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Songs that annoy you - light hearted

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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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Funkyslippers · 07/11/2019 06:58

transformandriseup I LOVE Candy by Robbie Williams! It's the only song of his I like!!!!

TitchyP · 07/11/2019 07:16

Manic Street Preachers

If we tolerate this, then our children will be next will next will be next will be neeexxxxxtttttt

Aaarrrrggghhhhh. I appreciate the sentiment but what an awful dirge.

lowlandLucky · 07/11/2019 07:28

Leona Lewis keep bleeding, put a bloody plaster on it then

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 07/11/2019 08:40

I hate Rockabye too. The rhyming is just so lame - "Oooh love, nobody's gonna hurt yooouu love". Really?

I don't mind George Ezra particularly but I can't stand Paradise. The way he keeps going on about "bloody veins" in the chorus makes me cringe for some reason.

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 07/11/2019 09:04

Wham's Last Christmas is just about my favourite Christmas song! Funny how people's tastes differ!

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 07/11/2019 09:06

And now I have had to listen to it!! First Christmas song this year.

Killerqueen9 · 07/11/2019 09:15

I absolutely cannot stand Sam Smith! Especially one of his original songs 'Money on my mind'. Some of his, (or should I say their??) newer songs I can kind of tolerate but that one I hate with a passion. It's just the sound of it I hate
Also hate anything by Jess Glynn and her sheepy sounding voice that she makes tremble at every note.

Also pretty much every "rap" song on the radio. They don't even use english words now, it's all "ting" and "dem". Ahh makes me so angry but maybe I'm just getting old 😂

HotSauceCommittee · 07/11/2019 09:39

Cracking tune, but "Free Bird" by Leonard Skynard does my head in. I shout at him to fuck off and don't let the door hit his arse on the way out.

CockleburIck · 07/11/2019 11:12

I heard a song called Stars in Their Eyes by Just Jack on the radio once. I was struck dumb. It was literally the worst sound I have ever heard in my life.

BlastEndedSkrewt · 07/11/2019 11:15

I really really get irritated by that massively over played Miley Cyrus song - wasn't so bad but when the radio is on at work every day it drove me mad

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 13:03

Anything by Jamaraqui or however they spell it.

I attended a big music festival once and had to step in to break up a fight that broke out spontaneously between Steps and Jamiroquai. I dread to think what would have happened if I hadn't come between H & JK.

Sorry, couldn't resist Grin Grin Grin

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 07/11/2019 13:05

There's one out at the moment, something about getting her hair done and checking her nails. No idea of the rest of the song cos it bugs me so much I turn it off.

RosinaC · 07/11/2019 13:05

High School Musical cover of Don't stop believing... totally ruined a great ballad!

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 07/11/2019 13:07

Don't Stop Believing...just hate, hate, hate it.

When I was in labour with DS1 the radio was on, I was VERY vocal about not wanting to listen to Cheryl Cole whilst giving birth.

Ed Sheehan...Galway Girl makes me want to cut my ears out. And Shape Of You...is 'now my bedsheets smell like you' meant to be erotic or what? Just makes me gag a little bit.

LHMB · 07/11/2019 13:10

There's one out at the moment, something about getting her hair done and checking her nails. No idea of the rest of the song cos it bugs me so much I turn it off.

Me too, hate that song, I keep hearing it everywhere and it gets stuck in my head, can't stand it

Span1elsRock · 07/11/2019 13:10

Drunk in Love by Beyonce gives me indescribable rage. It's a mumbled dirge as are most of her recent offerings. The fact she earns so much money from mumbling such god awful dirge is never right Angry

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 13:11

I might be unpopular here, but anything by UB40. All of their songs sound exactly the same, with the same dominant bass line.

Also, this is a bit of a random one, but it irritates me BECAUSE I otherwise love the song so much. If anybody knows 'Lady Of A Certain Age' by the Divine Comedy (and if you don't, have a listen!), there's a lyric that goes:

You had to marry someone very very rich
So that you might be kept in the style to which
You had all of your life been accustomed to

No! it's either 'to which....accustomed' OR 'accustomed to' - NOT BOTH!!!! Just because it scans well and sounds beautiful, like all of Neil Hannon's songs do....

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 07/11/2019 13:18

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I feel your pain. I have similar rage whenever I hear Live and Let Die and it says "In this ever changin' world in which we live in". Argh! NO! You do not need both of those ins!

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 07/11/2019 13:20

@LHMB exactly, it's a really annoying ear worm! So glad it's not just me...

Ginnymweasley · 07/11/2019 13:20

Hotline bling... misogynistic nonsense with shit dancing thrown in. I have no idea how that nonsense is so popular.
Modern mumble rap... if your lyrics are so shit you have to mumble them just write better ones.

crustycrab · 07/11/2019 13:21

Happy to be stuck with you. Ugh

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 13:24

Thankfully, it's fallen out of favour now, but that silly 'Here Come The Girls' song. Just meaningless.

Boots and half of all the other advertisers used it to try and sell anything remotely connected (or even just perceivably so) with females of any age or quantity. Before that, they always used to default to that 'Sisters' song ("never were there such devoted sisters") to open ANY item whatsoever involving female siblings. They often did a similar thing with 'We Are Family', but only ever the first three words, making sure to fade out fully before the "I got all my sisters with me" part, because the family being discussed didn't solely consist of sisters. If it did, then their 'flowchart of trite predictable backing music tedium' would have commanded them to just use the 'Sisters' song in the first place!

Same with 'I Predict A Riot'. There was a period when any products being hawked promoted to us and every local TV 'news' items involving children having noisy boisterous fun was apparently obliged to play the track loudly over the feature.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 13:27

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper - YES! I've often thought the same, although I did wonder if I'd definitely heard it correctly before harshly judging it for delinquent SPAG usage. Is it:

"In this ever changin' world in which we live in"
OR
"In this ever changin' world in which we're livin' "

If we let them off for dropping G's under 'artistic licence' rules, the second hearing would be technically acceptable!

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 07/11/2019 13:41

@webuiltthisbuffetonsausageroll I did once wonder that myself and Googled the lyrics to make sure it was the tautological mess I thought it was and not just sloppy pronunciation. Unfortunately, it is the former. It only compounds its awfulness by having that weird cod-reggae bit in the middle.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 07/11/2019 14:13

@EoinMcLovesCakeJumper - Ah, that's a shame, assuming the lyrics were officially sanctioned and not just submitted by somebody making the same mistake. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as well!

Would never have happened whist we still had the original Paul with us.... Grin

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