{"id":1273,"date":"2014-08-28T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:14:10","slug":"like-nails-on-a-chalkboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/like-nails-on-a-chalkboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Nails on a Chalkboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t like to use the word <b>hate<\/b>.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But dang it, there are some songs I just can&#8217;t deal with. When they come up on the radio or Pandora or TV\/movies &#8211; I absolutely 100% turn the channel or skip to the next song. Do you have those sorts of songs or is it just me? Like, I just despise them. They hurt my little Josie-soul&trade;.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; First up? A song that was apparently really popular and remains one of the most popular Glee-covers in the world (so they tell me, they could be wrong &#8211; I <i>hope<\/i> they are because this song blows).<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3H21fj0hQRM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t think its just the lyrics or the sad-sack melody, but rather a combination of both with a healthy dash of whiny, entitled, brat either in the tone or words. This song just grates on me. It doesn&#8217;t strike me as romantic or even pleasantly wistful. Just&#8230; UGH. UGHHHH!<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Even my beloved Meghan Tonjes couldn&#8217;t make me like this song if she tried.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Next, I have to say that this song  is really, really ubiquitously popular with a certain sector of people and I feel bad for picking on them&#8230; Twihards, yeah, I really do feel bad for laughing at such a vast group of people, but really. C&#8217;mon. Fucking <i>Twilight<\/i>? Get obsessed over something quality, would ya? Yikes.<br \/>\n<centeR><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9ayN39xmsI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It came to my attention as I looked up a lyric video for this freaking song, that it is ALSO by Christina Perri. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s a lovely girl and I&#8217;m honestly not prejudiced against her. I just&#8230; it makes me want to rip my ears off and pee on them to sanitize the bad music out.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Another song by a chick? Why not. I guess I&#8217;m not being very feminist and supportive here, am I? Well fuck you very much, because I hate lots of male songs too. I guess I just heard a bunch of lady-centric ones on the morning I decided to write this post.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Whatever.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This next one feels like shooting fish in a barrel. Honestly. I could have chosen nearly any song by Taylor Swift and it would have fallen into the HATE category for me. She write catchy stuff, there&#8217;s no doubt she&#8217;s talented. But it seems to me to be a very limited, forced, problematic way. Sure, she&#8217;s not as overtly troublesome as some pop stars, but she&#8217;s certainly bad enough for me.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; From the soulless tunes to the really archaic notions of femininity in the lyrics&#8230; she bugs me. And this one is just the first one that popped into my head when I was thinking of songs I hate.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Pj7OP48V1k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Girls are worthwhile without a man, Taylor Swift. Stop writing songs that perpetuate that myth for our daughters. Jeesh.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The next one is actually a pretty empowering song, they tell me. I don&#8217;t care. I hate it. I hate it so much. It is like driving hot pins into my brain and letting the smarts leak out. Agony.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dyAfjUHlFSM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; And that&#8217;s not all. I also despise this song. You could blame it on humongous overplay when it was out. Or on being in a dozen movies, shows &#038; commercials, or that my ex-sister-in-law LOVED it&#8230; I don&#8217;t care. I just fucking hate this song.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DF0zefuJ4Ys\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Seriously. Fuck the Fray for writing that song, recording it, for its existence.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; And up next? Two more songs by the same artist. I didn&#8217;t know, until I looked them up, that both of these songs (common fodder for shows like American Idol &#038; the Voice) are by Train. I thought I sort of liked Train, but apparently, no. Apparently, I was mistaken because they put out two of the worst earworm monstrosities in the history of the Aughts.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JV74i4yvcA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/centeR><br \/>\n<center>&#038;<\/centeR><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lORcpT89t9c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/centeR><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hey Soul Sister. Drops of Jupiter. They can both suck my big toe. I. Hate. Them. HATE them. I don&#8217;t even know why. But when I hear them &#8211; my brain goes into a ragey-frothy-foamy fit and I have to turn it off or else give a 15 minute dissertation on how much I hate them.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hey, it&#8217;s irrational, but it&#8217;s me!<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But wait! There&#8217;s more! I didn&#8217;t even touch off the country songs that make my skin crawl, or the rap songs that make me feel bad for humanity at large. I could go on for days.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Maybe I&#8217;ll keep a running tally and share more awful (to me!) songs later.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Right now I&#8217;m going to go check out that new Nicki Minaj video and be mesmerized by her amazing ass, because Damn. Baby got back&#8230; (see, what I did there? Because she does &#8216;got back&#8217; and also, Anaconda samples from&#8230; the song&#8230; by Sir Mix-a-lot&#8230; uhhhh&#8230; yeah).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/signature.jpg\" alt=\"Signed, Josie\" width=\"92\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Note: Image is &#8220;3-D Teacher&#8221; by (beni_bb) from SXC.hu<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I don&#8217;t like to use the word hate. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; But dang it, there are some songs I just can&#8217;t deal with. When they come up on the radio or Pandora or TV\/movies &#8211; I absolutely 100% turn the channel or skip to the next song. Do you have those sorts&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/like-nails-on-a-chalkboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[214,137],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-life","tag-music","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}