Most UNfavorite pieces of lyrics

[Pedro]

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cuz' of my hump my hump my hump my hump
my hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps
Check it out.....

-Black Eyed Peas

If ever there was a song that would drive me up the wall and make me go nuts this song would be it, gosh I hate the lyrics I wonder what they were smoking when they wrote it.

[tikiyaki]

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If ever there was a song that would drive me up the wall and make me go nuts this song would be it, gosh I hate the lyrics I wonder what they were smoking when they wrote it.

Chronic...lots of chronic

[Tiabla]

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cuz' of my hump my hump my hump my hump
my hump my hump my hump my lovely lady lumps
Check it out.....

-Black Eyed Peas

That song makes me feel old. The kind of old that causes me to shake my fist at the sky and curse those damn youngins!

Some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard are from R. Kelly's 12-part Trapped in the Closet:

He pulls back the shower curtain
While she’s biting her nails
Then he walks back to the room
Right now, I’m sweating like hell
Checks under the bed
Then under the dresser
He looks at the closet
I pull out my Baretta
He walks up to the closet
He goes up to the closet
Now he’s at the closet
Damn he’s opening the closet…

[blueyecicle]

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That song makes me feel old. The kind of old that causes me to shake my fist at the sky and curse those damn youngins!

Some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard are from R. Kelly's 12-part Trapped in the Closet:

He pulls back the shower curtain
While she’s biting her nails
Then he walks back to the room
Right now, I’m sweating like hell
Checks under the bed
Then under the dresser
He looks at the closet
I pull out my Baretta
He walks up to the closet
He goes up to the closet
Now he’s at the closet
Damn he’s opening the closet…

Now here is the worst song ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SouthKona]

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If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
Come on, sugar, let me know
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
Come on, honey, tell me so

Rod Stewart in spandex...

[scrivener]

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Some of you seem to be picking songs you just dislike, rather than focusing on a snippet of bad lyricism. Which is fine, I guess, but it's easy to hate a song with bad lyrics...how about liking a song with bad lyrics, or hating a lyric from a good song? Here are two examples, both from one of the greatest lyricists ever, in two very good songs:

I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid

and

Anyway, the thing is,
What I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes
I've ever seen.

The guilty party, of course, is Bernie Taupin. I think it's really Elton John's sheer force of musicianship that pulls off these awful lyrics in such great songs!

[scrivener]

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Oh, and as for forbidden rhyming partners, I do a bit of songwriting myself, and here are my no-nos:

night and light
love and above

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and that last one is especially ubiquitous.

[Keanu]

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Blondie's "Rapture" rap





"Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly.
D.J. spinning, I said, "My, My."
Flash is fast, flash is cool.
Francois, c'est pas flashe non due.
And you don't stop, sure shot.
Go out to the parking lot.
And you get in your car and drive real far.
And you drive all night and then you see a light.
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground.
And out comes the man from Mars.
And you try to run but he's got a gun.
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head.
And then you're in the man from Mars.
You go out at night eating cars.
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too.
Mercurys and Subaru.
And you don't stop.
You keep on eating cars.
Then when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet.
Face to face.
Dance cheek to cheek.
One to one.
Man to man.
Dance toe to toe.
Don't move too slow 'cause the man from Mars is through with cars.
He's eating bars.
Yeah, wall to wall.
Door to door.
Hall to hall.
He's gonna eat 'em all.
Rapture.
Be pure.
Take a tour through the sewer.
Don't strain your brain.
Paint a train.
You'll be singing in the rain.
Said don't stop to the punk rock.
Well now you see what you wanna be.
Just have your party on T.V.
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars where the T.V's on.
And now he's gone back up to space where he won't have a hassle with the human race.
And you hip hop.
And you don't stop.
Just blast off, sure shot.
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eating cars
And eating bars
And now he only eats guitars."

[SouthKona]

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Keanu, "not whole songs, but snippets of songs" will do.

[Keanu]

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Keanu, "not whole songs, but snippets of songs" will do.

I had to post the whole rap because I dislike the whole thing.

[SouthKona]

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I had to post the whole rap because I dislike the whole thing.

I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of seeing Debbie Harry in an interview where she takes credit for being the "first" white artist to do rap. I'll just leave it at that....

[scrivener]

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That song rocks. Sure, the lyrics are a little cheesy for rap, but you gotta understand that rap was a novelty on the radio at the time, and I don't think Blondie meant to be street at all. The song would have been stupid if the lyrics had been serious.

[Palolo Joe]

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I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure of seeing Debbie Harry in an interview where she takes credit for being the "first" white artist to do rap. I'll just leave it at that....

She was the first white artist to rap on a track. And she was friends with Fab 5 Freddy, which is why she dropped his name.

It's pretty wack looking back decades later, but at the time it was some pretty groundbreaking stuff.

[Leo Lakio]

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My inner grammar-nazi always cringes at this lyric from Paul McCartney's "Live And Let Die":

In this ever-changing world in which we live in

Three "in"s, Paul, and yerrrrrrr out!

[scrivener]

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I have been complaining about this for years. I refuse to call him "sir" Paul until he learns to speak the Queen's English!