As we’ve already established, PopWatch generally approves of Janet Jackson’s comeback single "Feedback."
However, Christine Fenno just pointed out that the song does include one of the most unfortunate lyrics of Ms. Jackson’s career: "Cause my swag is serious/Something heavy like a first-day period."
(Pause for chuckling/gagging. Insert your own "Miss Jackson if you’re nasty" joke here.)
Is this, as our headline suggests, the worst lyric in recent memory? Or, can you quote another line that tops it? Oh yeah, we totally dare you.
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That’s gross. Why would anyone want to sing about that???
Isn’t this the 3rd straight Janet Jackson album to contain a “comeback single”? She’s like J. Lo–you get to a certain age and the sex kitten/dance diva stuff isn’t believable anymore. She should hang it up.
It may be a bad lyric but it’s gonna get all the attention which is exactly what she (she=record company execs) wants. And the last 2 albums had no comeback singles ’cause if I remember correctly both “I Want You” (a great song) and “Call on Me” (not a great song) were not marketed well and were flops.
I still can’t get over will.i.am singing “T to the A to the S-T-E-Y, girl you tasty” in Fergie’s “Fergalicious.” You can’t just change the spelling of a word so it fits the rhythm of your song!
I actually really loved this song–downloaded it, talked it up to all of my friends, put it on a New Year’s Eve playlist… and then someone heard that during a New Year’s party and said “Wait, rewind that!” and we all listened to it and gagged at the same time. I can’t listen to the song now. No offense, but referring your “swag” to a first day period is just….. NASTY.
Haha, YES: that Hilary Duff song that’s a theme song for some MTV show. “Trying to fit a square into a circle, was my life.” what!??? My friends and I always laughed when that came on.. what does that even mean?
WTF???????????????
This is really in the song???
Actually I was kind of like man, did she just say that…but hey I’ll still play this cut. After all, it’s nothing like that group that sang “I Touch Myself” or Marcy Playground’s “I smell Sex and Candy, yeah, mmm”. I could think of bunches worse full song rather than that 2 seconds for Janet to get that line out.
That’s probably the worst I’ve ever heard, but all of Fergie’s lyrics are ridiculous. And as much as I want to like Kelly Clarkson, hers are always totally clunky (“I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone me”)
What about that damn Next (remember them) song that was all about getting an erection because someone was dancing too close to them?
The stupidest lyrics I’ve *ever* heard were early in 2007 in a song that many critics ended up putting on their “best of” list for the year! I’m still dumbfounded! It’s from Mims’s “This Is Why I’m Hot”:
I’m hot cause I’m fly.
You ain’t ’cause you’re not.
I think Mensa and the MacAurthur Grant Foundation showed up at his door for those brilliant insights.
My co-workers and I were just talking about how ridiculous “This is Why I’m Hot” at work!
I’m sorry, but Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” is just ridiculous. “You’re like a tattoo, I’ll always have you…” barf.
I am a country fan but there are TONS of questionable lyrics. I don’t even know where to start. All the lyrics in Rascal Flatts “Me And My Gang”.
Yeah, Janet hasn’t been doing so well since she got together with Jermaine Dupris or is that just a coincidence with timing?
My favorite three worst lyrics of all time:
“Pink, it’s like red but not quite” – Aerosmith. Someone learned about colours in school!
“Maybe go to my place and just kick it like tae bo” – Akon. Everytime this song came on, this line made me laugh. Do people still do tae bo?
“You can meet me at the mall, it’s going down” – I can’t remember who sings this song, but it was on the radio constantly for a while a couple of years ago. Fighting at the mall is so high school.
Special mention to Van Halen’s “Hot shoe, burning down the avenue”
I happened to catch the lyric when I heard the song yesterday–and like Vicky, at first I was like, gross! WTBleep?! And then, like Junior, I realized it was a marketing ploy. She probably could have said something less… graphic. But that’s not how Janet is working it these days, I guess.
Ah, Akon and “Smack That”. Loads of goodies in that song.
I think Cisqo’s (sp?) “thong song” is just one horrible lyric repeated over and over again. Oh and “Destiny’s Child” “bootylicious”: “My body’s too bootylicious…” and the lyric about jelly.
Crank That (Soulja Boy). Worst song and lyrics of all time! What is he saying about Superman?
I did get a bit of secondary embarrasment when I realized what Janet’s lyric was! I mean really… when is she going to give up the vixen thing.. I can’t wait til she 60 and trying to standle a 20 yr old on stage in concert in Vegas!
How recent is recent? If we’re using that term loosely, I think I have a contender for a lyric grosser than Janet’s. In that Live song “Lightning Crashes,” the guy actually sings, “Lightning crashes/a new mother cries/her placenta falls to the floor.”
Her placenta! falls!!! to the floor!!!!!
Now, you can debate whether placenta is grosser than a heavy menstrual flow (and yes, mom, they are all part of the beautiful magicalness of being a woman), but Janet’s period was just there, and this placenta is FALLING! to the FLOOR!
I realize I lose points for not choosing a more recent song, but the title did just say “recent memory” and this has been in my memory grossing me out for YEARS.
She really never ceases to amaze me with her tackiness. She really is low-class, I don’t care how much money or fame she has.
She’s not even being accurate. The second day is always the worst!
o please, get serious people!!! 80% of lyrics these days are horrible with no substance. Get me bodied? superman that hoe? lip gloss? i mean the list can go on for days. i just don’t have that kind of time. Leave janet alone. people always got to find something to criticize her for…
CRANK IT UP GIVE IT TO ME C’MON,
CRANK IT UP GIVE IT TO ME C’MON
I WANT SOME “FEEDBACK”, I LUVS IT, I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE LYRICS EVERY ARTIST USING SOME TYPE OF CATCHY LYRIC, I LUVS IT WHEN YOU ARE DANCING YOU DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT THE LYRICS FEEDBACK MAKES MUH GO WILD WHEN I HEAR IT IN THE CLUB!!
There have been so many lame lyrics over the years that this one almost doesn’t stand out. If her “swag” or whatever is that heavy, I guess we’ll just have to take her word for it. Despite the menstrual reference, this song has me BUMPIN’ every time it comes on. That she can still come with something like this after like being in the business forever is pretty amazing. She deserves her spin as much as anyone out there. It’s too easy to say that “older” artists have had their day. Prince, Janet, Madonna, Annie Lennox, etc… are 80’s icons who have stood the test of time and who SHAME a lot of the younger acts who emulate them in live performances.
Do your thing Janet ! You have unexpectedly made me dance to one of your songs again. What rhymes with uterus?
oh please, it is not degrading.
just keeping it real
i love Janet’s Feedback!
i definitely just threw up in my mouth…a lot. but i think missy elliott has the most disgusting lyrics of all, not that i don’t still listen to them (her beats are hot). Just to name one in “Pass the dutch” she says “Shake your ass till it stink.” WHAT?
How about any song with the words “b*tch” “ho” ‘or “n*gger?” Oh gee, I’d guess that would be damn near ALL of them! The people who are offended or upset about this line in the song are completely and utterly ridiculous–we live in an era where Viagra commercials come on TV regularly, women ask other women about getting that “not so fresh feeling,” and people freely discuss their issues with lack of bladder control–all before noon! How the heck is “heavy like a first day period” worse than any of that? Give me a break! Mandi, sweetie, I’m assuming that you’re a female (of course nowadays you could be a dude in drag), but if you aren’t comfortable with your menstrual cycle by now, perhaps you should take a break from writing articles for EW & go get some intensive therapy. Please people, grow up!