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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

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elaine26 · 06/11/2019 22:47

Anything by Jess Glynn and Adele get switched off before they even start.

shinynewapple · 06/11/2019 22:59

Clean Bandit - Rockabye and Solo. Particularly hate Solo . So irritating.

feelingverylazytoday · 06/11/2019 23:26

Imagine.
The day we went to Bangor
Whitney's version of I will always love you
Perfect.

Gingernaut · 06/11/2019 23:29

The Christmas tunes are out.

Merry Christmas Saint Nick by The Beach Boys

"Christmas comes this time each year."

Really?

EdinaMonsoon · 06/11/2019 23:34

Gilbert O’Sullivan: Clare
Even as a child I felt this song was grim & inappropriate. He’s singing about falling in love with the girl he is babysitting for FFS.

On a lighter note, Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You is a screeching, overworked affront to the beautiful & heartbreaking original by Dolly Parton.

I used to get really wound up by the way George sang “gev” rather than “gave” in Wham’s Last Christmas. Since his passing, all is forgiven & I rarely notice it now when I hear it played.

Tortoiser · 06/11/2019 23:38

Moves like Jagger - Maroon 5. Just irritates the shit out of me.
Work - Drake & Rihanna. Work work work work work, work work work work work. Call that a fucking sing? 🙉🙉🙉🙉

Tortoiser · 06/11/2019 23:39
  • song! Fucking song! I’m so annoyed I can’t type properly 😖
ChinaCat345 · 06/11/2019 23:43

Bridge over troubled waters....so so dreadful.
We had to sing it at school, it’s awful, we strangled the high notes

It was so awful, I hate that song, and anything by Paul McCartney, that involves him singing, now or ever

CockleburIck · 06/11/2019 23:48

The Jethro Tull song isn’t a Christmas song, it’s a winter solstice song.

Just saying.

Tillygetsit · 06/11/2019 23:56

Anything by Jamaraqui or however they spell it. Actually makes my ears itch and my body tense with rage. I hate that twat in a hat.

recklessruby · 06/11/2019 23:57

All about that bass by Megan Trainor ugh reminds me of working in Waitrose over Christmas when heart 106.2 played it every day.
Santa baby ugh just super cringe.
Anything by Taylor swift.

TheNewSchmoo · 07/11/2019 00:06

Dancing Queen and Girls Just Want To Have Fun for me. It's not so much the song but they way groups of women shriek and run to the dancefloor when it comes on at events. Just makes me cringe.

sqirrelfriends · 07/11/2019 00:10

Rockabye

Overplayed and makes me cringe everyone I hear it

7Days · 07/11/2019 00:13

That's what I love TheNewSchmoo
Crowd pleasers for the win

-Then other times I like lying in bed alone, no kids or husband, listening to the dirgiest of obscure miserablists

Jente · 07/11/2019 00:14

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
Noooo, Remember Me is gorgeous! Gin ginna, ginna ginn ginn ginn!

nancy75 · 07/11/2019 00:21

Year 3000 by busted
‘Not much has changed but they live underwater’
THEY LIVE UNDERWATER!!
I’d call that a pretty bloody big change - either humans have grown gills & can breathe underwater or they live in giant underwater domes, either way that is quite a change from now (also not enough greats in the granddaughter scenario)

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 07/11/2019 00:23

nancy it's also a bit... noncey. "Your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine"??? Pervert.

funkylittleboatrace · 07/11/2019 01:39

Baggy trousers

feelingverylazytoday · 07/11/2019 03:03

I got you babe. Every version ever, just a dreadful boring song.

Gottagetout · 07/11/2019 03:11

"There are 10 million bicycles in Beijing"

I really don't care Katie Melua. Hate that song for no real reason I just do 🤷

NameChangedForTheDay · 07/11/2019 03:25

Anything by Ed Sheeran. Especially Galway Girl and Castle on the Hill. The lyrics are both 'lyrics by numbers' and make me want go boil my own head due to sheer ickiness! Vile, irritating songs.

Anything by Ellie Goulding, or Jess Glynne. = Nails down a blackboard. Horrible, horrible singing voices.

Rockabye by Clean Bandit, Anne-Marie and Sean fucking Paul. = the awful lyrics, rhyming 'my life' with 'your life', singing about being some noble pole dancing to feed your kid like you're a brave soldier off to war. The twee 90s Ace of Base backing music. Anne-Marie's fake Jamaican / Latino hybrid accent, especially as she's a white girl from Essex. Makes me wanna puke.

transformandriseup · 07/11/2019 03:33

Candy by Robbie Williams. What was he thinking?

dramaticpenguin · 07/11/2019 03:47

Im a karaoke compere- 3 or 4 nights a week i listen to people (mostly) murder songs, I've done it for 15 years now... someone's i think if one more person puts in "sweet caroline" i might explode. Seriously, men of casual occasional karaoke, there are other songs!

MamaDane · 07/11/2019 04:33

Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis and Apologize by OneRepublic. Songs so pathetic I can't stand them.

Also yes Lukas Graham's song 7 Years. Ugh.

Elderflower14 · 07/11/2019 04:44

The Only Way Is Up by Yazz.
Perfect by Fairground Attraction....
Both make me hit the off button FAST!!