This ability of the sorcerer will wipe any one song of your choosing from the pages of history, as if it never existed! Gone from our reality. They were going to do it anyway, but they’re making you choose.

Which song would you pick?

(If you really can’t narrow it down to one, then try narrowing to three)

~picture credit goes to zenart07 , DeviantArt~

  • Uncle Roach@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The “oh no oh no” high pitched “song” from TikTok that plays from my mom’s phone when I’m about to sleep

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    2 months ago

    Baby Shark. The entire time that ducking song was making it’s rounds through society, I managed to avoid it. I knew it was repetitive and awful, and through good fortune and luck, it missed me completely.

    Then I watched the new season of Umbrella Academy. Those motherfuckers.

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    2 months ago

    I’d improvise one on the spot. just to prevent the erasure of others’ art. Nah, fuck that; Baby Shark can die.

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    2 months ago

    The Song That Doesn’t End—we’ll finally rescue all those people who started singing it not knowing what it was.

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      2 months ago

      I’d made it so long without hearing that song until it popped up in Umbrella Academy. Streak ruined.

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    2 months ago

    Because it’s already starting again, “Last Christmas”. Fuck that garbage piece of shit song that’s ruining the lives of everyone that has to work in retail during Christmas.

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    2 months ago

    At first, I was going to pass on destroying music, but then I remembered the anger I feel any time I have to see Peter Pan because, in part, the fucking racist shit that is What Makes the Red Man Red. Maybe I could work out a deal to erase the entire movie…

    Before anyone attempts to defend it with, “it was a product of the times”, know that the play Peter Pan is based on was considered shockingly racist at the time and Disney’s solution to that was to double down on the racism so that nobody would take it seriously.

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    2 months ago

    The American national anthem, please.

    It’s such a terrible song, and it keeps getting sung in weird ways by bad singers. I swear, as a non-american I’m subjugated to it more often than all other national anthems combined, including my own.

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    2 months ago

    Baby it’s cold outside.

    Seems to be America’s favourite rape song played for the entire cold season.

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      2 months ago

      I was under the impression that this is a misconception about the songs meaning.

      At the time women would be expected to say no outright and go home. To say they have to leave, instead of having autonomy and being promiscuous.

      So in the song the woman wants to stay but is following the societal expectation to say they need to leave and the man is giving her all the excuses she could use to explain why she didnt leave, so people wouldnt suspect her of staying over to have sex.

      These days that expectation is not there so the song is interpreted in a different way and sounds super rapey.

      To be clear. I am not advocating for this old way of thinking, nor am i saying i know the explanation i have given is true. I am only telling what i have heard and felt like to me that actually makes a lot of sense in the right context.

      Basically, women wanted to be able to have sex with anyone they wanted, but people would look down on them for doing it. So, to avoid being ostracised, they would avoid situations like that.

      But again. I may be wrong. I have just heard this explanation and wanted to share.

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        2 months ago

        It was also written to be performed at the end of a party when they were telling the guests they didn’t have to go home but they couldn’t stay there

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          this song is a perfect example of tone deafness where a person doesn’t take a few steps back to reread how their lyrics land in pretty much most scenarios it is going to be received . Particularly in situations at the time for gender and how consent was pretty much frowned upon as a form of slut shaming or that men don’t have to take ‘no’ as an answer.

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    2 months ago

    Given the fact that your question has caused The Evil Song to get stuck in my head, Sorcerer, I feel you are obligated to erase “It’s a Small World” from my mind and from existence.

    Please and thank you.

    • PLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I firmly believe you have identified the correct answer.

      A lot of other song suggestions in this thread are actually decent and come down to taste, but this fucking song came to mind immediately.