1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die

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Was It Must Have Been Love by Roxette really a heartbreaking ballad… or the world’s most elegant song about farts? 💨

In this episode of 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, the boys dive into Roxette’s biggest hit, famous from Pretty Woman. We uncover:

The lost Christmas version of the song 🎄

Why it might secretly be about prostitutes & noxious gas

How the lyrics are mistranslated into unintentional comedy 🤯

Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, and the 1990s cocaine-fuelled movie machine 🎥

Plus the wildest YouTube comments, pink eye theories, and fart funnels you’ll ever hear.

If you love bad songs, unhinged tangents, and ruthless roasts of classic hits — this episode is for you.

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Let Her Cry was one of the biggest hits of the 90s — but does it actually hold up, or is it just a sloppy, tear-soaked mess? In this episode, we rip into Hootie & the Blowfish’s overblown ballad, from the melodramatic lyrics to the vocal delivery that made Darius Rucker a household name.

Is this song a heartfelt classic, or the definition of cringe? Listen in as we tear it apart and decide whether Let Her Cry deserves its place among the worst songs of all time.

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Alex Warren tried to pour his heart into Ordinary — but did he just give us a beige anthem for the TikTok era instead? We pull apart the lyrics, the delivery, and the over-produced vibe to see why this song feels less “relatable” and more… painfully average.

Join us as we debate whether Ordinary is a harmless pop track or an earworm that should’ve stayed on mute.

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Naughty By Nature’s O.P.P was a 90s hip hop anthem — catchy, controversial, and confusing as hell. But what does O.P.P even mean, and does the song actually hold up? In this episode of 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, we break down the lyrics, the innuendo, and why this track had parents panicking while kids sang along without a clue.

Expect comedy, wild tangents, and more shade than a bucket hat in 1991.

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Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man is called a masterpiece of folk music — but does it really deserve the hype? In this episode of 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die, we tear apart the lyrics, debate the meaning, and ask if Dylan was a genius poet or just mumbling nonsense with a guitar.

Expect comedy, hot takes, and a lot of shade thrown at one of the most “important” songs in music history.

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Golden – Huntr/x

Score: 7.4

Huntr/x’s Golden arrives like a motivational poster you’d find hanging in a gym bathroom, but set to a synth line that sounds vaguely like it was borrowed from a video game character’s redemption arc. It’s a song that insists on optimism with the ferocity of a Labrador that’s just discovered a tennis ball.

Musically, Golden shuffles between indie-pop earnestness and Spotify algorithm-friendly polish. There’s enough reverb to make you think the band recorded it inside an abandoned cathedral, and a beat that wouldn’t feel out of place on a Peloton playlist called “Empowerment Vibes Vol. 3.” The lyrics are all about light, resilience, and that vague sense of self-actualisation you get after buying overpriced crystals from a weekend market.

Where the track succeeds is in its sheer audacity to believe in something. Huntr/x doesn’t just tell you life can be Golden; they practically kick down your door and hand you a scented candle to prove it. It’s aspirational music, but aspirational in the way a suburban vision board is: sincere, slightly chaotic, and maybe exactly what you need at 2 a.m.

Best moment: when the chorus drops and you briefly believe you might, in fact, be the main character.
Worst moment: the realisation that you’re listening to earbuds you bought off Wish.

Final verdict: not quite solid gold, but definitely gold-plated — shiny enough to keep you dancing until you start questioning your life choices.

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Cry for You – September

Score: 8.1

In 2006, Petra Marklund, better known by her Europop nom de guerre September, released Cry for You, a track that felt less like a song and more like a government-mandated vaccination against sadness. Somewhere between a breakup anthem and an IKEA flat-pack instruction manual for melancholy, the Swedish queen of cry-while-dancing gifted the world a chorus that managed to be both nihilistic and euphoric, like Robyn if she’d been trapped inside a Ministry of Sound compilation CD for three months.

“Cry for You” is built on a trance-lite backbone that sounds like it was engineered specifically for provincial nightclubs where the carpet is sticky and the smoking area is just a bench. Lyrically, September delivers existential devastation with all the emotion of someone reading out loud from a bus timetable — and that’s exactly why it works. Her stoicism turns heartache into a communal ritual: we’re not crying for him, we’re crying for ourselves, for 2000s fashion, for the tragic return of shutter shades.

Pitchfork has long maintained that pop music is at its best when it convinces you that your heartbreak is part of a collective European experience. Cry for You achieves this in under four minutes, which is more than you can say for most PhD theses on postmodern ennui.

Is it high art? No. But like all essential dancefloor classics, it turns personal despair into a group hug where everyone smells vaguely of Jägerbombs.

Best moment: the chorus, which sounds like the soundtrack to every MySpace breakup ever.
Worst moment: realising you actually did cry for him.

Final verdict: September gave us the perfect reminder that tears and glitter coexist. And sometimes, that’s enough.

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Keith Urban & Pink – One Too Many

Score: 3.4

It takes a certain kind of courage to title your duet One Too Many when the song itself sounds like it was written after exactly that number of beers. Keith Urban and Pink, two pop-country-adjacent titans, come together here not so much in harmony as in a musical custody battle over who can out-melodramatise the other. Spoiler: nobody wins.

On paper, the song is about drinking too much and dialling up an ex—a theme as old as both Nashville and karaoke machines. In practice, it’s a chorus so sticky it could double as the lining of a barroom coaster. Urban strums an acoustic that sounds like it was fished out of a Spotify “Acoustic Coffeehouse” playlist, while Pink delivers vocals with the intensity of someone who thought she was cutting a demo for a Now That’s What I Call Country 2030 compilation.

The production is its own beast: a Frankenstein’s monster of Top 40 gloss, faux-folk earnestness, and something that might be steel guitar if you squint hard enough. It’s as if Max Martin got locked in a room with a Nashville songwriter and the only way out was to produce something that would make both Walmart shoppers and wine-aunt Facebook groups nod in approval.

Lyrically, One Too Many is a Hallmark card taped to a whiskey bottle. “I’ve had one too many,” they sing, a phrase repeated so often it feels less like confession and more like the Terms & Conditions you’re forced to accept before entering Keith Urban’s radio rotation. It’s supposed to be messy and relatable, but instead it lands with the authenticity of a corporate brand tweeting about “getting lit on Taco Tuesday.”

That’s not to say it isn’t catchy—it is, in the same way a car alarm is catchy when it’s been going off for an hour. It will lodge itself in your brain, make you hum it against your will, and then leave you wondering why you suddenly have the urge to buy boxed rosé and an Urban Outfitters cowboy hat.

In the end, One Too Many isn’t a disaster so much as it is aggressively fine: the sonic equivalent of warm domestic beer. It won’t ruin your night, but you’ll definitely wish you had something better in your hand.

Best moment: When it ends and you realise Spotify auto-play has queued up literally anything else.
Worst moment: Realising you’ll still be humming it tomorrow.

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Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
Pitchfork Score: 5.8

On “Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter trades in her usual sugary pop flair for what feels like a subtweet set to music. The song drips with sarcasm, which is fitting, because it sounds like it was written directly after seeing an ex-boyfriend post a thirst trap captioned “rise and grind.”

Carpenter takes aim at the boy-men of the world: guys who Venmo you $7.43 for half a burrito but still call themselves entrepreneurs, who post inspirational quotes with typos, who think playing pickup basketball counts as cardio. Her lyrics are clever in spots, but often teeter on the edge of being too pleased with themselves, like a barista who insists on telling you their stand-up routine while you’re just trying to get a flat white.

Production-wise, “Manchild” is all glossy minimalism—like a synth-pop beat that dressed up in Zara to impress its girlfriend’s parents. It’s catchy, but you can’t shake the feeling you’ve heard it before, probably on the soundtrack of a Netflix rom-com where the protagonist realizes her boyfriend is, in fact, a manchild.

Still, Carpenter delivers with a wink and a smirk, and the song thrives in its pettiness. It’s not her boldest work, but it does provide excellent background music for sending passive-aggressive texts or deleting your Hinge app for the seventh time this month.

Best Fit For: playing loudly in your apartment while rehearsing a speech about how you’re “so over him,” only to check his Instagram again five minutes later.

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