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    Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it’s Paul McCartney.

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    Fucking Staind. It’s Been Awhile is one of the whiniest piece of shit songs with the dumbest lyrics ever written. Louie Louie is Shakespeare compared to that song. It came out right around the time Clear Channel was barfing out Christian rock garbage and I’d rather listen to Creed telling me about Jeebus’s arms wide open a million times before I’d listen to someone repeat the same emo trash “I’m 13 and this is deep” line in a song 14 fucking times.

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    “Home” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

    After years of hating it, I’ve basically boiled my criticism down to the fact that it’s

    Banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.

    I’m pretty sure I’ve written that exact string of words dozens of times over the years whenever this topic comes up. But I’ll expand on it a bit.

    It drags on for a little over 5 minutes, it’s too damn long for having no real substance

    Half of the lyrics are just cutesy-sounding words with no real significance

    There’s a weird spoken word bit in the middle telling a story that just kind of doesn’t go anywhere basically just “remember that time you fell out a window and I drove you to the hospital? That’s when I fell in love with you”

    Why? Are you attracted to women who are bleeding all over your car? Do you get turned on by gravity? Did she say something funny? Did she at least look cute? There’s just no fucking payoff.

    There’s not really even anything particularly interesting musically interesting going on there.

    And what’s with the fake southern drawl? You’re from L.A. my dude. That’s Los Angeles, not Louisiana. And by the way “Edward Sharpe,” you forgot to even use that bullshit “alter-ego” name in this song, you’re not even keeping your own made-up lore straight, just drop the fucking act.

    I’m pretty sure if I asked the crappiest LLM out there to write a “bullshit folksy love song for basic white teenage girls” it would spit out something better.

    And for some reason the radio stations around me played this song to absolute death, not to mention my sister practically listening to it on repeat. It’s burned into my head and I absolutely fucking hate it.

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    I absolutely fucking hate S"hake it off" by Taylor Swift.

    It is probably one of the few songs that I hate in particular (usually I just dont like a genre and not a particular song).

    The reason for this is in fact quite simple. when I was in the third/fourth grade I got a class teacher that hated me on a personal level. Her attitude wass literally like “fuck this kid in particular”. In the 4th grade we were forced to do some kind of performance/dance as a whole class to this song and it absolutely ruined this song forever for me (tbh, nothing of value has been lost, I kind of dont like Taylor Swift in general).

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    6 days ago

    You know what? I love generally terrible pop music, and half this thread are songs I’ve listened to this week.

    But god fucking dammit, if that Paul McCartney Christmas song comes on, it causes a flight response in me. My body wants me to run away.

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go for a run blasting all these bangers.