10 Worst Hard Rock Lyrics Of The 2000s
Cringiest Lines of the New Millennium.
The early '00s can be a bit of a tough sit for a lot of hard rock fans. For as many bands were resurrecting rock music as we knew it, there were plenty of others ready to stab at the corpse that had endured the previous decade. While many look at this time with rose-colored glasses, sometimes you have to see the dumpster fires that lie in between the classics.
There's no denying the great albums of the era to come from pop-punk, hard rock, and even the garage rock scene, but much of what ended up on the charts was the aged nu metal crowd, the post-grunge fads, and the buttiest of the butt rock bands. You can probably keep a scorecard of everything that was wrong with these genres, but it always came down to the lyrics going down the toilet.
Even some of the biggest names in music weren't safe from this era, with some of rock's elder statesmen and fresh faces trying to write more current lyrics (and failing miserably). It's nice to look back on the music that shaped us over the years, but when it comes to these songs, there's no real excuse for slipping under the bar this much.
10. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens Of The Stone Age
Worst Offender: ...all of them
Queens of the Stone Age have to be one of the most interesting bands to come out of the '00s. Birthed from the remnants of Kyuss, QOTSA saw Josh Homme building rock and roll in his own image, with stoner rock jams being put alongside songs of rock and roll swagger. Rated R is where it starts getting really good, but the lyrics are not on their A-game right out of the gate.
As the opening strains of "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" blasts over your speakers, it sounds like you're about to go into a sonic war zone in the middle of the desert, but the lyrics are... kind of a joke. Instead of stringing together some kind of story or coherent theme, Homme just listed off a bunch of words as he tried to come to grips with how many substances he had ingested after an out-of-hand party.
Granted, it is impressive if Homme had actually taken that many drugs at one time, but there's not really much else the song has to say other than a laundry list of drugs and barraging your senses with rock and roll. It's understandable that this basic lyrical structure is going more for a vibe than for a flowing narrative, but a riff this badass really deserved a bit more than just filler words.