
The first song on Ten was also the first song to bring attention to the band. "Alive" set the tone for everything that would follow. General CommentTaken from "Five Against the World" But it do sound good.”įollow The Independent’s Culture section on Facebook. I don’t know if you know what this is, but it ain’t that.’ I fucked up.

Nobody ever pulled up a pic and said, ‘Hey man. I guess for a second, I thought a cello was a woodwind instrument and it is not. Because he listened to that song many times and he allowed me to say that. “Before you come at me, I’ma let you know. Writing on the lyrics website Genius, Lil Yachty acknowledged his mistake before attempting to shift the blame: “OK, let’s stop for a second,” he wrote. Sadly, however, the instrument Squidward plays is a clarinet, not a cello. On his 2017 single “Peek A Boo”, Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty was inspired by the Spongebob Squarepants character Squidward to dream up a graphic simile for oral sex. ‘The Brass Against incident was everything wrong about ‘rock’n’roll’ behaviour’.How Taylor Swift redefined online fandom, from SwiftTok to #Taylurking.How Olivia Rodrigo’s acerbic pop speaks for an anxious generation.The bit expressing concern about a cake left out in the rain is more famous, but this trouser press analogy really confirms that Webb was having an off-day.Įinstein once famously remarked that: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Kesha would have done well to heed that advice on her 2010 track “Blah Blah Blah”, in which she attempts to simplify the image of someone zipping their mouth and then locking it into a single zinger but ends up with this utter nonsense. Jimmy Webb wrote some of the finest songs of all time, including “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, but his 1967 composition “MacArthur Park” has become a byword for bad lyrics. Jimmy Webb: “As we followed in the dance/ Between the parted pages and were pressed/ In love’s hot, fevered iron/ Like a striped pair of pants” Drake: “Got so many chains they call me Chain-ing Tatum (They do, they do)”Ī cringeworthy line from 2016’s “Pop Style” that begs the question: Do they, though?ġ0. On his 1992 album Us, the former Genesis man offered us this crude reworking of the fairytale of the princess and the frog, and an image of his warty little toad you may never forget.ġ1. Peter Gabriel: “Let me introduce his frogness/ You alone can get him singing/ He’s all puffed up, wanna be your king/ Oh, you can do it/ C’mon lady, kiss that frog” I Said" is a raging expression of existential angst that also happens to include this woeful line, which the humourist Dave Barry famously dunked on: “Maybe he expected the chair to say, 'Whoa, I heard that!' My guess is that Neil was really desperate to come up with something to rhyme with 'there' and he had already rejected 'So I ate a pear,' 'Like Smokey The Bear,' and 'There were nits in my hair.'”ġ7.

Neil Diamond: “‘I am,’ I said/ To no one there/ And no one heard at all/ Not even the chair”ĭiamond’s 1971 single "I Am.
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Cyrus’ 2013 album Bangerz successfully reinvented Hannah Montana as a pop superstar from the dirty south, but the urgent repetition of this line from Nelly collab “4x4” isn’t so much a rebel yell as a the frantic mutterings of an Uber driver searching for a public toilet.ġ8.
