What Did You Expect? - Now That's What I Call a Protest! Lyrics

This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
It’s parasitical
Rarely political
Topping the charts
With something so fucking superficial
If this is in I’m out
I’ll go against the grain
If that’s what the world wants
Then I’ll no longer play the game
I’m really sick of it
Almost always sounds the same
Ghost writing prevalent
It’s driving me fucking insane
I guess it’s such a shame
That I gave up trying to rhyme
Did I lose your attention?
Are these lyrics just a joke?
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
It feels like torture
Accompanied by greed
These record labels
Selling sex all over MTV
I may be ignorant
Won’t be a sycophant
I won’t sell out to
Feel just a little more significant
Written to be forgotten
Is the industry rotting?
Plagued by a fever it can’t sweat out
But it’s never stopping
I gave up trying to rhyme
But I’m a storyteller
If you think this is bad
Please tell me how the charts are better
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
Repetition will be your friend
Repeat again and again again
Now it’s time to move along
Fade out coming up in moment
Don’t write words for this next part
They won’t be audible anyway

This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
It’s parasitical
Rarely political
Topping the charts
With something so fucking superficial
If this is in I’m out
I’ll go against the grain
If that’s what the world wants
Then I’ll no longer play the game
I’m really sick of it
Almost always sounds the same
Ghost writing prevalent
It’s driving me fucking insane
I guess it’s such a shame
That I gave up trying to rhyme
Did I lose your attention?
Are these lyrics just a joke?
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
It feels like torture
Accompanied by greed
These record labels
Selling sex all over MTV
I may be ignorant
Won’t be a sycophant
I won’t sell out to
Feel just a little more significant
Written to be forgotten
Is the industry rotting?
Plagued by a fever it can’t sweat out
But it’s never stopping
I gave up trying to rhyme
But I’m a storyteller
If you think this is bad
Please tell me how the charts are better
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
You’ll need a beat to dance to
Here it goes 1234
Now it’s time to move along
The chorus can’t be too long
Catchy it needs to be as well
If you want it on the radio
This is the recipe for
Those songs like the ones you’ve heard before
Repetition will be your friend
Repeat again and again again
Now it’s time to move along
Fade out coming up in moment
Don’t write words for this next part
They won’t be audible anyway