Terrible Lyrics

D'Agger

With all the talk of great bands/artists and how good their lyrics are I can't help but notice how ****e the lyrics of some songs out recently are. For example Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas Fergie sings:

"I'm so three thousand and eight, you so two thousand and late" - WTF!!

Some of these people call themselves artists!!

Green Giant

Or how about this classic from the Pussycat Dolls:

When I grow up I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have boobies


Music's version of monkeys typing Shakespeare

ntlbell

you can take lyrics in a vacum like that with just about anyone and they can look bad

prime example Nirvana

D'Agger

ntlbell wrote: »

you can take lyrics in a vacum like that with just about anyone and they can look bad

prime example Nirvana

Granted - but it just seems to me that lately - it's occuring more & more frequently! Nobody seems to listen to lyrics and realise that they're ****e - a good beat seems to make a song now and it annoys me!

Karl Hungus

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier...

rattlenhum

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I got soul, but I'm not a soldier...

Always hated that one. Wouldn't be so bad if he only said it once, but it has to go on and on and on...

witnessmenow

Green Giant wrote: »

Or how about this classic from the Pussycat Dolls:

When I grow up I wanna be famous
I wanna be a star, I wanna be in movies
When I grow up, I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies


Music's version of monkeys typing Shakespeare

is what i thought it was


U2 - Elevation

A mole, diggin in a hole, diggin up my soul

~me~

witnessmenow wrote: »

is what i thought it was


U2 - Elevation

A mole, diggin in a hole, diggin up my soul

yep its groupies! not any better but a little bit more fitting!

Sauron

The Killers are terrible for it in general alright...

For me, it's:

"And if there's anybody left in here/that doesn't want to be out there"

Kaiser Chiefs, "I Predict a Riot"

That one always bugged me...

cashback

Just take almost anything by Mundy, worst offender being July.
Some of BellX1's lyrics verge more on the ridiculous than clever also.

deadhead13

U2 - Wake up dead man.

Jesus, Jesus help me
I'm alone in this world
And a f**ked up world it is too.......Jesus, I'm waiting here boss.......Your Father, he made the world in seven, He's in charge of heaven....



Jesus wept.

-Chris-

Are we human? Or are we dancers?

WTF??

baileyjackson

Anything Ne-Yo writes.

''Sexy Love''

Just one touch and I erupt
Like a volcano and cover her with my love
Baby girl you make me say

'Unfaithful''- Rihanna, written by the man himself, Ne-Yo

I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna be the reason why
Everytime I walk out the door
I see him die a little more inside
I don't wanna hurt him anymore
I don't wanna take away his life
I don't wanna be...
A murderer

It just makes me wonder, does this man actually read what he's writing? They are just lame, pretentious and unintelligent.:pac:

niallon

"I got a submarine, you got gasoline" - Get On Your Boots - U2

Attrocious.

"I have a problem that I cannot explain, I have no reason why it should have been so plain" - Roulette - S.O.A.D

My Life Would Suck Without You - Just the title and that line, has the lyrical world really come to this?

D'Agger

niallon wrote: »

My Life Would Suck Without You - Just the title and that line, has the lyrical world really come to this?

Well I think thats not too bad - at least you know what the song's about etc. - confusing, stupid lyrics thrown together with their only purpose being to rhyme to a beat annoy me moreso tbh

Euro_Kraut

I don’t want to see a ghost,
It’s a sight that I fear most.
I’d rather have a piece of toast and
watch the evenings news.

D'Agger

-Chris- wrote: »

Are we human? Or are we dancers?

WTF??

Thats a reference to a Hunter S.Thompson quote when he said something along the lines of "America's raising a generation of Dancers" ....That said Thompson was prone to tripping balls on drugs!

DerekD Goldfish

I love Billy Bragg for his so bad they are great lyrics such as
"How can you lie there and think of England, When you don't even know who's in the Team?"

K-Ren

Red Hot Chillis usual serve something good up, but it doesn't really bother me too much

'' Simply put I saw your love stream flow '' or '' The spirit of a dragon's tear is lovely at this time of year. ''

As long as people don't try to find deep meanings to bad lyrics, they're not so bad.

niallon

K-Ren wrote: »

'' Simply put I saw your love stream flow ''

Well I found a meaning to that one, it's dirty though, not deep!

Phantron

King Lear by Morrissey:

Your boyfriend, he
Got down on one knee
Yes, could it be?
He's only got one knee?

Freaxxx by BrokeNCYDE:

I walk into the club looking kind of sexy now.
I see these shorties in the corner, they started making out.
They pull their panties down, they take their pants off.
Then they started getting freaky on the dance floor.
Shake it mommy give it to me like you need some love.
I got some bottles in the caddy that we can open up.
Let's get drunk tonight, baby we don't have to ****.
And bring your friend along, maybe we can have some fun.

Let's get freaky now, let's get ****ing freaky now.
I got these bitches all tipsy trying to sex me.
I know they want it, alcoholics are some sex freaks.
This ex and chronic gots me wanting to get messy.
So let's get messy girls, come on let's go get messy girls.
Come on bitch, you know you want this.
That hardcore **** will make you feel the toxic.
Fursachi, Rolex watches.
Bently coups with the 20's droppin.
Convertible top, and the wheels spin.
I can taste that ice when my grill is in.
If you want me baby feel me in.
'cause I don't waste my time with lesbians.

Let's get freaky now, let's get ****ing freaky now.
Liar!
Oh baby why did you have to lie to me.
I can't play no more games.
These thoughts are slowly controlling me.
You're turning off the flame.
So go baby go baby.
You don't want me.
So go baby go baby.
Come and get me.
So go baby go baby.
You don't want me.
So go baby go!
Come and get me.
Let's get freaky now, let's get ****ing freaky now.

But as for the bon mot, well... I'll let the song speak for itself...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDlmUn1kBgA

patmac

Somebody might enlighten me as it's been bothering me since I was 12 and the question appears again every Xmas party but wtf is meant by
'She looks like a sugar in a plum' from the classic Boney M song 'Brown Girl in the Ring'. I apologise for the fact that it's now rotating around the nether regions of your brain and you can't stop it, but ye started it as it was the first thing that I thought of when I read this thread.

Also I heard a bit of Bon Jovi's Bed of Roses which goes along the lines of
'I want to be as close as
the Holy Ghost is'
Wrong on so many levels!

gustavo

rattlenhum wrote: »

Always hated that one. Wouldn't be so bad if he only said it once, but it has to go on and on and on...

It may not make sense , but I like the way it sounds

Great song too :cool:

Phantron

-Chris- wrote: »

Are we human? Or are we dancers?

WTF??

It's actually "Are we human or are we dancer?", as in he's referring to dancer as a species.

No, I'm not kidding.

Nolanger

One man comes on a barbed wire fence!

Mr.Nice Guy

Years ago, when i was younger,
I kinda liked a girl I knew.
She was mine and we were sweethearts;
That was then, but then it's true.

CHORUS :

I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts.
'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind
I'm already cursed.

Every day we started fighting,
Every night we fell in love.
No one else could make me sadder,
But no one else could lift me high above.

I don't know what I was doing
When suddenly we fell apart.
Nowadays I cannot find her,
But when I do we'll get a brand new start.

CHORUS :

I'm in love with a fairytale
Even though it hurts.
'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind
I'm already cursed.

She's a fairytale, Yeaaah !
Even though it hurts.
'Cause I don't care if I lose my mind
I'm already cursed.

Nightwish

I love the way your underwire bra always sets off the x-ray.

What utter sh!te from BellX1.

Nolanger

I won't let the son go down on me!

Ice_Box

coast to coast - LA to Chicago...Sade

PrivateEye

Crystal Castles. Great band, but what the hell is going on in the lyrics department?

Mensch Maschine

Nolanger wrote: »

One man comes on a barbed wire fence!

No, no its;.

"One man caught on a barbed wire fence "

Lyrics I think are silly are;

You'll always be my baby
I'm always thinkin of you baby

Touch me in the mornin
and last thing at night
keep my body warm baby, u know it feels right
take it a little higher
i'm takin it too
tell me what your feelin
i'll feel it with you

We cant always understand what we are shown
how was i supposed to know our love would grow

Move a little closer
make sure i'mlookin up
heal me with your loving
i need you so much, i need you so much , i need your so muchhh
yeahhhh
Ohh ohhhh

That was Tiesto. There was more but I think you get the message after the first 2 lines.