Achy Breaky Heart has been at the top of my most annoying list since it first became popular. So you can imagine how I feel about his daughter's hoarse pop screams. Even in the movie Bolt, where she only spoke. I said to myself, "I like the character, but she has the most irritating voice." And whaddya know, it's her.
For a nice little response to the song I mentioned, by the way, see Pinky and the Brain's "Bubba Bo Bob Brain" episode. At the beginning you hear a song by Willie Ray Cyprus, in which he sings:
Don't tell mah head
Mah empty hollow head
Yah know I wouldn't understand
Yep yep yep
Yep yep yep yep yep...
I found it very satisfying.
I, too, could make a much longer list, however, I'll list some that stand out as being songs that could drive me out of a store (some even have done) if I didn't have ear buds:
*Hall and Oates - complete works
*Air Supply - complete works
*Stevie Wonder - complete works, led by I Just Called to Say I Love You. When I was a kid, they played it to death, sometimes even playing an extra LONG version
*Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (where's the subtlety? Did he even buy her dinner?)
*Tonight I Celebrate My Love for You (again, I prefer subtlety, not this caveman's "we go @#$% now" approach... if you're singing about it on the radio, it ain't intimate anymore)
*That's What Friends Are For - got no use for Dion Warwick anyway
*Captain and Tenille - complete works
*The Carpenters - complete works
*Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
*Styx - Mr Roboto (not one you hear in a store, thankfully)
And sadly, some songs I might otherwise enjoy as sung by grade-schoolers, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony or theme songs from Miyazaki films (although the worst are Ponyo and Totoro, not sure I could ever like those much. But I wouldn't mind them if the 11-year-old hadn't taught the 3-year-old to sing the chorus over and over.).
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