Down the Rabbit Hole

Gummy Bear - Electronic Hell on the Ears

Blog Harbor Challenge
Weekly Theme: MUSIC
Prompt - Day 15:
Songs you hate. Tell us about one or more songs that you would be perfectly content to never hear again in your life, ever.

As my daughter was growing up, I had an expanding playlist of toddler songs that would play each morning on the commute to daycare. Most of them were tolerable. I even managed to find a They Might Be Giants children's album filled with quirky, catchy hits that became a car ride favorite. Overall, there was not one song that I genuinely disliked...until she found "Gummi Bear". It is a looping, electronic blunder with a maniacal chorus that sounds like its sung by a cocaine addiction robot from Hell. She used to listen to it on repeat. I was alarmed to learn it had been translated in several different languages including Spanish and German. Why?! It's, in a word, horrific. I'm not sure I can adequately describe its particular brand of awful so here is a link for anyone brave enough to give a listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astISOttCQ0

Luckily my vast and varied musical tastes have rubbed off on my daughter. I consider it one of my parenting wins that she regularly listens to everything from Joss Stone and ZZ Ward to Broadway show tunes to Walk off the Earth and Santana. Now our rides are filled with a full and complex soundtrack that winds through countless genres and artists. There is still that odd, random morning when she gains control of my "phone music" and finds that one musical selection that I keep forgetting to delete from the musical memory. She plays it now to mess with me more than anything and as my ears bleed, I catch a glimpse of her smiling wickedly in the rear view mirror.