Bad Songs / Bad Lyrics

From page 2 of 25 Worst Rap Lyrics

8."Young, black, and famous, with money hangin out the anus."
-Mase ("Can't Nobody Hold Me Down")

7."I like them black, white, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Like Japanese, Chinese, or even Asian."
-Chingy ("Balla Baby")

"There was a time I had a mother; it was nice." -- Madonna, Mother & Father

"Been hit wit a few shells but I don't walk wit a limp (I'm a'ight)" -- 50 Cent, In Da Club

"They see me rollin', they hatin', patrolling, they tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty" -- Chamillionaire, Ridin' Dirty

"I'm known to be more vulgar than the garbage truck. Sucker, you can't stop the train. You ain't got no umbrella so get your ass out the rain." -- Mystikal feat. Mariah Carey, Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)

When I was around 5 years old, some cousins taught me a song.

They said it was "dirty," so they couldn't teach me the song unless we hid from the adults.

Here it is -

There's a place in France where the naked women dance
There's a hole in the wall where the men can see it all

Scandalous!

More bad lyrics:

Corey Hart:

I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave
Then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eye

... And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Forget my name while you collect your claim
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that's right before my eyes

My sister, who is in town this week, played this song for me.

About ten seconds into it, I told her I had enough, would she please turn the CD player off. It's that bad. She forced me to listen to the whole thing. I'd like you to share the same experience...

On You Tube:
CHAKARON MAKARON HIPPO DANCING

About the song:

Macarron Chacarron

You should see the original video, if you can take listening to that song one more time. It is so hilarious because it's the rapper, some cheesy backup dancers, and a computer generated swirly background.

Original Video

This post has been edited by Mihoshi Marie on Oct 26 2007, 01:22 PM

Other horrible songs (yes, these are actual recordings - my sister played some of them for me - and these are supposed to be "funny"):

Dead Puppies, Baby Raper, Special Olympics, Special Fred

Some of these gross / stupid songs are written by Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch Official Site

I'll think about watching the video (maybe with the sound turned off. I don't think my ears could withstand another assault).

My sister seems to love the song

Do a 'You Tube' search for "Buffalo Stance" by (hope I'm spelling her name right) Neneh Cherry.

Her video came out around 1988/89 when production qualities were much better, but whomever made her video decided upon a cheese-ball, late 1970s/ early 1980s retro look (complete with lame-o, tie-die/swirly background).

BTW... I remember when Neneh's Buffalo Stance song/video came out, all the critics were just going on and on about how great she was, a totally creative force, bound to be the greatest, most wondefullest pop singer ever to exist.

The funny thing is, after Buffalo Stance, I never heard anything else from her. No more videos, no more magazine articles, etc.

Google Search Results Page for "Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance"

Buffalo Stance was so overplayed I remember, than nothing from her. I remember wondering what the he** it meant.
I do have to nominate "I've Never Been To Me" by some other one hit wonder. I also recall when THAT mess came out, it was on the charts and yet everyone made fun of it. With lines like "I've been undressed by kings and seen some things a woman ain't supposed to see" how can you NOT gag?

I've been having to spend a lot of time outdoors lately, and today, I decided to put the radio on to an adult contemporary station to keep me company as I worked.

I'm not sure how long I had that station on, maybe 4, 5 or 6 hours...

And most of it sounded like crap to me. I recognized only about 1/5 of the singers/bands.

Out of 3+ hours of listening, I recognized only these bands/singers & songs:

Aerosmith - Angel
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Pink - Get the Party Started
Green Day - Best Time Of Our Lives
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

The rest? I have no idea, except for Pocket Full of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield... but I didn't even know her name, I had to google that.

While checking up on Man-donna's Hard Candy/4 Minute status, I glanced over the names of other songs, and I recalled seeing the "Pocket Full of Sunshine" title.

There was some really stupid song with terrible lyrics. I don't know who performs it, but it's about
"we all want to be rock stars / let's hang at the coolest bars/ let's not eat and get skinny"
-what kind of sorry lyrics are those?

I just did a google of it, and it's by Nickelback. Are all of Nickelback's songs that lame?

There was some song with the word "Dehlia" in it (Hey There Dehlia) that I didn't care for. Part of the melody was catchy, but some of the dumb lyrics killed it. I did a google - it's by a band called The Plain White T's. Yes, they're certainly plain all right.

A lot of the music I heard sounded plain. "Bland" is also an excellent adjective to describe a lot of the music out there right now.

Most of the bands sounded alike to me. Whiny-sounding male singers.

There was something like this going on in the late 1970s/ early 1980s, when you couldn't tell REO Speed Wagon, Styx, and some other band (maybe I'm thinking of Journey??) apart.

I couldn't stand the torture anymore, and I popped in my 'greatest hits of the 1980s' CD - what you get with the 80s are tunes with memorable melodies.

Robert Palmer, Addicted to Love; Madness, Our House; Til Tuesday, Voices Carry; T'Pau, Heart and Soul; Swing Out Sister, Break Out; Oingo Boingo, Dead Man's Party; Men at Work, Who Can It Be Now?, etc. etc. etc.

I guess most bands today don't know how to write catchy hooks and good melodies.

P.S.- Not once did I hear any Madonna songs of any kind, not even her new Hard Candy stuff! That's one positive thing I can say about listening to the radio today.

Kuwait Radio has madonna on constantly there is no way to avoid over here!
She's the only thing here and
samething you said above I really don't know any of the new singers they play here too.
Last month they were playing Daughtry over and over thats all of the new people I know.

The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

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Here's my rant about one of the problems I have with today's music.

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I don't listen to rock or pop music anymore.

~I mean, I listen to it, but I don't seek it out, I don't go looking for new music.

I have a collection of rock and pop CDs that I pop into my CD player and listen to as I jog.

I haven't listened to the radio in years (literally) - well, I do sometimes listen to talk radio, but not even that often.

Every once in a blue moon, if I'm channel surfing, I might watch music video channel VH1 for a few moments, which is how I come across the latest rock/pop song/video.

One despairing trend I've noticed with rock/pop music since the early or mid 1990s -(and it seems to have gotten even worse in the past nine years)- is that most mainstream songs today don't have strong melodies.

(Please note I said mainstream.
I'm sure someone here could reel off a list of alt bands and singers I've never heard of, who are on indie labels, or who release music via their MySpace band page, or some such, who have strong melodies in their music.)

As I was watching VH1 a little while ago, I caught some new Britney Spears video (I think it was called "Circus.")

In the video, Spears wore a top hat and was shown prancing around with circus clowns and guys on stilts.

The thing that struck me is that Spears' song was so non-descript.

Moments after hearing her new tune, I've already forgotten how the song goes. And that is bad.

The songs of hers that do stand out for me, the ones I do remember, have strong melodies, such as Hit Me One More Time and Toxic.

She needs to make more songs like that and less of Circus-type material.

Same thing goes for Pink's music. I like Pink, too.

I just saw a music video by her today (don't know what it was called) where there's a scene where her hair is on fire, but for the life of me, I can't remember how that song went.

If you asked me to hum a few bars from that song, I'd be at a total loss.

One of the only songs of Pink's where I could whistle the tune for you off the top of my head right now this minute would be Get the Party Started.

~I even know the title of that song, which is a step up. That I can't even tell you what the names are of these other Pink songs I've heard on VH1 lately is not a good sign.

Several days ago, I saw some other Pink video for the first time- and I don't remember what its melody is.

I don't mean to pick on just Spears or Pink only; I'm using them as examples of today's main stream pop music as a whole.

I've sat through other videos recently, ones featuring other young women, pop groups, etc., where it's the same situation.

Then there's a slew of bands consisting of guys in their 20s with their wrinkled shirts, neo-1970s hair styles, and scruffy facial hair, singing these earnest, usually sad, songs, and all of them have lackluster melodies.

These sorts of bands (and their music) are so dull, nothing about them stands out, so I can't even cite any band names as examples for you.

All I know is that when I do bother to watch VH1, if they're not showing some 25 year old girl in skimpy attire singing forgettable pop tunes, they're showing these mopey, sad-faced 20-something male bands and their bland, bland music. And it's BLAND.

Even the melodies I do recall, such as Rihanna's Disturbia* and Katy Perry's Hot N Cold and Kissed a Girl are terribly, terribly limp.

(Side note: I do not like Katy Perry's music. Her songs are supposed to be catchy, but I find them annoying.)

Funny thing is, despite those two somewhat memorable melodies by Perry (i.e., Hot N Cold and Kissed a Girl ), I saw some other music video of hers about a week ago, and that one was totally forgettable.

I cannot remember the name of that Perry song/video, but in it, she was supposed to be a World War 2 widow or something. She was wearing 1940-ish inspired make-up and clothing.

Madonna's last several albums have been plagued with the same problem.

Most of Madonna's songs from the 1980s (most of which were not written by her) were catchy.

(That's also true of most pop and rock music in the 1980s in general: even though some of it was cheesy, most of it had strong melodies.)

I can't say the same with most of Madonna's post-1990/91 output, aside from maybe a few songs off the Ray of Light album, most of her recent stuff has not been catchy.

There are probably many, many reasons why music sales have slumped badly over the past several years, but I'd say one of them are weak or non-existent hooks.

I think if you want to grab someone's attention these days, you better have a very strong and memorable melody. Media today is so splintered. Folks divvy up their time with the web and video games, on top of TV and radio.

Further, people can view any type of music they want on video channels off "You Tube" and so forth; they're not limited to MTV like back in the 1980s. You have to make your songs stand out more.

I no longer spend hours listening to the radio or watching music video channels as I did in my teens and mid 20s, so if you don't grab my attention the first 'go round with your song, chances are, I will forget it and won't bother to buy it.

I'm sure as heck not going to stay tuned in to VH1 all day, every day to listen to this crap around the clock.

If I have to listen to your pop song twenty times in a row before the melody finally sinks in and sticks with me and I can remember the song title, you need to go back to the drawing board.

Even when I was younger, I could not retain song titles or remember songs that had lousy or non-existent melodies. I suspect the same thing is true of a lot of other people of all age ranges.

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*P.S.) And I think the only reason I do remember the melody to Rihanna's Disturbia song is because it keeps getting played over and over and over again in the Kidz Bop TV commericals...

...and these days, I happen to keep my TV set tuned to the 'Nick' channel a lot. (Kidz Bop TV commericals get played a lot on Nick. I also watch a lot of Food network but thankfully they don't play Kidz Bop on that channel.)

And as for Perry's Kissed A Girl, I probably only remember that one because CBS or whomever kept running a clip from that music video in their TV commercial for the 2009 Grammy show or AMA show or whatever it was.

I don't listen to any of the sh** on the radio these days either. Most of it's garbage.

Oh, and the song where Pink's hair is on fire is called "So What?"... but don't ask me to remember the tune itself. I'm drawing a blank.

And therein lies the problem!

I think it's amazing you at least remembered the song title. That's more than I could do.

I'm also glad you mentioned your take on this, because I could just see someone wanting to chalk this up to me being an old geezer, no longer hip, or 'with-it' (I'm in my late 30s).

I guess it's true that as most people get older, they're no longer as into pop culture and music as they once were, but I think no matter how old I get, I will always enjoy a catchy pop tune.

You're in your 20s, so this isn't confined to old folks who have became squares.

But as I said, even when I was a teen, I had this problem. The thing is, though, (at least in my view), most of the songs I grew up listening to (stuff in the 1980s) had strong melodies.

Even a fair amount of the stuff I was exposed to as a kid in the 1970s (mostly via older siblings) was catchy... Elton John, Blondie, The Eagles, even the one- hit- wonder Captain and Tennille.

The 1950s and 1960s -what with Buddy Holly, Elvis, The Everly Brothers, The Supremes, The Beatles (their early stuff) - all had strong melodies, too.

I notice that in recent years that Starship's We Built This City winds up on various "Worst songs" lists - maybe it is a bad song, I don't know, but at least I can remember what it sounds like.

Even if you've never heard the song We Built This City, go look it up right now on the web and give it a listen - and I can guarantee you even if you hate it, after one listen, you will remember the melody...

Two weeks from now, or even after a month, if I ask you to hum or sing We Built This City back to me, you could do it.

That's more than I can say for most stuff by Pink, Spears, or for the mopey, sad- sack 20-something male bands who look like they need Prozac, and other singers and bands over the past approx. 15 or so years.

That started happening to me in the early 1990s. There were a few decent songs from the '90s, but most of it was bland stuff.

Nirvana was pretty good with strong melodies, and "No Doubt" had a couple.

The problem is that, more and more, mainstream pop/rock singers are relying on visuals rather than good songsmithing. Madonna paved the way for this "image before the music" phase of pop (that's the only thing about her that's original, and it's not a good thing).

That's why I mostly listen to symphonic metal and French pop anymore. Most Francophone artists have a good sense of a catchy tune -- even if you can't speak the language, you'll still be able to hum along -- and symphonic metal bands usually drop some strong melodies in the instrumental sections of their songs. Within Temptation, especially, is a metal band that's good at fusing a catchy "pop" vocal with strong backing music.

Ok. Even if metal isn't your cup of tea, just take a look at what musical acts are popping up in Europe, the Middle East, India, Japan and even much-closer-to-home Canada (especially the province of Quebec, as they have a MASSIVE music scene there). Try exploring the music spectrum outside of the mainstream/American/English section, and you'll find lots of good stuff.

Once I get my comp fixed up (it's been goin' all wonky on me for the past several days), I'll slap up here some mp3s of non-American pop music to whet your whistle, if you're interested.

I never listen to top 40 radio. I found a station that plays 70s and 80s. Some 80s songs were silly but you remember them, they were catchy, and didn't take themselves too seriously. Now I don't know how to describe music other than to call it booty music. Britney type videos, some dancing gal with some dancers behind her. Michael Jackson kind of started it but then his songs were good. All of this modern stuff is just image over talent. That's all Madonna has become, though she had no big talent to begin with, now her songs stink, she pays more attention to the look than the songs. Come to think of it, she's supposed to be a dance musician but I can't think of many songs of hers that you can really dance to. Into The Groove maybe. How the heck do you dance to Like A Virgin?
Oh, I always thought the line "I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer" was kind of stupid.

Off-Topic: What kind of French Pop do you listen to?

I'm having trouble liking French music as a whole because the melodies and instrumental are not strong/memorable enough 80% of the time which is kind of Flea's problem

Back-To-Topic:The 80's were the equivalent of Pop Heaven!
Nik Kershaw, Cyndi, Janet, Soft Cell, Madonna (during her"Burning Up", Into The Groove", "Lucky Star" days), Culture Club, Kim Wilde, Olivia Newton John, Berlin, Michael Jackson, U2, Heart, Talk Talk, Billy Idol, Al Corley, Hall & Oates, Greg Khin Band, Falco...

It is without a doubt my favorite musical decade just before the 70's and the 60's which I dearly love too.

I agree with you in most cases pop music has been going downhill since the beginning of this decade.
I won't slam 90's music since it's the music I grew up with and no matter what everyone says The Spice Girls, Britney, Savage Garden, Aqua, Robert Miles, TLC, The Cardigans, Alanis Morrissette, No Doubt etc will always be good music for me.

The few songs whose melodies/catchy/addictive hooks caught my attention last year were Katy Perry's "I Kissed A Girl", Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" and Rihanna's "Rehab".
It is kind of sad when a pop lover like me can only name three good pop song in the span of a year of release.

The only female popstar (except Britney who win me over with Blackout) I really liked the entire album lately was Lady Gaga's "The Fame".
But again it's mostly because the album in itself is heavily 80's inspired and full of catchy hooks ("Poker Face", "StarStruck", "Paper Gangsta" or "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" are the kind of song you just can't get out of your head).
The only problem with Gaga is that she thanked Gagdonna in her CD's booklet.
It's not with that kind of argument that she will win me over! LOL

From a site called Spinner.com:

Bad Songs by Good Bands

Worst Duets

Worst Lyrics Ever

The list includes (but is not limited to):

"Lucky that my breasts
Are small and humble
So you don't confuse
Them with mountains"

--Shakira's 'Whenever, Wherever'

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"Relentless lust
Of rotting flesh
To thrash the tomb she lies
Heathen whore
Of Satan's wrath
I spit at your demise"

--Slayer's 'Necrophiliac'

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"I ain't never seen
An ass like that
The way you move it
You make my pee-pee go
'Doing-doing-doing'"

--Eminem's 'Ass Like That'

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"My panty line shows
Got a run in my hose
My hair went flat
Man, I hate that"

--Shania Twain's 'Honey, I'm Home'

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"Your butt is mine"

--Michael Jackson's 'Bad'

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"Young, black and famous

With money hangin'

Out the anus"

--Puff Daddy and Mase's 'Can't Nobody Hold Me Down'

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[At #3 on the list]
"I don't like cities

But I like New York

Other places

Make me feel like a dork"

--Madonna's 'I Love New York'

Worst Songs Ever

Their list of bad songs includes (but is not limited to):

Achy Breaky Heart, Thong Song, My Heart Will Go On, I'm Too Sexy, Barbie Girl, Who Let the Dogs Out?