Most trivial subject matters in pop lyrics ever

Streetband - Toast

Well, Captain Sensible's "Glad It's All Over", Nik Kershaw's "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", XTC's "Dear God" and Johnny Hates Jazz's "I Don't Wanna Be a Hero" are all pop lyrics, and I wouldn't exactly call them trivial...

"Picnic, a day in the country
Picnic, the ants and mosquitos
Picnic, my friends and their food
I love to picnic, oh-oh-oh-oh."

Well, even Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is The Love" deals with pretty serious stuff, although it must be added that it does so in a pretty trivial way :-)

You surely can't mean that love is a trivial subject matter - although I do agree that most love lyric is banal and clicheed. Anyway, here goes:

Sultans of Ping - Where's Me Jumper?

Presuming there's not some sublime political message (not counting the Marx doing mushrooms thingy) that I've missed out on.

But Live takes the cake (as Live tends to), with a song about undertipping a waitress:

"Come on baby leave some change behind
She was a bitch but I don't care
She brought our food out on time
She wore a funky barette in her hair"

Hmmm. Let's take a closer look at the lyric:

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Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

CHORUS

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh NO!!

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My, but that's a wondrous trainwreck of mixed metaphors. But I think we can safely deduce that the chorus is not, in fact, about a cake...

The BB own this thread, really.

most trivial ever though? Lollipop lollipop, oh lolly lolly lolly..

MX-80 Sound, "Crushed Ice"

That's what it's about!

I LIKE FOOD
FOOD TASTES GOOD
I LIKE FOOD
FOOD TASTES GOOD
JUICY BURGERS GREASY FRIES
TURKEY LEGS AND RAW FISH EYES
TEENAGE GIRLS WITH KETCHUP TOO
GET OUT OF MY WAY OR I'LL EAT YOU
I LIKE FOOD
FOOD TASTES GOOD
I LIKE FOOD
FOOD TASTES GOOD
I'M GOING TO TURN DINING BACK INTO EATING

Also one of the stupidest song titles ever - but that's another thread. Or it should be.

Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong
Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong
Ping-pong ball.

Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong
Ping-pong, ping-pong, ping-pong ball

Ping-pong , ping-pong, ping-pong
Ping-pong ball. Oh!

Johnny had a head like a ping-pong ball,
Johnny had a head like a ping-pong ball,
Johnny had a head like a ping-pong ball,
Ping-pong ball.

Boris the Spider and Odorono give Tattoo a run for its money I reckon.

if you brought a big brown bag of them home
I'll jump up and down and hope you toss me a carrot

Say what you will, but Willis is pretty damned serious. Pretty much all of his songs are about (apparently true) run-ins he's had with people while living on the street as a schizophrenic, actual psychotic episodes he's endured or simply the large amount of respect he has for artists or other music professionals he likes. Just because his vocabulary of compliments is limited ("S/he can really kick a mule's ass, S/he is a working class hero, etc.") doesn't mean he's not sincere or serious.

"Neicey (?) made her famous potato salad, somehow it turned out green. Maybe it's all the scallions, could be the celery.
But, oh, Uncle Jerome loves it."

Presidents of the United States of America - "Peaches"

I never spend less than an hour,
Washin' my hair in the shower,
It always takes five hours to make it straight,
So I'll braid it in a zillion braids
Though it may take a friggin' day,
There's nothin' else better to do anyway

that's awesome.