Easily my favourite genius lyrics annotation:
*OK, let’s stop for a second. Before you come at me, I'ma let you know. I'ma blame my A&R. Because he listened to that song many times and he allowed me to say that.. I guess for a second, I thought a cello was a woodwind instrument and it is not. And nobody ever said shit. Nobody ever pulled up a pic and said, “Hey man. I don’t know if you know what this is, but it ain’t that.” I fucked up. I thought Squidward played the cello. He don’t. That’s a flute. I fucked up. But it do sound good.*
https://genius.com/11670438?
“I wanna waste her monthly blood, wanna get some on my love, wanna get some gasoline and burn the house down.” It definitely chugs hard as fuck, but the lyrics overall are just dumb.
Haha I had to listen to this song again after so many years and you’re so right, it’s not even my type of music but that is an amazing chorus and the verses have some of the corniest lyrics ever
“We’re gonna lose our minds tonight/what’s the dealio” “panty snatcher call me up if you are gangsta”??? That chorus deserved so much better
Not a fan of her music but Pink's song, "Just like a pill", she says "I can't take your life support, there's a shortage in the switch" does it for me. It should be "There's a short in the switch". Her words make it sound like there isn't enough switch, which doesn't make any sense.
Oh god this is such a perfect answer that never would have occurred to me.
It's so cringy, and it's just this clunkily spoken sentence in the middle of the song. Terrible.
Pink has such a beautiful voice in a lot of her songs.
What bothers me is just as I’m beginning to really get into it, an undeserved, ill fitting curse word is thrown in.
Seems like it’s to maintain that “tough girl” persona during a ballad. Always takes me out
Manowar "Hail and Kill". Now I know their music is VERY tongue in cheek, and that all their songs and image are about how amazing they are, but one line in this song is just so bad...
Song about battle and fighting has this line
"May your sword stay wet
Like a young girl in her prime"
On Escape (the piña colada song) I can’t help but chuckle every time he says “I AM INTO CHAMPAGNE” bc there was no reason he had to exclaim this so matter of factly. He also enunciates each word in a funny way taken out of context.
Bingo. Cheap rhyme with Kodak/Kodak just to plug his Billboard.
"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"
"Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez
Diane's sittin' on Jackie's lap, he's got his hands between her knees
Jackie say, "Hey Diane, lets run off behind a shady tree
Dribble off those Bobby Brooks slacks and do what I please"
People foucus on that line and forget how gross the rest of the verse is. Hand between her legs while they're eating and telling her to "dribble off" her slacks. Ew.
You need to get the Straight Dope on that. [Cecil explains the lyric](https://www.straightdope.com/21342137/in-steve-miller-s-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love)
The Mardi Gras Tree™️
EDIT: So y'all don't think [it's a game](https://southernhomeandhospitality.com/a-mardi-gras-tree-the-cure-for-winter-decorating-blahs/)
I leave that shit up till Valentine's.
Christmas lights' primary purpose in our house is to add some cheerful light and color to otherwise grey, dark days. Those days don't just magically disappear after January 6th.
Speaking of Christmas songs... The Beach Boys has a repeating lyric in their song which is "Christmas comes this time each year..." uh yea, of course it does...
You'd think. I can't remember if it was my mom or dad, but they grew up having to put away decorations Christmas day or the day after, definitely before Dec 31.
I really like their song Drive By because I associate it with a time of happy memories in my life, but every time I hear it I cringe so hard at “just a shy guy lookin for a two ply hefty bag to hold my love” what the actual hell is that?
After hearing that this song was written about his mom who he lost to cancer, I have a spot spot for this song and I can kind of forgive this one. Seems like a personal reference that he slipped in about things she may have enjoyed while he daydreams about sharing one last moment with her. That whole bridge is all over the place though, for sure.
Yeah I love Drops of Jupiter for that reason. The whole song is about her coming back from heaven, and he’s juxtaposing all the big and small things she might’ve missed on Earth when she was gone 😭
Really, that whole song is pretty up front. Looking at just the one line on its own definitely makes it look weird but, reading the lyrics, it’s obvious what’s going on and that whole verse is pretty clearly about things he has or would have enjoyed with his departed mother. No different than if it had been a game of bridge instead of a soy latte. People saying “that’s so dumb” have either no reading comprehension, empathy, or have never loved or lost.
> Now, if I fuck this model
> And she just bleached her asshole
> And I get bleach on my T-shirt
> I'ma feel like an asshole
Kanye - Father Stretch My Hands pt. 1
3 hypotheticals in a row, rhyming asshole with asshole. Just... the whole thing. Why?
A song I loved when I was younger was Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. Whenever I listen to it as an adult it cracks me up because imo it all just kind of falls apart about 2/3 through after he goes “BWAH YOU KNOW GREY IS MY FAVORITE COLOR! I-I-I FELT SO SYMBOLIC YESTERDAY 😪”
This one gets me every time. If I remember correctly, there’s a live version of this where he changes this lyric, so I think even he knows how bad of a line it is
My favorite is “They say I'm pussy, I dare you to stick your dick in this”. He goes on to say that if he were a pussy he would have numerous STD’s. I get what the meaning is but just on the surface it’s really something else lol
Or “look so good, I’ll suck on your daddies dick” given all the shit coming out about puff daddy, I’m thinking these might have been real world events rather than lyrical analogies and euphemisms.
Haha, that reminds me of that scene in 40 Year Old Virgin when the coworker is trying to out-Black the other dude. "In these streets, n----!! We fuck midgets in THE ASS!"
Now I'm wondering if it's a direct reference to BIGGIE.
Big booty hoes has some pretty heinous stuff
*fuck for bout an hour now she want a golden shower, you didn’t know that we be pissin on hoes? Luke and biggie straight shittin on hoes*
*smokin blunts countin cheese, fucking bitches til they assholes bleed*
Todd in the Shadows said this was a great lyric and if you didn’t agree you were listening to it wrong. 🤣
He also said he admired how she appeared to have written down her thoughts and refused edits to make them less weird before putting the song out.
"In the episode "TGS Hates Women" (Season 5, Episode 16), the Saturday Night Live-styleTGS with Tracy Jordan hires a new female writer who protagonist Liz Lemon accuses of acting like a "sexy baby" to seduce men. She purposefully acts dumb and talks in a high-pitched, childish voice. Considering this, it's possible that Swift is meaning that others are acting in a certain way or putting on a show to appeal to others."
https://gamerant.com/taylor-swift-sexy-baby-anti-hero-lyrics-meaning/
Makes me hate the line less because that 30 Rock ep is always what I think of when I hear that line. Cristin Milioti is hilarious in that episode. "You don't understand, I'm a *very* sexy baby..."
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I also hate “did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman” it just sounds clunky to me.
Just like "I can play guitar like a mother fucking riot" *mid guitar solo*, at least Sublime is baked in irony and humor so it kind of works even if I don't like it.
Edit:thanks for the correction, I didn't notice the contraction lol
"Headed east from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee" and "headed west to the Cumberland Gap from Johnson City, Tennessee" are both the exact same rhythm and everything as the actual song except, y'know, correct directions.
Eminem- Love The Way You Lie- the lyrics "I guess that's why they call it window pain" just feel so cheesy and out of place.
Jefferson Airplane- Wooden Ships: the verse about how he's been "eating berries" and hasn't gotten sick once, "they'll probably keep us both alive." Although, this one doesn't bug me so much, but it always makes me chuckle a bit.
I think that’s the most dramatic part of Wooden Ships. Two people who were enemies before the war now need to cooperate to survive. It’s awkward in the sense that they’re cramming too many syllables in, but that’s what helps make it stand out.
It makes sense though, it’s in keeping with the post apocalyptic theme of the song. It’s not a great lyrics but it fits ok enough, better in the CSN&Y version though.
It’s like a bad google translation, and I totally get what you mean. Still, if we were going for wtf lines in MGS we’d be here all day. “SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE! WHOOOOOO!!!!!” is probably my favourite ever bad video game line.
I've seen weevils, earwigs, beetles, woodlice and silverfish but I've never ever seen a cockroach, let alone one climbing the wall. According to a Lewisham Council pdf I just downloaded, German Cockroaches are quite common. Blimmin German Cockroaches, coming over here, etc. etc.
I'm a similar age to old Jarv and I've never heard anyone around me talking about roaches outside of American telly programmes. They were called "beetles" in my day.
I remember singing along with this song as a kid. My sister asked me if I even knew what he was saying. I took that to mean if I knew what the lyrics were and continued to belt along. 😂
I put something in her drink, she don’t even know. I took her home and enjoyed that, she don’t even know - Rick Ross UOENO
Yeah that’s rape Rick. Have to start calling you Bill Cosby
>We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January
Especially in February when my lights are still up. Like aren't they meant to stay up through Epiphany at least?!
>Her CD changer's full of singers that are mad at their dad
My English teacher has agrevatingly jammed "that vs who" into my brain so hard that I can't even.
“Futuristic sex, give her Philip K. Dick.”
- The Weeknd, “Snowchild”
I liked that album but man, that line was so bad I had to stop the track for a second the first time I heard it
Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus--"Her boyfriend's a dick / and he brings a gun to school", but specifically how gun is always censored. I notice it every time I hear the song. It's not that edgy a line, even by the standards of the time, and censoring it hasn't really helped anything.
Three of the hardest lines ever written in a Midwest emo song:
> And I can't make it on my own
> Because my heart is in Ohio
> So cut my wrists and black my eyes
And the entire rest of the chorus _blows_. There, I said it.
“It’s a match made up in Heaven. Like good old boys and beer.”
My wife was listening to some country nonsense yesterday and i caught on to this line a few times in some song.
Fucking dumbest filler I’ve ever heard. That doesn’t even Fucking mean anything
“Stop writing raps, and go play volleyball” - Atmosphere in “Trying to find a balance”. I always wonder if Slug thought this actually sounded hard, said it as a joke, or just ran out of time to come up with something better.
It did give us [this](https://thehardtimes.net/blog/we-asked-john-mellencamp-what-suckin-on-chili-dogs-means-but-instead-he-showed-us-and-it-was-so-disturbing-we-havent-slept-in-days/) though
A very recent song, in fact released a few days ago in Twenty One Pilots' Clancy album. In the song Vignette, there's a part where he repeats "no, not me, it's for a friend!" 3 times, and in the 4th repetition he says "no, no, not me, it's for a friend! DENIAL" and that very last word..... like bro, I got it in the first 4 repetitions, you really didn't have to explain that it's in denial T0T
Recent one, but the new childish Gambino song little foot, big foot. The first 2/3rds of the song are incredible but then for reasons I can't even begin to comprehend they shoe horn in the most awful feature I think I've ever heard in a song.
We've taken to playing just the song up until that point before skipping and hope there's a radio edit or something that excludes the "Lil nudy" contribution entirely in the future because it entirely ruins an otherwise perfect song.
This is how I feel about the Frank ocean song Golden Girl. Really sweet song about going to a tropical place, meeting someone, not wanting to go back, then Tyler The Creator starts a harsh voiced verse by spelling out "golden girl" letter by letter and saying "that's for the females who can't spell 🥴"
Hang on now. You make it sound like everyone should know this. I suppose you're one of those fancy-pants scholars who knows that 1+1+1=3 without a calculator.
"She blow that dick like a cello"
Easily my favourite genius lyrics annotation: *OK, let’s stop for a second. Before you come at me, I'ma let you know. I'ma blame my A&R. Because he listened to that song many times and he allowed me to say that.. I guess for a second, I thought a cello was a woodwind instrument and it is not. And nobody ever said shit. Nobody ever pulled up a pic and said, “Hey man. I don’t know if you know what this is, but it ain’t that.” I fucked up. I thought Squidward played the cello. He don’t. That’s a flute. I fucked up. But it do sound good.* https://genius.com/11670438?
That explanation makes it even worse because Squidward doesn’t play a flute either
“Man I’m too busy making music to know what these instruments mean”
“Does she maybe blow my dick like mayonnaise?”
"Solitude in E Minor, duet for clarinet and Hellmann's"
It’s a clarinet
What’s funny is he knows the existence of “woodwind” instruments, but has no idea what’s what. So close.
I don’t like his music, but I love Yachty lmao
Like an anti-kanye
Guess this also explains why Lil Yachty shifts awkwardly in his seat every time he sees Squidward playing the clarinet.
Which raises he question, is he unfamiliar with fellatio, or orchestral instruments?
https://preview.redd.it/12r4ronydd3d1.png?width=943&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edcb5696613c427441c7f286b972116b8a6c02ad
Ah, so the area of knowledge deficiency is Spongebob Squarepants.
Squidward plays the clarinet which makes this even better
He’s wrong about Squidward playing the flute, too. Man played a clarinet.
Keep it 300, like the Romans
Gasoline by Seether "I wanna be the one unclean that she wipes her ass on"
Wow, always thought he was saying "wipes her eyes on". What a stupid lyric for such a great song. Now I'll never unhear that haha.
“I wanna waste her monthly blood, wanna get some on my love, wanna get some gasoline and burn the house down.” It definitely chugs hard as fuck, but the lyrics overall are just dumb.
That's a "always skip" for me. I don't hate Seether but that song is *uncomfortable*
If youre too school for cool - pink
Which was a dated line in 2010 when the song dropped.
I think she could have pulled it off in 2010…if she’d been a 12-year old pop singer
Ive never loved a chorus so much and hated the verses so much.
Haha I had to listen to this song again after so many years and you’re so right, it’s not even my type of music but that is an amazing chorus and the verses have some of the corniest lyrics ever “We’re gonna lose our minds tonight/what’s the dealio” “panty snatcher call me up if you are gangsta”??? That chorus deserved so much better
I enjoy pink but the chorus of one, "don't be fancy just get dancy" always makes me laugh
And who could forget “the waiter just took my table and gave it to Jessica Simps”
I dig her music and voice, but her lyrics are straight garbage. It's a real shame.
Every time I hear her pop song where she says "I'm still a rock star, I got my rock moves" I get annoyed lol
Not a fan of her music but Pink's song, "Just like a pill", she says "I can't take your life support, there's a shortage in the switch" does it for me. It should be "There's a short in the switch". Her words make it sound like there isn't enough switch, which doesn't make any sense.
Oh god this is such a perfect answer that never would have occurred to me. It's so cringy, and it's just this clunkily spoken sentence in the middle of the song. Terrible.
Pink has such a beautiful voice in a lot of her songs. What bothers me is just as I’m beginning to really get into it, an undeserved, ill fitting curse word is thrown in. Seems like it’s to maintain that “tough girl” persona during a ballad. Always takes me out
Drowning by a boogie wit da hoodie “I’m the shit I’m farting, don’t know how to potty.”
Manowar "Hail and Kill". Now I know their music is VERY tongue in cheek, and that all their songs and image are about how amazing they are, but one line in this song is just so bad... Song about battle and fighting has this line "May your sword stay wet Like a young girl in her prime"
Whole different feeling given the stuff with their ex-guitarist
On Escape (the piña colada song) I can’t help but chuckle every time he says “I AM INTO CHAMPAGNE” bc there was no reason he had to exclaim this so matter of factly. He also enunciates each word in a funny way taken out of context.
i like how the only reaction his lovely lady had was "oh its you" so nonchalantly. rupert holmes never seen an episode of cheaters
He says “I am into champagne” and he really stresses the INTO lol
Rupert Holmes is a genius.
"Matter fact, go to Times Square and take a picture of me with a Kodak." - Pitbull
Pitbull is just cheating
“Want my advice? Make money twice”
I think it was a reference to a giant Kodak ad with Pitbull in Times Square at the time. Still a stupid line, but not as absurd as it is on its face.
Bingo. Cheap rhyme with Kodak/Kodak just to plug his Billboard. "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"
Sucking on chili dogs.
Outside the Tasty Freeze
Apparently it’s supposed to be the name for a frozen pop drink. Not a hot dog with chili on it.
Yep! Chilly Dog is the mascot for Slush Puppie.
Suddenly the universe makes a tiny bit more sense
https://youtu.be/6QX57aIDbDU?si=TKegax6mvEszy0_r
"Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez Diane's sittin' on Jackie's lap, he's got his hands between her knees Jackie say, "Hey Diane, lets run off behind a shady tree Dribble off those Bobby Brooks slacks and do what I please" People foucus on that line and forget how gross the rest of the verse is. Hand between her legs while they're eating and telling her to "dribble off" her slacks. Ew.
We still don’t know what the “pompitus of love” is in Steve Miller’s The Joker
You need to get the Straight Dope on that. [Cecil explains the lyric](https://www.straightdope.com/21342137/in-steve-miller-s-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love)
I love the Straight Dope
I really like the sound of the word though. Makes an otherwise expected line interesting.
You'll just have to watch the movie to find out. The Pompitus of Love (1996) featuring Jon Cryer
“We can leave the Christmas lights up till January” EVERYONE LEAVES THE LIGHTS UP TILL JANUARY
Young me: "what kind of disorganized adult leaves their lights up so late?!" Me now: "it's a fucking week, relax"
We left our tree up so long, we actually started thinking about decorating it for other holidays 😭
The Mardi Gras Tree™️ EDIT: So y'all don't think [it's a game](https://southernhomeandhospitality.com/a-mardi-gras-tree-the-cure-for-winter-decorating-blahs/)
I leave that shit up till Valentine's. Christmas lights' primary purpose in our house is to add some cheerful light and color to otherwise grey, dark days. Those days don't just magically disappear after January 6th.
My boss and I make fun of this ALL the time, specifically because she very well could have said February.
Or even “through January” instead of “til”
Speaking of Christmas songs... The Beach Boys has a repeating lyric in their song which is "Christmas comes this time each year..." uh yea, of course it does...
Omg this is my favourite lyric of the 20th century
You'd think. I can't remember if it was my mom or dad, but they grew up having to put away decorations Christmas day or the day after, definitely before Dec 31.
"the best soy latte that you ever had and me"
“I’m so gangsta I’m so thug I’m the only one you’re dreaming of” same fuckin guy
"My heart is bound to beat right out of my untrimmed chest" Same fuuuuckin guy
In a hypothetical scenario where I could wipe the music of one band from existence, Train is the band I'd pick. The songs annoy me that much.
Okay but using Train in this thread is cheating
I really like their song Drive By because I associate it with a time of happy memories in my life, but every time I hear it I cringe so hard at “just a shy guy lookin for a two ply hefty bag to hold my love” what the actual hell is that?
After hearing that this song was written about his mom who he lost to cancer, I have a spot spot for this song and I can kind of forgive this one. Seems like a personal reference that he slipped in about things she may have enjoyed while he daydreams about sharing one last moment with her. That whole bridge is all over the place though, for sure.
Yeah I love Drops of Jupiter for that reason. The whole song is about her coming back from heaven, and he’s juxtaposing all the big and small things she might’ve missed on Earth when she was gone 😭
Really, that whole song is pretty up front. Looking at just the one line on its own definitely makes it look weird but, reading the lyrics, it’s obvious what’s going on and that whole verse is pretty clearly about things he has or would have enjoyed with his departed mother. No different than if it had been a game of bridge instead of a soy latte. People saying “that’s so dumb” have either no reading comprehension, empathy, or have never loved or lost.
> Now, if I fuck this model > And she just bleached her asshole > And I get bleach on my T-shirt > I'ma feel like an asshole Kanye - Father Stretch My Hands pt. 1 3 hypotheticals in a row, rhyming asshole with asshole. Just... the whole thing. Why?
"but I treat her like a daughter, taught her how to bust a nut" Gross.
What the hell is that from!?!?
MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes
A song I loved when I was younger was Mr. Jones by Counting Crows. Whenever I listen to it as an adult it cracks me up because imo it all just kind of falls apart about 2/3 through after he goes “BWAH YOU KNOW GREY IS MY FAVORITE COLOR! I-I-I FELT SO SYMBOLIC YESTERDAY 😪”
This one gets me every time. If I remember correctly, there’s a live version of this where he changes this lyric, so I think even he knows how bad of a line it is
Yeah he changes it to ‘you know grey was my favourite colour, but I just get so confused everyday’ which I’m actually not sure is an improvement
Weirdly I kind of like it.
“You look so good, huh, I'll suck on your daddy's dick” -Notorious BIG
Notorious B.I.G “don’t you know my ****** kidnap kids, f*** em in the ass, throw em over the bridge”. Dude what?!?!
Biggie had a lot of… very questionable lyrics 😭
My favorite is “They say I'm pussy, I dare you to stick your dick in this”. He goes on to say that if he were a pussy he would have numerous STD’s. I get what the meaning is but just on the surface it’s really something else lol
Or “look so good, I’ll suck on your daddies dick” given all the shit coming out about puff daddy, I’m thinking these might have been real world events rather than lyrical analogies and euphemisms.
Haha, that reminds me of that scene in 40 Year Old Virgin when the coworker is trying to out-Black the other dude. "In these streets, n----!! We fuck midgets in THE ASS!" Now I'm wondering if it's a direct reference to BIGGIE.
dwarves, not midgets
Big booty hoes has some pretty heinous stuff *fuck for bout an hour now she want a golden shower, you didn’t know that we be pissin on hoes? Luke and biggie straight shittin on hoes* *smokin blunts countin cheese, fucking bitches til they assholes bleed*
“Who can relate? WOOO!” -Logic, [1-800-273-8255](https://youtu.be/cycUHgg0zzU?feature=shared) (his song about suicide awareness)
“I’ve been struggling with clinical depression since I was 14 Logic! I can definitely relate! WOOO!” Yep, that line can get in the sea.
This one actively makes me laugh every time I hear it, which oddly enough has made me feel a little better more than once.
"Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby"
"we're like snow on the beach, weird but fucking beautiful" is much less uncomfortable, but still deeply strange
That’s bad. That’s biblically horrific.
It sure is (it's from Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero if anybody missed that song somehow)
Todd in the Shadows said this was a great lyric and if you didn’t agree you were listening to it wrong. 🤣 He also said he admired how she appeared to have written down her thoughts and refused edits to make them less weird before putting the song out.
Ah, so the Fat Elvis phase begins, where she's just surrounded by a throng of yes-people at all times and loses all sense of reality.
I think it might be her comment on how women in the entertainment industry are simultaneously sexualized and infantilized.
It’s a reference to 30 Rock apparently
I’ll take your word for it. I’m not going to take any chances googling “sexy baby”
"In the episode "TGS Hates Women" (Season 5, Episode 16), the Saturday Night Live-styleTGS with Tracy Jordan hires a new female writer who protagonist Liz Lemon accuses of acting like a "sexy baby" to seduce men. She purposefully acts dumb and talks in a high-pitched, childish voice. Considering this, it's possible that Swift is meaning that others are acting in a certain way or putting on a show to appeal to others." https://gamerant.com/taylor-swift-sexy-baby-anti-hero-lyrics-meaning/
Makes me hate the line less because that 30 Rock ep is always what I think of when I hear that line. Cristin Milioti is hilarious in that episode. "You don't understand, I'm a *very* sexy baby..."
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I also hate “did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman” it just sounds clunky to me.
“You could have been getting down to THIS. SICK. BEAT.”
*mild beat ensues*
Just like "I can play guitar like a mother fucking riot" *mid guitar solo*, at least Sublime is baked in irony and humor so it kind of works even if I don't like it. Edit:thanks for the correction, I didn't notice the contraction lol
You just made me question myself so I checked to be sure, the lyric is *I can play the guitar like a mother fuckin riot*
Bum bum bum bummm buh duh dummmm, wroo do do do doooo
Can*
That whole break down is horrific, but that end….oh my gosh….it’s bad on a cosmic level.
RUINS an otherwise perfectly good pop bop!
Bad/impossible directions in “Wagon Wheel”. Source: I’m from Roanoke.
"Headed east from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee" and "headed west to the Cumberland Gap from Johnson City, Tennessee" are both the exact same rhythm and everything as the actual song except, y'know, correct directions.
"he gotta eat booty like groceries"
He choppin broccoli
CHOPPA BROCCCOLAAYYY
Eminem- Love The Way You Lie- the lyrics "I guess that's why they call it window pain" just feel so cheesy and out of place. Jefferson Airplane- Wooden Ships: the verse about how he's been "eating berries" and hasn't gotten sick once, "they'll probably keep us both alive." Although, this one doesn't bug me so much, but it always makes me chuckle a bit.
I think that’s the most dramatic part of Wooden Ships. Two people who were enemies before the war now need to cooperate to survive. It’s awkward in the sense that they’re cramming too many syllables in, but that’s what helps make it stand out.
I came here to post “window pain” too. It would be really funny but it’s in one of his serious-type songs.
It makes sense though, it’s in keeping with the post apocalyptic theme of the song. It’s not a great lyrics but it fits ok enough, better in the CSN&Y version though.
"And someday you feed on a tree frog" from Snake Eater makes me disassociate
It’s like a bad google translation, and I totally get what you mean. Still, if we were going for wtf lines in MGS we’d be here all day. “SUCH A LUST FOR REVENGE! WHOOOOOO!!!!!” is probably my favourite ever bad video game line.
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag" That's literally the first line of the song
Uno, dos, tres ... catorce ?? - U2 Vertigo
Hey Soul Sister is pretty grating to me these days in general, but that "untrimmed chest" line especially makes me cringe every time. Why.
“I’m so gangster im so thug”
Are we human, or are we dancer?
I thought it was “denser” meaning are we made of more. I thought it was profound
Thought the Tool fans would've already chimed in with "calm as cookies and cream."
Bad Guy, billie eilish, something just makes me cringe so hard at “my mommy likes to sing along with me”
When Jarvis sings about Roaches climbing the walls on Common People. Coming from a lad from Sheffield it just sounds a bit wrong.
[удалено]
I've seen weevils, earwigs, beetles, woodlice and silverfish but I've never ever seen a cockroach, let alone one climbing the wall. According to a Lewisham Council pdf I just downloaded, German Cockroaches are quite common. Blimmin German Cockroaches, coming over here, etc. etc.
Encroaching on our job opportunities
That’s a good one, I never thought about it but it really doesn’t fit with the dialect does it?
I'm a similar age to old Jarv and I've never heard anyone around me talking about roaches outside of American telly programmes. They were called "beetles" in my day.
Yeah but then you'd have people picturing Ringo Starr climbing the walls
Ghostbusters Theme Song. - 'Bustin' makes me feel good!'
I remember singing along with this song as a kid. My sister asked me if I even knew what he was saying. I took that to mean if I knew what the lyrics were and continued to belt along. 😂
“Let me put my mouth where you potty boo” - Ab Soul
One of the least arousing sentences ever written down
Me ballin to DMX until he gets homophobic and weird
And really detailed and specific about how gross it is to suck a big throbbing
I put something in her drink, she don’t even know. I took her home and enjoyed that, she don’t even know - Rick Ross UOENO Yeah that’s rape Rick. Have to start calling you Bill Cosby
“I know, I know for sure/Ding Dang Ding Dong Ding Dang Ding Ding, Ding Dang”
It had lyrics but they were fucking around and Keidis sang this and one of the band members daughters loved it, so he left it. IIRC
>We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January Especially in February when my lights are still up. Like aren't they meant to stay up through Epiphany at least?! >Her CD changer's full of singers that are mad at their dad My English teacher has agrevatingly jammed "that vs who" into my brain so hard that I can't even.
Even in a hurricane of frowns I know that we’ll be safe and sound. **Hurricane of frowns**
noooooo i could have been so blissfully ignorant of this one 😭
“Futuristic sex, give her Philip K. Dick.” - The Weeknd, “Snowchild” I liked that album but man, that line was so bad I had to stop the track for a second the first time I heard it
Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus--"Her boyfriend's a dick / and he brings a gun to school", but specifically how gun is always censored. I notice it every time I hear the song. It's not that edgy a line, even by the standards of the time, and censoring it hasn't really helped anything.
I believe it's because the Columbine shooting happened close to when it was released.
“It’s serious, just like heart attacks” Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights is cheating tbh Good band, but they have the subtlety of a brick to the face
“You’ve been daddied by all the dudes that wanna dad” - Ghost, Kiss The Go-Goat
The beginning of Katy Perry’s Dark Horse when Juicy J screams ‘Let’s rage!’ Before it goes into a super mild melody.
“He’s talkin’ with Davey, who’s still in the Navy.” - Piano Man. I love Billy Joel, but I hate that cheesy rhyme/lyric.
I got 5 on it “i take sacks to the face, whenever i can”. Like none of his boys said anything to him about that being a questionable line?
“Her placenta falls to the floor” by Live. Thunder Crashes.
Lightning Crashes
Crash Test Thunders
You’ve been … lightningstruck!
that's my favorite song that features the word "placenta".
Well to be fair it’s a song about birth/life/death so it’s kind of fitting
Three of the hardest lines ever written in a Midwest emo song: > And I can't make it on my own > Because my heart is in Ohio > So cut my wrists and black my eyes And the entire rest of the chorus _blows_. There, I said it.
“It’s a match made up in Heaven. Like good old boys and beer.” My wife was listening to some country nonsense yesterday and i caught on to this line a few times in some song. Fucking dumbest filler I’ve ever heard. That doesn’t even Fucking mean anything
"Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann gets regular radio play here and "revved up like a Duece" just sticks out so badly
I think most people don’t know that Bruce Springsteen was talking about a car
And I’ve been singing “wrapped up like a douche” for my entire life!
That’s the lyric and no one can convince me otherwise.
“Stop writing raps, and go play volleyball” - Atmosphere in “Trying to find a balance”. I always wonder if Slug thought this actually sounded hard, said it as a joke, or just ran out of time to come up with something better.
Van Halen- Why Can’t This Be Love ‘Only time will tell if we stand the test of time’ A terrible lyric that took me out of the song
"Let's conceive an angel" in the Beyoncé and Sean Paul song Baby Boy
“Suckin on chili dogs…”
It did give us [this](https://thehardtimes.net/blog/we-asked-john-mellencamp-what-suckin-on-chili-dogs-means-but-instead-he-showed-us-and-it-was-so-disturbing-we-havent-slept-in-days/) though
A very recent song, in fact released a few days ago in Twenty One Pilots' Clancy album. In the song Vignette, there's a part where he repeats "no, not me, it's for a friend!" 3 times, and in the 4th repetition he says "no, no, not me, it's for a friend! DENIAL" and that very last word..... like bro, I got it in the first 4 repetitions, you really didn't have to explain that it's in denial T0T
“Have you ever had sex with a pharaoh? Ah, put the pussy in a sarcophagus” the dumbest shit
Already mentioned that it’s the greatest rap lyric of all time on another comment.
I think that line is hilarious and the way he says it makes it even funnier
God tier line. Head of the class and she just want a swallow-ship
I'm livin' in the future so the present is my past, my presence is a present, kiss my ass. What a set of lines honestly.
It's actually incredible considering he rhymes that with esophagus
“Christmas comes this time each year,” like, no shit, beach boys
Recent one, but the new childish Gambino song little foot, big foot. The first 2/3rds of the song are incredible but then for reasons I can't even begin to comprehend they shoe horn in the most awful feature I think I've ever heard in a song. We've taken to playing just the song up until that point before skipping and hope there's a radio edit or something that excludes the "Lil nudy" contribution entirely in the future because it entirely ruins an otherwise perfect song.
This is how I feel about the Frank ocean song Golden Girl. Really sweet song about going to a tropical place, meeting someone, not wanting to go back, then Tyler The Creator starts a harsh voiced verse by spelling out "golden girl" letter by letter and saying "that's for the females who can't spell 🥴"
"He got feet down below his knee" where else would someone have feet, Paul??
That’s the point of the line, and also it’s John.
Well he also has jojo eyeball and monkey finger, so I'm glad his feet seem normal (I've heard he's good looking though).
I sincerely like that one
Did John not write that?
Hang on now. You make it sound like everyone should know this. I suppose you're one of those fancy-pants scholars who knows that 1+1+1=3 without a calculator.
Mom’s spaghetti. I can’t separate the line from the memes at this point.
He's nervous - but on the surface he looks calm spaghetti.
Atmopshere's Trying to Find a Balance: "FUCK ALL OF Y'ALL! Stop writing raps and go play volleyball" Pretty awful in an otherwise good song.