Top 10 Pop Song Cliches

One of the many things I dislike about rap is how including a rap in a song suddenly makes it seem incredible. It is anything but that. Hip-hop influences often detract from the real purpose of music. They turn everything, from pop songs to electro songs, into shallow, egotistical, and meaningless entities of misplaced worship, regardless of whether the original song had a chance. If that doesn't disgust people, I don't know what would.

I think it's okay in some circumstances. Sometimes the rapper adds something where the song falls flat, and other times it's just a lot of unnecessary lyrics. Not EVERY song needs to have a rap version or featured rapper.

Don't give up. Believe in yourself. Crash through your limits. Never doubt your dreams can come true. You are the center of the world, born to rule it! Isn't this boring by now? Your dreams CANNOT come true in every case, and sometimes you HAVE to give up. I guess pop stars sell so many records because they believe they can sell this amount - since this is the method they're teaching us to achieve our goals.

I'm the only one who can. I just say these untrue words so I can gain fans of my work.

"I am the Lizard King, I can do anything." - Jim Morrison

You know, like We Can't Stop, Party in the USA, We Like to Party, Tik Tok, Last Friday Night - there are so many of them. I mean, those songs just never die. They're literal survivors!

Weezer wrote a song about partying. Let's not talk about it.

Tik Tok, We Can't Stop, Birthday. I get a hangover just by listening to the radio.

Once upon a time, John Lennon wanted to hold your hand. Then Mick Jagger wanted to spend the night with you. Now, Robin Thicke... well, he just wants to have raunchy sex.

Sex has been talked about in rap and rock too, you know? It's not just pop-exclusive. Even Country music has discussed the topic.

Yes! Can't love songs ever go away? Nope! Love songs are too popular and overrated. All they care about are sexy bodies and big boobs. That's not true love.

99% of all songs on the radio are people saying "baby, I want you" or making weird sex noises. I've noticed that pop songs always have a female moaning. Dude, kids are listening to that!

You know you're listening to a pop song about love when you rhymes with you.

The love theme itself is not a problem at all. It's one of the most common themes in the highest forms of poetry. The issue is the sub-par execution in pop songs.

Pop is NOT dubstep. Get that through your heads, mainstream pop artists.

I LOVE beat drops. They make the song easier to get into. I especially love those extremely pop/electronica songs that you hear in YouTube intros.

I hear it so much! In all the popular dance songs, it seems like they just run out of things to say, so they go with, "Raise your hands in the air! / Put your hands up! / Put your hands in the air!"

Fortunately, I don't hear this phrase in late 2010's pop music as much, but it used to be in practically every second pop song.

Wait a minute... That's my line during a robbery.

It even happens in some Iron Maiden songs (Heaven Can Wait, When Two Worlds Collide, The Red and the Black, Shadows of the Valley, Face in the Sand, The Trooper, The Wicker Man). Don't even get me started on Leprous (Foe, Contaminate Me, Leashes, Painful Detour, Below, The Last Milestone, Restless, Mediocrity Wins, Echo, The Valley). It would be easier to list which songs of theirs do not have a whaa aaa or oh oh vocal line. This is not exclusive to pop music.

This is officially known as the "Millennial Whoop" and is included in numerous songs on purpose to appeal to that age bracket.

Every hit Iggy Azalea has had includes some other artist.

Apparently, it's all about the butt these days.

Selena, Miley, Nicki, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Rihanna. Hoe it up, right?

Some artists, like Lady Gaga, use autotune for special effects. Ariana Grande uses it when she makes a mistake. But then there are artists like Ke$ha who use it to make up for not being able to sing.

As long as it's not over-exaggerated, I'm fine with autotune. But when it is, that's when it gets annoying.

Rap with autotune is okay, but in pop music?

To be honest, this doesn't really annoy me that much, but I guess it can be pretty irritating at times. I hear this a lot, especially in those love songs.

Why is this not in the top 5? Or the top 3? Obvious reasons why it should be.

And Justin Bieber probably broke the world record for that.

What is 4-chord progression, and what's so wrong with it?

I've never really minded 4-chord progression. Sometimes it works really well.

It should stop. But not in Walls Could Talk. It should stop in every other song, especially Don't Play, because it's an amazing song, but it says the f-word way too much.

I don't think profanity should be banned from all songs, but they should tone it down in many. Now, it's starting to sound like they're doing it just to seem "edgy."

My dad likes pop, so when he listens to music like this I ask, "Is this a boy... or a girl?"

Wait by Maroon 5. I'm sorry, Adam Levine.

You mean these high-pitched synth sounds?

They say their name because all pop songs sound the same, so they have to let you know who it is.

We get it. We know what your name is. You don't need to say it in every song.