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Terrible verses in otherwise good songs

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    Swamp Thot Leader
    Nov. 9, 2020, 1:36 p.m.
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    Kinda a buzzkill to have awkward lines in solid songs.

    The Struggle by Black Prez
    "We got 2 pairs of shoes but four pairs of feet
    We be eating cheeseburgers but we missing the meat
    And ain’t talking bout some vegan thing
    I’m talking real life struggling"

    The clarification of not eating vegan burgers is such a weird inclusion. Like, I don't think anyone thought that might be what you were talking about.

    Trying to Find a Balance by Atmosphere
    "Yeah, I got some last words, fuck all of ya'll
    Stop writing raps and go play volleyball"

    This one actually makes me laugh, it's such a serious song and this is such a forced and weirdly specific rhyme. Hell yeah, go play volleyball, that sounds like fun.

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    Swampette
    Nov. 12, 2020, 7:48 p.m.
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    Love it if we Made it by The 1975

    And poison me, daddy
    I've got the Jones right through my bones
    Write it on a piece of stone
    A beach of drowning three-year olds
    Rest in peace Lil Peep
    The poetry is in the streets
    Jesus save us
    Modernity has failed us

    Like it's a very good song of the tumult of the 2018 world, and the hope for a triumphant return to compassion....and in the middle is this random ass RIP Lil Peep line. Not to say his death isn't sad, it just feels so out of place.

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    Swamp Thot Leader
    Nov. 13, 2020, 7:33 p.m.
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    I would say all the lyrics of Nickelback's Photograph (a karaoke favorite of mine) are all sort of wonky, but this one in particular

    Kim's the first girl I kissed
    I was so nervous that I nearly missed
    She's had a couple of kids since then
    I haven't seen her since God knows when
    Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, God, I

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    Swamp Thot Leader
    Nov. 16, 2020, 10:15 a.m.
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    Swamp Thot Leader
    Nov. 17, 2020, 3:46 p.m.
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    Swampette
    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:06 p.m.
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    Photograph is written in a stream of consciousness, making the whole song kind of bizarre to listen to, yeah.

    I listen to a lot of EDM at work to preserve my sanity, and I caught this one today, from Superheroes, by Coldplay:

    I've been reading books of old
    The legends and the myths
    Achilles and his gold
    Hercules and his gifts
    Spider-Man's control
    And Batman with his fists
    And clearly I don't see myself upon that list

    Calling Spider-Man and Batman myths aside, the forced rhyme and false equivalency of Batman's fists and Hercules' gifts always makes me chuckle.