Songs you absolutely hate.

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27 Feb 2010 09:07 PM
Taumpy

Songs you absolutely hate.

These are all songs I'm subjected to at work, and since it was a quiet night tonight, I was inspired to start this thread.

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 :Shake:. 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? :roll: Also, shut the fuck up.

...that was kind of therapeutic.
27 Feb 2010 09:45 PM
vison

O, dear. My list would be far, far, far, far, far too long.

Pretty much anything sung by Whitney Houston, for a start. Just a start.

But that's from the early Neolithic.
27 Feb 2010 11:13 PM
Marsilia

Current singers I can't stand include Katy Perry and possibly Kei$ha (I've only heard one of her songs, but she has a fucking dollar sign in her name). As for songs that make me want to stab myself in the ears, this Miley Cyrus song was written and produced in the bowels of Hell.
28 Feb 2010 04:03 AM
kg2095

There are many songs I dislike but these are so bad that I have to change stations if they come on the radio.

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.
28 Feb 2010 08:22 AM
AndrewRyan

Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go On. I really wish your heart would just stop, actually.
28 Feb 2010 09:01 AM
OneCentStamp

Anything by Black Eyed Peas. Their songs are so simplistic, so catchy, so lyrically inane, that I go from knowing the song, to (briefly) liking it, to being sick of it, to wanting to gouge my tympanic membranes out, in the first listen. That "tonight's gonna be a good night" song is a perfect example.

Oh, and this goes for anything off of Fergie's solo album, times ten. :fishbeat:
28 Feb 2010 09:52 AM
OtakuLoki

Well, let me second the votes that Katy Perry has gotten. Jill Soluble did a song of that title that was catchy and clever, Perry's was just pap.

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."
28 Feb 2010 11:09 PM
AndrewRyan

Also, Paparazzi by Lady Ga Ga. I say this song, because it gets stuck in my head so easily, and I'm right on the verge of actually liking it. Considering what that means, I have to hate it.

OH, and ANYTHING by Nickelback.
28 Feb 2010 11:19 PM
Taumpy

Hell, yes, Nickelback. Their songs are what is played as torture in hell.
01 Mar 2010 05:15 AM
RabbitMage

In order for something to count in this category it needs to be considered music. Thus Nickelback is ineligible.
01 Mar 2010 05:45 AM
ivan astikov

Any formulaic pap. I hate any music by numbers performed by minimally talented clothes-horses.
01 Mar 2010 09:26 AM
Cluricaun

1. Anything by Abba, but double if it’s the song Fernando. That is the worst song ever written.
2. Tiny Dancer.
3. Don’t Stop Believin’
4. Centerfield by John Fogarty.
5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the live one by Bruce Springsteen. Gah.
6. Bungle in the Jungle by Jethro Tull
7. Hot Hot Hot by Buster Poindexter
01 Mar 2010 09:29 AM
Oliveloaf

All and any Steely Dan.

Thick, pasty, over-produce dreck layered thick with a pretentious lack of irony.

Art rock for the easily amused.

...

"In the Air Tonight" makes me boot.
01 Mar 2010 09:32 AM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

1. Anything by Abba, but double if it’s the song Fernando. That is the worst song ever written.
2. Tiny Dancer.
3. Don’t Stop Believin’
4. Centerfield by John Fogarty.
5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the live one by Bruce Springsteen. Gah.
6. Bungle in the Jungle by Jethro Tull
7. Hot Hot Hot by Buster Poindexter

I am going to agree with you on every count, but I am not actually offended by any of these.

Well, Don't Stop Believin' bonus sucks, but I can live with other people liking the other tunes on this list.

Tull is wankery at its finest, but it's pretty good wankery. At least Tull had the suds to be completely over the top. That's worth something.
01 Mar 2010 09:34 AM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by AndrewRyan

Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go On. I really wish your heart would just stop, actually.

What makes this song so foul is the number of people who become emotional listening to it. This is programmed schlock at its finest.
01 Mar 2010 09:34 AM
OneCentStamp

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

4. Centerfield by John Fogarty.

AndrewRyan and I saw Fogerty live at the Houston rodeo two years ago. It's one of the three or four best concerts I've ever been to, and the only thing separating it from complete musical nirvana is that he chose to play that shitty song.

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

5. Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the live one by Bruce Springsteen. Gah.

I like me some Bruce, but that song sucks. I really really hate the part where he's speaking in his over-gravelly voice, asking if Clarence has been a good boy this year and if he asked Santa for a new horn. So cheesy, so phony. :mad:
01 Mar 2010 09:53 AM
Cluricaun

Quote:

Originally posted by OneCentStamp

I like me some Bruce, but that song sucks. I really really hate the part where he's speaking in his over-gravelly voice, asking if Clarence has been a good boy this year and if he asked Santa for a new horn. So cheesy, so phony. :mad:

I’ve kind of got a problem with anything where he’s playing with the E Street Band…..because they’re horrible. They just make this odd humming noise, you can see people playing guitars and horns and bass and stuff, but there isn’t any way to discern any individual playing anything specific, just this general noise that emanates from them. Like the song Born to Run for example: If you see that done live there are literally like 23 people on stage playing frantically, and the only thing that sounds like it’s playing is a synth and some bells. You’d think with the 5 dudes playing guitar up there that there would be some guitar tones coming from the band, but nope. Just a low frequency hum.
01 Mar 2010 10:11 AM
OneCentStamp

^^^^^

I agree, and the sad thing is it's totally intentional. Bruce openly admires the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound," and wanted to emulate it. What seems to have escaped Bruce is that the Ronettes and Chiffons didn't really rock very hard.

Born In The U.S.A. should be one of the greatest albums in rock history on the strength of the songs, and it's practically unlistenable to me, thanks to the horrible 80s production values. All I hear is super loud synthesizer, and snare drum that sounds like it was recorded in an empty airplane hangar.

Bruce needs to start hanging out with Rick Rubin. That's what all old rock stars do when they want to stop sucking.
02 Mar 2010 10:42 AM
Myrnalene

"Love Story" by Taylor Swift.

I mean, not only is it totally insipid with a pukeworthy ending, but there is also this part of the lyrics, after Juliet has given up hope of the relationship working out:

Quote:

marry me juliet you’ll never have to be alone
i love you and thats all I really know
i talked to your dad you’ll pick out the white dress
its a love story baby just say yes

You asked her dad for permission before you asked her? FEMINEST RAGE! :Shake:
02 Mar 2010 01:06 PM
eleanorigby

Too many to count, and I'm stuck in the way back machine when it comes to music. I also hate that Springsteen version of Santa Claus. Add to that Sir Paul's Xmas song (I refuse to type the title because then it will be in my head all day).

Hall & Oates--Kiss on My List

Sir Paul and Jacko--Ebony and Ivory and that other one where they are traveling salesmen in a sun drenched olde timey village--puke.

Whatever band sang Carrion something the way I must travel. Or is it CaryAnne? Anyway, I hate, hate, hate that song.

I am still puzzled by how Madonna became a rock star.

Pretty much anything by Celine Deon after Color My World (or was it Colors of My World?). Wailing is not singing--please make a note of that, Ms Mariah Carey. (who is also icky).
02 Mar 2010 01:12 PM
OneCentStamp

Quote:

Originally posted by eleanorigby

Whatever band sang Carrion something the way I must travel. Or is it CaryAnne? Anyway, I hate, hate, hate that song.

Did you mean this mid-80s classic by any chance? :smug:
02 Mar 2010 01:49 PM
Oliveloaf

Ya Mo Be There
02 Mar 2010 02:34 PM
Revs

Anything by Dave Matthews. I can't stand any of his songs.

More specifically, Poker Face by Lady Gaga and whatever that horribly repetitive song about having a good night by Black Eyed Peas is called.
02 Mar 2010 02:35 PM
Revs

double post
02 Mar 2010 03:59 PM
Cluricaun

Quote:

Originally posted by eleanorigby

Sir Paul and Jacko--Ebony and Ivory and that other one where they are traveling salesmen in a sun drenched olde timey village--puke.

That other one is called Say Say Say and that song is awesome. http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ot-colbert.gif
02 Mar 2010 04:04 PM
Myrnalene

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

That other one is called Say Say Say and that song is awesome. http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ot-colbert.gif

I was born in 1978 and this was my first exposure to Paul McCartney. For years he was to me "that white man who sang with Michael Jackson."

.................................................
02 Mar 2010 04:18 PM
Sarahfeena

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

I was born in 1978 and this was my first exposure to Paul McCartney. For years he was to me "that white man who sang with Michael Jackson."

.................................................

Dear god.
02 Mar 2010 04:22 PM
Taumpy

Quote:

Originally posted by eleanorigby

Sir Paul and Jacko--Ebony and Ivory and that other one where they are traveling salesmen in a sun drenched olde timey village--puke.

I won't argue with your choice of "Ebony and Ivory", but FTR that's Stevie Wonder that Paul's singing with.

The truly bad Paul & Michael Jackson song is "The Girl Is Mine". I have always found that one vaguely creepy.
02 Mar 2010 04:24 PM
Myrnalene

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4...haeljacjz1.jpg
02 Mar 2010 04:39 PM
Oliveloaf

Make it go away.
02 Mar 2010 04:40 PM
eleanorigby

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4...haeljacjz1.jpg

And that's NOT creepy as hell? :dubious: Maybe the song doesn't completely suck, but the video ruined the song for all time.

Ok, ok--so it's Kyrie. I always heard it as "carrion lays on the road I must travel" and my thoughts usually turned to crows, raccoons, possums and other road kill/eaters of carrion. I prefer my version.

Damn if it isn't Stevie Wonder--what a fall from grace. :o

Just for shits and giggles, I'll add "Puppy Love" and "Paper Roses" to the list.

And anything by Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garret. I am dating myself, but those of my generation know what I mean.
02 Mar 2010 04:41 PM
eleanorigby

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

I was born in 1978 and this was my first exposure to Paul McCartney. For years he was to me "that white man who sang with Michael Jackson."

.................................................

A part of me just died.
02 Mar 2010 04:53 PM
Cluricaun

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

I was born in 1978 and this was my first exposure to Paul McCartney. For years he was to me "that white man who sang with Michael Jackson."

Kind of the same thing, I'm roughly the same age as Myrna and I knew the Beatles from my parents playing records, but it was a huge disconnect that the doofus in the Michael Jackson video was also in the Beatles.
02 Mar 2010 08:45 PM
Glazer

Stand by R.E.M.

Hell anything by R.E.M.
02 Mar 2010 09:35 PM
eleanorigby

Quote:

Originally posted by Cluricaun

Kind of the same thing, I'm roughly the same age as Myrna and I knew the Beatles from my parents playing records, but it was a huge disconnect that the doofus in the Michael Jackson video was also in the Beatles.

I was 10 when the Beatles broke up, so I'm not all that old. But I suppose my childhood was much more colored by the Fab Four's influence.

Anything by Barry Manilow (I like to refer to him as Barely Manenough)
02 Mar 2010 09:52 PM
Orual

All Beyonce, but especially that fucking 'put a ring on it' song.

::STABBY::
03 Mar 2010 12:55 AM
Marsilia

Quote:

Originally posted by Orual

All Beyonce, but especially that fucking 'put a ring on it' song.

It makes me die a little when my sister says that her fiance "liked it, so he put a ring on it." I comfort myself with the fact that my sister has great taste in music and says such things ironically.
03 Mar 2010 09:22 AM
Oliveloaf

Here's a Shitty Ditty(tm)

Seal: Kiss from a Rose
03 Mar 2010 10:51 AM
Rube E. Tewesday

Another oldie but not goodie:

"Coward of the County" by Kenny Rogers. A poor girl gets gang-raped, but that's OK, because it gives her husband the chance to show that he isn't afraid of bar fights.

:Shake:
03 Mar 2010 11:06 AM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by Rube E. Tewesday

Another oldie but not goodie:

"Coward of the County" by Kenny Rogers. A poor girl gets gang-raped, but that's OK, because it gives her husband the chance to show that he isn't afraid of bar fights.

:Shake:

Yeah, I never thought of it that way. What a moronic song.

It's all cool at the end because wuss boy gets in a few licks.
03 Mar 2010 12:20 PM
Revs

♫Don't stop believin'♫

I fucking hate this song the the fury of a thousand suns. I can never get away from it either. Go to a bar, someone puts it on the jukebox. Go to a club, some jackass thinks its funny to get the DJ to play it. Go to a party, chances are that same jackass from the club is there with a Journey best of. It's overplayed and not that good of a song. We've all heard it before, there is no reason we need to hear it again.
03 Mar 2010 12:24 PM
OneCentStamp

Quote:

Originally posted by Revs

♫Don't stop believin'♫

Yeah, this song was badly overplayed before it was overplayed. :Shake:
03 Mar 2010 02:37 PM
jali

You guys would hate my play list.

I'm digging Nickleback, I love Steely Dan and I really like Katy Perry, especially this:
03 Mar 2010 02:40 PM
jali

I hate anything by Neil Diamond. Ugh.
03 Mar 2010 03:13 PM
Cluricaun

My fiancee, whom I love with the power of 10,000 burning suns, has the taste in music of a brain damaged 13 year old. All she listens to when we're in her car is the local 10 Songs On Constant Replay Club Music Clear Channel Shit Fest, so I hereby nominate every single song that I hear on B96. Seriously. Justin Beeber or whatever your name is, I hope weasels eat your face.
03 Mar 2010 03:51 PM
AndrewRyan

I suppose I should bring to light my secret shame. Paramore. I want to hate them so bad, but I....just....can't. And so, I do hate them, for the very reason I can't. Its a conundrum.
03 Mar 2010 05:21 PM
Orual

Quote:

Originally posted by Revs

♫Don't stop believin'♫

YOU CAN HAVE MY JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS CD WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!
03 Mar 2010 06:22 PM
Revs

Quote:

Originally posted by Orual

YOU CAN HAVE MY JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS CD WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!

Based on the age of the average Journey fan, I may not have to wait too long.
03 Mar 2010 07:17 PM
eleanorigby

Quote:

Originally posted by Revs

Based on the age of the average Journey fan, I may not have to wait too long.

Silly Youth--Old Age and Treachery will win every time.

I like SOME Journey songs. Not all, but some. Like I like SOME Styx songs. I am a child of the late 70s/80s.

Just to torture all of you, "Butterfly Kisses", "Wildfire" and "Don't Worry, Be Happy!"

I am evil.
03 Mar 2010 07:18 PM
Papaw

Nickleback's "Rockstar" drives me nuts, but I don't mind "Photograph".
03 Mar 2010 10:18 PM
eleanorigby

Late 1970s Neil Diamond is horrid, but he had some good music in the 60s and early 70s.
04 Mar 2010 10:37 AM
Taumpy

Quote:

Originally posted by jali

I hate anything by Neil Diamond. Ugh.

I was listening to "Cracklin' Rosie" when I read this post. :lol:

Eleanor is right, though. Late Neil Diamond is pretty damn horrible. "I Am I Said"? Awful.
04 Mar 2010 11:38 AM
Revs

China Girl by David Bowie or Iggy Pop. Either one you choose, you're in for 5 minutes of suck.
04 Mar 2010 11:47 AM
Myrnalene

Quote:

Originally posted by Taumpy

I was listening to "Cracklin' Rosie" when I read this post. :lol:

Quote:

Originally posted by Neil Diamond

Cracklin' Rosie you're a store-bought woman

what?
04 Mar 2010 11:56 AM
OneCentStamp

Quote:

Originally posted by Revs

China Girl by David Bowie or Iggy Pop. Either one you choose, you're in for 5 minutes of suck.

:( :(
04 Mar 2010 12:02 PM
Revs

Quote:

Originally posted by OneCentStamp

:( :(

Sorry man, sometimes the truth hurts.
04 Mar 2010 01:32 PM
Taumpy

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

what?

Rosie is not a human woman. She is alcohol.
04 Mar 2010 01:38 PM
Myrnalene

Quote:

Originally posted by Taumpy

Rosie is not a human woman. She is alcohol.

:smack
19 Mar 2010 11:26 AM
Taumpy

Shania Twain's "Shoes" completely pisses me off.

Quote:

Originally posted by Shania

Men are like shoes
A bit too confused
Yeah, there's so many of 'em
I don't know which ones to choose

No, Shania, the shoes and the men are not who is confused here. :fist:
19 Mar 2010 11:56 AM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by Glazer

Stand by R.E.M.

Hell anything by R.E.M.

Is it legal to say this where you live?

We have entered the post-alternative era, I guess.

"Good music", for a while during the Eighties in Chicago, generally
came compliments of pseudo-alternative radio station WRXT.

A result of my time listening to that station was that a number of bands became sacrosanct--REM among them.

Talking Heads
Rolling Stone
Beatles
REM
Roxie Music

So, it's interesting for me now to hear people rip these groups. Which is fine. Just surprising.

I genuinely like the bands listed above, mind you.

I never latched on to that stations newer untouchable icons like the Smashing Pumkins, Poi Dog Pondering, Matthew Sweet and Wilco.

And certainly 5-10 years from now people will look back and question their worship worthiness.

God Dammit, I'm old!
19 Mar 2010 01:23 PM
Katriona

Quote:

Originally posted by Myrnalene

I was born in 1978 and this was my first exposure to Paul McCartney. For years he was to me "that white man who sang with Michael Jackson."

.................................................

If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 1968 and my first exposure to Beatles songs was the Bee Gees Sgt. Pepper movie.
19 Mar 2010 08:56 PM
jali

Quote:

Originally posted by Katriona

If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 1968 and my first exposure to Beatles songs was the Bee Gees Sgt. Pepper movie.

This is the suckiest movie.

No.

The Women (2008) is the suckiest, but this comes close.
28 Mar 2010 09:21 PM
Hatshepsut

Quote:

Originally posted by Oliveloaf

All and any Steely Dan.

Does that extend to Walter Becker? If so I must disagree. To my (easily amused) mind, "Whatever happened to my college belle, when did she turn into the wife from hell?" is among the greatest song lyrics ever.

Hatshepsut
Former College Belle
14 Mar 2011 05:09 AM
Trojan Man

That Avril Lavigne song.... the one where she whines out of tune about emo things. You know the one.
14 Mar 2011 01:14 PM
Myglaren

Quote:

Originally posted by Oliveloaf

Ya Mo Be There

Yeah! What the hell is that about?

As for songs that need to just go away and be forgotten, far too many to list but anything tainted by Tom bloody Jones for a start.
Any Christmas songs, bar two.

I think that this was the Carry Ann that was pointed out above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgA4-bLcoN8
and I cannot disagree, it's vile.
Some Hollies stuff was tolerable but not that one.
14 Mar 2011 01:37 PM
Orual

"Freebird".

Always and forever.
14 Mar 2011 02:41 PM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by Orual

"Freebird".

Always and forever.

Amen.
14 Mar 2011 03:54 PM
The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.
15 Mar 2011 12:46 AM
RabbitMage

Bad To The Bone.

Also, AC/DC. Anything. They are fucking awful.
15 Mar 2011 11:09 AM
CatInASuit

Spin Doctors - Two Princes. 4 mins of suck.
15 Mar 2011 01:20 PM
parzival

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.

That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

It's also just a little poignant. Presumably this robot was created in an attempt to monitor and study the human teenager. The face and body movements are uncannily accurate, although the voice needs a little work. Obviously the language processing unit is a bit faulty - witness the stuttering, and the grammatical slip of "we so excited". It is able to form statements about time, expressing correctly the days of the week in order. Sadly, it's limited AI does not allow it to truly analyze situations - at best it can greet others and feign excitement, but seems to fall into confusion over seemingly unimportant tasks, like which seat in a vehicle is optimal to occupy. I suspect this is a Buridan's ass problem - there out to be a routine to resolve such deadlocks more appropriately.
15 Mar 2011 05:04 PM
Clothahump

OMG, where to start?

Anything by Rod Stewart. Anything by Pink Floyd. Anything by Jethro Tull.

That'll do for openers.
18 Mar 2011 11:15 AM
CatInASuit

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.

I've just seen this one elsewhere.

Pass the brain bleach, please.
18 Mar 2011 01:55 PM
ivan astikov

Quote:

Originally posted by jali

I hate anything by Neil Diamond. Ugh.

It's a beautiful noise. And it's a sound that I love. And it makes me feel good. When I wear rubber gloves. Yes it does. Yes it does.
18 Mar 2011 02:04 PM
Oliveloaf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
18 Mar 2011 02:38 PM
ivan astikov

I'm loathe to even give it a mention, but if I'm going to be specific, "Mull Of Kintyre" by Wings definitely fits the bill.
18 Mar 2011 03:57 PM
Oliveloaf

Quote:

Originally posted by ivan astikov

I'm loathe to even give it a mention, but if I'm going to be specific, "Mull Of Kintyre" by Wings definitely fits the bill.

It's lame.
19 Mar 2011 07:18 AM
Claptree

For some inexplicable reason Risa Against's Hero of War got massive amounts of air time on Swedish rock stations - I'd often be subjected to it 4 times in 8 hours. (Many people, one radio). I hated it the first time I heard it. I'm actually slightly angry about it right now, and I haven't heard it in weeks.
21 Mar 2011 02:42 PM
The Original An Gadaí

Quote:

Originally posted by parzival

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.

That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

It's also just a little poignant. Presumably this robot was created in an attempt to monitor and study the human teenager. The face and body movements are uncannily accurate, although the voice needs a little work. Obviously the language processing unit is a bit faulty - witness the stuttering, and the grammatical slip of "we so excited". It is able to form statements about time, expressing correctly the days of the week in order. Sadly, it's limited AI does not allow it to truly analyze situations - at best it can greet others and feign excitement, but seems to fall into confusion over seemingly unimportant tasks, like which seat in a vehicle is optimal to occupy. I suspect this is a Buridan's ass problem - there out to be a routine to resolve such deadlocks more appropriately.

This song now has 30,050,577 views, and that's only the official posting of the video. It has also spawned a plethora of covers.
22 Mar 2011 08:38 AM
Myglaren

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

Quote:

Originally posted by parzival

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.

That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

It's also just a little poignant. Presumably this robot was created in an attempt to monitor and study the human teenager. The face and body movements are uncannily accurate, although the voice needs a little work. Obviously the language processing unit is a bit faulty - witness the stuttering, and the grammatical slip of "we so excited". It is able to form statements about time, expressing correctly the days of the week in order. Sadly, it's limited AI does not allow it to truly analyze situations - at best it can greet others and feign excitement, but seems to fall into confusion over seemingly unimportant tasks, like which seat in a vehicle is optimal to occupy. I suspect this is a Buridan's ass problem - there out to be a routine to resolve such deadlocks more appropriately.

This song now has 30,050,577 views, and that's only the official posting of the video. It has also spawned a plethora of covers.

Worst Song Ever
22 Mar 2011 08:38 AM
Myglaren

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

Quote:

Originally posted by parzival

Quote:

Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

I love pop music but this is an atrocity.

That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

It's also just a little poignant. Presumably this robot was created in an attempt to monitor and study the human teenager. The face and body movements are uncannily accurate, although the voice needs a little work. Obviously the language processing unit is a bit faulty - witness the stuttering, and the grammatical slip of "we so excited". It is able to form statements about time, expressing correctly the days of the week in order. Sadly, it's limited AI does not allow it to truly analyze situations - at best it can greet others and feign excitement, but seems to fall into confusion over seemingly unimportant tasks, like which seat in a vehicle is optimal to occupy. I suspect this is a Buridan's ass problem - there out to be a routine to resolve such deadlocks more appropriately.

This song now has 30,050,577 views, and that's only the official posting of the video. It has also spawned a plethora of covers.

Worst Song Ever
22 Mar 2011 11:06 AM
CatInASuit

In some ways, I feel really sorry for her, she's only 13 and her entire life is going to be marked by this one song.

It's going to make her a millionaire isn't it. There is no justice in the world.
22 Mar 2011 12:04 PM
The Original An Gadaí

In the 1990s it might have made her a millionaire but then in the 1990s she wouldn't have got such noteriety so fast, not so sure now. I don't think that Chocolate Rain kid is a millionaire although Dr. Pepper gave him money to do promo for them.
22 Mar 2011 01:19 PM
The Original An Gadaí

So it seems her folks paid for the production company to make the song/video. She's doing a mall tour and the song is charting in different countries. Whether it will equal anything much more than worldwide ridicule for her, time will tell.
22 Mar 2011 03:05 PM
Oliveloaf

So, her folks we involved, but the song is written around "partying?"

When I was her age, partying almost always meant drugs, or at least copious amounts of liquor. Is this no longer true?
22 Mar 2011 05:17 PM
The Original An Gadaí

When you were 13 you took drugs and drink? Jakers!
22 Mar 2011 05:36 PM
Oliveloaf

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Originally posted by The Original An Gadaí

When you were 13 you took drugs and drink? Jakers!

Lord, no. I didn't do stupid crap until I was in my twenties. Didn't use the word party yet, either.

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