Poll - Songs that never fail to make white people beyond turnt

ha i just looked over the list and imo Bohemian Rhapsody is the best, although idk why Hey Ya isn't on here, that's the one.

Livin' on a Prayer by some distance

Come on Eileen is probably the one with the most ilx credibility

ice ice baby is so boring. like i always want to like it because it feels boring to hate it, but sheesh that's one of the most tedious and un-fun songs i can think of.

its true you hear Cotton Eye Joe everywhere you go here in the south. we also all chew on straw constantly and wearing overalls with one strap.

No "Total Eclipse of The Heart", no cred. That song <IS> White Girl Wasted.

I don't know what "turnt" is, but this white guy likes these:

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Don McLean - American Pie

missing House of Pain's Jump Around.

"Come On Eileen" played in the grocery store today and it's really just a remarkable tune, voted for that

feel like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" shd've made this list, lol anyway

wtf is the Zac Brown Band?

My son had a letter sent home from school because he led a group sing-along of Livin' On a Prayer on the bus and would not stop when asked by the driver. We were cautioned that if he did it one more time there would be a two week bus suspension. I don't know what's wrong with that boy.

maybe they're thinking what i'm thinking, that with the school year drawing to a close, and "Prayer"'s quarter-century ubiquity, the deeper cut with the equally strong chorus "Never Say Goodbye" was the better call here?

Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Redundant redundancy...

I had to look up turnt because I am not only a white people, I am an old white male (possibly the worst kind of white people).

Bearing the definition, I cannot help but think that "Sweet Home Alabama" has to be correct because the first words of the song literally are "turn it up," however this also excludes all of the white dudes north of the Mason-Dixon who voted for Obama and have little time for stars, bars and Duke of Hazzard cars.

I was leaning towards "You Shook Me All Night Long" because it's my favorite song on the list by my favorite band on the list (both by a high margin) however AC/DC has been a staple on many a classic block party and hip-hop track. If non-white people are also getting turnt, I feel that goes against the spirit of the thread which seems to specifically be a white thing.

In the interest of educating myself I listened to Toby Keith "Red Solo Cup" for the very first time ever. It will hopefully be the last time.

After careful consideration I went with "Cotton Eyed Joe." This song is mostly played at sporting events in America now, and even though those often have very ethically diverse crowds, when that song gets pumped into the stadium, look around. White people are turnt! Everyone else is looking for the beer guy or something.
Was leaning hard towards "Don't Stop Believing" but the singer is Asian, way more multicultural than the winner of this poll should be. (Yes, I know the original singer was not. It seemed as good a way to eliminate the song.)

I wasn't sure how I felt about the thread's premise but tbf you managed to pick one of the handful of songs I dislike on the list so I think you win.

"Shot to the Heart" what a gr8 song yesirree

Fun fact: Rednex are from Sweden

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/hqdefault.jpg

lol @ america

not saying we're immune to cotton eye joe, but still.

write-in for hey ya, ignition, or hot in herre

omg no hey ya?

lol at "Teenage Dirtbag" being on the list. who the fuck even remembers that shit, let alone gets "turnt" to it

nothing is worse than when everybody sings Bohemian Rhapsody as a group

White people = white Americans? If so, this is somewhat accurate.

I'd wager 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is the likeliest correct answer.

With no other input but the thread title and the last half-dozen posts or so (reading from the bottom on Zing), for some read my brain immediately started looping the chorus from Mr. Brightside, before I even looked at the poll

This song is mostly played at sporting events in America now, and even though those often have very ethically diverse crowds

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative)

you said it, man

lol @ america

http://www.unilad.co.uk/sound/the-killers-mr-brightside-is-13-years-old-and-still-in-the-charts/

"nothing is worse than when everybody sings Bohemian Rhapsody as a group"

yes, yes there is something worse. It's when groups of white people sing all 56788 verses of American Pie together, which I endured on July 4th in 1995.

I assume you still have PTSD from that episode

I fuckin hate the song to begin with (unlike BR, which I am just sick of but is legit awesome)

Beyond Turnt, though..

Voting for the one on here I flat out love, with no reservations: 'Come On, Eileen.'

Absolute classic.

"Come On Eileen" is good but also annoying.

"Under Pressure" is amazing tho and probably wouldn't have been eligible had Vanilla never been born.

under pressure and come on eileen are prob the only songs here i don't hate

eh, i guess i don't hate eye of the tiger

75% of the "white/lame/boring" appeal is within the first 5 seconds when people are unsure whether it's "Under Pressure" or "Ice Ice Baby."

that thing white ppl do when they disparage 'white ppl'

Ah, also "Harlem Shuffle" and "Jump Around"

See, see the white folks run back to the chairs when they find it's "Harlem Shuffle" !

Run, White Folks, Run...

Never heard of these:

Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried
Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup

Looking forward to getting beyond turnt by them at some point soon.

Would add:

Ace of Base - All That She Wants
and definitely House of Pain - Jump Around, which is the ne plus ultra of this kind of thing

you've never seen wites properly turnt until you've seen a bunch of scots losing their shit to '5000 miles' at a wedding

uh, 500 miles - clearly scottish people's cardiovascular health is not up to the challenge of 5000 miles

.. let alone "5,000 more"

i loled at most of these... except for "sweet caroline". it's horrifying and sobering to consider the possibility that poc think that white folks are all red sox fans.

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'Paradise By the Dashboard Light' and 'Friends in Low Places' are some glaring (although possibly more regional in their turntness) exclusions from this list.

Also possibly out of date (source: Old Lunch's rural high school dances).

Mustang Sally is another one. I dunno, I could just list all the songs people used to karaoke down the SU

all of these songs are terrible

Well, yeah.

Didn't know the term either, thanks NYCNative for the link.
I'm going for 'Eye of the Tiger', although I'm sure that there are many more better picks out there. Wouldn't the following all be even better already?
Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters
Michael Jackson - Thriller
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Scatman John - Scatman

xpost (Actually don't agree with that, but figured an Eagles reference was required somewhere itt.)

(Oops, of course first response itt was Eagles reference.)

Never heard of these:

Zac Brown Band - Chicken Fried
Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup

I lasted about 20 seconds into both of these. I really really wish I hadn't bothered

Had to look up "turnt"..."Sweet Home Alabama" is the only song here I count as now and forever turnt-worthy; "American Pie" comes close. There are bunch more I like. The two Bon Jovis are the two I hate the most. I don't know three or four of them.

(Including the two in the previous post--quite content to go on not knowing them.)

i don't know if this is universally applicable, but in indiana by far the most turnt-inducing white people song was "crazy train".

just yell "ALLLL ABOOOOOARD!" and start cackling maniacally and hoosiers will absolutely lose their shit

A lot of these are okay, possibly even good fun songs, but WAY overplayed. Always liked Ice Ice Baby (bizarrely it's one of my Dad's favourite songs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXObaM9i2Q

this poll is so dad

There is definitely a sort of meta thing I notice when people do a lot of these songs in karaoke where they're not just performing the fantasy of being Jon Bon Jovi but performing the fantasy of being the cool party person who karaokes Bon Jovi.

As far as blanket arguments against white people go, this one I'll allow.

Should've included "Love Shack" tho.

Also, a pretty good approximation of perpetual karaoke hell if you add "Jack and Diane" and "Baby Got Back."

Sweet Caroline

Might be a regional thing, but "Wagon Wheel" seems to be a pretty big bar band drunken singalong tune here.

never heard of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E

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'I want it that way' should be on this list

Great thread ILX2017

wagon wheel is definitely a substantial omission.

heck i get turnt just thinking about it

But do you get beyond?

heard wagon wheel for the first time yesterday. got turnt, but only just.

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Don McLean - American Pie 0

I hope this song's existence is written out of history entirely someday.

lol even Red Solo Cup got more votes than American Pie

http://i.imgur.com/fiuWWh1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g

'american pie' makes no one turnt

actually my kids (both in elementary school) are wild for this song

growing up I wanted to tape over my dad's Don Maclean tape in the middle of that song and scream "I'M GLAD THE BOPPER'S DEAD"