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Post by bboat11 on Feb 7, 2016 4:10:41 GMT -5
We all have heard lyrics that do not sit well with us. Whether they are offensive, ineffectively written, or just plain stupid, they always cause us to shake our heads. Here are some that I can think of immediately:
"I'll sit you up on the kitchen sink And stick the pink umbrella in your drink." -Florida Georgia Line "Sun Daze" (Actually, just about every line of this song would qualify for me.)
"Her daddy was a mean old Mister." -Carrie Underwood "Blown Away" (Otherwise a wonderful song)
"I never knew that I could feel like this. Can hardly wait 'til our next kiss. You're so cool." -Martina McBride "I Love You" (I am in the minority who loves this song, but I will admit that this line is particularly corny.)
"Cadill-up-that-lac" -Eric Paslay "High Class" (Also "tonight we high class" is just stupid. Country don't just mess up syntax to tryin'a sound cool.)
"Back woods legit, don't take no shit. Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit." -Blake Shelton "Boys Round Here" (This line is so humorous though that I completely forgive it. He successfully pulls this off as something to laugh at rather than take seriously.)
I am sure I will have many more to add soon...
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 8, 2016 12:05:12 GMT -5
"The last sacred blessing and, hey / Feels like today" - Rascal Flatts, "Feels Like Today" (was that really the best rhyme the writers came up with?)
"If I could grant you one wish / I wish you could see the way you kiss / Ooh, I love watching you, ooh, baby / When you're driving me ooh, crazy" - Faith Hill, "The Way You Love Me" (number one, that's not how granting a wish works; number two, look at all the "ooh"s used to pad out a line that already uses a way overused rhyme scheme)
"God only cries for the living 'cause it's the living who are so far from home" - Diamond Rio, "God Only Cries" (ambiguous "only", and I don't like any interpretation of it -- does He cry for the living but not the dead? Does He cry for the living for this reason and no other? Does He want us all to die?)
"Free fallin' into your yum yum yum" (honestly didn't catch that line the first few listens -- and I was the only one unfazed by the pink umbrella in "Sun Daze"!) and "And you can kiss my ass, can’t help but say, it’s good to be Born in the USA" - Steven Tyler, "Red, White & You" (I hate jingoism)
"'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way" - Toby Keith, "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" (I really hate jingoism)
"They all walk funny when they're done, riding you know who" - Jerrod Niemann, "Donkey" (speaking of things in one's ass, congrats on the first ever sodomy reference in a country song)
"I turned around, I'm not a stalker" and "Climb in my bed, I'll take you for a ride" - Alan Jackson, "Country Boy" (really not terrible lines per se, but from his mouth they sound like the ramblings of a dirty old man)
Any lyric in "Friend Zone" by Danielle Bradbery (pick a sports metaphor and stick with it; are you doing football, baseball, jai alai, Calvinball, 43 Man Squamish? Also, what's this crap about a beat and a banjo?)
"In my daughter's eyes everyone is equal / Darkness turns to light and the world is at peace" - Martina McBride, "In My Daughter's Eyes" (I could tear apart this whole mound of glurge, but that line in particular really sticks out to me as a Chicken Soup for the Soul, feel good, happy mom kinda thing that just rubs me the wrong way)
"Hand me my feather duster / I'm cleaning house out of the gate / Before my heart starts caving in" - Kathy Mattea, "Clown in Your Rodeo" (way to completely derail the rodeo metaphor)
And of course, most of "Automatic", but you knew that already.
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Feb 8, 2016 21:43:49 GMT -5
" Hand me my feather duster / I'm cleaning house out of the gate / Before my heart starts caving in" - Tanya Tucker, "Clown in Your Rodeo" (way to completely derail the rodeo metaphor) I think you meant Kathy Mattea's song not Tanya Tucker's.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 8, 2016 22:22:55 GMT -5
" Hand me my feather duster / I'm cleaning house out of the gate / Before my heart starts caving in" - Tanya Tucker, "Clown in Your Rodeo" (way to completely derail the rodeo metaphor) I think you meant Kathy Mattea's song not Tanya Tucker's. Whoops. I was lookiing at my playlist and still messed that up.
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Feb 8, 2016 23:31:12 GMT -5
Ha! I was scrambling and googling trying to find a Tanya Tucker song that I had somehow missed.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 10, 2016 20:13:25 GMT -5
Hmm, I'm slightly surprised these two gems weren't mentioned as of yet:
Chase Rice - "Ready Set Roll"
"get your little fine ass on the step, shimmy up inside"
Luke Bryan - "That's My Kind Of Night"
"your little hot self over here, girl hand me another beer, yeah"
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Feb 13, 2016 5:29:00 GMT -5
Who could forget about "Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more" from Florida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" and "Let's tear it up, up" from Luke Bryan's "Kick the Dust Up"?
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Post by codyj100 on Feb 13, 2016 18:08:22 GMT -5
Who could forget about "Victoria's Secret ain't a secret no more" from Florida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" and "Let's tear it up, up" from Luke Bryan's "Kick the Dust Up"? Was in the car today, those songs came on a song a part from each other (with Sam Hunt in the middle nonetheless). Both lines caught my ear, glad you mentioned them. Anything from FGL makes me cringe...well, except for "Dirt."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 18:18:29 GMT -5
"Free-falling into your Yum Yum"
Steven Tyler "Red White & You" the song that will probably go down as the worst song of 2016 for country music unless Chris Lane tops it.
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Post by carriekins on Feb 13, 2016 18:24:03 GMT -5
She got a body/and she's naughty"
Dammit, Dierks.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 13, 2016 19:09:52 GMT -5
She got a body/and she's naughty" Dammit, Dierks. I've literally listened to "Bourbon In Kentucky" a dozen times over the past week, just to make my mind forget about his latest lead single.
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Post by carriekins on Feb 13, 2016 19:16:15 GMT -5
She got a body/and she's naughty" Dammit, Dierks. I've literally listened to "Bourbon In Kentucky" a dozen times over the past week, just to make my mind forget about his latest lead single. I'd managed to avoid hearing it on the radio so far, until today. That line just kills me.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 17, 2016 17:42:56 GMT -5
She got a body/and she's naughty" Dammit, Dierks. I'm guessing you didn't like "She's a Hottie" by Toby Keith either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 15:05:24 GMT -5
I woke uh-uh-up Still druh-uh-unk On your luh-uh-ove, on your luh-uh-ove Now I know why-eye-eye I'm feeling so high-igh-igh 'Cause I'm still druh-uh-unk On your love, on your luh-ove.
"Drunk On Your Love" by Brett Eldredge, written by Brett and Ross Copperman
My goodness, this song is awful.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 27, 2016 0:59:18 GMT -5
Jake Owen - "Eight Second Ride"
"Well I said hey girl what's your name? Haven't I seen you before? I recognized them dark green eyes when you came through the door Are you alone or are you with someone? She said a matter of fact I'm not So I took her hand that's when it all began and we headed towards the parking lot.
And she said hey boy, do you mind takin' me home tonight? 'Cause I ain't never seen a country boy with tires on his truck this high I said climb on up but honey watch the cup I've been spitting my dip inside and hold on tight 'Cause its gonna be wilder than any eight second ride"
It's certainly catchy but the lyrics are all kinds of terrible is you ask me.
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Post by countrymusicjunkie on Jun 27, 2016 2:09:39 GMT -5
Thomas Rhett-"Vacation"
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Post by d3vin44 on Jun 27, 2016 12:55:51 GMT -5
As much as I love the song, 'Something Worth Leaving Behind' by Lee Ann Womack.
"Its kinda like Elvis, you gotta die to be famous" - Pretty sure he was quite famous before dying.
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Post by Todd on Jun 30, 2016 13:38:56 GMT -5
"Wait, wait, I never had a chance to love you." White Lion - "Wait"
I know this is a rock song, but I decided to mention it anyway.
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Post by zjames on Aug 14, 2016 23:02:10 GMT -5
Jason Aldean - "Lights Come On"
You're a little shy thing with a wild side On a night like this, you just can't hide Cause it's time to live it up So come on and raise your cup If we're talkin' 'bout memories, Yeah, we're gonna make 'em Talkin' 'bout rules, You know we're gonna break 'em
This might be the most generic and boring lyric of any radio song in 2016. You're not breaking any rules with this verse, Jason.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 22, 2016 20:20:27 GMT -5
They said don't see him, She said his name is BillFaith Hill, "Wild One" Love this song but this line has always bothered me because it's so obvious that they did this to force a rhyme and it doesn't really "fit" (like I can't see the girl actually saying that his name is Bill in response to "don't see him.").
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Post by bboat11 on Sept 22, 2016 21:08:07 GMT -5
They said don't see him, She said his name is BillFaith Hill, "Wild One" Love this song but this line has always bothered me because it's so obvious that they did this to force a rhyme and it doesn't really "fit" (like I can't see the girl actually saying that his name is Bill in response to "don't see him."). I have never had a problem with that line, because I have always thought about it like if someone calls a dog "it" and you retort, "IT is a boy and HIS name is Patches." Like I assumed the girl's parents were so averse to the relationship that they refused to even acknowledge the guy's name, so when they say, "don't see him," the daughter responds, "His name is Bill!" because it's a retort that makes sense when somebody is refusing to even acknowledge somebody's identity. However, I could definitely see it being a forced rhyme as well, which does just make it awkward.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 22, 2016 21:14:08 GMT -5
They said don't see him, She said his name is BillFaith Hill, "Wild One" Love this song but this line has always bothered me because it's so obvious that they did this to force a rhyme and it doesn't really "fit" (like I can't see the girl actually saying that his name is Bill in response to "don't see him."). I have never had a problem with that line, because I have always thought about it like if someone calls a dog "it" and you retort, "IT is a boy and HIS name is Patches." Like I assumed the girl's parents were so averse to the relationship that they refused to even acknowledge the guy's name, so when they say, "don't see him," the daughter responds, "His name is Bill!" because it's a retort that makes sense when somebody is refusing to even acknowledge somebody's identity. However, I could definitely see it being a forced rhyme as well, which does just make it awkward. Yeah, I thought of that as well, but it just doesn't make much sense to me because saying "him" isn't the same as saying "it" or them being like "don't see that boy." Like, I get what you're saying, but I'm pretty positive either way that they did that only to force the rhyme. Basically, it sticks out to me as a bad lyric regardless of the plausibility of the line. It's just so weak compared to the thought put into the "won't/don't" rhyme of the first half of the verse.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 11, 2016 16:35:55 GMT -5
A few more:
"Lucinda Jones, working at the IHOP / Ten years worth of bacon, eggs, and tears" and "Them danged ole hiils will get you every time" - Lonestar, "Mountains" ("Bacon, eggs, and tears" just sounds cheesy, and "them danged ole hills" makes you sound like Yosemite Sam. If you didn't want to swear in the song, then what was wrong with something more dignified like, "You know, those hills will get you every time"?)
"Twenty years have came and went..." - Tim McGraw, "Angry All the Time" (otherwise a great song, but the blatantly incorrect grammar just scans horribly here. "Have come and gone" would've worked just fine)
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Post by Steven on Oct 20, 2016 20:28:05 GMT -5
"Yeah I'm chilling on a dirt road, Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones..."
- Jason Aldean - "Dirt Road Anthem"
First tune to pop in my head, lol.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 15, 2017 23:55:59 GMT -5
"She got a kiss that'll hit you like a heart attack I got the rifle, she's got the rack"
Dustin Lynch - "She Cranks My Tractor"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 23:57:51 GMT -5
"She got a kiss that'll hit you like a heart attack I got the rifle, she's got the rack"Dustin Lynch - "She Cranks My Tractor" That Song is just an outright cringe fest. Just makes me feel so uncomfortable!
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 16, 2017 13:55:02 GMT -5
"It's like I'm back in school and I'm in the last class And I'm passing time until the bell ring Having visions of summertime Wait a minute now, that's just later tonight"
Brantley Gilbert, "The Weekend". The school comparison really makes me want to make a "We all know Brantley dropped out of the 4th grade" joke, but I've been trying to move away from remarks that you'd find on Farce the Music.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 20:33:09 GMT -5
This isn't a bad lyric necessarily, but one that irks me in an otherwise great song.
"Sweet Annie"- Zac Brown Band
My heart still beats fast for you.
It just bothers me the way it sounds while he's singing. Seems like there would be better ways to write that.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Feb 18, 2017 12:13:31 GMT -5
"Dancin' cowboys, singin' horses Gypsy music, ringin' voices Dancin' cowboys, singin' horses Gypsy music, songs about love"
"Dancin' Cowboys" by the Bellamy Brothers. What a lazy chorus. Singing horses? Really?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 17:04:48 GMT -5
Another very bothersome lyric for me is from "Die A Happy Man".
"We danced in the dark, under September stars, in the pouring rain."
Now wait a minute Thomas...if you're dancing in the pouring rain, what stars are you seeing? I know the stars are up there, but if it's pouring rain, you're not seeing them. Just logically doesn't work and bothers the check out of me.
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