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A sorcerer appears and states that they will erase any one song from existence - which song would you choose? (lemmy.world)

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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~

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What a total waste of incredible cosmic power! Tell me oh rotund and couch astride sorcerer; why focus on such shitty, spammy schools of magic?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All I want for Christmas - Mariah Carrey

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

The United States of America National Anthem.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Too easy.

"Tubthumping" by "Chumbawumba". It is easly the most annoying and obnoxious song, and the lyrics are so stupid.

IF the wizard feels particularly generous, I have more:

"Hey Soul Sister" by "Train"
"All Summer Long" by "Kid Rock"
"Dragostea Din Tei" by "O-Zone" (the maya hee maya ho song)

There are so many more, but just thinking of them makes me angry, so I'll stop.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know you, but I hope you stub your pinky toe. Tubthumping is a goddamned global treasure and you're a bad person for disagreeing.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Oh, probably this song or one like it:

Yes, it was a real song, published in London in 1900.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That god damned Megan Trainor Gucci song. I hate it so much.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Twist, by Chubby Checker. Just to see if partnered dancing survives without it

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"Last Christmas"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely that one. Since I can select the radio station without taking the hands of the steering wheel, it is "next station" as soon as it starts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No idea how it's called but the one that goes like "maya hi,maya ho, maya ha, maya ha ha"

I hate that song with a burning passion of thousand suns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was thinking i can't think of a song, but yeah that would be kinda neat if it was just gone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, this is what's below this post in my feed.

https://slrpnk.net/post/13737444

Also, it's "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone and you better not erase it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, yeah, I saw that post before finding this question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Title and all? I would pick . If anyone disagrees, you're lying.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Feliz Navidad
Bad Day (Daniel Powter)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

That boy George song. Abba, maybe. Awful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude Looks Like a Lady by Aerosmith

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The logical search goes ..Mexico. accordion music. Then you pick from there. Specially the ones about the drug lords would be better removed.

But if we could go back in time and find whoever brought accordions over the puddle...you sonobabich. You think you had a good life since you're already gone, but one day we'll go back to fix the leaks on your boat.

It's a toss up between accordions and trumpets. One of them is gonna go titan or titanic first thing if I get to travel back in time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If the accordion didn't exist neither would Weird Al, and that's not a universe I can permit anyone to live in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Weird Al is great. We could just isolate the accordion to the north American region.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

My friend, the trumpet, well played, is one of the finest and most expressive instruments to ever grace earkind, how could you feel this way? Can deliver ~every possible emotion, a range of volume starting at "drunken disappointed groan" and reaching "holy shit ouch stop", only got a few little twiddly bits, fits in your hand. Shiny.

Defend your position!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

American Pie - Don McLean It never goes away.... it's everywhere!

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