She got a light skinned friend look like Michael Jackson, she got a dark skinned friend look like Tito-foggieraw on the song conquito with Andy Mineo I think is better
Easy target, but speaking of Train, "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug, you're the only one I'm dreaming of" still haunts me, especially because it was written by the blandest white guy band I can think of.
I'm pretty sure he was saying "I'm no gangsta" implying that gangstas and thugs are unfaithful, but him not being one of them is faithful and only thinking of the woman that he's referencing
And in the video he does a... thing? Like trying to look "thug". Though with how bland white people use thug nowadays maybe it's better he didn't put them down
man he touched on Train. but didnt get the worst lyrics. Don't cry when I die When it's my time I probably won't die I'll just lie down and close my eyes And think about stuff
08:54 The 13 year old "Sable" referenced in the song is a real person - Sabel Shields, know as Sable Starr. She was a famous groupie in the early '70s and was a groupie since the age of ten or eleven. There are countless stories both from her and others in regards to her sleeping with famous musicians when she was underage - some of those musicians bragged about it as well. She was part of a group of girls known as "the baby groupies" because they were all between the ages of 11 and 14 y/o. Some of the men she allegedly slept with between the ages of 10 and 16 are Iggy Pop, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper , David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Randy California. When she was 16 y/o she ran away with Johnny Thunders, the guitar player from the New York Dolls, who abused her, got her pregnant and addicted to drugs. A very tragic life story all around...
@@Blakbox92 I really don't like when people talk shit on Kanye, my first response is always "Yeah, well, throw a rock in the genre of Classic Rock and you'll hit a pedophile, so."
@@Blakbox92 18 being the lowest acceptable age for sexual activity is a fairly recent concept. Look at Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was about 14 years old and was already considered almost too old to marry. This kind of thing happening in the 20th century is on the weirder side, but it was very common all throughout history
I can explain the appeal of Train. It's the band your mother played while driving you to soccer practice, so when you listen to it now you get nostalgia/good vibes and how bland the music actually is fades to the background.
"i'm the sh*t, when these dudes talk, they talking bull me." "i'm the sh*t, so please don't be mad when i stank." "you full of sh*t, you close your mouth and let your a*s talk." i think the whole genre got a problem.
@@tasty8186 its about cooking crack on a stove to sell it, isnt that obvi. Basically hes saying he was without friends and just focusing on making a way out the streets.
Lil Dicky - "Like as a child I was so dismissive of the baked potato 'til I tried that shit, now the baked potato is my favorite kind potato" self explanatory
8:19 it's so funny to me that in Lil Yachty's correction on what kind of instrument squidward plays, he corrects it from a cello to a flute which is ALSO WRONG
That's what I love about Oingo Boingo's song little girls. It's clearly a jab at these kind of creepy lyrics that you end up hearing a lot, usually in older songs, but not completely gone from newer songs. Danny Elfman is a crazy guy.
@@dankdylan9278 usually there are words within the sentence rhyming. It can be anywhere, not just the end of a sentence. On this particular verse it was the last sentence so he didn’t rhyme it with anything and the line was there for emphasis on the rest of the verse. It reminds of the twenty one pilots song “I wish I found some better sounds No one's ever heard I wish I had a better voice That sang some better words I wish I found some chords In an order that is new I wish I didn't have to rhyme Every time I sang” He purposefully didn’t rhyme there just to bring emphasis to the line
attention to the "lyrical miracle" rappers out there: having a bunch of multi syllabic rhymes isn't impressive or cool by itself, and this line perfectly shows that lmao
The world is a vampire. It drains your life and steals your soul. But also it OBVIOUSLY isn't, it is always in sunlight and we all know vampires sparkle like diamonds in the sunlight
Anthony's idea about a be-all-end-all song filled with poop bars actually happened in Denmark. It's called 'Lortesangen' ('The Shit Song'), and it's by the rap group Malk De Koijn. And wouldn't you know it, poop bars since then haven't been very common in Danish hip hop.
the be all end all “Im the shit” song is that one Gorillaz song featuring André 3000 where he has a fullblown mental breakdown and spends a whole 5 minutes shouting Im the shit over and over again
Same energy as the 8 year old kid on my street that rides around on his grandpas golf cart screaming "I'm a G, I'm a bad*** G! F*** all you n**** a** h***!"
Benny Mardones' 80's hit "Into the Night" is another one of those creepy songs. The first verse is about how he's in love with a 16 year old girl, and how it's the people telling him to leave her alone that are just fools who don't know what love is yet, not the underage girl his affection is targeted at. I feel like people who write songs like this should have their computers confiscated by the FBI, it's gotta be probably cause, right?
@@bete177 For real, especially in the UK atm this lady went missing and theres a movement about teaching men about sexual assault but it's backwards if people like this are famous
Benny Mardone's "Into the Night" literally begins with "she's just sixteen years old, leave her alone, they say" and he spends the rest of the song NOT leaving her alone. The 20th century was a wild time.
When you implied that Jaden Smith might be a furry with a pregnancy and vore fetish and then said that you still love and accept him? That was a moment.
3:18 You know, everyone always uses examples of male artists singing about young girls but no one EVER mentions the fact that in I Love Rock & Roll, Joan Jett is lusting after a 17yr old boy... As the song goes on, she ends up taking him home (where they can be alone.) It's disturbing and yet it's a freakin' classic. WHY?!
I think one of the worst lines from a great song is from Africa by Toto: "I know that I must do what's right, sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti"
"I know that I must do what's right, sure as Mt Elbert rises like Matterhorn above the Yellowstone National Park" - A guy about to do the opposite of what's right
I love the Mars Volta, and I love Cedric's cryptic approach to lyric writing... but one line baffles me more than any other: "The kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like Rosalyn Carter" -The Mars Volta, Tetragrammaton
That one line catches everyone's attention for its ridiculousness. When studying music at college, we had to write about an album we had brought recently. I thought that an arty prog album was the way to go simply for the sake of showing off my analytical skills, and of all parts, I spent half of my little presentation on THAT line, completely bullshitting about it as though I knew something that nobody else did. I have no idea now how I was graded, but I do recall being asked afterwards by a fellow student "you don't actually like that song, do you?".
First discovered your work back in 2017 when I was heavily into Beach House (everything pre 2015, excluding Thank Your Lucky Stars). I appreciated your analysis of their earlier albums and worm-holed into your work then. I recently saw your podcast-style work with F.D., who I am a big fan of, and then stumbled upon these LET'S ARGUE videos. You had me laughing hysterically throughout this, and I just want to say I really appreciate your videos.
The Jaden Smith line was introduced too suddenly and I choked 😂 "Rap is just one of my fetishes, like a dragon that's pregnant" I mean but I don't know anything about Jaden Smith, it's good he found success
Yeah definitely, I was so confused when Anthony started explaining the being eaten by a dragon thing lol. Like it's clearly just the funny part about shrek that a dragon and a donkey have babies heavens
I absolutely love the guitar on Radio by Alkaline Trio, there is something romantic but also haunting about it. But then the opening lyrics of the song are "shaking like a dog shitting razorblades" wtf
Rap Critic did a video where he reviewed a Chris Brown song Wayne was featured on. Apparently he’s another one that goes to the toilet pretty frequently when it comes to that line, because he had a whole minute of the video showing all the raps he’s done with it. And MAN are there a lot of stinkers (pun completely intended)!
I love the songs because the "I'm the shit" bars are next level. I don't think there ever will be another song with such creative and hilarious bars about poop. The highlight has to be this though: "I'm on the fluid, I'm ruined, I'm cold as Boston Bruins Lost in the shoo-shoo and who's who and I lost influence Lost my point of view 'til I find a mirror, start talkin' to it It told me the truth, it said I'm the shit and you party poopin'" All that build up for a poop joke. 🤣😭
@@noahspizza4003 Nah man, Garry Sharon with the classic " Superman, he be looking for Louis, candyman, yeah the candy man can." and the rest of the lyrics on that song are oblviously superior.
Anthony: “it’s a little sus when you say fettish and finish the bar with something that weird.” Also Anthony: “When I think of a dragon that’s pregnant I imagine vore.”
@@Goldfishliberationarmy "Young ladies, young ladies I like 'em underage, see Some say that's statutory (But I say it's MANDITORY)" - Kid Rock, "Cool Daddy Cool," Osmosis Jones Soundtrack
I used to think I could be a songwriter. Looking at my old middle school notebooks full of bad rhymes, I'm not proud. But a lot of the writing of 12 year old men was better than this. Somehow, 12 year old me was less of a creep despite thinking "her eyes have gold in them like sweet peach pie" was a good compliment.
"My diamonds, they say Pikachu" "Peanut Butter Jelly, no deli" I've said it before and I'll say it again, MC Hammer has been laughed out of the game over much less.
Honestly the poop song has already been done, at least in Danish. We had an alternative hip hop group called 'Malk de Koijn' who, in 1998, made the song "Lortesangen" literally meaning "the shit song". Apparently the song was dreamt up after a long fit of writer's block which then ended, leading to the release of their debut album 'Smash hit i Aberdeen' which actually broke the charts in Denmark. A lil extra interesting tidbit about the group. In the years leading to the formation of the group, the Members, actually produced for Easy E which is insane. Which is also why the production on their albums always have been ahead of the curb, especially for danish hip hop standards.
You are spot on with your point about rappers using "shit analogies". No matter how hard the bar sounds and how good the rhymes are, if you're talking about you being the shit and then like toilets and diapers and farts and diarrhea sounds, that will never not sound f***ing stupid. Shit is not hard, shit is disgusting.
Red flannel, yellow flannel, weird denim jacket, orange flannel, blue flannel, and the INFINITY FLANNEL. Also the wifebeater he wears under all of them
*For Gorillaz fans who are aware, the only person that could do the “I’m the shit” verse well was André 3000 and the only way he could make it work is by just saying “I’m the shit” repeatedly.*
Lil Wayne's "she try to flush out the feeling of me being the shit cuz I was leaving skid marks on everywhere I sit" from Lolipop's remix with Kanye is poetry
