Lyrics or quotes that make you cringe.

[The_Echo]

Which is all fine and dandy, except the words "to me" don't appear in the song.

It's implied. Because finding someone appealing in any way is an opinion 100% of the time.

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.

I'm looking at the lyrics right now and I'm not seeing this list. Rather, it's the singer going on and on about how he finds this girl beautiful.

Yes. That's preying on insecurity.

Oh Christ, is it so wrong to find shyness or modesty appealing? The girl is just plain shy as described by the lyrics. Perhaps because of her confidence being a bit shot, but shy nonetheless.

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

Alright, but the second line is "don't know what for," so clearly her insecurity isn't the highlight here.

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

Seems pretty plain as day to me.

Yes, it is clear.

The message here is that this girl doesn't use her looks, "being the way that you are is enough." In contrast to 'knowing you're beautiful' and using it to one's advantage. This girl speaks with her personality, not her body. She probably doesn't dress to impress, or do her hair all nice or whatever. I fail to see where this goes from a crush to predatory activity.

 

[Kolyarut]

In addition to echoing the nomination of Blurred Lines, with winter approaching can I also nominate "Baby, it's cold outside"? How two so overtly rapey songs got to be so mainstreamly popular I will never know.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I'm forced to listen to hip-hop almost every meal of the day because that is the preferred genre of the dining hall I eat at. (next closest one to me would take an extra ten minutes to get to). I'm not even going to bother to list the number of stupid crap I've heard coming from those songs. What I can't comprehend is how so much misogyny gets through in that dining hall.

Anyways, as for music I care about:

Dimmu Borgir, on their album Abrahadabra, used the term "ancient future" way too many times. I know it may sound cool the first time, but thinking about that term for just a little bit, even within the context of the album's themes, causes it to make no sense at all.

Also, one thing that has annoyed me with Morphia (gothic doom/death doom) are quotes like this:

I still see your shining face again
Your amazing beauty
Always turned this wretch into a man

We assumed it would never end
But time was not our friend
I cry out in the blackened sky
As I watch your beauty die
-from the song "Fading Beauty"

Cliched comment aside, this aspect of a woman's worth coming only in her beauty is quite problematic throughout their album Fading Beauty.

 

[Kolyarut]

Is it the look in your eyes,
Or is it this dancing juice?

That line isn't "dancing Jews"???

http://youtu.be/ZMcNX1AbeS8

 

[b.w.irenicus]

Metal elitism is the biggest joke I've ever had the pleasure to experience.

Yeah right, because you totally don't come across like an elitist.
To elaborate:

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

How old are they? The lead singer is 44? Does that count as a disability?

Yeah, they do that purely for their fun. Since when aren't adults allowed to do that?

I used to totally be into death metal and black metal and all that stuff - when I was 13. They write about absolute nonsense and then dilute their lyrics with unnecessarily large words to hide the fact that they're really not as smart and superior as they would like you to believe.

Except that's not what they do. They write about the most brutal stuff they can think of because that's what they like. There is little pretentious about it.

Please, your music is almost entirely a facade. There are fantastic musicians and artists among you, like The Faceless or Devin Townsend, but the rest are just cheap imitations with lyrics that contain absolutely no literary value apart from 'sounding cool.'

So you are to judge now whats music and whats a fascade?

If mainstream pop is more art than fashion, then why do you guys shoot down absolutely anything that isn't Meshuggah? Why do you guys attack innovation? Why do you guys look down upon people who prefer different styles of music? Why do you all have long hair and beards? Why do you call any band that doesn't "look metal" core?

Yeah thoses guys shurely exists, but they exists more or less within every subculture ever.

To make this clear: You are absolutly free to dislike Cannibal Corpse's lyrics. The reasons just seem pretty off to me. Perhaps that is because you start with Cannibal Corpse and drift into a general rant against metal/metal-fans.

 

[Fox12]

"An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think?" *begins making weird whale noises for the rest of the song*

No Allanis Morissette, I don't think any of that is ironic. Get a dictionary.

The there's this little gem.

 

[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.