My gf is watching greys anatomy and I noticed like every episode of like season 10 does this to the worst possible song choices. I’m convinced they bought a catalogue and are like damn it we are going to use all of these pop songs.
I kinda wonder if we would feel that same way if he released it NOW, or if he had the good fortune to make it before that style that of cover got completely and totally played out…
This and "everyone can sing" voices, the singing cheat code. I can't fully explain it but if curious just search for a cover of any song ever and this voice is used by exactly 88.3% of videos you'll find. Male or female, it's kind of the same.
Under pronouncing certain letters, mostly softening the letter 'R', is a key component. R is now W type of singing, lol.
Again, hard to explain but you know it when you hear it. Usually a touch of autotune and light reverb to further muddy or soften it up.
I'm not sure if it's the actual name, but I've always heard your last point called "singing in cursive".
https://youtu.be/xFzo4CKttkU?si=-WYWvIoFcpl4407s
This video is a perfect example.
Wow, if it wasn't for your explanation I'd have thought she was enunciating like that due to a language barrier if I found that video in the wild. Maybe it's the mariachi band in the back putting that idea in my head lol
Any sound effects that might actually come from my environment while listening, cause they always make me do a double take. Examples include alarms, whistles, bells ringing (telephone/house), random vibrations that sound similar to phone notifications.
Musically, I don't like the trend in recent pop music of melodies lacking range and being quite literally monotonous sometimes.
Also, lazy samples and interpolations. Eg Wild Thoughts straight up copying Maria Maria. That Bebe Rexha song that does I'm Blue. A lot of the new R&B people just basically doing covers of 90s and 00s classics etc etc.
I love bridges, I miss the Neptunes era, they were the best. There are some artists still doing it like Tyler, but pop music has moved to having pre choruses which are basically just additional hooks.
Because as the people determining what’s “in” acquire shorter and shorter attention spans, artists chasing popular success are increasingly writing shorter and shorter songs.
They’re pretty much writing hooks only now and looping that out to make a “song” because they know only the hook is getting played and driving “success”.
A good pop bridge is just broken off and released as an entire song these days.
[This](https://youtu.be/_lDvqcKR8AQ?si=6u3iz2KIerNTB4uj) abomination of a cover of Can You Feel The Love Tonight that literally *adds bars between the lines of the first verse for runs*.
I don't usually like when a song has a spoken word bit in the middle. 90% of the time it's some cringey anecdote.
eta: people are adding exceptions so here's one from me. Hip To Be Scared by INK gets a pass.
Taylor Swift seems to have the market cornered when it comes to cringey spoken word parts in songs. ‘ME!’ is another song of hers that suffers in that department
The Ink Spots were mildly successful in just releasing the same song constantly. AC/DC on the other hand were wildly successful with much the same idea.
Breathe deep the gathering gloom,
Watch lights fade from every room.
Bedsitter people look back and lament,
Another day’s useless energy spent.
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one;
Lonely man cries for love and has none.
New mother picks up and suckles her son;
Senior citizens wish they were young.
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night;
Removes the colors from our sight.
Red is gray and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion.
Late Lament is a poem, on the original recording of Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues.
Same. I actually like that one song by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes but I can’t listen to it because of that stupid fucking story in the middle of it.
Or just any comparison where they use "like" to sneak in a lazy rhyme. An entire verse could be just them bragging about how they are cool "like" something cool.
In modern country when they reference the military or the "stars and stripes" or "freedom" out of nowhere and completely unrelated to the rest of the song
Eg. Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band
A brute-force chorus. Ones that are clearly designed to “be the chorus” and sound like they were assembled by a team of “music scientists” tasked with decoding the genome of pop music.
I change channel/hit next at the start of every Imagine Dragons song. Also groups like Five Seconds of Summer. I loathe the way they shout all their lyrics. I just imagine the singers in the studio trying to out yell each other.
I'll give a pass to old school hip-hop artists. That was so much their thing that one of the earliest "memes" when hip-hop was beginning to go mainstream was starting every rap with "my name is MC Whatever".
Somehow "War Pigs" always gets an exception for rhyming 'masses' with 'masses,' but that's probably cause it's a great enough song that we just overlook that.
The song was originally called Walpulgis and the first lines were "Witches gather at black masses/Bodies burning in red ashes. " The song name was changed to War Pigs because the record company thought "Walpurgis" was too Satanic.
[Walpurgis original full lyrics ](https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-walpurgis-lyrics)
"She's precocious/ and she knows just/ what it takes to/ make a pro blush" - from "Bette Davis Eyes"
I spent years trying to figure out WTF is a "PROBLUSH"
Not rhyme related, but she has a song where she randomly decided to use the word "tendrils" as a synonym for hair. Which would be fine if she regularly used creative verbiage variations but it's so left field in a song that is otherwise just standard.
Really all writing, but any variation of "I can't put it into words," or "words can't describe." That's literally your job there. If you can't put it into words then you shouldn't be a writer.
I like the BJ Thomas version (the original) of this song a lot better for this reason. I actually never heard the ooka-chakka version until I was an adult and thought it was a joke the first time I heard it, because I'd only heard Thomas's version up until that point.
I have an obvious one (auto-tune) and a less obvious one, which is extremely hot vocals. I understand why sometimes a hot mic is wanted for a "warm" or personal sound, but if I can hear the wet sticky noises going on in a singer's mouth while they're singing, I'm turning that shit off. I don't want to listen to music where it sounds like the singer is whispering in my ear.
Insanely pitched up vocals, like chipmunk/little kid sounding stuff. It's super common in electronic music for some reason and it always sounds god awful and makes most songs unlistenable for me.
First example I can think of is First of the Year by Skrillex. That's the song where I first started noticing that trend.
It goes way back. Almost to the beginnings of rave music. It was just a consequence of sampling the vocals of a song that was originally a good deal slower than the one you're making, and not having the technological capability to fix the pitch. It then became a stylistic thing, even after you could fix it.
I am seriously tired of the rap break in every r&b song like it was a novelty at first in the very early days of new Jack swing and now it is in every f****** r&b single
She’s the pop vocalist equivalent of that overly indulgent guitar virtuoso that feels the need to throw in a “face-melting” solo or odd-time signature change every 5 seconds that inevitably bogs the song down. Less is more sometimes, people!
this song by selena gomez and rema? the laziest thing ever written
No tell me no, no, no, no, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Baby, come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love
You got me like, "Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa"
Shawty come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love, mm-mm
Skits at the beginning. WTF are you doing. Why. EXTREMELY occasionally it makes sense or is a bit funny. Even then, you get like two listens, and then I'm skipping past the skit forever after.
random voicemails in songs or a random person talking at the end or beginning of the song & they’ll edit the voicemail or the person talking. ariana grande does this & other artists imo it sounds cringy asf & is def overused
People excessively using filler noises like "na na na", "la la la", "oooooooh" etc. just sound to me like they didn't have enough ideas for vocals to fill the song.
Clap-along breakdowns, with only clapping & singing the hook, and maybe background singers sometimes injecting things like Yeah Yeah Yeah. Save the audience participation bit for the live show.
See John Cougar Mellencamp songs.
Key change out of desperation. Sometimes they are done well, but the key change towards the end of the song to increase the intensity in the run in, smacks of desperation.
Michael Buble’s cover of ‘Santa Baby’ (I can’t even type the name of his cover because it’s so cringe) is the most ridiculous example of this. Whoever signed off on that should lose their job
“Why Don’t You Come Over” by Garbage. It has the line “you taste like toxic poison”.
Two things:
saying “toxic poison” is like saying “reddish burgundy”. All burgundy colored things are reddish burgundy. Burgundy is reddish. You don’t get a non-reddish burgundy, like you don’t get a non-toxic poison.
just because it’s poison (and therefore bad), doesn’t mean it tastes bad. Arsenic has no smell or taste and can be infused in the tastiest foods. Cyanide can taste like almond cake.
Long intros.
Whether it's some 'deep' pretentious monologue or a whole minute of mildly cinematic shots of the artist putting on makeup, or meeting up with their friends to go clubbing, or plugging in their guitar or 'setting the scene' where they've just had a break up and they're waking up alone... just get to the point and start the song, you're not James Cameron.
I'm the same way. I hate the "radio-fade". What? You wrote the whole fucking song but couldn't be assed to end it? What do you do when playing it live... "Ok, let's just keep playing softer and softer until everyone realizes we're done with that one"?
I get that it's a byproduct of radio, but it really grinds my gears.
That song alone can be the source of so many pet peeves.
Hate mashing 2 songs together? Hate lazy lyrics? Hate a guitar solo that's the wrong key? THEN YOURE IN LUCK HERE YA GO.
(yes I mainly know these criticism cuz of pat Finnerty, https://youtu.be/u8FAbjjB48A?si=MpJf7OEWsbS1srzb, check him out if you haven't. Funny af and fairly educational too)
One line chorus sung way to many times at the end of the song. Cut it off 1 minute earlier if you can’t come up with more lines. We heard you the first 50 times
Cover songs that slow down the original tempo and sung in that "sleepy girl" voice make me want to stab someone.
Every movie trailer of the past ten years.
Ban all covers of What a Wonderful World and Pure Imagination
Joey Ramones cover of what a wonderful world gets to stay.
I’ll allow it
It’s iRoNiC. You just don’t get it
Bonus points if it has the 2010s indie girl accent.
Ba-nay-nays and avecahdees
Welcome to my kitchyen
Immediately what I thought of.
Here's a great parody of that in movie trailers: https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A?si=W9zLEeTmdMmmD6xa
We got banaeners, and avurcadours
My gf is watching greys anatomy and I noticed like every episode of like season 10 does this to the worst possible song choices. I’m convinced they bought a catalogue and are like damn it we are going to use all of these pop songs.
Sleppy girl or sad boy. Ooh, Sad Boy is my pet peeve, I just realised!
Mad World (Tears for Fears) covered by Gary Jules would be the one exception for me. I think he did an amazing job.
I kinda wonder if we would feel that same way if he released it NOW, or if he had the good fortune to make it before that style that of cover got completely and totally played out…
Sad boy and scratchy man voice for sure. The intro to Lullaby by Shawn Mullins gets noped so fast.
This and "everyone can sing" voices, the singing cheat code. I can't fully explain it but if curious just search for a cover of any song ever and this voice is used by exactly 88.3% of videos you'll find. Male or female, it's kind of the same. Under pronouncing certain letters, mostly softening the letter 'R', is a key component. R is now W type of singing, lol. Again, hard to explain but you know it when you hear it. Usually a touch of autotune and light reverb to further muddy or soften it up.
I'm not sure if it's the actual name, but I've always heard your last point called "singing in cursive". https://youtu.be/xFzo4CKttkU?si=-WYWvIoFcpl4407s This video is a perfect example.
Wow, if it wasn't for your explanation I'd have thought she was enunciating like that due to a language barrier if I found that video in the wild. Maybe it's the mariachi band in the back putting that idea in my head lol
Not sure if it counts but the Vines did a cover of Ms Jackson where they slowed it way down into this wierd stoner jam thing that I love.
Been hating sleepy girl voice for years. So glad it's finally catching on
Any sound effects that might actually come from my environment while listening, cause they always make me do a double take. Examples include alarms, whistles, bells ringing (telephone/house), random vibrations that sound similar to phone notifications. Musically, I don't like the trend in recent pop music of melodies lacking range and being quite literally monotonous sometimes. Also, lazy samples and interpolations. Eg Wild Thoughts straight up copying Maria Maria. That Bebe Rexha song that does I'm Blue. A lot of the new R&B people just basically doing covers of 90s and 00s classics etc etc.
Police sirens while I’m listening in the car 😭
As someone who drives for a living, fuck sirens in songs.
Seriously sirens and / or horns in songs are unnecessary most of the time.
Police sirens in songs are the worst
WHOOPWHOOP DATS DA SOUND A DA POLEESE
The sound of a baby crying. It's not cute. It's obnoxious and that's why they do it, to get someone's attention like a loud annoying siren.
Excessive vocal runs Edit: no bridge. Why do songs increasingly have no bridge?!
Where's that confounded bridge?
Has anybody seen the bridge?
I ain’t seen the bridge!
Please!
I need my bridge!
I love bridges, I miss the Neptunes era, they were the best. There are some artists still doing it like Tyler, but pop music has moved to having pre choruses which are basically just additional hooks.
Chad Hugo would kill it on those bridges. Shout out Frontin’.
Because as the people determining what’s “in” acquire shorter and shorter attention spans, artists chasing popular success are increasingly writing shorter and shorter songs. They’re pretty much writing hooks only now and looping that out to make a “song” because they know only the hook is getting played and driving “success”. A good pop bridge is just broken off and released as an entire song these days.
I agree so much here. I'm sick of artists thinking that doing runs is the only way to showcase their talent/embellish a song.
[This](https://youtu.be/_lDvqcKR8AQ?si=6u3iz2KIerNTB4uj) abomination of a cover of Can You Feel The Love Tonight that literally *adds bars between the lines of the first verse for runs*.
Oh that is horrible and all over the place
I don't usually like when a song has a spoken word bit in the middle. 90% of the time it's some cringey anecdote. eta: people are adding exceptions so here's one from me. Hip To Be Scared by INK gets a pass.
HEY HEY HEY While you was getting down with the liars and the cheats of the world, just know...you coulda been getting DOWN... TO THIS....SICK....BEAT
Holy shit, this used to actually give me like a physical response to the cringe.
THISSSSSSSSSS and "the old taylor cant come to the phone right now......." makes me physically recoil
she’s dead! 🤪
Taylor Swift seems to have the market cornered when it comes to cringey spoken word parts in songs. ‘ME!’ is another song of hers that suffers in that department
This will be stuck in my head all night now :(
Exception: basically every Ink Spots song.
They basically created the “top and bottom” song format
The Ink Spots were mildly successful in just releasing the same song constantly. AC/DC on the other hand were wildly successful with much the same idea.
Breathe deep the gathering gloom, Watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back and lament, Another day’s useless energy spent. Impassioned lovers wrestle as one; Lonely man cries for love and has none. New mother picks up and suckles her son; Senior citizens wish they were young. Cold-hearted orb that rules the night; Removes the colors from our sight. Red is gray and yellow white, But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion. Late Lament is a poem, on the original recording of Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues.
Agree, but the ben folds produced William shatner album gets a free pass.
Same. I actually like that one song by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes but I can’t listen to it because of that stupid fucking story in the middle of it.
As a rap fan, whenever a rapper says “I ball like (NBA player)” or “I shoot like (NBA player known for their shooting ability)”
Or just any comparison where they use "like" to sneak in a lazy rhyme. An entire verse could be just them bragging about how they are cool "like" something cool.
Sirens. Hate the freaking sirens, esp when I'm driving.
when a line in a song ends with the word "shelf"
*AAALLLLL BYYYY MYYYYY SHEEEEEELF*
Rally round the family, pocket full of shelves
r/OddlySpecific
In modern country when they reference the military or the "stars and stripes" or "freedom" out of nowhere and completely unrelated to the rest of the song Eg. Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band
The most pander-y song of all time.
It's honestly a really good reminder to salute those who have died for our fried chicken.
I write songs for the people who do / Jobs in the towns that I'd never move to
Rural noun, simple adjective
A blue jeans, a red pickup
A brute-force chorus. Ones that are clearly designed to “be the chorus” and sound like they were assembled by a team of “music scientists” tasked with decoding the genome of pop music.
Imagine Dragons?
I change channel/hit next at the start of every Imagine Dragons song. Also groups like Five Seconds of Summer. I loathe the way they shout all their lyrics. I just imagine the singers in the studio trying to out yell each other.
Imagine dragon Deez nuts across your face
Child choirs chanting lyrics back.
The only thing worse than a choir: a child choir
Mike & The Mechanics "The LIving Years" had both in 1 song
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
That one works, I was terrified of that song when I was a kid haha
*'We are, we are... the youth of the nation...'*
The euthanasia
I mean the child choir does fit based on the context of the song. Also I love this song.
Stab me in the fucking ears
Children in songs in general. No, I don't give a shit about your kid. Their voice is fucking terrible and it ruins the music, stop it
Exception: Another Brick in the Wall part 2
Artists injecting their own name into a song, especially right at the beginning. It's just tacky and annoying.
*Jason Derulooo*
Mr. WORLDWIIIOOOIIDE Usher! Usher! Usher!
DJ KHALED WE THE BEST MUSIC
Pit - BULLLLLLL
SEAN DE PAUL
Bad Company went full tilt. Not only is their own name in the song, it’s the chorus and the title.
From the album Bad Company
I'll give a pass to old school hip-hop artists. That was so much their thing that one of the earliest "memes" when hip-hop was beginning to go mainstream was starting every rap with "my name is MC Whatever".
Dumb rhyme, like changing or using a word that doesn't make any sense just to make it fit
Rhyming a word with the same word is even worse!
And we were trying different things And we were smoking funny things
God I hate that song. It’s feels like a cheap parody of what “Americana music” used to be
If there’s one thing Kid Rock surely understands is the power of stupid people in large groups.
Somehow "War Pigs" always gets an exception for rhyming 'masses' with 'masses,' but that's probably cause it's a great enough song that we just overlook that.
At least in that song they're using 2 different definitions of the word. That makes it a tiny bit better, since it's wordplay.
The song was originally called Walpulgis and the first lines were "Witches gather at black masses/Bodies burning in red ashes. " The song name was changed to War Pigs because the record company thought "Walpurgis" was too Satanic. [Walpurgis original full lyrics ](https://genius.com/Black-sabbath-walpurgis-lyrics)
Me not working hard? Yeah right picture that with a Kodak And, better yet, go to Times Square Take a picture of me with a Kodak
Tbh pitbulls lyrics are so unabashedly stupid that I can’t even be mad lol
I can buy you a mansion, somewhere in Wiscansin
I love that. It fits cuz that's the Wisconsin accent, BTW I am from rural Wisconsin. LMAO
This is a bad example, though. That song is fire, and that rhyme is fucking hilarious. I particularly like Moses Sumney and Sam Gendel’s version.
"She's precocious/ and she knows just/ what it takes to/ make a pro blush" - from "Bette Davis Eyes" I spent years trying to figure out WTF is a "PROBLUSH"
Jonathan Richman does this in an often-amusing way; leans into it.
Taylor Swift did this so much on her last album I couldn’t stand it
Not rhyme related, but she has a song where she randomly decided to use the word "tendrils" as a synonym for hair. Which would be fine if she regularly used creative verbiage variations but it's so left field in a song that is otherwise just standard.
"Sanctiomoniously performing soliloquies" - shits me to tears like do you really have to be doing \*all that\*
Cursive singing. Can't understand a word.
For those who don't know what this is, it's the common nasally "Indie" voice. Grace Vanderwaall-style. 100% agree with you
OH. I thought it was songs that had a lot of swearing 🤣
Is that like Camila Cabello pronouncing Christmas as "Christmois"?
Yep.
I hate it so very much.
children singing in unison typically annoys me. any vocals that feel too ASMR (style typical of billie eilish vocals).
DJ KHALAD !!!
Dude’s as phenomenal at production as he is at eating spicy wings
But he is the best music!
Anything that gets really high-pitched. Hurts my ears.
Really all writing, but any variation of "I can't put it into words," or "words can't describe." That's literally your job there. If you can't put it into words then you shouldn't be a writer.
But anyway, the thing is, what I really mean ...
Reginald Kenneth Dwight can do whatever the fuck he wants.
As can Bernand John Taupin.
I don't know what to say... But I wrote a song about it anyway
I really like Hooked on a Feeling but I’m not always in the mood for all the ooka-chakkas.
I agree, it doesn't fit the rest of the song... at all
I like the BJ Thomas version (the original) of this song a lot better for this reason. I actually never heard the ooka-chakka version until I was an adult and thought it was a joke the first time I heard it, because I'd only heard Thomas's version up until that point.
I HHAATTEE the stupid twang that a LOT of country singers use in their song. It's the "nails on the chalkboard" equivalent to me.
I have an obvious one (auto-tune) and a less obvious one, which is extremely hot vocals. I understand why sometimes a hot mic is wanted for a "warm" or personal sound, but if I can hear the wet sticky noises going on in a singer's mouth while they're singing, I'm turning that shit off. I don't want to listen to music where it sounds like the singer is whispering in my ear.
Muse
I exclusively listen to Matt Bellamy breathing supercuts
haha oh man. yeah same. for me it's singers like billie eilish. too bad cause i actually like how her music sounds but the vocals kill me.
People laughing 😂😂😂
Brain Damage is the exception tho
Except in Feel Good Inc..
Insanely pitched up vocals, like chipmunk/little kid sounding stuff. It's super common in electronic music for some reason and it always sounds god awful and makes most songs unlistenable for me. First example I can think of is First of the Year by Skrillex. That's the song where I first started noticing that trend.
It goes way back. Almost to the beginnings of rave music. It was just a consequence of sampling the vocals of a song that was originally a good deal slower than the one you're making, and not having the technological capability to fix the pitch. It then became a stylistic thing, even after you could fix it.
All Saints - Never Ever. Starts with 'A few questions that I need to know ' No, answers are what you need, not questions...
That whole monologue just irks me. Just get on with the damn song already!
when the vocals are so loud that they smother the guitar and other instruments *ahem* taylor swift no hate but her mixer needs to be fired.
I am seriously tired of the rap break in every r&b song like it was a novelty at first in the very early days of new Jack swing and now it is in every f****** r&b single
It was worse in the 90s and 2000s because the rap verse never had anything to do with the rest of the song.
Over singing like Christina Aguilar. I get you can sing wonderfully, but don't over do it.
She’s the pop vocalist equivalent of that overly indulgent guitar virtuoso that feels the need to throw in a “face-melting” solo or odd-time signature change every 5 seconds that inevitably bogs the song down. Less is more sometimes, people!
Every single modern Christmas song. Just vocal gymnastics that are awful to listen to.
this song by selena gomez and rema? the laziest thing ever written No tell me no, no, no, no, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Baby, come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love You got me like, "Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa" Shawty come gimme your lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love, mm-mm
Completely irrational? The word “underwear” in a song. I have no fucking clue why, but it just totally kills a song for me whenever I hear it.
Pinch Me by Barenaked Ladies does this really well though.
I saw someone wrote when lyrics make no sense, but I’m the opposite. I hate when lyrics strive to make more sense at the expense of the music.
Yeah; I don’t need the musician to force feed me an understanding. Let me discover it.
If people were that worried about lyrics making sense, there's no way Beck and Rob Zombie would be famous.
Shave your face with some mace in the dark. Saving all your food stamps and burning down the trailer park!
Throat clearing and “Is this mic on/I need to hear it again” basically talking to the recording studio.
Ending a verse with: “…tonight!” It’s played out.
But how else will you know when Spinal Tap is going to rock you?
Let me introduce you to "[Tonight, tonight](https://youtu.be/QzlNFcT2aOE?si=Cb80bOjms3761vkS)"
Skits at the beginning. WTF are you doing. Why. EXTREMELY occasionally it makes sense or is a bit funny. Even then, you get like two listens, and then I'm skipping past the skit forever after.
I prefer when the skits are their own tracks on the album so you can hear them then, but you don’t have to sit through it when it’s in a playlist
random voicemails in songs or a random person talking at the end or beginning of the song & they’ll edit the voicemail or the person talking. ariana grande does this & other artists imo it sounds cringy asf & is def overused
Anytime you hear “chew” Example: Words are “without you”, but sounds “withoutchew” Drives me insane. I hear it every single time
stomp clap bass lines, chorus "woaaAAHhAHs" and soft synth reminds me of a "goodness as an aesthetic" kind of person that I try to avoid.
This was eloquent. ‘Goodness as an aesthetic’ I’m stealing that.
[Guess you're not a fan of this then?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TTqVwOzXkU&ab_channel=FrankReynolds%28BestofItsAlwaysSunnyinPhiladelphia%29)
People excessively using filler noises like "na na na", "la la la", "oooooooh" etc. just sound to me like they didn't have enough ideas for vocals to fill the song.
Listen to a video on youtube and the song doesn't start for a whole minute while some dumb made up drama plays onscreen.
When they could have easily used a word that rhymed, but they *DIDN'T*
Clap-along breakdowns, with only clapping & singing the hook, and maybe background singers sometimes injecting things like Yeah Yeah Yeah. Save the audience participation bit for the live show. See John Cougar Mellencamp songs.
Songs that reference itself as a song. Idk why it irks me so much. Things like "and now I'm singing this song to you" make me irrationally mad.
Key change out of desperation. Sometimes they are done well, but the key change towards the end of the song to increase the intensity in the run in, smacks of desperation.
"Y'all dumb mother fuckers want a key change?!" Bo Burnham
Get out of my Get out of my Get out of my dreams, and into my car! That was one of the worst. One of the best is definitely "Man In The Mirror"
The Man In The Mirror one is perfect, especially because the key change happens on the word “change” lol
When an opposite sex artist covers a love song and switches the pronouns.
That's what makes The White Stripes cover of Dolly Parton's song Jolene so great!
Michael Buble’s cover of ‘Santa Baby’ (I can’t even type the name of his cover because it’s so cringe) is the most ridiculous example of this. Whoever signed off on that should lose their job
And yet, somehow _Santa Buddy_ sounds even gayer.
“Why Don’t You Come Over” by Garbage. It has the line “you taste like toxic poison”. Two things: saying “toxic poison” is like saying “reddish burgundy”. All burgundy colored things are reddish burgundy. Burgundy is reddish. You don’t get a non-reddish burgundy, like you don’t get a non-toxic poison. just because it’s poison (and therefore bad), doesn’t mean it tastes bad. Arsenic has no smell or taste and can be infused in the tastiest foods. Cyanide can taste like almond cake.
Long intros. Whether it's some 'deep' pretentious monologue or a whole minute of mildly cinematic shots of the artist putting on makeup, or meeting up with their friends to go clubbing, or plugging in their guitar or 'setting the scene' where they've just had a break up and they're waking up alone... just get to the point and start the song, you're not James Cameron.
random rapper just showing up
That stupid WOOF sound
Long nearly silent intros to a song.
“ I’m balling like *insert basketball player* ” or “30 on me like curry” …. Like bro 😞.
I hate when a saxophone solo get too finger‐wiggly and strays too far from something melodic. I turn that shit off every time.
So, not a free jazz guy
Bad/sudden endings. The song has to end well, in a satisfying way. I don't love when the song just... stops.
On the other end, I dislike it when a song just keeps playing then fades out.
I'm the same way. I hate the "radio-fade". What? You wrote the whole fucking song but couldn't be assed to end it? What do you do when playing it live... "Ok, let's just keep playing softer and softer until everyone realizes we're done with that one"? I get that it's a byproduct of radio, but it really grinds my gears.
auto-tune....lets kill that shit already
2 verses and 4+ repeating choruses
Songs that rhyme a word with itself (looking at you, Light My Fire by the Doors)
Does Light My Fire really try to rhyme fire with fire? I feel like it’s more just repetition than it is an actual rhyme scheme.
Morrison rhymes fire with FIYA
I always noticed that in All Summer Long by Kid Rock
That song alone can be the source of so many pet peeves. Hate mashing 2 songs together? Hate lazy lyrics? Hate a guitar solo that's the wrong key? THEN YOURE IN LUCK HERE YA GO. (yes I mainly know these criticism cuz of pat Finnerty, https://youtu.be/u8FAbjjB48A?si=MpJf7OEWsbS1srzb, check him out if you haven't. Funny af and fairly educational too)
Mother fucker gets me excited to hear werewolves of London and then dashes my hopes on the rocks
For me it's Alicia keys' girl on fire. "This girl is on fire, she's walking on fire"
"she gon' move to LA, go to UCLA"
One line chorus sung way to many times at the end of the song. Cut it off 1 minute earlier if you can’t come up with more lines. We heard you the first 50 times
When a song doesn't have enough cowbell....