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6 Music reveals worst pop lyrics in the world. ever!
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Des'ree's hit song Life has been voted the worst ever pop lyric
according to 91Èȱ¬ 6 Music listeners in the digital radio station's Taxing
Lyrical poll.
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Des'ree, a highly successful UK solo artist, became popular in the mid-Nineties with uplifting songs full of self-help tips and self-esteem
makeovers for the love sick and downhearted.
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But according to 6 Music
listeners she's also responsible for penning the worst pop lyric:
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I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news
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6 Music presenter Marc Riley counted down the Taxing Lyrical top 10
on his show tonight (Friday 4 May), bringing to a close the network's
three-week vote to find the dodgiest lyrics in pop music.
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Des'ree was
revealed as the runaway winner securing nearly 30% of the votes followed
by Snap and Razorlight:
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I'm as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer
(Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer)
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And I met a girl
She asked me my name
I told her what it was
(Razorlight - Somewhere Else)
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Marc Riley says: "Bad lyrics can come in all forms - some acceptable, some less so.
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"For
instance, in the right hands, defiantly dumb lyrics such as Manfred
Mann's Do Wah Diddy Diddy (diddy dum diddy do.) can be more than
acceptable as part of the pop idiom. In fact we embrace them! Let's not
forget it was a number one smash.
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"But imagine the same words streaming
from the crown prince of gloom Leonard Cohen, accompanied only by a
forlorn expression and a battered banjo! It would (quite rightly) be
mocked and held up for much ridicule.
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"In short, dumb is sometimes OK,
whereas pious and pretentious and pompous are obviously never to be
encouraged nor tolerated!"
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Ric Blaxill, Head of Programmes, 6 Music, says: "The response from listeners to Taxing Lyrical has been fantastic.
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"Everyone has got their own favourite worst lyric - whether it's
nonsensical or deeply inappropriate - and people wince every time they
hear those words.
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"But maybe deep down people secretly love to hate these
lyrics - they're like a guilty pleasure. Our listeners have certainly
enjoyed sharing them with us!"
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This morning 6 Music breakfast presenter Shaun Keaveny also revealed
the result of his Lame Listener Lyric competition - the search to find
the worst lyric written by a 6 Music listener.
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The winning lyric by
Christine Jones from Ely was written for her Nineties punk band, Feral:
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden die?
With plastic, elastic and cellophane and apathy to make you cry
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The 91Èȱ¬ 6 Music Taxing Lyrical Top 10
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1. Des'ree - Life
I don't want to see a ghost
It's the sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
Watch the evening news
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2. Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
I'm as serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer
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3. Razorlight - Somewhere Else
And I met a girl
She asked me my name
I told her what it was
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4. ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now
More sacrifices than an Aztec priest
Standing here straining at that leash
All fall down
Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble
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5. U2 - Elevation
I've got no self control
Been living like a mole now
Going down, excavation
High and high in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high
Elevation
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6. Toto - Africa
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
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7. Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you when we were getting high?
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8. Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
And fiery demons all dance when you walk through that door
Don't say you're easy on me you're about as easy as a nuclear war
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9. Human League - The Lebanon
Before he leaves the camp he stops
He scans the world outside
And where there used to be some shops
Is where the snipers sometimes hide
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10. Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses.
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