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Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world AngelJamie @lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 mo. ago

What's the most unrelatable song lyric?

We always hear about song lyrics that we deeply connect to on a personal level, but what about ones that are the opposite of your experiences and/or vibe? I'll start first:

"I got money in the bank."

T-Pain on Buy U a Drank

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"🎶I'm proud to be an American🎶" from the self-titled song.

Don't get me wrong - I really want that song to be relatable again, but right now and for many years it hasn't been.
- We had to sing that song in 4th grade, when the US invaded Iraq. Every. Damn. Morning.
  
  "I pledge alleigance. To the flag..."
  
  Oof. If it's any consolation, I'm cringing with you across time and space.
  
  I was in high school and then college during that era, so I guess I was lucky to avoid the forced patriotism.
- "Where at least I know I am free I stand up, next to you.."
  
  That song is so goofy that me and my friends (we are third worlders) put it up ironically while playing minecraft and sing along with an american accent and the lyrics are ingrained to my brain for that reason, lmao.
Every time I'm listening to "getting better" by the Beatles and hear "I used to be cruel to my woman, I'd beat her" and then they sing about getting better I instantly turn off.

Even when I was a kid I was like wait so he still beats his wife but like not as often?

What the f*** and who beats their wife anyway and how is that in this song and it just bothers me to no end every time I have heard that song for the past my entire lifetime.
- "All that 'I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved' was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women."
  
  John Lennon
  
  Yup, he was known for it.
  
  Obviously that's not OK.
  
  But in all seriousness, isn't that the growth we want from people? He didn't just recognize that it was fucked up and changed. He also publicly acknowledged that he used to be that person and that that person was fucked up.
  
  ... Wut?
  
  The less you know, the better... Can never listen to him again without that popping up in my brain.
  
  Oh.
- Quite a lot of Beatles songs are a bit creepy. Take Norwegian Wood for example - he goes back to this woman's flat, she doesn't want to sleep with him, he sleeps in her bath instead of just leaving, and in the morning, after she's gone to work, he sets fire to her house.
  
  ! The melody of that is so calming. I've never listened to the lyrics.
  
  Thank you! I love that song so now I get to listen to it in a new light.
I’m on a boat

I’m actually not on a boat :(
- That one was played at least once per shift when I worked on a boat.
"I'm happy" - Pharrell Williams
- ..and not even 'because I am never happy'. It is the melody that is nothing like happy and hearing it makes me unhappy.
- Do Ja Ja Ding Dong next
Taxman by The Beatles. I’m not criticizing their music as a whole, but a song written by millionaires unironically whining about having to pay taxes is totally unrelatable to most of their fans.

Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman

Oh shut up.
- Man, 5%? That's it?
- The Boomerism was already beginning. Hippie on the outside Reagan Revolution on the inside lol
Literally all of Ke$ha's Tik Tok. I have never woken up feeling like p diddy, nor have i brushed my teeth with a bottle of jack daniels, and I sure as shit don't exclusively date guys that look like Mick Jagger
- Wake up in the morning and I just can't see
  
  Why everybody in the world is rich and famous but me
  
  I mean, I’m young and I’m hot, and I want to make money
  
  But when it comes to talents, I just don’t have any
If you like piña colitas, getting caught in the rain.

I like neither of these things.
- With all due respect, what is wrong with you?
  
  They’re into yoga
  
  Sounds like he's hydrophobic.
  
  ... spent too long on that dark desert highway to Margaritaville ...
- Are you into cheating through classified adds in the newspaper?
  
  I'm only into cheating through classified subtracts in the newspaper.
  
  Naw, I use Craigslist for that.
- Seriously, who likes getting caught in the rain?
  
  I love the rain.
  
  If you don't have electronics or papers to worry about, it's genuinely very good fun. I love it!
"...and the laaaaand of the freeeeeeee..."
- "...and the hooooome of the braaaaaaaave!"
  
  Maiden?
The Boss: Born in the USA.

I was born in Canada.
- Born in Germany, here.
- our true and native land
  
  hm...
  
  It's "our home and native land"
"Regrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention."

Frank Sinatra in "My Way" basically singing about how awesome he is
- Technically, it's Frank Sinatra singing about how awesome Paul Anka thinks he is.
  
  I'm not saying that's better.
  
  I like the version where Sid Vicous sings about how awesome Paul Anka thinks Frank Sinatra is... Or Nina Hagen.
"Sex by the fire at night"
-That's what i like, Bruno Mars

Other than being single, uhh i'm in a tropical country and there's no fireplace. But yes mostly being single.
"In the desert you can remember your name, 'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain"

Desert has many people for to give you pain.
"I dont know why I love you, I just do." -Jaymay

That's fucking terrifying, but my wife thinks it's romantic.
I'm blue Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di
Bastard son of Odin
Born to kick your ass

My father was both married and not a Norse god upon my birth. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even divinely fated to kick ass. I just don't know what to do with this song.
"It's Brittany, bitch"

Can't relate tbh.
- Idk, you seem like a bitch. /s
Every little thing is gonna be alright.
Anything regarding blossoming love and romance. Most of the time, it's so far off from my experience that the lyrics just make me envious and overall depressed with myself. This is 60% of popular music.
"I couldn't care less."

Leslie. You made a fucking song about it Leslie.
- The lyric "I'm not angry/ I'm just saying" struck me the same way. It's weird to be nonchalant in song form.
I grew up listening to a lot of old-school country music. Listening to it as an adult with an understanding of mental illness is horrifying and hilarious.
Pretty much everything from Duran-duran.

Don't get me wrong, I love 'em, but have you actually listened to the lyrics on their songs?

"Smell like I sound"? What the fuck Simon?
I've got all the right parts in all the right places.
I got the horses in the back.
"God made me a cannibal to fix problems like you" - Angelspit

Been feeling more and more hungry for the 1% lately, in Minecraft
I just keep coming back to the whole playlist of songs I made the other day that are from the perspective of psychos, murderers, or rapists. Totally unrelatable; but are also cool songs. Like Polly by Nirvana, Possum Kingdom by The Toadies, and Still Alive by Johnathan Coltan.
- Tyler by The Toadies has similar psycho vibes to it.
A slab of turkey-neck and it's hanging from a pigeon wing
- Consider yourself lucky. I definitely would not recommend being in that situation.
- Ironically, the next line is about relatablity.
  
  You can't write, if you can't relate
  
  Trade the cash for the beat
  
  For the body, for the hate
Hungry Like the Wolf.

...i just ate
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"It's Tuesday, my favorite day of the week

No obligations that affect me significantly"

-Tuesday, Psychostick
- Tuesday is canonically the worst day of the week. People who like Tuesdays are walking red flags.
  
  Tuesday - the day right after you started working again, and not the day you can slack on. Also, super far from Friday's reprieve
I want your ugly. I want your disease. I want your everything as long as it's free
You Say. No To. Ratchet. Pussy. Juicy. J. Can't.

What the actual fuck.
- It really comes down to defining ratchet.
If you talkin bout money homie I ain’t concerned.
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Ive got 99 problems but a bitch aint one.Jay z/Ice- t
- it's about a drug sniffing dog! he beat the rap, so to speak
Casual sex - my darkest days, or any other of their song. I am not, in fact, having any sex.
"And I don't care; how we look walking down the street"
If I could've become a Rap God, life could be slightly different. One cool smaller rapper even redid that song to his tune: https://youtu.be/l6hECLQQNz8
"I speak six languages I am sick and tired Of always being the best And the brightest at every mass"

25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee

I'll never be burdened by lacking challenge. I'm not that smart is a very relatable song from the musical, though.
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"Turn the page" by Bob Seger. I love the song, but the dude is sad because hes touring the world with his band and getting laid...

edit: thinking about it, maybe everybody is someone elses Bob Seger...
Dont care what you say/im gonna marry you anyway

Said the rapist
From "Losing It" by Rush

"Some are born to move the world to live their fantasies, but most of us just dream about the things we'd like to be" was a lyric in the album following Moving Pictures which was Rush's biggest album and they firmly sat in the former category at that point in their careers. Still my favorite band though
- Not every song is written and narrated from the perspective of the artist performing it.
Bayside, we’ll be ok

We'll be okay, We both got what we wanted, I got sex you got fame
"Valentine's day the worst day got too many please" - Future

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