{"id":1000,"date":"2015-07-20T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:54:34","slug":"8-insanely-popular-songs-with-nonsensical-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/8-insanely-popular-songs-with-nonsensical-lyrics","title":{"rendered":"8 Insanely Popular Songs with Nonsensical Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Eureka! That&#8217;s the word&nbsp;we&nbsp;use when something meaningful is&nbsp;discovered. Sadly, there are some very popular songs that have no meaning for us to find. Here are a few songs that we feel worthy to be in our list of nonsensical song lyrics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/psy-gangnam-style-750x396.jpg\" alt=\"PSY - Gangnam Style with Translated Lyrics\" class=\"wp-image-1117\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gangnam Style by&nbsp;PSY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Gangnam Style<\/strong>&#8216; is what most people would call a music phenomenon. No one knows how it happened, but it did!\u00a0With over\u00a02 billion views on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"rank-math-link\">YouTube<\/a>, this song has most music artists feel like they simply try too hard to write lyrics that make\u00a0sense.\u00a0Maybe nonsense song lyrics is the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have taken the liberty to translate some of the&nbsp;lyrics from the &#8216;Gangnam Style&#8217; song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby<\/strong><\/em><br>\n<em> <strong>I\u2019m a man who knows a thing or two<\/strong><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>You know what I\u2019m saying<\/strong><\/em><br>\n<em> <strong>Oppa is Gangnam style<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>See what I mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Firework&nbsp;by&nbsp;Katy Perry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We can guess your answer, but still, we\u2019ll ask: <q>Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?<\/q>&nbsp;Not many people get this unique chance to feel like a plastic bag, but <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/katy-perry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Katy Perry<\/a><\/strong> really wanted to know if there are people out there feeling like that, so she made these lines the opening lines of her song <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/katy-perry-firework-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Firework<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>. We\u2019d like to say to Katy: No we&nbsp;haven&#8217;t!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"yt watch-title-container wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"The Interview - James Franco sing Katy Perry Firework\">Maybe&nbsp;<\/span>Kim Jong-un knows what it&nbsp;feels like to be a&nbsp;plastic bag<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Interview Kim Jong Un &quot;Katy Perry Firework&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wid7S3ttK9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sk8er Boi by&nbsp;Avril Lavigne<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes nonsensical lyrics are way too obvious to miss, like that line from <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/avril-lavigne-sk8er-boi-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sk8er Boi<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>: <q>He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?<\/q><em>&nbsp;<\/em>When someone is a boy, and the other person is a girl, can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/avril-lavigne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Avril Lavigne<\/a><\/strong> make it any more obvious? No, she can\u2019t&#8230; if we assume she\u2019s in an art gallery pointing at the paintings &#8211; one of a boy and the other of a girl. You know when a girl reads an article that a boy wrote&#8230; can it really be any more obvious? Of course, it can\u2019t \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/obviously.gif\" alt=\"obviously\" class=\"wp-image-1120\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You&#8217;re Beautiful&nbsp;by James Blunt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of obvious, do you know what else is obvious? When someone doesn\u2019t have a plan, but they somehow think they have it. We\u2019re talking about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/james-blunt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">James Blunt<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s plan from <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/james-blunt-youre-beautiful-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">You\u2019re Beautiful<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here\u2019re the problematic lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u2018I saw an angel.<br>\nOf that I&#8217;m sure.<br>\nShe smiled at me on the subway.<br>\nShe was with another man.<br>\nBut I won&#8217;t lose no sleep on that,<br>\n<strong>&#8216;Cause I&#8217;ve got a plan.<br>\n<\/strong>You&#8217;re beautiful.<br>\nYou&#8217;re beautiful. You&#8217;re beautiful, it&#8217;s true.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that the entire plan? She\u2019s beautiful? Sorry, James, we\u2019ll have to be blunt with you: that\u2019s not a plan. But the nonsense doesn\u2019t stop there, as the singer admits later in the song &#8211; he doesn\u2019t know what to do because he\u2019ll never be with that girl. Now, that sounds like he never had a plan to start with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/james-blunt-no-plan.gif\" alt=\"james blunt no plan\" class=\"wp-image-1108\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It\u2019s Like That&nbsp;by&nbsp;Mariah Carey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let\u2019s see if nonsensical lyrics can be found in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/mariah-carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mariah Carey\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> songs. Mariah Carey is a diva with a five-octave vocal range and unusual hand movements that you can see almost every time she sings. We love Mariah, and as you may have already read in one of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lyreka\/status\/613713218150748161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">our tweets<\/a> she\u2019s the smartest pop singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mariah Carey Smartest of Pop Stars? New Lyric Study Says &#39;Yes&#39; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/zEkH0CAvTO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/zEkH0CAvTO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lyrics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#Lyrics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/BmP0G21VmK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/BmP0G21VmK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lyreka (@Lyreka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lyreka\/status\/613713218150748161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">June 24, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her songs are emotional, inspiring, and with that angelic voice, Mimi makes everything sound so beautiful. There\u2019s one line though that we\u2019ll never understand from <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/mariah-carey-its-like-that-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">It\u2019s Like That<\/a>\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>These chickens is ash, and I&#8217;m lotion&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry, Mimi, we don\u2019t have a clue what that means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/mariah-carey-hand-movements.gif\" alt=\"mariah carey hand movements\" class=\"wp-image-1107\" title=\"\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If I Was Your Mother by Bon Jovi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, let\u2019s take a short break from nonsense lyrics, and go straight to a song that is complete nonsense in its entirety. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/bon-jovi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bon Jovi<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s song <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/bon-jovi-if-i-was-your-mother-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">If I Was Your Mother<\/a>\u2019<\/strong> takes nonsense to a completely new level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all, where did he get that idea? He sings about a girl he likes and doing what\u2019s the only logical thing to do \u2013 daydreaming about being her mother. There\u2019s got to be more to life than this&#8230; And just as we were ready to <q>let it go<\/q> (\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/idina-menzel-let-it-go-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Frozen<\/a>\u2019 style) we realized we couldn\u2019t do that. If John could somehow be that girl\u2019s mother, his feelings would have to change in an instant, or there would be some truly awkward feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One other thing, if John became the girl\u2019s mother, then her real mother would have to start recording CD\u2019s, as well as start going on tours with the rest of the Bon Jovi group members&#8230; or see a therapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I Gotta Feeling by&nbsp;Black Eyed Peas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The next thing we wanted to talk to you about is something we gotta feeling you\u2019ll find a bit nonsensical, and that is a very popular song &#8211; <strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/the-black-eyed-peas-i-gotta-feeling-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">I Gotta Feeling<\/a>\u2019<\/strong> by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/the-black-eyed-peas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Black Eyed Peas<\/a><\/strong>. We know for a fact that none of the members of the Black Eyed Peas is Jewish, yet the line <strong>\u2018mazel tov\u2019<\/strong> found its way into the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the song we\u2019re even more eager to discuss here with you might be the hardest ever song to explain. You know&#8230; \u2018the\u2019 song. T.H.E. or <strong>\u2018The Hardest Ever\u2019<\/strong> was supposed to be a great song in which you can hear <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/mick-jagger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mick Jagger<\/a><\/strong> rockin\u2019 like a rolling stone. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/jennifer-lopez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">J. Lo<\/a><\/strong> also joined the Black Eyed Peas with hopes this song would be a major hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is catchy, and we\u2019re sure many people like it, but it also has a lot of lyrics that have no sense at all&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s start with these:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018Now everybody want my recipe<br>\nTell a jealous chicken<br>\nI don&#8217;t know what the beef is&#8230;\u2019<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What beef? Did Will.I.Am take a cooking class he\u2019s not telling us about? Confused.I.Am \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We\u2019ll continue with the lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I get stacks of cash, you get cashews<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What if someone prefers peanuts to cashews? We\u2019re aware of the wordplay here though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And make our final point with these lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Imma make a beat to put the people in a coma&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we be afraid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE SCATMAN &#8211; Scatman John<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-embed-aspect-16-9\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) [Live on &#039;FestivalBar&#039;, Italy 1995]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4W3LrMWEPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve saved the best for last \u2013 some really catchy nonsensical&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/scatman-john-scatman-ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">THE SCATMAN&nbsp;lyrics<\/a> by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/scatman-john\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scatman John<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you enjoyed reading about nonsensical song lyrics, and if you know some other songs that don\u2019t make much sense, we\u2019d be happy if you shared them in the comment section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: This article&nbsp;was written for fun, and not to insult any of the artists mentioned in the article. So we hope you had a good laugh.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eureka! That&#8217;s the word&nbsp;we&nbsp;use when something meaningful is&nbsp;discovered. Sadly, there are some very popular songs that have no meaning for us to find. Here are a few songs that we feel worthy to be in our list of nonsensical song lyrics. Gangnam Style by&nbsp;PSY &#8216;Gangnam Style&#8216; is what most people&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/8-insanely-popular-songs-with-nonsensical-lyrics\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[198,206,204,194,195,205,203,201,200,36,202,196,208,197,207,199],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilations","tag-avril-lavigne","tag-black-eyed-peas","tag-bon-jovi","tag-firework","tag-gangnam-style","tag-i-gotta-feeling","tag-if-i-was-your-mother","tag-its-like-that","tag-james-blunt","tag-katy-perry","tag-mariah-carey","tag-psy","tag-scatman-john","tag-sk8er-boi","tag-the-scatman","tag-youre-beautiful"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}