Cheesy lyrics

[Joe Nerve]

I've been collaborating with 2 guys in a sweet studio, and we're coming up with some stuff we're really happy with. Still have no lyrics for anything, and I've realized there are certain topics that are taboo to me. I refuse to create any songs that have anything to do with the following:

Evil women
Whiskey
The Devil
Rock & Roll
Being a Rock Star

There are many more, but these top my list.

I also abhor cliches in lyrics:

There are billions of them. Highschool stuff like "I'm so down since you been around", "lookin so fine", "your evil ways", "come on baby", party all night", lyrics like that. Yeah, another plug for hits on my vid below, but I really prefer lyrics as such, even if they're not the hookiest. I've got lots of hookier stuff too.

Anyhow please post lyrics you consider cheesy and cliche's you've had enough of so we can all avoid them for the rest of time. Thanks.

[tooltard]

as much as i love old prog, some of the lyrics border on full on cheese, knights, fairies and castles just don't work :P

im much more into the modern prog thing, check out lyrics by Oceansize and Tool if you want some awesomeness

[Nev375]

Best not to write about TV celebrities who are popular at the time.

If you write about anything political or inspired by a natural disaster, I feel it's better you make things vague and general and leave out specific things, else you date the song.

[My name is Mudd]

"I Wanna Rock & Roll All Night And Party Every Day"

[MiJaKo]

"Heart beatin' like a bass drum" has been done to death.
Also anything to do with 'wrapping legs around...,' 'shaking that thing,' how she looks when she walks, lonely roads, crossroads, and thunder and/or lightning.

[PimasterPearson]

I'd say it's not that certain phrases or subjects are uncool; it's about how you say it or approach it. Amos Lee is a prime example. A lot of his lyrics could sound cheesy coming from a less talented, less expressive, or less soulful singer. Consider the following:

Baby I want you
Baby I want you
Baby I do
Darling I love you
Darling I love you
Know that it's true

The typical coffee shop troubadour probably couldn't sing that without the audience bursting into laughter, but Amos Lee *owns* those words. The lyrics are still simplistic and unoriginal, and they might seem cheesy if you just focus on the words, but when combined with the sparse acoustic guitar part, wistful melody and soulful voice, they become powerful. Don't just try to be cool by writing cool lyrics. You've got to be such a cool musician/band/singer that whatever you sing becomes cool.

[SactoBass]

Here is some high level lameness:

"I will give you my all"

[Martin89]

I'm just not going to post anything here because one day some cheesy lyrics just might make me lots of money, so I'll still subscribe

+1 to Pimaster Pearson's comment, it's not about the lyrics so much as the delivery.

[Unrepresented]

Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby

You said you'd be coming back this way again baby

Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, I love you I really do

It's as if the Carpenters were getting paid royalties for the use of "baby;" double if they end a line with it.

[My name is Mudd]

"Girls, Girls, Girls"

[pasta4lnch]

I am the worlds WORST lyricist - really, there was a vote, I lost ! So I'm not one to talk . . . which leads me to this: any talking during a song is cheese!

And spelling too - though I did a R & B track w/ a singer a while back that ended the chorus w/ 8, eighth note horn stabs and the song was called "You and Me" to which he ended the last chorus w/ Y-O-U-A-N-D-M-E which was kinda cool

[Nev375]

[colcifer]

I don't really pay attention to lyrics but I hate when they're really bad. My pet peeve is when a word is used too much or (far, far worse) rhymed with itself (I love the music for God Only Knows and Cave of Altamira but hot damn do I hate the words).

[Nev375]

Originally Posted by colcifer

I don't really pay attention to lyrics but I hate when they're bad. My pet peeve is when a word is used to much or (far, far worse) rhymed with itself .....

Then you probably frickin' hate:

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow,

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow ...

[FilterFunk]

Originally Posted by PimasterPearson

I'd say it's not that certain phrases or subjects are uncool; it's about how you say it or approach it. Amos Lee is a prime example. A lot of his lyrics could sound cheesy coming from a less talented, less expressive, or less soulful singer. Consider the following:

Baby I want you
Baby I want you
Baby I do
Darling I love you
Darling I love you
Know that it's true

The typical coffee shop troubadour probably couldn't sing that without the audience bursting into laughter, but Amos Lee *owns* those words. The lyrics are still simplistic and unoriginal, and they might seem cheesy if you just focus on the words, but when combined with the sparse acoustic guitar part, wistful melody and soulful voice, they become powerful. Don't just try to be cool by writing cool lyrics. You've got to be such a cool musician/band/singer that whatever you sing becomes cool.

Good points here. Consider the Miracles' "Ooh Baby Baby." Those aren't just lyrics; that the NAME of the song! If you just say it, or if a lesser singer sings it, you're thinking, "Seriously?! That's the best you can come up with?!" But when Smokey sings it....

Personally, I'd like to ban anyone from ever rhyming "waiting" and "anticipating" again.

[kuys]

I hate stuff that's obvious. I don't know but I'm more into stories told in ambiguous ways.

Of a snail slouching whisper
half mass comute through umbilical blisters
Spector will lurk
Radar has gathered
Midnight nooses from boxcar cadavears

[nutdog]

A friend wanted to enter a contest for original bands. Only problem was we didn't have any originals. So we wrote 4 songs in 4 days. Here's a verse I wrote out of the rejected lines that popped into my head. A rhyming dictionary is a dangerous thing.

When you looked in my direction
I couldn't help but get an erection
I'm a little overweight and I've got a bad complexion
It's a good thing we used contraception

I can't help but love you
But you smell like an old gym shoe

[colcifer]

Win.

[ShredderMaximus]

I say less focus on whats been done, and more focus on something that has meaning to you...

Its ALL been done at this point...

[puddin tame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qdghxdsfnk

this guy is the supreme undisputed overlord of terrible lyrics