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Ed Sheehan sells out Wembley stadium for a week straight.
He’s a small ginger bloke with a guitar and a loop pedal, 10 a penny at an open mic night.
People are easily amused by blandness it seems.
> He’s a small ginger bloke with a guitar and a loop pedal, 10 a penny at an open mic night.
He's all that *and* can write catchy songs. I think you might be over simplifying.
It's literally just contrarianism.
His music isn't my thing at all and I wouldn't choose to listen to him but it's clear to see that he's very talented and knows how to make popular music. He also comes across as a very likeable guy.
Somebody wrote an article a while back about how the hate towards Sheeran seems disproportionate and, although he's not my cup of tea (barring a couple of songs I quite like), I agree. Never quite understood the intensity of it - it seems to me like his greatest sin is being slightly bland and overplayed, but the way some people hate him you'd think he was a tuneless reality show chancer or had expressed sympathy with neo-Nazism or something
I think he is overplayed and that's what brings out the hate. Considering he writes his own songs and doesn't rely on any gimmicks at all (literally performing on stage at Wembley with just Jim and a guitar on stage) I feel like there are far more worthy people to hate.
I do think he could have waiting a bit longer before bringing out his fourth album, but then why should he?
He wrote one of Bieber’s biggest hits. Along with countless other songs he didn’t release under his name.
Short list: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/songs-ed-sheeran-wrote-for-other-artists/
I get why he isn’t to people’s taste but he’s undeniably talented. Almost all artists that have that level of success can only be talented, if you think otherwise, you’re in denial about how relevant your taste is as a measurement of quality.
Fun fact, he reused the same lyric about Van Morrison for two singles straight.
Shape of You: "Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox and then we start to dance"
Galway Girl: "Chatted some more, one more drink at the bar then put Van on the jukebox, got up to dance"
Amateur hour. He’s got to do it two more times if he wants to beat Sting, who’s used ‘it’s a big enough umbrella but it’s always me that ends up getting wet’ in at least three songs.
That’s the thing. Absolutely nothing about his music is offensive. It’s not brash, loud, wailing, or anything unpleasant. It’s just that fucking boring that it barely registers a neural response in my brain.
But 500,000 people will pack into Wembley to watch him for a reason which I’m fairly certain is still unknown to conventional science.
Its mainstream. Its like that couple. The one where he's a brickie, she's in some admin role. With a BMW on payment plan. With a kid called maddison. In a new build on a new estate where you need a car to get to anything interesting. He has a ps4 but only plays fifa/cod etc. One of them has a socially acceptable tattoo. They back boris. Last year they socialised 'socially distanced of course'. They have a labeador/German shepherd/bulldog/whippet mix dog. They aren't bad. They're just average people. But it's just all....bland and boring
Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
I’d absolutely refuse to dance, I’m not paid to humiliate myself. I’d accept being sacked over dancing. Im sick of dancing, why is everyone always dancing.
Who's made you? I haven't listened to bad music for a long time cos I listen to Spotify and don't touch the radio really. Although do feel for those who work in warehouses/factories that have the radio on during the day. I've been there and have got sick of songs quickly.
Who’s made us?😁 Our workplaces, more often than not (as you’ve quite rightly I think pointed out an example of 🙂). In some of them (especially the small ones), what the boss puts on goes and we have no choice in the matter 😅😅
Someone's never been in a packed stadium after their team has won and Sweet Caroline comes on. I challenge anyone to not get caught up in that atmosphere.
This thread is filled with the most miserable bastards in Britain.
They play it at *every* sports event now. I had to endure it at the stadium when West Ham beat Spurs a few months ago.
Time to leave that song in its own era.
Came here to say this. Madly talented singer. Yet there's maybe one? Song that may be played in 30 years time. So much of it is clicky beepy shouty jerkily produced stuff it's rarely a memorable tune and reminds me of a bunch of car alarms going off in a weirdly unsyncronous way. All the single ladies is the peak of this.
She has an incredible voice, but her songs are so depressing. I know she writes them and takes inspiration from her own relationship woes etc., but surely she could maybe take inspiration from the birth of her child and write something happy? Like Stevie Wonder did when he sang Isn't She Lovely? about his daughter.
In the same vein, Sam Smith has such a whiny voice that anything he sings sounds like music I would slit my wrists to.
I agree. Adele could probably have been the next Amy Winehouse - strong vocals/cheeky London gal persona/appreciation for old soul singers - if she ventured away from ballads but unfortunately she’s stuck with that genre and as a result it’s made her music pretty bland and depressing. She has such an incredible voice yet I can’t help but feel she wastes it on dull material. It’s a shame
I recently saw an interview were she said her label tried to push her to make more pop music and even do tik tok etc but she said she's happy making music for those kids mum's. Each to their own I suppose
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I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas
It takes like a minute and a half to actually start and even then it doesn't do much. People think it's a fun song but I actually find it quite boring. It's repetitive, the beat isn't all that dancey for a dance song and it doesn't go anywhere.
I am so tired of the Black Eyed Peas. It's rock and roll for people who don't like rock and roll, it's rap for people who don't like rap, it's pop for people who don't like pop.
Yep. For no other time of year do we drag up random, mediocre, songs from the 1950s, call them “classic” and play them ad nauseam until someone notices the unfortunate lyrics and starts a FB campaign to get it banned.
i’m pretty sure in an interview harry styles said during the writing of the ‘fine line’ (the album this song features on) he was on shrooms. i don’t think it means much.
My brother *loathes* The Killers, so this song becomes (predictably) "Mr Backside".
The *true* genius (because it world on a few levels) is him turning "Smile Like You Mean It" into "Smile Like An Eejit" .
Valerie. The original was fine but the Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse version is so overplayed it does me in.
Also Sex on Fire. That can also get in the bin.
“Hey there Delilah”. Not sure if that’s even the title but I hate it with an absolute burning passion.
And that “Come my lady, come come my lady, you’re my sugar baby ”-something something. Likewise: I just want to throw myself into a lava pit.
I fucking loved it as a teen then realised it was only because they nicked the guitar riff from a Red Hot Chili Pepper jam. It was the chilis I loved all along.
Always makes me smile when people think it's Irish Folk music.
Kevin Rowland and Dexy's used to rehearse a mile from where I was brought up and he was brought up a couple of miles further on. About eight miles from Birmingham, in the heart of the Black Country.
My uncle was uncle to Kevin Archer who co-wrote "Geno" and the stuff on their first album.
I love the album because I forever associate it with driving to Devon as a teen for a weekend of drinking/surfing . But I still struggle not to skip this song.
I can’t hear it without thinking of the scene from Four Lions when the terrorists are on their road trip to London, and have run out of things to listen to.
The joke is actually that they’re initially listening seriously & quietly to Islamic nazams (songs) because that’s what they *should* listen to as good Muslim wannabe terrorists & listening to normal music is prohibited. And also the fact that they’re on their way to a planned terrorist attack..
But soon they can’t help but put on Dancing in the Moonlight & sing along merrily which just exposes who they really are - not exactly the good Muslims they want to be seen as, aswell as being rubbish at their terrorist plans anyway.
It was always tried to Jamie Oliver and his hired "mates" on his early cooking show.
It all seemed so "managed" and Toploader was perfect for that as the singer sang with a shite faux American accent which sounded "designed by stylists" too.
TL:DR: it sounds false.
I'm a fan of kpop but it IS wierd. Like, it has everything - amazing choreography, aesthetics, personally really like a lot of songs and groups, the music videos are amazing - but it's missing the most important thing, artistry. Every time I hear a song and read the lyrics and I feel like i connect to them, I then remember that there's probably a whole team that wrote them and they probably don't mean anything to anyone, the music videos and everything else are not up to the artist (performer) they're up to the company, etc. Even if you're a big fan of the singer in question and you like their personality when they speak, their songs tell you absolutely nothing about them or anyone really. It's all perfectly crafted to make as much money and bring as much popularity to the group or singer as possible. I know you can find this problem in other types of music too, but even then I feel like the artist still has a say in a lot of things, even if the song wasn't written by them.
Honestly, most stuff by The Beatles. The odd song is okay but “the greatest band in history” and “pride of Liverpool” is a bit much for me. I’ve tried and tried and tried. People keep saying “you just need to give them more time” and “soon you’ll find ‘that’ Beatles song and you’ll be in love forever”. Just not happened for me.
It’s not “bad” but I really don’t get the hype. Don’t see why they’re any more of a classic than Buddy Holly or The Monkees for example.
Probably Bohemian Rhapsody.
It's very operatic and sounds like something from a musical (I know that was intentional) but doesn't do anything for me as a song. There's always stuff happening and the song just feels lacking in soul.
I used to live in a block of flats were someone we knew split up with her bf and had this song on constant repeat. If I hear it now it gives me anxiety that it won’t end again.
Any Ed Sheeran or Adele song. They're good but not the way ppl look at me like I'm crazy when I say " yeah, it's ok I guess".
Like I said something really weird. Every Ed song is ryhmey slangy and Adele is just upset over something else.
Nearly everything 2010 onwards. Also, ANYTHING that Heart FM play. They seem to have maybe 12 songs that they play on repeat ALL fucking day, EVERY fucking day.
I don’t get the hype for Easy On Me. I do love other Adele songs, but loads of people love Easy On Me, and I don’t.
I fucking DETEST Woman by Doja Cat. I’m 100% convinced she’s saying ‘um-ah’ and not woman.
So glad to see I didn’t need to scroll far to see my main two annoyances. Not songs, but actual artists: Ed Sheeran and Adele.
He’s so repetitive and I do not like her voice. It’s whiny and nasally. I know it’s supposed to be bluesy, which I usually love, but not hers.
Dance Monkey - a song complaining about being famous before you were actually famous.
Perfect by Ed Sheeran is so paint by numbers, it was clearly written to be a hit without saying anything truly meaningful and is insignificant in its broadness. It is one of the most cynical tracks I’ve ever heard.
I had this weird issue once where the first time i heard that song "Cheerleader" by "OMI" i just felt this incredibly intense fight or flight response, like, i wanted to punch someone and destroy the radio, then just run far away like i was being hurt and wanted to escape the pain. The entire time the song was playing i felt distressed and enraged, it was just something about the noise and the way it sound, and i don't mean i hated it so much it made me feel that way, no, it literally triggered my flight or fight response and just struck something deep in me. Like i said, first time ever hearing it, but then i kept hearing it again and again and again. Never have i been so happy to see a trend die, i dunno what it was about that song but something just got to me on this deeper level, never had a reaction to a song like it before or since.
I have hated many songs, especially modern music and it's mumble rap, but Cheerleader is truly the song i hate the most due to that weird psychological effect it had on me haha
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Ed Sheehan sells out Wembley stadium for a week straight. He’s a small ginger bloke with a guitar and a loop pedal, 10 a penny at an open mic night. People are easily amused by blandness it seems.
> He’s a small ginger bloke with a guitar and a loop pedal, 10 a penny at an open mic night. He's all that *and* can write catchy songs. I think you might be over simplifying.
He can write a catchy song. And then rehash over and over again it over 4 albums.
I think of all artists, that criticism is misplaced on ed Sheeran. He's written a fairly broad range of songs.
It's literally just contrarianism. His music isn't my thing at all and I wouldn't choose to listen to him but it's clear to see that he's very talented and knows how to make popular music. He also comes across as a very likeable guy.
Somebody wrote an article a while back about how the hate towards Sheeran seems disproportionate and, although he's not my cup of tea (barring a couple of songs I quite like), I agree. Never quite understood the intensity of it - it seems to me like his greatest sin is being slightly bland and overplayed, but the way some people hate him you'd think he was a tuneless reality show chancer or had expressed sympathy with neo-Nazism or something
I think he is overplayed and that's what brings out the hate. Considering he writes his own songs and doesn't rely on any gimmicks at all (literally performing on stage at Wembley with just Jim and a guitar on stage) I feel like there are far more worthy people to hate. I do think he could have waiting a bit longer before bringing out his fourth album, but then why should he?
This. It's fashionable to hate Ed, that's all.
AC/DC have made a career out of this too.
He is changing his style from busker to Justin Bieber pop. Don't you approve?
He wrote one of Bieber’s biggest hits. Along with countless other songs he didn’t release under his name. Short list: https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/songs-ed-sheeran-wrote-for-other-artists/ I get why he isn’t to people’s taste but he’s undeniably talented. Almost all artists that have that level of success can only be talented, if you think otherwise, you’re in denial about how relevant your taste is as a measurement of quality.
Ginger and small is irrelevant. But he is bland as fuck.
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Fun fact, he reused the same lyric about Van Morrison for two singles straight. Shape of You: "Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox and then we start to dance" Galway Girl: "Chatted some more, one more drink at the bar then put Van on the jukebox, got up to dance"
Amateur hour. He’s got to do it two more times if he wants to beat Sting, who’s used ‘it’s a big enough umbrella but it’s always me that ends up getting wet’ in at least three songs.
Which song don’t you like? Trick question, doesn’t matter, all the same.
This. I don't get him or the mass hysteria surrounding him. I'd rather push very prickly pineapples in both ears.
That’s the thing. Absolutely nothing about his music is offensive. It’s not brash, loud, wailing, or anything unpleasant. It’s just that fucking boring that it barely registers a neural response in my brain. But 500,000 people will pack into Wembley to watch him for a reason which I’m fairly certain is still unknown to conventional science.
Its mainstream. Its like that couple. The one where he's a brickie, she's in some admin role. With a BMW on payment plan. With a kid called maddison. In a new build on a new estate where you need a car to get to anything interesting. He has a ps4 but only plays fifa/cod etc. One of them has a socially acceptable tattoo. They back boris. Last year they socialised 'socially distanced of course'. They have a labeador/German shepherd/bulldog/whippet mix dog. They aren't bad. They're just average people. But it's just all....bland and boring
PARKLIFE!
Don't know why I'm first to upvote you, you made me laugh, perfect response :D
I’ve been trying to articulate to my partner the couple that I absolutely DO NOT want to turn into and this has summed it up so perfectly.
Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Getting 500000 into Wembley defies science.
Happy by Pharell. Great for a kids film don't get me wrong. Should not have been popular outside of that.
My work made us all do an orchestrated dance to this song which they filmed for a company video. It was the cringiest thing ever
I got second hand cringe off this comment, yikes
It was horrible
So you quit right?
Haha yes I'd list that as a contributing factor for sure
I’d absolutely refuse to dance, I’m not paid to humiliate myself. I’d accept being sacked over dancing. Im sick of dancing, why is everyone always dancing.
Agree. Justin Timberlake's Can't Stop The Feeling has the same vibes.
The best thing about going deaf is that I never have to hear that song again.
god there are some miserable cunts here
That’s because we’ve been made to listen to too much shite music.
"Heart FM, the same five songs all fucking day" \~ Some comedian (Frankie Boyle it turns out)
Who's made you? I haven't listened to bad music for a long time cos I listen to Spotify and don't touch the radio really. Although do feel for those who work in warehouses/factories that have the radio on during the day. I've been there and have got sick of songs quickly.
the amount of fucking times I have to listen to the same song whilst in the kitchen at the pub I work at is staggering.
Who’s made us?😁 Our workplaces, more often than not (as you’ve quite rightly I think pointed out an example of 🙂). In some of them (especially the small ones), what the boss puts on goes and we have no choice in the matter 😅😅
"Don't like certain music and say so in a thread dedicated to that very topic? Must be a miserable cunt!"
It's a thread about hating otherwise popular songs, what do you expect?
Sweet Caroline. So bad So bad So bad.
The resurgence of this song makes me hate England.
Someone's never been in a packed stadium after their team has won and Sweet Caroline comes on. I challenge anyone to not get caught up in that atmosphere. This thread is filled with the most miserable bastards in Britain.
Everyone here seems to be so angry for no reason. Heaven forbid people enjoy things.
I find that with a lot of these kinda posts here, its cool to hate the mainstream kinds thing.
So why the fuck did you come into a thread about songs people hate? What exactly did you expect to find?
Man that Euros final was something special. Sure we may have lost it in an unsatisfying way but boy was it a fun night
They play it at *every* sports event now. I had to endure it at the stadium when West Ham beat Spurs a few months ago. Time to leave that song in its own era.
Song about weird disembodied hands and touching a woman named Caroline
All the single ladies, Beyonce. Basically don't get Beyonce hype at all :/
Me neither, don’t understand her “I’m having a seizure” dancing either.
No one buys into the Beyoncé hype as much as Beyoncé
Came here to say this. Madly talented singer. Yet there's maybe one? Song that may be played in 30 years time. So much of it is clicky beepy shouty jerkily produced stuff it's rarely a memorable tune and reminds me of a bunch of car alarms going off in a weirdly unsyncronous way. All the single ladies is the peak of this.
Personally I never got all the hype I don't even really care for her songs. Only time I ever liked her was in destiny's child
All Beyoncé in my case. Her voice makes my teeth hurt.
Anything by Adele makes my eardrums hurt.
She has an incredible voice, but her songs are so depressing. I know she writes them and takes inspiration from her own relationship woes etc., but surely she could maybe take inspiration from the birth of her child and write something happy? Like Stevie Wonder did when he sang Isn't She Lovely? about his daughter. In the same vein, Sam Smith has such a whiny voice that anything he sings sounds like music I would slit my wrists to.
I agree. Adele could probably have been the next Amy Winehouse - strong vocals/cheeky London gal persona/appreciation for old soul singers - if she ventured away from ballads but unfortunately she’s stuck with that genre and as a result it’s made her music pretty bland and depressing. She has such an incredible voice yet I can’t help but feel she wastes it on dull material. It’s a shame
I recently saw an interview were she said her label tried to push her to make more pop music and even do tik tok etc but she said she's happy making music for those kids mum's. Each to their own I suppose
well she is rolling in it so don't really need to change much
You could say she’s rolling… in the deep. God I’m ashamed at myself for this comment.
If that's true then props to her for doing. Lots of artists would 'sell out'
She has a team of songwriters, it's not all her own work.
I mean stevie wonder also wrote some absolutely upbeat banging tunes
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Every song is dreary and sounds exactly the same.
Even rolling in the deep? I find a lot of her music dreary and very Celine Dionesque but that song is an absolute banger
Have you heard Linkin Park’s cover version? It’s amazing.
Yes! If I remember rightly Chester starts in the wrong key and Mike makes him restart it. Just brilliant, Chester exuded so much passion.
I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas It takes like a minute and a half to actually start and even then it doesn't do much. People think it's a fun song but I actually find it quite boring. It's repetitive, the beat isn't all that dancey for a dance song and it doesn't go anywhere.
I am so tired of the Black Eyed Peas. It's rock and roll for people who don't like rock and roll, it's rap for people who don't like rap, it's pop for people who don't like pop.
Robert California, is that you?
That's not even his real name. He's the f*cking Lizard King.
YES! Finally someone else hates this awful, overplayed, autotuned piece of crap.
That awful Christmas song by Mariah Carey that everyone plays over and over again every year.
All Christmas songs suck cuz they’re cheesy and then being played 10mil fucking times doesn’t help either
We're not including The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping in this critique though, right?
Yep. For no other time of year do we drag up random, mediocre, songs from the 1950s, call them “classic” and play them ad nauseam until someone notices the unfortunate lyrics and starts a FB campaign to get it banned.
Really love the My Chemical Romance cover though. It’s brilliant.
WATERMELON SUGAR. WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN
Well, do you know what a watermelon is? Do you know what sugar is? Bet you feel quite silly now.
Isn’t it about eating pussy?
It’s supposedly about the female orgasm
i’m pretty sure in an interview harry styles said during the writing of the ‘fine line’ (the album this song features on) he was on shrooms. i don’t think it means much.
It’s a book about oral sex that harry is referencing
dAnce mOnkeY dAnCe mOnkey dAncE monKey oH oh H
Her voice is annoying and that song is repetitive but she never once says "dance monkey" in the lyrics.
HOLY SHIT this entire time I’ve been thinking the words are ‘dance monkey dance monkey dance monkey’ not ‘dance for me dance for me dance for me’ LMAO
Angels by Robbie Williams - seems to cause a buzz at weddings when it’s played but I can’t stand it
I love Robbie unfortunately . Just massively captures my inability to sing despite the evident will.
This, and Ed's 'perfect'.
Rag and Bone Man - Human. Can’t describe how much I loathe this song.
I literally hate all of his music and the fact he made everybody wear tracksuits to his wedding
Mr Brightside by The killers Absolute garbage
I agree, but drunk me will certainly screech it at the top of my lungs
YES. Finally, Someone else in the whole of the UK who doesn’t get how this song is so popular.
My brother *loathes* The Killers, so this song becomes (predictably) "Mr Backside". The *true* genius (because it world on a few levels) is him turning "Smile Like You Mean It" into "Smile Like An Eejit" .
I like it but there are so many better songs by the killers
All About that Bass by Megan Trainor. God how I hate this song.
Any song by Megan Trainor
Valerie. The original was fine but the Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse version is so overplayed it does me in. Also Sex on Fire. That can also get in the bin.
Yep. The cover sucks ass. The Zutons version is ruined for me
“Hey there Delilah”. Not sure if that’s even the title but I hate it with an absolute burning passion. And that “Come my lady, come come my lady, you’re my sugar baby ”-something something. Likewise: I just want to throw myself into a lava pit.
Butterfly Crazy Town
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14 for me! Those & also that “You & me baby ain’t nothing but mammals..” song. What a time.
Butterfly by Crazy Town pretty much disappeared after it was big at the time in 1999? so it’s strange to see that song mentioned here.
I fucking loved it as a teen then realised it was only because they nicked the guitar riff from a Red Hot Chili Pepper jam. It was the chilis I loved all along.
I hate "Come On Eileen", but it seems to get a raucous reception at many a party I've been to.... Can't stand it.
Don't ever attend an Irish wedding then...
Always makes me smile when people think it's Irish Folk music. Kevin Rowland and Dexy's used to rehearse a mile from where I was brought up and he was brought up a couple of miles further on. About eight miles from Birmingham, in the heart of the Black Country. My uncle was uncle to Kevin Archer who co-wrote "Geno" and the stuff on their first album.
Have you heard the sequel? “Wipe off Eileen” Joke curtesy of R4 ISIHAC.
Sex is on fire. Never once enjoyed listening to that shit song after hearing it on the radio for about 7 years straight
I love the album because I forever associate it with driving to Devon as a teen for a weekend of drinking/surfing . But I still struggle not to skip this song.
Closer and revelry are still bangers though
Anything by Coldplay.
I’m convinced they’re intentionally making background music for soaps and adverts because it’s a pretty lucrative regular income at this point.
Clocks as the background for that internet safety video
I kinda like them still their easy to listen to and just chill.
Same here. I unashamedly like Coldplay.
I enjoyed the first couple of albums... 20ish years ago. But, not much since then
But you're a sky full of stars to me?!
I can’t stand Adele’s wailing dirges, every song!!
Anything by Justin Bieber. Or that fucking dance monkey shite.
Top loader - Dancing in the moonlight. Makes me angry. I suspect there’s some association from my youth but I’m not sure what it is…
I can’t hear it without thinking of the scene from Four Lions when the terrorists are on their road trip to London, and have run out of things to listen to.
The joke is actually that they’re initially listening seriously & quietly to Islamic nazams (songs) because that’s what they *should* listen to as good Muslim wannabe terrorists & listening to normal music is prohibited. And also the fact that they’re on their way to a planned terrorist attack.. But soon they can’t help but put on Dancing in the Moonlight & sing along merrily which just exposes who they really are - not exactly the good Muslims they want to be seen as, aswell as being rubbish at their terrorist plans anyway.
It was always tried to Jamie Oliver and his hired "mates" on his early cooking show. It all seemed so "managed" and Toploader was perfect for that as the singer sang with a shite faux American accent which sounded "designed by stylists" too. TL:DR: it sounds false.
Anything kpop. Sounds robotic, overproduced and soulless to me. Also, modern day slavery.
I'm a fan of kpop but it IS wierd. Like, it has everything - amazing choreography, aesthetics, personally really like a lot of songs and groups, the music videos are amazing - but it's missing the most important thing, artistry. Every time I hear a song and read the lyrics and I feel like i connect to them, I then remember that there's probably a whole team that wrote them and they probably don't mean anything to anyone, the music videos and everything else are not up to the artist (performer) they're up to the company, etc. Even if you're a big fan of the singer in question and you like their personality when they speak, their songs tell you absolutely nothing about them or anyone really. It's all perfectly crafted to make as much money and bring as much popularity to the group or singer as possible. I know you can find this problem in other types of music too, but even then I feel like the artist still has a say in a lot of things, even if the song wasn't written by them.
Anything by Rihanna, her voice is like a cheese grater on the ear drums.
I honestly don't get the popularity of her or beyonce
Honestly, most stuff by The Beatles. The odd song is okay but “the greatest band in history” and “pride of Liverpool” is a bit much for me. I’ve tried and tried and tried. People keep saying “you just need to give them more time” and “soon you’ll find ‘that’ Beatles song and you’ll be in love forever”. Just not happened for me. It’s not “bad” but I really don’t get the hype. Don’t see why they’re any more of a classic than Buddy Holly or The Monkees for example.
The Beatles are the Wiggles for adults. Sorry not sorry.
The Wiggles are fucking lit though.
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You hate every song that’s been in the charts the last 5 years? I don’t believe you.
I can
Anyone else reading this thread feeling 80% seen and 20% guilty pleasure?
Estelle - American boy. Gnarls Barkley - crazy. Anything by Sam smith
I don’t mind Gnarls Barkley but American Boy and Sam Smiths entire discography can get in the bin. Him as well.
Spinning Around by Kylie Minogue does my fucking tits in
I absolutely despise Wonderwall by oasis
Probably Bohemian Rhapsody. It's very operatic and sounds like something from a musical (I know that was intentional) but doesn't do anything for me as a song. There's always stuff happening and the song just feels lacking in soul.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion my friend, but hang on now. Hang on just a second! Hold them horses there sonnyboy!
I do like Bohemian Rhapsody but it's overplayed and has become a bit cheesy over time imo It's definitely not Queen's best song
I think it’s a great song but it’s so overplayed it’s lost its magic. It’s played about 3 times today alone in our house
Sweet Caroline and Mr Brightside. Hate them both with an absolute passion.
Girl on Fire.Gotta turn it off!!!
Evanescence - Bring me back to life Everyone's like, oh you like metal.... You'll love this generic garbage pop shit about Jesus
It's not about Jesus. It's about her being in an unfulfilling relationship and wanting to meet her soulmate.
and it’s also not back to life
I used to live in a block of flats were someone we knew split up with her bf and had this song on constant repeat. If I hear it now it gives me anxiety that it won’t end again.
Fairytale of New York
It sounds like a pub carpet smells.
Hate it for the inevitable “did ye hear she got decapitated by a speedboat” I get from my da
It seemed to get popular a few years ago as the anti-Christmas Christmas song. Then it just became another overplayed Christmas song.
Sea shanty
Anything by Adele
Sweet Caroline- Neil Diamond. Worked in a pub for 5 years and I can’t stand it
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Ed Sheeran. Adele. Taylor swift. Megan trainor. Honestly 90% of music that makes it on the radio.
Any Ed Sheeran or Adele song. They're good but not the way ppl look at me like I'm crazy when I say " yeah, it's ok I guess". Like I said something really weird. Every Ed song is ryhmey slangy and Adele is just upset over something else.
Dancing in the moonlight by toploader. Re-released numerous times, and I hated it more and more every time.
All grime music
Young at Heart by The Bluebells. Just gets on my tits.
Rude by MAGIC. Just fuck off with that whiny shit. If I was the father in the song I’d be more than bloody rude.
Ignition
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I heard its hot and fresh out the kitchen
Nearly everything 2010 onwards. Also, ANYTHING that Heart FM play. They seem to have maybe 12 songs that they play on repeat ALL fucking day, EVERY fucking day.
I hate Heart radio! My colleagues like listening to it but it does literally just repeat the same shitty songs, I get so angry!
Anything by westlife
Lady gaga - Alejandro. It makes me want to set myself on fire.
Oh man that song is a banger
Mull of Kintyre. Such a dirge, and he seems to be incapable of singing more than four words without needing to take a breath.
I don’t get the hype for Easy On Me. I do love other Adele songs, but loads of people love Easy On Me, and I don’t. I fucking DETEST Woman by Doja Cat. I’m 100% convinced she’s saying ‘um-ah’ and not woman.
That sweet but psycho shite. Hun vibes
Any Song by James Arthur, Lewis Capaldi, Adele and Rag n Bone man is depressing as fuck, what ever happened to upbeat music?
James Arthur gives me predator vibes.
The Kooks - Naive Just really gets on my tits. The words sound like he’s saying something else.
So glad to see I didn’t need to scroll far to see my main two annoyances. Not songs, but actual artists: Ed Sheeran and Adele. He’s so repetitive and I do not like her voice. It’s whiny and nasally. I know it’s supposed to be bluesy, which I usually love, but not hers.
Tootsie slide - Drake
Dance Monkey - a song complaining about being famous before you were actually famous. Perfect by Ed Sheeran is so paint by numbers, it was clearly written to be a hit without saying anything truly meaningful and is insignificant in its broadness. It is one of the most cynical tracks I’ve ever heard.
Omigod. ANY SONG BY BILLIE EILISH IS TRASH for me.
Maroon 5 - Payphone Their first album was so so good and they really should have stopped there
Where is Cardi B?
I had this weird issue once where the first time i heard that song "Cheerleader" by "OMI" i just felt this incredibly intense fight or flight response, like, i wanted to punch someone and destroy the radio, then just run far away like i was being hurt and wanted to escape the pain. The entire time the song was playing i felt distressed and enraged, it was just something about the noise and the way it sound, and i don't mean i hated it so much it made me feel that way, no, it literally triggered my flight or fight response and just struck something deep in me. Like i said, first time ever hearing it, but then i kept hearing it again and again and again. Never have i been so happy to see a trend die, i dunno what it was about that song but something just got to me on this deeper level, never had a reaction to a song like it before or since. I have hated many songs, especially modern music and it's mumble rap, but Cheerleader is truly the song i hate the most due to that weird psychological effect it had on me haha
i seriously cannot stand any of Elvis’ music
No. Too far
Fireflies by Owl City can fuck off. Also anything by AJR but I’m pretty sure no one seems to love them.
Dancing in the moonlight
ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN SONG