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

Anything by Justin Bieber. Can’t stand him

Ariana Grande no tears left to cry, mostly incoherent, I don’t like songs I have to google the lyrics to.

I hate No More Tears Left to Cry too, but only because it was playing in the vet's waiting room when I was waiting to have a pet put to sleep this year. So now I have that association and will always think of pet death when I hear it. Even before that, her inability to enunciate properly was irritating.

Speaking (ha!) of enunciation, I get quite riled by Elton John and his habit of not finishing his words. In Sacrifice (or sack-er-ee-fahhhs as he puts it), he manages to turn the phrase "cold cold heart" into "coco haaaa". It took me years to figure out what he was actually trying to say.

ALL ABOUT THAT BASS - so annoying 😡

he manages to turn the phrase "cold cold heart" into "coco haaaa". It took me years to figure out what he was actually trying to say.

I always thought he was singing about coco pops

Anything by The Beautiful South or The House Martins. I cannot stand that blokes voice, it's so nasally and the women singing some of them are whiney too. all the songs are so annoying. (Especially A Little Time, Perfect 10 and Rotterdam)

Also, other nasally singers - looking at you Roman Keating

You're Gorgeous by Babybird. It's horrible!!!

Ooh, ooh, just thought of another one - Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold. It's about a little boy whose parents betray him by... having another child so that he no longer gets all the attention. That's it - no abuse or neglect, they just have a second child and point out that he has to be nice to her because she's smaller than him. Such hardship, such an objectionable brat.

Oh god yes, Eoin! I always wondered what I was missing in that song because I thought no one can be that pissed off just because they've got a younger sibling. What self-centredness!

Another annoying song from that era "Escape (the Pina colada sing)" by Rupert Holmes. He and his "lady" had a lot more in common than he realised; not least that they were both happy to cheat and look for someone new whilst still in a relationship. They deserve each other, frankly.

all ed sheeran songs.

Any thing by Chris (Dire) Rea. Dirge.
Anything by Whitney Houston - warbling shite.
Loveshack - B52s - overplayed as a student and I can’t bear it now.

Any cover of One by U2, can’t top perfection.

Any thing by Chris (Dire) Rea 😂

Anything by Simply Red, especially Fairground, I'd have to walk out of somewhere if they were playing.

Anything by Coldplay, Adele or Catatonia. Especially Catatonia. There's a stampede to turn of the radio in our house when they come on!

@Lucytwosie I was just about to say Fairground, that song fills me with rage, anything my them really.

My DP wanted to go and see Simply Red live the other day, never been so relived that it's nearly sold out, only seats available right at back and he won't pay £74 to sit there

A song by Enternal I think it's called I wanna be the only one, it just goes on and one, I wanna be the only one, yeah yeah yeah

I haven't gone through all the pages but: Maxwell's silver hammers ugh
its an ear worm as well.

I always thought that 'lonely boy' had other meanings : once they got the child they really wanted he was then abandoned to his fate by his parents after them doting on him as a baby. A lot of kids feel this way when a new sibling comes along I bet.
It was on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

Whoever mentioned Mistletoe and Wine by CR. So true, I sniggered at your reply as feel exactly the same. Tbh if he appears on TV I have to turn it off. 🤢

I wouldn't dislike a song based on it being about an affair or something. Books and TV shows have anti heroes, so I don't see why songs can't. I do dislike songs that have irritating tunes, are overplayed or have clumsy lyrics.

I don't like that Shut Up and Dance song. I also get really fed up with all request shows like the Radio 2 drive time where people ring up with the most obvious fucking choices. "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen, "We Are Family" etc. What a waste!!!

My first job the shop next door was a record shop (shows age!) & they played "Ebony Eyes" all-day-long for days-on-end - I use to like that song... My dm hated "Bali Hai" from South Pacific for a similar reason, she travelled on a plane to Australia in the 60's when they use to play canned music - guess the air hostesses favourite musical choice! (48 hours of hell listening to the same song, over &over again)

I wouldn't dislike a song based on it being about an affair or something

Oh I don't actively dislike "Escape" - it's very catchy and my friends and I loved singing it at approx age 10 in primary school! But their behaviour (and the catchiness) is just annoying!

The80sweregreat I may be especially sensitive because I am the younger sister of a brother, but I didn't really get that from the lyrics. If you read them, there's no suggestion of abandonment, just that his parents, rightly, had to attend to his sister's needs because she was, you know, a baby. It's the way he's so petulant about how his parents "lied" that he was their only one. Given that it is apparently autobiographical, I wonder how his sister felt about that song?

That lady Gaga ft Bradley Cooper song! Constantly overplayed.

I’ve got loads I can’t bear - Torn by Natalie Imbruglia, anything by The Beautiful South, and that song which might be called The Greatest Day by Take That, because he sings notes that make me want to never hear music again.

Frankie by Sister Sledge was very popular when I was young, but I didn’t realise until my daughters dance class used it in a competition, how dodgy it was. ‘You were 15 and I was 12, it was summer we were so in love. I’ve never loved anyone this much, look at me, I’m thrilled to your touch’ My daughter and her friends would then sing ‘Frankie, are you a paedophile?’

The other one is I Drove All Night by Roy Orbison. Really old song but still gets played a lot.

I drive all night to get to you
Is that alright?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Woke you from your sleep
To make love to you
Is that alright?

You’re asking afterwards??? Also wake me from my sleep, and I will punch you in the face. Such a creepy creepy song.

The Power of Love by FGTH is one of my all time favourites though.

Another annoying song from that era "Escape (the Pina colada sing)" by Rupert Holmes. He and his "lady" had a lot more in common than he realised; not least that they were both happy to cheat and look for someone new whilst still in a relationship. They deserve each other, frankly.

Rupert Holmes is a very talented and underrated singer songwriter IM (humble) O. AFAIK has been happily married to his childhood sweetheart for about 50 years.