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Baby Got Back is kinda stupid however the clubs don't think so. They play that song still today.
But My Tractor Is Sexy. YUCK!! There is no way people even want to sing along with that poor excuse of a song.
Anything and everthing by My Chemical Romance drive me up the wall. God, the lead singer is so whinny when he sings...
What she said.Anything by Nickelback. Awful.
Also, Miley Cyrus.......
i agree. while I'm all for being 'goth' and 'angry', the msic has to not make me wanna PUKE. Or shoot the very whinny 'i hate my life but make tons of money from being a fake goth' lead singer...Sadly, every new "hot" band seems to be modeled the same way. Whiny, "I hate life" singer. Overactive drummer that's not as good as he thinks he is. Guitar players that can play pretty well but when they sing they show how talentless they are overall musically.
I love this thread, as I love any music-related threads, and so I think maybe it would be interesting...possibly even fun to problematize the whole affair. So, the title suggests that deciding if a song is "stupid" is a subjective, individual process, and that probably no one is going to come up with the same song (though there is, as you might expect, quite a bit of nodding agreement with other choices.) And while I agree that my stupid is not your stupid, I wonder if perhaps we aren't confusing stupid and bad. Or, at least, blurring lines between the two.
So, do we have to hate our stupid songs? Are they necessarily bad songs, or just confused? As in all situations like this, we turn to Ringo.
Case in point, "Don't Pass Me By," from the White Album. Ringo's first successful (well...) stab at songwriting, it's a simple story we've all heard before, of the man who's love doesn't return home at the expected hour. He begins to believe she's tossed the relationship aside, but later learns that she was merely in a disfiguring auto accident, and will be home a little later than usual. Same old, same old. It seems as if this is a pop song that doesn't know what it means to be a pop song. The hand-wringing about being left behind is familiar, sure, but as soon as the final verse kicks in, the circuit closes. Oh, it was a car crash. Whew, we thought it was something serious that required some reflection and anxiety and so forth...you know, the kind of stuff that makes pop music go. It's self-annihilating; everything Ringo worries about in the first 3/4ths is taken care of swiftly, shrugged aside, and the status quo returns. "Don't Pass Me By" is a pretty stupid song because it's trying to be something but failing miserably. And yet, I love it. It bobs along on its ramshackle rhythm and Ringo's voice is the definition of earnest; how could you dislike it?
Contrast "Don't Pass Me By" with, say, Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman," a song that's more firmly in the pop tradition, but which I cannot stand for more than a few seconds before it makes me want to pull out my teeth using only gravity. There's just something about it that I don't like...the arrangement, Percy's voice, the recording quality, the melody...I don't really know. But it's my anti-song. I don't think it's stupid, just awful. Bad.
So, to amend the subject question, what songs do you think are stupid, but which you love?
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I'm with you girl. I love some Chicago. I mean, Color my World is wonderful......NoOoooooo!
Thank you!!! Finally someone said what I have been thinking the past 11 years!!!!That incredibly saccharine "Candle in the Wind" remake that Elton John did for Princess Diana's funeral. All-time horrible.
-LCN
I'm with you girl. I love some Chicago. I mean, Color my World is wonderful......
But besides that. here's one
Can't Touch This/ MC Hammer
I'm with you girl. I love some Chicago. I mean, Color my World is wonderful......
But besides that. here's one
Can't Touch This/ MC Hammer
Wow, well blame it on my parents. I love Saturdays in the Park......wow....26 years old and you like Color My World....I'm impressed......this song is what all the girls wanted to slow dance to in school