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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 46 points 3 weeks ago (4 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But they’re out of bear claws.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

And horoscopes! I learned the bridge to that song off by heart

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

album about food

Jack Stauber's Pop Food is really good if you like weird pop about food. Adult Swim featured a couple of them in SHOP: A Pop Opera

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Love Jack Stauber’s work! It’s cliche for him, but my god Butterfly is amazing.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

so is his entire album Pop Insect

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 39 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 18 points 3 weeks ago

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

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

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

[–] Bad@jlai.lu 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's just a tribute.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] salacious_coaster 22 points 3 weeks 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 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

"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...

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks 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@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Burning fires, burning lives on the long distant roads
Through the lost mountains endless so far away from home!

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

edit: also west rhymes with blessed better than east

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an old joke that if you fuck a sheep on the edge of a cliff they'll let you do it because they're afraid of falling.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm a little concerned that bestiality jokes you know include techniques, but i get it

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[–] mayorchid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Because there's already enough songs about guys that go to sleep after one shot.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Gawdl3y@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I stumbled upon Cosmo Sheldrake a few years ago thanks to a friend having a song or two from him in a playlist/radio playing in the background while hanging out. That style of music isn't usually my favourite, but I love his stuff. It always has such a positive/chill vibe. "Pelicans We" is one of my favourite tracks, and his newest album, "Eye to the Ear", is damn near perfection.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

I ugly cry to Pelicans and I'm not ashamed of it.

[–] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

The devil pretended to lose so he could seduce Johnny later

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ohh cake’s one of my favs, will check them out

[–] Pantir@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yall listen to the lyrics in songs other than Velvet Underground's and Nirvana's? Yeah that must be annoying.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago

The substance of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ5T6bKbNo is why, and a great counter example.

(Oliver Anthony's Rich Men North of Richmond)

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