Get ready to have these lyrics stuck in your head forever... Join us as we count down our picks for the most repetitive songs of all time! From dance club anthems to rock hits that just won't quit, these tracks prove that sometimes less is more when it comes to lyrical variety. Which earworm had you singing the same line over and over again?
00:00Welcome to WatchMojo and today we'll be counting down our picks for songs that repeat the same
00:08phrases over again and over again and over again. We won't be considering novelty songs though.
00:14Number 10, Mr. Brightside, The Killers.
00:31If you're wondering why you were able to learn the words to this song so quickly when it conquered the airwaves back in 2004,
00:37it probably has something to do with the fact that verse 1 and 2 are exactly the same.
00:44We're not bashing Mr. Brightside, au contraire.
00:49It's a fantastic song that rightly deserves its spot on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best songs of the 2000s.
01:03However, there's no denying that it's a little repetitive, with the same verse and chorus churned out several times over.
01:14But we will say, that ending is killer. Pun intended.
01:27Number 9, Work, Rihanna featuring Drake.
01:31Easily one of the most pervasive radio songs in the past few years, Rihanna's work dominated the charts for weeks back in 2016.
01:45Part of the reason for its success was its catchy, easy to remember chorus, which is basically just another way of saying it was super repetitive.
01:52What can I say? Please recognize, I'm trying baby out there work, work, work, work, work, work.
01:59It sent me out there work, work, work, work, work.
02:01The word work is said 79 times in the song, with a whopping 72 of them occurring during the hook.
02:07Work, work, work, work, work, work.
02:09It sent me out there work, work, work, work, work, work.
02:12This is hardly Rihanna's first offense, having been behind a slew of other highly repetitive tracks over the years.
02:17Umbrella, anyone?
02:18You can stand under my umbrella.
02:20You can stand under my umbrella.
02:24We weren't really surprised though seeing as her nickname is Riri.
02:34Number 8, Versace.
02:36Migos.
02:40There are three certainties in life, death, taxes and Migos' unwavering love of all things Versace.
02:46The Georgia-based hip-hop trio made their feelings for the iconic Italian fashion line perfectly clear on this 2013 track.
02:58Which saw the word Versace repeated literally more times than we can count.
03:03Ironically enough, this is not the only highly repetitive hip-hop song named after a fashion designer to have been released in the last few years,
03:10with Lil Pump following Amigos' footsteps with the release of Gucci Gang in 2017.
03:16Number 7, Tub Thumping, Chumbawamba.
03:26Every year, one-hit wonders come and go, and while they often fade into obscurity, their song lives on forever,
03:32or at the very least, it pops up on one of our lists.
03:35Such is the case for the British band Chumbawamba, known primarily for their 1997 hit, Tub Thumping.
03:40The track was an international success, topping music charts across the globe.
03:52The song rode the wave of its own incredibly catchy chorus, which repeated,
03:56I get knocked down, but I get up again.
03:59You are never going to keep me down, over and over.
04:07Despite its repetitive nature, the song still holds up two decades later.
04:11Number 6, Barbra Streisand, Duck Sauce
04:19When the lyrics of your song consist mainly of Barbra Streisand and Woo,
04:28there's a high probability that said song will be a teensy bit repetitive.
04:32Not that Duck Sauce is complaining.
04:34Despite its recurring themes of Barbra Streisand,
04:44and the sound a woman makes at a bachelorette party,
04:46the track is actually pretty good.
04:53But don't just take our word for it.
04:59Nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2012 Grammys,
05:02Barbra Streisand was called deliriously catchy, endlessly danceable, and ultimately so uplifting
05:07that it could even cheer you up after watching the denouement of The Way We Were.
05:11And if you've seen the film, you know that's some pretty high praise.
05:21Number 5. Can't Get You Out of My Head, Kylie Minogue
05:32As the title not so subtly implies, this song is very likely to wrap itself around your brain and never let go,
05:39thanks to its highly repetitive first verse, and second, and chorus.
05:51Okay, the whole thing is pretty repetitive, but if history has taught us anything,
05:54it's that songs with ubiquitous chorus are more likely to hit home in a variety of places,
05:58which is exactly what this 2001 Kylie Minogue hit did.
06:09The song topped music charts in countries as diverse as Australia, Belgium, Italy, and Romania,
06:15and wound up being one of the best-selling singles of its year.
06:17Number 4. Watch Me Whip Nay Nay, Cilento
06:28Is being repetitive a prerequisite for songs with the word whip in the title?
06:38Willow Smith kicked off the trend with her 2010 song, Whip My Hair.
06:42And five years later, Cilento brought it back with his viral hit, Watch Me Whip Nay Nay.
06:54The song has way more than a billion views on YouTube, a startlingly impressive feat,
06:58seeing as how it's basically just the song's title repeated over and over again.
07:02Now watch me whip, whip, watch me nay nay.
07:05Watch me do it, eh?
07:06Now watch me whip, watch me nay nay.
07:09Cilento says, Watch Me 73 times, Whip 18 times, and nay nay 12 times.
07:15He also says, Do the Stanky Leg 8 times, and Duff 17 times.
07:20Do the stanky leg, do the stanky leg, do the stanky leg, do the stanky leg, do the stanky leg.
07:26Knowing that the singer later killed a man puts a damper on our enjoyment of the song,
07:30but doesn't keep it from being an earworm.
07:38Number 3, Blue Dabba Dee, Eiffel 65.
07:50If you lived through 1999, then you know exactly where you were when you heard this song for the first time.
08:00Blue Dabba Dee was less of a song and more of a phenomenon, invading radio stations across the globe
08:07and subjecting people to its wacky, often unintelligible lyrics.
08:11The chorus is straight, repetitive gibberish, with the words Dabba Dee said over and over.
08:20Tack on the fact that the second and third verses are exactly the same,
08:24and you have a song that is highly likely to blow up on radio,
08:26and highly unlikely to win any major awards.
08:29Just saying.
08:33Number 2, Surf and Bird, The Trash Men.
08:45If you still don't know what the word is after listening to this track,
08:48then you might want to have your ears checked.
08:50After all, American rockers, The Trash Men, made it abundantly clear in 1963 that bird is the word.
08:57Everybody's scared about the bird.
08:59Bird, bird, bird.
09:00Bird to win, a winner.
09:02Bird, bird, bird.
09:03Bird to win.
09:04It was kind of hard to miss seeing as how they said it roughly a billion times in their song, Surf and Bird.
09:09The song was actually quite successful in its day, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
09:13Since then, it's been riffed on numerous times, perhaps most notably in the 2008 Family Guy episode, I Dream of Jesus.
09:25Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.
09:29Got My Mind Set On You, George Harrison.
09:31Harrison's cover of the 1962 original is a catchy classic.
09:35Got My Mind Set On You, I Got My Mind Set On You, I Got My Mind Set On You, I Got My Mind Set On You, I Got My Mind Set On You.
09:44What Is Love, Hadaway.
09:46These looping lyrics have us headbanging like the Roxbury guys.
09:50What is love, baby, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
09:57Macarena, Los Del Rio.
09:59Its prose is as straightforward as its accompanying dance.
10:02Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles.
10:13A sexy summer bop that's mega easy to memorize.
10:23Tequila, The Champs.
10:25Arguably, the greatest karaoke song of all time.
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10:50Number 1.
10:51Around the World
10:52Daft Punk
10:53When this song was released in 1997, it took listeners on a spellbinding tour of the English language, using words and phrases the average Joe had simply never heard before.
11:09Around the world
11:11Around the world
11:13Around the world
11:15Around the world
11:15Kidding, it just repeated the title of the song 144 times.
11:21And in case you're having a hard time picturing what that would look like, here's a screenshot of the lyrics.
11:25Pretty impressive, huh?
11:26Around the world
11:28Around the world
11:30Around the world
11:32Around the world
11:34You can't exactly fault Daft Punk for their aversion to verbiage, as their goal has never been to make people see how linguistically gifted they are, but simply, to make them want to get up and dance.
