Bits in songs that make you cringe

[HolidayAtNight]

Inspired by the thread the other day about "More Than Words" by Extreme. Like many posters, I hadn't heard the song in years, so went to listen to it. It was all going well until the bit when he sings "Hold me close don't EVAH LET ME GO" and I had to turn it off immediately.

What bits of songs do you find jarring and/or embarrassing? I have so many, but will try to choose a few. Lines where they've had to awkwardly shift the words around or use old-fashioned vocab/syntax to make them fit are definitely among the worst offenders.

In "Upside Down" by Diana Ross: "Respectfully I say to thee..." Whyyyy

In "A Spaceman Came Travelling" - the bit where he sings about a baby's cry and then the guitar imitates a newborn crying. This might be the worst one.

In "Come On Eileen" - "You in that dress, my thoughts, I confess, verge on dirty" Just no. The awkward old-fashioned phrasing, and the way his voice goes when he sings "dirty". Unbearable.

East 17-Stay Another Day

’I touch your face while you are sleeeeeeping….’

Absofuckinglutely not.
Call the police.
Immediate non mol.

Shudder

Its not cringeworth but it fucking pisses me off every time I hear it, if I am in the car I turn the radio off.

Perfect 10 by Beautiful South the line "The anorexic chics, the model 6, dont hold no weight with me". If the line line was "Those big fat chicks, the 26, they hold too much weight for me" there would be outcry and rightly so.

I hate the slim=anorexic thing too, I have had anorexia, I am slim but not skinny anymore. I have managed to put weight on and am now a healthy looking 10. I feel very fat though and am having to fight the urge to starve myself. That song feeds into my self loathing for having the illness but also for being fat (yes "not ill" brain tells me that I am not but my self loathing tells me that I am).

But some women are just naturally very slim. My friend is and has always been very thin, I have never seen anyone eat the way she does, she makes Man V Food look like an amateur. But she is always on the move and didnt even gain fat anywhere during her pregnancies, thats just how she is.

It’s a play in wine- they mean spirit as in joy or excitement which they haven’t experienced there since 1969

Play on words I mean

Shaggy “It wasn't me” - it seems to get played on the radio a lot and all the lyrics are cringe 🤮

Anyone remember that Cher Lloyd one she did with Mike Posner? "With Your Love". Cute video, great song sung really well - except his part.
you got it
Yeah, yeah, you got it
Like to slow it down, speed it up, how you want it, girl?
All night long
And I don't even care if you sing my songs wrong
First date, first base
Second date, second base
Third date, you looking at me funny
You got a hard shell, but the middle's so yummy ('cause you got me)

Wait - did this old dude just tell everyone he groped her tits? CRINGE! I can't believe management let that go out.

I thought from his song "cooler than me" he was a dude with issues.

I love the song, but "Baby take me high upon a hillside, high up where the stallion meets the sun" is just weird.

I remember that last monstrosity from primary school assembly a long time ago I used to sit there daydreaming about that world with nothing in as if it were some kind of exciting post apocalyptic world (I hated assembly singing unless it was that vegetable song where I thought the words
were ‘all grows deadly day and night’)

freaks me out the lyrics to this one

And The Spice Girls’ safe sex advice, ‘Be a little bit wiser, baby, put it on, put it on.’

Jesus Christ, I never realised the meaning of that 🤢😂

I also just feel I need to vent about being two years old and being fucking not amused at a Mother and Toddler group by everyone joyfully linking hands and walking round in a circle ring o roses style while we were forced to sing...

"WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE, A YELLOW SUBMARINE"

No. We fucking don't "Auntie Pat"...and I am going sit here on this fucking bench and give you epic side eye, crossed arms and pouty lip while you all get on with your false frivolity and inane grinning. I've hated The Beatles ever since.

Except Strawberry Fields and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds...they're ok. Ish.

I find myself ranting about this line more often than is strictly necessary. Other examples of excruciating self-reference include 'But this is Phil talking, I wanna tell you, What I found to be true' from The Human League's Love Action. We will however allow Taylor S. to sing 'You look like Taylor Swift.' Just because.

Isn’t Cherry Wine self-explanatory? It’s wine made from cherries 😄 It really isn’t a secret.

Is it not the conditional tense?

If I lay here, would you lie with me?

This version is a million times better!

So many 90s Eurodance songs are marred by the sudden presence of a creepy deep voice talking man. I imagine all of them to look like "Ken" from "Barbie Girl".

Was just listening to the absolute classic "Another Night" by Real McCoy, which was going great until he looms up...

Hahahahah this came on the radio the other day the lyrics are like a small child being told to write a poem 😂

toast/ghost brilliant 😂

Chimney means a black eye.
As in “What’s she gonna look like with a black eye after I’ve smacked her?”

I always assumed they meant put the telly on - instead of getting up to anything rude - and 'two becomes one' was clearly referring to those days when, in the evening, the BBC would sync the schedules and show the same programme on BBC1 and BBC2

I was listening to that song other day didn't hear the bit about crapping lol but I was gonna put that song could not be written now when I listened other day he's basically saying can he watch her while asleep . I thought feels a bit like he's gonna jump in bed unannounced like I say wonder if they could make them lyrics now felt a bit cringe

Whigfield, When I Think of You.

”I need you inside me tonight”

Steady on…

I thought it was ‘I’m not a piece of meat, stimulate my brain’?

Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last.

“Sometimes the sun goes round the moon”

No it doesn’t.

Busted, Year 3000;

“And your great-great-great-granddaughter is pretty fine”.

She must be immortal to still be alive 1000 years later after only 5 generations.

It's definitely stimulate my brain. Did make me chuckle though.