List Five Really Bad Songs

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 10-27-2025, 06:21 PM

It's not the musical repetition, after all that's what a verse-chorus song always does. It's the lyrical repetition. The main lyric is repeated four times! I mean, c'mon if you have 4 verses or choruses you should be able to come up with 4 sets of lyrics:

https://genius.com/Wham-last-christmas-lyrics

Quote:

ONE - Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away (You gave it away)
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (Special)

TWO - Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (Special, oh)
Oh, oh, baby

THIS IS THE ONLY VERSE - A crowded room, friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
My God, I thought you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on
A face-on lover with a fire in his heart
A man undercover, but you tore me apart
Ooh-ooh
Now I've found a real love, you'll never fool me again

THREE - Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away (You gave it away)
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (Special)

FOUR - Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away (You gave me away)
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special (Special)

The main problem with the song is that the main lyric is the "chorus" which repeats four times and there's only one verse! What a stupid and annoying arrangement for a song.

jadis · 10-28-2025, 03:38 AM

Interesting how people are sensitive to different things. Hadn't occurred to me that lyrics can matter that much in a pop song but hey why not?

DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 10-28-2025, 05:38 PM

Normally to me they don't matter much, but when they're repetitive like that it's hard to ignore and is really annoying.

Psy-Fi · 11-05-2025, 08:53 AM

Here are another five that I thought of...

Peter Frampton - I'm in You

Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed

Various Artists - We Are the World

Various Artists - Do They Know It's Christmas?

Drjohnrock · 11-05-2025, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Here are another five that I thought of...

Peter Frampton - I'm in You

Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed

Various Artists - We Are the World

Various Artists - Do They Know It's Christmas?

Those are definitely really bad. Frampton lost me after he left Humble Pie. And the last good Steve Miller album was The Joker. The cutesy pop crap he has done since thin might have fattened his wallet but it's still cutesy pop crap

jadis · 11-05-2025, 12:15 PM

Various Artists is always garbage. That cover of Perfect Day with Bowie and Bono and all the rest was AWFUL

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