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Colin Chaudhuri's avatar

"The worst song is “Happy Birthday” — an insipid song with boring lyrics made worse by the fact that ordinary people who normally don’t sing are called upon to sing it, off-key and out of time, right at what is supposed to be a moment of celebration. Why we inflict this song upon ourselves is beyond me — I like cake, I like candles, I don’t like the song, and I think we should find a way to phase it out."

Your slow but steady descent into being this generation's Andy Rooney continues apace. By the way if this gets a lucrative gig to having a 5 minute segment played on a show watched by 30 million people then power to you.

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Jason's avatar

I sort of enjoyed that period prior to ~2017-ish where "Happy Birthday" was still not in the public domain, and restaurants all had their own weird takes on the songs so that they didn't get sued. These weird takes were usually bad, but at least they were different. All of the embarrassment of a public birthday celebration, none of the predictability!

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