it's Christmas time?" is redundant.

MrsShrekTheThird · 17/12/2011 23:41

am absolutely lmao.
My biggest annoyance is the first lines of a song which I otherwise quite like (and 5yo dd's favourite, 'nuf said)
"do you ever feel like a plastic bag Hmm [well erm now you mention it, er, no]
drifting through the wind wanting to start again? (what does a plastic bag start?)
do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards
one blow from caving in" [aren't playing cards made of, um, card?]

FairyonthetreeG · 17/12/2011 22:23

Sorry Blackout just seen your post - totally agree!

FairyonthetreeG · 17/12/2011 22:21

I'm laughing so much that I'm crying!

Lisa Stansfield has always bugged me!!!

The other one that gets on my nerves is: "You say it best, when you say nothing at all" So shut the fuck up woman!!!! That annoys me so much Xmas Angry

ManateeEquineOhara · 17/12/2011 22:02

I thought the 'chimney on her' referred to a neck brace that made 'her' look like a chimney. Confused

blackoutthexmaslights · 17/12/2011 21:48

what about ronan keeting with 'you say it best when you say nothing at all'

well cheers mate Hmm

Trills · 17/12/2011 21:46

I'm afraid it would be at the ghost/toast/most level...

LEttletownofBOFlehem · 17/12/2011 21:39

I love the candyfloss image- you should write a song, Trills!

babymutha · 17/12/2011 21:38

on another note can I recall how very very irked I was as an A level politics student to be constantly dogged by my Bros-ette, grolsch bottle top in DMs, red scarf round neck wearing little sister

"you're playing Karl Marx,
With your jogging in the park"

I mean PLEASE - where in Das Capital is there a SINGLE bloody exercise reference?

babymutha · 17/12/2011 21:34

I thought "what's she gonna look like with a chimney on her" was a big gay wizard of oz reference to the fact that she was a witch. At least that's what my tall slim gay friend told me.....

PaintYouByNumbers · 17/12/2011 21:30

Thanks whoever mentioned 'The Reflex'....back in my head after years of keeping it at bay, my maths teacher used to sing it when we were doing angles. Ugh :)

Trills · 17/12/2011 21:18

I think you could throw rage quite far, but confusion would float about, it'd be like trying to throw candyfloss.

PoppyAmex · 17/12/2011 20:57

wow Lettletown, and and all this time I thought they were just stoned!

LEttletownofBOFlehem · 17/12/2011 20:46

Googling has thrown up this interesting article, Poppy. It seems that it is a load of pretentious nonsense- who'd have thought, eh? Xmas Grin

PoppyAmex · 17/12/2011 20:31

Seriously, does ANYONE understand the meaning of of "A Whiter Shade of Pale"? Beautiful song, but truly baffling!

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

NotTheBlinkingGruffaloAgain · 17/12/2011 20:03

notjustamummy I know! I always laugh at that bit-
'a great baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair!!!!!'

NotTheBlinkingGruffaloAgain · 17/12/2011 19:59

'Cause we love our love,
in different sizes
I love her body, especially the lies
Time takes it's toll, but not on the eyes
Promise me this, take me tonight'

This doesn't amount to anything- what the bleedin' heck are you going on about? This song is beyond stupid

Panzee · 17/12/2011 19:54

Every morning at 7am Nick Jr is on in our house. The song starts:

"Wake up, wake up, no matter what you're doing"

...well if you're telling me to wake up presumably I can only be doing one thing - I am asleep!

inmysparetime · 17/12/2011 19:47

"Twas light years of time since his journey did start" in "the spaceman".
A light year is a measure of distance, not time. It makes the vein in my forehead throb when I hear it

LEttletownofBOFlehem · 17/12/2011 19:23

Like the idea of throwing emotions at someone: here, take sadness, rage, elation, the despair that only Leonard Cohen can evoke- BAM!