Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Songs that annoy you - light hearted

283 replies

DobbyLovesSocks · 06/11/2019 12:41

I have a minor medical procedure today so in a bid to distract myself can I please ask you for the songs that annoy you and the reason why?
Mine are: Dolly Parton 'Jolene' - asking someone not to take her man away. If your man wants to cheat he will and if he will he is not worth hanging on to.
Whitney Houston 'Saving all my love' - basically singing about having an affair. So disrespectful but it's ok because no other man will do

OP posts:
salsmum · 13/11/2019 02:10

Most of the Beatles songs, that stupid song What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her Confused can't remember the artist, cornflake girl, you've list that loving feeling ( yawn) and strangely enough total eclipse of the heart which is in just about every various artist 'older' compilation cds I have Aaaggghhh!

FixItUpChappie · 13/11/2019 02:23

UB40 Red, Red Wine - nails on a chalk board

salsmum · 13/11/2019 02:41

Omg! I've just added another to the list 'it's oh so quiet' it makes my p**s boil Angry

1littlequestion · 13/11/2019 02:53

Unpopular opinion but Tina Turner - Proud Mary 🤬 hate, hate, HATE !!!!!!

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 13/11/2019 03:09

All Stock Aitken and Waterman songs, primarily because they ruined the latter half of the 80's with their identikit synthesized crap, but latterly because I've also realised the inherent sexism within their song lyrics. Female singers always desperate to have/keep a man, men in control of women's feelings. E.g:

Kylie, I Should Be So Lucky (to have you)
Sonia, You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You , (it doesn't really matter what you put me through)
Meanwhile, Rick Astley, Never Gonna Give You Up ,(run around and desert you)

I have too much time on my hands Blush

Drivemecrazy1974 · 13/11/2019 07:33

All I Want For Christmas -Mariah Carey - it's a crap song and I HATE it! Even worse when you know she's such a diva who'd actually want diamonds not just the love of a person! Argh!!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 13/11/2019 09:29

Anything by Frank Sinatra. His close connections to crime certainly don't do anything to endear me to him, for a start; but he always seemed to be so amazingly smug and convinced of his talents when I'd say he had quite an average voice.

Also, any songs (including not a few of Sinatra's) that regularly feature on those pre-Christmas buy-it-for-your-Gran compilation CDs, usually released by a presenter from Songs of Praise or an actor/presenter not primarily known for singing (not that most of them don't have very good voices). They always seem to pick the same generic hackneyed old 'standards' and do them well but bringing nothing new to the table at all. Hugh Laurie is a notable exception to this - not particularly my style, but at least he didn't just stick to the same old 'safe' swing numbers like Fly Me To The Moon, Smile, Get Happy, My Way etc. Yawn.

And anything sung in the expressionless goldfish style where they open their mouth so widely for every single note, you keep thinking it's going to tear at the edges.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 13/11/2019 09:34

All Stock Aitken and Waterman songs, primarily because they ruined the latter half of the 80's with their identikit synthesized crap, but latterly because I've also realised the inherent sexism within their song lyrics. Female singers always desperate to have/keep a man, men in control of women's feelings.

That's a very good point, but there was the odd exception, such as So Macho by Sinitta. Was that released whilst she was under the aegis of S, A & W?

New posts on this thread. Refresh page