Words of song that annoy you

[Whingey]

Why does rain fall from the sky. What else would it do?

*Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams
“Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe”

It annoys me that she could have used any word to describe the dress and she chooses “nice”. I mean, really?*

Agree! @fartandsnap

And in another Taylor song (can't remember which)... "when you think happiness, I hope you think of that little black dress" when describing a memory. I doubt it's his most prevailing happy thought.. her dress. Bit self indulgent from lovely taylor. Maybe he has his own favourite outfit.

@FunnyWonder

Even though the chorus lyrics of that awful Prefab Sprout dirge are meant to be ridiculous, they are still hugely annoying!

You might not like it, but it’s not a dirge.

Description
1 : a song or hymn of grief or lamentation especially : one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites a funeral dirge. 2 : a slow, solemn, and mournful piece of music.

Ah I love Prefab Sprout and I love their lyrics!

I can't bear the Ed Sheehan lyric 'crumbling like pastries' which is on a par with Katy Perry's plastic bag.

Also Kid Laroi and 'you can't make a wife out of a ho' - always gets turned off in my car.

Talking heads, Once in a lifetime

"Water dissolving and water removing,
There is water under the ocean"

I mean WTF, water doesn't dissolve and how can water possibly be under the ocean????

Definition of dirge 3 : anything ever wailed by Adele

I mean WTF, water doesn't dissolve and how can water possibly be under the ocean????

When it's a river

BLOODY WEIRD, RIGHT??*

@iklboo

I mean WTF, water doesn't dissolve and how can water possibly be under the ocean????

When it's a river

BLOODY WEIRD, RIGHT??*

Mind blown!!

Mad isn't it? 😲

@WalkingOnTheCracks You're quite right, technically it isn't a dirge. I could have chosen a more apt description, however the aforementioned repetitive chorus has a similar soporific effect on me as a dirge.

Ed Sheeran:
You and me are thrifty, so go all you can eat
Fill up your bag and I fill up a plate

Urgh.

And:

Is it weird that your bra
Remind me of a Katy Perry song?

Well yes, quite frankly it is Jason

So I'm the only one who absolutely loves Richard Harris and MacArthur Park........sad

Nobody has the right to tell you what music you should or shouldn't like.... but, yeah, you're one of quite a small group.

Lots of us have our own guilty musical pleasures - I really like the orchestrally-brilliant but nevertheless decidedly naff Music by John Miles

Hyperbowl? What?! I always imagine producers listening to this while she recorded it, laughing behind their hands at what an idiot she’ll look when it comes out. Meanies.

So you've never been in the audience at the Hyperbowl, then? Really? It's the interplanetary version of the comparatively small-potatoes Superbowl - Neptune hosted it last year - I thought everybody knew that?!?!?!

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I went for a walk on a winters day

No you didn’t, in winter evergreens are the only trees with leaves and they’re green. You went fir a walk in Autumn
It annoys me so much

Unless I’m completely wrong and trees have brown leaves in winter

@IHateWasps

Plus cancer doesn’t even rhyme with dancer you twat.

It doesn't?

If you say it with a northern accent it does, southern accent no

[quote FunnyWonder]@WalkingOnTheCracks You're quite right, technically it isn't a dirge. I could have chosen a more apt description, however the aforementioned repetitive chorus has a similar soporific effect on me as a dirge.[/quote]
Fair enough.

For me it’s one of my top five Songs That Never Fail to Cheer Me Up.

This, as Wodehouse or possibly Runyon observed, is what makes a horse race.

…in winter evergreens are the only trees with leaves and they’re green. You went fir a walk in Autumn.

I’m going to assume that’s a neat pun.

@Clawdy

So I'm the only one who absolutely loves Richard Harris and MacArthur Park........

You and loads of brass bands. It's (slightly bizarrely) become a bit of a .

John Wayne is big leggy is about racism
It’s not a novelty song
Obviously went over some peoples heads

@WalkingOnTheCracks

…in winter evergreens are the only trees with leaves and they’re green. You went fir a walk in Autumn.

I’m going to assume that’s a neat pun.

I wish, it’s fat fingers 😂

What now Desree???

Oh, I get the shivers
I don't want to see a ghost,
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

Torn
The sky’s torn, she’s torn
A man came to life dignified

I’m so confused….wtf does it all mean?

And “4am in the morning” from moonlight shadow
Just inexplicably makes me angry every time I hear it

@Hoorayhenryyah

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag. I mean seriously, wtf does a plastic bag even feel like??

Came on to say this!! Really pisses me off!!

I love Macarthur Park both by Richard Harris and Donna Summer

However I get creeped out by Bruce Springsteen's
Hey little girl is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone?
Uh huh, I got a bad desire

Even though I know he's referring to a woman. It's creepy to refer to women as little girls and their husbands/partners as daddies.

You and loads of brass bands. It's (slightly bizarrely) become a bit of a brass band standard.

But it's only the weirdy lyrics (and arguably the musical skill of the delivery of them) that are being criticised here. As an instrumental piece, it's a well-written and perfectly good composition.

If they played the Colonel Bogey March in a big public concert, nobody would think anything of it, as it's a longstanding, popular standard; but if they then brought on a vocalist to start singing along about Hitler being monorchid, it might be a liiiittle bizarre