Does this song make anyone else's brain explode?

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:11pm

I don't know if you all remember this song, or group. But in 1999 there was a little boy band by the name of LFO. And I was listening to the radio a little while ago and they started playing "Summer Girls." I have hated this song ever since it first aired...and I don't know why they still play this. Why did these people have careers? And, furthermore, why were people paid to write such stomach-churning lyrics such as:

"Hip hop, marmalade, spick-and-span
Met you one summer and it all began
You're the best girl that I ever did see
The great Larry Bird, Jersey 33
When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby
Somethin' in your eyes really drove me crazy
Now I can't forget you and it makes me mad
Left one day and never came back
Stayed all summer, then went back home
McCullay Culkin was in Home Alone
Fell deep in love, but now we ain't speakin'
Michal J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton
When I met you, I said my name is Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie & Fitch

Cherry Pez, Coke Crush, Rock Stud, Boogie
Used to hate school, so I had to play hookie
Always been hip to the B Ball style
Known to act wild and make a girl smile
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Reminds me of you 'cause you rock my world
You come from Georgia, where the peaches grow
They drink lemonade and speak real slow
You love hip hop and rock and roll
Dad took off when you were four years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better, baby, when you're near
You love Fun Dip and Cherry Coke
I like the way you laugh when I tell a joke
When I met you, I said my name was Rich
You looked like a girl from Abercrombie & Fitch" - Courtesy of Letssingit.com

All I have to say is: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT?
I die a little inside everytime I think of this song.

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:20pm

but if this song hadn't been created, we wouldn't ahve the fabulous parody version, Hummer Girls.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:20pm

i actually like that song. it's clever, witty. maybe you just have to listen to it a lot then appreciate it. i don't know. but i like it.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:21pm

Not much different from We Didn't Start the Fire.

Updated On: 11/18/05 at 01:21 PM

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 1:35pm

LFO SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been saying that ever since that song first came out. That song is so effing boring.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:15pm

I hate this song, I hate this song, I hate this song!!!


And I don't understand why you would compare it to "We Didn't Start the Fire", which lists - by year - several events and people who prove that the 'fire' has been burning. This song has no rhyme or reason, and it promotes Abercrombie and Fitch... GAH!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:17pm

We Didn't Start the Fire still relies on events and people's names to make up an entire song. It's not...brilliant.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:20pm

LFO is this generation's Sondheim.

Here's a call to Sondheim:

TAKE THE LFO CHALLENGE! Write many, many words, none of which correspond with the the last, and then compose a completely vanilla, white bread melody that no sane person will be able to get out of her head. I CHALLENGE YOU, SONDHEIM!

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:20pm

It's not brilliant, but it does have a (thin) point.

This, on the other hand, is just a bunch of random pop culture reference set to rhyme. Kinda like if they made "OC: The Musical."

But didn't the LFO lead singer get leukemia or something?

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:22pm

That doesn't excuse the group for making sh!tty music. It only makes me sad for him.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:25pm

I didn't use the word brilliant. I simply said that the things in the song have rhyme, reason, and relevance. LFO's lyrics don't.

We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

1949
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

1950
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

1951
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom,
Brando, "The King and I" and The Catcher In The Rye

1952
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Chorus

1953
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser, Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

1954
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around The Clock

1955
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

1956
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

Chorus

1957
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

1958
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of Thalidomide

1959
Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

1960
U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

Chorus

1961
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

1962
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

1963
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

Chorus

1964-1989
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

1964-1989
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, Heavy Metal, Suicide,
Foreign debts, Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

Updated On: 11/18/05 at 02:25 PM

[RobbO]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:48pm

i love both of those songs. i am so cool.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:51pm

It does take a brilliant mind to rhyme "hornet" and "sonnets."

[singingsweetee82]

Posted: 11/18/05 at 2:55pm

when that song first came out I thought it was a joke. Today it makes me laugh but I still can't listen to more than the chorus.