Songs you hated that keep coming after you...

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Y'know, that song everyone loved and you couldn't stand, you kept getting it stuck in your head or they kept playing it outside your head and laughing because you left the room every time... And just when you had settled in to a comfortable life of not hearing it anymore following its inevitable plummet from overexposure, suddenly it rises once more as ugly as ever...

My offering in Rick Astley, "Never Gonna Give You Up". I had happily watched him fade into the mists of obscurity when BAM!! !! There he is as some kind of internet phenomenon. Now, I get that Rick rolls are generally just a gag, but I just hate that song so much that I just keep missing the funny. I have spent so many years trying to keep that song, and his so irritating voice, out of my head that I can't hear it at all now without getting flashbacks of clutching my bleeding ears and weeping... Alright, maybe not that. But I do have some kind of programming left over from when the song was first popular... whenever I hear it starting, it triggers a "got to make it stop" response not unlike the instinctive snooze button slap so many of us learn. I react the same way to a Verizon commercial that exactly mimicks the old "Big Red" chewing gum commercial. Ugh.

I know exactly what you mean, Irishwhistle.

I must say I've never really had that. Sure, I dislike most of the songs that are popular these days, but rarely do I come to hate them.

As it happens, I'm quite fond of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". It seems most people dislike him, however.

Well, mind you, "hate" is just a term chosen to express the maximum extreme of dislike I've reached. I don't think I can hate truly hate a piece of music. But there's just something about his voice, I can't put my finger on what, that has always annoyed me. Oh, and to be honest... he looks like an old boyfriend of mine. But I genuinely dislike the song.

I was thinking more of the phenomenon of the uber-popular or catchy annoying song that others adore and you certainly don't, that seems to keep popping up just when you think people have finally had their fill of it. A lot of pop music has a way of doing that.

I share your detest of Rick Astley - he's one in a thousand popular singers I wouldn't mind never hearing again...except for the moments they define. I loved my job, playing music and babbling on the radio, but the list of artists I had nothing but contempt for is practically endless - the popular 'Top 40' roster is nothing but a list of mediocre talent aimed at the lowest common denominator - idiot listeners with no discernible taste or appreciation of genuine creativity.

But I must admit, in spite of that...years down the road, I have come back to some of the artists I considered CRAP when I was forced to play their drivel hour after hour, day in and day out, and even though I HATED them in their heyday...there's a certain guilty pleasure in the nostalgia...the songs still suck, but they now remind me of moments in my life when positive things were happening that have nothing to do with the quality of the songs...the songs still suck - but they remind me of things that were happening in my personal life while they were popular, that were very memorable and positive...dammit...

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The song that most makes me want to commit violent acts is Free Bird

I don't really hate any music (real music) but "music" that got to annoy me was (I think called) Crazy frog. It was all over the place.

Crazy frog is... well, crazy...
I can't stand it!

I've got an idea....
Hmm... how do you do this youtube thing in here.... Ahhhhhh... Button..

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The only song I've truly hated is "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" by KT Tuinstall. The "woo hoo, woo hoo" is extremely annoying. I remember that a commercial for one show used to use the song, and I'd have to change the channel everytime it came on. Thankfully the song has more or less faded out of the public's mind, so I rarely ever come across it anymore.

As soon as I saw this thread title, "The Locomotion" started playing in my head, and now I can't get it out. Arrrgghh! It doesn't help that it's a catchy tune, so once it gets in my head, it's very hard to get it out.
When I was in second grade, my class danced to that song for the annual class show. Everyone except me, that is. When the song got to the part where they sing, "Now that you can do it, let's make a chain now," (I'm not sure if I have the lyrics exactly right, but I *really* don't want to look up the lyrics) the class was supposed to move around the stage in a human chain with everyone holding the shoulders of the child in front of them. Being the clumsy uncoordinated person I am, I couldn't do the human chain thing. I just couldn't keep up with the other kids, or maintain my hold on the shoulders of the person in front of me. Thus, the chain always wound up breaking where I was. The teacher decided that she couldn't have that disrupting her vision of how she wanted her show to go, so I was made to hide backstage during that number.
Moreover, as I was a daydreamer who often tended to be unaware of my surroundings, my charming teacher decided that she couldn't trust me to go backstage on my own, so she assigned one of my classmates the task of escorting me backstage just before the start of that number. I'm now reminded of that humiliating experience every time I hear that song, and once I hear it, it's very hard to get the tune out of my head.

I really do not care for the song Need You Now by Lady Antebellum. Of course since it's so popular now I can't seem to be able to listen to the radio without hearing that song.

I also detest the song I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas, which is also extremely popular. Then again, I really don't care for any song from the Black Eyed Peas.