Songs that have been ruined for you

[polygal]

girlnamedcarl said:

"Angels" by Robbie Williams, because now every nimrod out there thinks it's a Jessica Simpson song. Grrrrrrrr...

"Angels" is pretty close to ruined for me because of J.Simp. I practically had a coronary during American Idol when the judges praised a girl that sang "Angels" and called it "the Jessica Simpson song."

[sleepy]

I've only heard Robbie's version, so I'm still safe there. Come to think of it, for all my snarky enjoyment of JSimp and for as much as I watched Newlyweds, I've never actually heard her sing, save for a few snippets on the TV show. Methinks that's a good thing.

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You have no idea how lucky you are. She almost ruined "Take My Breath Away" for me.

[garnet927]

polygal said:

"Angels" is pretty close to ruined for me because of J.Simp. I practically had a coronary during American Idol when the judges praised a girl that sang "Angels" and called it "the Jessica Simpson song."

Reminds me of the "rage blackout" I had during AI a couple of years ago , when one of the contestants referred to " I Will Always Love You" as a Whitney Houston song. ( I like the song when Dolly Parton sings it, but LOATHE Whitney's version.)

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Not a song, exactly, but the overuse of the Irish Pipes in Titanic (and most especially, the Devil Psalm performed by Celine Dion that will go unmentioned by me because if it is, it's powers of evil will return) completely ruined the Irish pipes for me. Not that I was a particularly big fan of them, but everytime I hear them in a song now it sounds so utterly twee, like the musicians are trying to identify their solidarity with the canny Irish working class folk of 1912 or something.

[sleepy]

The Devil's Psalm! I love it! I wish I had heard that name for it back when that song was freaking everwhere. Good job!

[Beeelicious]

So here's one for this thread. Back in the good ol' 80's, there was a happy little song that I thought was so fun and happy and dare I say, sunshine-y... Fast forward 20 (gulp) years, and I cannot.listen. to the song "Walkin on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. It has been used in so many movies, movie trailers, commercials, promos, you name it. It's like it was never a song, just an annoying jingle. Which sucks cause I was forced to listen to it in its entirety the other day, and remembering how I liked it makes me hate it even more. RUINED for me, I say. Ruined!

[swanflake]

I think Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is a fantastic song, but I hate how far too many people have bastardized that song into being the anthem of rude, self-centered, know if all people. That song is really about so much more than just romanticizing a selfish "I want what I want when I want it and everyone else be damned" attitude. I say this after seeing Johnny Weir skate to this song in the Exhibition Gala in Torino, and hearing the NBC commentators say "He really does live his life by these lyrics!". No he doesn't! Stop misinterpreting Frank Sinatra's song!

In my high school yearbook, seniors could take out these ads in the back where they could have some little picture thingy of them designed with a paragraph underneath it, and this one snotty brat guy who thought he ruled the drama club had the chorus from that song as his paragraph. Poor Frank Sinatra.

[mrpancake]

Maybe this should go in true confessions, but the yearbook thing reminded me of my senior quote. While those around me had Bible quotes, or something meaningful, I had "Could you just not breathe" from Death Becomes Her. My sister had a Ralph Wiggum quote. Clearly, we have priorities.

I hate the song Walkin' on Sunshine. I'm not sure I ever would have liked it, but I had only known it as jingle-y type song, then I heard it played at a club. It's just so annoying.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams was ruined for me, too. People just played it so. damn. much.

[duskwolf]

Same with Alanis Morrisette's "Ironic".

Here's the story: When I was in high school, the song first came out. I knew that it had officially been done to death when people were writing out the lyrics in the bathroom stalls.

Shit, people, it's just a series of "bummers", it's not ironic. Stop trying to project your teen angst on a stupid freaking song (and, I must say, not the best on the whole album...which wasn't that great either. I knew one person who, the night after the grammies that year said:, of Jagged Little Pill, "Best Rock Album, that's all I have to say" Shit, could her view of music BE any more narrow-minded?).

Okay, rant over.