Worst lyrics ever.

[SilyGeny 369]

As a songwriter, I've encountered dozens and dozens of really poorly written and or awfully bad lyrics

 

And today I want you guys to share some of the worst lyrics you ever found!

 

Let the massacre begin...

[On-Locoweed 108]

'Pour Some Sugar on Me" is just so....1980s. It's hilarious, you see, because I had no idea Def Leppard was such a comedy act. The song is so dated, so much of a certain time, with those gated drums and that "pop-metal" aesthetic, that it's practically a joke. It all just screams sweaty, slutty, cocaine party full of sleazy people unscrupulously cashing in on the malaise of awful taste that was the pop world of the late 1980s. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a ridiculous, decadent, not-sexy-at-all, obnoxious plea for lascivious behavior and I dislike it even though it's so catchy and I turn it up on the car radio if I ever hear it.

 

While we're on the topic of Def Leppard, there is another song from Hysteria worth mentioning in a conversation about bad lyrics. "Rocket" is a song on that album that is a lot like Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire" (a song I really like), because both songs are about things in the past that have come to shape the person singing it. However, whereas "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a cathartic protest song about growing up in the shadow of the Cold War, fucking "Rocket" is yet another over-the-top joke of a song trying to pay homage to past influences by simply name-dropping a lot of classic rock acts like they were what they band just ate for breakfast. It's missing feeling, like, serious feeling that's typically requisite for me to care about the lyric content. So, it's just disingenuous. It's insincere.

 

But you know what? They're fun songs. I wouldn't turn either of them off if they came on the radio in the car. In fact, I would turn them up because these songs are meant to be played loudly with some headbangin, or some swerving into the other lane for fun. As much as I dislike the indulgent macho lyrics of Def Leppard halfheartedly pretending to be something they are not, I also think such songs are some of the best self-contained time capsules of the times in which they were made.

 

These two songs, especially "Rocket", describe a time now long gone, right before the end of the Cold War, right before the end of Reagan and Thatcher, right before the end of this whole classic "80s" sound and image that is so laughably enjoyable today. In a way, "Rocket" does achieve a certain type of meaning similar to what Joel accomplished with "We Didn't Start the Fire". "Rocket" makes a statement about the past and includes some "Space Age" sound bytes and trailblazing imagery that acts as a big sign that says "You Have Reached the End of This Decade and This Tradition of Rock 'n' Roll". Truly, by 1988, a year after Hysteria was released, we would already see the beginnings of a new musical aesthetic that would emerge in the 1990s. Grunge, Post-rock, alternative rock, electronic music, hip hop, and all that nice frat boy barbecue soundtrack music would all emerge in the 90s. "Rocket" is a nice recap of all the action from the previous decades, just to make sure you don't miss a thing. So, yeah, I have some fondness for these songs I just disdained. I guess I can take some bad lyrics and make meaning out of them because words, like music, like art, can be interpreted any way you want.

 

To me, a song's lyrics can be terrible and meaningful all at the same time; humans are naturally full of contradictions, likewise for their artistic creations.

 

Sorry to just completely dance around your topic, but I just felt like dancing and when I feel that way I just gotta jam out.

[SilverStarApple 849]

Pretty much every Micki Minaj song I've ever heard. And, of course, all the unmitigated crap on the radio stations these days. WHY, OH WHY, must the local gym play this 

shit

when we're trying to work out? Is it to fill us with hatred?

[Celestial Sloth 369]

Any verse that Bizarre does instantly kills my hype. Not only is it super slow, but it always seems like it's only for shock value. So much so that I don't think I can post any safe lyrics here. 

 

Apparently his solo stuff is alright. Maybe he sacrifices himself to make everyone else in D-12 sound better. What a nice guy.

[Whirlwind 1,059]

Cannibal Corpse I cum blood.

The lyrics are so bad and so funny I can't even show you guys!

I will put up a link though

 

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cannibalcorpse/icumblood.html

Edited February 21, 2016 by Captain Whirlwind

[Yoshi89 5,293]

"Your Song" by Elton John is all over the place with the lyrics. "If I was a sculptor/Then again, no" stands out in particular because it's just there with no purpose.

[Draxon 214]

"Me not working hard?
Yeah, right! Picture that with a Kodak
Or, better yet, go to Times Square
Take a picture of me with a Kodak"

 

*bangs head against wall*

[chili 120]

Well.... https://youtu.be/uxpDa-c-4Mc

This is one of the worst songs I've heard in my entire life and the lyrics suck. Why must this song be played everywhere? I can never escape this hell.

[Abstract 832]

A multitude of pop music these days is just so unoriginal, from the instrumentation down to the same repetitive lyrics talking about the same things, it'd just be impossible to cull the impressive selection of crap down to just a few.

 

But if we're talking about simply laughable? Anything by Torsofuck. "Four Legged Whore" in particular.

[Denim&Venöm 19,213]

Outside of Rebecca Blacks 'Friday'? 

 

Plain white T's-1,2,3,4. If the song title didn't suck enough, the lyrics are so simplistic, unoriginal and stupidly cheesy, it sounds like something off of a Sesame street. Now I already have a bias against romance songs due to them being so egotistical, all about the artist and their BF/GF.  I cannot relate to such songs in the least. It's the artist bragging about their relationship, saying how good their relationship is/ sad that their relationship is over. Love songs shoudl describe the feelings between two people in an artistic manner. Not read off like a valentines day card. 

 

Oh and don't get me started on rap music. I get the feeling of trying to convey things like the misery growing up in the hood or describing what it's like in the sub cultures there. The darkness of a permissible situation and being an outsider. But the way many rap artists do so is just demeaning, insulting and uninspired. Now they're distancing themselves from that all together and going the pop route of songs describing romance and parties. Music to keep people from thinking, being invested and engaged with the music. 

[cuteycindyhoney 13,308]

OMG, I really Really REALLY hate this song! The lyrics are so dumb and repetitive that it drives me crazy!

 

Alicia Keys "Girl On Fire"

This girl is on fire
This girl is on fire
She's walking on fire
This girl is on fire

Oh, oh, oh...

She's just a girl, and she's on fire

[Zantetsuken 364]

Drive By by Train has so many cringeworthy lyrics it's insulting.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqnFJ3lp5k

 

For those of you who didn't click the link to save your sanity here are some of the highlights. 

"Just a shy guy lookin for a two-ply hefty bag to hold my-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay love"

"They don't like it sue me, mmmmm the way you do me"

"Oh i sware to ya, Ill be there for ya, this is not a Drive By-ay-ay-ay-ay" 

 

I mean I guess the band name is appropriate seeing as how listening to this song is about as much fun as getting hit by a train.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Fuck everything about this song. Literally they even say "We don't even have to try" 

No, No you apparently don't, you just have to crap out the most nauseatingly safe and pointless drivel to make money.

[10InTheTardis 509]

Cannibal Corpse I cum blood.

The lyrics are so bad and so funny I can't even show you guys!

I will put up a link though

 

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cannibalcorpse/icumblood.html

 

Do you know what makes up for the bad lyrics, though? You can't tell how bad they are, because you can't even hear what the guy is saying. It sounds like cookie monster burping, with pig squeals and fart noises every once and a while. And then add in drums and electric guitar at extremely unfitting times and you have the song.

[PacificGreen 1,163]

Fuck everything about this song. Literally they even say "We don't even have to try" 

No, No you apparently don't, you just have to crap out the most nauseatingly safe and pointless drivel to make money.

 

I actually love that song. It's so cheery and feel-good and brings back memories of summer camp.

 

I for whatever reason recently got into rewatching clips of the old show Krypto the Superdog (which features a lot of the MLP voice actors and actresses), but the theme song...there's really nothing unique at all about the lyrics and it almost sounds like it was written by an 8-year-old.

"He's a superdog.

He's a superhero

He came to Earth from outer space.

And his name is Krypto."

"He's super strong! He's super brave!"

[kanwe yest 157]

 

Any verse that Bizarre does instantly kills my hype. Not only is it super slow, but it always seems like it's only for shock value. So much so that I don't think I can post any safe lyrics here. 

 

Apparently his solo stuff is alright. Maybe he sacrifices himself to make everyone else in D-12 sound better. What a nice guy.

Dude I miss D12.

This is a funny Bizarre song:

 

then they made a pretty good song with the Snowgoons:

 

the beat is okay.

 

And bizzy had a good verse in Fight Music.

 

The hell with the worst. HERE ARE THE BEST(sike!!!):

BTW first person to guess what song this is, gets a free prize. no googling...

 

 

YEA!!!! HAHAH SHAWTY LETZ MAKE MONEY TURN UP!!!

 

I PUT IT ROLLIE IM DRINKIN STR8 LEAN A BITCH IS STRAIGHT FEELIN MY DIAMONDZ (MAH DIAMONDS)

I ROLL IN THA CITY MY [African American] YOU GOT ME, THE SHIT MAN THATS HIT ON MAH MAMA (brrrrp!)

and GIMMIE SOME ugh (bow) robbin them, [African American] and fool(i holla)

embedded the money i got us some putty some butter hakuna matata!!!!

im tellin u [African Americans] i bury yo daddy for takin my lotion![i know u!!]

i been tamin ya barrel, i say wat i say when i said im sayin my lotion

 

Nah. it was a skit.

 

But any lyrics by some rappers like Future, 2Chainz, Rick Ross, and especially Cheef Keef just don't even make sense.

 

AND THAT YG TRENDY SONG "My nigga" SOUNDS LIKE THIS:

 

usemmamaar wmmu mufukkin niggo

saklama daaa wimmuh fingawna trigg

faklagoin in yasamwi ma niggo

maniggo maa niggl

Edited February 21, 2016 by Flamboyant

[SilverStarApple 849]

"Me not working hard?

Yeah, right! Picture that with a Kodak

Or, better yet, go to Times Square

Take a picture of me with a Kodak"

 

*bangs head against wall*

*joins you in banging head against wall*

 

ON! EVERY! LEVEL! It is objectively idiotic! You can't rhyme a word with itself, and you don't picture things using actual cameras! Was this idiot paid to say Kodak in his songs, and decided he wanted double pay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA6PPgL7W_4

Fuck everything about this song. Literally they even say "We don't even have to try"

No, No you apparently don't, you just have to crap out the most nauseatingly safe and pointless drivel to make money.

To put it bluntly, true dat. The only things worse than crappy radio music are the non-musicians playing what they're given and writing worse songs and laughing about how little effort they have to put in, because the lowest common denominator trash will buy it anyway.

[KatonRyu 1,033]

You must not know about me, you must not know about me
I could have another you in a minute
Matter of fact, he'll be here in a minute, baby

 

Seriously, the utter lack of interest with which these lines were written is staggering. First the double line, which is a phrase no normal person would ever use when trying to say 'you don't know me at all'. Then we get the brilliant move of rhyming 'minute' with 'minute'.

 

Truthfully I consider most of Beyonce's lyrics to be excruciatingly bad and infuriating, but these take the cake.