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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Weird Al has you covered.

  • An entire compilation album about food
  • A song about Albuquerque
  • A song about taking out the trash
  • A song about being White & Nerdy

The list goes on…

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they’re out of bear claws.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Shut up and eat your big ol' bowl of saurkraut.

Edit: Wait, Albuquerque is a food song after all!

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, the forty-five minute donut breakdown was about the absolute absence of food, but the sauerkraut saves the day!

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What I find hilarious is the pop song about stuff. No one cares about your Nikes, TV, clothes or car. And in terms of sex... Rappers talking about their dick ...it's actually gay.

Brag rap just has this extreme authentic mentally ill insecure vibe to it. Their response to calling that stuff out usually digs them deeper into whackness and they think when they flex at you it isn't a lame af response.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago

☜╮(•́⍛•̀☜╮) The marriage of hustle culture, misogyny, and conspicuous consumption into one subgenre. I’d prefer the love songs.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hey, there are also songs about drugs

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Novacaine, for the soul. Before I sputter out

The sky was gold, it was rose, I was taking sips of it through my nose

I love that cocaine, I love that cocaine

I'm all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town.

You can smoke it you can chew it you can really get into it smoking pot.

I don't get angry when my Mom smokes pot Hits that bottle and goes right to the rock.

I think you might be right, there are a couple of songs about drugs.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I was going to say most songs are about heroin

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oooh...anyone else love the Tenacious D song, "Tribute"?

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meh, it's not the best song in the world.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

No, it's just a tribute.

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago
[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago
[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 22 points 1 month ago

There's always power metal, if you want every song to be about flying across the mountains up toward the blackened sky-eeee

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get into metal, synthwave or goth and you'll never have this problem

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unsolved problems in other genres:

  • Seeing whales
  • Calling yourself Nemo
  • Making a beast out of yourself
  • Finding a rock to tie a piece of string around
  • Watching a volcano carve the earth with unrivalled skill
  • Watching yourself from the perspective of a mountain
  • Being a melancholy spirit
  • Being caught in a media blizzard
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Why is every movie about love?" I ask myself, halfway through the 10th romcom I've deliberated selected to watch on Netflix

Love is a popular song topic but you're free to listen to something else...

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A small fraction of tv is full romance

(though most tvs shows have some romance in them, that's a separate problem)

Feels like 80-90% of pop songs are about love/sex/lust/relationships

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point of the joke was that you're choosing listen to the pop songs about romance. I guess a better analogy would have been "why does every candy have chocolate in it?"

Most people like love, most people like chocolate. They're in a lot of popular things because they're popular but they're far from the only option

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like 50% of the music I listen to is in stores and restaurants and other such avenues, so not really no :(

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Make the other half something else lol

I listened to music all day and I don't think there was a single love song

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think Rage Against The Machine ever did a love song ...

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Loving in the name of

Some of those that are gorgeous

Are the same that spark passion

...

Fuck you I will do what you ask me

Fuck you I will do what you ask me

Fuck you I will do what you ask me

[–] BartyDeCanter 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My kids love power metal, so today in the car we were listening to songs about Norse mythology, mining, and exploring the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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[–] Wren@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A while ago I was listening to a song. It was about some guy singing about how much he loved his baby, and how it makes his life worth living. I thought to myself "wow that's heartwarming, this guy really loves his child!" And then he starts singing about how he loves when his baby touches him... and now I'm not so happy about the song.

Why so many mating songs?? Why not platonic love songs? Why not songs about good deeds? Why not songs about folk legends? There should definitely be a song about putting pineapple on pizza! That is song-worthy!

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I want to hear more songs about fucking sheep. I still haven't rebuilt my pc so I can't make a song out of this at the moment but:

On the edge

By Krooklochurm

A sheep fucking country ballad

(Verse 1)

They said we'd never be together and I've been losing sleep

But they always say the same things and I won't be fleeced

I'm goin crazy for you in my pickup driving east

Those other girls are okay but they're all just sheep

I put my four wheels in a u turn and I want to scream, because

(Chorus)

I'M ON THE EDGE WITH YOU,

AND I CAN'T BEAR TO BE APART

WE'RE JUST TWO BROKEN VALVES WORN OUT OF SYNC IN DIFFERENT HEARTS

PULLED THE WOOL FROM MY EYES AND ILL NEVER PUT IT BACK,

BECAUSE I PUSH YOU TO THE EDGE.... AND YOU PUSH BACK

(Verse 2)

Even if my friends abhor you

babe I swear I'll never bore you

When we're driving in my pickup truck

I look back and I'm awestruck

When we're at our secret spot I know that I'm in luck

And if loves a cliff it's clear

The future is precipitous and shear

But if you push me through it all

I swear I'll never let you fall, because

(Chorus)

I'M ON THE EDGE WITH YOU,

AND I CAN'T BEAR TO BE APART

WE'RE JUST TWO BROKEN VALVES WORN OUT OF SYNC IN DIFFERENT HEARTS

PULLED THE WOOL FROM MY EYES AND I WILL NEVER PUT IT BACK,

BECAUSE I PUSH YOU TO THE EDGE.... AND YOU PUSH BACK

(Spoken)

The world does not approve

They say I'm sick and out of place

But terra firma's where we stand,

the sea below, your curls, my hands,

the wind upon my face

I grab you and I lose control and push you to the brink

Our love will grow, I know I think, because

(Chorus)

I'M ON THE EDGE WITH YOU,

AND I CAN'T BEAR TO BE APART

WE'RE JUST TWO BROKEN VALVES WORN OUT OF SYNC IN DIFFERENT HEARTS

PULLED THE WOOL FROM MY EYES AND I WILL NEVER PUT IT BACK,

BECAUSE I PUSH YOU TO THE EDGE.... AND YOU PUSH BACK

(OUTRO)

WHEN I'M ON THE EDGE WITH YOU,

I CAN'T BEAR TO BE APART

WE PUMP IN SYNC JUST LIKE TWO VALES IN THE SAME OL' HEART

BUT THEN THE WOOL'S OVER MY EYES, I JUST PUT IT BACK

YOU PUSHED ME FROM THE EDGE... AND I WALKED BACK

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

that sounds less like fucking sheep and more like edging with sheep

edit: also west rhymes with blessed better than east

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bring back popular music that tells a story. I think that‘s fallen by the wayside. Like ‘60s counter culture, ‘70‘s music like Wayward Son, or even ‘80‘s Knopfler music like Romeo and Juliet.

[–] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

lots of vocaloid artists I like have story to their songs.

Crusher, Vane Lily, etc

[–] lib1@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Can’t remember which one, but there was a Cracked writer that suggested American culture uses romantic love in the place of a deity. We essentially worship the concept. So many of our songs are about it. Our movies tell a cohesive story that pushes the plot forward in a way that many cultures reserve for gods or forces of nature.

[–] mayorchid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As my high school English teacher pointed out, they’re not all about sex. Some of them are about Jesus.

(I don’t know why there aren’t any songs about sex with Jesus. Seems like a no-brainer.)

[–] DrFunkenstein@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Some of Sufjan Stevens' walk a fine line between those two

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[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I heard The Devil Went Down to Georgia in Walmart yesterday

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want more folk singers like Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips, Joe Glazer, and so forth

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah I forgot about that guy. He's a good folk singer. Thanks for bringing him up, soapbox!

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[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cowboy song about beating the devil in a music contest is about love and sex too, though, y'all.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

The devil pretended to lose so he could seduce Johnny later

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right? I grew up listening to emo and pop punk, but I had no idea what I was singing along to at the time, and being older I know that words matter, so I won't be singing along to them now that I understand them either!
Where's all the music about paying bills and being annoyed by your kids?

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is an excellent album by Cheekface called "It's Sorted" that talks about all kinds of mundane modern problems. They sound sort of like Cake with a comedic element.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Awesome, I'll be looking them up in my next free moment!

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[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

They're all about a specific kind of love too. List. Either wanting someone or being head over heels with them with new relationship energy.

Or breakups.

That's it. That's every song.

[–] Pantir@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Where did the trope of the devil playing a fiddle come from anyway?

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a trope about it? The only fiddle thoughts I can think of are the song referenced in the op, and nero supposedly playing one while rome burned... though I don't think it would have been a fiddle he was playing.

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[–] killingspark@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Is it from Paganini having sold his soul to the devil for his virtue?

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is why I appreciate Angéle. A lot of her solo songs are about social topics. For example, Balance Ton Qui. It's so catchy with great lyrics about sexist attitudes.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gimme one about the teacher who

Trying to change a life or two

She’ll be rocking out all night with you

Tomorrow she’ll be back in her red brick school

Where kids are climbing off the walls, it’s scary walking down the halls

She’s underpaid, she’s overworked

Cmon man SHOUT ONE OUT TO HER

Stick THAT in your country song

https://youtu.be/wAX5XvdKRFk

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