What do you think are the funniest lyrics in normal seeming songs. I’ll get you started with two. This works best if you link to the time in the song the funny lyric appears via YouTube.
The lyrics for Operator are that a guy calls into an operator using a push button phone. He speaks really low and the operator says, ‘Can you speak up, I can just barely hear you’ in the most white person operator voice possible.
For Blow Your Mind, Redman says ‘now watch me freak it in Korean’. He then starts rapping in Korean, before giving up.
You can’t translate either of those to text, you just have to hear them.
“James Bond, Jackie Chan, and that bitch MacGyver”
I get that they’re just going for a rhyme but I love the version of history where the show MacGyver goes off the air in 1992. Yet 7 years later, Birdman and Mannie Fresh are sitting in a music studio in New Orleans, angry, gritting their teeth and saying back and forth “You know what? Richard Dean Anderson is a punk bitch and we’ve gotta let the world know” and the rest is history.
The Mountain Goats have a lot of funny lyrics amidst all the other stuff, but the one that immediately jumped to mind is “I know that one of us, I’m not saying who, has got rocks in her head” from Orange Ball of Hate.
