Words of song that annoy you

[Whingey]

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

I don’t know how Cole Porter got away with this in 1938….

If I invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine finnan haddie
I just adore his asking for more
But my heart belongs to Daddy

This, in case you don’t know, is a finnan haddie…

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Just read the lyrics and heard the song Sunmer (The First Time) By Bobby Goldsboro.

I'm the same age as the seductress in the song and the thought of a seventeen year old CHILD??? I just can't imagine.

I do my hair toss
Check my nails

Can't even listen to it...makes me rage

@AlbusSeverusMalfoy

And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time

Is there ever?

Hahaha I read every post up to there to see if anyone else had this one 😂 Load of patronising twaddle, that song.

The lyrics to Best Song Ever, e.g.:
I think it went oh, oh, oh
I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah
I think it goes (ooh)

Can't make a wife out of a hoe

I had forgotten about 'songs she brang to me' and have been chuckling through the whole thread.
From 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' - "he starts to shake and cough/ just like the old man in that famous book by Nabokov"
Rhianna's "if there's sex in the air I don't care about the smell" is just odd. Would a toxic fart not be a bit of a deal breaker?

@OneofPansPeople hahahahahha

Queen...
But I knew life before
I left my nursery, huh
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Hey, big woman
You made a bad boy out of me

And can we include jingles?
I'd rather have a bowl of coco pops. Rather than what?!

No Rihanna you can’t SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND. You can reflect bright like a diamond but you can’t shine because diamonds don’t have their own light source.

I can’t listen to that song without rage.

Rhianna's "if there's sex in the air I don't care about the smell" is just odd. Would a toxic fart not be a bit of a deal breaker?

Maybe she's just so confident in herself that she simply doesn't care that her bum's a smeller....smeller....smeller....smeller....

Sorry haven't RTFT but I'm just watching an old Top of the Pops. Moonlight Shadow, Mike Oldfield. 4AM in the morning It's either 4AM or 4 in the morning. Not both.

I always snigger when Boy George claims to be "a man with no conviction" - he's a fibber. I mean, I know the conviction came afterwards, but still...

No Rihanna you can’t SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND. You can reflect bright like a diamond but you can’t shine because diamonds don’t have their own light source.

You reminded me of that tirade by a scientist (I forget which one) against Katie Melua's Nine Million Bicycles song - when she started giving what he considered to be wildly inaccurate information about space and other sciencey things

I'm completely torn on this one, because, whilst I absolutely love Manic Monday - in many ways, the perfect pop song - I'm also annoyed at Prince constructing the song in such a way that he knew he'd need a four-way rhyme, but then rhyming Monday with Sunday (bit obvious, but fair enough), 'fun day' (stretching it now) and then 'I don't have to run day' (you what, mate?!?!?!). Maybe he did it deliberately, as it wasn't really his usual style, but even so....!!

Also, I can't bring myself to criticise the amazing, hauntingly beautiful song Lady Of A Certain Age by the Divine Comedy, but it's only ever 99.999% a flawless song to me, owing to the tiniest part:

You had to marry someone very very rich
So that you might be kept in the style to which
You had all of your life been accustomed to

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Divine Comedy, but that snippet has instantly slipped them in between parachuting and fried locusts on my list of Things I Intend to Die Without Having Had a Go At.

Oh, it's entirely your choice, but that would be a shame, WalkingOnTheCracks

This is a beautiful live version of the song:

I really loathe in the summertime by mungo Jerry for if her daddy’s rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy’s poor just do what you feel.
I can overlook a lot of sexist lyrics but this one really grates.

Rhianna's "if there's sex in the air I don't care about the smell" is just odd. Would a toxic fart not be a bit of a deal breaker?

It's

"Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it"

See...loads better

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Rhianna's "if there's sex in the air I don't care about the smell" is just odd. Would a toxic fart not be a bit of a deal breaker?

Maybe she's just so confident in herself that she simply doesn't care that her bum's a smeller....smeller....smeller....smeller....

It's "sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it" I always took that to mean she loves the smell of sex, which is just as rank to be honest.

@ScreamingMeMe

Rhianna's "if there's sex in the air I don't care about the smell" is just odd. Would a toxic fart not be a bit of a deal breaker?

It's

"Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it"

See...loads better

Oops beat me to it 😂

One Direction - the line "she belongs to me" I really dislike it, as it objectifies the girl/woman in question. I understand the sentiment, which is quite sweet, but I don't like the lyrics.

Everybody wanna steal my girl
Everybody wanna take her heart away
Couple billion in the whole wide world
Find another one 'cause she belongs to me

Anything that has words like 'between you and I' or 'for you and I' or any variations of the same.

I love so many of Bob Dylan's songs, but that line from I Don't Believe You - " her mouth was watery and wet..." Not an attractive image, Bob!

I haven’t RTFT so don’t know if it’s been mentioned but pretty much every lyric in ‘Golddigger’. For some reason my local radio station plays it a lot and it drives me mad! It’s so misogynistic, and plays into the idea that men should t have to support children if they think a woman has ‘trapped’ them. Eugh horrible