Most annoying lyrical clichés?

I would actually disagree with the Meshuggah comments, since I feel that they are pretty much just stringing together random advanced sounding words into something that looks like it means something, but it's just whatever sounds cool. Sure you can look into it all you want, and interpret whatever you want into it, but to me it sounds like they write what sounds good/cool instead of what it actually means.
 
The Unavoidable said:
I would actually disagree with the Meshuggah comments, since I feel that they are pretty much just stringing together random advanced sounding words into something that looks like it means something, but it's just whatever sounds cool. Sure you can look into it all you want, and interpret whatever you want into it, but to me it sounds like they write what sounds good/cool instead of what it actually means.
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I personally do not care what any of it means, but it sounds cool, just like you said.
Nobody else writes robot poetry quite like Meshuggah.
 
I'm amazed no-one has raised the lyrical crime of rhyming the words "eyes", "lies" and "despise" yet.

This makes me glad that one of my bands writes lyrics based entirely on a specific book, and the other they tend to be about comic books and movie characters. :p Some of the words the singer in my previous band came up with made me cringe.
 
oooh, ahhh, ella, ;) yeah, la, come on and other pointless "emotional" noises are very cliché. I like it in a few songs tho.

(now is the only thing that's real)

binge, cringe, cringe, binge, sloppy
binge, cringe,
(the police used to watch over the people,
now they're watching the people)
sloppy, mincing, eyedropping, biopsy.
cyclops overlooks optic options.
rotton, showstopper, skinpopper.
babbler dabbler.
self confessed criminal.
tore pen in vain.
instant, still spellbound.
game stock, talk back rock.
reencounter incident.
subsistance is inexistant.
(now is the onlt thing that's real)
non committed, unwitted, oblivious.
habitual resistor.
roughed up edge, fluent nudge, pre-collect ignition.
motivation inexistant.

wasted views,
thats all they see blue,
hot blood, guilt, optic nerve.
with the right attitude you will succed, blue.
self abusive recluse, too late for me.
make shifting peace unsettling.
crazy...doing crazy things.
keep your eyes open, soft spoken changes nothing.
a view so cruel.
(a few)

dogs body comatose, torchlight roast.
disinterest. disinfect.
retold, impressed by possession.
insiders know, refresh, detained contest.
all that is pure, sure tonight, freeze in time.
shadows climb, distracting override.
instincts evolve, over and over.
why cant you see this?

(do you, don't you want me to make you?
coming down fast but don't let me brake you.
only tell me tell me the answer.
you may be a lover but you aint no dancer)

wasted truth.
why call it all, blue?
hot lines.
eventual decline.
with the right attitude you will succed, blue.
resent that discontent.
sidestep.
define the state of things so far.
crazy things, soft spoken..overide.
with your eyes open, you know soft spoken changes nothing.
a view so cruel.
nothing.

view so cruel
view so cruel
you so cruel
view so cruel
a view so cruel
a view so cruel
(..so cruel)

try and take over, over the fringe.
sloppy, eyesore, rotten, showstopper, skinpopper.
a babbler and dabbler.
oh, change, change!
nothing.
nothing, so, no, nothing.
go, down.
go.

(now is the only thing thats real)
 
Anything off of The Burning Red or Supercharger. e.g. "Trust our guts, follow our hearts. No one can break these nuts, these lips ain't kissing butts."
 
The cheesy 90's cock rock band being mixed over at the studio today pretty much tick every box on the terrible lyric list. One example:

"Can you heal me with love? Like you're sent from above"

I mean it doesn't even make grammatical fucking sense!! That's not the worst of it either. Literally every song is full of rhyming lyrical doggerel. Not even "songwriters rhyming dictionary" bad, more like "baby learns the ABC's" fucking bad. The kind of bad that makes early Clawfinger sound like Hemingway!
 
This song is about when Howard Jones went skateboarding. WHEN DARKNESS FALLS.
 
Anything with the word "baby".
Any sappy love shit.
Hip-Hop artists who use an obscure reference to a celebrity to rhyme, that have no topical relevance, like, I heard a rap tune that rhymed "lazy", or "hazy" with "Patric Swayze". I was like, WTF?
Also, Anything from 19 year-old, pre-fabricated, assembly-line pop and country princesses about their dumb-ass high-school relationship grudges with guys that they replace every fifteen minutes. Taylor Swift is a perfect example.
R&B songs that have pleading interludes, I.E.: "Girl, I love you, and I swear that I will always be true."
Red-State, hillbilly, G.W. Bush-republican-automaton garbage that tries to come off as "patriotic".
As far as metal, well, I guess I kind of got sick of the "satanic" thing, since in my mind a real satanist would indulge in such thing as Nazi surgery, necrophilia and child-molestation. It's so late 80's. It just doesn't come off as "bad ass" to me, just retarded.
 
Chryst Krispies said:
I still like Dragonforce. Ain't give no shit. Every time I listen to them I feel like I've just won something.
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I like DragonForce.. why.. because they write their lyrics for the soul purpose of sounding epic... and the fact that their songs have the most epic formula ever...

Through The Fire and Flames essentially has three choruses in a row (well.. two pre-choruses and a chorus technically, but they could stand on their own I think..)

-P
 
It's not so much a problem with satanism as a lyrical topic or a belief system, it's more of a problem that a lot of people think it's cool rather than actually thinking about what it means, and using the duality of your belief in the devil for lyrical content and discussion.
It just gets used as a veil, a distraction, something see-through to make dull people who have nothing to say seem more interesting, and there's the problem, not the subject matter itself.
 
I really like 90s Eurodance's cheesy rhymes. Some groups really pushed the idea to the max!

follow me into the light - it's allright - all night - we get high - in the sky - you and me - can't you see - it's destiny - be together - forever
and so on! Just love it haha! :)
 
I was always partial to the vengaboys myself.

"And up! and down aaand UP and down aaaand UP and down aaaand UP.." repeated for around 10 minutes.
Shit ruled.
 
I heard this one on the radio at work today, and remembered how much I hate it:

"Cry yourself to sleep"

NO ONE EVER DOES THAT! THAT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND SUPER FUCKING CLICHEEEE
 
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