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To ask which songs give you the rage?

738 replies

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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JustDanceAddict · 22/02/2022 17:54

And ‘I wanna Dance with Somebody’ -ugh. Hate the warbling

CanIbeRio · 22/02/2022 18:02

Where do you go to my Lovely? by Peter Starstedt....anywhere you aren't Peter!!! Can't stand it!!

"You go to Juan-les-Pins
With your carefully designed topless swimsuit
You get an even suntan on your back, and on your legs".....utter drivel and don't get me started on the awful 'haha-haha's sung in that awful Allo Allo style! Pass mechelen earplugs!!!

CanIbeRio · 22/02/2022 18:05

Also can't stand Life is a Minestrone by 10cc....ridiculous!

CanIbeRio · 22/02/2022 18:06

Mechelen ear plugs Confused....pass me the earplugs!!!

mangowithasqueezeoflime · 22/02/2022 18:07

Santa Baby 🤮

Thisisit2022 · 22/02/2022 18:10

Mr Sandman. I LOATHE it and anytime I remember it, it stays with me for hours...so thanks!

Thisisit2022 · 22/02/2022 18:38

When I was in primary school I used to write tonnes of poems that I thought were EPIC. Sadly, when I stumbled upon them years later they were actually the worst things ever committed to paper and I cried for the trees that gave themselves up for such drivel.

My method was that I'd start by getting a word that I wanted to rhyme then I'd fit the sentences around them even if they made no sense.

So if I wanted to rhyme "heart" I'd go through the alphabet until something rhymed like this... "art" "bart" "cart" "dart"

Then I'd just made the sentences fit and end up with something like this:-

You'll live forever, in my hart
Never, ever will we part
I love you today, I'll love you forever
I am your Eve and you are my Trevor.

I am convinced that it was via this method that Robbie Williams wrote "Angels". If anyone played this at my funeral I swear to Lucifer that I would reform from the ashes and burn the world down.

emmetgirl · 22/02/2022 18:42

Single Ladies, Beyonce
Seriously, not all females are desperate to get bloody married. It makes me furious.

Uttoxerly · 22/02/2022 18:56

mangowithasqueezeoflime

Santa Baby 🤮

Santa Baby is shit. Complete and utter shit. Poor old Santa, being flirted with by a sexy lady when all he wants to do is deliver presents to the kids on Christmas Eve 🤣

nancybotwinbloom · 22/02/2022 18:56

Total eclipse of the heart

JohnLikesChickenSoup · 22/02/2022 19:02

‘Puppy Love’ all versions. Also ‘Exes and Ohs’ if a man sang that there would be outrage.

the80sweregreat · 22/02/2022 19:02

I do love 'Angels ' , but the man who helped Robbie Williams to write it in Ireland was shafted with regards to how much he made out of it , so I hate that I do like it ( and I have been known to screech along to it, sadly, after alcohol has been drunk)

YouHaveYourFathersBreasts · 22/02/2022 19:02

Dancing in the moonlight. I have abandoned my trolley in Asda because I hate it that much.

the80sweregreat · 22/02/2022 19:04

Agree that 'Santa Baby' is just greed personified.
I'll have this and that oh and maybe a ring .. because I've been an awfully good girl , poor Santa! I'd tell her to do one , far too busy for all that malarkey.

the80sweregreat · 22/02/2022 19:06

@YouHaveYourFathersBreasts

Dancing in the moonlight. I have abandoned my trolley in Asda because I hate it that much.
I love your username ! My dh bought me Toploaders cd with this one on it. I didn't get round to playing it strangely enough. It was also a cover , which surprised me that someone else had actually sung it too!
ExhaustedMumma · 22/02/2022 19:18

Pretty much anything by David Gray or Travis. Very overplayed by my neighbours at uni at unnecessarily loud volumes. Just dirges.

newrubylane · 22/02/2022 19:27

@CailleachGranda

I can't pick just one so I'm going for anything Jess Glynn bleats her way through

It's such a visceral reaction. It's painful

I'll never use Jet2holidays because of that

This. Her voice.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 22/02/2022 20:04

After Simon Day did 'Dave Angel, Eco Warrior' I can never look at that song in the same way again ...

Shirley!!! You can't burn tyres 'ere!!!

I love you today, I'll love you forever
I am your Eve and you are my Trevor.

Love this!!! Grin Grin Grin

Ladybirdbookworm · 22/02/2022 20:23

Florence and the Machine - kiss with a fist
Omg I HATE it ….why oh why would someone say ‘ a kiss with a fist is better than none’
Makes me clench my teeth

ToffeeNotCoffee · 22/02/2022 20:32

John Lennon's imagine. I really don't understand how so many people think it's one of the greatest songs in the world

This^

It's a half hearted dirge and to hear him say, 'imagine no possessions' just takes the p1ss.

Shoe19 · 22/02/2022 21:16

Under my Thumb by The Rolling Stones.
Why is it still played on the radio??? Awful.

woodhill · 22/02/2022 21:21

Spaceman is also ghastly where it sounds promising then becomes a grungy dirge

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 22/02/2022 21:26

@Shoe19

Under my Thumb by The Rolling Stones. Why is it still played on the radio??? Awful.
I was listening to that the other day and thinking how awful the lyrics are. Still like it though. My song is anarchy in the uk. In fact anything by the sex pistols as I hate hate hate Johnny rotten singing. Also anything by nico as it sounds like a cat being squashed.
CherryRipe1 · 22/02/2022 22:55

Starlight by Jasmine somebody. It was the horrible reedy warble to a Forerro Rocher ad and shown every Christmas, thankfully it's died a death now. It went 'So your shining, waiting, to put your harms (not arms) around me. Oh, oh oh oh,oh oh oh,oh oh oh' ad nauseam. It was truly ghastly and I hated her pretentious silly fake voice. I used to mute every time it came on tv. Grrrr

PermanentTemporary · 22/02/2022 23:00

I was listening to George Ezra singing Anything for You or whatever it's called on the way home today and he sounds like such a creep in it - gave him her number and said she could call if he needed anything BECAUSE HE WANTED TO GET INTO HER PANTS accurate I suppose