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.

Single Ladies. Everything from the lyrics to the tune makes me want to club a baby seal.

The "I've had the time of my life and I owe it all to you" one. I think it's been used in one too many Cheap Holiday adverts but I can't stand it.

"I've had the time of my life and I owe it all to you"

Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible song. I was 15 when Dirty Dancing came out and I thought it RUINED the movie... just ruined an otherwise perfectly decent soundtrack (although Lover Boy pisses me off as well).

Anything by Adele. Can't stand her. Especially that " Hello" song. Not a fan of Lewis Capaldi either. I think the two of them should be matched on Tinder, so that they can keep each other miserable with their depressing songs and leave the rest of us in fuckin peace.

I can’t stand Santa Cruz (It’s not that far). Saaaaa-a-a-na Cruz, Saaaaa-a-a-na Cruz…. Aargh!

Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke. Gross gross gross.

The ad people have ruined ' it's the most wonderful time of the year ' by using it as a holiday tune ! It's not a really bad Christmas song , but ' on the beach ' ads have done my head in and I really dislike the boy taunting the girl after she drops her ice cream. Grr 😠
( I know it's derailing this thread )

You've lost that loving feeling

You must only ever have heard inferior versions and not this all-time definitive classic one:

Also Your Song (lyrics are beyond crap)

"If I were a sculptor; but then again, no...." - just sounds like a 5yo whose bizarre imagination is running faster than their words can catch up. He'll be blathering on about yoghurt and Milky Ways and Paw Patrol on the Moon any minute.

Talking of adverts, am I the only one thinking that the version of 'What A Wonderful World' on that cruise advert doesn't quite convey what they're probably intending? The version is so dark and dystopian - like they're acknowledging the world has gone to poo, so you might as well all join us on here and we'll take you away and ceremoniously set fire to this thing out at sea, to be done with this wretched life once and for all

News just in: Radio 2 just played that atrocious Red Box song 'Everybody Now Say Aye' or whatever it's called. Sounds like a big jumbly mish-mash a hundred different nursery rhymes.

Single ladies. I don’t know why it gives me such rage, but I really hate it!

This is the only version of Single Ladies that I will ever tolerate:

Almaz - Randy Crawford. Immediately gets my hackles up. Thankfully rarely heard these days!!

Thunder only happens when it's raining, no it doesn't, Most things by rod Stewart sounds like he's singing through a chess grater.

Anything by Ariana Grande or Mariah Carey. I can appreciate technically they have very strong voices, but I personally can't stand that style of singing. I find whistle notes so grating!

Also I find so many of Ariana's lyrics questionable, especially since her target audience is young, impressionable girls. She has one song and the chorus is:

"Break up with your girlfriend
'Cause I'm bored
You could hit it in the mornin'
Like it's yours"

There was a craze a few years ago among advertising people to use a song by Vashti Bunyan, "Just Another Diamond Day".

I think it was popular in the 70s?? It set my teeth on edge every time it came on - she sings in a breathy, faux -childlike way which some people might find charming...but I just couldn't be in the same room.

It warms my heart to see how many other people hate Imagine.

And for good measure, that detestable Paul McCartney Wonderful Christmas Time monstrosity,

I love that so many of these annoying songs are upbeat happy ones. It’s like we hate being forced to be cheerful. I bloody hate “Young at heart” by the bluebells because of its rerelease due to the ad, also that annoying jaunty little fiddle at the beginning, my heart sinks that I have to endure this shite for another 3 minutes.

I remember in work once saying what a dirge John Lennon's Imagine was and how much I loathed it.

Only one other person agreed with me (there was about 12 of us at the time) while everyone else looked at me as if I'd just said I stabbed puppies as a hobby!

Anything at all by Lighthouse Family or M People. Thankfully don't hear them that often.

Keep the faith, @cobblers123 - you are not alone!

@MooseBreath

Umbrella by Rihanna. I knew music was officially dead when I saw people excited about "ella ella ella eh eh eh".

Yeah hate Rhiannas version but the Manic Street Preachers version is far superior, I love theirs

That “All that she wants is another baby”. Somebody once told me she thought it was about a broody woman desperately wanting an actual baby rather than a romance song

Not sure multiple one-night stands are that romantic but no, I didn't realise that baby was meant to be boyfriend.
I loathed it, because I thought it was slagging off young women, who were becoming single mothers out of loneliness/caught in that cycle (at the time, I was seeing it a lot in my job and it was bloody heartbreaking) so I could not understand why it was popular and who all these bloody tories were buying it

I do have very duh moments though do not ask me what I thought the Elgin marbles looked like until last week

Can I add Gala - Freed from Desire which is played on Kisstory ad nauseam at the moment.

Really irritating and sounds like her love is a real loser, tbh..

We don't talk about Bruno! Definitely talked enough about him now...
Totally agree about that God awful gypsy woman song!

Has anyone mentioned Sia’s ear-busting lack of diction yet?

@AParentofBoys

Dancing in the moonlight by Toploader.

Came here to post this And the Dan Hipgrave Gail Porter romance was so annoying at the time