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Lighthearted songs that you hate

252 replies

Sparklypurpleunicornsaremyfav · 30/03/2020 00:36

OK so my husband completely disagrees with me on this. I cry at pretty much everything, he doesn't.
He gets teary at this song... To me it's like nails down a blackboard... The song..
Imagine by John lennon
I can't explain it but I hate it with a passion, it makes cringe
Am I the only one like my husband says or do others get the same feeling....what other songs have that effect on people???

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SinisterBumFacedCat · 31/03/2020 10:28

You get what you give by the New Radicals

It used to get played over and over and over again. When I hear the first bit and that guy going “huh huh huh” like a cat trying to bring up a fur ball my heart sinks. And he wears a stupid hat too.

UnagiSalmonSkinRoll · 31/03/2020 13:21

Beautiful - Christina Aguilera! I hate hate this song with a passion, I always turn it off.
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia! I hate this song too, makes me want to stick pins in my eyes!

rayoflightboy · 31/03/2020 13:24

I cant stand anything by Mariah Carey,her wailing goes right through me.
Ironic by Alanis whatsherface,utter drivel.

UnagiSalmonSkinRoll · 31/03/2020 13:25

@Thurmanmurman I absolutely adore Friends, but I have to skip the titles as that song is just grating

VeryShortNotice · 31/03/2020 13:42

Oh. I find whole genres of music intolerable.

I cannot listen to any EDM. It makes me feel awful. I really, viscerally hate it.

And Jesus rock. It makes me irrationally angry.

Propagandalf · 31/03/2020 13:50

"Numa Numa" gives me the rage Angry
So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds
Hanson - Mmm Bop
Crazy Frog

Also, Blur's Country House and Oasis' Roll With It that both got released in the same week. The so-called Battle of Britpop. There were much better songs that the 2 bands could have chosen.

Dandarabilla · 31/03/2020 13:51

Rockabye by Clean Bandit and Ann Marie. Mawkish...
No one’s ever gonna hurt you love YES THEY WILL

Dreamingofsunnydays · 31/03/2020 14:02

All the covers done by those God awful ‘Piano Men’.............just no

aWeaponCalledtheWord · 31/03/2020 14:07

while we’re here, i would like to set a challenge.

i believe it is physically impossible to dance to any Steve Winwood song all the way through.

esp. Valerie - impossible and awkward from start to finish

also, Toploader can get tae fuck

ShrimpSymphony · 31/03/2020 14:08

Driving Home for Christmas. It just fills me inexplicable rage and I have no idea why Blush

midnightstar66 · 31/03/2020 14:09

I absolutely cannot stand the sound of George Ezra - shotgun is absolutely banned in our house no matter how much dc protest

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 31/03/2020 14:45

Imagine no possessions. Really John ? In which of your mansions would that have been then ?

I still chuckle at an old gag on HIGNFY from years ago. They were talking about Liverpool John Lennon Airport and its motto 'Above us only sky'.

"Interestingly, the baggage handlers have their own departmental motto, which is also taken from the same song: 'Imagine no possessions' " Grin

Sparklypurpleunicornsaremyfav · 31/03/2020 14:58

Oh I've got another two... Both R Kelly, I know he's vile anyway but, I believe I can fly and if could turn back the hands of time 🤯🤯😡😡😡
Oh and wet wet wet, I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes...🙄🙄

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TeaAndCake · 31/03/2020 14:59

Build Me Up Buttercup
Wake up Boo

billydilly · 31/03/2020 15:03

Anything by Queen but particularly Bohemian Raphsody. I'm truly sorry that FM died but it seems to be tantamount to treason/heresy to hate his fucking awful voice and shite songs.

Charlottejbt · 31/03/2020 15:34

I love most of the upbeat early 80s songs slated on here Blush but I heard them at a very impressionable age when I had no critical filter whatsoever! Agree about Imagine and Bohemian Rhapsody. It's the pretentiousness that grates. American Pie is another horrible example of that genre. Also Starry Starry Night. Actually I must have had some critical impulses because I remember seeing Julio Iglesias singing that on a TV variety show and being dumbfounded by the sheer awfulness. Grownups really liked some shite music back then: my parents' fave was I Just Called To Say I Love You. I had to boycott Stevie Wonder's Glasto set because of that. Although it sounds like fricking Schubert compared to My Cherie Amour, which is before my time thankfully.

I hate the Ed Sheeran song with the refrain "I'm in love with your baaah-deee". Thank god the rest of his oeuvre is generic and undistiguishable from the rest of the commercial pap perpetrated these days.

I don't like My Way either (apart from Tiny Tim's excellent parody) but I think Sinatra's worst was Love and Marriage. Luckily it doesn't get much airplay nowadays.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 31/03/2020 15:39

spidey a member of my household works for Jet2 and that song is played on a loop during their training sessions and in their rec room. They all hate it too.

SirChing · 31/03/2020 16:20

Anything by Jess Glynne. She sounds like a singing goat.

GooodMythicalMorning · 31/03/2020 16:32

I don't know who it's by or what it's called but one with the phrase "like a paddington bear". I don't know why it annoys me so much.

MockersxxxxxxxSocialDistancing · 31/03/2020 17:07

The joke in Liverpool is they named the airport after Lennon because he couldn't get away from the place quick enough.

As for Belfast, George Best???????

Fckingfuming · 31/03/2020 19:08

Perfect by Fairground Attraction
Red Red Wine by UB40
Fairground by Simply Red

Hate Hate HATE!

Florapenelope · 31/03/2020 19:11

Happy by Pharrell

Lazy song by Bruno Mars AngryAngryAngry

rayoflightboy · 31/03/2020 21:24

Those where the days i think its by Mary Hopkins,its before my time but i heard it constantly one summer.When there was a fairground near us.And i swear its the only song they played

lachy · 31/03/2020 21:35

Mika gives me the rage... Big girl you are beautiful. Fuck off you absolute nobber.

I cannot abide John Lennon.

It amuses DH greatly when I punch the radio off with hatred.

UrbanMage · 31/03/2020 21:38

Anything by Sam Smith. Whiny voice.