Choop - yes Black Hole Sun was terrible. Also - the video for Black Hole Sun was equally terrible.
One that I currently hate more than anything is that damn Taylor Swift song "Love Story." I hate it so much that my husband and I have deconstructed it for awfulness in order to analyze why it is so bad.
Love Story
We were both young when I first saw you (you are 19, being young is NOT a past-tense thing)
I close my eyes
And the flashback starts
I'm standing there
On a balcony in summer air
See the lights
See the party, the ball gowns
I see you make your way through the crowd
And say hello, little did I know
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go, and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes
Escape this town for a little while
'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter (Now you're just naming titles of books. The Scarlet Letter is about a 17th century puritan woman who has a child via an adulterous affair... how does that even related to... oh never mind.)
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said
Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes
Romeo save me, they try to tell me how to feel (feminism really is dead, isn't it?)
This love is difficult, but it's real (oh really, cause you seem to be basing it on some vague understanding of a play you skimmed in grade 9)
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story baby just say yes
Oh oh
I got tired of waiting
Wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you is fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town, and I said
Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come (alternate lyrics I made up: "I've read some books, or at least I know the basic gists")
Is this in my head? I don't know what to think (alternate lyrics: "It don't matter if I don't know what the context is.")
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring
And said, marry me Juliet
You'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad, go pick out a white dress (wait, did you even rent the movie version of Romeo and Juliet?)
It's a love story baby just say yes
Oh, oh, oh, oh
'Cause we were both young when I first saw you