Right now I'm pretty sick of Augustana's "Boston", where the singer says that he thinks he'll go to Boston where "no one knows his name". I really can't decide which is worse, whether he's deliberately playing on the Cheers theme, or he's completely ignorant of it.
Hoobastanks' "The Reason" fills me with all sorts of REAG. All his emotion really sounds to me like the guy just needs to be put out of his misery.
And the lyrics for Stealth Princess's "Freakshow" I just find painfully stupid. Here's the chorus:
"i feel like a reject from a freakshow
i'm kicking up the white trash from the sidewalk
i don't want the ocean in my seashell
i just want a boyfriend with a brain cell"
Why should you do better than he's going to? Also, shut the fuck up.
...that was kind of therapeutic.
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Pretty much anything sung by Whitney Houston, for a start. Just a start.
But that's from the early Neolithic.
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be 'appy
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Men At Work - Down Under
John Williamson - True Blue
There are more. These are the ones that immediately spring to mind, so probably the ones I hate the most.
Oh, and this goes for anything off of Fergie's solo album, times ten.
What really annoys me are songs by artists that I like that just get under my skin in a bad way.
Christine Lavin does a number of songs of this nature, usually with off-handed hagiographic comments about JFK.
Similarly, her friend and sometime collaborator, Megon McDonough, does a song titled Oh Great Spirit which raises my hackles and gets characterized in my mind as, "Another bit of damned Noble Savage bullshit."
OH, and ANYTHING by Nickelback.