To HATE the lyrics of this song and to think they illustrate many problems with young people?

[MumblingRagDoll]

That friggin Bruno Mars one...today I'm not doing anything...

"The Lazy Song"

Today I don't feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don't feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything

I'm gonna kick my feet up
Then stare at the fan
Turn the TV on, throw my hand down my pants (gross)
Nobody's gonna tell me I can't

I'll be lounging on the couch,
Just chillin' in my snuggie SNUGGIE??[wtf]
Click to MTV, so they can teach me how to dougie
'Cause in my castle I'm the freaking man (as if being a man gives him some extra special right to be a lazy bastard)
Oh, oh

Tomorrow I'll wake up, do some P90X
Meet a really nice girl, have some really nice sex
And she's gonna scream out: 'This is Great'
(Oh my god, this is great) (What? Is he going to shag her right away?? Not even get to know her?)
Yeah

I might mess around, get my college degree
I bet my old man will be so proud of me
But sorry pops, you'll just have to wait (Well then you'll end up in Macdonalds my son)
Oh, oh

Yes I said it
I said it
I said it 'cause I can

Today I don?t feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don?t feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything

No, I ain't gonna comb my hair (scruffy and he thinks he'll get some girl in bed on the first meeting?? )
'Cause I ain't going anywhere
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, oh

I'll just strut in my birthday suit (BOAK)
And let everything hang loose (DOUBLE BOAK)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-eah

Oh
Today I don?t feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed
Don?t feel like picking up my phone
So leave a message at the tone
'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything

So AIBU? Or does this idiot need a good talking to?

I loathe it when dd innocently repeats vile lyrics - she has no idea what they mean. You can't escape them (and I try and screen fairly rigorously).

It was all a bit gentler in my day [sigh]:

I totally agree with OP. The Lazy Song will send the wrong message to our kids. I mean, i am phsically incapable of working productively after the kinks sang about lazing on a sunny afternoon. I had to move to manchester because it rains more here and i can get some work done. Time to crack down i tell you!!

So that's where my NEET teenager got her lifestyle choice from...

ive two teens and they told me about this song then i hear it its very catchy childish sounding nonsense so did we all go around shooting people or ourselves after listening to bohemian rhapsody or shagging people after listening to Relax dont do it (questionable lyrics) that got the song banned this made teens think it was much more cool and listen intently to the lyrics all the more , seems tame now in comparison ....things kids see hear to an extent can alter them slightly but keep it in perspective and ugly (sorry bruno but you are) bloke singing badly about being lazy isnt going to make your teen give up college or uni and sit in front of the goggle box all day , not unless they were already a lazy git that is.

My sister was mortified when her son started singing 'My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard' over and over again

shame shame @ tiger not dressed properly hide your face in shame lol

Mind you the sight of me in my skanky old dressing gown would be enough to drive the average teenage boy into action through sheer terror.

Mumblingragdoll

"Tigerseye....he is illustrating a way of life which is not something most young men should aspire to. Young black men inparticular are the victims of a society too ready to label them as wasters. Songs like this do NOTHING to help matters.

I was being light hearted really....but there are deeper issues here."
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OMG!!! Do people really look THAT deeply into the lyrics of a "pop" song.

wanders out muttering "I must stop sweating the small stuff like LIFE and start concentrating on important issues , like lyrics of pop songs"

I am still in my pjs DD had me up all night so having unshamefully lazy day. DD and i danced round the house to Bruno Mars today and it summed up my mood perfectly. However hand is most definately NOT down pants and in my castle i am the freakin WOman. Wish i had no shame and could trot to shops in PJs getting dressed seems like such a waste at this time lol

I think you need to get out more because there are 500 more offensive songs on the radio every day than that. Get a grip!

I quite like the Lazy song

I think these are the worst lyrics for a song. It actually makes me quite sad

Have C + P sorry if it takes up the page....

"Love The Way You Lie"
(feat. Rihanna)

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
I can't tell you what it really is
I can only tell you what it feels like
And right now it's a steel knife in my windpipe
I can't breathe but I still fight while I can fight
As long as the wrong feels right it's like I'm in flight
High off of love, drunk from my hate,
It's like I'm huffing paint and I love it the more I suffer, I suffocate
And right before I'm about to drown, she resuscitates me
She fucking hates me and I love it.
Wait! Where you going?
"I'm leaving you"
No you ain't. Come back we're running right back.
Here we go again
It's so insane cause when it's going good, it's going great
I'm Superman with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane
But when it's bad it's awful, I feel so ashamed I snapped
Who's that dude? I don't even know his name
I laid hands on her, I'll never stoop so low again
I guess I don't know my own strength

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe
When you're with 'em
You meet and neither one of you even know what hit 'em
Got that warm fuzzy feeling
Yeah, them chills you used to get 'em
Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em
You swore you'd never hit 'em; never do nothing to hurt 'em
Now you're in each other's face spewing venom in your words when you spit them
You push, pull each other's hair, scratch, claw, hit 'em
Throw 'em down, pin 'em
So lost in the moments when you're in them
It's the rage that took over it controls you both
So they say you're best to go your separate ways
Guess if they don't know you 'cause today that was yesterday
Yesterday is over, it's a different day
Sound like broken records playing over but you promised her
Next time you show restraint
You don't get another chance
Life is no Nintendo game
But you lied again
Now you get to watch her leave out the window
Guess that's why they call it window pane

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem]
Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean
And we fall back into the same patterns, same routine
But your temper's just as bad as mine is
You're the same as me
But when it comes to love you're just as blinded
Baby, please come back
It wasn't you, baby it was me
Maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems
Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano
All I know is I love you too much to walk away though
Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk
Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk
I told you this is my fault
Look me in the eyeball
Next time I'm pissed, I'll aim my fist at the drywall
Next time. There won't be no next time
I apologize even though I know its lies
I'm tired of the games I just want her back
I know I'm a liar
If she ever tries to fucking leave again
Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire
I'm just gonna

[Chorus - Rihanna:]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
But that's alright because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
But that's alright because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

Chill, I can still remember being a teenager (just). Getting up after midday in the holidays wasn't so unusual (remembers those carefree times fondly!).

That's the song I meant. Typical that Rihanna features on it I really really hate it.

I hate that song and millions of others - YANBU. Loathe hearing offensive stuff blurting out everywhere - I don't think DC should be subjected to it. They're not equipped to understand and it's abusive IMHO.

yes, when I was a toddler songs were so much

Makes the lazy song look a bit better no?

I searched 'lyrics' to see if anyone else had commented on song lyrics as this is something that's been bothering me for a while too. I completely agree that it's not appropriate for kids to be hearing and singing along to lyrics like Jessie J's 'dirty dirty....sucker you think I can't get hooked like you, you motherf*er', Rihanna's 'sex in the air, I don't care I love the smell of it' and Mumford and Sons' repeated 'I really f**ed it up this time', to quote but a few of the songs currently out there.

I happen to really like pop, hip-hop and rap but I just don't see why record companies and radio stations allow children to be exposed to lyrics like these. I heard my six-year-old daughter singing the words to 'Do it like a Dude' the other day and it made me think about this whole topic a little more. My husband feels I should just stop playing Kiss and Capital in the car with the kids. Sounds a simple solution but I like those stations, the kids like them and if we spend our time surrounded by only old or classical music they will then be the playground losers who don't know any of the cool songs - that's the reality.

I am amazed at some of the reactions to the thread author's opinion - it's clearly simply a reflection of their concern for their childrens' innocence. Lots has been said recently on the subject of clothes which 'pimp our kids'. It's time that someone took the record companies and radio stations to task on lyrics which do the same.

i personally love the song it reminds me of when i was younger and just wanted to chill about the house instead of going to college/work also the mention of his hands down his pants is funny as its what most fellas do when their chilling my OHs brother is 27 and still does it and our 4 year old nephew has done it for as long as we can remember dirty boys lol. the fact that he actually mentions his college degree etc shows he knows his priorities but that for one day he's gonna be lazy. most music channels blank out the sex part tho shaking his toby about is awkward when DD is home but to be honest i dont have the music channels on when she's home anymore because everyone is naked and talking dirty in their songs and videos.

just realised i am also sat in my joggys and old t shirt i.e house clothes lol but im 5 months pg thats my excuse :) ooh and afroman was 2001 the best year musically ever .. well i was a teenager and every song from 01 makes me smile but that damn lazy song by xpress2 that video made me sick to my stomach that lazy fat bastard with his pully system he made rab c nesbit seem classy..

Isn't he talking about taking a day off from his usual routine, rather than boasting about how he just lurrrrves being a dosser, watching Jeremy Kyle then going down to Jobseekers?

I HATE any song with the words "making love" "love making" "make lurve to you/me"

BANHAMMER.

wherethewildthingswere LOVED that song!

i actually think the attitude in that song is much better than last year's attitude of wanting to be a billionaire so fucking bad...

YABU - get a grip!

Don't get me wrong, I like the song too - I just don't like my kids singing about having 'really nice sex' aged 6, 7 and 10.

Well as I was singing along to the below song while still in nappies I do not think that 'bawdy' or unsuitable lyrics are 'owt new...

Cuckoos nest (on the extremely hip electric folk album 'Morris On')

As I was a-walking one morning in May
I met a pretty fair maid and unto her did say:
?For love I am inclined and I'll tell you my mind
That my inclination lies in your cuckoo's nest.?

?My darling,? said she, ?I am innocent and young,
And I scarcely can believe your false deluding tongue.
Yet I see it in your eyes and it fills me with surprise
That your inclination lies in my cuckoo's nest.?

Chorus:
Some like a girl who is pretty in the face,
And some like a girl who is slender in the waist.
But give me a girl that will wriggle and will twist:
At the bottom of the belly lies the cuckoo's nest.

?Then my darling,? says he, ?if you see it in my eyes,
Then think of it as fondness and do not be surprised.
For I love you, my dear, and I'll marry you, I swear,
If you let me clap my hand on your cuckoo's nest.?

?My darling,? said she, ?I can do no such thing,
For my mother often told me it was committing sin
My maidenhead to lose and my sense to be abused.
So have no more to do with my cuckoo's nest.?

(Chorus)

?My darling,? says he, ?it is not committing sin.
But common sense should tell you it is a pleasing thing,
For you were brought into this world to increase and do your best
And to help a man to heaven in your cuckoo's nest.?

?Then my darling,? says she, ?I cannot you deny,
For you've surely won my heart by the roving of your eye.
Yet I see it in your eyes that your courage is surprised,
So gently lift your hand in my cuckoo's nest.?

(Chorus)

So this couple they got married and soon they went to bed
And now this pretty fair maid has lost her maidenhead.
In a small country cottage they increase and do their best
And he often claps his hand on her cuckoo's nest.

(Chorus)

my dad used to recite 'Eskimo Nell' from memory as well and that is filthy - I turned out ok (I think)