Songs stuck in my head, pt. 1

(This could be an endless series, 'cause the worst possible crap gets locked on in the jukebox of my mind.)

Today, I have what is, arguably, one of the worst songs ever to taint the airwaves of AM radio stuck in my head. You know what I'm talking about: "Loving You (Is Easy 'Cause You're Beautiful)." It's awful! It's insipid, it's inane, it's sleazy and it's seriously shallow. It's also physically painful to listen to in parts; this song could, conceivably, kill someone with a big enough metal plate in their head.

You can't do it for karaoke, which ... actually, might be a slightly mitigating factor, now that I think about it. That's the truly horrifying thing: the Minnie Ripperton version is the best version possible of this loathsome song. Check it out here, done with strings and a classically-trained soprano -- it's even worse! The sleaze seems oilier when sung with perfect diction!

Even the soul poured into it by a contestant in what I think might be a Vietnamese (?) version of American Idol can't redeem this icky song. I would give her points for effort, but I'm not sure this song should be sung ever, by anyone.

The MIDI version wants to do horrible, horrible things to you. Whether or not  you let it is between you and your God.

Hopefully, I've spread the disease-like meme of this song around far enough now that it will leave me in peace. It will be replaced with something equally obnoxious before too long, though.

Comments

[Melissa Tyler]

It was your crazy group in CS that would run around humming the theme song to I Dream of Jeannie just to get it everyone's head, like a virus. Karma, girl. Karma.

[Mindi]

I should have known better than to listen to any of those links... now that damn song will be stuck in my head for days....

But given that I'm also the mother of a toddler, I think it's quite possibly better than most of the music he likes, so I guess I can't really complain much!

[Teresa]

I get that song in my head all the time. I'll walk around the house like an idiot singing "La la la la la, La la la la la", in that terrible high pitchy voice.
Drives me nuts.

[Nella]

Wow, Maya Rudolph does look like her mom, Minnie.

[Catherine Cantieri]

OMG, Melissa. If you're right about the karma thing, I should batten down my mental hatches, 'cause we visited some awful songs on you poor beleaguered writers. (It's like that classic MST3K line, "The faces of those he's wronged come back to haunt him." What if the first lines of songs I've used to wrong others come back to haunt me? Eep!)