{"id":1093,"date":"2007-12-31T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:21:42","slug":"let-s-ring-out-2007-with-the-lamest-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-ring-out-2007-with-the-lamest-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Ring Out 2007 With the Lamest Song in the History of Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of music I don&#8217;t like &#8211; and damming faults that I find with a range of artists, but while deciding to look into whatever became of <strong>Billy Squier<\/strong>, I stumbled across what might be the worst song in the history of rock. Perhaps some of you know it, &#8220;Lady With a Tenor Sax&#8221;, a collaboration between Squier and <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2b1SWmH-BM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat the <em>hell<\/em> motivated this? How much <strong>coke<\/strong> must these guys have done before lowering their inhibitions enough to crank out something this lame? If the song itself isn&#8217;t bad enough, try reading through the lyrics.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lyrics:<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been faking my past<br \/>\nBut now I know my connection is coming through, yeah<br \/>\nI put my ass on the line, hey<br \/>\nHey baby, so what&#8217;s new<br \/>\nI told you<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t look now, I&#8217;m inching up behind<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look now, in the creases of your mind<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t stop now, we&#8217;re moving much to fast<br \/>\nGonna find out where you draw the line<br \/>\nHere she comes now, so divine (hey come on, come on, come on, she&#8217;s so relaxed baby)<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax, hey<br \/>\nCool baby drives a mean Cadillac<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax, yeah<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re gonna meet her on her own level, don&#8217;t look back<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look back, don&#8217;t look back<br \/>\n&#8216;Cos the lady&#8217;s got a tenor sax<\/p>\n<p>She jives, she&#8217;s so bad<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a tango with a big, big business sense<br \/>\nShe had it<br \/>\nOh, oh, dee la dum bum bay oh<br \/>\nBah, ba-dee, dum<br \/>\nUm bum da bee bum<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t walk now, you&#8217;ll slip into the past<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t walk now, can nothin&#8217; ever last<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look now, the chips are gonna fall<br \/>\nSooner or later you&#8217;re gonna be mine<\/p>\n<p>Here she comes now, oh, yeah, yeah<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax, yeah<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax, yeah<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nWait til the next time<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t walk now, you&#8217;ll slip into the past<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t walk now, can nothin&#8217; ever last<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look now, the chips are gonna fall<br \/>\nSooner or later you&#8217;re gonna be mine<\/p>\n<p>Here she comes now, oh, yeah, yeah<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax, yeah<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nA soul baby cuts a groove on her back<br \/>\nLady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nShe looks, she loves, she walks into the fire<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nFight it over<\/p>\n<p>Lady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s snide, she cried, she begged you&#8217;d come alive<br \/>\nLady with a tenor sax<br \/>\nYeah, yeah<\/p>\n<p>Lady with a tenor sax<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen, it&#8217;s not like I ever had any expectations for Squier, and besides freely acknowledging the vocal chutzpah of Freddie Mercury, the only singer who could fit the bombast of Queen, I never considered him as as any kind of spiritual guide, but this is really bad. Can I attribute this to his bravery, his comfort with trying anything once?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AC8-YgnGwTc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Alexmagic<\/strong>, <strong>Kpdexter<\/strong>, or <strong>HVB<\/strong>, perhaps you can put this into perspective for me. I didn&#8217;t think humans could produce anything this bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of music I don&#8217;t like &#8211; and damming faults that I find with a range of artists, but while deciding to look into whatever became of Billy Squier, I stumbled across what might be the worst song in the history of rock. Perhaps some of you know it, &#8220;Lady With a Tenor <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-ring-out-2007-with-the-lamest-song\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}