Lyrics or quotes that make you cringe.

[tippy2k2]

Any song that involves a band singing about how much money doesn't matter...

From pop

Spoiler: Jessie J

It's not about the money, we just want to make the world dance

to Rock

Spoiler: Papa Roach

Fuck your money, fuck your obsession, fuck your possessions, I don't need that shit

to Nickelback...

Spoiler: Nickelback

How can we fall asleep at night when something is clearly wrong; when we can feed the world with what we throw away]

I'm sure you've seen plenty of examples of this (in every genre). I'm sorry if millionaires complaining about how money doesn't matter doesn't pull at my heart strings when I'm living paycheck to paycheck but it bugs the hell out of me. If money means nothing to you (or it's causing you a bunch of problems), feel free to kick it on over to me. I will take that bullet for you.

 

[Clowndoe]

Oh, you're writing about death, torture and rape? Wow, talk about cool, guys.

As a current listener of different genres of metal (not so much Death but still), I kind of agree that if you even begin to ponder the lyrics, it starts to sound kind of... dumb, I guess, is an acceptable word. But you have to sing about something, and what else can you sing about that isn't totally dissonant with the blast-beat going on?

Having said that, here's my fave:

Black Metal ist Krieg!
Black Metal ist Krieg!
Black ****ing Metal ist Krieg!

Black...
Black Metal ist Krieg!
Black ****ing Metal ist Krieg!
Black Metal ist Krieg!
x5

Krieg...
Ihr Wichser, es ist Krieg!
Black Metal ist Krieg!
Ihr Wichser...
Krieg...

Krieg...
**** you!
Krieg, es ist Krieg!

Black Metal ist Krieg ...

And I've trimmed a lot of this song.

 

[SextusMaximus]

"That's what makes you beautiful [to me]."

Which is all fine and dandy, except the words "to me" don't appear in the song. The words "That's what makes you beautiful," do. Which are preceded by a long list of descriptions of unusually insecure behavior indicative not of modesty, but of a self-confidence deficiency.

The singer finds this girl beautiful because she isn't aware of it.

Yes. That's preying on insecurity.

Whatever the cause of it, he finds her modesty incredibly appealing.

Not "modesty". "Insecurity". That's in the first line of the song.

Having heard this song far too many times, nowhere in the lyrics does it state that her beauty, that any woman's beauty, is reliant upon her continued disbelief in her own beauty.

"You don't know you're beautiful, That's what makes you beautiful"

Seems pretty plain as day to me.

Not only are you over thinking this, but you're wrong. This isn't a matter of interpretation, the user you quoted was correct, you are not.

 

[game-lover]

I feel that some people look at things too intensely with their interpretations here...

Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me", specifically:

"If you could see that I'm the one who understands you
Been here all along, so why can't you see?
You belong with me

Standing by and waiting at your back door
All this time how could you not know?
Baby, you belong with me, you belong with me

Oh, I remember you driving to my house in the middle of the night
I'm the one who makes you laugh when you know you're 'bout to cry
And I know your favorite songs and you tell me 'bout your dreams
Think I know where you belong, think I know it's with me"

Every time I hear that song, I worry that this time, THIS TIME, it'll end with her wearing his skin.

Like this: What? How do you get creepy, stalker chick?

Maybe, just maybe the second paragraph needs the video for context. You know, because in the vid they're neighbors and BFFS. Who hang out a lot and can see each other through their respective bedroom windows so they sometimes communicate with words on poster boards they raise up so the other can see. But I'm pretty sure that's only figurative anyway.

But there's nothing creepy about the first part. And the third one? Where? HE'S the one driving to her house in the middle of the night. Not the other way around. It's not like she's showing up out of the blue. The guy that she's crazy about did that.

 

[Headbiter]

As far as lyrics go...a HUGE chunk of modern rap music are nigh painful to listen to, since they're mostly so void of...anything and the word plays are on the same level as the puns I come up with when I'm really, really tired. Like calling a ferret Lou Ferretno.

Yeah, that bad.

As far as quotes go...well, not sure if there is something like that in English but in Germany there's a very popular quote which roughly translates into "The smart one gives in" and is constantly used by people to retreat from a discussion while simultanously declaring victory, regardless of wether they've actually proven something or not.

The fact that (ironically) every idiot and his dog considers this a witty quip is infuriating for two reasons:

1) It doesn't make any sense. How is it smart to constantly roll on your back and say "I give up"? Yes, when your opponent is pretty much trolling you it is pointless to continue an argument but in a normal situation you will just surrender the field to morons with bits of faulty information, while true knowledge rots with you in a corner somewhere. Thus, in the long run, it is idiocy that prevails, which I'm pretty sure is the exact opposite of smart.

2) Half of the original quote is simply omitted. It's from an Austrian female author by the name of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the complete quote (again, roughly translated) would go "The smart one gives in. A sad truth, since it explains stupidity's dominance over the world."
So not only is it cut in half, the quote is now used to defend exactly the kind of behaviour that this woman criticised.

 

[Ranorak]

Anything by Coldplay.

It just comes across as so wannabe poetic, so utterly cringe worthy it just makes me turn around and say "Nope, not going to listen to you. You sound depressing."

 

[shootthebandit]

Thrift shop. I like macklemore but the lyrics are stupid

 

[Pseudonym2]

Moxy Fuvous in the song Independence Day has the line "The children let go of their balloons and flew away." What is worse is that Moxy Fuvous had a bunch of English majors in the band.

 

[Fox12]

Taylor Swifts "Love Story." I can forgive bad writing as the product of a feeble mind, but this jumbled up amalgamated mess of failed symbolism and references made me physically ill.

"Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes."

...what? Romeo and Juliet wasn't a love story, it was a tragedy about two sixteen year old dipshits who got married after one day. Then everyone died. It wasn't supposed to be romantic. The Scarlet Letter was about a woman who was abandoned by her husband, so she had an affair, and got pregnant out of wedlock. Then she was ostracized by society. What does any of this have to do with anything? Did Taylor run off with another guy after knowing him for one day, then get pregnant with his baby, so everyone hated her? That's how it sounds. I don't think that's whay she was going for. It's sick... she just, she just says words, and they don't mean anything. It's like explosive diarrhea of the mouth. Does she even think about any of the things she writes, or does she jut list thing she's vaguely heard of before? I'm feeling ill, I need to lay down.

This is pretty funny though.
http://bigenoughumbrella.tumblr.com/post/15352556534/t-swizzle-and-the-scarlet-letter-an-overanalysis-of

 

[Pero]

"Let him know that you know best
'Cause after all you do know best"
(Fray: How to save a life)
Every time I hear this part of the song i die a little inside. Funny thing is that otherwise I actually kinda like this song.

 

[serious biscuit]

'I was swimming in the Caribbean' From the pixies song where is my mind, it annoys me that Caribbean is said wrong and get me every time I listen to the song.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on the world was convincing people he didn't exist"

I hear this constantly and I have absolutely never seen any point to it whatsoever.

 

[Zipa]

Most rap lyrics nowadays, I will let Bill Bailey explain it as he does it best.

 

[Jack Joe Tip Toe]

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled on the world was convincing people he didn't exist"

I hear this constantly and I have absolutely never seen any point to it whatsoever.

It's from "The Usual Suspects" but I don't know how you could use that line outside of referring to that movie.

 

[FPLOON]

Anytime someone says "my balls" somewhere in their "sex-driven" song, and it's not a song made for a porno, then I cringe a little in my own laughter...

If the lyrics end up contradicting the "artist" themselves (i.e. Jay-Z's "Holy Grail"), then that's also worth a cringe-worthy laugh...

Also, any song lyric that ends up butchering another more respectful song lyric somewhere in the song (i.e. a Nirvana lyric snippet in a HAPPY POP song), that's just more cringing than something to laugh at...

 

[FPLOON]

Thrift shop. I like macklemore but the lyrics are stupid

Now, in that song's defense, that's not even on of their BEST songs... Not even close...
I still don't get why Thrift Shop is still more popular than any of Macklemore's other BETTER songs?
(I almost had that same exact question referring to Gangnam Style...)

OT: Another lyric that just makes me laugh more then cringe comes from this one Zelda rap, where it sounds like the rapper was high when he wrote it...

"That shit was immaculate...
From the front to the back of it...
With my bow and arrow accurate...
I don't know what rhymes with 'accurate'..."

And the last bit of the rap involves describing a "big-ol' fucking" rupee and not being able to get "the fucking beetle that on the fucking wall"... without actually rapping... "The fucking thing's up there..."

 

[DementedSheep]

For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert

"So hot out of the box
Can we pick up the pace
Turn it up, heat it up
I need to be entertained
Push the limit, are you with it?
Baby don't be afraid
Imma hurt you real good baby

Let's go it's my show, baby, do what I say
Don't trip off the glitz that I'm gonna display
I told you, Imma hold ya down until you're amazed
Give it to ya til you're screamin' my name

No escaping when I start
Once I'm in I own your heart
There's no way you'll ring the alarm
So hold on until it's over"

yeah...I doubt he intended that sound as rape-y as it dose. For some reason I hate it when people refer to people as "baby" unless they are an actual baby and want to slap him just for using the word "glitz".

I probably shouldn't say this one cause it's tied in with religion but Cassie by Flyleaf. Most song can have horrible lyrics and I won't really care but with that one the subject matter and the lyrics are enough to put me off because I see it as a pointless waste of life rather than a good thing.

"Do you believe in God?"
Written on the bullet
Say "Yes" to pull the trigger
"Do you believe in God?"
Written on the bullet
And Cassie pulled the trigger"

If I recall correctly, this is a reference to the Columbine High School massacre. A girl was hiding under a desk, one of the shooters found her and knowing she was religious this exchange happened.

Though there's some debate as to whether the exchange actually took place, or if it was even Cassie Bernal that this happened too.

I haven't read up on this subject in a while though, so I might have a few details wrong.

Yeah I heard, it's one of the reason I don't like the song. It paints her saying yes knowing he would shoot her as a good thing and that the singer would do the same.

That's not how I interpreted the song at all. The way I heard it, it sounded as though the singer was saying she would also answer yes in the same circumstances.

That's what I meant sorry. I can see how that sentence was confusing. The song makes it sound like saying yes is why she got shot. There is time for standing up for what you believe in and making a statement but this was not ongoing oppression of a group or trying to keep beliefs silent, it is a couple of students going off. You're not doing anything by declaring yes rather than lying and saying no other than throwing your life away.

 

[Heronblade]

And yes, when I saw the trailer for Farcry 3 awhile back which used this quote - even though it was used in a way that was supposed to be playful and humorous rather than serious - it made me not want to play the game. I can't imagine someone saying this in a way that isn't totally vacuous, even if it's 'good-humored' vacuity.

Spoiler: Minor and inconsequential spoiler here

It might change your mind to know that the quote is used as part of a ranting monologue by an undoubtedly insane sociopath. It is not intended as a serious comment, nor as a humorous one, but rather to emphasize the individual's fragile state of mind.

OT: My first choice has already been spoken for, time for option B.

"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" This is in my opinion a weak attempt to excuse the failings of certain human beings. Power, even absolute power, is not a corrupting force, it is a catalyst. One that often brings out the worst in those who wield it. But it is also just as easily capable of bringing out the best in the same. Many of humanity's greatest throughout history only grew in strength of character upon coming into power.

The problem we have, and the reason the previous quote seems to be accurate more often than not, is that those who actually seek power tend to be among the least capable of handling it responsibly. In spite of this, we keep handing power to these same people.

 

[JDLY]

"beautiful like diamonds in the sky"

Not sure what song it is this sentence is from, but it annoys me to no end. The person who wrote these lyrics most likely was trying to reference the stars in the night's sky, as I have often heard that starts sparkle just like diamonds in the night's sky. However, the way this sentence is phrased, they are talking about actual diamonds in the sky and well, we all know that airborne diamonds aren't a naturally occurring phenomenon, so I have absolutely no idea what kind of image the people of this song are trying to paint here...

Maybe a bit petty, but *aaaaah* [img="http://images.wikia.com/aceattorney/images/1/12/Von_Karma_Breakdown_3.gif"]
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That's from Rihanna's song "Diamonds"

Spoiler: The original

The only reason I know that is because one of my favorite bands, Steam Powered Giraffe, jokingly did a cover of it. And the cover is a hell of a lot better than the original. Seriously, if you wanna hear amazing vocals go watch this video.

Spoiler: The much better cover because of amazing vocals

And if you like that go check out their original music, there's quite a bit of it and another album is on the way shortly.

 

[shootthebandit]

Thrift shop. I like macklemore but the lyrics are stupid

Now, in that song's defense, that's not even on of their BEST songs... Not even close...
I still don't get why Thrift Shop is still more popular than any of Macklemore's other BETTER songs?
(I almost had that same exact question referring to Gangnam Style...)

I like macklemore and i like thrift shop. I know its far from their best song but its still kinda funky. I suppose buying a grandads old coat from 99 cents is a better lyric than someone like florida singing about bugattis and maybachs.

Im really digging 'same love' at minute. Lyrics on that song are really good

Edit: gangnam was popular as a novelty song. Its the kinda song that a club will play 3/4 of the way through a night when everyone is drunk. We all know the dance and it has a good beat. The whole club is just gonna start dancing as opposed to bopping your head to the latest jay-z track or fist bumping to the latest avicii tune.