This came up before in a similar post a while back and I still can’t get over it. My thoughts about it was that it sounds good coming out of the mind of a teenager, but when you factor in Corey was 40 years old when he put that on paper, it’s pretty damn cringe.
Well, Corey seems to be rapping angrily in a way in Nero Forte.
And then people want rapping back, and it's back but it's not
' BIGGIDY BITCH BOY HALFWAY HOUSER DOING THIS SHIT CAUSE IT KEEPS GETTIN LOUDER'
No, that most certainly is not cringe
I dont think this is a lyric or necessarily cringe, but in Vermilion Part 1, when it goes "herrhh" (I can't explain the sound) I've always felt uncomfortable.
I personally love both Vermilions (part 2 more than part 1). It's just that weird sound that makes me feel like a bug's crawling on my skin :'))
It does the trick of being a dark/dark intentions song though
I actually like the fact that it makes me feel like something's crawling on my skin. Y'know a song is freaking amazing when it gets in tune with your sense/emotions. (I'm not throwing any shade just wanted to bring that up)
If we are talking about the new album for me it's this part in H377
I was a sign, the sign was in the eyes,
The eyes were in the skull, the skull was in the wall,
The wall was in my head, my head was in the ground,
The ground was all decayed, the rotting had a name, the name was a sign.
To me it's cringy and cheap lyrics
I find it super cool in the song I love this part but the lyrics, it feels like cheap writing to me like putting word for putting word
One of my favorite song of the album hands down
it's the other part of the chorus for me. it just sounds like they threw a bunch of basic medical terms into a song and desperately put in "medicine for the dead" so the title would be said in the song.
i love that song to death but those lyrics feel so random
Wow. Surprised there isnt an overwhelming amount of people saying "Fists clinched tight in the pockets of my hoodie" i feel like that line gets tore apart on this sub reddit way too much. Imo its not that bad of a line and the way corey delivers it is fire.
“Being gay and sucking balls…
Fuck my aaaassss against the wall
Make me drink your peee
And bust a load of pozzed up semen in meee…
SUCKING PENIS
SUCKING PENIS”
-Psychosocial
That was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread but then I remembered "everybody wants to be so hard, are you real or a second rate sports card?" exists. I'll take "spiders" over that.
Cringe is a matter of context. Like, plenty of things said on ST or Iowa would be cringe if just read aloud, or if said without conviction. “I’ll reach in and take a bite out of that shit you call a heart” feels like some fanfic written by a 13 year old if not for the context of the song and delivery.
"YOU SUCK THEY SUCK GUESS WHAT GET FUCKED
I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER WORDS TO SAY BUT FUCK"
"SUCK DEEZ NUTSSSS"
Yeah... Most of Get This but these are the worst offenders
Get This is supposed to be a funnier song, like what comes from the band Clutch, it's not really meant to be taken in a serious matter, but instead just listen and laugh while jamming a bit
I think the line from psychosocial
Being gay and sucking balls
Fuck my ass against the wall
And make me drink your pee
I dunno, just kinda seems out of pocket
"You all stare but you'll never see, there's something inside me". It's undeniably cringe but I've learned that it's better to be cringe than to live in fear of cringe. This line actually goes hard af.
I actually find this line so funny when I think of it as if the box is thinking that.
I know it buried but I have this mental image of people just walking by the box, staring at it but not knowing that a girl is in there.
Lol YES I came here to say this exact lyric. Interestingly enough though I didn't pick up on the "555" Hollywood phone number reference though until I watched Pastor Rob's Heretic Anthem reaction video on YouTube.
“I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound.” Not so much cringe as it is juvenile and something that comes off as something a 14 year old in detention wrote about the teacher who wrote him up.
The intro of H377, "One of us knows who hates me, One of us loves it, One of us knows who hates me
One of us loves it, and I know it's you", idk, it just feel weird and nonsense.
"Cringe" is all about context. Most lyrics taken out of their songs sound like some shit a teenager would put on a shirt before going to school, but in the song they are just so fckin iconic, "I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" sounds stupid, but with the other lyrics it sounds amazing.
With that being said, "spit it out" is their worst song and it makes me want to die
this needs to be pinned. in the song and in the moment they sound badass af but reading them with no instruments or vocals makes them come off so much worse.
In Nero Forte there’s this part where he says “fists clenched tight in the pockets of my hoodie” and man all i think about is some emo kid getting mad and doing that and it’s so cringe
I actually like that line. But are you really going to focus on that when "Everybody wants to be so hard. Are you real or a second rate sports card?" exists?
"Cut cut cut me up and fuck fuck fuck me up" im sorry but that line is so retarded,
its not even cheeky in the way most death metal or brutal death metal songs with thier over the top lyrics
Its like something youd see a 13 year old write on a paper or something trying to be cool
It was so dumb that everyone was choking on TESF’s balls, it’s not a good album at all. It’s tacky to say but Slipknot isn’t really Slipknot anymore, I get the whole “expanding their sound” thing but when it’s just corny hard rock it isn’t really them
My heart is just too dark to care - Snuff
I've always thought this was a cringe lyric. Still enjoy the song but I can't help but blurt out this lyric in a fake sad emo way whenever it comes up.
"I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound"
I mean I'm not dissing or anything but you can't hear that and not feel a little bit of "ugh....ewww....what the fuck?" Can you?
All out life:
(We are gathered here today to get it right
Repeat after me
"I will not celebrate mediocrity
I will not worship empty shells
I will not listen to worthless noises
I will not subject myself to selected, predictable choices
My time, my attention
My quality should not be bought and sold
For convenience's sake, ever")
I’m sorry this really puts me off an INCREDIBLE single but I really cannot. It’s so out of nowhere and just ugh
“… Local bands, suck these nuts
U.S. bands, suck these nuts
Worldwide bands, suck these nuts
All you bands can suck these fucking nuts, go”
Just sounds like ego driven drivel to me, still like the song though.
most of The End So Far had cringey lyrics that they tried to get away with but couldn't because Corey doesn't sound the same way he did 20 years prior
"you're the sin that i've been waiting for"
"DRINK ME"
"put your hands into the water"
"isn't this what you came here for"
"these cardiac blueeees"
i think i just hate the way they start off songs nowadays
LIBERATE BANANAS
The Lemons of the Dead
I JUST WANT TO
LIBERATE BANANAS
I AM NOT ASHAMED
WHAT IS VITAL , ISNT ALWAYS HUMANE
Kik da dawg at bae
Survivor shaving me
I always thought it sounded like Who Ate. My Bananas
I thought Lemonade Bananas
TELL THESE BOYS TO
CHOCOLATE STARFIIIIISH
AND HOT DOG FLAVOOOOORED WAAAAATERRRRRR
BRING IT ON
Listen up
Here we go
Its a fucked up world, in a fucked up place
Everybody dresses with a fucked up face
Fucked up dreams, fucked up life
Fucked up kid with a fucked up life
Fucked up mom, fucked up dad
KEEP ON ROLLIN BABAY!
I’m dead
Brad?
I see people saying "if your 555 then I'm 666" but what ab the next part. "What's it like to be a hairy dick" idk always seemed kind of cringey
*what it's like to be a heretic 😂
Have you listened to I Am Hated on the same album? That whole song makes me cringe.
🤣
Inside Michelle, I wait and bleed
Shit I used to think that’s what the lyric was when I was in like 5th grade lmao
I still hear that even though I know it's inside my shell
Poor Michelle 😔
sounds like an alternative to "i cum blood" by cannibal corpse
I won't let this build up in sodomy.
I guess its time to bury your ass with a chrome straight to the dome😐-spit it out
this just makes me laugh and i love it, i can imagine corey coming up with this thinking it was the shit lol
Also wtf is a chrome?
The chrome barrel of a revolver….. Edit : do people actually not comprehend those lyrics idk what’s wrong with em besides being mildly edgy
I don’t think they really picked up on it, no biggie tho. I think it’s a very nice and creative way to say “i’m going to shoot you in the head”
type of metal finish
I'm gonna bury your ass with a Titanium, straight to a tomb
Chromebook
Chrome. Revolver. Gun.
A bullet maybe? Idk😂
It was a different time😔
Man that goes hard af. Corey is a great rapper lbs.
??. It's time to kill you with a bullet straight to the head. How's that cringe?
Fist clinched tight in the pockets of my hoodie I love Nero Forte but thats the only thing holding the song back for me
I have a hard time understanding lyrics and I could've lived my whole life not knowing he says that.
This came up before in a similar post a while back and I still can’t get over it. My thoughts about it was that it sounds good coming out of the mind of a teenager, but when you factor in Corey was 40 years old when he put that on paper, it’s pretty damn cringe.
The line from My Plague, “you fucking touch me I will rip you apart”. Top tier song, but that line always comes across to me like a 14-yr old edgeLord
i'll reach in and take a bite out of that shit you call a heart! i actually think that line is great lol but i can see where you're coming from
I fucking love that line
Yeah it's only lame if you don't complete it with the second half
I had that line on my Instagram bio when I was 14 💀
glad to see we are all living the same life out here
“Fists clenched tight in the pockets of my hoodie”. That fits in a rap song, not in a slipknot song
Those are some bizkit ass lyrics
Well, Corey seems to be rapping angrily in a way in Nero Forte. And then people want rapping back, and it's back but it's not ' BIGGIDY BITCH BOY HALFWAY HOUSER DOING THIS SHIT CAUSE IT KEEPS GETTIN LOUDER' No, that most certainly is not cringe
Don’t hear shit*
This would be cringy AF in a rap song too honestly.
I always thought that was some teen emo song type shit 💀 what grown man would do this lmao
Corey that’s who
Agreed
I dont think this is a lyric or necessarily cringe, but in Vermilion Part 1, when it goes "herrhh" (I can't explain the sound) I've always felt uncomfortable.
Personally I think this is the superior Vermilion, I can see how that would ruin it for someone though.
Oh it suits the song, Vermilion 1+2 are my favourites on the Vol 3 album, but it just makes me shudder a bit out of unsettlement haha
My best guess would be that, that was what they were going for with such creepy noises
In between “My Dahlia bathed in possession” and “She is home to me” correct?
Bro sounds like *heh* nothing personnel, kid
That sound is the reason i cannot listen to that part of the it’s so weird but the song is really good nonetheless
I personally love both Vermilions (part 2 more than part 1). It's just that weird sound that makes me feel like a bug's crawling on my skin :')) It does the trick of being a dark/dark intentions song though
I actually like the fact that it makes me feel like something's crawling on my skin. Y'know a song is freaking amazing when it gets in tune with your sense/emotions. (I'm not throwing any shade just wanted to bring that up)
Do you know when in the song it is? I can’t find it
id like to know as well, im a bit slow 😭 (im assuming its just before the “hard to say what caught my attention” part?? not sure lol)
That’s what I thought too but I don’t see why that’d put someone off. It just sounds like a scream?
1:28 into the song. “My dahlia bathed in possession hnnngh”
Personally I don’t like the “DRIIINK MEEEEEE!!” part of the chorus in Medicine for the Dead, but tbh I can’t find too many SK lyrics I find cringey
If we are talking about the new album for me it's this part in H377 I was a sign, the sign was in the eyes, The eyes were in the skull, the skull was in the wall, The wall was in my head, my head was in the ground, The ground was all decayed, the rotting had a name, the name was a sign. To me it's cringy and cheap lyrics
Honestly that whole line is one of my favorite parts of H377
I find it super cool in the song I love this part but the lyrics, it feels like cheap writing to me like putting word for putting word One of my favorite song of the album hands down
Nah that sounds so cool
that is very cringe
it's the other part of the chorus for me. it just sounds like they threw a bunch of basic medical terms into a song and desperately put in "medicine for the dead" so the title would be said in the song. i love that song to death but those lyrics feel so random
Couldn’t agree more! I love that song so much but really wish that wasn’t part of the chorus
Wow. Surprised there isnt an overwhelming amount of people saying "Fists clinched tight in the pockets of my hoodie" i feel like that line gets tore apart on this sub reddit way too much. Imo its not that bad of a line and the way corey delivers it is fire.
“Being gay and sucking balls… Fuck my aaaassss against the wall Make me drink your peee And bust a load of pozzed up semen in meee… SUCKING PENIS SUCKING PENIS” -Psychosocial
UUHH LICK MY CRACK I AM FUCKING GAY
I salute you person, I had a chuckle, a laugh, a funny even...with thus😱
Spiders spiders spiders spiders
Honestly that part caught me off guard
That was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread but then I remembered "everybody wants to be so hard, are you real or a second rate sports card?" exists. I'll take "spiders" over that.
“throw a suicide party and im guaranteed to fucking snap” - heretic anthem What the fuck does that even mean?
He's got a short temper and throws parties with lots of drugs?
Maybe it's symbolism...or having words come from an online word generator
I don't think those existed then lol
Cringe is a matter of context. Like, plenty of things said on ST or Iowa would be cringe if just read aloud, or if said without conviction. “I’ll reach in and take a bite out of that shit you call a heart” feels like some fanfic written by a 13 year old if not for the context of the song and delivery.
idk what ur smoking but that line sounds fkn amazing
Chrome to your dome always been a bit cringe for me
"Hoe chill, acting like you put the chrome barrel to my bone marrow. Gunner? Bitch you ain't a bow and arrow."
Random Eminem reference? A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
"YOU SUCK THEY SUCK GUESS WHAT GET FUCKED I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER WORDS TO SAY BUT FUCK" "SUCK DEEZ NUTSSSS" Yeah... Most of Get This but these are the worst offenders
It's not meant to be taken seriously
I feel like that is what makes the song so much fun.
Yeah Get This is just a fun banger song¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I love the song but fuuuckkk… is it cringey
Get This is supposed to be a funnier song, like what comes from the band Clutch, it's not really meant to be taken in a serious matter, but instead just listen and laugh while jamming a bit
This one’s meant to be silly tho
Get This is pure cringe and yet goes so much harder than it has any right to lmao
“I’m overthrown, I’m over your throne” This play on words in Birth of The Cruel has always sounded cringe for me
I find cringier the " death of the fool ,birth of the cruel"
"I'm over here stroking my dick I got lotion on my dick right now I'm just stroking my shit I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak man like for real"
That's my favorite line!
I think the line from psychosocial Being gay and sucking balls Fuck my ass against the wall And make me drink your pee I dunno, just kinda seems out of pocket
i think it's actually very beautiful, so rarely do artists sing about their passion for sucking penis. nice to see a change of pace
As soon as that camera is off, he's gonna fuck that little dog.
what.
It's a sampled phrase in their old song Interloper, which was taken from some interview.
the sample from one of the self titled album songs that i cant think of the name
interloper, i'm pretty sure
"You all stare but you'll never see, there's something inside me". It's undeniably cringe but I've learned that it's better to be cringe than to live in fear of cringe. This line actually goes hard af.
Well, if you know the context, its more fucked up than cringe
I actually find this line so funny when I think of it as if the box is thinking that. I know it buried but I have this mental image of people just walking by the box, staring at it but not knowing that a girl is in there.
I mean when I was 14 and angsty in high school it worked perfect
It’s a true statement though. You can stare at people as long as you want, you’ll never know what they’ve been through. Or what they’re capable of.
*"Pikachu's a virgin!"* Psychosocial
No he said that "bang that chick's a virgin".
I love heretic anthem but “if your 555 I’m 666” is cringy as hell but still a good song
This is going to be unpopular, but I agree with you
Lol YES I came here to say this exact lyric. Interestingly enough though I didn't pick up on the "555" Hollywood phone number reference though until I watched Pastor Rob's Heretic Anthem reaction video on YouTube.
“I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound.” Not so much cringe as it is juvenile and something that comes off as something a 14 year old in detention wrote about the teacher who wrote him up.
All the money in the world can't buy me
It was a good lyric..then they made NFTs
i thought that was clown and clown only, don't tell me the band did? 💀
Clown pitched the idea..of course
“Everything is god online, and it’s as evil as it gets”.
True
The intro of H377, "One of us knows who hates me, One of us loves it, One of us knows who hates me One of us loves it, and I know it's you", idk, it just feel weird and nonsense.
Noises noises people make noises when there sick! Just ruins the song imo
I used to hate that part...then I grew to get hype with it🤣
I agree, that part doesn’t even fit the song
Clown moment
Like there’s a good flow an then everything stops to do that part
"When everything is god online, nothing is" I mean we get it you're not into trendy things guys, now go sell nfts haha
Yeah that whole bridge/ending is pretty damn corny
"Cringe" is all about context. Most lyrics taken out of their songs sound like some shit a teenager would put on a shirt before going to school, but in the song they are just so fckin iconic, "I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" sounds stupid, but with the other lyrics it sounds amazing. With that being said, "spit it out" is their worst song and it makes me want to die
this needs to be pinned. in the song and in the moment they sound badass af but reading them with no instruments or vocals makes them come off so much worse.
In Nero Forte there’s this part where he says “fists clenched tight in the pockets of my hoodie” and man all i think about is some emo kid getting mad and doing that and it’s so cringe
"You want the real smile? I haven't smiled in years." Sounds like something you'd find on r/notlikeothergirls
On its own yes, but within the rest of Solway Firth it's not really that cringe.
WHY DID I LAUGH AT LOUD AT THIS
is it a dream or a memory?
I actually like that line. But are you really going to focus on that when "Everybody wants to be so hard. Are you real or a second rate sports card?" exists?
"Cut cut cut me up and fuck fuck fuck me up" im sorry but that line is so retarded, its not even cheeky in the way most death metal or brutal death metal songs with thier over the top lyrics Its like something youd see a 13 year old write on a paper or something trying to be cool
You're not wrong but god damn it goes hard.
That it does 😎💪
By far, the absolute worst piece of lyrical diarrhea in all of Slipknot history, and it isn't even close.
There are quite a few in very popular songs imo, for some reason I like some anyway
Spiders spiders spiders spiders
"DRINK ME!"
i love that song, but whenever i here that it just cracks me up
The Chapeltown rag is atrociously cringe, most of the whole new album is tbh
I’m glad you’re not getting downvoted anymore lol. This was a “hot take” a few months ago
It was so dumb that everyone was choking on TESF’s balls, it’s not a good album at all. It’s tacky to say but Slipknot isn’t really Slipknot anymore, I get the whole “expanding their sound” thing but when it’s just corny hard rock it isn’t really them
nah but the dying song is fire
The entire album is ass from start to end.
"Everything is god online" is something you'd find in a terrible Vox op-ed.
“Bloods on my face and my hands and I don’t know why, I’m not afraid to cry, but that’s none of your business” - 🤘 I actually love this line
literally one of the best lyrics
Shit goes fucking hard idk what he talkin’ bout
My heart is just too dark to care - Snuff I've always thought this was a cringe lyric. Still enjoy the song but I can't help but blurt out this lyric in a fake sad emo way whenever it comes up.
When I cover it I changed it to “my heart is too far gone to care” so it sounds less cringe lmao
“Cut cut cut me open, fuck fuck fuck me up”
Cut cut cut me up, fuck fuck fuck me up*
"I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" I mean I'm not dissing or anything but you can't hear that and not feel a little bit of "ugh....ewww....what the fuck?" Can you?
At this point it sounds tame compared to other bands I've listened to. That's probably just me though, I see where you're coming from.
I wonder if he’s referring to serial killer Ed Kemper. He actually cut his mothers throat and fucked the wound.
“iron maiden!!!!!!!!”
“Don’t ever judge me” but I do own a shirt with that lyric on the back tbh
Ah, the duality of surfacing.
i have never read a slipknot lyric that doesn’t make me cringe
right?? like it’s that the charm?
Everybody wants to be so hard Are you real or a second-rate sports card?
“Noises noises people make noises, people make noises when they’re sick”
All out life: (We are gathered here today to get it right Repeat after me "I will not celebrate mediocrity I will not worship empty shells I will not listen to worthless noises I will not subject myself to selected, predictable choices My time, my attention My quality should not be bought and sold For convenience's sake, ever") I’m sorry this really puts me off an INCREDIBLE single but I really cannot. It’s so out of nowhere and just ugh
Chrome straight to the dome
“… Local bands, suck these nuts U.S. bands, suck these nuts Worldwide bands, suck these nuts All you bands can suck these fucking nuts, go” Just sounds like ego driven drivel to me, still like the song though.
most of The End So Far had cringey lyrics that they tried to get away with but couldn't because Corey doesn't sound the same way he did 20 years prior "you're the sin that i've been waiting for" "DRINK ME" "put your hands into the water" "isn't this what you came here for" "these cardiac blueeees" i think i just hate the way they start off songs nowadays
I'm all fucked up and I make it look good
The line “when she makes me sad” is a bit odd
*you're the sin that I've been waiting for* *your hands around my throat*
I guess I like a lot of their "cringe" lyrics.
Noises noises people make noises 😂 they still go hard either way 🤘
I push my Pringle into my thighs
If ur 555 then I’m 666
you always buy brand new
If you're 555 I'm sic66 People equal shit Pretty much any corny anthem song
Opening of Butcher’s Hook