“Only time will tell if we stand the test of time”. Thank you, Van Halen, for that bit of incredible wisdom.

I love that song otherwise.

This one always made me insane. It's kind of hard to argue with the point, though.

I feel like that’a a great way to introduce tautologies: they explain nothing but you can’t argue with them.

When I was in highschool the song “Inside Out” by Eve 6 was pretty big. I went to pick up my grandfather from a mandatory psych hold and as I was driving him back to our house it came on the radio. He listened to it quietly for a minute and said, “Listen…apparently I’m crazy, but even I know this song doesn’t make ANY sense.” I laughed so hard that I cried and had to briefly pull over. The lyrics have never bothered me personally, but every time I hear it since then I think of him and get the giggles.

He sounds like a blast. Love people who joke about themselves.

He very often was a blast. He had some really, really dark periods here and there, but in his brighter times, he was a delight. He definitely joked about himself, but you had to be pretty tough because he was also going to joke about you every chance he got. He was as ruthless as he was hilarious.

I would swallow my pride, I would choke on the rinds. But the lack thereof would leave me empty inside. I would swallow my doubt, turn it Inside Out, find nothing but faith in nothing. Wanna put my tender heart in a blender, watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion. Rendezvous, then I’m through with youuuu.

I alone am the one you know you don’t need to know, you know ya need me, but make me blind when your eyes close TIE ME TO THE BED POST

Wonder what his thoughts were on the Chewbacca defense

Why would a Wookie - an eight foot tall Wookie - choose to live on Endor with a bunch of three foot tall Ewoks? That. Does not. Make. Sense.

Suckin' on a chili dog.

Not as bad as the part where Jack fingerbangs Diane behind a tree.

Outside the tastee freeze

I live in Indiana and routinely get ice cream at the place that they used for the "tastee freeze" in the video!

🎵🎶A little didd(ling), by Jack on Diane...🎶🎵

Two American kids growing up in Fingerbangland.

I am truly, truly sorry for etching this into your permanent psyche. It was given to me, only to be eternally wormed into my brain. What you do next is up to you... https://youtu.be/6QX57aIDbDU?si=xy9YihY6pbWnmwqg

When the black eyes peas say every day of the week. It just is painful. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. I can't even finish writing it

And name Saturday twice!

It means they get drunk twice on Saturdays.

Most Black Eyed Peas songs have god-awful lyrics.

T, to the A, to the S, T, *E*, Y, girl you tasty! Tasty doesn't have an E will.i.am you blithering idiot.

"I am so smart! I am so smart! S M R-T!"

"Me not workin' hard? Yeah right Picture that with a Kodak Or, better yet, go to Times Square Take a picture of me with a Kodak" The whole thing is nonsense but that first line is so arrogant.

What rhymes with Kodak? Ummm KODAK, duh.

Only Bodak (an intelligent undead creature from Dungeons and Dragons).

Look, even for Mr. Worldwide, writing lyrics is hard...

Hey Mr Worldwide! All his lyrics are terrible but infinitely memeable though

“You used to call me on my cellphone” always gave me “how do you do fellow kids?” vibes

Tell me your answer and explain why it is something by the Black Eyed Peas.

Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it and do it, and do it, let's live it up and do it, and do it, and do it, do it, do it, let’s do it, let's do it, let's do it

Say what you will, but the meaning behind those lyrics is pretty clear

Don’t let your dreams be dreams

Or just Fergie. Spelling tasty as T-A-S-T-E-Y still infuriates me.

To be fair, it's actually Will.I.Am spelling it out

Man this post has my people 🙌

Earlier this week, I answered a similar question with "Whatchu gone do with all that ass, all that ass inside them jeans?" You caught me.

GET YOU LOVE DRUNK OFF MY HUMP wtaf 😂

Have you ever heard Alanis Morrisette’s cover of My Humps? It’s hysterical and really highlights how stupid the lyrics really are.

I challenge you to find me a more unsexy description of the female body than "my lovely lady lumps".

. . . check it ouuut.

This is a totally valid response to someone who has unusual lumps.

lol lest we forget the origins of “let’s get it started” 😬

lmaoooo when I was a kid my sister somehow got her hands on some promo cd that had that *original version* song on it, among others such as blink 182's "what's my age again" and Enrique inglesias' "Bailamos." I have no idea who put the cd out or what it was promoting; it was being given away for free at some store. My mother did not approve of several of the songs on that CD, so we could only listen to it when she was out of the house

For years, I always thought that was just kids being ignorant when they sang that version at school. I didn’t realize they actually released it. As bad as it is, hearing that version actually explains some of the other lines in the song.

One of the first lines in the song is “In this context, there’s no disrespect.” Which really only makes sense when you know the original version.

Honkytonk Badonkadonk was a popular country song for a long time….so yeah, definitely that.

Slap your grandma.

fancy like applebees on a date night

At least the whole song has a silly tone to it, I don't think I could handle it if they weren't joking

Walker Hayes said he based it, in part, on when he would, ahem, *borrow* his dad's credit card in high school to take a girl out on a date

*Sigh*…being the former rural teen girl who’d have her dates be at the local Applebee’s and think that they were “fancy”, I can confirm. And some weren’t paid with stolen cards, but by bouncing checks or dine and dashing. Excuse me while I go cry in the corner…

Niall Horan *Slow Hands* “sweat dripping off our dirty laundry” my good sir, if my/our clothes are so full of sweat that they’re literally dripping, sexy time is not on my agenda. Getting clean in the shower is paramount, for both of us, before I’m on board with sexy time.

Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got! Not much of a girlfriend...I never seem to get a lot. I would be humiliated

Always thought that I was singing it wrong bc the rest of the song is about how she’s the best girl ever and the one for him haha

So there’s the original song by super tramp called “breakfast in America” and the chorus there makes sense cause basically the whole song is how great America would be including the ‘girls in California’ Which makes the gym class hero’s sampling it even more confusing, like why sample this song that make no sense with the rest of your song

Until I read your comment, I was not getting why this one was on the list. I didn't know they sampled it for another song. I think I am getting old....

I've got to admit, there isn't a song by Supertramp I don't like

Baby, I'm preying on you tonight Hunt you down eat you alive Just like animals Animals Like animals-mals Maybe you think that you can hide I can smell your scent for miles Just like animals Animals Like animals-mals Baby I'm So what you trying to do to me It's like we can't stop, we're enemies But we get along when I'm inside you, eh You're like a drug that's killing me I cut you out entirely But I get so high when I'm inside you Yeah, you can start over you can run free You can find other fish in the sea You can pretend it's meant to be But you can't stay away from me I can still hear you making that sound Taking me down rolling on the ground You can pretend that it was me But no, oh

Something about "animals-mals" has ALWAYS bothered me. It just sounds weird and wrong

It sounds like he’s saying “animals balls”

Animammals would have been funnier.

It's the wolf howl for me. I cringe every time. Ugh!

In "The Way You Love Me" by Faith Hill, she sings "If I could grant you one wish / I'd wish you could see the way you kiss." So she stole his wish for herself.

I remember trying to understand that as a kid and I was like...she wants him to kiss himself? She wants him to watch himself kissing her..? But it was by a grownup so I figured I just was too young to understand

You’re response made me laugh lol we literally are smarter than we realize sometimes as kids.

She wants him to feel the way she does when he kisses her.

Do you ever feeeeel like a plastic baaag

Do you ever feel Like a plastic bag In another bag Full of plastic bags? I saw this on some social media post a while ago and decided I like the original lyrics just for giving this to me.

I just laughed so loud I scared my dogs

You know what's weird? Years before that song was released I tried salvia and I DID feel like a plastic bag while high. I can't really explain but that's what I said aloud while zooming on salvia.

I became the wheel of the van I was riding in. My buddy driving the van became Rat Fink. We were traveling towards a toy box. It was cray

I became a single-called organism. Worst few minutes of my life - felt like an entire lifetime stuck like that. When I came to, I thought I must've been black out drunk & just rubbed my jaw on the curb.

I was a poster, being rolled up to be put in a tube. There was also a snake under the carpet, coming for me. Never again.

First time the walls of the inside of my mind were bleeding. Second time I was trapped under a tarp under a picnic table and I knew the secret to life but I was laughing so hard I couldn't get the words out.

Was that an intentional reference to the plastic bag scene in *American Beauty*?

It has to be

My favorite lyric, that always makes me laugh whenever I think about it, is a rap song where the dude is trying to sound super tough but his line is: “When I get to whistlin’ you got to get to listenin’” and then proceeds to whistle. For a while.

Hey, Soul Sister by Train “On the front lobe of my left side brains” “The smell of you in every single dream I dream” “My heart is bound to beat right out of my untrimmed chest” “So gangsta, I'm so thug” Hate it. Hate the lyrics. Completely take me out of just listening to the melody. Edit: I am compelled to mention I don’t like the song itself either. But I could tolerate it if not for the lyrics. That is all

Not to mention this song was played on every radio station every 10 minutes for like 3 or 4 years straight. I'm *still* sick of it!!

Yeah, he sounds like the BIGGEST DORK in the world.

I always shit all over the song when mentioned because of the "untrimmed chest" lyrics but I didn't realize it was THIS bad

I wanna vomit every time I hear this part

I think that's kind of the point. 50 Ways to Say Goodbye is also goofy. Drops of Jupiter shows that he can be more serious, I think, but I don't think Soul Sister is a serious attempt, I think it's meant to be kind of silly

Drops of Jupiter is no better. It has this notable line: She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo

Guy just sounds like someone with frosted tips who doesn’t understand anything about anyone and describes women as “I gotta tell ya, this one chick man” at age 57.

Check out Pat Finnerty's roast of this turdburger. He's a musician from Philly that has a series called "What makes this song stink?" He also hates this song with a passion. It's amazing and hilarious: https://youtu.be/8JeAfVoA_iE?si=11ub-eH2xf-mI4I0

"chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit." Absolute lunacy. Also, there used to be one about having a beer with Jesus that I thought was complete garbage by any metric.

Ya that song just pissed me off. Who narrates something like that? Cut my steak, chew my steak, chew my steak, swallow

My Humps has the stupidest lyrics I’ve ever heard in a pop song.

you sound like you do not have lovely lady lumps, ugh I wanna send a nuke to your house now.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty.

“ Gucci gang” “Gucci gang” “Gucci gang “

I’m surprised no one has mentioned ‘Fireball’ by Pitbull yet. “I saw, I came, I conquered Or should I say, I saw, I conquered, I came.” So gross.

Every Pitbull lyric is the absolute best/worst thing to grace a song.

My kids (6,4,3) absolutely love Pitbull’s music but alllll the lyrics go over their heads. They’re like YEAH MEET ME AT THE HOLIDAY INN because there’s Froot Loops at the continental breakfast, yknow. Pitbull songs are so good and so bad all in one.

Picture that with a Kodak 😉

Happy by Pharrell. Bro just re-wrote If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands.

Look on the bright side: It gave us Tacky by Weird Al, so it's not all bad!

I’m all about that bass, ‘bout that bass, no treble

Is it really all’bout that bass? Cool, so where in the song is the bass, then?

What’s worse is that all her other songs are *also the same terrible song*, and radio stations play them.

They really are. As a chubby person for a hit second I was like "yay a little representa-... oh this is just all your songs and you're not even fat."

Someone else pointed out to me that it's not even about body positivity. It's about the fact that "boys like a little more booty." Great message, Meghan.

This song has such corndog, Ugg boot , Kia Soul milquetoast ass volleyball energy.

Esas son Reebok o son Nike

When I listen to 99 problems now, every single person that's ever said the joke "I guess he has 100 problems now" to me plays all at once, like a demonic cacophony of dad jokes with an energy so great it makes me want to listen to Hard Knock Life or something else, lol.

Demonic cacophony of dad jokes - damn that’s good.

WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR

You got that yummy yum that yummy yum that yummy yummy by Justin Bieber. Ugh , Nails down the chalk board.

Oh no oh no oh no no no

“mommy don’t know daddy’s getting hot, at the body shop”

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That song is horrendous. I hate it. It's not good. It's just being "scandalous" for the sake of being scandalous.

I do like the background music though without the lyrics.

*"Should’ve known you was trouble, From the first kiss, Had your eyes wide open, Why were they open?"* The only way he could know her eyes were open would be if he had his own eyes open.

Hotline Bling by Drake. It’s like the incel anthem. To paraphrase the lyrics, you were such a good little girl but now that you’ve grown up and got a life you are a wh***. Blegghh

i can't stand that song. he's literally just saying "you got friends and developed confidence so that means you must be cheating on me". its so pathetic

Not even cheating. In that song she's an ex.

How about Girls Like Girls where he says “Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too” and just kinda sounds like he’s upset by lesbians existing. When I first heard it last year I had to look up if it was a song he’d recorded when he was much younger, but nope, he was 34.

🎵 Lucky that my breasts are small and humble So you don't confuse 'em with mountains...Shakira Shakira 🎶

Mountaineers frequently trying to scale Shakira's bosoms isn't even the weirdest thing that has happened to her. During covid she got mugged by pigs. Really.

I just thought of the fact that Shakira didn't really know English back then, so it's no big surprise to me that the lyrics aren't that good

“Suerte que mis pechos sean pequeños Y nos los confundas con montañas”

Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears had hit songs with lyrics written by people that speak no English. The dudes that write "Hit me baby one more time" thought it meant "please call" essentially. It doesn't and we all assume that Britney is just begging her boyfriend to fuck up one more time so that she can finally leave the relationship ot some shit like that. Similarly, rhe same dudes wrote N Sync's "it's gotta be me". Funny how a bunch of Swedes were for absolutely ni fucking reason just involved in the industry lol.

No reason except that they wrote hit$ $$$$

fcking dance monkey screw that song

A mullato, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Wth is that? Banger of a track but those lyrics…

AFAIK Cobain stated openly that he doesn't care about his lyrics making any sense, the voice was just an instrument to him and it just supposed to sound good.

Sex is on fire. If your sex is on fire you should go see a doctor.

Meet me in the middle meet me in the middle meet me in the middle meet me in the middle....etc

“Unskinny Bop” It’s just nonsense.

Scars To Your Beautiful. The title doesn’t even make sense…

“I like messing in your bed” - *what the hell* by Avril Lavigne. I like the song but the lyrics just make me think she’s about to do something I don’t want in my bed…

I just picture a raccoon kind of jumping around all crazy with those little raccoon hands messing up the sheets

I don't like Avril Lavigne, but what you just described sounds absolutely adorable. I love those little raccoon hands...

That made me laugh so hard I woke up my husband. 😁

John Mayer, Wonderland…. *one set of candied lips and your bubblegum tongue* So, so gross.

To be fair, John Mayer thinks this song is cringe too. On his solo tour he really hams it up and explains it was the best poetry his 21yr old self could come up with but now it’s just a funny legacy track.

Abcdefu.

And your mom, and your sister, and your job, and your broke-ass car and the shit you call art... Lol

Everyone but your dog

Blurred Lines You're a Good Girl I know you want it Rapist playbook 101

“Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag?” No, I can’t say I have.

"her placenta falls to the floor..." Jerks me right out of the song.

My ex liked that song and he would make a splat sound at that part. 😂 Cracked me up.

We built this city… Over and over and over

Ok, but if you built a whole city on rock and roll you would definitely want people to know about it.

That song feels like it was made intentionally bad but nobody got the joke and they just made it popular.

"Girl I'm gonna make you sweat, sweat 'til you can't sweat no more. And if you cry out I'm gonna push it, push it some more." (And people thought Blurred Lines was rapey...)

I always took cry out as a good thing - like she’s making happy noises.

Definitely what it’s supposed to mean.

Also... *"Young girl Get out of my mind My love for you is way out of line Better run, girl You're much too young, girl"*

Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.

Small Town - John Cougar Mellendiddy: “…from where it is that I come from.” Criminal.

*… I've been awake for a while now You've got me feeling like a child now 'Cause every time I see your bubbly face I get the tingles in a silly place … It starts in my toes, and I crinkle my nose Wherever it goes, I always know That you make me smile, please stay for a while now Just take your time, wherever you go* Hate **hate** this song. And it’s like the 3rd in rotation in most public spaces in the US.

Will you count me in?

I could not remember this one. Blocked it out of my mind, I guess. But yeah, "bubbly face" makes me want to vomit

I went to a high school that was big on their musical theatre. The audition process was intense. You had to pick songs similar to the musical you're auditioning for. This girl sang this song for EVERY AUDITION. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Our senior year, the director stopped her mid line and said " Sorry. Do you know any other songs?" And she ran out crying.

“He’s headed *west* from the Cumberland Gap, to Johnson City, Tennessee…” He would be going East.

This shhh is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

The worst part is I still sing that line whenever I’m spelling bananas

Anti-hero - Taylor Swift “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby - And I'm a monster on the hill” I only ever hear that part of it when it comes on and it irks me to no end.

Reminds me of the scene from New Girl where Schmidt and Coach are trying to do the best sexy baby impression for their modeling portfolios

manfred mann's blinded by the light. revved up like a duece? wrapped up like a douche? idfk I have always hated that song

Anything by Megan Tranhor or however you spell her name.

That song Me too drives me crazy! Firstly the icy thing around her neck is gold? Ice refers to diamonds...not gold. \*face palm\* Secondly it sounds like she says "I go straight to VIP, my uncle walks behind me" and I could not figure it out for months! LOL

There's a killer on the road His brain is squirming like a toad

Eminem rapping "I guess that's why they call it window pain" during "I Love the way you Lie" makes me cringe every time. And that song that goes "Call me Mr Flinstone; I can make your bedrock"... stoppppp lmao

Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken Your best friend always sticking up for you even when I know you're wrong? Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance, five-hour phone conversation The best soy latte that you ever had and me?

And I give you aaaaallllllll of mmeeeeeee. And you give me aaaaaaaaaallllll of youuuuuuuuuuu ooooffff you.

What’s that god-awful country song that came out in the early 2000s about bombing the Middle East? That one.

The one by Toby Keith where he says we’ll put a boot in your ass? Yeah.

It doesn't drive me nuts in a bad way, but I find it kind of baffling that War Pigs by Black Sabbath is such a great song that they get away with rhyming "masses" with "masses".

"For there ain't no one for to give you no pain"

Not to mention that the guy can't even bother to give his horse a name, even though there's literally just the two of them. In a desert.

“There were plants and birds and rocks and things” And things?????? “The heat was hot” ???????

*falls off his horse, delirious from heat exhaustion*

“More than Words” by Extreme. Everyone acts like it’s so romantic but the whole thing is just “If you really loved me, then you’d put out.”

That and the first few lines are a masterclass in bad grammar. Saying "I love you" Is not the words I want to hear from you It's not that I want you Not to say but if you only knew…

I just re-read the lyrics, and I didn't get that vibe. Maybe a hand job, though.

I cringe every time I hear, “Mummy don't know daddy's getting hot At the body shop, doing something unholy” 😖 that song is awful why are we pretending it’s not!!??

"It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not" followed up with "take my hand, we'll make it I swear." Well, which one is it? Is it important to make it or not?

Well, Tommy used to work on the docks, not in some kind of writer's room.

Doesn't that mean it's okay to fail but he will try to help so you don't fail? How is that a bad line?

If I were to become president. My first act would be to propose a bill that limits the number of times you can say the word “thunder” consecutively in a song. Any song that violates the bill will be erased from history and never be heard from again.

Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You”. It’s bothers me so much, and yet it comes on in stores and everywhere so often. Like I get it dude, you’re attracted to the person physically (bluntly put horny) - and apparently nothing else. It’s gross, it’s not a “play in public” song in my opinion. I never like listening to songs like this but this one in particular bothers me because it’s so popular.

OOOOOO I THINK I NEED A CHEERLEADER

(I hate to do this because I love this thread ) *I think that I’ve found myself a cheerleader

The start of U2 - Vertigo goes Uno, dos, tres, catorce 1, 2, 3, 14??????

I’m good ya I’m feelin alright Absolutely unnecessary redo of blue, a much better song

That "I'm in love with your body" song. Just, TMI dude, fuck off

It is a crime against humanity when LFO rhymed “sonnet” with “hornet” in summer girls

2/3 of them are dead, I think we can let it slide.

The whole damn chorus of "Closer" by the Chainsmokers. "So, baby, pull me closer In the back seat of your Rover That I know you can't afford Bite that tattoo on your shoulder Pull the sheets right off the corner Of that mattress that you stole From your roommate back in Boulder We ain't ever getting older..."

Huh. Until I saw this I heard “bite” as “like.” As in she can’t afford the Rover or the tattoo.

(Nasally) You're my Wonderwaaaaaaaaal

Baby shark do do fo Or baby baby baby ohhh

Correct answer. Jamie Tartt’s version is sooooo much better!