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To ask which songs give you the rage?

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Chocolattay · 20/02/2022 14:40

Heart Of Glass makes me want to be violent, I cannot stand it. I’m not sure what it is. But something about the lyrics, voice and tune trigger something inside me. It came on the radio in the delivery room whilst I was in active labour and it made me distressed until it was turned off.

Also, Ed Sheeran’s songs. Mainly due to the weird lyrics. “My bedsheets smell like you.” Wtf? And in a recent one “I want to drink your smile.” How does one ‘drink a smile’? On the rocks? Also the song where he goes on about all of the depressing hardships his (I’m guessing made-up for the song) friends have fallen upon. One doesn’t see his kids, one is divorced, bla bla bla. It annoys me because it’s not his place to go on about their (made-up, in all fairness) problems for a good song. If the friends are real I hope he asked for permission. This is the same song where he goes on about driving 90mph down country lanes. And the less said about Galway Girl the better.

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Hibye23289 · 20/02/2022 20:42

That song.....''and we'll never be roooyaaall" it makes me feel physically sick! I think it is linked to being out at the sane tine I was suffering mornng sickness.

Also that Moby song,so creepy ' heeey heeey ...woman'' shivers

MostlyNormalSometimesOdd · 20/02/2022 20:44

Simply the best by Tina Turner brings me out in hives

SalmonEile · 20/02/2022 20:50

Fat boy slim RIGHT HEEYUR RIGHT NOW

Too shouty
Most cardi b songs now that I think about it
Doja cat kiss me boy - cringe

BryanAdamsLeftAnkle · 20/02/2022 20:51

Anything by ABBA. They can get in the sea

sweeneytoddsrazor · 20/02/2022 20:53

The Wurzles also do cracking versions of Dont look back in anger , and Ruby

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/02/2022 20:57

You're Gorgeous, that song is creepy!

To be fair, that's exactly what it was intended to do - it was a song about scummy, predatory people in the fashion/modelling industry.

My DH can't listen to this. Apparently the extended note "makes his willy feel funny"

Or, to put it another way, his bill withers Grin

I quite like a lot of Queen songs, but Bohemian Rhapsody is terrible. It's definitely the wrong side of genius/doggerel.

Imagine is effectively the Communist Manifesto set to music. I believe John Lennon admitted as much; lots of songs get away with introducing mad/controversial/unpalatable themes that nobody would ever go unchallenged for if they just spoke them.

The best things in life are free - Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson The bit were he says "I still don't think they've got it, let's tell them them one more time"

The song as it is is quite rubbish, but every time it comes on the radio, I sing "The best things in life are free-ee - if you can outrun the store security!" and I giggle like I'm about 9 Grin

That 'Jeans' song - "When I wake up in the morning light, I put on my jeans and I feel alright".

Adrian Gurvitz - 'Classic' - I don't know if it's supposed to be ironic, but I'm just cringing for him every time I hear it.

'Break My Stride' - just such a pointless piece of tat.

flashpaper · 20/02/2022 20:58

@CheesePlantMurderer

Blurred Lines. Misogynistic bullshit
Came on to say this. Yuck. Rapey awful song.
Giviningup · 20/02/2022 21:01

Anything by Taylor Swift

flashpaper · 20/02/2022 21:08

Oh and that "it's Friday again, it's Saturday, Sunday" whatever it's called. Friday, then Saturday, then Sunday. Yes. That's how the week works.

a28s · 20/02/2022 21:13

Pharrell Williams 'Happy' 🤬 I've always said if anyone wanted to torture me, all they'd have to do is lock me in a room and play it on repeat. I've never had a song get under my skin so much yet have no explanation as to why!!

pontiouspilates · 20/02/2022 21:15

@AParentofBoys

Dancing in the moonlight by Toploader.
God, this song gives me the absolute rage. I have to turn it off immediately. There was an even worse cover out a year or so ago too.
imsanehonest · 20/02/2022 21:21

That bloody ebay song on the current advert "like a boomerang - the love comes back to you." Arrrrgghh, makes me rage and I've no idea why.

Februarybluee · 20/02/2022 21:25

Probably would be an unpopular opinion but bohemian rhapsody. Find it jarring.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/02/2022 21:25

Oh and that "it's Friday again, it's Saturday, Sunday" whatever it's called. Friday, then Saturday, then Sunday. Yes. That's how the week works.

I have an instant loathing for any song where they feel the need to rattle through the days of the weeks - The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Craig David, Happy Days theme tune - any of them.

Unless it's a song specifically written for helping preschoolers to learn the basics, it's such a pathetic, infantile, lazy way of writing lyrics. They might as well just open up the Radio Times and start reading out tonight's TV listings - or just sing The Alphabet Song to a jazzed-up beat and be done with it.

Februarybluee · 20/02/2022 21:27

Another hater here @ChameFangeNail @Sparklingbrook !

Eckno · 20/02/2022 21:27

*@Wonnle

Pretty much anything after the mid 90's !*

Grin

I hate that bloody Castle on the hill song too. Can’t really see Ed Sheeran “running from the law” Hmm Plus it’s some sleepy market town in mid Suffolk, for goodness sake, where you’d be hard pushed to find an on-duty police officer if you tried.

My all time hate song is Bryan Adams Everything I do. It was the slow song played religiously at the end of the night at my local disco week after week after week one summer… and it reminds me of awkward teenage me standing at the edge of the dance floor never being asked to dance!

MangoLipstick · 20/02/2022 21:29

Now I like Adele normally, but her new song ‘go eeeeeeeeeeeeassyyy on me baby’ makes me recoil abit. I just find it really annoying!

MrsMop1964 · 20/02/2022 21:32

@TankFlyBossW4lk

That awful Killers song. The lines 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.' Argh!
Always makes me think of Bill Bailey's version which goes on to say 'I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster...'
FrecklesMalone · 20/02/2022 21:35

Let it be. So long and dull.
Easy like Sunday Morning. Go to fuck.
The one with the lyric. "Or are we Dancer?" So jarring.
Tainted Love. Over played at discos.
Love shack. His voice 🤮
Most Stevie Wonder songs.

lifeuphigh · 20/02/2022 21:41

I’m with the person who said all the end of the night shouty anthems. Of which my absolute most detested is I would walk 500 miles. It reminds me of sweaty drunk people marching around a very tiny and rather revolting club at Uni.

Inkanta · 20/02/2022 21:43

The one with the lyric. "Or are we Dancer?" So jarring

Haha - yes!!

whiteroseredrose · 20/02/2022 21:47

Creepy ones like the Altered Images one I Could be Happy all about escaping from someone.

Similarly Every Breath You Take by the Police.

In The Summer Time.... if her daddy's rich take her out for a meal, if her daddy's poor just do what you feel... Plus have a drink have a drive.

And for some reason Beatles and Take That songs really grate in me.

Snoozer11 · 20/02/2022 21:56

A 10 year old could write better lyrics than Ed Sheeran.

CaptainCabinets · 20/02/2022 21:57

Anything Jess Glynne has ever done.

Changeymcgee · 20/02/2022 22:00

Lewis capaldi!!

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