jerriblank
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Post by jerriblank on Apr 11, 2007 18:06:52 GMT
Can I please nominate Fergie's Glamorous for the following:
"I still go to Taco Bell Drive through, raw as hell"
Or perhaps:
"Brother gotta keep enough lettuce To support your shoe fetish"
Any others that can top these?
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 11, 2007 19:49:23 GMT
Nothing can surely beat
AM, FM, all that jazz We'd rather sing along with Yazz
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Post by Lita on Apr 12, 2007 8:57:04 GMT
Nothing can surely beat AM, FM, all that jazz We'd rather sing along with Yazz They were playing that in the duty free perfume shop at heathrow on Tuesday. Not exactly the sort of soundtrack you normally expect to hear alongside Dior, Gucci and co.
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Post by booers on Apr 12, 2007 11:52:25 GMT
I heard Boy Krazy's "That's What Love Can Do" whilst buying cinema tickets at Bluewater a few weeks ago. I thought that was a slightly obscure song to play seeing as how it was never a big hit in the UK.
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Post by coxy1979 on Apr 12, 2007 13:24:14 GMT
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Post by Steven on Apr 12, 2007 14:59:15 GMT
I don't find anything wrong with the actual lyrics to that song. It's her inability to pronounce "hyperbole" correctly that bothers me.
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Post by coxy1979 on Apr 12, 2007 15:09:05 GMT
Yes the hyperbole pronunciation bothers me, as does the A-D-D bit.
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 12, 2007 22:12:53 GMT
I like These Words. At least she's saying something interesting and original.
And I think "sometimes the snow comes down in june, sometimes the sun goes round the moon" is the laziest songwriting ever. We should have a Save The Best For Last lyric rewrite competition.
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Post by jode* on Apr 13, 2007 8:29:03 GMT
What about Desree - Life?
I don't want to see a ghost, It's a sight that I fear most, I'd rather have a piece of toast(!) And watch the evening news.
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Post by Steven on Apr 13, 2007 11:28:34 GMT
See, I was told that that song was written because so many people had said how "deep" her first album was, so she deliberately set out to write as vacuous a song as possible as a bit of a joke. Only it backfired.
My vote for worst song lyric ever has to go to 'My Humps', I think:
I met a girl, down at the disco She said "Hey, hey, hey, yeah let's go"
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jerriblank
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Post by jerriblank on Apr 13, 2007 12:48:31 GMT
Oh I forgot Sandi Thom's classic:
"When accountants didn't have control And the media couldn't buy your soul And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything"
*throws brick through stereo*
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 13, 2007 12:59:23 GMT
I'll get kicked out for it, but ABBA had some disastrous lyrics at times. Since they were writing in a second language, they get a concession that Fergie will never have, but really...
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice Well, now it isn't true
Goodbye, karma points!
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Post by zaffra on Apr 13, 2007 13:54:28 GMT
I'll get kicked out for it, but ABBA had some disastrous lyrics at times. Since they were writing in a second language, they get a concession that Fergie will never have, but really... And I'm possessive, it isn't nice You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice Well, now it isn't trueGoodbye, karma points! What's wrong with that? But some of their other, for example: I can hear how you work, practising hard Playing night and day, woah-oh And it sounds better now Yes, you improve every time you play, woah-oh But it's bad You're so sad And you're only smiling When you play your violin
Dum-dum-diddle, to be your fiddle To be so near you and not just hear you Dum-dum-diddle, to be your fiddle I think then maybe you'd see me, baby
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Post by thelovelykate on Apr 13, 2007 15:03:54 GMT
My vote for worst song lyric ever has to go to 'My Humps', I think: I met a girl, down at the disco She said "Hey, hey, hey, yeah let's go"As soon as I read that it reminded me of that rubbish song that Wycelf had a couple of years ago. It was about being in love with a stripper and contained the immortal lines: Just cause she dances go-go That don't make her a ho, no
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Post by Steven on Apr 13, 2007 19:22:51 GMT
Don't forget:
We're gonna e-e-elope To Me-e-exico
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Post by somethingbiblical on Apr 13, 2007 23:30:54 GMT
"When you rolled up in the Escalade Saw the dub you gave to the valet Knew that it was game when you looked at me Pulling up your sleeve so I could see the Rolley bling"
Not to mention the abominable "If I wanna floss I've got my own"
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Post by Tacye Marley on Apr 14, 2007 14:21:37 GMT
'I asked you to dance at the disco But you said no'
Well quite, if come out with stuff like : 'You're so fit And you know it'
I really hated Busted.
Also, my ex used to think The Killers were his life and announced that 'Smile like you mean it' was 'about me'. Fucker. No song with the lyrics 'Boy, someday you'll be a man/ Girl, someday you'll understand' will EVER be about me.
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Post by [james] on Apr 15, 2007 8:14:17 GMT
Oh I forgot Sandi Thom's classic: "When accountants didn't have control And the media couldn't buy your soul And computers were still scary and we didn’t know everything" *throws brick through stereo* It's not even vaguely accurate. My Dad has no control, the media is yet to make me a substantial offer for my soul, my laptop is my friend and we most definately don't know everything. Fuck off back to your basement, wench!
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Post by klee on Apr 15, 2007 12:30:06 GMT
See, I was told that that song was written because so many people had said how "deep" her first album was, so she deliberately set out to write as vacuous a song as possible as a bit of a joke. Only it backfired. See, I'd believe that if she hadn't demonstrated such complete lyric writing ineptitude from the word go. You Gotta Be was a nauseating pseudo-empowerment anthem. NOTHING, however, tops her song about the Zodiac which makes me want to bite through my own hand whenever I hear it.... See that man over there? He's a Leo, check his hair.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!
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Post by al on Apr 17, 2007 11:44:19 GMT
I'm so glad both Des'ree and Sandi Thom have already been mentioned. They truly are Satan's own songsmiths.
As a total grammar snob, I've always hated the lyric "a few questions that I need to know" in All Saints' Never Ever.
And, much as I adore Melanie C, special mention must go to the lyric "I couldn't live without my phone, but you don't even have a home". So utterly ham-fisted.
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Post by [james] on Apr 17, 2007 12:38:18 GMT
Pretty much every line in Phil Collins' Another Day In Paradise makes me die on the inside.
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Post by Lisa on Apr 17, 2007 12:49:42 GMT
Shakira: " Lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains"
I don't believe that Shakira's love interest would ever have confused big breasts with mountains... what sort of a fool was he?!
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Post by somethingbiblical on Apr 17, 2007 15:57:21 GMT
oh noooo, Whenever Wherever has fantastic lyrics!!
"Baby I would climb the Andes solely To count the freckles on your body"
"Thereover, hereunder You'll never have to wonder"
Genius! Seriously!
However, the last part of Objection's "But you can try it, rehearse it, or train like a horse" is questionable.
In Hips Don't Lie, it's Wyclef's contribution that makes me want to throw bricks:
"She's so sexy, every man's fantasy, a refugee like me Back with the Fugees from a third world country I go back like when 'pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty We need a whole club dizzy Why the CIA wanna watch us? Colombians and Haitians I ain't guilty, it's a musical transaction *Unintelligible*, no more do we snatch ropes Refugees run the seas 'cause we own our own boats"
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Post by [james] on Apr 18, 2007 2:27:29 GMT
It's good that you're enraged by Wycelf's rap but somehow missed the fact she's singing about the fact her hips don't lie. They're hips! Of course they don't lie, they just stick out, you silly tiny-bosomed warbler.
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Post by coxy1979 on Apr 18, 2007 8:24:45 GMT
Hips Don't Lie?
Tell that to Michelle McManus! (sorry)
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