is the most annoying song ever written and performed in the entire history of music, going all the way back to the stone age. If I hear it, and I can't escape or turn it off, it makes me want to claw my own eardrums out.
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We all have our own personal earworm hell, and she's not wielding the pitchfork for me.
How long were you waiting for her to pass away so you could say that?
shareAgreed. Horrible song. She did better stuff though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlp3wmE4bbI
Yeah, sounds like bubblegum. But it was actually banned.
She was always surprised by the success — and controversy — of “Brand New Key,” which was banned by some radio stations. She said she wrote the song in 15 minutes and thought it was “cute, a kind of old ’30s tune.” It featured the lines:share
Well, I’ve got a brand-new pair of roller skates
You’ve got a brand-new key
I think that we should get together
And try them on to see
But as she later acknowledged, “I guess a key and a lock have always been Freudian symbols and pretty obvious ones at that.” Indeed, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson included “Brand New Key” in his 1997 porno industry film “Boogie Nights” for a seduction scene involving a character who never takes off her roller skates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/25/melanie-singer-songwriter-woodstock-obituary-died/
Impossible to feel bad when you sing along with it.
shareDoes it help that it's actually about sex?
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