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Least favorite line from a song?
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Anonymous
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And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free. And cynical country music performers can take their scant knowledge of grammar and toss off songs designed for maximum marketability. |
Anonymous
That's not one of the lyrics. That's her interpretation of the lyrics. |
Anonymous
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Well, maybe not the worst, but always annoying to me:
"I haven't got time for the pain. I haven't got room for the pain. I haven't the need for the pain." I mean, who does? |
Anonymous
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Hike up your skirt a little more, and show your world to me... (Dave Matthews)
Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. (Jethro Tull) Don't Stand So Close to Me (the whole song, The Police) |
Anonymous
This song has always given me the heebies. I especially hate this line: "Watching the frilly panties run. " |
Anonymous
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To the window, to the wall
To the sweat drip down my balls To all these bitches crawl To all skit skit motherf... Even with ALL the bad lyrics I hear in Rap/Hip hop, this has got to be one of the most disgusting ones... And the worst part about it is, if you put this on, I can't help but get up and dance. |
Anonymous
| "Her placenta falls to the floor." Live, "Lightning Crashes." Would be a good song otherwise! |
Anonymous
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"Into the Night" -- oh man, I hate that one too. Had blocked that out of my mind for a few years now... thanks? That man sounds like a dog howling.
I also hate "Because the Night" -- "take me now, take me now, take me nooooooowwwwwwwww" -- shut UP. And I used to love "Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones until I paid attention to the lyrics and almost threw up. It could not be any more blatantly about a slave owner raping his slaves. Except when it's more generically about brown sugar, tastin' so good, just like a young girl should, just like a black girl should... |
Anonymous
I love all those songs! |
Anonymous
The Stones say it's a metaphor about heroin and how you become its slave. I'm not saying the lyrics aren't offensive. They are. I hate it when you sort of like a song and enjoy humming it, and then you really listen to the lyrics and they're awful. |
Anonymous
Huh. Interesting. I'd never heard that explanation from the Stones. Don't think I buy it... but interesting. |
Anonymous
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Oh, first "My Funny Valentine" poster, I am so with you. I have always thought that song was so insulting and not at all romantic. But I also think that Harry and Sally settled for each other, so I thought it was just me.
Total word to the "At least I know I'm free." At least? AT LEAST? That's only the MOST important thing about being an American. And, now "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is in my head. One of the most horrible, horrible songs, ever. Most of all the "we planted a tree" babymaking metaphor. |
Anonymous
Wikipedia: "[I]ts lyrical subject matter has often been a point of interest and controversy. Described by rock critic Robert Christgau as "a rocker so compelling that it discourages exegesis",[3] "Brown Sugar's" popularity indeed often overshadowed its scandalous lyrics, which were essentially a pastiche of a number of taboo subjects, including interracial sex, cunnilingus, slave rape, and less distinctly, sadomasochism, lost virginity, and heroin.[4] In the liner notes to the 1993 compilation disc Jump Back, Jagger says, "The lyric was all to do with the dual combination of drugs and girls. This song was a very instant thing, a definite high point." . . . When the Rolling Stones perform "Brown Sugar" live, Jagger often changes the lyrics from, "Just like a young girl should," to, "Just like a young man should." The line, "Hear him whip the women just around midnight," is often changed to the less offensive, "You shoulda heard him just around midnight." |
Anonymous
I don't think I totally buy it either, but "brown sugar" IS a slang term for heroin. Because it looks kind of like brown sugar. |
Anonymous
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"Proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."
I am proud to be an American. I just wish that song wasn't completely awful, trite, and hackneyed. |