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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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woodhill · 23/02/2022 16:37

Pump up the volume and that wailing at the end

the80sweregreat · 23/02/2022 17:35

I heard ' last to know' by Del Amitri on the tv the other day and it's now become an ' ear worm'
I do like it , but I wished I could unhear it now.
Whatever became of them eh?

Grapewrath · 23/02/2022 18:32

Anything by Florence and the machine. Her voice upsets me
Angels by Robbie Williams I absolutely fucking can’t stand.

FuzzyPuffling · 23/02/2022 18:40

"Once I was seven years old..." etc. Until he says he'll be 60 one day and hopes his kids might visit. Because, as he intimates, anything over 30 is brain dead.
I HATE this song with a vengeance.

strawberryapricotpie · 23/02/2022 18:49

'Just The Way You Are' (the Billy Joel/Barry White one, not Bruno Mars). When you listen to it properly it's actually pretty misogynistic. 'Don't go changing to try to please me'? Um, maybe it's not about you??! Ditto all the stuff about how she's not allowed to have 'clever conversation' because it's too much like hard work. Oh, and she can't follow fashion or colour her hair... and at the end of all this he admits he 'might not seem to care'. Ugh. (Not that I've given it much thought or anything. Grin )

strawberryapricotpie · 23/02/2022 18:51

Oh, and 'Wasn't Expecting That', aka the most depressing death ballad since 'Honey'. barf

yummytummy · 23/02/2022 19:05

don't know if anyone's mentioned but that "i've got a bed but i'd rather be in yours tonight got a bed but i'd rather be in yours" aaargh just go round your boyfriend's then and stop whining about it!

Jellykat · 23/02/2022 19:15

'its getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes'
need i say more?!

Anything by Emeli Sande!!

FuzzyPuffling · 23/02/2022 19:22

Oh, while we are talking Paul McCartney (we are, aren't we), that "Let 'Em In" song. It's just a tuneless list of famous people. Yep Paul, much more famous than you mate!

WomanStanleyWoman · 23/02/2022 19:24

@Jellykat

'its getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes' need i say more?!

Anything by Emeli Sande!!

They really need to be clearer on the context with that one.

Not allowed back in that branch of Pizza Hut Sad

mixedpeel · 23/02/2022 19:31

@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

Totally agree - can’t stand her voice, can’t explain why.
BirdyBee · 23/02/2022 19:42

That stupid song about being a punk rocker with flowers in her hair no idea why I dislike it so much!!

ivfbabymomma1 · 23/02/2022 19:52

@Thatsplentyjack Caroline? 🤣

MrsTophamHat · 23/02/2022 19:53

Shut Up And Dance With Me is fucking shit

Happy by Pharrel is horrendous

Thatsplentyjack · 23/02/2022 20:00

@ivfbabymomma1, nope 🤣

Dita73 · 23/02/2022 20:09

Anything by Cyndi Lauper. How she ever had a career is beyond me

Whitewolf2 · 23/02/2022 20:24

Blurred Lines.
So sodding catchy but horrendous misogynistic lyrics.

Inkanta · 23/02/2022 20:42

Lifted - Lighthouse Family

BeReet · 23/02/2022 22:36

God, I hate loads of stuff 😳 The one I hate the most is Imagine by John Lennon - when it was voted best song of the 20th century I nearly exploded with rage!
Also hate Young at Heart by the Bluebells, absolutely loathe it. Blurred Lines, Come on Eileen, In the Summertime, Dancing in the Moonlight, anything by Cliff Richard. There's more but my mind has gone blank!

LSLLM · 23/02/2022 22:40

Love Shack can get fucked

JulesJules · 23/02/2022 22:55

My most hated song is 'Imagine' It's a moany whiny dirge with trite lyrics.

LadyGAgain · 23/02/2022 23:00

@BeReet

God, I hate loads of stuff 😳 The one I hate the most is Imagine by John Lennon - when it was voted best song of the 20th century I nearly exploded with rage! Also hate Young at Heart by the Bluebells, absolutely loathe it. Blurred Lines, Come on Eileen, In the Summertime, Dancing in the Moonlight, anything by Cliff Richard. There's more but my mind has gone blank!
Omg I read yours and thought I'd written it. Right up to your comment about sir Cliff. Love him! GrinGrinGrin. Must also add Brown eyed girl and American pie.
LadyGAgain · 23/02/2022 23:01

Oh and anything by Bob Marley

groovergirl · 24/02/2022 02:40

And furthermore, that awful "Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car". I don't mind some of Billy Ocean's songs, but this one romanticising street harassment and attempted abduction should have been deleted from the mouldy-oldie playlists decades ago.

WomanStanleyWoman · 24/02/2022 02:44

@groovergirl

And furthermore, that awful "Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car". I don't mind some of Billy Ocean's songs, but this one romanticising street harassment and attempted abduction should have been deleted from the mouldy-oldie playlists decades ago.
Even in 1988 it freaked me out a bit. There were all these PSAs telling us to stay away from strangers - then Billy Ocean shouts ‘Hey! You! Get into my car!’ and we’re all supposed to giggle and say ‘Who, me?’ coquettishly.