History Main / PainfulRhyme

** Granted it ''does'' rhyme, it just also makes it sound as though it got recorded before the lyrics were even finished.

* Amy Winehouse rhymes 'players', 'say' and 'millionaire' in "Fuck Me Pumps", with millionaire pronounced 'millio-naya' to fit:

A [[SubjectiveTrope subjective]] MusicTrope. It's when you hear a rhyme in a song, or read it in a poem, and you're compelled to cringe at how painfully it's forced in. Maybe the sentence was rearranged into grammatical nonsense to accommodate it, or the rhythm was broken, or maybe it verges on nonsensical. Maybe words had to be intentionally mispronounced to make it rhyme, or an unlikely metaphor invented. In any case, they were really better off not bothering to make it rhyme. Bonus points if it doesn't even quite rhyme, or if they're [[RhymingWithItself just repeating rather than rhyming.]]

**** Her husband rhymed "You know that for ''sure''" with "You got to let it ''go''" and "You got to let it ''grow''" in ''Mind Games'', SoYeah.

* ''TheSwanPrincess'' gave us this deathless couplet from its VillainSong, "No More Mr. Nice Guy": "Up 'til now I've pulled my punches/I intend to eat their lunches..."

Reason why,\\
** In "The Wizard and I," Elphaba sings:
--> With all his wizard ''wisdom''\\
By my looks he won't be blinded\\
Do you think the Wizard ''is dumb''\\
Or like Munchkins so small-minded?\\
And also this:

** It actually [[Mondegreen sounds like]] "People livin' like they ain't got no ''llamas''".

** The chorus in "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is either painful or so gloriously over the top you can't help but love it: ''"I don't wanna be hers/I wanna be YERRRRRS!"''

--> "I got to many vices, I love to smoke weeds, love to shoot dices.

* Good song otherwise, but the chorus of Thin Lizzy's "Romeo And The Lonely Girl":

**Most of the lyrics in "Party In The USA" are fairly acceptable examples of consonance, assonance, or oblique rhyme, but there's four that particularly stand out as painful within the first verse: "LAX" and "fame excess", "Cardigan" and "gonna fit in", "crazy" and "famous", and most baffling of all "homesick" and "nervous". Although this is the only one of the songs listed where she didn't actually have any hand in writing lyrics.

**Most of the lyrics in "Party In The USA" are at least slight examples of consonance, assonance, or oblique rhyme, but there's four that particularly stand out as painful within the first verse: "LAX" and "fame excess", "Cardigan" and "fit in", "crazy" and "famous", and most baffling of all "homesick" and "nervous".

**In The Magnetic Fields' "Zebra", "The Louvre" is rhymed with "maneuver" and "hoover", but instead of butchering the French pronunciation, the ''other'' two words are mispronounced ("manoov" and "hoov"). Which even sort of makes sense in-character, since the song is from the point of view of a spoiled upper-class housewife. The printed lyrics take this further by using the spelling "maneuvre" and "hoovre".

**In The Magnetic Fields' "Zebra", "The Louvre" is rhymed with "maneuver" and "hoover", but instead of butchering the French pronunciation, the ''other'' two words are mispronounced ("manoov" and "hoov"). The printed lyrics take this further by using the spelling "maneuvre" and "hoovre".

**And in "Mr. Right Now" by the Povertyneck Hillbillies, which has one of the most cliché bridges ever: "How do you feel about a little romance / Can I buy you a drink or do you wanna dance / What do you think, are you willing to take the chance?"