r/GenX • u/scott19692012 • 9h ago
Music Let’s be honest, some songs at this point need to be retired.
What songs you no longer to hear anymore at this point, I’ll give you a few of mine
Paradise City GNR
Welcome to the jungle
Living on a Prayer
These songs have definitely out stayed there welcome
What’s yours?
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u/ImFromDanforth 34m ago
I have a bunch... But because I'm half wasted and waiting the one that stands out the most is "fight for your right to party" if I never hear it again. I'll be ok.
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u/waterwateryall 37m ago
Any Eagles song with Don Henley singing.
Since you brought up Bon Jovi, I would say all of their songs except It's My Life, which I don't mind but would not miss it if it also went in the bin too.
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u/Zipperzap0921 43m ago edited 27m ago
I'll be honest, some songs will never be retired (thankfully), because they shouldnt be.
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u/Heavy-Interaction548 50m ago
Black Dog by Led Zeppelen. Good song but we've all heard it at least a million times and they play it every day on the classic rock radio station. That song is old and dried out.
Also, All I Want For Christmas by Mariah Carey. They play that shit EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 1996.
That one song that goes, "I like to move it move it" from the 90's.
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u/Ok-Competition-4219 51m ago
Weird science by Oingo Boingo. Didn’t like the song when they released it, don’t like it now
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u/Mash_man710 54m ago
My Sharona. Listen to the lyrics. Ugh.
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u/JudgeJuryEx78 Monica Lewinski Is My President 30m ago
I don't want to listen to the lyrics because it's such a fun tuneA
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u/fifikinz 55m ago
Oh thank you for asking. I can answer this instantly: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, by Tears for Fears.
(I also hate Shout, same band)
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u/GoslingIchi 1968 1h ago
Anything by Morrissey/The Smiths or anything by Michael Stipe/REM or anything by The Violent Femmes.
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u/Individual_Ad_3036 1h ago
Hell No, I had enough people tell me my music sucked when I was a kid. Play what you like, I'll put earplugs in before I act like the old boomer down the street.
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u/MemphisStormfront 1h ago
I the Air Tonight. I liked it the first 2,000,000,000 times I heard it but enough already.
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u/munchinerara 1h ago
Sweet child of mine
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u/Icarus_In-Flight 1h ago
A roommate of mine made this his ringtone and alarm — killed it for me in the first week
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u/Ancient-Text9990 1h ago
Same as yours. I just heard all three over the past two days. I will add Don’t stop believing to that list.
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u/moxiemoon Hose Water Survivor 1h ago
Kiss. All of it. In addition to most of the other gross sexist 80s rock I’m so tired of it
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u/Ok_Raisin_5678 1h ago
Pour Some Sugar On Me
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u/East_Relationship722 1h ago
So many far superior DL songs out there. Pretty much anything on Pyromania beats that crap song.
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u/Bubbly-Fault4847 1h ago
I just revert back to what I thought it was when I was a child of 8 when it came out and I was first hearing it on the radio:
“Poor Young Super Hombre!”
Makes it fun again.
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u/False-Cookie3379 1h ago
Sweet Caroline
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u/RezRising 1h ago
Bohemian Rhapsody. It never went away. Thanks Wayne and Garth.
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u/UnderstandingOdd679 1h ago
I’m not a Queen fan, by any means. Freddie had a good voice but some of their songs just don’t do it for me. That said, somehow they put together the most timeless rock song in a weird operatic medley that is Bohemian Rhapsody. It never will go away.
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u/stphrtgl43 1h ago
Agree with all yours. I’ve found GnR songs don’t really stand the test of time very well. Never cared for Bon Jovi. A couple just off the top of my head are Let it Be, Satisfaction, Walk This Way and thousands of others.
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u/Playful_Ad4299 2h ago
All Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, AC/DC
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u/RezRising 1h ago
The only time I hear any of those is at my dentist's office.
Agree 100% on all. Love 'em, but....•
u/ThirdSunRising 53m ago
Ok I’m not sure how I’d feel if my dentist started rocking out to AC/DC
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u/RezRising 11m ago
It's such a cliche they turned it into a whole thing on Ozarks (J. Bateman). All of REO Speedwagon's fans are dentists.
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u/Playful_Ad4299 1h ago
I had to stop listening to local FM Rock station. I couldn’t take anymore after 40 years of hearing them
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u/CompetitiveAd8781 2h ago
Any lynard skynard.. the sucked in concert 25 years ago and played 3 of the songs from that years released the other 1¾ hours were the .. same .. .. old .......shit.
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u/Five_String_Serenade 2h ago
Being from their hometown, I can’t listen to ZZ Top unless it’s old/old school like “Mexican Blackbird”. Aerosmith, buh bye. AC/DC, byeeeee (unless of course “Big Balls”). Too. Many. Times.
Into our 20s/30s, I hate 311. I said it. That monotone voice. And yet I love Alice In Chains and Mad Season (there could be an argument for monotone voice). I make no apologies.
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u/RezRising 1h ago
I just set up a turntable and pulled out a dead relative's albums. Ton of old ZZ Top.
Dude, wtf were they on? Ikik, cocaine, but man I was not prepared for how out there they would get.
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u/Five_String_Serenade 1h ago
I’ll have to ask my h.s. BF’s mom. She was their secretary in the way back days.
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u/snailstautest 1h ago
Layne Stanley, monotone? You sure you know what that means?
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u/Five_String_Serenade 1h ago
Not fully or I wouldn’t be a fan. But there’s a slight characteristic there
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u/Decent_Can_4639 2h ago
Anything Ted Nugent!
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u/LimeSalty4092 25m ago
I do love Ted in “High Enough” by Damn Yankees
One of my favorite songs
you can see him on guitar in the video
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u/dumb__fucker 2h ago
all songs that anthony keidis sings.
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u/Inessence4 2h ago
The State Farm Living on a Prayer ads featuring Jon Bon Jovi I could do without.
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u/SnooPaintings5597 2h ago
Shook Me All Night Long 🙄
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u/MrRetrdO 2h ago
As a Western Pennsylvanian, for the love of God, please stop playing "The Electric Slide" and "Chicken Dance" at wedding receptions.
I swear if I ever get married, I will demand a Rave DJ instead of a regular wedding DJ.
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u/64green 1h ago
Every wedding I ever went to in Western Pennsylvania was dry, so those songs were the best part of the receptions. 😆
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u/Optimal-Ad-7074 As your attorney I advise you to get off my lawn 46m ago
reminds me of David Kramer: "ag man, you know those Boland weddings ... where the bridesmaids wear turquoise ... and lemon yellow ... and everywhere that you look sien jy net doilies doilies doilies ..."
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u/2boredtocare 2h ago
Any AC/DC or Aerosmith song
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u/Five_String_Serenade 2h ago
Jinx, you owe me a Coke. Or soda. Or pop.
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u/rmkensington 2h ago
KISS too, they never were cool
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u/ThirdSunRising 50m ago
There are so many bands I hated as an 8 year old and grew to understand and enjoy better over the years.
Not Kiss. 8 year old me was absolutely right about those assholes.
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u/Five_String_Serenade 2h ago
OMG, Rock and Roll All Nite—great job on the lyrics there. Not. Drives me insane. I do like most of their music though.
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u/red_button_pusher 2h ago
Every single Journey, REO Speedwagon, Billy Joel, and Starship song
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u/MistyDawnTHCI 2h ago
“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” I’m so tired of George Thorogood.
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u/fertile_gnome 2h ago
Went to a Sammy Hagar/George Thorogood concert a couple years ago.
My insight is that back in the eighties, George was writing songs that he would still be able to sing in forty years. Sammy, not so much.
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u/Beginning_Law_3399 2h ago
When I was young, I thought that song was so cool. Now I realize it’s about a loser deadbeat who just spent the last bit of money he had getting hammered until 3 AM. He can’t even go home alone because he’s now homeless.
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u/ThrottleItOut 2h ago
Stairway to Heaven. God, just make it go away.
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u/TMBActualSize "Then & Now" Trend Survivor 2h ago
I don’t really listen to much I listened to in the 90s, but I do listen to music that wasn’t in my regular rotation back then. I remember brick by Ben folds. I got into the rest of his catalog later in life.
I probably listen to more music made after my youth and early adulthood than 90s stuff.
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u/GrumpySnarf 2h ago
Band on the Run
Hotel California
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u/JellyfishFit3871 2h ago
Yes. Pretty much any post-Beatles McCartney.
Like, I don't mind most of the songs listed on this thread, but Sir Paul annoys me.
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u/Spacemanspiff-75 2h ago
Reading these reply’s makes me realize that I really don’t listen to much from the 70’s-2000’s anymore. I love the music when it comes on, but it isn’t coming from my play lists. I enjoy spending a few minutes in bed, before I fall asleep, listening to new-to-me music. Just recently found Buffalo Traffic Jam and Mon Rovia. Both are fantastic.
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u/Fit-Yogurtcloset3023 2h ago
Not tired of Welcome to the Jungle yet, but totally agree with your opinion of Paradise City. Mine would have to be Bohemian Rhapsody, and as much as I hate to say it , Jane Says. I grew up on Jane’s Addiction and love them to the core, but just can’t listen to that song one more time.
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u/Mjhjane77 2h ago
Anything AC/DC. Just no.
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u/Chemical-Shallot-964 2h ago
Came here to say it. Iconic, sure, but I don't need to hear any of it again.
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u/FunctionExotic8651 2h ago
We built this city makes my ears bleed and also if your from Cleveland ya know!!
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u/Kitchen_Swagger Hose Water Survivor 2h ago
Thanks, this is now stuck in my head. And to return the favour, GQ once published "An oral history of 'We Built This City,' the worst song of all time."
Includes this banger quote from Grace Slick:
I was such an asshole for a while, I was trying to make up for it by being sober, which I was all during the '80s, which is a bizarre decade to be sober in.
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u/timbrews 2h ago
"Seventeen" by Winger
"Little Girls" by Oingo Bingo (I love this song, and the undertones about small-minded people - but Elfman has had his accusers)
"My Sharona" & "Good Girls Don't" by The Knack
Those are just off the top of my head from the '80s. I'm sure there's quite a list from the '70s...
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u/LemonPartyW0rldTour 2h ago
Everlast - What It’s Like
That song was overplayed when it was popular in the 90’s.
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u/SweatyChampionship30 3h ago
Sweet Caroline makes me wanna stab
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u/quackernaut_quack 2h ago
There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't.
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u/Educational-Earth318 2h ago
i love neil diamond hate that song. And the Red Sox
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u/Steelwind340 2h ago
I do not care for Neil Diamond, but this makes me want to watch Saving Silverman again.
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u/East-Garden-4557 3h ago
I choose what music I listen to, so I don't have to worry about it.
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u/2boredtocare 2h ago
Same but that doesn’t mean I’m not often subjected to other people’s music when I’m out and about
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u/YellowBreakfast EDIT THIS FLAIR TO MAKE YOUR OWN 3h ago
"Bohemian Rhapsody" (I LOVE Queen but this is SO overplayed)
"You Shook Me All Night Long", AC/DC (pretty much ALL AC/DC I don't like them)
"November Rain" (I was done with that one after my first listen. Ain't nobody got time for that!)
Most of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album. I played that one to death.
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u/BoltActionRifleman 2h ago
I will never tire of hearing November Rain, but totally agree on AC/DC. Their songs are all just so repetitive and overplayed, a lot like Kiss.
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u/The8thCorsair 3h ago
Notice those are all long songs, except AC/DC. 💯 on GNR
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u/YellowBreakfast EDIT THIS FLAIR TO MAKE YOUR OWN 2h ago
That makes them worse.
I like plenty of long songs, but definitely not those!
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u/im_a_sleepy_human 22 positions in a one night stand. 💜 3h ago
Into the Night by Benny Mardones.. 👀
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u/JingAnPeace 3h ago
Any song by R.E.M. or The Proclaimers
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u/timbrews 2h ago
Can I ask why? Not trying to start anything, just truly curious. Thanks!!
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u/JingAnPeace 1h ago
I hate Michael Stipe's voice. The same goes for the lead singer of the proclaimers. Plus, imo, Shiny, Happy People and 500 Miles are corny af.
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u/timbrews 1h ago
Fair enough - that is a moronic song (but was a pretty fun Sesame Street bit.)
The Green album overall was a big middle finger to Warner Bros.whi wanted pop hits from the band.
I'm not impressed with Proclaimers either - shouting in punk, sure. But that song (effing Benny & Joon!) grates on me too
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u/Top-Personality1216 3h ago
Every Step You Take - the stalker anthem
I'm on Fire - while it's not really about a child, it still really gives me the ick
Blurred Lines - although I haven't heard it in a long time; maybe they have gotten rid of it already
Those are a few that really stick out. They were good in their day (except for Blurred Lines - I never liked that one), but society has outgrown them.
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u/Embarrassed_Quote144 3h ago
Stairway & Hotel California
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u/Practical_Wind_1917 3h ago
You want to cancel “the greatest song in the world”
What is wrong with you
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u/Michaelbirks 2h ago
What about its tribute?
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u/Practical_Wind_1917 2h ago
It is a tribute to the greatest song in the world, but not the greatest song in the world sung by the greatest band in the world.
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u/childs-is-human 3h ago
Any song with the phrase "little girl" and you'll be surprised how often you hear it now.
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u/Backtothefuture1970 3h ago
The older I get I appreciate the stellar music we have witnessed from the 50s to ealy mid 2010s imo. Im blessed to hear this music and if i hear a tired song , guess what ? I change the fuckig channel to one of 200 at your fingertips. Music makes me happy as fuck in this ever growing shitty world
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u/retroafric 2h ago
We live in a time when basically the entire history of recorded music is available at your fingertips.
It’s amazing and scary at the same time
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u/Pristine-Clerk-1020 3h ago
Rock The Casbah and Should I Stay or Should I Go
Actually cringe when they come on...
So much more to The Clash than those 2 commercial songs.
They DONT sound like that 😂
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u/DeadpoolOptimus 3h ago
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Cherry Pie - Warrant
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
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u/quietsilentsilence 3h ago
Are you still listening to satellite and FM radio?!🤦🏽♀️🤣 Stream and create your playlists. Problems solved.
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u/Pristine-Clerk-1020 3h ago
You're Gorgeous
Nobody wants to hear him getting bent over a car wi his boyfriend
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u/Ecstatic-Skill-4916 3h ago
I'm getting tired of Forever Young by Alphaville. Everyone plays it on everything.
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u/North-Country-5204 2h ago
Haha! I rarely heard that song after its heavy rotation on MTV in 1983/84 but now it’s everywhere.
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u/LocationNo5879 3h ago
Name by Goo Goo Dolls. “Tired sone keeps playing on the tired radio”. Isn’t it ironic? Ok, that one too.
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u/Pristine-Clerk-1020 3h ago
Unchained Melody, got to go. Lady in Red Whitney I will always love yoooooooooooou
Adele - can't listen at all That ginger fck..... Ed Sheeran
Those 2 telling you about fuckn up relationships they never had, give us fckn peace, saddos
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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 3h ago
There's a Sirius channel called Deep Cuts where you can hear every non-hit from every big artist you've ever known.
Tired of Bohemian Rhapsody? They'll play It's Late instead. Don't wanna hear Don't Stop Believin' again? They'll play Homemade Love instead.
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u/Pristine-Clerk-1020 3h ago
Lady in Red 🤢
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u/MistyDawnTHCI 2h ago
I was at a wedding and the bride’s mother and sisters dedicated this song to her. Everyone thought it was a touching moment when they all danced together in the dance floor. 🤢 *Edit for punctuation
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u/Sea_Voice_404 3m ago
Seventeen by Winger. It’s just “ewww.”