Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Original poster

Song lyrics that infuriate you

397 replies

JimmyJabs · 19/09/2020 11:32

I'm sure this has been done before but I just heard Moonlight Shadow on the radio and it's set me right off. "4am in the morning"! A.m. MEANS morning, Oldfield, you oaf. It's tautological and really pissing annoying.

Also, Razorlight's woeful effort "I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was".

Share your annoyances so that we can all be enraged too!

OP posts:
OublietteBravo · 20/09/2020 21:47

Aha - This Alone is love

And all of us
Who travelling by trapdoors
Our souls are a myriad of wars
And I'm losing everyone

How many people travel by trapdoor? What does that even mean?

trunumber · 20/09/2020 21:48

I think Jarvis would appreciate the the lyrical development

OublietteBravo · 20/09/2020 21:53

@Readandwalk

"He abhors not the Virgins womb / Very God".

From O Come All Ye Faithful.

Very God?

But O Come All Ye Faithful wasn’t originally written in English, Very God is an attempt to translate Deum verum from Latin into English.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

Music
woodhill · 20/09/2020 21:54

Exile song is yucky

I wanna kiss you all over etc

LostStars39 · 20/09/2020 21:55

Wasn’t the whole point of ironic by Alanis Morrisette was that all the examples she gave weren’t ironic and that was the irony of the song?! Wink

LunaNorth · 20/09/2020 21:58

@woodhill

Exile song is yucky

I wanna kiss you all over etc

That song has always made me cringe. Same with ‘Afternoon Delight’. Blush
Shelleyjelly80 · 20/09/2020 22:02

That stupid 'rude' song by Magic where he goes to the women's father to ask permission, gets told no and then says he's going to marry her anyway! As if they are the only two who have a say 🤬 poor woman. I hate the whole asking permission thing-women are not chattels!

woodhill · 20/09/2020 22:06

Another one

Bobby Goldsboro

"She was thirty one and I was seventeen
I knew nothing about love, she knew everything
When I sat down beside her on the front porch swing
And wondered what the coming night would bring"

Predatory woman, makes me very uncomfortable

Original poster
JimmyJabs · 20/09/2020 22:14

If we're going to venture into hymns, I was always bothered by the line in All Things Bright and Beautiful that went "How great is God almighty, who has made all things well". It seems like a very underwhelming word to use of an omnipotent being who has apparently just created the whole world and everything in it. Yes, you've done that well, God. Very good! I think "well" was probably a stronger word once, but it was still obviously put there only because it rhymed with "tell".

OP posts:
devonmum8 · 20/09/2020 22:16

"I Drove All Night"... "crept in your room". Quite sinister.

emwithme · 20/09/2020 22:16

"Driving at 90 down those country lanes"

No no no no no. That's 50% above the speed limit and likely to lead to you wrapping yourself round a combine harvester moving between fields.

And driving at 60 would have scanned the same...

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/09/2020 22:18

But O Come All Ye Faithful wasn’t originally written in English, Very God is an attempt to translate Deum verum from Latin into English.

When I said 'writer', I should have said 'translator'; but 'very' did still accurately convey the sense of 'truly' or 'indeed' when the song was first rendered in English. It's come full circle in that, nowadays, we hear the comedy phrase 'How very dare you!' and think that the pompous character has just added in a superfluous word that he thinks adds gravitas but is in fact nonsensical; however, in old English, it would indeed carry the meaning that Derek Fay is intending, albeit with the word order swapped around from what we'd say nowadays: 'Really, how dare you' as opposed to 'How really dare you'.

emwithme · 20/09/2020 22:19

Also, Pharrell Williams, a room without a roof is called a fucking courtyard.

if you're happy and you know it clap your hands

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/09/2020 22:22

"I Drove All Night"... "crept in your room". Quite sinister.

Indeed it is, but I used to think it was 'crapped in your room', which is even worse! Surely leaving a printed business card or even a note scrawled on a Post-it would have been more traditional?!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/09/2020 22:24

Also, Pharrell Williams, a room without a roof is called a fucking courtyard.

You speak the truth. Also, when it's pouring down with rain outside, I tend to be a lot more happy if the room I'm in does have a roof. From the pov of the room itself (as per the song), I still think it would much prefer to have a roof than not.

jellybeanbonbon · 20/09/2020 22:39

You are the girl I’ve been dreaming of ever since I was little girl (But sung by a man?!

AriesTheRam · 20/09/2020 22:43

The Beautiful South

You'll need a little space for a thousand beds won't you? Won't you?

Erm no.He'll shag women in their beds or in his bed .He won't be buying out Bensons for Beds will he?

Vix20678 · 20/09/2020 22:43

I'ma get get get get you drunk
Get you love drunk off my hump
My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump
My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps

Angry
PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 20/09/2020 23:05

Little Things Mean A Lot really annoys me. It's a lovely sentiment, and a nice tune, but out of three verses that end "little things mean a lot", they had to force the rhyme in two of them.

Say I look nice when I'm not

and

To show me you haven't forgot

You'd think "lot" would be easy to rhyme, wouldn't you?! (The one that does work is "call me at six on the dot").

Mcarthurpark · 20/09/2020 23:13

@JimmyJabs

If we're going to venture into hymns, I was always bothered by the line in All Things Bright and Beautiful that went "How great is God almighty, who has made all things well". It seems like a very underwhelming word to use of an omnipotent being who has apparently just created the whole world and everything in it. Yes, you've done that well, God. Very good! I think "well" was probably a stronger word once, but it was still obviously put there only because it rhymed with "tell".
Yes, I have pondered the same. does seem an understatement. Very British! Reminds me of that Carol called The Seven Joys of Mary. It tells of how "Jesus made the lame to walk and caused the blind to see, to make the lame to walk, Good man,....". Good man? ?? Jesus is healing the lame and the blind and raising the dead and all the hymnwriter could say was "Good man!"
Mcarthurpark · 20/09/2020 23:14

@Vix20678

I'ma get get get get you drunk Get you love drunk off my hump My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps

Angry

All this humping! !! Must-have been written by a dog
Sarahlou63 · 20/09/2020 23:19

Can't believe no-one has mention the classic, um, "Classic" by Adrian Guaritz;

"Got to write a classic
Got to write it in an attic
Baby, I'm an addict now
An addict for your love
I was a stray boy
And you was my best toy"

It goes downhill from there...

KeepSmiling89 · 20/09/2020 23:23

@Shelleyjelly80 the music video for this shows that the girl wants to be with him as well

Creakyladder · 20/09/2020 23:25

I just remembered another dodgy one:

Toy Boy by Sinitta

Mmmmdanone · 20/09/2020 23:27

A song that goes (and I'm sorry I have no idea who by)
"ooh sometimes I get a good feeling. I get a feeling that I've never never never had before."
How can you sometimes get a feeling, but have also never had it before? 😂