Music cliches that you hate

What?

 

I've read about half the responses. I love or don't mind almost all of these cliches. I guess it depends on how they are used in a song or performance. I'l likely to notice a cliche when it's done poorly or part of a genre I don't like.
I especially don't understand why internet people get so mad about an artist or frontman trying to hype the crowd up! Like, do you really sit there with arms folded while Bruce Dickinson is yelling "Scream for me Manitoba!"

On that note, my hated cliche is rock/metal musicians overusing the f-bomb onstage. I'm not easily offended by bad words, but making every third word some variation of f^($ is corny, especially when you know that no one in the audience is actually going to be offended. It feels like a 14 yead-old's attempt at being edgy.

 

I liked this video but I hated when it defended them by comparing Beethoven and birds.
It's not quite the same thing. Even the Tarzana Boy song, not the same thing.

 

Hattie Carrol by Dylan ends three lines with the word "Table". Are you gonna tell him or should I.

 

Can I give 100 likes to this comment?

 

Yes I HATE this.

 

As a counter-example of my own pet-peeve here, I had a shock last week, and actually thought there was something wrong with my head, radio, or something... A new local Subway spot was running, to the background accompaniment of the opening movement from Bach's Brandenburg concerto #2 (the one with the piccolo trumpet)!..

 

My wife would say “Ending a song by repeating the same line a hundred times”. There’s definitely some songs in my rotation where I can sense “she’s about to say something”.

 

I think I know what you're talking about. It's all over Garth Brooks "Friends In Low Places."

 

Yeah, I was thinking that and wondering how to word it - couldn’t have put it better myself!

 

As someone who has about 430 songs ready to be performed, my brain kinda turns off on songs that just play around with Cadd9/G type chords where only a couple fingers are moving around for the progression, Wonderwall being a standard.

 

That's exactly how Sturgill Simpson sounds to me.

 

LOL that sounds like lyrics that Hagar would sing haha

 

Bon Jovi actually went all out with a step and a 1/2 key change on that one.

 

Well, we've pretty much eliminated the entire recorded output of the last century with this thread. Good job everyone!

 

Toto - Hold the Line
The repetitive Whoa Whoa Whoa
And the OOOOOOOOO he sings repeatedly after one line.

 

How about Rap artists who do that overused hand-signal thing while they're performing, I know it's part of the act but it screams "I have to be just like everybody else or I won't be accepted!"

 

There's a difference between rhyming with the same word out of laziness and repetition of the same word for effect.

 

Quite right, sort of the point I was making in my reply - rhyming a word with itself isn't always lazy. Pretty much all music is based on modified repetition.

 

Encores!

 

Oh I always thought it was "...just like Witches and Black Magic", shows what I know..,

 

What does that mean?

 

I hold up the last minute or so of "Maneater" as possibly the most egregious example of bad vocal embellishments ever in a hit song, starting with John Oates' ridiculous OOOOO at 3:23. The thing Darly Hall does just after 4:00 is just laughable.

 

Backup dancers. It's like somebody passed a law a few year ago that every solo act has to have them.