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Various Non-Bald Discussions => Entertainment/Events/Music/Movies => Topic started by: Sir Harry on March 07, 2013, 05:16:08 AM
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Hey, folks, are there any songs that whenever you hear the opening notes and/or stumble across them while changing a station on the radio, that you just grind your teeth and growl and just reach for the scan/seek button? (In short what tracks do you dislike that badly?) I'll start mine:
1. "My Heart will go on" by Celine Dion (I like Celine, but the song is/was overplayed, and I didn't like the Titanic movie anyway)
2. "Fly like a bird" by Mariah Carey (that was the song that was playing on the radio when I received the news of my dad's passing, and given I didn't care for it even before that, that song became a painful reminder)
3. "Barbie Girl" by Aqua....Just irritating.....sounds like a bunch of little girls and has some suggestive lines that some may deem offensive.
I'll add more if this thread gets some more responses.....Thoughts?
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Anything from Train. Can't put my finger on it but their songs make me think of people who don't shower regularly.
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Rap....you can't say/write "crap" without rap.
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That Goyte trck "Somebody I sed To Know" for me, sounds like "Baa Baa Black Sheep" to start, then is just a whiney drepressing pile of poo from then on!
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Whenever I hear Nicki Minaj (sp) I have to immediately change the station. :XX
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Whenever I hear Nicki Minaj (sp) I have to immediately change the station. :XX
Wow, another Nicki Minaj non-fan ;D.....I'll admit that her music leaves a lot to be desired, and she reminds me of Janice the Muppet, but anyone who has the guts to try to put that diva Mariah Carey in her place earns a few brownie points with me IMO.
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Anything by Taylor Swift.
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Anything by Taylor Swift.
I'm sure Kanye West would agree ;D ;D (the guy who messed up Taylor's Music Awards Speech)
To add to my list: Any song with Lil Wayne in it whether he's the featured artist or not @c3
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Anything by Elton John, the Dixie Chicks, or Bruce Springsteen.
I do NOT like celebrities who try to use their celebrity to influence voters. Notice anything in common about all three that I mentioned??
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Any of the "boy bands"...
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Anything by Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Mary J Blige. Had to listen to them over and over (the same 12 damn songs too) at work for a month straight on account of my boss being too lazy to update his playlist, until we all threatened to walk out and lock him in.
Plasticy, overproduced R'n'b in general is a dealbreaker for me.
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Anything by Taylor Swift.
I'm sure Kanye West would agree ;D ;D (the guy who messed up Taylor's Music Awards Speech)
To add to my list: Any song with Lil Wayne in it whether he's the featured artist or not @c3
The way you feel about Lil Wayne is probably how I feel about Nicki Minaj.
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Anything by Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Mary J Blige. Had to listen to them over and over (the same 12 damn songs too) at work for a month straight on account of my boss being too lazy to update his playlist, until we all threatened to walk out and lock him in.
Plasticy, overproduced R'n'b in general is a dealbreaker for me.
Every Rihanna song sounds the same anyway
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Any type of rock music
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I suspect this thread could become contentious really fast, lol....
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Any type of rock music
Really now? You can't be serious.
Anyway, back to Harry's original question: I know there are plenty of songs that cause me to do this, and will have to post as I remember or hear them. I see this as a definite ongoing thread that folks will add to as they go.
Good post Harry.
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I suspect this thread could become contentious really fast, lol....
That's why I'm here. Don't be stoking any fires.
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I suspect this thread could become contentious really fast, lol....
That's why I'm here. Don't be stoking any fires.
Yes, we know that Mike, or any of our other mods will step in if it gets out of hand. O0
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Anything by Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Mary J Blige. Had to listen to them over and over (the same 12 damn songs too) at work for a month straight on account of my boss being too lazy to update his playlist, until we all threatened to walk out and lock him in.
Plasticy, overproduced R'n'b in general is a dealbreaker for me.
Every Rihanna song sounds the same anyway
I swear... she's possibly the hottest woman in the world but her songs make me feel like I've just gobbled five pounds of glue and iron filings...
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Wow, thanks guys for the plentiful (so far) responses! FWIW, I forgot to put Justin Bieber in my original post (does anybody here like him?) Going further, how about the king and queen of covers, Michael Bolton and Linda Ronstadt....(have either of them been the original artist of anything they have sung?). Ms. Ronstadt also has been known to throw her political views around at times, just like some of the singers Mike mentioned in his post. As much as I'm not a Bolton fan, I still think he was wronged in that lawsuit he had against the Isley Brothers..Going a little further I still say that Alicia Keys and Beyonce should have swapped roles for the Super Bowl last month...
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I forgot to put Justin Bieber in my original post (does anybody here like him?)
I'll bite... I like the Bieb. Lame tunes without a doubt but until recently that kid was on point with the babes. Not so sure this latest douche-iness isn't some bizzare sociology/marketing experiment his handlers are conducting so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Plus, his mom's a total milf.
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, and I am a massive Nirvana fan. It's just one of them songs that has been soo over played, I'll have not heard it in ages and it'll kick in and I'll skip the track!!
Generally I don't listen to the radio so I'm not massively exposed to a lot or music that I wouldn't be into. It just seems to me that every female singer has trying to be Beyonce and every male singer has been trying to be Usher for the last 10 years!!
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I do like "Teen Spirit" but I will say that it gets too much time on the radio for a song more than two decades old.....I like the video with the cheerleaders in the background, but I do see your point, Viking.
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My answer--country songs that are sung through the nose. Also anything done by Jose Feliciano I.E. Feliz Navidad Etc Ect.
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Most rock, all (c)rap "music" and everything by. Michael Bolton.
I'm a little ashamed to admit this but there are two tracks by Justin Bieber that I actually like.
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Any song by Katy Perry
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>95% of today's pop music and all buttrock (Nickelback, hair metal) and buttcountry (most country from 2000 to present).
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Gimme some Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn any time!
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Anything by rihanna. And I love good folk country, but whiny, nasal country and western makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Good call on 'my heart will go on' SSH, that song is awful. And anything by nickelback, I have always claimed that if I become famous enough to punch chad kroeger with impunity, I would.
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Anything by rihanna. And I love good folk country, but whiny, nasal country and western makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Good call on 'my heart will go on' SSH, that song is awful. And anything by nickelback, I have always claimed that if I become famous enough to punch chad kroeger with impunity, I would.
I see a lot of hatred for Nickelback...just curious why?
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I see a lot of hatred for Nickelback...just curious why?
I can understand why people would dislike Nickelback, but whenever the topic comes up with friends, I'll readily admit I listen to them/have some of their tunes in my library.
Is their music great? No, but it's very catchy and often fun to listen to. Would I rank it next to my albums of Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen? Of course not, but that's not the point.
Part of the problem is that it's become social suicide amongst young people to profess any liking of Nickelback.
It's like how in kindergarten, liking Sesame Street and Barey was okay, but by the time you got to first grade all the boys were too "cool" for that baby stuff and you had to profess to hating Barney and Sesame Street. :-p
I've had friends say "It's uncool to like Nickelback dude, you better drop that." If I run into random strangers and they see me playing Nickelback, I'll be judged for my taste.
So there is a lot of pressure out their to dislike Nickelback.
Which is ironic, because the anti-Nickelback movement is based around the idea that 1) Nickelback sucks and 2) this is the music industry force feeding you bad music.
And just like the music industry, this anti-Nickelback movement is telling you/pressuring you what not to listen to.
At the end of the day, I say to each his own, like what you like. I also loved Creed back in the day. No shame.
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And, to actually contribute to the discussion:
Anything by Mumford & Sons basically makes me want to commit suicide. I spent a whole summer working with my ex and our friends and a couple of them were obsessed with Mumford––I cannot imagine what a Mumford concert would be like, I can only imagine it would be depressing.
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I enjoy a pretty wide range of music. In addition to mainstream stuff, there's a lot of stuff I listen to that others might find odd. But I can't listen to rap (talk or sing -- make up your mind! ;)) and dreck like You Light Up My Life makes me want to gouge out my ears with a letter opener.
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I'm sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread....
I think Nickelback is a heck of a lot better than a lot of the sh*t that the so-called experts bless as "award worthy".
I've had friends say "It's uncool to like Nickelback dude, you better drop that."
That's flat out stupid.
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Anything by Jimmy Buffett.
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Male voice that makes me cringe: Lil Wayne
Female voice that makes me cringe: Macy Gray (thankfully she had that one hit and was never to be seen again)
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I'm gonna throw the Dave Matthews Band under the bus but not because I don't like his stuff... Great talent especially live. But ever since the whole John Edwards / Rielle Hunter love-child thing I get the creeps whenever they're on the radio. Kinda funny now that I think about it, they've been kinda quiet since too. Hmmm....
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Anything by Jimmy Buffett.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!
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Anything by Jimmy Buffett.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!
Razor, I think Kuz put you up to that comment.
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Anything by Jimmy Buffett.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!
Razor, I think Kuz put you up to that comment.
Go back to bed West Coast boy!!!!
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Female voice that makes me cringe: Macy Gray (thankfully she had that one hit and was never to be seen again)
Macy Gray is awesome! She's certainly still around.
When did "songs" become "tracks"? (Like on another forum of mine where people post videos they've made, only they call them "edits.") Or was that a Casey Casem thing -- back when he used to count down the top 40 on Sunday mornings?
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I guess we are in the CD-Itunes era when the CD Player or computer refers to it as tracks...I like the fact that we can agree to disagree on things without getting nasty. Im just not a fan of Macy or her voice....or Bieber's voice for that matter.
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Anything by Jimmy Buffett.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!!!
Razor, I think Kuz put you up to that comment.
Go back to bed West Coast boy!!!!
No,Shro, I thought of it all by myself. >:D >:D
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Nas Tupac Eminem and Jay Z are my favourite
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Nas Tupac Eminem and Jay Z are my favourite
Coming soon: The "Tracks that you can listen to all day/drop everything to listen to" thread.
I'd like to nominate the song "Nicety" by Michel'le for dumbest line ever in a song.....The guy in the first verse asks Michel'le while trying to pick her up: "Excuse me, honey, but is your husband married?" Really??? :/O
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Nas Tupac Eminem and Jay Z are my favourite
Well, now I realize why you dislike rock music. I still think it's ridiculous though.
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I'm sorry, I don't mean to hijack the thread....
I think Nickelback is a heck of a lot better than a lot of the sh*t that the so-called experts bless as "award worthy".
I've had friends say "It's uncool to like Nickelback dude, you better drop that."
That's flat out stupid.
I second that Schro. It's just an asinine thing for someone to say.
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I totally agree that it's each to their own, hence my right to profess my dislike for Nickelback, not because society tells me I should, but because I genuinely dislike their music. I can appreciate why people like it, and have nothing against people that do.
Music is the most subjective field of interest imaginable, from a biological point of view, everyone's ears perceive a different set of frequency bands depending on the infinitely variable anatomy of the cochlea, and then there is the way every brain computes these sounds, it's truly amazing.
I actually love that people can be polarised by music, or enjoy qualities that others don't. I'm intrigued by sound itself, outside of whether I like the music or not, and so could find interest in any music from an objective point of view.
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Funny.....Given the dislike for Nickelback, their song "How You Remind Me" was the number one overall song on Billboard for 2002. Leigh had mentioned Gotye's song in an earlier post and that song was the number one overall song on Billboard for 2012. My mom hates End of the Road by Boyz II men (another #1 overall in 1992)....Could it be that our dislike for some of these songs are due to the overplaying of them on every friggin' radio station? What do you think? Personally, I could take or leave Nickelback or Gotye they don't bother me one way or the other. Good points, BTW, Slyfive!
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I definitely think it's a factor SSH! I happen to love that Boyz II Men track though!
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Overplay definitely plays a big part in this. When it comes to radio and music TV channels what really annoys me to no end is the mindset behind it which you could summarize as "squeeze every last dollar out of it, chuck it out, on to the next". With the additional downside that it makes me come to hate even otherwise perfectly decent songs :-X
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While I admire Bieber for his hard work and success...his songs make me cringe. Though, I did get caught tapping my toes to Beauty and a Beat the other day. Made me want to run off the road when I figured out it was him.
Abba also makes me change the channel...mostly because my daughter has watched the movie Mamma Mia over 200 times.
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Tyler, oddly enough, the movie Mamma Mia never caught my interest. And this is coming from someone who can watch musicals without a problem.
I understand the reason to love an anthem for such a great city, but Empire State of Mind was overplayed. I heard the Alicia Keys rendition today, and was hoping to escape before the chorus began.
It still doesn't bet Sumergeme by Jesus Adrian Romero. He is a person who does worship music in Spanish, and in its heyday, practically every church sang that song at least once. They did not burn the song down to the ground. They sifted the ashes afterwards, and burned that too. And to make matters worse, that song did nothing for me to begin with.
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The problem with Mama Mia! is that it had Pierce Brosnan singing. That's enough to kill anybody's music, no matter how good it is.
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Coldplay. Always Coldplay.
Also U2.
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I actually enjoyed Mamma Mia (but then, I only saw it once, I feel your pain Tyler), but what Pierce Brosnan does in it could hardly be construed as "singing".
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I actually enjoyed Mamma Mia (but then, I only saw it once, I feel your pain Tyler), but what Pierce Brosnan does in it could hardly be construed as "singing".
I think "hatchet job" describes it better! I'd rather listen to dogs howling!
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FWIW, I forgot to put Justin Bieber in my original post (does anybody here like him?
Didn't anybody catch the YouTube vid of him puking on stage? That was one of the most entertaining things I've seen in a while.
I actually enjoyed Mamma Mia (but then, I only saw it once, I feel your pain Tyler), but what Pierce Brosnan does in it could hardly be construed as "singing".
How about Clint Eastwood's singing debut in "Paint Your Wagon"? Made my day. Dirty Harry singing "I Talked To The Breeze"? WTF?
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I actually enjoyed Mamma Mia (but then, I only saw it once, I feel your pain Tyler), but what Pierce Brosnan does in it could hardly be construed as "singing".
See, personally I thought that was hilarious. I mean, it was James Bond attempting to sing––how hilarious is that. I've never figured out why everyone hated that so much. Then again maybe I don't have an ear for such things––I can't sing either!
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I know this thread happens to be more than a year old, but after what happened Wednesday night at work, I had to repost again. I caught a guy (a trucker) about 35 or so singing along with Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" I could take or leave Taylor Swift, but that particular song by her makes my facial hair want to fall out....It sounds like a seven-year-old girl screaming at the top of her lungs while jumping on the bed. That said, watching a big guy singing along to ANY Taylor Swift song (especially that one) is like....well, dude, just turn in your man card. My brother says that he hates
Dummy Demi Lovato so much he would rather listen to Miley Cyrus for 24 hours. Me personally I don't care for any of them one way or the other, but Demi's "Give your heart a break" is a decent song I could listen to (but not sing along with). Yesterday, my friend, his 2-year-old son and I were in WalMart and we were passing through the music section. Here's how the conversation went
2 year old: Who's this
Friend: NSync
2 year old: NStink?
Friend: NO, NSYNC!
2 year old NStink!
Me: Leave him alone, he's saying the right thing >:D
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;D. And what you said about "Shake It Off" applies to any Taylor Swift song.
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;D. And what you said about "Shake It Off" applies to any Taylor Swift song.
Her song's do get overplayed more than most. My oldest daughter is only a few years younger than Taylor Swift and she was always a fan. I was impressed with her when she first came onto the scene because she was so young, but had written all of her own songs and chose to go with a lesser-known producer. I think she is a sweetheart... but I used to think that about Miley Cyrus too... and look what happened to her... :(
I don't think I could listen to a whole album at once though!!! haha
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I like most music genres to some extent, but I cringe and change the station when I hear one full of vulgarities or sexully explicit language. I am not in to the shock value of musical lyrics, and I usually have kids around.
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Love Shack by the B-52's. I don't normally listen to stations that play it, but if I'm somewhere and it comes on I just leave the room...especially weddings.
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Tin roof rusted
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Today I listened to Nickelback's latest release "What are you waiting for?" Nice, catchy little song with a powerful message, even if it was unintended to come across as such. I noticed some of the previous posters didn't like Nickelback and that's okay....One of my friends went as far as to say that Nickelback is evolving into a "boy band" I don't see how.....Speaking of boy bands, is it just me, or did Justin Timberlake become even better when he left N'sync?
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I tried to listen to the radio this past week, scanning across the entire spectrum. I stopped at a station playing some '90s music and thought... I didn't really even like these songs back then, but they're still better than anything released this decade.
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My friend plays in an Amish cover band that does everyone from acdc to Jay-Z to lady gaga....I can listen to just about anything within reason
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I have to ask one of you rap guys what b.l.a.d's refers to in Big Pimpin?
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I don't get all the flap about Nickleback. I can appreciate them. Maybe I don't realize they're bad because I've passed a certain age?
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Ok guys and gals, I may be an offender here by opening an old topic, but here's an update 2015-2016 style
1. Watch Me (Whip/Nae-Nae) by Silento...My brother hates this song with a passion. I do like the catchy beat, but the song does sound like someone threw the songs "Stanky Legg", Crank that Soulja Boy", Teach me How to Dougie" and The Cupid Shuffle and threw them all into a blender. I personally think that Silento gets a small pass because he's only 18, but "Whip and Nae Nae" sounds like nicknames for two children that grew up in the 'hood
2. Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor. The video is funny watching a bunch of nerdy kids and two old teachers trying to do (well, you know). The song is amusing, but I'm kind of surprised Marvin's kids didn't sue these two like they did Robin Thicke and friends for the sampling of "Got to Give it Up" in the Blurred lines song
3. Dummy Demi Lovato has overtaken Taylor Swift on my "Most Annoying" list. Cool for the Summer sounds so unoriginal....I'm sure there are about 999 songs about doing it and not telling your mother...
4, Ex's and Oh's....Cute video...and Elle King looks kind of hot for a plus size chick >:D