Narendra Sen Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 IMO the worst lyrics from M are 'and I know i can feel bad/when I get in a bad mood' (from Love Profusion) they just don't make any sense to me and it kinda ruins the whole song -- when I listen to it, I start liking it, but then i remember that at some point she is going to sing those lines so what are the most embarrassing/dull/uninspired lyrics from our Queen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lymon Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I could be your sister, I could be your mother We could be friends, I'd even be your brother But I'd rather be your lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Pain Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 see my booty get down like! ESPECIALLY LIVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Entire American Life album for starters Her lyrics have been going downhill since Music. She's been especially uninspired lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzishane Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Entire American Life album for starters Her lyrics have been going downhill since Music. She's been especially uninspired lately. I kind of agree... It's like she's been channeling Dr. Seuss for the past few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I'm drinking a Soy latte, I get a double shotte, It goes through my body, And you know I'm satisfied I drive my Mini Cooper And I'm feeling super-dooper Yo they tell I'm a trooper And you know I'm satisfied I do yoga and Pilates And the room is full of hotties So I'm checking out the bodies And you know I'm satisfied I'm digging on the isotopes This metaphysics shit is dope And if all this can give me hope You know I'm satisfied I got a lawyer and a manager An agent and a chef Three nannies, an assistant And a driver and a jet A trainer and a butler And a bodyguard or five A gardener and a stylist Do you think I'm satisfied? I'd like to express my extreme point of view I'm not Christian and I'm not a Jew I'm just living out the American dream And I just realised that nothing Is what it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I used to love Madonna lyrics. They were simple but also universal and smart or funny. I don't know what happened the last few years. Although there are flashes of her old brilliance, I don't want to be unfair, a LOT is just simplistic and lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songkaiwen Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Celebration and Revolver have good lyrics tho... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 The only ones that ever really grated on me are the cliche "moth to a flame" line in the otherwise flawless THANTH. And the bridge to NRM ... "nothing takes the past away, like the future ..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtzlplk Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Entire American Life album for starters Her lyrics have been going downhill since Music. She's been especially uninspired lately. easy ride is an exception Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Oh, I think American Life album has some great lyrics: Nothing Fails, Mother And Father, Nobody Knows Me, EASY RIDE, even Die Another Day. I guess I judge lyrics differently. A lot of people detest WIFLFAG, but I find the lyrics very evocative and touching. I really like the line "hands that rest on jutting hips, repenting." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacHarris Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I Think the Worst Lyrics involve "Mother & Father" I Can't Even Enjoy the Song. see my booty get down like! ESPECIALLY LIVE GREATEST MADONNA QUOTE EVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I Think the Worst Lyrics involve "Mother & Father" I Can't Even Enjoy the Song. ITS WRITTEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CHILD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsaacHarris Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 ^ Mmmmm Hmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkydita Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I don't mind the Mother And Father lyrics, the rhythm of "rap" sounds like a nursery rhyme to me so it works in context. The ones that stick out for me are "I was special too" in X-Static Process and "here is the law of the land, you play with fire and you'll get burned, here is the lesson I've learned that, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone" from the execrable One More Chance. How many cliches can you cram in one bridge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debord Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 It seems to be pretty common to say that her lyrics are rubbish these days, and I think it's such a trite, lazy opinion. Songs like 'Devil Wouldn't Recognise You' and 'Voices' on 'Hard Candy' have lyrics that are absolutely brilliant for pop songs. Even songs like 'Give It To Me' and 'Sorry' have great little pop lyrics. I could very easily pick songs from her early albums and use it to argue that her lyrics were rubbish then which is what tends to happen with her latter-day work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 It seems to be pretty common to say that her lyrics are rubbish these days, and I think it's such a trite, lazy opinion. Songs like 'Devil Wouldn't Recognise You' and 'Voices' on 'Hard Candy' have lyrics that are absolutely brilliant for pop songs. Even songs like 'Give It To Me' and 'Sorry' have great little pop lyrics. I could very easily pick songs from her early albums and use it to argue that her lyrics were rubbish then which is what tends to happen with her latter-day work. Hell, yeah, Devil and Voices have AMAZING lyrics. So damn good. Same goes for a lot of more recent material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim34 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Hell, yeah, Devil and Voices have AMAZING lyrics. So damn good. Same goes for a lot of more recent material. The Voices lyrics are great ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kmc16 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I'd be ok if she never uses the word hesitate again!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gloriesbarcelona Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Entire American Life album for starters WHAT?????????????? :confused: NO COMMENT.... Ring ring ring goes the telephone Spanish lesson for a spanish speaker... well... no words for it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narendra Sen Posted August 3, 2009 Author Share Posted August 3, 2009 Spanish lesson for a spanish speaker... well... no words for it... oh, yes!! that one's a wreck!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky guy Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Oh, I think American Life album has some great lyrics: Nothing Fails, Mother And Father, Nobody Knows Me, EASY RIDE, even Die Another Day. I guess I judge lyrics differently. A lot of people detest WIFLFAG, but I find the lyrics very evocative and touching. I really like the line "hands that rest on jutting hips, repenting." Madge didn't write Nothing Fails, Jem did. Except I think Madge added the bit about the tree of life, which IS shit. I LOVE the lyrics to WIFLFAG. I don't want to MEET anyone who doesn't, that is an amazing song. 'Hurt that's not supposed to show and tears that fall when no-one knows, when you're trying hard to be your best, could you be a little less?' The lyrics have been getting steadily worse. The whole of Candy shop -what a tired tawdry bunch of overused shitty cliches. 'See my booty get down' is just bizarre, just on a purely feminine level of showing off your best asset. Madonna has the arse of a Nigerian long distance runner. It's likely to inspire admiration but hardly lust. Surely if she wants to shove her sexual attributes in people's faces she'd give a shout out to her brilliant buoyant rack. As it is you just think -what booty? I love Love Profusion though, ESPECIALLY the bad mood bit. It's cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonski43 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Celebration's lyrics are some of the most trite for quite a while. Whilst I applaud the attempt to weave in references to old songs, I think she has done it in the laziest way possible and some of it doesn't even rhyme. As for the line "invitation to the dance of life"? Sounds like something 2Unlimited would have sung about in '93. Yeah, and I agree on Candy Shop - Turkish Delight and Candy Galore? I much prefer Niki and Donna's "I've got the moves baby, you've got the lotion". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Madonna has the arse of a Nigerian long distance runner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest travelinstillness Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) her lyrics have steadily gone downhill since Erotica. They lack structure. Sometimes it works for a song and sometimes it doesn't. She's had some rebounds here and there, and I actually think most of the lyrics on Hard Candy are a return to form. but the songs with the weakest lyrics are Hey You which was probably written by Lola for her My First Poetry Class (Madonna may care about the human race- and that's arguable- but she has a very hard time getting her point across in lyrics showing her concern). Another song that truly disappoints me lyrically is Nobody's Perfect. When I heard about the song title before hearing the song in full, I was actually expecting something with deep, heartfelt lyrics and instead all we got was "I feel so bad" "I feel so sad" and other lame rhyming schemes. Once again- I'm sure this time she was inspired by one of Lola's My First Goldenbooks. Or Dr. Suess. Edited August 4, 2009 by travelinstillness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debord Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 her lyrics have steadily gone downhill since Erotica. They lack structure. Sometimes it works for a song and sometimes it doesn't. She's had some rebounds here and there, and I actually think most of the lyrics on Hard Candy are a return to form. but the songs with the weakest lyrics are Hey You which was probably written by Lola for her My First Poetry Class (Madonna may care about the human race- and that's arguable- but she has a very hard time getting her point across in lyrics showing her concern). Another song that truly disappoints me lyrically is Nobody's Perfect. When I heard about the song title before hearing the song in full, I was actually expecting something with deep, heartfelt lyrics and instead all we got was "I feel so bad" "I feel so sad" and other lame rhyming schemes. Once again- I'm sure this time she was inspired by one of Lola's My First Goldenbooks. Or Dr. Suess. I agree. I long for the days when she would write brilliant lyrics like, "Shoo bee doo bee doo ooh la la, come to me baby/Shoo bee doo bee doo ooh la la, don't say maybe" and "There's hunger everywhere/We've got to take a stand/Reach out for someone's hand/Love makes the world go round" or even "Can't stop thinking about you babe, can't stop/Can't stop screaming and shouting your name, can't stop/Look out boy 'cause I'm going to the top/Of your list, can't stop". Songs like 'Bad Girl' or 'Secret Garden' on 'Erotica' just cannot compare to these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GimmeSomeMo Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 LAP Erotica and BS have her best lyrics. ROL was where it all started going wrong. They were stilted and cliche ridden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky guy Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 LAP Erotica and BS have her best lyrics. ROL was where it all started going wrong. They were stilted and cliche ridden. I don't think I agree with that. I think ROL and Music had some great lyrics. I think American Life, much as I embrace and accept alot of it's child-like-ness, was where the lyrical weaknesses started to show, maybe because Madonna's songwriting collabarator was a French speaker, so she couldn't count on solid support as with Pat Leonard for example, I think she struggled. Even so there are some lovely bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apples388 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Get down Huh UGGHHH Get DOWN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spotlight Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I like to singy singy singy like a bird on a wingy wingy wingy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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