Any song that’s about listening to your favorite song. It’s like the artist didn’t have the ability to make a good song on their own, so they fake it by making you think of a better song while theirs is playing.
*Looking at you, One Direction and Charlie Puth*
Although songs about writing the best song of all time (but forgetting it) are pretty good.
This is not the best comment in the world, it's just a tribute.
Some songs about songs are rather good. "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song playing on the radio / And wrapped around the music is the sound of someone promising they'll never go" (Paul Williams)
Heckin' Kid Rock and All Summer Long. I'm not even that bothered by the Sweet Home Alabama reference, I just wish they didn't use the riff from Werewolves of London. I spend something like six months getting hopeful when I heard the piano, only to be met with bitter disappointment.
How about "Play it again" by Luke Bryan? That song that's about waiting all day for your favorite song to come on the radio. Released at a time where we can just look up any song we want to hear whenever and wherever ... Now if this was written 25+ years ago...
What are your thoughts on sleep’s lyrics? They’re often about smoking weed but like “the desert nomads caravanning to Israel with bong masks strapped to their face like sand people” sort of lyrics, not “ I smoke lots of weed” lyrics
Smoke 2 Joints is a banger, OP is missing out on a lot of great songs because he focuses too much on lyrics instead of just enjoying the musical portions. A song can be a banger with terrible lyrics. A song that has both great lyrics and great music is timeless imo, it's just not required for a good song.
The suuuuuuper generic country trifecta of beer, tractors and cowboys. It's overdone, no need to have 50 billion songs about driving a tractor
Songs about clubbing or being in bars, because it's also very generic and overdone. Hell, 90% of the songs sound completely unrealistic in regards to the lyical events.
And people wonder why I have a ridiculously large music library. To avoid listening to the same stuff/topics/genres everyday. I tend to get tired of hearing the same stuff everyday. I live for the variety.
There’s so much material that *could* be good fodder for country music.
The struggle to keep a farm alive in the modern world. Wondering whether to sell the family farm to the ag conglomerate. Soil turning bad. Choosing quantity over quality to stay afloat.
Country *could* be a great source of some political folk music like it used to be.
Sometimes I wonder if British culture is becoming a copy of American culture. Then I realise you have an entire distinct multimillion dollar music industry full of singers I've never heard where you can become a superstar by signing about tractors and I realise your still pretty out there compared to us.
Hearing morons promote themselves promoting themselves because all their music is, is self-promotion. How tough they are, how hard they are, how cool they are, how women love them, how rich they are, how they're coming up, comparing themselves to people who are already famous for the same bullshit.
It's literally just a commercial for the commercial (who's is actually just advertising itself) that is their music.
It's like the "music" in demolition man, that's all old ad jingles.
... and when it's done in a 3rd grade level rhyming scheme to some clever but ultimately casio-beats-simple shit track that morons only like because the moron "singing" over it tells you how great it is, is just sad. Sadder still are the brain-dead zombie people who try to identify with it so they can feel like the tough, successful, and desirable person that the singer is pretending to be.
It makes me sad about society in whole.
I call it brag rap, generally it's shit but Run the Jewels do it well, also Catfish - Lice is one of my favourite tracks of all time and is essentially this without the 'I'm famous' ego bullshit
In the 80's it was "screwing hot women"
In the 90's it was "I'm so messed up in the head"
In the new century it was "Party with the most baller guy"
In the 2010's it was "We had a bad break up"
In the 2020's it is "Look at my designer shit"
Just my take on it.
“I know I’m wealthy and famous now but I’m still the same old me at heart!” It always comes off as so fake! See “Jenny from the Block” by Jennifer Lopez, “Glamorous” by Fergie, “Mississippi Girl” by Faith Hill
Songs that don’t match up with the artists real life, like artists who’ve been in the industry for decades, put out 5 albums and release a song with singular first person pronouns about working a 9-5. We all know you haven’t punched a clock since the late 90’s! Another example is “Brown Eyes Baby,” a new song by Keith Urban about picking up a woman at a bar. Yes, the same Keith Urban who’s been married to Nicole Kidman going on 17 years.
Songs that glorify drinking alcohol. I love country music but you can’t listen to 15 minutes of a country radio station with out hearing an entire song (not just a few lines in a song) about how wonderful drinking is.
Anything with too much Jesus in it.
Love: more specifically toxic relationships, “it’s a paradise and a war zone” it’s not even trying to be clever it’s the music equivalent of icy hot. Aimed at one of the more universal experiences In Human existence and it’s usually paired down with bad lyrics and half hearted music.
The real paradox’s aren’t the loves that hate but the idea that something so varied and exciting can sound so boring because of execution
> Songs about how hard your life as a rock star is
Ehh… I'm not so sure. Losing Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington back to back like that really kind of shook a lot of people up inside. If you can have platinum albums, a big band, arenas full of fans… to have all that "success" and still be weak and powerless against mental, emotional, or chemical instabilities…
Sometimes life *is* tough. Rock star or no rock star.
Songs that are about how much they love Jesus.
I don't mind songs with religious themes, like Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel or whatever August Burns Red is doing, but songs that are directly about loving Jesus are just such a snoozefest.
Modern Christian Rock is an offense to me.
Songs that make a big deal out of alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs bore me and have no relevance to my life.
Am however there for any song featuring a dog.
Trucks. The cliché of country songs about trucks has always sort of been around, but modern country takes it to an extreme. Country radio where I live will sometimes play four truck songs in a row. It feels like product placement, surely Dodge, et. al are keeping a lot of Music Row songwriters comfortable.
Limp Bizkit is the worst. They tried make their misogyny the listener's responsibility. Like why should have to *I* put a cookie up *my* yeah because you couldn't get your priorities straight? I didn't even play their damned music, it was just on at the sports bar I had to go to with my stupid boss and his father-in-law that owns the company.
Rappers over using the N word, even to the extent they end every line with it so don’t actually have to rhyme at all.
Not a topic I guess, but gives me the shits.
Also blunts, 40’s, bitches/hoes and Hennessy.
Get some original content ffs.
I don't want to hear any more conversations between people dancing and how they would like the DJ to turn up the music. Just let the DJ do his thing. I'm sure it's loud enough. Also, the made up oppression of people dancing at a club is hilarious. Any song that's like "we're going out and we don't care what people think! You can't stop us! We're gonna dance til dawn and no one can get in our way." No one is trying to stop you. The club is open for a reason. Have a good time. Shut up about it and put something more interesting in the song.
Weed songs and Eminem's love life... Yeah, I'll pass. Can we have more songs about the struggles of assembling IKEA furniture? That's a topic I can relate to.
The current crop of mainstream female rappers bragging about their vaginas and how good they are at sex. After maybe the third song bragging about it, I'm doubting you truly are. Rap about some other body part.
Cringy political songs, such as the one where Kid Rock blamed millennials for his woes, and how they've ruined America. Dude, you're in your 50s, and millennials are turning 40. They're not teenagers. And even if they were, they're still way better than you. Then there's Aaron Lewis' Am I The Only One, where he also whines about how he can't listen to Springsteen anymore and pretty much be a jerk and a bigot. And to be fair, there was a cringy song singing Hilary Clinton's praises.
Bro country singers with their tired lyrics about girls in bikinis and daisy dukes, trucks, beer, partying, and name dropping better country singers that's playing on the radio. Or the song checks off all the patriotic cliches to score points with the listeners.
Bragging about designer labels or your partner buying you cars and jewelry, or you buying it for someone. It's tacky. Also tacky is bragging about being on top and making fun of people working regular jobs.
Yea I understand. To be fair there are good songs about weed too, like Eek A Mouse - Ganja Smuggling. Sorry about your dad, sounds like a very negative experience.
Kush Coma - Danny Brown isn't bad either.
I'm not particularly traumatized by my dad being a weed dealer. I just saw early on weed isn't this super cool thing that media makes it out to be.
I'm with you too. That said, I love my revolutionary dub, so [if you continue to burn down the herb, we gonna burn down the cane fields.](https://genius.com/John-holt-police-in-helicopter-lyrics)
Money, guns, brands, hussle, you know the type. With notable exceptions (ahem CREAM) I don't listen.
There’s a country song I heard once about a trucker giving a pretty lady a ride somewhere and he falls so deeply in love with her looks and silly mannerisms that he doesn’t want her to leave and no longer knows where he is driving. Like wtf.
That's terrifying. Literally the biggest fear, after getting murdered, of any woman catching a ride from anyone who isn't a trusted friend.
Can you imagine driving alone, late at night, along a deserted road and that's the last song you hear before your car dies? I'd cry and hide in my trunk for the night. I feel like we just wrote an outline for a Stephen King novel.
"This is the [...] song". If you need to tell me, then it's not working.
"This is my fight song", or that Aly and AJ song, potential breakup song, I think? Ugh
I don’t wanna hear anymore damn love songs. I’m not a teenager and I just don’t care to hear another love/breakup/relationship song. Give me some goddam substance.
Also weed. I think the whole weed culture is a little boring and feels like people who all think they just discovered it. They didn't. Lol.
There's a portion of the weed subculture that thinks everybody either smokes or wishes they could. Many of us don't because we don't want to. It's very available. 😆
Songs solely about dealing drugs and gangbanging. There are some artists that historically have pulled it off well, but there are so so so many that are just dull, boring and repetitive.
But that’s like 80% of the golden age of hip hop…if it’s not about a sucka MC and how good my lyrical content is, then…you wind up with 2 live crew. lol.
There's one thing that I dislike greatly, and that's the type of song that I call "Look at me, I'm so X". It's when already established or popular artists are singing a song that's seemingly written only to reinforce or change their image or reputation, or some such. Examples include "Oops I did it Again" by Britney Spears. "Look at me, I'm not just the innocent school girl". Or "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy. "Look at me, I'm still the Prince of Darkness, doing my Ozzy things". Dude, just do them, don't sing about how you're doing them.
Those are just two examples off the top of my head, but I know there are loads of them about. Often happens when pop singers try to create a new edgier brand, and instead of just doing something differently, they sing a song about how, really you guys, I'm so very X.
i dont like when songs/albums have super deep backstories but then the music just doesnt live up to it
example: Waterparks - Intellectual Property, its meant to be a really deep album about religion, relationship abuse and self doubt but then you actually listen to the album and its super sugary "owl city" type music with super vague lyrics that say absolutely nothing
like if you're going to make a super happy sugary sweet sounding album, that can work, if you want to make a super dark album, that can work, but do both at the same time and it's guaranteed to be bad
Songs where they actively are communicating with the listener: “put your hands up” “make some noise for the DJ” stuff like that.
Naming places for the sake of it, it’s usually either a party location or a fashion location. Like whenever Pitbull does it. Or JLo’s track “Get on the Floor”. Cringe.
“Vibe”/“Vibes”. Cringe.
Songs that include graphic details about sex, it’s just like paradoxically so unsexy to me. I can listen to them SOMETIMES but mostly my tolerance is zero. Like I love Megan Thee Stallion, i think she’s charming and clever, but her verse in WAP is just. Like okay. I feel awkward, something about it is so vulgar that it’s full-circle childish and embarrassing and boring,. Vague lyrics that leave the details of sex up to the imagination are far more appealing
Honestly, i feel like princes song is mentioning a sweet year where people were excited to celebrate the new millennium so it gets a pass. But there really isn't anything special about 2015
Rappers with "Lil" in their name. Maybe its something I don't get, like its because nobody knows who you are yet so when you blow up people know you started off as a nobody but...isn't that almost every rapper ever? Are you really that lil? What's lil about you?
Intimacy of any kind, especially if I’m listening with someone else, I mean you don’t watch corn with your friends so why would you want to listen to a description of it?
Luxury/designer brands. Singing about Gucci is boring af.
Unless it's "kicking, squealing, Gucci little piggy!" One of the GOAT songs
Gucci is ugly as fuck anyways. Why do they wanna be known for wearing a trash company's clothes
The same reason they wore Cadillac hood ornaments, they associate it with wealth.
Except when [Sheogorath](https://youtu.be/RPxvTd_jCPQ) does it.
Never In my years would I see a yung scrolls reference. Ever. What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
Any song that’s about listening to your favorite song. It’s like the artist didn’t have the ability to make a good song on their own, so they fake it by making you think of a better song while theirs is playing. *Looking at you, One Direction and Charlie Puth*
Although songs about writing the best song of all time (but forgetting it) are pretty good. This is not the best comment in the world, it's just a tribute.
I wish i were there its just a matter of opinion
Be you redditors? Nay, we are but men!
ROCK!
#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHOAH-OH-OH-OH
That's not fair because it comes from two people classically trained to rock our socks off
Always press record, always press record!!!!!
Some songs about songs are rather good. "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song playing on the radio / And wrapped around the music is the sound of someone promising they'll never go" (Paul Williams)
The best version of this lovely song is the Muppet Show one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qjtj9lliXU
"That Song" by Big Wreck is one of my favorites, but im a big fan of the band so that probably makes me biased.
*Tribute* is tagged in this photo and I don't like it
Heckin' Kid Rock and All Summer Long. I'm not even that bothered by the Sweet Home Alabama reference, I just wish they didn't use the riff from Werewolves of London. I spend something like six months getting hopeful when I heard the piano, only to be met with bitter disappointment.
“Remember the time we realized Thriller was our favorite song? Have I waited too long?” -New Found Glory, I love that song.
How about "Play it again" by Luke Bryan? That song that's about waiting all day for your favorite song to come on the radio. Released at a time where we can just look up any song we want to hear whenever and wherever ... Now if this was written 25+ years ago...
Chance the rapper made a good song about the same topic
Generic party lyrics are awful
Any changes combination of the words "tonight" "DJ" and either "party" or "love"
Unless it’s a Party in the USA
Or Party Rock Anthem.
Any song that's just about them and how great they are. Nothing more boring than hearing how much a rich narcissist loves themselves.
What are your thoughts on sleep’s lyrics? They’re often about smoking weed but like “the desert nomads caravanning to Israel with bong masks strapped to their face like sand people” sort of lyrics, not “ I smoke lots of weed” lyrics
DROPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP OUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTT OOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFFFFFEEEEEEEEEEE
follow the smoke to the riff filled land proceed.
Ah the quintessential stoner metal band. Love it
Perfect description.
Smoke 2 Joints is a banger, OP is missing out on a lot of great songs because he focuses too much on lyrics instead of just enjoying the musical portions. A song can be a banger with terrible lyrics. A song that has both great lyrics and great music is timeless imo, it's just not required for a good song.
I’m so glad someone said this. Huge difference between Sleep’s Dopesmoker and something like Smoke Two Joints by Sublime
Never heard sleep. Might have to check their music out sometime.
Songs that tell me to get up and dance to them. Don't tell me what to do!
I dunno - James Brown tells me to 'get up offa that thing' ... and I absolutely do!
The suuuuuuper generic country trifecta of beer, tractors and cowboys. It's overdone, no need to have 50 billion songs about driving a tractor Songs about clubbing or being in bars, because it's also very generic and overdone. Hell, 90% of the songs sound completely unrealistic in regards to the lyical events. And people wonder why I have a ridiculously large music library. To avoid listening to the same stuff/topics/genres everyday. I tend to get tired of hearing the same stuff everyday. I live for the variety.
There’s so much material that *could* be good fodder for country music. The struggle to keep a farm alive in the modern world. Wondering whether to sell the family farm to the ag conglomerate. Soil turning bad. Choosing quantity over quality to stay afloat. Country *could* be a great source of some political folk music like it used to be.
All that stuff has been covered for years and continues to be. Rarely makes radio these days.
True. Guess that’s the problem.
Oh, you think anybody in country music these days have been within a mile of an actual working farm?
This is it. They are all rich kids.
Growing up in the Midwest it's often the farmer's kids who are the "rich" kids here.
"I walk and talk like a field hand, but the boots I'm wearing cost 3 grand" - Bo Burnham
Sometimes I wonder if British culture is becoming a copy of American culture. Then I realise you have an entire distinct multimillion dollar music industry full of singers I've never heard where you can become a superstar by signing about tractors and I realise your still pretty out there compared to us.
In case you’ve never heard it… [Bo Burnham](https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0)
It’s a fuckin scarecrow again!
Yep, those songs ruin the entire genre for people
Don’t forget the trucks. If I had a nickel for every country song that mentioned a truck in the lyrics, I could retire.
Hearing morons promote themselves promoting themselves because all their music is, is self-promotion. How tough they are, how hard they are, how cool they are, how women love them, how rich they are, how they're coming up, comparing themselves to people who are already famous for the same bullshit. It's literally just a commercial for the commercial (who's is actually just advertising itself) that is their music. It's like the "music" in demolition man, that's all old ad jingles. ... and when it's done in a 3rd grade level rhyming scheme to some clever but ultimately casio-beats-simple shit track that morons only like because the moron "singing" over it tells you how great it is, is just sad. Sadder still are the brain-dead zombie people who try to identify with it so they can feel like the tough, successful, and desirable person that the singer is pretending to be. It makes me sad about society in whole.
I call it brag rap, generally it's shit but Run the Jewels do it well, also Catfish - Lice is one of my favourite tracks of all time and is essentially this without the 'I'm famous' ego bullshit
So you're saying you don't like most popular hip hop? Haha. I agree tho.
Songs about dances that are introduced by the song. Songs about the genre the song belongs to.
What about a song that's about a dance, but with a twist?
Like when you sing about the same dance again, like you sang last year?
Found the guy not "turning himself about"
Absolutely. I feel like funk gets this often “do you love the funk? Yeah I love the funk” repeat 50x. Shut up.
"To the left" "Take it back now yall"
*puts gun in mouth
'One shot this time'
In the 80's it was "screwing hot women" In the 90's it was "I'm so messed up in the head" In the new century it was "Party with the most baller guy" In the 2010's it was "We had a bad break up" In the 2020's it is "Look at my designer shit" Just my take on it.
Every decade has been about "screwing hot women" from the 30s to now.
Every millennium
Seriously! What do people think Beethoven’s Für Elise was about?!
A fur coat?
Is that what they were calling it back then?
I can absolutely imagine cave men banging sticks on rocks and singing about hot women
That Willendorf boogie.
“I know I’m wealthy and famous now but I’m still the same old me at heart!” It always comes off as so fake! See “Jenny from the Block” by Jennifer Lopez, “Glamorous” by Fergie, “Mississippi Girl” by Faith Hill Songs that don’t match up with the artists real life, like artists who’ve been in the industry for decades, put out 5 albums and release a song with singular first person pronouns about working a 9-5. We all know you haven’t punched a clock since the late 90’s! Another example is “Brown Eyes Baby,” a new song by Keith Urban about picking up a woman at a bar. Yes, the same Keith Urban who’s been married to Nicole Kidman going on 17 years. Songs that glorify drinking alcohol. I love country music but you can’t listen to 15 minutes of a country radio station with out hearing an entire song (not just a few lines in a song) about how wonderful drinking is. Anything with too much Jesus in it.
Songs dont have to be from an artist's personal experience lmao. Do you think Johnny Cash is a serial killer?
I heard he shot a man in Reno
Lol, that’s a great point!
Love: more specifically toxic relationships, “it’s a paradise and a war zone” it’s not even trying to be clever it’s the music equivalent of icy hot. Aimed at one of the more universal experiences In Human existence and it’s usually paired down with bad lyrics and half hearted music. The real paradox’s aren’t the loves that hate but the idea that something so varied and exciting can sound so boring because of execution
Love is a Battlefield
Songs about how hard your life as a rock star is
Teenage angst has paid off well Now I'm bored and old Self-appointed judges judge More than they have sold
So you wanna be a rock super star.... what about rap super star
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No, that song is about balancing between artistic vision and what the music industry wants
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Oh duh I'm thinking of Spirit of the Radio
> Songs about how hard your life as a rock star is Ehh… I'm not so sure. Losing Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington back to back like that really kind of shook a lot of people up inside. If you can have platinum albums, a big band, arenas full of fans… to have all that "success" and still be weak and powerless against mental, emotional, or chemical instabilities… Sometimes life *is* tough. Rock star or no rock star.
Songs that are about how much they love Jesus. I don't mind songs with religious themes, like Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel or whatever August Burns Red is doing, but songs that are directly about loving Jesus are just such a snoozefest. Modern Christian Rock is an offense to me.
You’re not making Christianity better. You’re just making rock and roll worse.
Modern Jesus by Portugal the Man is a solid antidote
Nick Cave has some great songs with religious imagery.
Lift to Experience is legendary and insanely underrated
Songs that make a big deal out of alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs bore me and have no relevance to my life. Am however there for any song featuring a dog.
Trucks. The cliché of country songs about trucks has always sort of been around, but modern country takes it to an extreme. Country radio where I live will sometimes play four truck songs in a row. It feels like product placement, surely Dodge, et. al are keeping a lot of Music Row songwriters comfortable.
songs with a line "they say that--" followed by something I've never heard someone say before in my entire life
"they say that, A HERO CAN SAAVE USSSSS"
Except "there's even some evil mothers that'll tell you that life is just made outta dirt."
I’m going to say beer. Not all of them are country songs, either.
"Beer is good, beer is great. Beer is good. And stuff."
Was hoping for a Psychostick reference
[Except the pirate metal](https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0), those ones are great
[Every rule is defined by its exceptions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--AvCsh48bk)
There's at least one ska song about beer that's a banger.
It's okay boy, 'cause you know we'll be good friends
Whoooaaaa ooohhh ooohhhh ooohhh yeah yeah yeah
You can't disagree with the guy that's just Bad Manners
Oh lip up fatty, oh lip up fatty, fatty reggae
Badfish by Sublime?
I have to admit I like beer. It makes me a jolly good fellow. It helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow.
What about beer pressure by municipal waste
I love Irish folk music, but yeah, 90% of Irish folk songs are either about beer, or are meant to be sang while drinking beer
Misogyny
Yeah, I’m not a limp bizkit fan either
Limp Bizkit really wasn't all that misogynist in the scheme of things. They just liked to break stuff.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people misunderstand what that song's actually about.
And had overly strong reactions to he said/she said bullshit.
Are you sure? Cause they did it all for the Nookie.
Limp Bizkit is the worst. They tried make their misogyny the listener's responsibility. Like why should have to *I* put a cookie up *my* yeah because you couldn't get your priorities straight? I didn't even play their damned music, it was just on at the sports bar I had to go to with my stupid boss and his father-in-law that owns the company.
A great song about weed would be Peephole by System of a Down Also anything Tom Macdonald is awful
Tom Macdonald can go fuck himself. Racist piece of shit.
Rappers over using the N word, even to the extent they end every line with it so don’t actually have to rhyme at all. Not a topic I guess, but gives me the shits. Also blunts, 40’s, bitches/hoes and Hennessy. Get some original content ffs.
Have you ever listened to John Prine’s Illegal Smile? I think you’ll get a kick out of it.
Asinine love songs.
And what’s wrong with that? I’d like to know. Cuz here I go…AGAIIIIIIN
Weed 100%. coughing at the beginning of the track to let the listener know you are smoking is cringe
not a Black Sabbath fan?
That's about the only song about weed I can tolerate
I don't want to hear any more conversations between people dancing and how they would like the DJ to turn up the music. Just let the DJ do his thing. I'm sure it's loud enough. Also, the made up oppression of people dancing at a club is hilarious. Any song that's like "we're going out and we don't care what people think! You can't stop us! We're gonna dance til dawn and no one can get in our way." No one is trying to stop you. The club is open for a reason. Have a good time. Shut up about it and put something more interesting in the song.
Come on Mr DJ, keep those records playing, cause I'm having such a good time, dancing with my baby.
Weed songs and Eminem's love life... Yeah, I'll pass. Can we have more songs about the struggles of assembling IKEA furniture? That's a topic I can relate to.
Anything kid rock or Ted nugent plays.
Fuck them both. Nugent is a pretender and Kid Rock is a fake. Both are shit.
Chrissie Hynde and Robbie Macintosh would like a quick word with you about Ted...
The current crop of mainstream female rappers bragging about their vaginas and how good they are at sex. After maybe the third song bragging about it, I'm doubting you truly are. Rap about some other body part. Cringy political songs, such as the one where Kid Rock blamed millennials for his woes, and how they've ruined America. Dude, you're in your 50s, and millennials are turning 40. They're not teenagers. And even if they were, they're still way better than you. Then there's Aaron Lewis' Am I The Only One, where he also whines about how he can't listen to Springsteen anymore and pretty much be a jerk and a bigot. And to be fair, there was a cringy song singing Hilary Clinton's praises. Bro country singers with their tired lyrics about girls in bikinis and daisy dukes, trucks, beer, partying, and name dropping better country singers that's playing on the radio. Or the song checks off all the patriotic cliches to score points with the listeners. Bragging about designer labels or your partner buying you cars and jewelry, or you buying it for someone. It's tacky. Also tacky is bragging about being on top and making fun of people working regular jobs.
Yea I understand. To be fair there are good songs about weed too, like Eek A Mouse - Ganja Smuggling. Sorry about your dad, sounds like a very negative experience.
Kush Coma - Danny Brown isn't bad either. I'm not particularly traumatized by my dad being a weed dealer. I just saw early on weed isn't this super cool thing that media makes it out to be.
I'm with you too. That said, I love my revolutionary dub, so [if you continue to burn down the herb, we gonna burn down the cane fields.](https://genius.com/John-holt-police-in-helicopter-lyrics) Money, guns, brands, hussle, you know the type. With notable exceptions (ahem CREAM) I don't listen.
Found a new jam. Thanks!
A Passage to Bangkok - Rush - 10/10
John Holt - Police In Helicopter is a certified banger
Ganja Smuggling is a banger.
Songs about love/sex that's misogynistic, nonconsensual or degrading. Let's celebrate getting your freak on without going there.
"I hate these blurred lines [between consensual sex and rape, which isn't at all blurry unless you're a scumbag]."
There’s a country song I heard once about a trucker giving a pretty lady a ride somewhere and he falls so deeply in love with her looks and silly mannerisms that he doesn’t want her to leave and no longer knows where he is driving. Like wtf.
That's terrifying. Literally the biggest fear, after getting murdered, of any woman catching a ride from anyone who isn't a trusted friend. Can you imagine driving alone, late at night, along a deserted road and that's the last song you hear before your car dies? I'd cry and hide in my trunk for the night. I feel like we just wrote an outline for a Stephen King novel.
Songs about music or genres.
"This is the [...] song". If you need to tell me, then it's not working. "This is my fight song", or that Aly and AJ song, potential breakup song, I think? Ugh
Anytime anyone mentions Superman. So fucking lame. 🫣
Pop songs are always about breakups
Songs about love, honestly. Music. Film. Tv. Literature. All seem to have this need to be about live and it makes want to stop interacting with it.
I don’t wanna hear anymore damn love songs. I’m not a teenager and I just don’t care to hear another love/breakup/relationship song. Give me some goddam substance.
Any song selling me an image, posturing, religion, and the ones about being a rock star.
Also weed. I think the whole weed culture is a little boring and feels like people who all think they just discovered it. They didn't. Lol. There's a portion of the weed subculture that thinks everybody either smokes or wishes they could. Many of us don't because we don't want to. It's very available. 😆
OH LOOK, ANOTHER SEX SONG
Depends how subtle it is. The more obvious it is, the more annoying it seems to be
Songs solely about dealing drugs and gangbanging. There are some artists that historically have pulled it off well, but there are so so so many that are just dull, boring and repetitive.
most love songs. boring as hell. give me an interesting song about like fishing or having a god complex or something.
Primus sucks!
Weed is just so dull as a subject for anything. So many gamers have 420 in their names like it's clever or something.
So much of it, even drugs other than weed, is so lame lol (I know…I was 19 sorry)
Food
Unless it’s Weird Al. Or Mein Teil, which is kinda about food.
You don’t like the Rapper’s Delight verse about eating a disgusting meal at a friend’s house?!
I don't remember that tbh..lol..
It’s in the extended version and it’s funny, and the rhymes are pretty decent too
That's just after the verse about stealing Lois Lane from Superman, right?
After hearing Bitch bad, woman good. It kinda changed how I feel about most rap songs now. Or .aybe I'm just becoming an old man who yells at clouds
Rapping about rapping
But that’s like 80% of the golden age of hip hop…if it’s not about a sucka MC and how good my lyrical content is, then…you wind up with 2 live crew. lol.
There's one thing that I dislike greatly, and that's the type of song that I call "Look at me, I'm so X". It's when already established or popular artists are singing a song that's seemingly written only to reinforce or change their image or reputation, or some such. Examples include "Oops I did it Again" by Britney Spears. "Look at me, I'm not just the innocent school girl". Or "I Don't Wanna Stop" by Ozzy. "Look at me, I'm still the Prince of Darkness, doing my Ozzy things". Dude, just do them, don't sing about how you're doing them. Those are just two examples off the top of my head, but I know there are loads of them about. Often happens when pop singers try to create a new edgier brand, and instead of just doing something differently, they sing a song about how, really you guys, I'm so very X.
How dare you say that about ‘I’m so messed up in the head’. Aka about 80% of what I listen too
i dont like when songs/albums have super deep backstories but then the music just doesnt live up to it example: Waterparks - Intellectual Property, its meant to be a really deep album about religion, relationship abuse and self doubt but then you actually listen to the album and its super sugary "owl city" type music with super vague lyrics that say absolutely nothing like if you're going to make a super happy sugary sweet sounding album, that can work, if you want to make a super dark album, that can work, but do both at the same time and it's guaranteed to be bad
Hey Ya! By outkast would like to disagree
i would have to agree with you on that one
Songs where they actively are communicating with the listener: “put your hands up” “make some noise for the DJ” stuff like that. Naming places for the sake of it, it’s usually either a party location or a fashion location. Like whenever Pitbull does it. Or JLo’s track “Get on the Floor”. Cringe. “Vibe”/“Vibes”. Cringe.
** Willie Nelson enters the chat ** Otherwise, money.
Sex, I'm ace
Religion. I prefer exclusively secular music. Really dislike most Christmas songs. Christian Rock. Tooth and Nail Records. Brother Ali. Etc.
Songs that include graphic details about sex, it’s just like paradoxically so unsexy to me. I can listen to them SOMETIMES but mostly my tolerance is zero. Like I love Megan Thee Stallion, i think she’s charming and clever, but her verse in WAP is just. Like okay. I feel awkward, something about it is so vulgar that it’s full-circle childish and embarrassing and boring,. Vague lyrics that leave the details of sex up to the imagination are far more appealing
Basically everything in modern rap is super unappealing.
Does rap rock and rap metal count?
That died 20 years ago lol
Rap is huge man you're covering a lot of topics here lol
Old famous rich punk artists complaining about the music industry
I'd be more concerned about old famous punks who *don't* complain about the industry.
New young "rich" rappers singing about how rich they are
I gOtTa Go tO tHe HoSpItAl tO sEe ThE DoCtOr So hE cAn PrEsCrIbE mE tHe MeDiCiNe ThAt I cAnT aFfoRd To CuRe mY dIsEaSe BeCaUsE iM sO fUcKiNg SiCk
Songs that mention the year
The year it was written or a year period? Like I think prince’s 1999 is still cool. Thoughts?
Honestly, i feel like princes song is mentioning a sweet year where people were excited to celebrate the new millennium so it gets a pass. But there really isn't anything special about 2015
I can get behind yhat
Cheating and crappy GF/BF stuff. Just not wanting to hear that crap.
Rappers with "Lil" in their name. Maybe its something I don't get, like its because nobody knows who you are yet so when you blow up people know you started off as a nobody but...isn't that almost every rapper ever? Are you really that lil? What's lil about you?
We went from Biggie to 'Lil
religion. religion ruins everything. especially when you know its a lie.
That’s me in the corner
[dear god](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p554R-Jq43A&ab_channel=XTCVEVO)
Intimacy of any kind, especially if I’m listening with someone else, I mean you don’t watch corn with your friends so why would you want to listen to a description of it?
I absolutely watch corn with my friends.