Music cliches that you hate

Any song with "whiskey" or "New Orleans" in the lyrics. The multiplier is if it's sung with a fake southern drawl by someone who doesn't actually talk that way.

 

I love the album. The chords are there (usually) to frame a melody and vocal. If it's a good melody and decent lyrics, you don't want to detract from it with showing off elsewhere in the music.

 

let's get it on

 

Kicking in the air
Making orgasmic faces while playing

 

It's ridiculous. Finally a cliché that truly includes ALL decades of recorded music

 

Probably mentioned already, but the holding the mic into the audience and having them sing half the song drives me up the wall. It pretty much screams "I can't sing it anymore!"

 

Wordless vocalising.

Sweet Wine by Cream - "Bah Bah. Bah Doo Bah Bah. Bah Doo Bah Bah, Bah Bah-Doo Bah.

Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds - "Na, na na na na. Na na na na. " ...

etc

 

I'm thinking of two things: the children's prayer "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep", and Jon Bon Jovi's 1990 hit "Blaze of Glory" (which, contrary to popular misconception, was in fact a solo song of his, not the whole band) which in his typical fashion is filled with cliches. It's always kind of struck me as a weaker rehash of "Wanted Dead or Alive" from 1986.

Glad to find out I'm not the only one who finds that song tediously repetitive. Another one, from that same year of 1983: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" as covered by Cyndi Lauper. We get it already, don't need to shove it in our faces another ten times!

It seems to me that Marvin Gaye was the one who turned that phrase distinctly sexual. Talented artist for sure, but he definitely had his fair share of sleazy sex songs over the years.

 

And don’t forget Hey Jude na na na na na na na. Na na na na. Hey Jude.

 

OH OH!

I have another one!

"Ring Around The Rosy" for creepy ambiance!

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This is actually my reason for buying the Shania Twain Collection

 

Every single pop song in the last 5 years is guilty of this: 1 minute minimal intro and then approximately the 1 minute mark there's a bass drop wobble and then the beat kicks in. Every single damn time.

 

I don't really follow popular music. Can you post a YouTube clip so I can understand what you mean?

 

In case noone replied:

 

I hate with new country where they have to have a white cowboy hat or a black one to show if they are "good" or "bad." No, it just shows you are a cliche!

 

And every song has the same computerized beat, 4/4 boom boom boom etc. I can literally count down the seconds before it starts every time

 

There's a thing that almost all of the deep-voiced country singers do. I don't think it has a name, but I call it the "country scoop". At the beginning of a line, they "scoop" up into the note from deep in the bass of the voice to a more midrange tone. I don't know country well enough to grab an example but there have to be hundreds or thousands of them.

 

Jerking off the guitar like as if it was an "extension" of the guitarist, while thrusting with the hips in a spastic fashion.

 

Playing the piano and making faces is a lot worse than doing it playing the guitar!

 

I-IV-V chord progressions.

 

Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses

 

Sammy Hagar...

Moon in June..

Throw your hands in the air like ya just don't care..

Wham bam, roll an Amsterdam...

Lyrical felony. Boom ya get life !!!

 

When people describe classical music as “relaxing” or “soothing”. These people really haven’t the first clue about classical music.

 

ya like country music
pop with a fake accent

 

ya like the romantic period
orchestral with a fake accent