#365songs (179 / 365)

OK, I've done a lot of very responsible and serious or at least earnest posts about songs that I love. "Fly Away" is the first song that comes to my mind when I ask myself about songs I hate. It's that opening stanza. It's "Baby's First Rhyme" and there's no recovering from it. I can't say anything about this song that Pat Finnerty doesn't say better in his "What Makes This Song Stink" video on this and "American Woman," another fairly awful song that is not as bad as "Fly Away."

I know in my last post I wrote approvingly about the concept of rock 'n' roll that embraces human idiocy and does things you can't get away with in other contexts. I stand by all that. But "Fly Away" is too idiotic, and it doesn't get away with it. Bad song.