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putting that line in the lyrics of a song is just ASKING for trouble!

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give your favourite examples of lines which shouldn't be part of songs as they can be interpreted as criticizing the song.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

for example, the Spearmint song "I Can't Sleep" features the line, repeated several times

MAKE IT STOP.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

that rapture song where he's like, "over and over and over again," over and fucking over again

― sdk, Saturday, 22 May 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The high-pitched, whiny repetition of "It's you" in the Sigur Ròs song "Svefn-G-Englar" caused someone standing next to me to yell back at the stage: "No, mate, it's you. And I was apt to agree.

― C W (C W), Sunday, 23 May 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Can't Smile Without You" owns this thread for

"I can't laugh and I CAN'T SING"

especially apposite if its being done karaoke.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Billie Jean is not my lover" tied with "The kid is not my son"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

John Denver's "I'm leaving on a jet plane, and I ain't never coming back".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"where the obligatory niggers?"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 23 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)


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