Words of song that annoy you

[Whingey]

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

@80sMum oh yes! Thank you! I’ve only ever heard the stick one! I’m so glad I now know both versions of this song 😂

@MrsXx4 you're welcome!

@Peach01

Sean-a-Paul, Sean-a-Paul

Or

Anything where they rhyme a word with the same word

This! Also Jas-on derr-ulloo

We fucking know who you are

@Hysteriawhenyourenear -YES!! Why does he feel the need to announce himself. We know it's his shite music without him bellowing his name over it like a sugar hyped toddler.

[quote iklboo]@Hysteriawhenyourenear -YES!! Why does he feel the need to announce himself. We know it's his shite music without him bellowing his name over it like a sugar hyped toddler. [/quote]
😁😁 they both really need to stop banging on. Ive got a mental image now of him as a toddler running round asda full of sugar with his mum yelling JASON DERULLO get back here!!!

Or maybe walmart. His name we all know but am unsure of any other facts

@Hysteriawhenyourenear Shaggy is another offender in the same vein

[quote VienneseWhirligig]@Hysteriawhenyourenear Shaggy is another offender in the same vein [/quote]
yes, he really is!!

It's not a new thing, though. Check out Bo Diddley and which particular person he namechecked in several of his songs!

Another grammar one. Elvis Costello wrote and sang@Whingey

Oliver's Army is here to stay
Oliver's Army are on their way.

Why does noboddy care that he can't decide if army is singular or plural?

@Maskless

Another grammar one. Elvis Costello wrote and sang@Whingey

Oliver's Army is here to stay
Oliver's Army are on their way.

Why does noboddy care that he can't decide if army is singular or plural?

I’ve always used that one as an example of how subtly English works - because on the emphasis on either the institution - “Arsenal is a great club” - or the components - “Arsenal are counterattacking”.

I agree though that it’s interesting that he can use both right next to each other and it doesn’t jar (to me, anyway). And I think the test is to make them both singular or both plural, and see how it sounds. I don’t think either sounds natural.

That dreadful line about Kilimanjaro rising like a memphis from the Serengeti. It's not even in the Serengeti!

I came to say this...but it's 'like Olympus'

Mazzy Star - Fade into You is one of my all time favourite songs, but the line 'I want to hold the hand inside you' sets my teeth on edge every time I hear it!

Ed Sheeran's song Thinking Out Loud,
"...and darling I'll be loving you 'til we're seventy..."
So he'll go off her after that?

'I wanna lay like this forever', by, apparently, Savage Garden (although I always thought it was Ronan Keating or something).

Always makes me to want to ask tartly, a la Miss Read - "Bricks or eggs?"

It's lie. You lie on a bed, or a mountaintop, or whatever. You have a lie in. You don't lay on things or have a lay in.

@Shodan

'I wanna lay like this forever', by, apparently, Savage Garden (although I always thought it was Ronan Keating or something).

Always makes me to want to ask tartly, a la Miss Read - "Bricks or eggs?"

It's lie. You lie on a bed, or a mountaintop, or whatever. You have a lie in. You don't lay on things or have a lay in.

@Shodan YES! This annoys me so much!!

I’ve always used that one as an example of how subtly English works - because on the emphasis on either the institution - “Arsenal is a great club” - or the components - “Arsenal are counterattacking”.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night? They should have just walked it in!

Any song that gets you and me or you and I wrong. Ruins the whole song for me.

There's an advert where I thought he was singing 'baby we can cuddle up' turns out its 'cut a rug' ??What does that even mean ??!!

I think the chimney on her comes from the wizard of oz where the house falls on the wicked witch.

There's an advert where I thought he was singing 'baby we can cuddle up' turns out its 'cut a rug' ??What does that even mean ??!!

Actually "cut a rug" makes sense in this context because it means to dance together energetically enough to damage a rug .
American servicemen in the 50's would ask girls to jive by saying "D'you want to cut a rug?'

@lollipoprainbow

There's an advert where I thought he was singing 'baby we can cuddle up' turns out its 'cut a rug' ??What does that even mean ??!!

Slightly archaic idiom…

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut%20a%20rug

Ooh, that woman that manically shrieks "all over my tongue I want it" on Kiss Me More.

Makes me feel a bit queasy. It's on R1 constantly

Thanks a bunch to whoever mentioned Haysi Fantaysee. 'John Wayne is Big Leggy' is my new ear worm! I actually really like it, but not on endless repeat in my brain ...

The one that annoys me the most in songs is Do They Know It's Christmas..

'There won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime, the greatest gift they'll get this year is life'

The greatest gift we ALL get EVERY year is life. Life IS the greatest gift. All the materialist crap that comes with Christmas isn't what's important. I know it's exciting etc but when it's compared to living and breathing it doesn't matter at. all.