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counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

wizardofloneliness posted:

I was originally agreeing with everyone else saying St. Anger, but no, it’s this. I remember hearing this back when it first came out and thought it was pretty catchy but I didn’t understand some of the lyrics. This is the only song I’ve heard from this guy, what does he mean he already blew his shot? I thought maybe there was another more famous Mike Posner who he reminded old people of, but I wasn’t going to look it up because clearly he wasn’t that famous.

I’d forgotten all about him until I saw some update a few months ago on his instagram about how he’s changed for the better since he first wrote it. He goes through the lyrics and compares them with his current life. Instead of driving a sports car to prove he’s a baller and spending a million dollars on shoes he now drives a 4Runner, donated his Jordan collection, and only cares about proving himself to God. I remember thinking he sounded extremely lame but whatever, good for him I guess. I had no idea how lame and uncool he truly was though, until I read this. And listened to the original version, that is embarrassing on a level far above just a regular bad song.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3TdwEHNgte/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Did he find god before or after he wrote the next song in the Sad Songs Saga? For all the people that listened to the Ibiza song and thought to themselves, "I wonder what the all sad songs that he knows sound like?" Well you're in for a treat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcOjTPSLEeA

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
anyone rember this sad song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQFDdZgkTKM

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

I sure do. It feels like just a few days ago when you posted it in the "What is the most embarrassing hit song of all time?" thread.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

counterfeitsaint posted:

I sure do. It feels like just a few days ago when you posted it in the "What is the most embarrassing hit song of all time?" thread.

You think I made this thread. Have to thank you, but, I think you are confused about how the internet works

Montague Tigg
Mar 23, 2008

Previously, on "Ronnie Likes Data":

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

You think I made this thread. Have to thank you, but, I think you are confused about how the internet works

you made this?

...

I made this

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

WE BUILT THIS CITY!

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
The lady dancing in Funkytown forgot to wear a bra on the day and you could see her nipples.

E: I suppose you want to see them. Well here they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jhFFh98xWQ

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

You think I made this thread. Have to thank you, but, I think you are confused about how the internet works

I don't think you made this thread. I think you posted the same song several pages ago and then posted it again on this page.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016




A song I completely memory-holed until last year when I started rewatching old Beavis & Butthead episodes and this fuckin monstrosity popped up.

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
new kids on the block had a bunch of hits
chinese food makes me sick

the slick rhyme styling of LFO shot that one up the charts

Megabound
Oct 20, 2012

I heard Black Eyes Peas - I Gotta Feeling and it’s that. Absolutely soulless music.

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...

Funky See Funky Do posted:

The lady dancing in Funkytown forgot to wear a bra on the day and you could see her nipples.

E: I suppose you want to see them. Well here they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhzy7JaU2Zc

Many people said Princess Diana ought to be embarrassed for lipsynching and doing the robot to this disco-funk hit on international airwaves, but I appreciate that she didn't give a gently caress and did it anyway.

Pac and Cheese
Oct 29, 2010

gotta walk fast

Howard Beale posted:

new kids on the block had a bunch of hits
chinese food makes me sick

the slick rhyme styling of LFO shot that one up the charts

i invite anybody to read the full lyrics of this song and say it isn't an absurdist masterpiece

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Howard Beale posted:

new kids on the block had a bunch of hits
chinese food makes me sick

the slick rhyme styling of LFO shot that one up the charts

I knew two of them died, but I just found out that actually three (3!) of the members of Lyte Funky Ones are, in fact, dead.

Edit: Late Funky Ones.

Oh, sorry, "Layte" Funky Ones".

Impossibly Perfect Sphere
Nov 6, 2002

They wasted Luanne on Lucky!

She could of have been so much more but the writers just didn't care!
Anything by the Bare Naked Ladies.

Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

redshirt posted:

The Right Said Fred guys are antivaxxers??

One of them supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine too :(.

DrSolomonScratch
Jun 16, 2023
I had to think really hard about this. And I'm gonna go with Stars by Hear N' Aid

It was the 80's rock version of "We Are the World" and despite having some GREAT vocalists (Dio, Halford, Tate) it reeks in every way possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6MgSXPEui8

Enjoy!

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



redshirt posted:

The Right Said Fred guys are antivaxxers??

They're loving lunatic right wingers these days. Cosied up with the likes of Nigel Farage, Lawrence Fox and 'Tommy Robinson'. All sorts of COVID denial nonsense, too, which is especially stupid because Richard was hospitalised with it.

heard u like girls
Mar 25, 2013


lol this rules

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

DrSolomonScratch posted:

I had to think really hard about this. And I'm gonna go with Stars by Hear N' Aid

It was the 80's rock version of "We Are the World" and despite having some GREAT vocalists (Dio, Halford, Tate) it reeks in every way possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6MgSXPEui8

Enjoy!

lol that time in music when everyone had to get together for a benefit concert. Wholesome times.

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I knew two of them died, but I just found out that actually three (3!) of the members of Lyte Funky Ones are, in fact, dead.

Edit: Late Funky Ones.

Oh, sorry, "Layte" Funky Ones".

this made me freak

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
We bring up the Imagine cover, but there's possibly another one that we don't talk about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c79vlb6lBLY

Maybe not a hit, maybe not the most embarrassing, but I think it holds a special place. MTV promoted it for weeks, and it likely didn't help that the first Gulf War was fairly popular with both the right and the left and the mainstream media in the 90s as it was happening and afterwards for a long time.

But nothing about his song except a few vague references to the middle east and war seems to be an actual 'protest' song. In some places, it feels like the images would be pro-war a decade or so later.

edit 2: It feels like an Earth Day song in this version.

JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 5, 2024

ProperCauldron
Oct 11, 2004

nah chill
Low Frequency Old-age-reaching

Enderzero
Jun 19, 2001

The snowflake button makes it
cold cold cold
Set temperature makes it
hold hold hold

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I knew two of them died, but I just found out that actually three (3!) of the members of Lyte Funky Ones are, in fact, dead.

Edit: Late Funky Ones.

Oh, sorry, "Layte" Funky Ones".

I’m so glad to find some fellow travelers

Ralph Crammed In
May 11, 2007

Let's get clean and smart


Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:

Anything by the Bare Naked Ladies.

Thems fighting words.


How has this thread gone on so long without the true most embarrassing song? The cover of Big Yellow Taxi by Counting Crows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU

SidneyIsTheKiller
Jul 16, 2019

I did fall asleep reading a particularly erotic chapter
in my grandmother's journal.

She wrote very detailed descriptions of her experiences...
This one actually blows past "embarrassing" and soars into "uncomfortable" and "concerning" and maybe even "uh that's kind of mean-spirited and inappropriate" territory , but it probably wouldn't be right if we didn't at least mention the record in which its performer is literally so humiliated by her performance and how much she doesn't want to be doing it in the first place that she's breaking down in tears right there in the middle of it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2IbsMCgz4A&t=275s

counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.
People who keep track of the Right Said Fred guys and their various political stances on individual topics, just in case it comes up in an internet thread; how is your life going? Are you okay? Have you left your room this week?

Is Right Said Fred a special case, or do you keep track of other obscure musicians from decades ago and how they feel about the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well? Is the drummer from Soft Cell still cool? Does the bassist for The Verve have any problematic comments we should be aware of?

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
What happened to Right Said Fred?

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

What happened to Right Said Fred?

They rebranded as Alt Right Said Fred, apparently

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

webmeister posted:

They rebranded as Alt Right Said Fred, apparently

lol

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

https://youtu.be/bOg0ta3j6Wo?si=ufZP2ImWAy77v_Cx

Played all the time on much music in the early 90's. Probably some kind of hit in France. Embarrassing.

Call Your Grandma
Jan 17, 2010

Tarkus posted:

https://youtu.be/bOg0ta3j6Wo?si=ufZP2ImWAy77v_Cx

Played all the time on much music in the early 90's. Probably some kind of hit in France. Embarrassing.

god drat i have no recollection of this one but ohh la la baby was buried in the deepest recesses of my memory

veni veni veni
Jun 5, 2005


yeah I only remember it's tough being a baby/ durr durr le poot de baby or whatever the gently caress its called in french

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Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006


Sounds like you're deeply dippy about the whole issue :smuggo:

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