Songs that annoy you - light hearted

[DobbyLovesSocks]

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

Dr Hook - 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman'. It's a pleasant enough tune, but that very first line gives his true intentions away instantly.

It isn't a beautiful, heartfelt, mournful tribute to his lifelong sorrowful experiences with genuine romance; it's just a 'clever' dirty line that he 'composed' when he was at school, behind the bike sheds, all the while making Beavis & Butthead noises; and he scribbled the rest of the lyrics on the bag of a fag packet to justify releasing it as a song when he was older.

*BACK of a fag packet.

From Wikipedia:

The sheet music used the line "in this ever-changing world in which we live in" as part of the opening verse of the song. In the Washington Post interview more than 30 years later, McCartney told the interviewer, "I don't think about the lyric when I sing it. I think it's 'in which we're living', or it could be 'in which we live in', and that's kind of, sort of, wronger but cuter," before deciding that it was "in which we're living."

So perhaps we should let him off, although when you look at lyrics websites, they're about 50/50 between the two versions. And yes, I'm sure the real Paul, the shoeless one, would have enunciated more clearly in the first place to avoid this kind of ambiguity.

@@EoinMcLovesCakeJumper**

I've just looked and, according to both Genius Lyrics and AZ Lyrics, the line is "But if this ever changing world in which we're living"

Were we wrong all along or do the lyrics websites employ people specifically to unjumble and make more sense of original incorrect lyrics?!

Intriguing

Epic cross-post there!!!

Everything by Ed Sheeran, tho’ he seems to be a pleasant and musically talented person. They sound like jaunty, mainstream dirges, if a dirge can be jaunty!
7 Years by Lucas Graham - I hate hate that song. Another dirge, sung in that funny modern pop accent.
All of Me by John Legend - the sort of thing people find meaningful. A dirge again.

Aerosmith - walk this way.

Especially when it comes on at a social event and you see all these middle aged men rocking to lyrics about a sassy school girl with her skirt riding up to her knees makes me vom.

John legend is odd as most music fans and song writers seem to fall at his feet, but his songs are quite bland and nothing special.

Milan, think you thinking of the song Steven Tyler(Aerosmith) wrote for his daughter Liv Tyler when she was a baby. That song " I know you want it, but your a good girl" sleazy

Dancing In The Moonlight by Toploader irritates the hell out of me.

Love Shack by B-52s

Anything at all by Simply Red 🤮

That crap by Des’ree (or however she spells it) about having a piece of toast.

Loads more but these are the ones which spring to mind.

I'm sure Alicia Keys sings "New York. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of". That pisses me off, though I think Alicia is pretty cool.

I will always love you by Whitney Houston - esp the Neverending “I” at the start of the chorus- starts untold rage building up inside me!

I gotta feeling by Black Eyed Peas. From the intro ‘ding ding ding ding’ onto ‘mazeltov!’ which they seem to think means ‘cheers’ and the little Metal Micky voice replying ‘l’chaim’ all of it is god awful.

I thought Bruno Mars’s FIL2B was rude too, every days a school day

Perfect Ten by Beautiful South - urgh, the penis verse, shudder.

Beautiful South again - 36C. Annoyingly catchy tune but the misogynistic contempt is breathtaking. '36C, so what - is that all that you've got?'

I was originally going to say 'Doo-wop bop a loo bah, doo-wop bam boom.' Come again? Didn't think you needed to impersonate a drum kit with your voice.

Perfect Ten by Beautiful South

Oh yes, it's such an earworm, but the lyrics are horrible if you actually bother to listen to and think about them, which most people don't tend to do if a tune is catchy enough as with Blurred Lines, to name just one.

Size 16 = grotesquely fat

Size 6 = anorexic

Size 9 - is that even 'a thing'?!

His member size is all that matters - we're not told if that's 8 inches or cms, though If it's too large to be compatible (highly unlikely), then that doesn't represent any problems whatsoever in allowing you to do the one thing that you're specifically singing about enjoying doing regularly.

The tune is great, but I would have expected much better and more intelligent lyrics from PH & JA.

Delilah. Just don't know why you want to sing along to a song about murdering a woman

Nothing compares to you Sinead 0’Connor. Hate hate hate it . Pure whining , grating hell!

Mistletoe and wine (in fact, any vaguely or overtly religious song by Cliff Richard). 'Children singing Christian rhyme', urgh, pass the sick bucket.
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia, it's such an old song but still gets regular airplay. It's so irritating.
Horse with no name. The lyrics are atrocious. 'There was grass and rocks and things', also 'after 2 days my skin began to turn red', I would think 2 hours would do it, you'd just be one big blister after 2 days.

Anything by the Spice Girls, especially that awful Wannabe song.
Most songs by Whitney Houston.
Robbie williams Angels. Awful song!

Nothing compares to you Sinead 0’Connor. Hate hate hate it . Pure whining , grating hell!

Ooh, that's a controversial statement - but I agree with you.

Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band is another nasty one, if you listen to the lyrics. The music sounds quite pleasant and innocuous, but apart from the not-very-subtle title, it's all about the male singer's desire to have his jollies and his informing the (presumably female) intended recipient of his urges of what he's going to do to her - it never actually seems to bother or occur to him that she might want to have a choice in the matter. Eurgh.

And Waiting for a Train by Flash and the Pan

Thanks for reminding me of this boss bit of tuneage @SerenDippitty, by the same people who produced the early AC/DC songs, Vanda and Young. Apparently George Young died not long back, another thing that makes me mourn my youth.

The creepiest perhaps is 'What do you want to make those eyes at me for/ If they don't mean what they say?' I know it's an old song, but gaah! Some that I really just find annoying are that passive-aggressive song from the 70s 'No Charge'; 'I've Never Been to Me'; and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' - like the sentiment but hate the song! Oh, and perhaps number one in the annoying stakes: the theme song of 'Neighbours'! Never been able to get into the programme, because the theme song puts me off so much!

I hate Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. I have to turn it off. Also Big Love by Fleetwood Mac. It's the sex noises I hate.