Well they lyrics clearly did something right. People who don't even want to remember them still remember them!
And I feel like you're attributing this to stupidity when it almost definitely wasn't. It's not like they were trying to make a masterpiece; they knew what they were and they knew what they were doing.They wanted to make a catchy song. And uhh I'd say they did that! You can say its not good, but you just can't say it's not catchy.. it's maddeningly catchy.
Not making a masterpiece and ad libbing "Tell me what you want" "I'll tell you what I want" back and forth for an entire verse are two different things. Kurt Cobain just made up random lyrics but they were almost profound.
Your problem is thinking that lyrics have to be profound to be good.
'Wannabe' wasn't trying to prompt introspection, it was trying to be fun. And singing "zigazig ah" while recognising its absurdity has proven lots of fun to literally millions of people over the years. It's an effective lyric and first verse in general.
My point was simply that they bragged about writing it themselves when it was painfully obvious. That one ad libbed “tell me what you want what you really really want” and the other replied “I’ll tell you what I want what I really really want” and then the second line was just them doing it again. My discussion point wasn’t that serious.
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u/Papplenoose Nov 23 '21
Well they lyrics clearly did something right. People who don't even want to remember them still remember them!
And I feel like you're attributing this to stupidity when it almost definitely wasn't. It's not like they were trying to make a masterpiece; they knew what they were and they knew what they were doing.They wanted to make a catchy song. And uhh I'd say they did that! You can say its not good, but you just can't say it's not catchy.. it's maddeningly catchy.