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Five Songs I Can Do Without The Rest Of My Life
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Five Songs I Can Do Without The Rest Of My Life This Blog is about something that triggered my memory on my recent cruise, in a somewhat negative way. The next to last night of the cruise I witnessed a fantastic presentation about rock music and dancing from the 50’s to the 80’s and what was so good about it, besides the wonderful choreography, was the selection of songs from the movies. Most of us who have cruised know that the musical selections tend to be what I would call ‘least common denominator’, which I would translate to ‘the same old s**t over and over again’. But this presentation was not that, as they brought in movie songs from The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, To Sir With Love, etc. Later that night the Promenade featured a 70’s Party and that’s when it finally made me want to barf a little, as the 10 songs they featured were ALL Disco and ALL the familiar stuff. For those younger than me, who did not experience adulthood then, please note that the 70’s might well have been the best decade for music, but not because of Disco. It was because we had SO MANY types of music to choose from, but for some reason the cruise ships only seem to remember that Disco stuff! While the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever still seems to resonate, when you look at Billboard’s list of #1 singles in the decade there were NO Disco songs! Yet the cruise lines seem to completely discount the non-Disco stuff. For those who are interested, the list does include great songs like Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Joy to the World, The Way We Were and Tonight’s The Night. It’s easy to Google the rest. So, after all the cruises here’s the Top 5 songs I wish cruise lines (and other places) RETIRE PERMANENTLY, I never want to hear these songs again! #1 – The Electric Slide Damn, enough already! I probably heard it EVERY DAY from the Caribbean Steel Band and on some day multiple times. Take that Yoga-inducing wanna be song and put it in the Spa for spinning class! The pool area is already crowded enough without having everyone NOT in a swim suit also getting their exercise while some of us just want to relax and sip a cold drink. And it’s not like it is Grammy-caliber lyric worthy either! #2 – YMCA Honestly, how many people REALLY want to shape their arm movements to that anymore? The ULTIMATE peer pressure song! Communism marketed as cool. #3 – Macho Man The sister companion to YMCA. Honestly, do today’s youth even understand why the Village People had their 15 minutes of fame? Here’s a hint , think of the South Park episode with Tom Cruise . . . #4 – You Light Up My Life Just listen to the words . . . and compare that to how feminism has evolved . . . what a mismatch! About 200 words and probably less than 1,000 characters, sung over 5 minutes or so . . . use it to substitute for Splenda in your tea . . . and hope you don’t get Diabetes from it. #5 – Anything where the ‘F’ Word Appears I solely single this out for ruining one of the great comedy sketches of all time – George Carlin’s ‘The 7 Words You Can’t Say On The Radio’. Thanks a LOT rappers! Where’s the old Community Standards guidelines? When did we allow this to happen on FM radio? Here’s a hint to song writers – cursing is NOT keeping it real, it’s LAZY wordsmithing! Save our ‘F’ Word for it’s one and only true use! And while you’re at it, get rid of the ‘N’ word in your too . . . |
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11/17/2018 5:48 am |
Have fun adding your own!
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There's worse songs than that , I can assure you .
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Bohemian Rhapsody and anything else by Queen. Please don't let me be misunderstood.
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11/17/2018 9:16 am |
Bohemian Rhapsody and anything else by Queen.
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People who say cursing is "Lazy wordsmanship" are just lazy with their cursemanship. Actually we have a more complete vocabulary. Every word everyone else uses and some very descriptive adjectives to enhance them.
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