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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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Belledan1 · 27/02/2022 17:53

Another love shack hater here together with living on a prayer. Hate it if out for a dance and dancing to good music and DJ puts these on.

hellithurt · 27/02/2022 18:35

@WalkingOnTheCracks

Where Do You Go To, My Lovely?

Also, Tom Jones' version of Delilah. I can never understand why so many women cheerfully sing along to it at parties. The guy stabs his girlfriend to death on her doorstep in a jealous rage. I mean, it's not exactly knees-up material, is it?

I say 'Tom Jones' version' because Alex Harvey does a version of it that's exactly as creepy and psychopathic as the subject matter deserves.

I actually truly never knew this!! I've just read the lyrics! Fucking hell!
20viona · 27/02/2022 18:40

That fucking Symphony song it's a couple of years old basically someone yelling SYMPHONYYYYYYYY HOLD ME TIGHT AND DONT LET GO SYMPHONYYYYY

It makes me want to hurt someone.

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 27/02/2022 19:08

Anyone remember that fucking JCB song? Absolute bastarding wankfest and it was played to DEATH on the radio 😡😡

SalmonEile · 27/02/2022 20:12

Let’s Marvin Gaye and Get it on or whatever it was called ,
“We’ve got this king size to ourselves “ just makes me imagine them fighting over a mars bar or something

Funkyslippers · 27/02/2022 21:50

I can't stand that JCB song either. Also can't stand Sorry or Friends by Justin Bieber (the lyrics are pure crap) and also Everywhere and Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac

WalkingOnTheCracks · 01/03/2022 07:25

@NorthernSoul55

Anything by The Smiths.... I'll get me coat..
I'd just like to say that I despised Morrissey decades before it was fashionable.
lollipoprainbow · 01/03/2022 08:10

Urgh the JCB song !! My stepdad loved this but me and my mum hated it.

wildeatheart · 05/02/2023 00:47

Chesney Hawkes, I am the one and only.... makes me stabby

IchWill · 05/02/2023 01:00

Rockabye by Clean Bandit. Especially the version with Sean Paul.

The song irritates SO much, I hate absolutely everything about it. Namely:

  • The crappy backing track that sounds like an Ace of Base song.

  • Anne-Marie singing in a weird Latin American / Jamaican hybrid accent. She's from Essex.

*The lyrics. Not only the fact that it's a lame song about some single mum working in a strip club to feed her baby or whatever, but the "rhyming" of "love" at the end of each line. (She tells him "ooh love", No one's ever gonna hurt you, loveI, I'm gonna give you all of my love).

*Sean Paul, full stop.

*The video.

It's just an icky song. Hate every single thing about it and the radio goes straight off when it comes on.

See also anything by Ed Sheeran, especially Galway Girl. Seeing how many Irish cliches he can fit into a song, it's so twee and cringeworthy.

Pumpkintopf · 05/02/2023 01:11

Anything with Arianna Grande anywhere near it.
Cannot stand her voice. Instant turn the radio over.

MrsWidgerysLodger · 05/02/2023 01:20

Migrainesbythedozen · 27/02/2022 11:38

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

The song was about living together in harmony and peace. Nothing remotely about suffering. I don't think imaging a life free of religion and suffering, where people live in peace is 'Communist'.

It was actually described as “virtually the Communist Manifesto" by a certain Mr J Lennon.

The big problem with a lot of the Communist ideals was that they gave you the stated 'aims' that sounded amazing, but the reality was far different and there was much doublethink.

For example, does 'no possessions' mean that everybody will have what they need freely available, with no need for anybody to privately own them; or does it mean that your things will be taken from you and you'll be forced to do without them?

The religion aspect is also a double-edged sword: surely the ideal middle ground is everybody being able to choose what they do or don't believe in and being allowed to live peacefully that way, in mutual respect and tolerance of those who don't share their beliefs/lack of beliefs. Is JL imagining that nobody will want to have any faith any more, or that it will be banned? Surely forced non-religion is just as bad as forced religion? And in any case, the way that the likes of Lenin (not Lennon!) are still venerated to this day, that looks suspiciously like a kind of religion to me.

Now that you put it that way, I see your point. I forgot about the possessions part.

I clearly need to think about it some more.

There's a great cover of Imagine by a band called A Perfect Circle. The way they've done it is actually a little creepy and unnerving if you want a new perspective on the song (I'm not usually a covers fan btw but I thought this was a really great take on it)

GilChesterton · 05/02/2023 01:43

All the Single Ladies, Beyonce - f***g horrible song.

CheapFoodShits · 05/02/2023 08:41

In "1+1" by Beyoncé she says "I don't know much about algebra" but she pronounces it "algeba" and it infuriates me.

NatM15588 · 05/02/2023 08:52

Jolene Dolly Parton! Why be that pathetic over a man!

Whataplanker · 05/02/2023 09:05

Lizzo - Good As Hell

I only I have to hear 'I do my hair toss, check my nails' and the radio gets turned over.

MrsHughesPinny · 05/02/2023 09:10

While I think Adele has a great voice, most of her songs make me want to give her a shake and yell “Ffs, woman! Have some self respect!”

slowquickstep · 05/02/2023 10:08

Anything by Meatloaf, that guy creeps me out to hell👺

bringincrazyback · 05/02/2023 10:39

NatM15588 · 05/02/2023 08:52

Jolene Dolly Parton! Why be that pathetic over a man!

OMG yes. If I was Jolene I'd steal her man just to shake her out of her passive victim state!

MistyGreenAndBlue · 05/02/2023 13:07

Not rage exactly but I do find Pretty Green Eyes by Ultrabeat vastly irritating.
The word "have" begins with an H you illiterate bastard!

Strawberrypicnic · 05/02/2023 13:15

Dreams by Gabrielle. I can't stand how she pronounces the word dreams!!!

electricmoccasins · 05/02/2023 13:22

‘A Girl Like You’ Edwin Collins 🤮

Cattenberg · 05/02/2023 13:50

Sparklingbrook · 20/02/2022 15:44

@MischievousBiscuits

Wish I could like him but George Ezra does my head in a bit, as does Bastille
That 'Shotgun' song is like a childrens ryhme, and the lyrics are Confused

Shotgun
Hot sun
Someone

It’s DD’s favourite song at the moment. She’s four. 😆

Autumnnewname · 05/02/2023 16:36

MistyGreenAndBlue · 05/02/2023 13:07

Not rage exactly but I do find Pretty Green Eyes by Ultrabeat vastly irritating.
The word "have" begins with an H you illiterate bastard!

That reminds me of Blink 182 for the same reason

Voice inside my yead

I rush to switch off

newrubylane · 06/02/2023 16:12

CounsellorTroi · 26/02/2022 10:21

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

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.

Juliette?
Alison?
Claudette?
Sarah?
Donna?
Lucy (in the sky with diamonds)?
(Wake up little) Susie?
(Runaround) Sue?
(I'll take you home again) Kathleen?
Corrina, Corrina?!

Carol? Eleanor? Layla? Diana? Lucille? Mrs Jones? Mrs Robinson?

Surely gotta be 'Mandy'?