That @jannert needs to sort her Abba hate. I love this boy: I nominate Marina and the Diamonds ...'Prima Donna Girl...Prima Donna Girl...' and 'That's the Way it is' by Laura Cantrel' and 'Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeene...' Manpower
American Woman by Guess Who. I don't know why, I just find it...offensive and very sexist. As a man, I'm ashamed that this even exists.
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love It's just the way the guy enunciates while singing. Drives. Me. Nuts. It just bugs me. It comes on in a public place, walk outside for a cigarette. On someone's radio at a person's house, go outside for a cigarette. Chimes on in my car's radio...pull over and stab a button with my finger to change the station roll down my window and have a cigarette. It's truly hard times.
They don't say "Bruce"? What do they say?!? I always thought it was weird that they said "Bruce," but... it seemed incontrovertible. In terms of my own bad mood song? "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFarrin. Don't TELL me what kind of mood to be in, motherfucker! I'll worry if I fucking WANT to worry. And my happiness? My CHOICE.
Any song that's a remake of the original, with all the instrumentals intact, but whoever is singing adds all these extra bells and whistles...
I admit it, I kind of like the Sound of Silence remake. The original always felt a bit corny to me. This one is over-the-top, sure, but that seems appropriate for over-the-top lyrics...
Close, but no. Sure they did horrible things to a good song, but at least they remixed the tune, slowed it down a bit, so its not inherently evil. I physically can't think of an example off the top of my head, i do my best to purge anything related to this from my mind... What i hate is when everything about the song is exactly the same, but some jerk with a voice decides to change octave during one word like 8 times to try and make their mark. @BayView the corniness is the best part though!
I don't know that "corny" is the word I'd use to describe the original, but it's definitely very fanciful. But that was the beauty of Simon and Garfunkel ... the whimsy.
I really, really, really don't like what could be described as "soft-rock." Music that's poppy and shallow, but refuses to classify itself as pop music, even though that's obviously what it is (to clarify, I have the highest appreciation for a well-written pop song, so don't misunderstand). You know, essentially the soundtrack of middle-aged, suburban white women everywhere. Some examples include Free Falling (sorry, Tom Petty); Your Body is a Wonderland, by John Mayer; Hanging by a Moment, by Lifehouse; Yellow, by Coldplay, and pretty much any song by Oasis or Dave Matthews Band.
Whoa now, i just agreed one song was a bit corny, that doesn't mean you have to hate everything about me.
Anything new pop music. I like 80's and 90's pop music but the crap they churn out today makes me cringe.
How can you hate on Queen Bey?! I'm being slightly facetious, I'm not apart of the Beyhive. But I don't hate it, either.
You've mistaken hate for Queen Bey for intense love for this 90's music- Okay, technically it came out 2000, but I stand by it lol.
Granted, top 40 pop isn't really my thing (although I can usually find something to like), but Britney Spears' If U Seek Amy. 'All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy' makes zero grammatical sense unless you take it as double entendre, which I'm pretty sure makes it single entendre. It's not clever, but they either think it is or they think their audience are idiots... and the success of the song suggests they're right in some regard, which makes me despair for myself or humanity respectively Other than that: anything Autotuned to obscure poor vocals (although Autotune can be used creatively, which is fine); anything where the focus is on the performer's 'talent' rather than the cohesion of the song, most notably with excessively melismatic singers (the 'American Idol effect'; Sia noooo! You used to be so good!); and, at the risk of offending lots of forum members, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (the song). I don't care if he's the voice of a generation making a pointed political statement - it's wrist-slittingly repetitive, I hate the timbre of the synths and his voice has the tone of someone whining about how the Gummint took his money. On a performing front, anything where my part is too simple/repetitive. I was briefly bassist in a cover band, and U2's With or Without You was routinely played with only middle fingers (sorry audience!). Listening-wise I appreciate the simple line suiting the song, but there's not much to learn from it (... other than discipline, which I apparently missed out on!).
If they made you play With or Without You, you should have insisted they let you play The Who's The Real Me. There's a great bass feature!
@Cave Troll: Any band calling itself Demons & Wizards is by definition not worth listening to. That's one of the most pompous band names I've ever heard. It's like calling your band "Satan & The Fallen Angels." Or maybe "Sauron & The Army of Mordor." Or "Vacant Stare & The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders."
Well I have heard of worse band names than Demons and Wizards. Take Anal Cunt for example, and I will let you wonder about all the terrible music comes out of a band called that for a bit. (Hint it is not pretty).
The fact that there's a band called Anal Cunt - which is a horrible name - does not mean that Demons and Wizards is a good name. That's like saying rotting tofu tastes good because, hey, you could be eating dog shit.
Woah, woah, woah ... careful. Yeah, she's become a little over the top, but she's the writer behind pretty much every pop song worth a damn performed by virtually any artist. I mean, her old stuff was very much the shit, BUT -- let's give her credit where it's due. I think her creative genius has gotten the best of her, as of late. But she's still a genius.
