I have been listening to music all of my life, and one song always stuck out above all others to me as having the worst lyrics ever. That song was by written the band America, and is called "Horse With No Name." This song has some of the most awful and pathetic writing you will ever see in a song. Lets take a look.
First of all, in the first set of lines you get such great writing as "There were plants and birds, and rocks and things." Then you have amazing lyrics throughout the song such as "The heat was hot" and "Under the cities, lies a heart made of ground." This guy must have been drunk or high when he wrote those lyrics; otherwise he's just a terrible writer who seriously needed to invest in a thesaurus.
However, this song appears to have been written by Shakespeare when compared to a song I was made aware of this week. That song is sung by Rebecca Black, a thirteen year old girl who signed her first record deal with an indie label called Ark. The song they gave her to release was called "Friday" and has become an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons.
Like me, most people realize that this song is astonishingly atrocious, from the lyrics to the video and the quality of singing itself. It is drowning in a sea of auto-tune, which doesn't help the nasiley singing of Rebecca Black; it only amplifies it. Now, lets take a look at some of the lyrics of Exhibit A. I really can't just pick out parts of the lyrics because they are all terrible and should be taken in full. Here is the amazing writing of someone at Ark who should be fired immediately.
7am, waking up in the morning/Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs/Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal/Seein’ everything, the time is goin’/Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’/Gotta get down to the bus stop/Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)
Kickin’ in the front seat/Sittin’ in the back seat/Gotta make my mind up/Which seat can I take?/It’s Friday, Friday/Gotta get down on Friday/Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend/Friday, Friday/Gettin’ down on Friday/Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)(x2)/Fun, fun, fun, fun/Lookin’ forward to the weekend
7:45, we’re drivin’ on the highway/Cruisin’ so fast, I want time to fly/Fun, fun, think about fun/You know what it is/got this, you got this/My friend is by my right/I got this, you got this/Now you know it
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday/Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)/We-we-we so excited/We so excited/We gonna have a ball today/Tomorrow is Saturday/And Sunday comes after...wards/I don’t want this weekend to end
So there you have it. I chose not to include the rap lyrics in the middle because we all know rap is ridiculous and nonsense anyways. These lyrics are so bad, it's hard to dissect them because to discuss them here would mean that I would have to be under the assumption that they were written to have an actual point, which they clearly were not. Whatever music career this girl was aspiring to have, this one track right here will ruin her chances, maybe forever. Besides the need to remind us of the order of the days of the week, she also loses the ability to speak proper English. The entire song she mostly uses correct English, then slips into ebonics for no reason in the line "We-we-we so excited." I have no idea why this is necessary, or what purpose this would have in any song other than the fact that this is the culture rap has created.
When looking at the video, you notice that the video is as ridiculous as the lyrics itself. There are many questions we have while watching it. If you take it as an attempt to be a real video, the following questions arise, at least for me: Why is she wearing more makeup when she wakes up than when she is off for school? Why does she skip school? Why is she riding on the back of the car like that? Why does she say the girl on her right is her friend but not the girl on her left? If she is already sitting down in the car, why is she still singing about which seat to take? Where does she live where 13 year olds can drive cars and have a house party? Why is there random rap in every teenager's song these days, and furthermore, why does the guy have to randomly rap about what vehicles are around him? Why is there a stage in the backyard with lights, why is she standing on it, and why is there a random string behind her in all the shots of her standing on the stage? What is that string doing?
We may never get the answers to these questions, but we can all confirm for sure that this song is the worst song of all time, with the worst video and the worst lyrics. This has far surpassed America's Horse With No Name in the worst lyrics category; at least America's song had some sort of point, even if we couldn't figure out what it was from the indecipherable words. YouTube helped a lot of people get a buzz they never should have had in the music world. While it worked out for Justin Bieber, it will fail this girl more than she can ever realize. This video has 14.5 million views as of now, and most of the comments are purely negative reactions.
With today being Friday, one can only imagine how many people will be playing this lame song and laughing at it. I am sure there are those who think they actually like this song, but it will fade like all things of this nature eventually do. It just can't fade fast enough. MTV needs to bring back that show where they retire songs forever. In fact, they need to amp up that episode and murder this song. It definitely does not deserve to live to see another Friday.
First of all, in the first set of lines you get such great writing as "There were plants and birds, and rocks and things." Then you have amazing lyrics throughout the song such as "The heat was hot" and "Under the cities, lies a heart made of ground." This guy must have been drunk or high when he wrote those lyrics; otherwise he's just a terrible writer who seriously needed to invest in a thesaurus.
However, this song appears to have been written by Shakespeare when compared to a song I was made aware of this week. That song is sung by Rebecca Black, a thirteen year old girl who signed her first record deal with an indie label called Ark. The song they gave her to release was called "Friday" and has become an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons.
Like me, most people realize that this song is astonishingly atrocious, from the lyrics to the video and the quality of singing itself. It is drowning in a sea of auto-tune, which doesn't help the nasiley singing of Rebecca Black; it only amplifies it. Now, lets take a look at some of the lyrics of Exhibit A. I really can't just pick out parts of the lyrics because they are all terrible and should be taken in full. Here is the amazing writing of someone at Ark who should be fired immediately.
7am, waking up in the morning/Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs/Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal/Seein’ everything, the time is goin’/Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’/Gotta get down to the bus stop/Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)
Kickin’ in the front seat/Sittin’ in the back seat/Gotta make my mind up/Which seat can I take?/It’s Friday, Friday/Gotta get down on Friday/Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend/Friday, Friday/Gettin’ down on Friday/Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)(x2)/Fun, fun, fun, fun/Lookin’ forward to the weekend
7:45, we’re drivin’ on the highway/Cruisin’ so fast, I want time to fly/Fun, fun, think about fun/You know what it is/got this, you got this/My friend is by my right/I got this, you got this/Now you know it
Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday/Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)/We-we-we so excited/We so excited/We gonna have a ball today/Tomorrow is Saturday/And Sunday comes after...wards/I don’t want this weekend to end
So there you have it. I chose not to include the rap lyrics in the middle because we all know rap is ridiculous and nonsense anyways. These lyrics are so bad, it's hard to dissect them because to discuss them here would mean that I would have to be under the assumption that they were written to have an actual point, which they clearly were not. Whatever music career this girl was aspiring to have, this one track right here will ruin her chances, maybe forever. Besides the need to remind us of the order of the days of the week, she also loses the ability to speak proper English. The entire song she mostly uses correct English, then slips into ebonics for no reason in the line "We-we-we so excited." I have no idea why this is necessary, or what purpose this would have in any song other than the fact that this is the culture rap has created.
When looking at the video, you notice that the video is as ridiculous as the lyrics itself. There are many questions we have while watching it. If you take it as an attempt to be a real video, the following questions arise, at least for me: Why is she wearing more makeup when she wakes up than when she is off for school? Why does she skip school? Why is she riding on the back of the car like that? Why does she say the girl on her right is her friend but not the girl on her left? If she is already sitting down in the car, why is she still singing about which seat to take? Where does she live where 13 year olds can drive cars and have a house party? Why is there random rap in every teenager's song these days, and furthermore, why does the guy have to randomly rap about what vehicles are around him? Why is there a stage in the backyard with lights, why is she standing on it, and why is there a random string behind her in all the shots of her standing on the stage? What is that string doing?
We may never get the answers to these questions, but we can all confirm for sure that this song is the worst song of all time, with the worst video and the worst lyrics. This has far surpassed America's Horse With No Name in the worst lyrics category; at least America's song had some sort of point, even if we couldn't figure out what it was from the indecipherable words. YouTube helped a lot of people get a buzz they never should have had in the music world. While it worked out for Justin Bieber, it will fail this girl more than she can ever realize. This video has 14.5 million views as of now, and most of the comments are purely negative reactions.
With today being Friday, one can only imagine how many people will be playing this lame song and laughing at it. I am sure there are those who think they actually like this song, but it will fade like all things of this nature eventually do. It just can't fade fast enough. MTV needs to bring back that show where they retire songs forever. In fact, they need to amp up that episode and murder this song. It definitely does not deserve to live to see another Friday.
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