Why, God why were these songs recorded

Twonky wrote:

I just find that other dance-pop artists make better, catchier music. Lady GaGa's weird outfits are the only unique thing about her. Then again, I also think PJ Harvey sucks ass, so...

Talent gets condensed into shitty pop music, news at 11.

(Listens to the sounds of Twonky's words being shoved right back down their throat)

That clip brings to mind Laura Nyro, 'cept Laura Nyro was doing this in the late 1960s.

She says now that her current persona is exactly what she's always been, but she was aiming for the Alanis/Fiona angle long before she started wearing Muppets for clothes. Maybe there's some genius or something unique about her, but I don't see it. I find her to be talented but totally gimmicky. And an average pop music artist.

Twonky wrote:

That clip brings to mind Laura Nyro, 'cept Laura Nyro was doing this in the late 1960s.

She says now that her current persona is exactly what she's always been, but she was aiming for the Alanis/Fiona angle long before she started wearing Muppets for clothes. Maybe there's some genius or something unique about her, but I don't see it. I find her to be talented but totally gimmicky. And an average pop music artist.

Fair enough. I'm not fond of her pop music either, but she's interesting and certainly not without talent.

I wish she'd continued with the piano music, but I doubt she would have been able to do that and wear the crazy clothes. That would make for an odd stage presence.

Twonky wrote:

That clip brings to mind Laura Nyro, 'cept Laura Nyro was doing this in the late 1960s.

She says now that her current persona is exactly what she's always been, but she was aiming for the Alanis/Fiona angle long before she started wearing Muppets for clothes. Maybe there's some genius or something unique about her, but I don't see it. I find her to be talented but totally gimmicky. And an average pop music artist.

I actually find her to be better than your average pop music artist.

But, back to bad songs, I can't beleive you guys have forgotten... it!

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Yeah...I like it when the girls stop by.. In the summer
Do you remember, Do you remember?
...when we met..That summer??

[Chorus:]
New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
I'd take her if I had one wish,
But she's been gone since that summer..
Since that summer

[Verse 1:]
Hip Hop Marmalade spic And span,
Met you one summer and it all began
You're the best girl that I ever did see,
The great Larry Bird Jersey 33
When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call me Willy Whistle cause I can't speak baby
Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy
Now I can't forget you and it makes me mad,
Left one day and never came back
Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin wasn't Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain't speaking
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Chorus:]
New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
And I think it's fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
I'd take her if I had one wish,
But she's been gone since that summer..
Since that summer

[Verse 2:]
Cherry Pez,cold crush,rock star boogie
Used to hate school so I had to play hookie,
Always been hip to the B-boY Style
Known to act wild and make girls smile,
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Remind me of you because you rock my world
You come from Georgia where the peaches grow
They drink lemonade and speak real slow
You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you're near
You love fun dip and cherry Coke,
I like the way you laugh when I tell a joke
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge:]
In the summertime girls got it going on,
Shake and wiggle to a hip hop song
Summertime girls are the kind I like,
I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike

[Verse 3]
Bugaloo shrimp and pogo sticks
My mind takes me back there oh so quick
Let you off the hook like my man Mr. Limpet
Think about that summer and I bug,cause I miss it
Like the color purple,macaroni and cheese,
Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees
Call you up but whats the use
I like Kevin Bacon,but I hate Footloose
Came in the door I said it before,I think I'm over you
but I'm really not sure
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Repeat Chorus]

[Bridge:]
In the summer girls come and summer girls go
Some are worth while and some are so so,
Summer girls come and summer girls go
Some are worth while and some are so so,
Summertime girls got it going on
Shake and wiggle to a hip hop song
Summertime girls are the kind I like
I'll steal your honey like I stole your bike

[Repeat Chorus]

As to more recent songs, what about "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. Even back when they were merely an indie buzz band, KoL were always a hit or a miss for me. Their lyrics were stupid as all hell, and their albums were chock full of filler (or maybe the songs were just bland, how should I know?), but some of their songs just flat out rocked (see: "Four Kicks"). I have to say, their latest album is probably their worst, the only good songs on it are "Crawl" and "Sex on Fire". "Use Somebody"? I thought that song was just supposed to be filler.

That and "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant. God. I thought the garage rock revival ended and all the generic, White Stripes wannabes had been left with it. Most stuff by Cage the Elephant comes across as simply cut-rate Kings of Leon, but on this song (the one that gave them pseudo-buzz band status) they just come across as a cut-rate Beck. The entire song, I just keep waiting for the chorus to turn out to be, "Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me".

And while we're on the topic of indie buzz bands, I might as well put up My Morning Jacket's song "Highly Suspicious"...



I actually liked the song (one of the few My Morning Jacket songs I do like) but I know it irked a lot of people, even hardcore fans.

I wish I could take a chainsaw to every copy of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May." I've learned to recognize that song in two notes and change the station before the fourth.

Most Christmas songs, but especially such horrors as 'The Christmas Shoes'. Hey everybody, the true meaning of Christmas is cheap presents (oh, and Jesus won't let you into heaven if you don't have the right shoes).

Another bad one: Pete Seeger's Christmas album. Just...no.

Then there's this awful, screeching Christmas mood music my mother downloaded and plays on her computer. She turned it on while I was helping decorate the tree. I swear, it sounded like something dying in agony. In fact, the cat heard it and abandoned his food, racing for the door and crying to go out (and he blended in very nicely with the music).

Thanos6 wrote:

I wish I could take a chainsaw to every copy of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May." I've learned to recognize that song in two notes and change the station before the fourth.

Oh God, I just read that title and I have that song stuck in my head now. My mom was a huge Rod Stewart fan when I grew up, so now every time I hear it, I JUST WANT IT TO SHUT THE HELL UP WHEREVER IT'S COMING FROM.

Mr.Doobie wrote:

As to more recent songs, what about "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon. Even back when they were merely an indie buzz band, KoL were always a hit or a miss for me. Their lyrics were stupid as all hell, and their albums were chock full of filler (or maybe the songs were just bland, how should I know?), but some of their songs just flat out rocked (see: "Four Kicks"). I have to say, their latest album is probably their worst, the only good songs on it are "Crawl" and "Sex on Fire". "Use Somebody"? I thought that song was just supposed to be filler.

Oh god, I don't know why anyone likes "Sex on Fire." Then again, I can't tell you how many times in one four hour shift it would play (probably about three times every day I went in to work in my retail, generic teen-clothes outlet at my local mall), so I'm probably a leeeeetle biased.

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That and "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant. God. I thought the garage rock revival ended and all the generic, White Stripes wannabes had been left with it. Most stuff by Cage the Elephant comes across as simply cut-rate Kings of Leon, but on this song (the one that gave them pseudo-buzz band status) they just come across as a cut-rate Beck. The entire song, I just keep waiting for the chorus to turn out to be, "Soy un perdedor, I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me".

And while we're on the topic of indie buzz bands, I might as well put up My Morning Jacket's song "Highly Suspicious"...

...

I actually liked the song (one of the few My Morning Jacket songs I do like) but I know it irked a lot of people, even hardcore fans.

HEY YOU I LIKE AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED, AND THE WHITE STRIPES ARE MOST OF THE TIME REALLY AWESOME AND okay so I really don't like My Morning Jacket, but that's a neat song and I DISAGREE!

or wait you said you liked it so maybe I agree

InkWeaver wrote:

Oh god, I don't know why anyone likes "Sex on Fire."

They're drunk.

YOUR SEX IS ON FIIIIYURRRRR

That is EXACTLY what I thought the first time I heard it, immediately followed by, "If they're not drunk, why is that guy singing with mashed potatoes in his mouth?"

Thanos6 wrote:

I wish I could take a chainsaw to every copy of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May." I've learned to recognize that song in two notes and change the station before the fourth.

True story. Back in 1971, the year Maggie May was released, my mom, my sister and I took what would later become known as 'The Bus Trip to Hell,' a trip to California to visit my sister, who had to have surgery, and needed someone to watch her kids while she was in the hospital and recovering.

I kid you not, that damn song was on EVERY FUCKING JUKEBOX IN EVERY SHITTY BUS STATION BETWEEN HERE AND JACK RABBIT FLATS, NEVADA! By the time we finally made it to California, I was so bloody sick of it, I turn the radio off if it comes on to this day. That's roughly 40 years of hating a song with the white hot intensity of a thousand burning suns.

What's sad is that I actually like a lot of Stewart's other songs from the 70s and early 80s. But 'Maggie May' just makes me homicidal.

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OH PLEASE DO NOT SACRIFICE ME TO THE GODS OF THE INTERNET FOR PRACTICING THIS MOST FOUL ART!

But the moment I heard this song, I knew it belonged on WGW...

Everyone, meet Ke$ha (that dollar sign is not a typo)...



Ke$ha is the latest radio dance pop diva. Her debut album (which this song is on) moved a record amount of copies for a female artist, and (from the looks of things) she's on her way to becoming pop musics latest "IT" girl. But judging from this song, Lady Gaga shouldn't be losing any sleep, she's not exactly holding a candle under her ass.

Is she singing or rapping? My opinion? That pathetic, kittenish mewl is her singing, it's just her voice is so limited and underwhelming that either her or her record company (or both) think that they can pass it off as half-assed rapping. Kind of like 30H!3, only she's not even trying to rap.

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HEY YOU I LIKE AIN'T NO REST FOR THE WICKED, AND THE WHITE STRIPES ARE MOST OF THE TIME REALLY AWESOME AND

I also like the White Stripes, I was talking about the people trying desperately to ride on their garage rock coat-tails (the Von Bondies, the Hushpuppies).

. . .

If a pimp rode a bike, I imagine it'd look much like her's.

Mr. Doobie wrote:

Kind of like 30H!3, only she's not even trying to rap.

Speaking of 3OH!3, I heard that song where they mention Helen Keller playing in a store as I was walking by it today.

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Mr.Doobie wrote:

Ke$ha is the latest radio dance pop diva. Her debut album (which this song is on) moved a record amount of copies for a female artist, and (from the looks of things) she's on her way to becoming pop musics latest "IT" girl.

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She sounds like suburban preppy princess and she makes a refernce to P. Diddy. P. fucking. Diddy. Woman, NOTHING about P. Diddy is in any way comparable to you. I am completely baffled as to why in the HELL he would be letting you use his name in a song this shitty. Really.


On a completely different note, I bring you an awful of another kind (that I meant to bitch about a while back):

Apparently, flash embeds don't work on here like I thought they did.

It sounds pretty catchy at first. Then, about halfway through the song, it begins to feel like there's something leaking out of your ears. Blood? Brain matter? Your sanity? Your mileage may vary, depending on your tolerance level for godawful music.

FAIR WARNING: Listening to this might literally give you a headache.

Uh, god I hate that fucking Ke$ha song. The lyrics are about a girl who's so full of herself it makes me sick.

I hate Ke$ha as well. Hopefully she's another one of those 'blonde pop princess' trends that quickly falls to the curbside.

I have to ask, but in the first photo I saw her in, she had her name written on her leg but it looked like it was done with a shaky hand and a bad marker. I hope that's not a tattoo because if it is, someone had better submit it to that ugly tattoo blog.

WHY DOES THIS KID HAVE NO BALLS

WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THIS IS PAEDOPHILIA

WHY AM I GETTING A 'CREEPY UNCLE' VIBE FROM THE GUY AT THE BEGINNING

WHY DOES THIS COME ON TV SO GODDAMN OFTEN WHEN NO ONE. LIKES. IT.

so many questions...

WHY WAS HE INVITED TO THE "WE ARE THE WORLD" REMAKE?

Awww, I think Ke$ha is kind of cute, in a drunk-off-her-ass kind of way. (C'mon, y'all know I love silly pop-dance music)

As for my entry:




This is not my Taylor Swift hatred. This is not my Boys Like Girls hatred. I had no idea who sang this atrocity for weeks, but it kept coming on the radio, with me changing the station the minute the opening chords started. They're out of tune, they're hitting notes only my dog can hear, and it annoys the living hell out of me.

In retrospect, I should have known that the gawdawful Boys Like Girls was involved. They made "Love Drunk" after all.

Justin Bieber can be annoying, yeah, but anyone remember Aaron Carter when he started out? I'd argue that Bieber is marginally better, which should make him a little more bearable. Not much, but some.

And in case you don't remember what Aaron Carter sounded like...

WHAT THE HELL THOSE KIDS ARE LIKE 10

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD

THEY CALL ME MR. FLINTSTONE, CUZ' I CAN MAKE YOUR BED ROCK!

Lil' Wayne, I love you man. You're like a black David Bowie! You may not be the "greatest rapper alive" like you always claim, but I thought you were at least holding a flame under a lot of peoples asses. But recently dude? Between Rebirth and We Are Young Money? You're going from one of hip-hop's fastest rising stars to a giant disaster story.

MY EVIDENCE:

I thought I escaped having to hear Taylor Swift and here caterwauling after I left Red Robin. Apparently I was wrong, because yesterday at work I heard "Fifteen". Then today, I heard "It Was A Fairytale".

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