Songs You Hate
 

Simple. Which songs do you hate and why?

I was reading the "favourite love song" thread this morning and realized that most of the songs I hate appear to be over there. Here's one: "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand.

Why do I hate this song? Because the song sounds too syrupy sweet and the description of love too glowing, self-satisfied and cliche. "You and I will make each night a first, ev'ry day a beginning." Oh, please. If a love song about sleeping doesn't include snoring and morning breath, then it's overly romanticized. "Love soft as an easy chair." Even easy chairs get uncomfortable sometimes.

Now, I may just be having a jaded moment, but I feel irritated by the swelling euphoria Streisand sails on in this song that intentionally ignores the negative aspects of love tsunamis. I understand the song is meant to portray only the positive experiences of love, yet I feel it goes overboard in its adulation of the loving relationship described. Plus, I don't like her voice.

The pictures in the video were nice, though. :)

Every time I hear this song I puke a little. I don't know why, it's just like that. Whenever I hear it I just wish to inflict horrible pain on whoever is responsible for it

Lowest abyss of musical idiocy:



EXTREMELY bad nasally singing, unoriginal acoustic acoustic guitar riffs, unnecessarily irritating ukulele, meaningless feel good love lyrics that sound like they're written by a toddler, repetitive as all Hell. Absolute worst case scenario of the worst of pop.

Whitney Houston—"I Will Always Love You"
This atrocity is one of the best selling singles of all time and back in 1992 it was everywhere. You couldn't escape it. That's annoying no matter what the song but in this case it was especially unbearable. This song is pretty much the template for everything I hate about this kind of music: absurdly overwrought vocals, deadly dull instrumentation, sappy lyrics and coma-inducing production.

I have to agree with that Sean Kingston song. I hate his version/rendition of that song. I love the song he sampled but not the way he executes it.

I disagree with that Plain White Ts song. I have wanted to learn it on acoustic. It is a definite panty dropper.

The song that I hate actually gets a lot of play on my Zune. I really hate that the beat is as catchy as it is.




The main reason I hate it is because it's basically telling girls that they should get on their knees and give blowjobs with no hands. Stupid girls are up in the club dancing to this song not even knowing what he's talking about!:crazy:

Another thing, I just don't want women to think that guys actually like blowjobs with no hands. It's stupid and crap that you see in pornos from time to time.

whoa...on the other hand! I love this cover!

Any new rap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate autotune!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

any song from Hillary Duff or Miley Cyrus or Justin Beiber...i hate it so much!!!

represents all that is bad about synth-pop:- plodding rhythms, bombastic production, horrendous melody, taking themselves too seriusly

It's amazing how much energy the guitar player is putting into his body movements for the fact he's strumming once every 3 minutes.

you see, when I was younger (like, eight) Big Wreck's Mistake was my favourite song, and then, I tried searching up the song on youtube and guess what? Nickelback covered it, and they did an awful job at it. They removed everything that made the song decent and replaced it with awfulness. The cover even made me hate the song for years.
The original:


what nickelback did to it:

I'm not going to link my hated songs, mainly because I don't want your ears to bleed.

"Beautiful Soul"-It's so schmaltzy. The annoying synths agitate the crap out of me, and Jesse's singing makes me want to punch a baby.

"Hey, Soul Sister"-It doesn't help that my older brother loves this song. The vocals are nasally as ****, and the lyrics are so vapid.

"Anime"-Soulja Boi, you suck. The lyrics are atrocious, and the composition of the song sucks. I can't even find the song anymore.

"Freaxx"-Where do I begin? The screams are half-hearted and misplaced, the singing is so Autotuned it bugs me. And I don't mind AutoTune if you don't overuse it like they do here.

And this one I wouldn't say I hate, but it got to the point where I legitimately got pissed off every time it came on the radio.

This is kind of an easy one, but seriously this song is the epitomy of **** and stupidity. The song is about a dude who's at his present girlfriends house and is laying in bed next to her. He wakes up to a phone call from his ex and secretly talks to her. He secretly loves her to, but for some reason he's with some other chick? I feel more stupid now just explaining this song. Just horrible ****.


Really hate this song. Just don't get it at all. I came across this on my ipod once while it was on shuffle. A friend gave me a cd to burn and foolishly I purt it on my itunes without thinking about it. I remember being in a bad mood before the song came on and it made me even angrier cause of how ****ty this music is. How anyone could sit through this song and thoroughly enjoy it is beyiond me. The song in itself is a mess. The lyrics make little sense and the vocalist is horrible. He changes pitch constantly and when he does he's constantly off. This song is just horrible.

I haven't heard that "in da club" song in forever. I can't help but like it. It's pretty much a birthday song in the ghetto. If someone is having a birthday party that song HAS to be played.


I had the pleasure of not listening to "whip my hair" on the radio so it didn't get overplayed to me. I like to listen to it every now and then. It is a nice, confidence boosting song.

because of this commercial I love "drop it like it's hot" again.



also you posted all of those videos but only gave a reason for not liking the last one. Why do you hate the others?

The fact that this actually shows up on a Youtube search BEFORE the original is utterly sad. About as bad as a Buckley interpretation can be...

Why do you hate anything? Sometimes you just don't like some things. I find all those songs annoying though. When songs get overplayed that's certainly a big factor too.

The Whip Your Hair song just enrages me for some reason. I feel like punching a baby every time it comes on.

Emii - Mr Romeo (makes me feel sick dunno why)
alejandro its just not my type
Hey, Soul Sister also

Since I'm living by the temporary white trash hellhole that this area of Tampa is for the concert of THIS MAN:



Christ... does ANYTHING get more retarded than that?

Well. I didn't expect this thread idea to have so many contributions so quickly! :D I guess I'm not the only one occasionally in a bad mood created or exacerbated by a song.

I don't know, Scissorman...every time I've listened to this song since you posted it, I find myself starting to chuckle uncontrollably, especially when the man sings what sounds like "suicidoh, suicidoh." :D

The song makes me laugh because of the way he sings it and the hilarious content and startling honesty: "You're way too beautiful girl, that's why it'll never work: you'll have me suicidal suicidal when you say it's over." I kind of like it now for that reason. :)

Oh gosh yes. I agree with you 240%. I disliked the song the first time I heard it and I think I've avoided listening to it all the way through ever since. However, after hearing part of the song in this thread, I tortured myself by singing it in the shower.

"Replaced it with awfulness!" :laughing: I'm amused by all the creative ways people have used to express their revulsion for songs and the enraged state into which the songs put them, and yours sticks in my mind. Yours and all the references to vomiting and beating people up.

Lil Mama:I just wanna to be a part of the cool crowd, I just feel like I don't 't have what it takes.

Driver: I have something here for you. This lip gloss...it worked for me.



...Guess I need some lip gloss, it worked for them.


Um...my lip gloss is cool, my lip gloss be poppin'?....I don't know what else to say. lol

:laughing:

"Hey, thanks, Black Eyed Peas, for taking a phrase we Jews like to use for sacred events like weddings or bar mitzvahs and rhyming it with the desire to see a dancing ***** get naked."

I just asked because that's what the OP asks of people. To post reasons for why they hate songs but I guess you didn't read the first post.



/yawn

the video was sort of funny but BEP can do no wrong in my eyes. They "lost" their hip hop credibility two albums earlier so I have no idea why he's still bringing that up. They decided to change over to hip-pop when they added Fergie to the group.

Yes, dj, I was hoping people could put into words what they don't like about a song. I think that sometimes the reasons for distaste are hard to pinpoint because they may have deeper, amorphous emotional causes.

For example, Dayvan posted a Nickleback cover of a song, and when I heard it and the phlegmy, growly way the man sings in a tepid instrumental background, I didn't like his cover either. His singing feels over-emotional to me and I don't like phlegm. But then I think, why do I feel this way? Maybe because for myself I sometimes value being able to control my emotions and show little weakness and so I look down on it when someone else violates the way I feel I 'have' to act. Maybe when I feel I have to be strongest, a 'weak' song irritates me because someone else isn't constrained like I constrain myself. Maybe I'm angry at myself for constraining *my* emotional repertoire.

As for phlegm, I never liked getting spit on, so hearing it in a singer's voice bugs me. Can't he just swallow it down? Can't he just control his own body? Maybe it bugs me that he isn't bothered by what would bother me in myself.

Meanwhile, Whitney Houston's lovey-dovey song may irritate me because her profession of love reminds me of times I felt loving and the relationships tanked, and so I feel the song encourages self-delusion by singing so glowingly of the strength and power of love that 'lasts forever.' But maybe what really bothers me is that when I first heard the song I *did* want an overwhelming, sure love like it describes, and I felt sad that mine didn't work out, and so I felt bitter if other people's love relationships did. Maybe the song makes me envious.

I don't expect people to go THAT deep :laughing: but a simple description of why they think they don't like a song would suffice. People's negative reactions to songs so far do make me wonder, though, why they are often so violent...because it is 'just music'...and yet obviously music rouses deeper emotions in us than those I'd expect in a simple critique of aesthetics. Music can get us to the state where we feel like beating something (or someone) up because of a song!! It's interesting to me that our responses to music can be so strong.

You make a valid point about why the critic's complaint is like chopping up an already chopped salad (as opposed to beating a dead horse). I actually don't mind the song that much...it is what it is, a happy dance song...but hip-pop isn't my thing (usually), for some of the reasons that critic points out.

I think they did wrong when they said over and over "let's do it, let's do it, let's do it do it do it..." :laughing: I agree with some of what the critic mocks: floating people in the air in a video doesn't make up for unoriginality and repetitiveness in a song.

Why do the unoriginal and repetitive lyrics bother me? Maybe because I realize the Black Eyed Peas are famous and presumably wealthy for singing songs with lyrics so simple that I could have written them, if I'd wanted to, in just a few minutes. So I feel an indignant '*I*could have done that!' feeling...yet the point is I *didn't* and they *did*...and so I have to face my own fears about whether I fail to take the initiative to use my abilities as thoroughly as I could.

Whatever else they may lack aesthetically, the BEPs have confidence in themselves and they bravely state their Nike triteness of "let's do it, let's do it, let's do it do it do it." I can't help but admire their confidence, energy, and drive as musicians even as I dislike their songs.

Yeah, I also think that sometimes people don't have a real reason to hate it, it is one of feelings like "I just do". At times it is hard to pinpoint the reason like you said. I think a main reason may also be over exposure. That's why I try to avoid the top 40 stations as much as possible so they don't ruin songs that I like.


yeah, I find that interesting as well

I think one of the main reasons I like BEP is because I know how good they were in the past on the first two albums. I also like their high energy performances. They did drop the ball during the super bowl but it was still a pretty sight to see with all the extras in lights and things of that nature.

That is one thing that I never really got to hung up on is lyrics. When I hear nice lyrics that's all well and dandy but if I had bad lyrics...I don't really care depending on the other elements of the song.

You're probably right - maybe sometimes the reasons for disliking a song cannot be easily put into words.

People's reactions to songs may sometimes be similar to how people react to the smell of Liederkranz cheese Liederkranz cheese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I smelled Liederkranz cheese yesterday for the first time. Phewww! It stinks like manure! Yet some people actually like it. Hard to fathom, but true. And they like to eat it with raw onions and beer, :eek: neither of which I like either. Why don't I like Liederkranz cheese, onions, and beer? Because I don't like how they taste. Why? Because I don't like how they taste! :)

Well, as you know I'm a lyrics person, except I do like the "Da da da" song by Trio (below). :p: And I haven't heard the Black Eyed Peas' older songs and few of their newer ones, so I wasn't really being accurate when I said I don't like their music. I should say that I don't like their songs that I've *heard*. They are my Liederkranz cheese! But if you have some of their older songs you'd recommend, I'd listen and see if the manure smell fades. ;)

A song I LIKE:

Trio - "Da da da" -- where simple lyrics work for me! :D

you should come try our Durian fruit... Westerners say the experience is like eating walnut in a toilet (a toilet where someone has just done their business and not yet flushed)

I'm curious to try this cheese now and see my reaction to it. I don't mind raw onions but beer tastes like piss water imo. I get no satisfaction from drinking beer only a stupid bloated stomach.

haha that song reminds me of one from Spoon but I can't even find it right now to show you.


This is one of my favorite BEP tracks and it's on their second LP. If you listen to the lyrics they basically describe what they have turned into. The things they hate about artists is what they have become. It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy or something.



I wanted to add another one



I love this song, it gets me pumped up sometimes.

If or when I am in Malaysia, Il Duce, I will try this 'Durian fruit' in your honor. If I can listen to a Black Eyed Peas song that I don't like, *surely* I could survive eating a harmless fruit, no matter how much fragrance o' toilet it has! :p:

Dj, I'm listening to the song you posted above...full report below:

Yes, that track isn't bad at all, the lyrics are interesting, and I like the video very much. It *is* ironic that the song is "Get Original" and now a main complaint about their music is that it isn't! I can almost hear humanity screaming at the Black Eyed Peas their very own words when they sing:

"If you ate pebbles, your **** wouldn't rock.
You one of them balloons made to go pop.
You need to stop now, get original!"

:p:

hahahah it just makes me want to hit people :D

Jesus Christ...

I'm gonna restrict myself to 5 choices, otherwise I could be typing this post all night...











I'd explain each choice, but I don't really have the time. Maybe later :p:

that new song by Rebecca Black

What the **** are these two assclowns saying? I get the fact that these two idiots were trying to be "unique" but except of actually doing something different they just did the same old bull**** in a tone of voice that is impossible to understand with my laptop speakers turned up to the max.



This is basically a typical modern day rap song with a big old heaping of stupid redneck. That means that instead of maybe there being a chance of having a good beat distract me from the stupidity of the lyrics I get this horrible square dancing music instead.



Just listen to it. I don't need to explain why it is ****.



My opinion on this Pro-Iraq War song has more to do with politics and not so much the song I will admit. I don't have any problem with Darryl Worley either for performing it as he was portraying a feeling that the majority of the country, including myself, into supporting the war in Iraq during the buildup. However when I look back at this song it just ****ing scares me what our mindset was like back then.

I love Queen, so I don't know how my feelings towards any of their songs can only be described as "violent hatred". Regardless, I really detest this song.

Stairway to Heaven!

I'd say this song pretty much sums that up. Look carefully at the number of views if you go to the youtube page... 56 million? I worry about where humanity is heading sometimes... I even like his older stuff. But if I was a fan of the Steelers, I would probably hunt him down and stab him in the vocal chords for what he's done.



..........Really J? I even listened to these songs so I could form some ideas about what it actually is that makes me so angry about it. It's not even the screaming part that sounds exactly the same every time that sounds crappier than a lot of metal I've heard. It's the fact that the main riff of the song has a decent bass riff with massively annoying clear guitar tones scraping away over top, and the vocals are mixed so ****tily that you can't even hope to have any idea what he's saying. Also, it depresses me that this is by one of my favorite bands because it is so ****ing horrible compared even to the rest of this album, undoubtedly their worst in my eyes.

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This came on next. And I forgot it just might be worse.

Gotta go with that, goddamn awful - best listen to it's parody "Hairway To Steven" (Butthole Surfers).

Seconded. It is my most hated track of all time. I leave the room if it's played in a public place. No joke.

This is a very close second. It is truly awful and I cannot find one single redeeming feature about it at all. Absolute trash.

That's probably my joint most-hated song of the last 2 or 3 years, along with this abomination;



Man, I hate that lot...

i didn't like the original too much but I loved the remixes