To ask which songs give you the rage?

[Chocolattay]

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.

Totally agree about Do They Know It's Christmas. The lyrics make me cringe.
Adele
Taylor Swift

@WomanStanleyWoman

Also hate that song that says "when your body's had enough of me... I'm gonna love you a little bit more". Eeeeew! When you've had enough, you've had enough mate! The whole thing is fraught with cystitis.

This made me cackle like a drunken bag lady and then have a coughing fit

That comment itself made me actually do that 😂😂

@a28s

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!!

Omg I hate this song so much too!!!!

The song that makes me want to tear off my ears in an absolute rage is....The King of Rock & Roll (albu-fucking-querque)

Does your mother know? by ABBA. Lyrics are horrendously creepy:

You're so hot, teasing me
So, you're blue, but I can't take a chance on a chick like you
That's something I couldn't do
There's that look in your eyes
I can read in your face that your feelings are driving you wild
Ah, but girl, you're only a child
Well, I can dance with you, honey, if you think it's funny
Does your mother know that you're out?
And I can chat with you, baby, flirt a little maybe
Does your mother know that you're out?

Meghan Trainor's All About that Bass. Gives me the rage because there is a lot of veiled meanness in it.

Meant to be encouraging you to love your body which is great, but if you read the lyrics it's an ode to what 'men want' ('boys like a little more booty to hold at night') and calls women 'skinny bitches' which I think is awful. Why can't all shapes and sizes be the message of the song.

To me it's a song about women against women and I find the whole thing abhorrent.

@Pleaseacceptmyusername

When I was younger, if Tin Tin Out (here's where the story ends?) came on the radio, I would start to feel rage. And sixpence none the richer. Don't like that genre, but still not sure why they made me so angry!

Totally agree, two of the worst songs ever

Toploader's Dancing in the Moonlight.
The rage just boils over... I could kick small dogs like rugby balls whenever I hear that song (which is never, so... all small dogs are safe).

Dance hall days by Wang Chung. Loathe it! Thankfully not played much anymore.

Sadly, it is played very regularly on Radio 2, festering turd of a song that it is.

A lot of you have mentioned the Dr Hook track 'A Little Bit More', but so many of their tracks are so creepy and misogynistic. Yuck!

Such as "When you're in love with a beautiful woman - it's hard". So clearly written when he was 10 and making puerile rude jokes around the back of the bike shed with his mates.

The rest of the song is gross, too - the 'beautiful' woman is treated like a possession without any agency of her own whatsoever, that you have to control, to make sure that nobody else will take her away from you. I presume you don't have to bother taking care of 'non-beautiful' women? Grim.

Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve makes me stabby. All there songs were durges, but that one fills me with a particularly violent rage.

Don’t They Know It’s Christmas is just fucking insulting.

How dare them kids in Africa be starving…it’s Christmas. This year they will release the 2022 version…”tell them suffering kids in Ukraine to get a grip because it’s Christmas”

You've lost that loving feeling 🤢
Total eclipse of the heart ( it's on every compilation cd)
Anything by the Beatles ( so depressing).

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by deep blue something

Anything by the Beach boys
Anything by Paul McCartney
It's oh so quiet AAAAAGGGGHHHH!

I've thought of another one - A horse with no name, by America. I absolutely hate his voice and the stupid lyrics. I imagine the writer sitting there going "hmm, I wonder what would rhyme with name? I know - name!" Here's a highlight for you:

You see, I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la
La, la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la, la

Virtual Insanity or anything by the Twat in a Hat. God it makes me want to vomit.

There are so many & I'm too tired to type them but definitely absolutely anything by Ed Sheeran 🤢 and Adele 😴 and Beyonce 😬

Can't believe people hating Killers songs - how very dare you 🙈 Brandon's voice is just so❤️‍🔥 who cares about the lyrics 😺

Love 90s dance, HATE house of pain, jump around

Awful!!!!

Stand by your man. This is because we had a talk about domestic violence at school. They played a video with the scrolling faces of beaten women with this song playing. It ruined this song for me. If I hear it I picture those beaten women.

@ufucoffee

This is an oldie but Please Release Me. The lyrics are "Please release me, let me go. Because I don't love you any more" Horrible. Why write a song saying that?

Hell, yes. Engelbert Humperdinck's deathless classic. My DF used to wander around crooning this and I took it as a horrible warning that he would abandon us naughty brats if we didn't behave. (He looked after us to the end. )

My hate list is so long that I wish all whiny songs could be corralled into one early-morning show so that I never have to hear them on the radio again. A sample:

True Colours -- Cyndi
I Just Called to Say I Love You -- Stevie in the nadir of his otherwise brilliant career
The Power of Love -- Jennifer Rush
I Will Always Love You -- Whitney
Chandelier --Sia
Unchained Melody
Anything by Roy Orbison
Anything by Adele -- but love her voice and wish she'd do a dance track!

@Thatsplentyjack

I won't say which exact song because it has my name in it. That's why I hate it. Guaranteed anytime I meet someone new (male) in a situation where alcohol is involved they will sing the song at me.

Apart from that there are probably at least 100 more songs that I just can't stand.

My daughter has this problem sort of. She was named after a beautiful song, but there is another song (actually a few) with her name as well. People will insist on singing the popular one and asking if she’s named after it and I always have to say, well no actually she is named after a song but not that song.

There is a song called mood swings which used to be on the playlist at my work. I have a weirdly physical reaction to it and every time it played I genuinely wanted to like run away or grind my teeth or something, it was awful. I hated it.

Galway Girl by Ed Sheeran. I remember it coming on the radio and my DS, who was about 9 at the time saying, “Mum, we’re going to have to turn this over”. The whole ‘bottle of wine and bag of Doritos’ rap makes me want to pull my ears off.

Adele is lovely and funny, but her singing voice (which I acknowledge is powerful and in tune) sounds like nails down a blackboard to me.

There’s also a Beyoncé song called brown skin girl which I do like but the lyrics don’t make that much sense. There’s one line which is ‘just her little jeans and pure white tee.’ Well, okay? What does that even mean. It felt like the writer sat down and said ‘okay what rhymes with wifey?’ And just chose anything, rather than picking something that was coherent and added to the song.

I generally like Adele but Go easy on me hurts my ears. And when she sings the line 'I was just a child'

Posted too soon - I shout in my head 'no you weren't! You were in your 20's and got married at bear 30!

Also hate Ben by Michael Jackson and anything by Jess Glynn.