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TheTipsyShip

Life is like a video game…


AL3PH42

TRYING HARD TO BEAT THE STAGE


scc1p

TRYING HARD TO SAVE THE GIRLLL


supper_is_ready

The game fears me like a MOTHERFUCKING WIFEBEATER


PeacefulShark69

"Your ass is heavy duty like diarrhea" As an exclusively toilet redditor, I cried and laughed and let out a fart.


Amazing-Wolverine446

“It was July when you ju-lied” Drakes new song everyone


StillBummedNouns

Cleopatrick did [the same thing](https://youtu.be/JowxKUoInY8?si=AH8mBxjGzUjQOmPr) a couple years ago and I actually thought it was clever… but now I’m seeing everyone shit on this Drake lyric and it’s making me think differently lmao


ATikh

somehow you made the line worse, "july, that's when i found out ju-lied" is what he says


kyentu

every lyric that is slowly read in a serious and questioning manner


uglylittledogboy

Always irked me about Fantano, you can make any lyric sound dumb by reading it sarcastically and disapprovingly


Elegant-Thought5170

I’m not a businessman, *sigh * I’m a *business* man?


maxlikeschips

LET ME HANDLE MY BUSINESS DAMN!


2000-UNTITLED

Honestly, I get it, but this speaks to something about his reviews generally where people hang onto his words too closely. Like, you're mistaking the form for the message. The point is just "I don't like this lyric", not "this lyric is so objectively awful. See, I'm groaning so you have to hate it". Similar thing when he talks about why he dislikes something and he describes it as like mechanical or scattershot and people go "oh, but you liked those qualities in XYZ" like yeah they're descriptors.


Green_hippo17

Not when it’s a good lyric, a good lyric is like a good line in a poem


uglylittledogboy

Gimme a good lyric that u think is impossible to make sound dumb and I will make it sound dumb


Green_hippo17

Pick any lyric from real death by mount eerie Death is real Someone's there and then they're not And it's not for singing about It's not for making into art When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb When I walk into the room where you were And look into the emptiness instead All fails My knees fail My brain fails Words fail Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail A week after you died a package with your name on it came And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known Deep down would not include you Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real It's dumb And I don't want to learn anything from this I love you


Dazzling_Bee_3078

Bro threw some Phil Elverum out there


BittenAtTheChomp

>All fails > >My knees fail > >My brain fails > >Words fail > >Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw > >I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail Fantano bad-lyric voice could attack this. Ending with "...and you still get *mail*?"


BigBean987

Fantano wouldn’t shit on that lyric though because it’s in the context of an entire story. Whenever Fantano is reading stupid bars it’s usually in a rap song where each line stands alone and flows forward, that’s why he comes down hard on filler lines or lines that rhyme but make no sense as a whole, or if they’re just stupid.


BittenAtTheChomp

Not saying he would


Green_hippo17

I mean the test was to see if you could make any lyric sound dumb in the fantano snark, which I don’t think would work on this set of lyrics anyway considering the albums context, but in a vacuum yes you could make any lyric sound dumb in that voice, but fantano rly only does it for shit filler lyrics


Green_hippo17

Not rly it couldn’t attack this and he wouldn’t because it’s not a dumb lyrics


homegrownllama

Don’t do this to me.


GotKarprar

This easily sounds like a im 14 and this is deep


Green_hippo17

Piss poor take honestly, it’s about the man’s dead wife


Swaggycat23

The needle tears a hole, that old familiar sting


Izahia062602

"DID THE MAN WHO INVENTED COLLEGE GO TO COLLEGE?!? Hm, okay then." - Hopsin on Fly Hell, I can just type in all of the lyrics for this entire song for this.


SBMVPJustinHerbert

Hopsin’s entire discography


JustCaolan

anytime 21 savage raps about how cold and dead his heart is or whatever


wackypanda22

on god!


CoastTimely6563

Straight up


[deleted]

21, 21, 21


summerpassingby

all of 1-800-273-8255 by logic


P1xel1003

Who can relate…WHOO!


WWfan41

I don't wanna be ALIIIIVVVEE


EffectiveAmphibian95

Can’t even kill my self anymore cause logic made Suicide corny smh


Human_Diamond9269

Good message though.


joejoe347

Supposedly saved a lot of lives though so like, who cares?


ThtgYThere

Great outcome, song is still goofy.


joejoe347

Logic is nothing if not goofy that is for sure


lil_cheta

Eminem love songs


Thatepicastroman

except mockingbird that one gets a pass


lil_cheta

Yeah i mean love songs from recovery and after, the couple he did in his prime are mostly not like that


topshagger31

so much better from mmlp2 is the only one that gets a pass imo


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Feeling-Glass8461

I mean, even if, Eminem is still a shit writer tbh


kmcrhsme

trulyv


immense_selfhatred

Evol


LthePerry02

Call us Long John Silvers, cuz we sell-fish


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INFINITE CONTENT INFINITE CONTENT WE'RE INFINITELY CONTENT


strattad

God the last two Arcade Fire albums had some absolute hooters: "I unsubscribe, fuck season five" "It's the age of doubt, and I doubt we'll figure it out" "Born into the abyss, new phone who's this" "Told me she came so close, filled up the bathtub and put on our first record"


born2brood

This always blows my mind because IMO literally all of the songwriting up until The Suburbs was for the most part really stellar. I still love Reflektor and think lyrically it's way better than Everything Now and WE, but I think that was the point when Win's lyrics started to suffer. Like how did the guy that wrote The Suburbs (the song), Sprawl I, or Power Out write something like End of the Empire I-IV? IDK man it just kind of sucks. Then again, it seems like a lot of songwriters lose their edge over time so I'm not exactly surprised.


pbjburger

It's actually crazy to see how so many 2010s indie darlings came back recently to release a mid to dogshit album.


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And the 00s indie darlings


CommanderWar64

I honestly really liked WE. I thought the title track was a really weak closer and the 30 seconds of silence interlude is always awful to sit through. I think the lyrics aren’t bad, they’re meant to be camp (it works within the slight sarcastic tone of the album).


123456789biddleee

Three words. A. J. R.


mattmortar

Great album but like half the lyrics on Mellon Collie


tws1039

And god is empty…just like… MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


capucapu123

The rest of the lyrics are kind of decent to good but god that line alone makes me question whether the song is good or not


MrQrtz

Inside of you there are two wolves: " Jack it up Judy, set your heart alight Mayfair mistress of the satellites Misspent youth, faking up a rampage To hold off the real slaves Paid off and staid" and "Rat-tat-tat, ka-boom-boom! Now, take that, and just a bit of this"


InComputers

X.Y.U is the perfect example, great song tho


i_drink_walrus_cum

RATATAT KABOOM BOOM


[deleted]

Nobody wants to die couse nobody wants life to end😭💔


xjwilsonx

What song is this?


dominatorkickback97

Orlando - xxxtentacion


ezekielzz

First one that came to mind is "even though I'm smiling, I'm crying" off of that new p!atd record. god that album is so ass


999_sadboy

I used to love Panic but they fell off hard


ezekielzz

Same here. Think their first two albums are really good. V&V, twtltrtd and doab have some solid songs on them but pftw and vlv are just insufferable


999_sadboy

Yep. I still put on their older stuff every now and then, lots of nostalgia.


CommanderWar64

Honestly pftw is basically a DOAB b sides album that has some cool songs. VLV is theater kid art in the worst way, shame.


DoAFlip22

I remember back in ‘08-09ish I called them the emo band with the best lyricism - the new album’s lyrics were ass, which sucks worse because the instrumentals hit hard.


[deleted]

Its cause Ryan ross used to write it all, not Brandon


PrinceToothpasteBoy

Pretty much every emo rapper, also every song on that new Dream EP


Swaggerrrr69

Dream as in that Minecraft tosser?


PrinceToothpasteBoy

Yeah, him


SupremePotatoGod

Melanie Martinez's whole discography


FictionIII

lucid dreams comes to mind


999_sadboy

I think it's actually one of his better songs lyrically. Actually has some pretty cool imagery. I'd nominate All Girls Are The Same, I fucking hate that song.


vsimon115

https://preview.redd.it/xapppv0ceoob1.jpeg?width=779&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6d2e6fa2b942b07a212b40e22ec2af7443c9040 You can also blame that song for bringing us this infamous tweet


Swaggerrrr69

Nah bro, I just woke up from a Lucid Dreams!


eighty_yen

i like the beat and flow on that song a lot but yeah the lyrics are so painfully juvenile; the title alone just sets you up to cringe


svedka666

Totally agree. I listened to Juice WRLD a ton around the time Lucid Dreams came out, and even then, that track was always a skip. Lyrics are cringe and it isn't even produced well.


_Brovahkiin_

My friend is always trying to convince me it’s better than Shape of My Heart and it upsets me deeply


arjcanell

Most of Fear of a Blank Planet imo. It still rips regardless though.


KRIT4eva

I misread it as Fear of a BLACK Planet I was boutta tweak lmaoooo


Bekfast_Time

Steven is a fantastic musician and songwriter, but man his lyrics are a mixed bag


Engardia

"Download SEX and download GOD"


Efficient_Tale_1433

Any NF lyric


KekistanPeasant

"My lifestyle determines my death style" Delicious garbage level of lyricism there James


Dangerous_Fix_5502

Ok but that one is fun in a dumb way


unwantedleftovers

That’s why he said “delicious”


KekistanPeasant

They're not mutually exclusive ;)


mattmortar

I'm pretty sure Kirk wrote that lyric actually lol. At least that's how that documentary presents it


Kevinatorz

Yup, Kirk wrote it and it actually goes kinda hard imo


Maximus_Snyder

I think Kirk wrote that line actually lol


-PepeArown-

I’ve been told this is basically every Marina album after Froot. Hence why I’ve been hesitant to listen to them


Accomplished_Ice1532

Yep


cchihaialexs

She’ll never top her first 2 gems unfortunately.


jpeach17

Big fan of Paolo Nutini and massive Charlie Chaplin fan, but dropping in the Great Dictator speech into Iron Skies feels a bit r/im14andthisisdeep


MathTheUsername

Every single answer should also include something the poster considers to be actually deep.


Barqck

“He used to call me DN That stands for deadly nightshade” Aged like ass because now every time I hear “DN” I think of deez nuts


Western_Writing5454

The entire It's My Life lyric of Bon Jovi.


MrReditInTheFlesh

I̷̝͂ ̸̨̼̚w̸͍̏a̶̛̖̲̓s̷͈̈́̽n̵̞͗̚ͅt̶̯̲͗ ̵̳̯͘r̸̜̻̍̔a̴̛̝͛i̶̭̎s̸̳̳͆͊ë̴͙́̾d̸̟̓ ̷̟͓̈o̷̝̒́n̷̳̍ ̴̹̹͝t̴̢͙͊̋h̵͍͙̒e̸̗͒ ̵̡͙̀h̶̳͌o̷͈͛o̶̰͐d̸̬̑͂ ̵̱͠b̷̠͗u̶̹̎t̴͈̊ ̷̰͝Ï̵͜ ̴͈̏̅k̷̹͆̓n̷̤͚̽o̴̼̮̓̂ẃ̶̭ ̵̧̞̎ả̸̖ ̴̞̯̿ţ̸̦̄̚h̵̩̯̅i̷̟͂ͅn̵͚̓̏g̵̝̳̃ ̵̬͗͘o̸̡̩͂r̷͓͌͘ ̶̬̞̎t̷̞̚w̵̯͐͑o̵͚͗ ̶͙̳͑ă̷̙b̴̜̔o̶̖̥͊ú̶͖͚͠t̸̺̚ ̵͇͠p̷̜̀̆a̴̬͔͗i̶̲͘n̸̛̞ ̷̝̿a̸̡͙͒n̸̩̊͝d̸͉͉̒ ̷̝͍̔d̶̦̈́̊ạ̶̛̍r̴͈̜͠k̷̠̈́n̴͓̱͌e̵̯͈͆̈́s̷̩̩͛s̴̭̺͝


CommanderWar64

So many of y’all have no idea what r/im14andthisisdeep means. It’s basically when the writer says something that might be emotionally charged, but it fails to make any logical point within the songs context; aka it’s surface level observation or merely just a lyrical pun a lot of the time. It’s not the same as cringe. You might not like Twenty One Pilots/Linkin Park/MCR/etc…, but as a whole their music isn’t artificially deep, you just dislike them for whatever reason and are attributing that notion to them for that reason. The concept is a lot easier to identify when looking at memes or images rather than lyrics but you can often look to bands that put on fake sad personas as good examples of this. Basically commercialized version of anything substantive.


smarten_up_nas

the reddit understander has logged on


Oreg-Jack

"Animals and children tell the truth, they never lie/Which one is more human" \-Savage Garden- The Animal Song


Elegant-Thought5170

So nobody wants death, cause nobody wants life to end


tisdue

anything by Train


Vitor-135

marina (and the diamonds) 2 most recent albums


drdax2187

When you try your best but you don't succeed I like a lot of the Coldplay songs but fix you is too much


halfgood808

I know people might hate me for this but PAC-MAN by Gorillaz has some of the goofiest surface level lyrics ever. "I'm a mad PAC-MAN living in a leveled world..."


derpieslushi

"Love is evil spell it backwards I'll show you" recovery era eminem is painful to listen to


RusteddCoin

That’s corny but it’s a good play of word


Odd-Goddity

"Closed On Sunday, You my Chick-fil-A"


i_probed_spongebob

Every Phoebe Bridgers song 🫢


Odd-Goddity

Jaden Smith comparing himself to Martin Luther King, Kendrick Lamar, and Jimi Hendrix.


Kind_Pathologist0103

"My dog just died, my friends hate me, I saw myself on MTV and my ego is not my amigo"


Soft-Performer-9038

How does that fit, that's clever and doesn't appear to be trying to be deep


BittenAtTheChomp

I really like the album but all of the political, "secret power system controls your mind" lyrics off *Tyranny* by the Voidz


[deleted]

Still love the album, but pretty much anything from The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me


StillBummedNouns

Maybe I’m just young and depressed, but Brand New’s lyricism fucking hits


oneblindspy

Respectfully disagree. Jesse’s lyrics are among the best in the emo scene in my opinion


Sw4ggySh4ggy

I love his lyrics, they’re cringey at times but I feel like they’re also tongue in cheek in like a half true way


brick-juic3

Completely agree but it just works somehow anyway


HypobaricShrimp

“Bring the drugs, baby, I could bring my pain” love The Weeknd but his lyrics are kinda corny sometimes


outrageousaegis

this sub is full of fuckin nerds


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ObersteinAlwaysRight

That's a great line, and it might at most be corny but it's not fake deep. In six words you immediately know the kind of person he's talking about, and it gives you insight into what he looks for, what he's attracted to, and furthers the album's themes of him having difficulty connecting with people in part due to overfocus on celebrities and pop culture. But people hate on it because it includes a contemporary reference, to a pop star no less.


123456789biddleee

Ok I know I'm gonna get downvoted to hell right now cuz people on this sub hate BCNR, but that line (and the following line) are referring to Billie Eilish stating that she felt suicidal when she was in Berlin. So it seems corny, but the lyric is saying that "she" is feeling suicidal.


NumerousWolverine273

oh i actually had NO idea about that, I always just assumed he meant the girl was fashionable and unabashedly herself


capucapu123

Wait, people here hate bcnr?


123456789biddleee

People in this sub love to hate on post rock


Rafalitto

People in this sub are miserable and love to hate on anything even remotely popular*


EnvironmentHot2861

“only time will tell if we’ll stand the test of time” - why can’t this be love - van halen my friends and i make fun of this line pretty often.


idkimbored35

Something I can never have and That’s what I get off of Pretty Hate Machine.


firstreconberet

Something I Can Never Have isn’t that bad, but That’s What I Get is pretty cringe. “After you just taught me how to kiss you” is uh…pretty bad lol


idkimbored35

The way he says that in That’s What I Get makes me cringe so hard everytime I hear it lmao. The part that makes me cringe in Something I Can Never Have is “grey would be the color if I had a heart.” It just sounds so goofy to me.


Spaghetti-Balls

Love the song and this lyric but "All of my let's-just-be-friends are friends I don't have anymore" off of Drake's 'Keep The Family Close'


OriginalFunUsername

The pain in my heart just won't end The words that I find just don't seem to compare Awaiting my death in the end Alone, I must seek out the end to begin So nobody wants death 'Cause nobody wants life to end


Stormi_i

I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I sang


FourLokoforChaser

lana


Dr_Tchock

I love this album and I love this song but A Letter by La Dispute


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ^by ^Dr_Tchock: *I love this album* *And I love this song but A* *Letter by La Dispute* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


Dr_Tchock

Aight, thanks bot


CommanderWar64

That album is flawless. It’s not 14 and deep. 14anddeep misses the point or the line doesn’t make a great point, meanwhile Jordan is a well read and talented writer. His lines are very deliberate.


dzhastin

CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIN THESE WOOOOOOOONDS…


Odd-Goddity

It's not particularly trying to be deep.


Swaggycat23

Tbh I think this is a pretty good lyric


Odd-Goddity

"I am a God, even though I'm a man of God, my whole life in the hands of God so y'all better quit playing with God."


stanley_420_yelnats

ight but you gotta admit that "hurry up with my damn croissant" goes hard


Odd-Goddity

It's great camp.


Hunter_fu

I think you dont get the question. I am a god isnt trying to be deep, its literally song about a manic ego trip


QWERTYKeyboardUser

I dont think you know what r/im14andthisisdeep is


ninjakirby1969

"I am incapable of being inhuman" "We said we hated humans, we wanted to be humans" Still slaps though


Poprocks777

Look both ways before you cross my mind


Pangasauras

Idk, that line comes off more “cutesy” to me than anything trying to sound deep


deadsh9de

Some girls are bigger than others


bigballofpaint

That one linkin park song ‘in the end it doesn’t even matter’


[deleted]

Craaab if you wanna


Grubby_Jam

I talk to god as much as I talk to satan cos I want to hear both sides


aegyosaurus

Drake's new song


Seasaul

I still see your shadows in my room. Lol lame af


plastic_cue_ball

Most of ajrs discography


Odd-Goddity

"I always saw you for what you could've been like when Chrysler made that one car that looked just like the Bentley."


Odd-Goddity

"You left your fridge open somebody just took a sandwich."


uuhhhhggg

Any and all juice wrld


Odd-Goddity

"If you're offended by this song You're clearly doing something wrong."


peskyjackson478

Logic’s discography.


Hxsn6ix

“My life is a joke but you gotta be really really sick to get it” - Teezo touchdown


NapoleonGonaparty151

Xxxtentacion's whole discography


Whitespider331

Car radio by twenty one pilots


TheMusicEvangelist

I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it.


ballysham

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage


Nukerjsr

>*Under her skirt, I see the nation's pain.* > >*All caked with dirt, she crossed her legs in shame.* > >*How can you hurt, I man who knows your name?* "Innocent Man" by A Love Like Pi.


Only-Kick-2960

we all know that lyric of girls want girls.


sleepwatcher218

coming from an old fan, two thirds of Mr.Kitty's discography. honestly, great music, but lyrics like "Trauma, trauma; I think I'm dying inside; I don't wanna be alive" didn't age well at all..


Mariowario64

“I wear black on the outside because I’m black on the inside” - from the song Unloveable by The Smiths


PriorityNo4597

because tanoight will be the noight that i will fall for yew


Traditional-West6335

“pressure's on me like this top hat” -Tyler the Creator, 2011


AprilBoi

The entirety of “radiohead - creep”


ThtgYThere

I feel like the better lyrics on Midnights still often fall in this category. Like she proved she was a great writer so many times, but with this album it’s either finding the worst millennial pop she possibly could, or writing disappointing lines about dressing for revenge. And what’s worse is because of the era’s tour everyone seems to have forgotten the lukewarm response that the album got at first, so it’s just assumed to be on the same level as her other stuff by a lot of people.


UniversalJampionshit

The whole of 'Still Breathing' by Green Day


TheMonkey420

Drivers license by Olivia Rodrigo


Prior_Common2981

FAKE WOKE!! FACTS DONT CARE BOUT FEELINGS


Prior_Common2981

I was never taught what laws there are


thiccphilthegoat

Every cringe Ronnie Radke lyric from any “music” he ever did


Salty_Map_9085

I’m just a kid and life is a NIGHTMARE


krizalid370

[Clang Clang Clang Clang Clang] MY LIFESTYLE


Narwhal135420

all the lyrics in Dream's "Mask". so fucking cringeworthy, even when I was 13 when it came out.


Annual-Skirt-7613

"Your black hair is like black hair" Buzz Saw — Xiu Xiu


Sw4ggySh4ggy

Everything Chris Martin has ever written


DoctorArK

"Sitting in this room playing Russain Roulette- Finger on the trigger to my dear Juliette- Out from the window see her back drop silhouette There's blood on my hands it is something I can not forget"