To think pop songs should be grammatical? I'm looking at you Paul McCartney...

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... with your "just you and I" used as the object of a sentence. Seriously, it makes you sound like an Apprentice candidate.

I love this thread. Especially the subjunctive frisson. I thought I must be the only one having to switch songs off because of their crimes against grammar.

I stand corrected Gristletoe!! Now that's going to piss me off even more than the killers already piss me off.

Pop stars like laying a lot, I've found.

I come over a bit 'Miss Read' when I hear lyrics such as 'I wanna lay like this forever' and wonder tartly "Bricks? Or eggs?"

I'm sure Paul gives a shit what anyone thinks.

All Saints 'a few questions that I need to know'. Grrr.

I think dancer is ok; I always assumed it was saying dancer was a sort of species. We are human as a species but humans as individuals.

The Alicia Keys example gives me brainache, in an otherwise beautiful song.

Not grammatically incorrect but just grasping at rhymes, inspired by the All Saints reference:

"take a shower, I will scour..."

Hmm. Beneath Your Beautiful.

It is horribly mangled-sounding English but, having read the lyrics, I think the 'Your' is a correctly-used possessive to the 'Beautiful' which is used in the song as a noun. Along with 'Perfect'.

Almost as though Mr. Rinth perceives the subject of the song as wearing her attributes like clothes, that could be removed.

Is sort of clever. And a whole lot less annoying than using nouns as verbs ('There's no noun that can't be verbed' ) I sat through a presentation the other day where the speaker referred to a project being 're-architected'.

I don't know the song, but surely "beauty" would be the appropriate noun.

And that Shakespeare bloke used to do a bit of that noun into verb thing.

English dammit English.

I'm glad the subjunctive frisson is proving popular.

After being subjected listening to Radio 1 today I have decided that the lack of a dental fricative is far more exasperating.

Fank you, and goodnight!

Years later I still cringe at Depeche Mode ' People are people so why should it be, you and I get along so awfully...'

D- See me.

"I just want you for my own."

Mariah, no. Just no.

Peter Gabriel, Games without frontiers "If looks could kill, they probably will." This has apparently annoyed dh for 30 years.

And his worst-ever lyric (Baccara, Yes sir, I can boogie ):

Yes sir
Already told you in the first verse
And in the chorus

C&H4Eva

The one which annoys me so much is Olly Murs Dear Darlin. "I miss you, and nothing hurts like no you" what the hell does that mean?? Totally ruins the song for me.

Ariana Grande's "one less problem without you" drives me mad. That line repeats about four hundred times in the song and I usually end up shouting at the radio. Why does no-one know the difference between less and fewer these days?!