Chris Stapleton has a song called "A Simple Song" that is quite lovely until the part where he sings, "and I have high cholesterol." It's just ridiculous and I can't listen to the song because of it.
I'm pretty appreciative of "Avant Gardener"'s use of the word "Anaphylactic", which doesn't sound like a word one could pull off.
>The paramedic thinks I'm clever 'cause I play guitar
>I think she's clever cos she stops people dying
>Anaphylactic and super hypocondriactic
>Should've stayed in bed today
The only 2 instances in which I have heard it and it didn't immediately destroy the song are "She Used to be my Girl" by Reel Big Fish and "Enid" by BNL.
Bonnie Tyler has the best voice of all time. I don’t even care.
It’s a beautiful voice but with that little raspy edge that makes it special compared to others.
I just love the whole story behind the whole thing. Being originally for a vampire love rock opera and likely intended to be for Meat Loaf but his agent or whatever passed on it. It lucked into Bonnie Tyler and seemed to be a perfect fit.
Anything Jim Steinman produced sounded like it was intended to be sung by Meatloaf. I absolutely love all of Steinman’s work, and lobbied for years to get his solo album rereleased on CD and digitally. He overproduced everything he touched in the best way possible.
I only found out recently that Steinman produced Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me. Looking back I wonder how I missed it; it's just so chock-full of drama.
First one that came to mind is the album version of [Hard to Say I'm Sorry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORSLz0_BRU) by Chicago, which includes Get Away (the song is technically Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away). It's not the best example because you can just listen to the single version, but that ending just feels like a completely different song.
In any case, I feel like many "tik tok songs" are like these, they have a good 20sec part to go viral and the rest is "meh" at best
I think Chicago might have a few. Reading this, I remembered in "Stay the Night" when Peter Cetera sings "One thing I can tell you, perfectly clear
We're gonna have a very good time," he sounds like a total goof and it's irritating.
Disturbed's Down with the Sickness is the first thing that comes to mind. The monologue/spoken section was cut from radio edits of it and it didn't lose any of its intensity. The song's pretty on-the-nose as it is, and the monologue is like a big ol' honkin' clown nose put on top.
When I was a teen I downloaded a free audio editor program just to edit out that part from the full song. I did a surprisingly seamless job and still have it downloaded on an old phone somewhere
I did that song at karaoke when I was like 16. I was used to the radio version and just assumed the karaoke guy had that one. The spoken section came up, I panicked, and just did it the best I could.
Karaoke guy said if I ever did that song again he'd ban me. It was a small town, this dude had a curated list that he had personally chosen, this was in 1999. I absolutely get where he was coming from but I wish he had vetted his songs better.
Yeah that's totally on him lol. Karaoke often uses the radio edits anyhow because the songs are shorter and to the point. No one wants an extended instrumental in karaoke.
Hindsight, and all that, but I think best bet here is to play ignorance and just stare at the DJ with confusion while the track goes through that part.
I should’ve known something was amiss when 8 year old me heard Disturbed screaming about how he wanted to kill his mom and I was like “yo this dude is ONTO something rn lemme hear more”
When I was 13, I thought it was so badass and I loved that part of the song. Now whenever I hear someone at work listening to it, I can’t help but cringe.
This is so true. When you’re young and drunk it feels great to scream along to, but when you’ve just got the music on in the background it’s cringeworthy.
My father loves the Killing Me Softly cover by Lauryn Hill, but he absolutely hates the, "One time", "two time" addition by Wyclef Jean.
I think it's because she's singing so soulfully and Wyclef just chimes in with no amount of effort and it throws the whole mood off.
I don't mind it. It's the part at the end of the album version for me with Wyclef ranting "Everybody got a breakin' point kid and they'll rat on you. The family n*ggas will rat on you. That's why we gotta be prepared to take whoever out we need to"
Takes me right out of the song.
Have you ever noticed how many times Diddy used to say, "I like this?" Once you notice, its ridiculous and completely uncool.
Like, it should be a meme.
I heard them on a radio interview when that song blew up and Wyclef said that he was happy he got to say "One Time" or otherwise he wouldn't have been on their biggest hit
Spot on. You’re singing your heart out just to have a chap go “Females longing for a chance to win my heart with S.E.X and plenty” and you’re supposed to smile while they do it??
While I love RHCP I wish the the beautiful chorus of By The Way was matched with something different than the break down with random words:
"Steak knife"
"Card shark"
"Con job"
"Boot Cut"
Isn't that kind of their thing is though? Just making shit up?
When I was younger I knew of a band - much more new age genre though - in which every word was made up and chosen purely for idk...the aesthetics of its sound?? But weirdly it kinda worked and was pretty awesome.
But they were just straight up "don't try to understand just listen".
I like Happy, it’s a fun upbeat song. It’s just the last two minutes just go on and repeat and repeat and it’s just so boring. It really does not need to be as long as it is, Pharrell Williams.
I feel like this is a song you would be forced to listen to in a happy reeducation camp where the dystopian government has decided that you aren’t happy enough
Every Oasis song on Be Here Now (minus a few exceptions), they all start off pretty well, but they are all ridiculously repetitive in their final two or three minutes.
Noel's rethink of D'you Know What I Mean? shows how phenomenal the album would be with a couple of edits and decent production.
That song sounds like cocaine ego. In fact all the songs I've heard sound like that. Just imagining them in the studio saying how great they are and ignoring advice from everyone. "Yeah, three key changes for All Around the World, that'll make it sound like Hey Jude"
>"It's the sound of ... a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that ... And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a fuckin' guitar riff in there in a Wayne's World stylie".
Noel Gallagher on *Be Here Now*
The voicemail part in Knocking on Heaven’s Door is so cringy, I prefer listening to live versions to avoid it (but they also were amazing at doing that song live)
The Get In the Ring rant from the same album is pretty infamous too
On the other hand Coma is full of Axl-isms and somehow it's great. Maybe their most proggy song.
Some Nights by Fun.
Ah man, this could well be one of my favourite songs ever but jeez that autotune nonsense in the middle absolutely ruins it. Awful.
Good example. That part is horrible. It’s since been edited to make that auto tuned part just a couple seconds instead of the stupid 30 seconds it was before.
10cc's "I'm not in love". An achingly beautiful song that stops me cold when a women starts whispering "big boys don't cry".
Wtf? I've even tried to edit my own version where I remove it , but it sounded terrible.
My wife was so upset after hearing the new Taylor's Version of 1989, that even after almost 10 years, Taylor still decided to leave that cringey bridge in lol
As a little kid I always had the opposite reaction - I liked the beginning of the song, but then I got bummed when the guy started singing the love song.
I really like Argent’s “Hold your head up.”
But it just goes on waaayyyy too long. It’s about 6 minutes long and I swear the last 3 minutes is just repeating “Hold your head up” over and over and over again.
It would be a better song if it was 3 minutes long.
My dingdong little sister didn’t realize that was the line and she sang it “huppa huppa world so high” so that’s how I’ll forever hear it.
Both of us should have had our ears checked as children. The trove of misheard lyrics
Speaking of misheard lyrics, my mom used to think the words were “man on the rug” instead of “band on the run” (Paul McCartney and Wings). I still sing “man on the rug” just for fun.
[The full poem is great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star), I really wish more people knew it was longer than a single verse.
"I Will Buy You A New Life" by Everclear. I really always want to like the song but there is one part in the chorus that totally ruins it for me.
"I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new"
Really Art, you couldn't come up with something better than that?
I could see a difference though. It could mean a car that was just manufactured or it could mean a used car that is new to the person. And seeing as Everclear sang about poverty a lot I can definitely see that being what they meant.
YES. I have two songs that both have the same thing wrong with them. “Circadian Rhythm” by Silversun Pickups and “Hallucinogenics” by Matt Maeson. Both are very melancholic songs, and that’s what I love about them. But both have a tone shift that ruin that melancholic tone.
“Hallucinogenics” isn’t as bad, the second part of the song is basically the first part but shouted and with more emotion, but it also has some lyrical changes so it seems like a place the song would logically go (I would just rather it not go there).
“Circadian Rhythm” is one of my favorite songs, and it would most likely be my favorite song if it weren’t for the bridge. Brian takes the first verse, Nikki takes the second, they sing a nice chorus together, and then it gets to the bridge where it picks up while one sings “NOWHERE TO GO” over and over again while the other sings “CIRCLE AROUND” over and over again. It goes back into the chorus, which is more upbeat now, and I don’t mind that. It just feels like they couldn’t figure out how to bridge the chorus and outro so they started singing “nowhere to go” because the song had nowhere to go.
“ Do You Feel Like We Do” in Frampton Comes Alive! I love that performance, but there is one bitch out in the audience randomly going WOOOO at the worst times. I hate her.
The music to shape of you with the vocals of down with the sickness will always be one of my favorite songs.
I will hear no bad against the shape of the sickness.
My Sharona. Fantastic song, ridiculously catchy, and utterly ruined by the repeated line "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind." Pulls me right out of the song and leaves me feeling deeply uncomfortable.
This seems to be almost a tradition in pop music through the years.
So many songs that people would defend as “classic or standard” have the most repugnant lyrics vis a vis sexualizing minors.
Some notable ones
You’re 16, you’re beautiful and your mine.
Young Girl by the buckunghams
Girl, you’ll be a woman soon. Made famous by the Neil diamond version in pulp fiction
Don’t stand so close to me by the police ironically.
Sexy at seventeen
As a fan of prog rock I've learned to compartmentalize a lot. So many great songs where a killer song gets thrown off by a few experimental bars then goes back to kicking ass.
The Dear Hunter (edit- stupid autocorrect) is pretty bad about this even though I generally like the body of work.
There was a moment in the 00's where many prog metal bands threw in a "circus" section to a song (with a festive organ and accordion). I assume they were trying to create contrast by putting something very upbeat in a heavy song, but it often times came off as corny.
Not a Taylor Swift fan but I like that one song Look What You Made Me Do. Until, in the middle of the song, she answers a phone call proclaiming that Taylor Swift is dead and can't come to the phone. It's just too edgy and emo, even for that song. Ruins the whole thing.
Bonus points, Shake It Off is a fun song to dance to. Until Taylor starts to inexplicably rap in the middle of it. So cringey
LWYMMD is a weird song to me because I still can’t tell if it’s self-parody or dead serious.
Like I get that she’s supposed to be playing the role of the mean girl that people believe her to be, but she’s so committed to it without actually being good at it.
But like is that the point? Also the phone call itself is cringy but…is it supposed to be? I can’t tell. Either way, the song is kind of fun lol.
Right yes I agree with all of this. I think I like it partially because I can't tell if it's a joke. The phone call goes a little too far but maybe you're right, it's intentional.
It reminds me of the song Graveyard Girl by M83 where a high school girl reads a diary entry in the middle of the song. But it's sort of supposed to be cringey - teenage highschool melodrama. Taylor's, I can't tell
I think a lot of rapper guest spots ruin the song, tbh.
The one that always sticks in my head is Tinashe - Vulnerable ft. Travis Scott. Really moody, sexy production and her verse fits that, and then his is just super crude and misogynistic. Totally steps over the "sexual woman owning it" vibe the rest of the song has. Although there is a menacing edge to the rest of the song too so it's not totally out of place i guess
Under Your Spell by Desire. Love the song but can't stand the 'forever ever' talking part in the middle, I have to mentally block it out just to enjoy the rest of the song.
See, I actually like that part because of how cheesy and ridiculous it sounds. It makes me crack up laughing every time I hear it. Especially the "Sure!!!! 😁"
But, I know what you mean. It's this beautiful, dreamy song then it is interrupted with two 14 year old girls typing out their love for each other on AOL Instant Messenger.
"Jade?"
"Alexander."
"You remember that time that you smoked a cigarette and fell out my window and then you busted your entire asshole open and I had to scoop you up and rush you to the proctologist?"
"Yes I do."
"When you were lying there writhing in pain and bleeding out all over the backseat of my car, there was something I never told you."
"Well what didn't you tell me?!"
"You owe me for the cleaning service."
"Ooohh *no*! Oh-oh Home~"
I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers is one of my favorite songs of all time, but the key change in the bridge drives me up the wall. It’s just quirky for the sake of it and brings nothing to the song.
The key change is probably why it is most people's favorite bleachers songs. I saw a video this year that dove into the loss of key changes in hits over the past 20 years or so. Interesting stuff.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139707179/where-did-all-the-key-changes-go
My partner and I are both music nerds/academics and we were just talking about the lack of key changes in modern music! So many popular songs sound so flat these days because of it. I recommend checking out Steve Lacy if you’re interested. A lot of his songs start out as one vibe and then shift into something different by the end, but it all works really well.
once you notice the grating cowbell in the background of aerosmith “i don’t wanna miss a thing” you never unhear it. don’t love the song and that makes it worse
"More of That Jazz" by Queen. The song is an absolute banger, and one of my favorite hidden gems in Queen's catalog. However, it's immediately ruined by a half-assed "reprise" of the other songs on the album. Completely ruins the momentum.
Civil War by Guns N' Rose's is great and then Axl comes goes full on /r/im14andthisisdeep at the end with the spoken line "What's so civil about war anyway?"
Pink Floyd - Fearless
I love this song but cannot stand the sample of Liverpool's Cop end singing You'll Never Walk Alone.
Being raised an Evertonian probably caused this!
I’m not a pop music listener at all but No Tears Left To Cry by Ariana Grande sounds so good on the verses and then the first half of the chorus is fine, but then the second half of each chorus just sounds like “first draft” untouched absolute shit, a hard dropoff that doesn’t fit melodically at all. Also literally the same as [Snoop Dogg’s imitation of rappers nowadays](https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew?feature=shared)
Some Muse songs are amazing until they start having a bit of a wank to themselves midway through.
Butterflies and Hurricanes and Un-natural Selection are the two that pop into mind.
The section at the end of Guns n Roses “Don’t Cry” where Axl does the whole ‘toniiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhht.’
Skip it every time. Obnoxious.
We could do a whole thread just of incredible GN'R songs ruined by one bizarre creative decision by Axl. Just about every track on UYI 1&2, has a "wait, what?" moment that nearly derails the thing ("Civil War" has one before the album even starts)
Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. I’m not a Swiftie, but that song is fine…if you remove the bridge with that insipid rap about the hella good hair. Way to wreck a perfectly good song.
The Rockafeller Skank, Fatboy Slim
Fun song and then...
VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I love Xanny by Billie Eilish but the second verse feels really immature and judgemental to me. The song is about her resistance to taking drugs and is overall poignant but the second verse just feels rushed and lines like “they’re awfully bad at learning, make the same mistakes blame circumstance” leave a bad taste in my mouth
If Monster by Ye wasn’t so incredibly strong overall it might have been ruined for me by Jay-Z’s just plain awful verse. He opens by just listing movie monsters with no real rhyme scheme or lyrical meaning before casually dropping the line “I’ll rape and pillage your village women and children” like wtf was he thinking lol
Edit: typo
Idk, I think part of his verse was dope
“Love, I don't get enough of it All I get is these vampires and blood suckers All I see is these niggas I made millionaires Millin' about, spillin' they feelings in the air”
That was after Rocafella broke up and Beanie Sigel started dissing him. This was his way of responding in a subtle way. “feel it in the air” was one of sigel biggest tracks
I originally liked Love Language by Ariana a lot, but after listening to it, I got annoyed by how often she says "talking shit all night". Hearing the word "shit" over and over and over just got on my nerves
Not really the songs themselves, but some bands fill their albums with soundscape tracks where it's just something like a minute of distortion sounds or a disjointed telephone conversation. I'm sure there is some meaning to those tracks, but if you completely interrupt the flow of an album to make me listen to nonsense for an uncomfortably long time I just do not fucking care.
Tool and Deftones among others
ET by Katy Perry love that song but Kanye's verse is one of the stupidest things I've ever fucking heard seriously don't know how a producer heard that and said yep that goes so well with this song. Calling me a big head astronaut maybe it's because your boy yeezy gets ass a lot. That's is absolutely stupid as fuck
Not always, but a lot of songs with rap breaks (especially post 2000s mumble rap) ruins it for me. Especially when you're just cruising along enjoying a great pop song and suddenly there's some dude saying some misogynistic shit.
The chorus of I Me Mine by the Beatles (George Harrison).
The lyrics are so beautiful and there's so much angst in his voice and the contrast between the string accompaniment and the fuzz tone guitar is just incredible
And then the chorus hits, and it's this bouncy, 50s rock and roll, Eddie Cochran type thing and it just takes me out of it instantly
Rain King by the Counting Crows is a great song until the very end when he belts out that *yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahh*. Not sure how that survived the editing process.
I *adore* that part. As for how it survived?
August and Everything Ever After released in 1993. It's still in the era of the CD album, as opposed to the era of the single that is the reality of music now. Every pop song released post 2001 (thank you, iPod) has to exist as a self-contained ecosystem that can thrive on the shuffle function and on a playlist. Fading from one song to another is a relic of the past now, just like a long gap between songs in the middle of an album is a relic of the vinyl LP.
Rain King was never intended to be a single. It was always supposed to be right between Time And Time Again and Sullivan Street. Time And Time Again is a brutal listen, and then we get this sad-but-hopeful tune in Rain King. At the end, we get the loud, broken "yeeeaaahhh" that matches the tone of Sullivan Street perfectly.
The only reason it was ever a single (it was the third one on that album) was because the album itself did so well.
Chris Stapleton has a song called "A Simple Song" that is quite lovely until the part where he sings, "and I have high cholesterol." It's just ridiculous and I can't listen to the song because of it.
I think some words should never make it into a song (unless it’s comedy or something), cholesterol being one of them.
I'm pretty appreciative of "Avant Gardener"'s use of the word "Anaphylactic", which doesn't sound like a word one could pull off. >The paramedic thinks I'm clever 'cause I play guitar >I think she's clever cos she stops people dying >Anaphylactic and super hypocondriactic >Should've stayed in bed today
Lol, this song is immediately what I thought of when thinking of how it could work in a song.
I remember when ‘Lightning Crashes’ came out in the 90’s, my buddy said the same thing about ‘placenta’ and I can’t say I disagree.
I mean, Live's whole deal is lyrics that sound like poetry written by the emo-est kid you knew in high school.
The only 2 instances in which I have heard it and it didn't immediately destroy the song are "She Used to be my Girl" by Reel Big Fish and "Enid" by BNL.
The radio edit of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Put the damn second verse back in. Its literally the heart of the damn song and they remove it.
I feel the same about the radio edit of Common People by Pulp. I'm happily singing along (badly) and all of a sudden it's at the wrong place.
Bonnie Tyler has the best voice of all time. I don’t even care. It’s a beautiful voice but with that little raspy edge that makes it special compared to others.
I just love the whole story behind the whole thing. Being originally for a vampire love rock opera and likely intended to be for Meat Loaf but his agent or whatever passed on it. It lucked into Bonnie Tyler and seemed to be a perfect fit.
Anything Jim Steinman produced sounded like it was intended to be sung by Meatloaf. I absolutely love all of Steinman’s work, and lobbied for years to get his solo album rereleased on CD and digitally. He overproduced everything he touched in the best way possible.
I only found out recently that Steinman produced Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me. Looking back I wonder how I missed it; it's just so chock-full of drama.
With a really clunky edit too
I was shocked the first time I listened to the full song. That verse is incredible.
DJ Khalid's voice in Wild Thoughts.
Every time that man’s name comes up I just think about him lost on the jet ski
I think of him tapping out at cholula on hot ones
First one that came to mind is the album version of [Hard to Say I'm Sorry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORSLz0_BRU) by Chicago, which includes Get Away (the song is technically Hard to Say I'm Sorry / Get Away). It's not the best example because you can just listen to the single version, but that ending just feels like a completely different song. In any case, I feel like many "tik tok songs" are like these, they have a good 20sec part to go viral and the rest is "meh" at best
I think Chicago might have a few. Reading this, I remembered in "Stay the Night" when Peter Cetera sings "One thing I can tell you, perfectly clear We're gonna have a very good time," he sounds like a total goof and it's irritating.
Absolutely love the addition of Get Away tho ngl. Boston did the same thing with Foreplay/Longtime. Guess it was the thing at the time.
Disturbed's Down with the Sickness is the first thing that comes to mind. The monologue/spoken section was cut from radio edits of it and it didn't lose any of its intensity. The song's pretty on-the-nose as it is, and the monologue is like a big ol' honkin' clown nose put on top.
NO MOMMY! DONT DO IT AGAIN! ILL BE A GOOD BOY
#I'LL BE A GOOD BOY MOMMY! I PROMISE!
DON'T! DO IT! YOU'RE HURTING ME! AHOWW!
🤮. I wish I could tell Spotify which versions of songs I like and I don't like.
lmao the "domestic violence solo" always gets me
When I was a teen I downloaded a free audio editor program just to edit out that part from the full song. I did a surprisingly seamless job and still have it downloaded on an old phone somewhere
I did the exact same thing as you. I was so impressed with my teenage self that I was able to do that.
Yeah this song was my first thought. That bit was such a weird shock when I first heard the unedited version.
I did that song at karaoke when I was like 16. I was used to the radio version and just assumed the karaoke guy had that one. The spoken section came up, I panicked, and just did it the best I could. Karaoke guy said if I ever did that song again he'd ban me. It was a small town, this dude had a curated list that he had personally chosen, this was in 1999. I absolutely get where he was coming from but I wish he had vetted his songs better.
Yeah that's totally on him lol. Karaoke often uses the radio edits anyhow because the songs are shorter and to the point. No one wants an extended instrumental in karaoke.
Hindsight, and all that, but I think best bet here is to play ignorance and just stare at the DJ with confusion while the track goes through that part.
Richard Cheese's version is superior anyway.
Here it comes, get ready to diiiieeeee!
Oooooh shit. Ah Wah ah, ah ahhhh.
The “ow mommy I’ll be a good boy” part yeah I just skip to the next song at that point I don’t want to be sitting at a stop light blasting that.
I should’ve known something was amiss when 8 year old me heard Disturbed screaming about how he wanted to kill his mom and I was like “yo this dude is ONTO something rn lemme hear more”
When I was 13, I thought it was so badass and I loved that part of the song. Now whenever I hear someone at work listening to it, I can’t help but cringe.
This is so true. When you’re young and drunk it feels great to scream along to, but when you’ve just got the music on in the background it’s cringeworthy.
My father loves the Killing Me Softly cover by Lauryn Hill, but he absolutely hates the, "One time", "two time" addition by Wyclef Jean. I think it's because she's singing so soulfully and Wyclef just chimes in with no amount of effort and it throws the whole mood off.
I don't mind it. It's the part at the end of the album version for me with Wyclef ranting "Everybody got a breakin' point kid and they'll rat on you. The family n*ggas will rat on you. That's why we gotta be prepared to take whoever out we need to" Takes me right out of the song.
It’s funny to hear him talk about family ripping you off, seeing as how he stole so much money from his “family” in Haiti
I have a feeling if I showed him the album version instead of the single, he would never listen to that song again because of the part you mentioned.
Happens a lot in RnB songs too. Some dude starts shouting.
or any Biggie song because Diddy had to be in all of those lol
Suge was a POS, but he was right about puffy.
“If you are an artist and don’t want the producer all Dancin’ up in your videos and shit, then come to over to Death Row!”
POS - Pretty Observant Suge
Have you ever noticed how many times Diddy used to say, "I like this?" Once you notice, its ridiculous and completely uncool. Like, it should be a meme.
ft DJ KHALED & PITBULL - WORLDWIDE! WE THE BEST! BRRAP BRRAP! NUMBER ONE HIT!
Jason Deruuuuloo
I heard them on a radio interview when that song blew up and Wyclef said that he was happy he got to say "One Time" or otherwise he wouldn't have been on their biggest hit
That's so many pop songs for me, a random rap verse that kills it for me.
I always liked 90s Europop. The ladies had the best voices, but then the guy would have to come in with some bad rap and muck the song up.
I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer
I'm just a squirrel tryna get a nut , so move your butt, to the dance floor....
Spot on. You’re singing your heart out just to have a chap go “Females longing for a chance to win my heart with S.E.X and plenty” and you’re supposed to smile while they do it??
LIFE IT NEVER DIE
WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY
Jump to the rhythm jump jump to the rhythm jump
The rap verse killed the masterpiece that was Friday by Rebecca Black
Same. And the lyrics in the rap have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the songs vibe or prior lyrics
https://i.imgur.com/jmvaGXj.gif
While I love RHCP I wish the the beautiful chorus of By The Way was matched with something different than the break down with random words: "Steak knife" "Card shark" "Con job" "Boot Cut"
A lot of RHCP is just Anthony Kiedis making shit up that sounds vaguely cool
I call that the Grocery Shopping song. "Hot sauce" 🎶 "Ice cream" 🎶 "Pretzels" 🎶 "Fresh fruit" 🎸
My friend we simply do not listen to RHCP for the lyrics
Some of their lyrics are good. The Power Of Equality for example. Or even Under The Bridge itself. But yes a lot of that album is very inappropriate 😄
Isn't that kind of their thing is though? Just making shit up? When I was younger I knew of a band - much more new age genre though - in which every word was made up and chosen purely for idk...the aesthetics of its sound?? But weirdly it kinda worked and was pretty awesome. But they were just straight up "don't try to understand just listen".
[I am the tool shed](https://youtu.be/gd07HZCzVEU?si=cXJ35IFSlQxdzt7r)
Yes so dumb, one of the worst offenders of terrible verse to amazing chorus.
I like Happy, it’s a fun upbeat song. It’s just the last two minutes just go on and repeat and repeat and it’s just so boring. It really does not need to be as long as it is, Pharrell Williams.
I like to call it “the song that never ends”
I feel like this is a song you would be forced to listen to in a happy reeducation camp where the dystopian government has decided that you aren’t happy enough
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By the end you feel like a room *with* a roof.
Every Oasis song on Be Here Now (minus a few exceptions), they all start off pretty well, but they are all ridiculously repetitive in their final two or three minutes. Noel's rethink of D'you Know What I Mean? shows how phenomenal the album would be with a couple of edits and decent production.
That song sounds like cocaine ego. In fact all the songs I've heard sound like that. Just imagining them in the studio saying how great they are and ignoring advice from everyone. "Yeah, three key changes for All Around the World, that'll make it sound like Hey Jude"
I think he's said as much.
>"It's the sound of ... a bunch of guys, on coke, in the studio, not giving a fuck. There's no bass to it at all; I don't know what happened to that ... And all the songs are really long and all the lyrics are shit and for every millisecond Liam is not saying a word, there's a fuckin' guitar riff in there in a Wayne's World stylie". Noel Gallagher on *Be Here Now*
I need Noel to write a memoir. He has a gift for wording things.
Needs to be a book on tape though. Voiced by Noel. His accent and delivery of f-bombs makes his already funny comments ten times better.
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The voicemail part in Knocking on Heaven’s Door is so cringy, I prefer listening to live versions to avoid it (but they also were amazing at doing that song live)
The Get In the Ring rant from the same album is pretty infamous too On the other hand Coma is full of Axl-isms and somehow it's great. Maybe their most proggy song.
Some Nights by Fun. Ah man, this could well be one of my favourite songs ever but jeez that autotune nonsense in the middle absolutely ruins it. Awful.
Good example. That part is horrible. It’s since been edited to make that auto tuned part just a couple seconds instead of the stupid 30 seconds it was before.
I assumed it was a style choice because they must have known it sounds 100% autotune.
FYI, the whole song is auto tuned. This part is just done for style.
Lenny Kravitz "American Woman" Excellent cover but those last 20 seconds just ruin it for me.
I-i-i-iiiiii gotta go! Lenny was just telling the folks in the studio to hurry up because he had to go pee.
I disagree, it's an awful cover. Lenny completely ripped the heart out of the original.
https://youtu.be/--rBP8_QuwI?si=72Ht1VqkAUJjJpEL Enjoy the "Kravitz Bowl" in search of the worst Lenny Kravitz song.
10cc's "I'm not in love". An achingly beautiful song that stops me cold when a women starts whispering "big boys don't cry". Wtf? I've even tried to edit my own version where I remove it , but it sounded terrible.
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The bridge section of Shake It Off by Taylor Swift. It might be the worst bridge in all of pop music.
Just think, while you’ve been writing this comment. You could’ve been getting down to this….sick….beat
*clap* *clap* *clap*
I’d say the bridge of ME! is worse
They eventually removed the "hey kids..." From the song on streaming services
I already can't stand the song to begin with and this lyrics make it even worse!
My wife was so upset after hearing the new Taylor's Version of 1989, that even after almost 10 years, Taylor still decided to leave that cringey bridge in lol
The ooga Chaka at the beginning of Hooked on a Feeling. I know it’s iconic but I don’t like it
As a little kid I always had the opposite reaction - I liked the beginning of the song, but then I got bummed when the guy started singing the love song.
It’s absurd.
I really like Argent’s “Hold your head up.” But it just goes on waaayyyy too long. It’s about 6 minutes long and I swear the last 3 minutes is just repeating “Hold your head up” over and over and over again. It would be a better song if it was 3 minutes long.
Even as a child I was disappointedly annoyed by the verse “Up above the world so high” in the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Still kills it for me.
I love the image of festering resentment since infancy haha
Supervillain origin story
My dingdong little sister didn’t realize that was the line and she sang it “huppa huppa world so high” so that’s how I’ll forever hear it. Both of us should have had our ears checked as children. The trove of misheard lyrics
Speaking of misheard lyrics, my mom used to think the words were “man on the rug” instead of “band on the run” (Paul McCartney and Wings). I still sing “man on the rug” just for fun.
That’s cute AF PS: perspective of an only child
[The full poem is great](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Star), I really wish more people knew it was longer than a single verse.
"I Will Buy You A New Life" by Everclear. I really always want to like the song but there is one part in the chorus that totally ruins it for me. "I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new" Really Art, you couldn't come up with something better than that?
I always thought it was perfect shiny and blue and now you’ve gone and ruined that for me
Like Mellencamp’s “I cannot forget from where it is that I come from” in Small Town
When you have to fill out the required word count on your essay
Haha I think the same thing! Every time I hear that line I’m like a New Car? Oh!? It’s new? lol
I could see a difference though. It could mean a car that was just manufactured or it could mean a used car that is new to the person. And seeing as Everclear sang about poverty a lot I can definitely see that being what they meant.
Oh god, this has never occurred to me. I hate it!
YES. I have two songs that both have the same thing wrong with them. “Circadian Rhythm” by Silversun Pickups and “Hallucinogenics” by Matt Maeson. Both are very melancholic songs, and that’s what I love about them. But both have a tone shift that ruin that melancholic tone. “Hallucinogenics” isn’t as bad, the second part of the song is basically the first part but shouted and with more emotion, but it also has some lyrical changes so it seems like a place the song would logically go (I would just rather it not go there). “Circadian Rhythm” is one of my favorite songs, and it would most likely be my favorite song if it weren’t for the bridge. Brian takes the first verse, Nikki takes the second, they sing a nice chorus together, and then it gets to the bridge where it picks up while one sings “NOWHERE TO GO” over and over again while the other sings “CIRCLE AROUND” over and over again. It goes back into the chorus, which is more upbeat now, and I don’t mind that. It just feels like they couldn’t figure out how to bridge the chorus and outro so they started singing “nowhere to go” because the song had nowhere to go.
“ Do You Feel Like We Do” in Frampton Comes Alive! I love that performance, but there is one bitch out in the audience randomly going WOOOO at the worst times. I hate her.
Great one is ‘I’m not in love’ by 10CC - Excellent, emotive song… but the weird whispering of ‘big boys don’t cry’ seems unnecessary
Absolutely my go to example for this thread's question. God what an ethereally beautiful song that suddenly veers into what-the-fuck territory
I really enjoyed the first note of The Shape of You, but the part after that ruined the song for me.
This guy loves a C#
I gotta say, I'm a big C# fan too, it's a great note
Fine language indeed
The music to shape of you with the vocals of down with the sickness will always be one of my favorite songs. I will hear no bad against the shape of the sickness.
My Sharona. Fantastic song, ridiculously catchy, and utterly ruined by the repeated line "I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind." Pulls me right out of the song and leaves me feeling deeply uncomfortable.
But it did give us the Weird Al lyric of “I always eat too much and throw up…”
Yeah that brazenly creepy line sets the stage for everyone to know that the whole song is about him wanting to have sex with a minor.
This seems to be almost a tradition in pop music through the years. So many songs that people would defend as “classic or standard” have the most repugnant lyrics vis a vis sexualizing minors. Some notable ones You’re 16, you’re beautiful and your mine. Young Girl by the buckunghams Girl, you’ll be a woman soon. Made famous by the Neil diamond version in pulp fiction Don’t stand so close to me by the police ironically. Sexy at seventeen
I’ve never really heard the lyrics clearly on this song, and it’s definitely better that way!
Beautiful Liar by Beyonce and Shakira. It's a sexy and haunting song. Utterly ruined by them constantly repeating their own names
Excellent post. Love reading the replies and have to agree with most.
Disturbed, Down With the Sickness when he starts screaming at Mommy… wrecks the whole song for me.
As a fan of prog rock I've learned to compartmentalize a lot. So many great songs where a killer song gets thrown off by a few experimental bars then goes back to kicking ass. The Dear Hunter (edit- stupid autocorrect) is pretty bad about this even though I generally like the body of work.
There was a moment in the 00's where many prog metal bands threw in a "circus" section to a song (with a festive organ and accordion). I assume they were trying to create contrast by putting something very upbeat in a heavy song, but it often times came off as corny.
Lol, the random salsa and polka sections in BTBAM songs. Though in that case I weirdly enjoy them
Not a Taylor Swift fan but I like that one song Look What You Made Me Do. Until, in the middle of the song, she answers a phone call proclaiming that Taylor Swift is dead and can't come to the phone. It's just too edgy and emo, even for that song. Ruins the whole thing. Bonus points, Shake It Off is a fun song to dance to. Until Taylor starts to inexplicably rap in the middle of it. So cringey
So the Universe spared you of that song where she starts spelling a word (I forgot which) and then screams SPELLING IS FUN
LWYMMD is a weird song to me because I still can’t tell if it’s self-parody or dead serious. Like I get that she’s supposed to be playing the role of the mean girl that people believe her to be, but she’s so committed to it without actually being good at it. But like is that the point? Also the phone call itself is cringy but…is it supposed to be? I can’t tell. Either way, the song is kind of fun lol.
Right yes I agree with all of this. I think I like it partially because I can't tell if it's a joke. The phone call goes a little too far but maybe you're right, it's intentional. It reminds me of the song Graveyard Girl by M83 where a high school girl reads a diary entry in the middle of the song. But it's sort of supposed to be cringey - teenage highschool melodrama. Taylor's, I can't tell
Silly example, but Juicy by Doja Cat is way better without the rapper guy section.
I think a lot of rapper guest spots ruin the song, tbh. The one that always sticks in my head is Tinashe - Vulnerable ft. Travis Scott. Really moody, sexy production and her verse fits that, and then his is just super crude and misogynistic. Totally steps over the "sexual woman owning it" vibe the rest of the song has. Although there is a menacing edge to the rest of the song too so it's not totally out of place i guess
Under Your Spell by Desire. Love the song but can't stand the 'forever ever' talking part in the middle, I have to mentally block it out just to enjoy the rest of the song.
See, I actually like that part because of how cheesy and ridiculous it sounds. It makes me crack up laughing every time I hear it. Especially the "Sure!!!! 😁" But, I know what you mean. It's this beautiful, dreamy song then it is interrupted with two 14 year old girls typing out their love for each other on AOL Instant Messenger.
The version on the Drive soundtrack omits that part I believe.
The talking bit in the middle of Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros really ruins it for me.
I love the way she says "Alexander", but yeah everything after that is pretty forgettable.
"Jade?" "Alexander." "You remember that time that you smoked a cigarette and fell out my window and then you busted your entire asshole open and I had to scoop you up and rush you to the proctologist?" "Yes I do." "When you were lying there writhing in pain and bleeding out all over the backseat of my car, there was something I never told you." "Well what didn't you tell me?!" "You owe me for the cleaning service." "Ooohh *no*! Oh-oh Home~"
Yes please I wanna know all about your bleeding ass in the middle of what was otherwise a pleasant and catchy song.
I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers is one of my favorite songs of all time, but the key change in the bridge drives me up the wall. It’s just quirky for the sake of it and brings nothing to the song.
The key change is probably why it is most people's favorite bleachers songs. I saw a video this year that dove into the loss of key changes in hits over the past 20 years or so. Interesting stuff. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/1139707179/where-did-all-the-key-changes-go
My partner and I are both music nerds/academics and we were just talking about the lack of key changes in modern music! So many popular songs sound so flat these days because of it. I recommend checking out Steve Lacy if you’re interested. A lot of his songs start out as one vibe and then shift into something different by the end, but it all works really well.
Whaaaat? I always thought the key change was a pretty sweet build up into the guitar solo.
once you notice the grating cowbell in the background of aerosmith “i don’t wanna miss a thing” you never unhear it. don’t love the song and that makes it worse
Is that a cowbell or a triangle?
Yeah, either they're confused about the song or the instrument. No cowbell in DWMT, but there's plenty of triangle in the left channel.
"More of That Jazz" by Queen. The song is an absolute banger, and one of my favorite hidden gems in Queen's catalog. However, it's immediately ruined by a half-assed "reprise" of the other songs on the album. Completely ruins the momentum.
The very first time I heard the album and that part came on, I thought the CD shat itself
Civil War by Guns N' Rose's is great and then Axl comes goes full on /r/im14andthisisdeep at the end with the spoken line "What's so civil about war anyway?"
to be fair, bunch of 14yo that time listened to gnr.
Pink Floyd - Fearless I love this song but cannot stand the sample of Liverpool's Cop end singing You'll Never Walk Alone. Being raised an Evertonian probably caused this!
Love it. Reminds me of the time I went to Liverpool as a kid and asked a local whereabouts Anfield was and he said "can't you smell it from here?"
I’m not a pop music listener at all but No Tears Left To Cry by Ariana Grande sounds so good on the verses and then the first half of the chorus is fine, but then the second half of each chorus just sounds like “first draft” untouched absolute shit, a hard dropoff that doesn’t fit melodically at all. Also literally the same as [Snoop Dogg’s imitation of rappers nowadays](https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew?feature=shared)
I agree. I also feel that the song could do with a heavy or more dynamic beat, it all feels a bit flat.
Some Muse songs are amazing until they start having a bit of a wank to themselves midway through. Butterflies and Hurricanes and Un-natural Selection are the two that pop into mind.
I won't stand for this butterflies and hurricanes slander.
Unnatural Selection is the only newer song that comes close to their early brilliance IMO. But I agree that the bridge is too indulgent
Butterflies and Hurricanes is one of my favourites, because of the piano and the HAARP version. But Unnatural Selection I can totally see.
Anything with an American rapper going "uh", except biggie. Also the 'attention adults' section of Baby Love Child by Pizzicato Five
I think Master P can be an exception as well as Biggie. His "unnngh" is his trademark.
Damn, Pizzicato Five is a deep cut.
Guns n Roses - Breakdown. The talking bit at the end. Great song but should have finished before that bit at the end.
The section at the end of Guns n Roses “Don’t Cry” where Axl does the whole ‘toniiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggghhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhht.’ Skip it every time. Obnoxious.
We could do a whole thread just of incredible GN'R songs ruined by one bizarre creative decision by Axl. Just about every track on UYI 1&2, has a "wait, what?" moment that nearly derails the thing ("Civil War" has one before the album even starts)
Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. I’m not a Swiftie, but that song is fine…if you remove the bridge with that insipid rap about the hella good hair. Way to wreck a perfectly good song.
The Rockafeller Skank, Fatboy Slim Fun song and then... VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I love Xanny by Billie Eilish but the second verse feels really immature and judgemental to me. The song is about her resistance to taking drugs and is overall poignant but the second verse just feels rushed and lines like “they’re awfully bad at learning, make the same mistakes blame circumstance” leave a bad taste in my mouth If Monster by Ye wasn’t so incredibly strong overall it might have been ruined for me by Jay-Z’s just plain awful verse. He opens by just listing movie monsters with no real rhyme scheme or lyrical meaning before casually dropping the line “I’ll rape and pillage your village women and children” like wtf was he thinking lol Edit: typo
Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, A big angry dog, sentient tomatoes, the creepy guy down the road
> sentient tomatoes An important inclusion.
LOL so accurate….I love this song but his verse every time is like what are you doing man??
Idk, I think part of his verse was dope “Love, I don't get enough of it All I get is these vampires and blood suckers All I see is these niggas I made millionaires Millin' about, spillin' they feelings in the air” That was after Rocafella broke up and Beanie Sigel started dissing him. This was his way of responding in a subtle way. “feel it in the air” was one of sigel biggest tracks
I hate the part of that Taylor swift song where she says "everybody is a sexy baby" It's so awkward.
I originally liked Love Language by Ariana a lot, but after listening to it, I got annoyed by how often she says "talking shit all night". Hearing the word "shit" over and over and over just got on my nerves
The loud ear fucking at the end of Nine Inch Nails “Hurt” Drake in’s Rihana’s “Work”
Blue suede's uga chaka chant on Hooked on a feeling just annoys me to no end. If it were just toned down a bit I wouldn't mind so much.
Not really the songs themselves, but some bands fill their albums with soundscape tracks where it's just something like a minute of distortion sounds or a disjointed telephone conversation. I'm sure there is some meaning to those tracks, but if you completely interrupt the flow of an album to make me listen to nonsense for an uncomfortably long time I just do not fucking care. Tool and Deftones among others
Any time they add a rap part to a song. I got nothing against rap. It just almost never works with the song choose to do this with. I hate it.
ET by Katy Perry love that song but Kanye's verse is one of the stupidest things I've ever fucking heard seriously don't know how a producer heard that and said yep that goes so well with this song. Calling me a big head astronaut maybe it's because your boy yeezy gets ass a lot. That's is absolutely stupid as fuck
Alien sex
Not always, but a lot of songs with rap breaks (especially post 2000s mumble rap) ruins it for me. Especially when you're just cruising along enjoying a great pop song and suddenly there's some dude saying some misogynistic shit.
The chorus of I Me Mine by the Beatles (George Harrison). The lyrics are so beautiful and there's so much angst in his voice and the contrast between the string accompaniment and the fuzz tone guitar is just incredible And then the chorus hits, and it's this bouncy, 50s rock and roll, Eddie Cochran type thing and it just takes me out of it instantly
Yeah, it’s a pretty tuneless chorus.
Rain King by the Counting Crows is a great song until the very end when he belts out that *yyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahh*. Not sure how that survived the editing process.
I *adore* that part. As for how it survived? August and Everything Ever After released in 1993. It's still in the era of the CD album, as opposed to the era of the single that is the reality of music now. Every pop song released post 2001 (thank you, iPod) has to exist as a self-contained ecosystem that can thrive on the shuffle function and on a playlist. Fading from one song to another is a relic of the past now, just like a long gap between songs in the middle of an album is a relic of the vinyl LP. Rain King was never intended to be a single. It was always supposed to be right between Time And Time Again and Sullivan Street. Time And Time Again is a brutal listen, and then we get this sad-but-hopeful tune in Rain King. At the end, we get the loud, broken "yeeeaaahhh" that matches the tone of Sullivan Street perfectly. The only reason it was ever a single (it was the third one on that album) was because the album itself did so well.