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Does anyone else hate this song?

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PawneeParksDept · 29/09/2018 21:35

Or if not what song do you hate for no reason

It goes :

"I've been so many places in my life and time"

And I think it's called A Song For You

It's really popular it seems on talent show auditions and I can't for the life of me think why, I think it's proper rubbish.

I also hate And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going for the same reason

A mystifyingly popular song

Anyone else?

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Sparklingbrook · 30/09/2018 18:06

I agree with loads of these.

Bohemian Rhapsody, too long and very odd.
Love Shack, just no.
Groove is in the Heart-hate it.
Come on Eileen-awful.

Ed Sheeran songs leave me cold, yes even Supermarket Flowers.

PussGirl · 30/09/2018 18:06

Anything by Ed Sheeran - too whiny
Anything by James Blunt - I hate his voice

Anything with a talking section in the middle - that Christmas one by Johnny Mathis is particularly awful

MorningsEleven · 30/09/2018 18:29

@Moonflower12

Have you seen

CiderBrains · 30/09/2018 18:42

It does make me laugh that people in the U.K. call Mariah Carey annoying and shreaky because in the US she is worshipped!

BlancheM · 30/09/2018 18:49

🤣 I agree with 99% of these! Irrational hatred of songs. Some of them I sing along to in a stupid voice to amuse the kids myself, others put certain imagery in my head e.g. 'Dance the night away' a group of sweaty dad-dancing men in a circle doing the chicken move, 'Happy' conjures up Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer doing one of their 'club' songs.
Some make me feel angry though. Rollercoaster by Ronan Keating gives me the raaage!

Caroian · 30/09/2018 18:53

I cannot believe that 8 pages in no one has mentioned Baby bloody Shark!! Most annoying song of all time surely!

I really hate Bruno Mars That's What I Like - it makes me itch every time I hear it.

PussGirl · 30/09/2018 18:56

Someone did mention Baby bloody Shark I think.

Bruno Mars - it that the hands down my pants one? - UURRGGHH

MaisyPops · 30/09/2018 18:58

The one that seems to be blah blah blah.. I wasn't expecting that... blah blah ah ... I wasn't expecting that... blah blah blah... I wasn't expecting that. It makes me irrationally irritated and ready to shout "no shit! You don't expect much!" Grin

I also hate the one that's 'if it's meant to be meant to be it'll be it'll be baby let it be... meant to be it'll be... it'll be... blah blah if it's meant to...' man sings... it'll be... blah blah... woman sings... it'll be it'll be...

Just no.

Llongyfarchiadau · 30/09/2018 19:03

That video is really very funny, MorningsEleven

MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly · 30/09/2018 19:04

Tub thumping by Chumba Wumba . It must have taken them 30 seconds to write it.

All of Ed Sheeran's latest stuff plus anything by George Ezra - so, so boring.

Wichita Ljneman though? One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Although I might be biased because my grandfather loved Glen Campbell as I always think of him when I hear it.

MaisyPops · 30/09/2018 19:06

MorningsEleven Is your username a reference to The Magic Numbers by any chance?

MorningsEleven · 30/09/2018 19:10

Yup! Takes me back to DD as a newborn and just listening to them in the snall hours.

PawneeParksDept · 30/09/2018 19:13

Love The Magic Numbers 😄

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MaryBoBary · 30/09/2018 19:17

Coldplay Yellow.

In fact any Coldplay song. And ANY Ellie Goulding. Whenever any of her songs come on adverts or the radio me and my OH immediately say “shut up Ellie Goulding” as scathingly as possible.

Yambabe · 30/09/2018 19:17

More Than Words by Extreme. Hate hate hate it.

The tune is dirgy, dull and uninspiring and the words? Basically have sex with me or you're chucked.Ugh. Rapey bastards. FucK RIGHT off.

Also Working My Way Back To You, all faux bright happy clappy, when he basically said he was an abusive piece of shit then couldn't understand why the girl didn't want to know him anymore. " I used to mess around and make you cry, it made me feel like a man inside" - urgh. How the HELL does that get played on mainstream radio ffs? Angry

StealthPolarBear · 30/09/2018 19:19

That it'll be it'll be it'll be ride with it ride with it riiiide with it song has no other lyrics. Endless chorus

StealthPolarBear · 30/09/2018 19:23

I see your Ellie Goulding and raise you and cover version of a good song by a woman with a breathy little girly voice. Your song is the worst but I also heard a cover of a song by donne Warwick I think the other day, the original is belted out in a strong woman's voice, the cover is lisped in a breathy ickle girly voice.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 30/09/2018 19:29

Oh and thinking of loud.. Poor woman soon as hits 70.. Off you go!!!

And perfect.. And it's many versions. I used to like Ed Shereen but so overplayed and a bit mehhh. Castle of the hill where just goes on how people have done.. Or how we'll they haven't done more like.

McFugget · 30/09/2018 19:43

Oh, and the awful Blurred Lines. The reasons are many.

Elledouble · 30/09/2018 19:44

I Wasn’t Expecting That is one of the worst songs ever. Mawkish and awful. I don’t understand how it got played so much.

The Rude song makes me laugh though. “Don’t you know I’m human too?” - well, no shit - if you were three pigeons in a hoodie dad would probably have a point about not wanting you to marry his daughter.

MaisyPops · 30/09/2018 19:45

morningseleven I love it!!

StealthPolarBear
Yes. That song. Whiny repetition of chorus. We get it... it will be! So stop saying it will be and just wait and see.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee
I hadn't thought of that about castle on the hill until someone said it's a bit of a smug 'look how much more successful I am than these folks but I'll talk about my roots to sound grounded'. I like ed Sherman but that critique has put me off the song.

dontbesillyhenry · 30/09/2018 19:47

We went to see one direction (don't judge it was a favour for a friend) and wasn't expecting that man was supporting. Nottingham the week before had the upbeat sound of five seconds of summer supporting, we had mawkish Michael singing us to suicide 😭😭😭

LightDrizzle · 30/09/2018 19:50

LetsGoFlyAKiteee I share your loathing of “Shape of You” it’s so smug and grubby.
The lyrics of Imagine Dragons “Next to Me” always strike me as a bit “Fuck me! Aren’t you just the doormat?” and wish the woman addressed would give him the finger and fuck off and find someone who won’t always let her down, even if he can’t sing songs.
There’s a whole list of songs that dj’s/ bands tend to churn out at dinner dances that I loathe, pitched at an older age group even than me, but I have older friends and they’ve got over that shit:
Tiger Feet
Build me up Buttercup 🤮
American Pie
Mustang Sally
Sweet Caroline

  • I do secretly enjoy a drunken rendition of Delilah, even though it’s about slaughtering an unfaithful woman, so perhaps I shouldn’t throw stones “Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!”
tillytoodles1 · 30/09/2018 19:52

An old song that literally wants to torment me forever is Judie Collins singing Send in The Clowns. I've heard it on the radio and TV, hailed as a classic but I just turn it off, it is the worst song I've ever heard, I hate it so much.

AnneOfCleavage · 30/09/2018 20:00

DD has just made me sit through Baby Shark. There's 1.5 mins I'll not get back 😁

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