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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?

OP posts:
AnnoyingOrange · 14/12/2011 22:14

Stones taught me to fly
Love, it taught me to lie
Life, it taught me to die
So it's not hard to fall
When you float like a cannonball

poppycat04 · 14/12/2011 22:14

Which song Ratty? Are we still on ironic? I like the idea of an old bloke commenting "well isn't this nice?" as his plane crashed down...
Although I think I'd be saying something else!

missorinoco · 14/12/2011 22:15

Spluttering laughing at that one ariadneoliver.

Stase · 14/12/2011 22:17

brighthair I always thought it was "a second hand in motion" when I was wee. Makes about as much sense!

Fo0ffysFestiveShmooffery · 14/12/2011 22:17

YY to Ironic.

It's not ironic it's just fucking unfortunate.

poppycat04 · 14/12/2011 22:17

Float like a cannonball????
Seriously?

ariadneoliver · 14/12/2011 22:18

HappyJoyful No there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas, except perhaps at the assorted ski resorts they have there and maybe at the top of Mt Kilimanjaro. But aprt from that they were right. Grin

tigerdriverII · 14/12/2011 22:18

Stase I'm with Green, it sounds like "we" to me...

And he's usually so clear with his diction, despite the scousing.

pinkyp · 14/12/2011 22:18

GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin love it GrinGrinGrinGrin

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WTAF · 14/12/2011 22:18

Arrgh, and

'Elvis isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead,
Elvis isn't dead cos I heard him on the radio'

YES. HE. IS. As is John Lennon, Michael Jackson and all other musicians who have ceased to be, and yet still get airplay. And based on that example of your obvious stupidity, Scouting For Girls, I'd say she is almost certainly NOT coming back to you.

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Wongamum · 14/12/2011 22:19

I'm as serious as CANCER when I say that Rhythm is a Dancer!

iklboonkey · 14/12/2011 22:19

'We don't need no education'. You clearly do.
(Although I have a sneaking suspicion that that is proper irony. Take heed Ms Morrisette!).

CountBapula · 14/12/2011 22:19

'Concrete jungle where dreams are made of'

MADE OF WHAT??

Hmm
Inthepotty · 14/12/2011 22:20

Meatloaf-what exactly is it 'that' that you won't do?! Please tell.

Ke$ha sings lots of words I'm sure that she's made up. 'Crunk?' 'DropToppin' 'Sexafied' WTAF??!!! It's like she's a toddler and we are all supposed to hang around repeating the words back and trying to make sense of what she's asking.

Spice girls, I do love thee, so if one of you could explain what the fuck a ZIGAZIGAHHHH is I'd be dead made up so I would.

HappyHippyChick · 14/12/2011 22:22

Ariadne I have pointed that out to my dh before because it really bugs me and he said that they are in transit which is why they don't know where it's going to happen. I googled the lyrics but could see no reference to this so-called transit!

coraltoes · 14/12/2011 22:23

Um the atlas mountains in AFRICA do actually have snow at christmastime, so Midge Ure shove that in your gross generalisation pipe and smoke it.

Candid · 14/12/2011 22:23

Inthepotty the That is sleeping around as sung by the woman in the song which means that the song makes no sense at all

I would do anything for love but I won't sleep around Hmm

Why would you sleep around for love?

GreenIceAndChristmasHam · 14/12/2011 22:23

Wake Me Up When September Ends

Sure, no problem. What time? Hmm

brighthair · 14/12/2011 22:24

"love will save the day"
Really?! I will forget the fire brigade and ambulance then and get writing a lonely hearts ad

coraltoes · 14/12/2011 22:25

Ah clearly not just me who feels so strongly about snow in Africa!!

peacypops · 14/12/2011 22:25

Going slightly off the thread, but still on a song-related note, my husband has a really annoying habit of changing lyrics of songs (to what he thinks they sound like) and subsequently ruining them for me. Latest example of this is Adele's 'Set fire the the rain' which he pointed out sounds more like 'Set fire to Lorraine'. Always makes me think of Lorraine Kelly now...

BrianButterfield · 14/12/2011 22:26

But Cannonball does make sense! He learnt by doing the opposite - as in "stones taught me to fly"/"life taught me to die" so you learn to fall by floating like a cannonball, i.e. not floating at all.

Inthepotty · 14/12/2011 22:26

Candid I'm more baffled than ever!

Fo0ffysFestiveShmooffery · 14/12/2011 22:26

Sweet Caroline woah woah woah
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would.

What?

BrianButterfield · 14/12/2011 22:27

Also, in Elvis Ain't Dead, he's trying to vainly convince himself Elvis isn't dead, even though he knows he is, because the next line is "Elvis ain't dead/and you're coming back to me" i.e. he knows she isn't coming back but he's trying to keep his head in the sand about it.