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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    I cannot stand Hallelujah.

    Everybody uses it as an emotional song for their emotional wedding slideshow, literally why???
    If you look up the meaning, you’ll see the song isn’t really praising the Lord or whatever these people want, it’s like they just heard “Hallelujah” and ignored everything else.

    So now you have the bride and groom’s smiling pictures scrolling by while the dude is rambling about “She tied you to a kitchen chair, She broke your throne and she cut your hair”, WTF??? How come no one ever found this awkward???
    Yeah I get it, Samson and Delilah, not really a good match for a wedding!

    And it’s overused to shit. Whatever deep meaning this song has, I cannot stand to hear it for the umpteenth time.
    Especially not the music composing ramble of the opening verse.
    Shut the fuck up about the the minor fall and the major lift.
    Please use literally anything else for your photo montage I beg you.

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 months ago

      Conversely, I absolutely LOVE that song… However, I was introduced to it from the Leonard Cohen album it was originally released on. Everything after has been a crappy cover.

      Cohen gives it the gravity it deserves, and you truly understand that it’s not a religious song.

      At least, not religious in the way the masses see it as. It’s more the religion you find in a really great orgasm.

      There’s a Leonard Cohen documentary where he talks about it taking decades to write, verses that were added and lost, more explicit verses… Leonard Cohen was amazing.

      • devdoggy@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        I also heard this song as a Cohen song.

        As a interesting aside, he performed at the Isle of Wight festival. Before he performed, there started a riot on the Isle of Wight. Well, the beginnings of a riot but the producers of the production decided they needed to get Cohen on stage. So, at 1-2am in the morning, they bang on Cohen’s trailer saying, “Mr Cohen, we need you out here!” Blah blah blah…

        They are doing this and the crowd is going bananas. Burning the stage, lighting shit on fire in the audience, you know, the general shit you might do in an inattentive security force (I can’t speak to that). So, the crowd was kinda out of control.

        So, Cohen comes out and he’s got slippers on, his PJs, he’s dressed for bed. And he gets on stage and looks out at everyone and he says, “Does everyone here have a match?”

        And everyone is astounded at this statement because of course, everyone has a match?!?

        Cohen says, “Can everyone who has a match, light it?”

        Everyone lights their match.

        “Take a look around, all those matches are people.”

        Then he started to play his first song, no idea which one. The crowd calmed down and took care of people the rest of the weekend. They didn’t light the stage of fire again, they didn’t burn any cars. It was a very peaceful concert, because of Leonard Cohen.

        I love this story about Cohen so much because he could be a performer and a calmer.

  • El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip
    49·
    2 months ago

    The fact that this was posted 7 hours ago and nobody has said “All I want for Christmas is you” by Mariah Carey warrants an entire episode of Unexplained Mysteries imo.

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know what it’s actually called, but I call it “The Mexican Beeping Song”. It was on the playlist at a Mexican restaurant once, and I offered the server $50 he could turn it down/ off /change the station / anything to make it stop. He looked at me with a pained expression and just said “I would do it for free if I could, I hate this too”.

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
      7·
      2 months ago

      You’re thinking of El Sonidito by the Hechizeros Band. The whole song is basically just a dude yelling “UNO DOS TRES CUATRO!” while mashing a single key on a keyboard over and over. That song was on one of the radio stations in Grand Theft Auto 5, and I remember almost every NPC car seemed to always be playing that song and it always drove me nuts having to hear it all the time.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    2 months ago

    Whatever the title of “This girl is on fire” is.

    Pretty sure it’s supposed to be empowering or something but all I hear is ThIs guRl iZ oN FiiIiiRrrrrrRrreee!!! two hundred times in a row.

    Like okay she’s on fire. Got it. Get damn fire extinguisher or something and SHUT UP.

    Honorary shout out to the 80℅ of songs on the radio thst are about relationships. You know there’s more topics that exist? Does it ALWAYS have to be about relationships?

    And Christmas songs on eternal repeat starting before Halloween. Thanks, radio. I hate Christmas songs now. Not because they suck, but because you suck gor playing them over and over FOR HALF THE YEAR.

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
      11·
      2 months ago

      I shit you not, that entire song is just Alicia Keys finding different ways to say “this girl is on fire”. She’s just a girl and she’s aflame, etc. There’s nothing of substance to be found.

  • weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact! I was literally tortured (yes, actually for real) by Collective Soul so anytime I hear one of their two “hit” songs I get flung into PTSD flashbacks. I have to cover my ears and basically sink to the floor or immediately leave the area if that’s possible.

    Suffice to say I hate them.

    Also I was a retail slave for over a decade and hate all Christmas music. Super mega hate.

    Edit: abused by the music, not the band. Sorry I didn’t mean to be misleading.

  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
    32·
    2 months ago

    That shitty version of I’m Blue that has the laziest lyrics ever written with a singer that has an obnoxious nasally voice. “I’m good, yeah I’m feeling alright, this is gonna be the best freaking night of my life” sounds like the first lyrics she came up with when she woke up that morning. That nasally “na na na na na” at the end also grinds my gears. So glad that song isn’t being played on the radio anymore, I’d much rather listen to the original I’m Blue Da Ba Dee for an hour straight than listen to this version even once.

  • Deacon@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney. He is one of the greatest songwriters of the modern age, and my hot take is that only someone as good as him could write a song so bad.

    But it should be a war crime.

  • officermike@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months ago

    Don’t know if I can pick a singular least favorite. I have entire artists I despise for their particular vocal styles.

    Over-the-top wailers: Adele, Gotye

    Pouty mumblers: Lana Del Ray, Billie Eilish

    Billy goat bleeting: Stevie Nicks

    Take your pick of their respective overplayed hits and mash them together. That’s my most hated song.

    Edit: forgot Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, sounds like he swallowed his tongue

    • Shellbeach@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 months ago

      Ouuuhhh, can you name more things you hate? I love all of those and might find new favorites through your dislikes.

    • Darohan@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 months ago

      This is probably going to get me attacked, but I dislike Chappell Roan for the same reason. Her songs are… alright. I’m not the target audience, but I like the style generally, I just can’t get past her voice.

    • Balon_Josaca@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 months ago

      Ooh, Green Day.

      Yeahhh… I’d say if you don’t like his vocal style then all of the songs are going to be ehhh, I personally enjoy a few albums right now, since I’m a rock (generally mainstream stuff, grunge, nu-metal, some punk) enjoyer and can listen through it…

      Though, I’m curious, what songs specifically did you hear it from?

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 months ago

      Scatman John did a WAYYYYY better virtual duet with Louis Armstrong years earlier. It’s a nice catchy song about the history of Jazz and Louis’ influence on the genre.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Radio Gaga by Queen.

    I imagine being forced to listen to anything on a loop for an entire week would have the same effect. (worked on a cruise ship that was in the final stages of construction and to test the PA system, they played that song. On loop. For an entire 7 days.)

    • d00ery@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      All we hear is radio goo goo, radio gaga.

      Great / evil choice with those lyrics 😂😈

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Last Christmas. Hate it so much.

    Also Independence Day by Martina McBride, but my reason for hating it is silly.

    Honestly the song, about a woman escaping domestic violence, is fine. But there is a line that frustrates me.

    The chorus goes like this:

    “Let freedom ring
    Let the white doves sing
    Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
    Let the weak be strong
    Let the right be wrong
    Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay,
    It’s Independence Day!”

    This got used by Rush Limbaugh for his awful radio show. And that penultimate line infuriates me, because it illustrates how evangelicals do not understand their own religion, which has led to them embracing vengeance, power, and fascism. (Not that the song led them to that, it’s a symptom.)

    The stone rolling away, referring to Jesus’s resurrection, is very clearly described in the Bible as the sign that sins are forgiven. That’s the whole point of the religion, that everyone is a sinner and in need of a savior. The stone rolling away means the guilty don’t pay.

    But evangelicals have twisted their religion so much they think the important part is about punishing those who don’t follow their rules. It’s about worshipping power. So the stone rolling away means Jesus is about to kick some guilty ass or some nonsense.

    Additionally, because irony is dead, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find domestic abusers belting that refrain at the top of their lungs, not knowing what the song is about, because of Rush fucking Limbaugh.