A. K. A. Which song do you hate the most?

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.

    “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, and “Fly Me To The Moon” by Frank Sinatra.

    If you put those songs in…anything, you’re a fucking hack.

    WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There’s nothing you can use it to say that hasn’t already been said by someone more clever than you.

    FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. “We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what’s the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?” “You’re not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It’s already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?”

  • Denjin@lemmings.world
    41·
    7 days ago

    Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.

    I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.

    It doesn’t make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      Frankly, even the Buckley version is worse than the original. The song has a bad case of the “Born in the USA” syndrome.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    Might be “Bohemian Rhapsody”, or “We will Rock You”. Which is odd, because Killer Queen is one of my favorite songs. Same artists can make crap or magic.

    And “Horse With No Name”, because of the godawful pretentious stupid lyrics.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    Of songs that other people like?

    I hate Dust in the Wind, and House of the Rising Sun, and I never need to hear Stairway to Heaven again, I have used up my quota.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    1·
    7 days ago

    Don’t you want me baby. Bananaphone. Feelings. But actually Don’t you want me baby is the only one that doesn’t stick in my head.

  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    Tie between that Uncle Kracker song and this one country rock song that I dont know the name or artist of. Starts off with a gut saying “jingle jingaling” or something.

    I don’t just change the station if these come on. Radio just goes off, no more music that day.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 days ago

      I was struggling to think of something I truly hate

      I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don’t really inspire hatered

      This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar

    • profgrumpypants@midwest.social
      21·
      8 days ago

      In defense of her music, if this is All I Want for Christmas I loved the cover of it in Love Actually. I think the gal who sings it is the one who voices Marceline? Also, if you’ve ever done kitchen work in a place that forces Christmas music people actually get quite happy and come together. So…there’s that.

      I personally will always be addicted to Always By My Baby. Which is an insanely fun song to sing, because of the modulation. Going high to low, it’s a fun challenge and feels great requires a bit of control. But that’s just me.

      I also think she might be the best selling female pop-artist globally. But I am not sure. This is all just stuff off the top of my head.

      Lastly, and this is on her acting and not her as a human being - I absolutely fucking loved her in Precious. Especially as she has this one like that’s something akin to “What do you think I am” when Precious asks her what ethnicity she is. As someone who’s mixed, it’s like candy for my brain. It’s a good play.

      Sang through this whole post, so it might be messier than it already was coming through on someone’s opinion.