Worst Analogy You've Heard in a Song.

Yep, just as the title says. I've heard some pretty ridiculous analogies in songs that make you wonder if the writer was having a creative-block. I mean, I understand what the analogy is suppose to convey but still--- ridiculous. Also, state why you think it's ridiculous. (sorry if this is in the wrong forum.)

Here's a most recent one:

Katy Perry: Firework
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind.

Why it's ridiculous (to me):

Plastic bags caught in the wind is usually loose trash. Sorry, but I've never felt like loose trash caught in the wind.

By plastic bag, she basically does mean trash, or at least worthless.
The line is basically saying, do you feel worthless as you go through life

The analogy does its job fine. Especially since millions of people have that line memorized

I can't think of any analogies myself though :/

"I'm gonna miss you like a child misses her blanket."

Some Fergie song I heard once on the radio and promptly shut off, never to hear again.

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I'm not sure if this is the worst or best analogy I've heard in a song so I'll just go ahead and post it here in either case:

"The sales climb high through the garbage pail sky like a giant dildo crushing the sun."

Originally Posted by feigned angst

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LMAO that's hilarious. Thanks, first good laugh of the day.

Originally Posted by feigned angst

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Hahahaha. That's great. Love the one about the 400 lb Puerto Rican.

Originally Posted by Aila8

Yep, just as the title says. I've heard some pretty ridiculous analogies in songs that make you wonder if the writer was having a creative-block. I mean, I understand what the analogy is suppose to convey but still--- ridiculous. Also, state why you think it's ridiculous. (sorry if this is in the wrong forum.)

Here's a most recent one:

Katy Perry: Firework
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind.

Why it's ridiculous (to me):

Plastic bags caught in the wind is usually loose trash. Sorry, but I've never felt like loose trash caught in the wind.

I believe that lyric is a reference to the movie American Beauty:


Worst I've heard recently has been something along the line of
"Ten thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs"

I'm not even sure if they were going for analogy, it spewed analogy to me. A cheesy pile of excrement, to the level of a Halmark card.

Originally Posted by Carbodarah

By plastic bag, she basically does mean trash, or at least worthless.
The line is basically saying, do you feel worthless as you go through life

The analogy does its job fine. Especially since millions of people have that line memorized

I can't think of any analogies myself though :/

Well, it's pretty obvious what she is alluding too. That said, a good analogy or metaphor has a poetic sensibility about it, it's not just about how directly it refers to something. There are more poetic ways of communicating that you feel worthless going through life.... the plastic bag metaphor could work in a cynical poetic piece with rather crude imagery (plastic bags, ruined buildings) but in the context of her songs it just looks drab. I tend to take the plastic bag metaphor literally to draw attention to the shitness of the simile. Everyone makes shit similes though, it's forgivable.

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Originally Posted by susurration

Well, it's pretty obvious what she is alluding too. That said, a good analogy or metaphor has a poetic sensibility about it, it's not just about how directly it refers to something. There are more poetic ways of communicating that you feel worthless going through life.... the plastic bag metaphor could work in a cynical poetic piece with rather crude imagery (plastic bags, ruined buildings) but in the context of her songs it just looks drab. I tend to take the plastic bag metaphor literally to draw attention to the shitness of the simile. Everyone makes shit similes though, it's forgivable.

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