Lighthearted songs that you hate

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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???

I'm a pedant and can't stand songs that are grammatically incoherent, such as 'see beneath your beautiful' (your beautiful what?), and 'New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of'

I also cannot bear George Ezra, his voice makes me shiver.

I detest that 'Swords Of A Thousand Men' song that they keep using in whichever holiday advert it is. I looked up the lyrics, thinking that it would probably make more sense in context rather than just that phrase. It didn't.

Also, 'Make Me Smile' by Cockney Rebel. I don't know what it is about it but I just detest it. I love Steve Harley's Duet with Sarah Brightman on 'The Phantom Of The Opera', but on MMS, he just sings like a merry uncle at a wedding and doesn't put any effort in whatsoever.

I'm a pedant and can't stand songs that are grammatically incoherent, such as 'see beneath your beautiful' (your beautiful what?), and 'New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of'

Ooh, yes, I know exactly what you mean. One of my favourite songs ever is 'Lady Of A Certain Age' by the Divine Comedy, but I still wince at 'the style to which you had all of your life been accustomed to'.

Obviously not lighthearted or a pop song, but the hymn Amazing Grace has already rankled with me for the same reason - lovely hymn, but TWO glaring grammatical errors in the last verse?!?!

‘My heart will go on’ by Celine Fucking Dion. Ghastly, awful, hateful dirge.

‘Someone like you’ by Adele. She sounds like a heifer who is having difficulties calving, and she seriously needs to stop whining about the dickhead who (understandably) dumped her a decade ago.

‘Lady in red’ by Chris de Burgh. 🤮

The following make me want to leave the room:

Supertramp
Phil Collins
Jess Glynn
Kiss Me, Sixpence None the Richer

OP, absolutely with you on Imagine. 'You may say I'm a dreamer', no, dreamer wasn't the word I had in mind .

I also loathe Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton (what the hell is romantic about having to put your pissed up partner to bed?) and that bleeding Bryan Adams song that was number one for a decennial.

Am I allowed to nominate a whole category of songs? If so, it has to be the swing standards that feature on EVERY single album released by a presenter/actor/comedian who isn't primarily associated with singing. You discover that they have an amazing voice and are keen to hear it - and then they're singing 'Fly Me To The Moon', 'Get Ready', 'Come Fly With Me', 'My Way' and the like - soooooo hackneyed now. Ooh, and that 'Ac-cen-chu-ate The Positive' calamity always leave me thinking the most negative and violent of thoughts whenever I have the misfortune to hear it.

Anything by UB40 and fairground by Simply Red. They both make me shudder involuntarily!!

‘My heart will go on’ by Celine Fucking Dion. Ghastly, awful, hateful dirge.

Also, why is she singing it to two random men?!

"My heart will go on, Dan, Don"

It isn't just a case of lazily running two sounds together - she clearly enunciates Dan and Don!?!

Also with her, in the same way that a whole generation (or two) of people will only ever know 'I Will Always Love You' as a Whitney Houston song and never hear the original by Dolly Parton; the same will be the case with Celine Dion and her travesty version of Pandora's Box's 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'.

Mistletoe and Wine. I just can’t.

Ann Marie it’s my birthday. And very specifically those lines (my jaw is clenched just typing this):

I'am do what I like
I'ma wear what I like
I'ma party tonight
Goddamn, it's my birthday
Everybody love me
Yeah, yeah, yeah, look at me, gimme money

I've always hated Imagine it's so dull.
I hate it even more since I learned on here what a vile person John Lennon was.

Anything by Sam Smith. Whiny voice.

That's what you think.... and you KNOW you're not the only one

This thread is making me angry

There's a lot of hate on here for Jess Glynn?
Please explain

The very worst song in the entire universe is "Come on Eileen"...FACT!

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

That’s really unfair .

Goats are lovely animals .

Chasing Pavements by Adele and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Imagine is shit too.

Love shack and the Bryan Adams one that was number one for weeks

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Call you up in the middle of the night*
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

Utter drivel, hate it!!!!

@AgeLikeWine

Imagine for me too! Also:-
Mull of Kintyre - dull and moronic
Shape of You - creepy as fuck “- and now my bedsheets smell of you” 🤮
Tiger Feet - Dear God! Before my time but inflicted at dinner dances
Mustang Sally - as above
Build Me Up Buttercup - as above
Umberella-ella-ella
Oh My Heart! by David Fonseca

However Pineapple I can’t believe you’ve ever paid attention to the lyrics of The Beautiful South! They are often so acerbic and cynical, for example the wildly popular Song for Whoever:

“I love you from the bottom, of my pencil case
I love you in the songs, I write and sing
Love you because, you put me in my rightful place
And I love the PRS cheques, that you bring
[...]
Deep so deep, the number one I hope to reap
Depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovey cry, cry, cry, cry
Oh Cathy, oh Alison, oh Phillipa, oh Sue
You made me so much money, I wrote this song for you
I wrote this song for you
Jennifer, Alison, Phillipa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too...”

Tainted love by soft cell
Brings back awful memories as a student nurse working in a female psycho geriatric locked ward.
Almost broke me.

Yes LightDrizzle. The Beautiful South are definitely not lighthearted.

I love them but I can totally see why other people wouldn't.

I forgot about George Ezra’s Shotgun. It sounds like a novelty record.
Achy-Breaky Heart
I Just Called to Say I love You - it has a couple of my pet hates; a plodding inane backing beat and a mid-song key change.