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to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

564 replies

WTAF · 14/12/2011 21:44

In the car today, radio on, and they start playing All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield. Instantly I felt the rage creeping up.

'Been around the world and I, I
I can't find my baby,
I don't know why, why he's gone away '

YES YOU FUCKING DO, LISA! Allow me to refer you to your own words, not 30 seconds ago, when you said (and I quote):

'We had a quarrel, and I let myself go
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad'

And then, and then, LISA, you go on to say

'I did too much lying, wasted too much time'

So you do know, you know exactly why he's gone away, so you should just STFU and concentrate on finding him to apologise. Not singing that bullshit trying to make us feel sorry for you, when clearly it is all YOUR FAULT.

I feel better for that. Anyone else?

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SausageWrappedInBaconSmuggler · 15/12/2011 14:50

Also re: Ke$ha I think crunk is a music/dance genre?

AlwaysbeOpralFruitstome · 15/12/2011 14:54

Marmaduke Dukes Rubber Lover -

Funky all the way home
It's regular except for the number...

What's regular? What number? Ohhhwah! I'm old and I don't know what you meeeeeean (stamps aged foot).

AbsofCroissant · 15/12/2011 14:57

I would like to add that STUPID SONG "How can you breathe with no air"

Well, you can't. You die. END OF

And then there's the one about "someone left the cake out in the rain". What. The. Frick.

norriscoleforpm · 15/12/2011 15:01

'Guns don't kill people, Rappers do'

Do they?

How exactly?

Probably by boring the listener to death. Whereas guns actually can and do kill and maim.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 15/12/2011 15:07

Wasn't the 'Guns don't kill people/Rappers do' song a satire? It certainly didn't take itself seriously.

norriscoleforpm · 15/12/2011 15:10

probably but it confused me.

Quodlibet · 15/12/2011 15:12

I refer you to Mr Michael Bolton:

Said I loved you but I lied
'Cause this is more than love I feel inside
Said I loved you but I was wrong
'Cause love could never ever feel so strong
Said I loved you but I lied

Right Michael, which is it? Were you merely mistaken about your confused emotional inner landscape, or did you actively lie about it? Just because, to me, that would make rather a large difference. It seems you keep returning to this confession of lying. Do you have a guilty conscience about this?

Ipomegranate · 15/12/2011 15:42

There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time
The Greatest Gift they'll get this year is life"

It's already been mentioned about the snow in Africa but

  1. Since when has snow been a gift? Why is it sang in a "poor buggers, won't even get a white Christmas" way, I would have thought a snowfall wouldn't be top of the wish list for a famine stricken country?
  2. Well if I had a choice of gifts - snow? Or life? Hmm let me think about that one...

Another one is "Vienna", (incidentally didn't Midge Ure write "do they know" even though St Bob took the credit?) "It means nothing to me - ohhhhh Vienna". Means nothing to me either Midge. Load of old cobblers.

candytuft63 · 15/12/2011 16:00

Is that supposed to be "crank" or is it a drug ? clunk, maybe ? chunk ?
Losing plot so shutting up.
Great thread though

Asturimama · 15/12/2011 16:10

Pussycat Dolls

"Dont cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Dont cha, dont cha
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Dont cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Dont cha, dont cha"

NO,NO, NO and again NO, HE DOES NOT, that's why he choose a girlfriend who is not an annoying arrogant infantile airhead like you.

Drives me up the wall...

CatPussRoastingByAnOpenFire · 15/12/2011 16:16

And whats with Nat King Cole? "Are you warm? Are you Rill Mona Lisa?"
WTF is"rill" when it's in doors?

PishWife · 15/12/2011 16:26

"Sometimes the snow comes down in June!"

mmm, yes, possibly, possibly...

"Sometimes the sun goes round the moon!"

DESIST.

PishWife · 15/12/2011 16:27

"And did those feet, in ancient time,
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?"

NO.

hocuspontas · 15/12/2011 16:29

'So for once in my life...let me get what I want...Lord knows it will be the first time...Lord knows it will be the first time'

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what these lyrics mean in the John Lewis ad? Has this boy never got what he wanted for Christmas? Or is it the parents? Whoever, they all sound bloody ungrateful.

PishWife · 15/12/2011 16:31

I was laughing so much I had to pull the car over when I heard Bruno Mars' "Grenade" for the first time:

"I'd catch a grenade for ya,
Throw my hand on a blade for ya,
I'd jump in front of a train for ya,
Yeah I'd do anything for ya,
I would go through all this pain,
Take a bullet straight through my brain,
Yes I would die for you baby...
...
...
...but you won't do the same!"

The self-centred bitch.

MisterDarsey · 15/12/2011 16:33

I never did understand why 'Grease is the word'

'It's got groove, it's got meaning' - really?

Badgerwife · 15/12/2011 16:33

I'm also confused by Adele's Chasing Pavements. So much so that I can only sing the song as 'Chasing penguins', at least I know they can move and I will be able to, you know, chase them if the need strikes me.

Oh, and Bruno Mars 'Grenade'
Yes I would die for you baby, but you won't do the same
shortly followed by I gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash

So sorry to disappoint Bruno, but your love life is all drama drama drama. Catch a grenade for you? What a romantic picture that is...

Badgerwife · 15/12/2011 16:35

PishWife quite

PishWife · 15/12/2011 16:36

Ooh Badgerwife we have just suffered from Bruno Mars xposts! I read the whole thread to see if anyone else had picked it out, too.

CupOfGoodCheer · 15/12/2011 16:40

Billy Joel, songwriter extraordinaire, and yes, Billy, I have a LOT of respect for you and I like a lot of your songs HOWEVER......

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

So she's thick, is she Billy? How nice of you!

CoffeeMum · 15/12/2011 16:40

Coming late to this thread, but may i say NonnoMum, your dialogue between the members of Wham back on page four is the funniest thing i have ever read on Mumsnet! Grin

CupOfGoodCheer · 15/12/2011 16:45

"And I miss you like the deserts miss the rain" (Everything But The Girl)

No. Deserts don't miss the rain. Deserts don't need the rain, they do not miss it. Its just silly. SILLY! GRRR!

Badgerwife · 15/12/2011 16:48

pishwife great minds and all that...

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 15/12/2011 16:49

I thought the words of Jerusalem were a rhetorical question, rather than stating as fact that Jesus ever came to England. There is an apocryphal story about Jesus coming to England in his youth. I read Jerusalem as Blake contrasting the idea of England being a promised land with its actuality as an industrial hell (Blake wasn't keen on industry), and also suggesting that it would take a remarkable event like Jesus turning up in England to save the country from its grim industrial fate.

Sorry, not very well expressed; am simultaneously shattered and artificially hopped up on coffee and macaroons!

CatPussRoastingByAnOpenFire · 15/12/2011 16:52

Pishwife. Aksherly, the answer could well be yes! Those feet did! There is a theory that Jesus could well have come to Britain. His Uncle?? Joseph of Arimethea was a merchant and trader apparently. Jesus is supposed to have spent time travelling with him. They would have come here seeking to trade. apparently!

[sad git emoticon]