The Next Worst Thing
| "The Next Worst Thing" | ||
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| Song by Aly & AJ | ||
| Length | 3:01 | |
| Writer(s) | Aly Michalka, AJ Michalka, Mike Elizondo, Rivers Cuomo | |
| Status | unreleased | |
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This song is part of the "The Next Worst Thing" lineage of songs
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"The Next Worst Thing" is a song by American pop duo Aly & AJ, co-written by the duo with Rivers Cuomo and Mike Elizondo in 2008[1] for the band's then-planned fourth album. The album would never materialize—the band would not release a fourth album until 2021—but the song leaked online in 2009. "The Next Worst Thing" uses the verse melody and chord progression of the 2000 Cuomo demo "Left Foot Down."
Cuomo and the duo also co-wrote a song titled "Cure to the Lonely."[2]
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Lyrics
I'm putting my foot down
Not getting pushed around
They should be ashamed of all the junk they fed to us
And are you having fun
Shaking hands and pleasing everyone?
We're on a diet of manufactured Froot Loops and bubblegum
They try to get into your heads
But in the end, you're only as good as
The next worst thing that's coming
Everybody should start running
When we gonna back out
Anybody know how
When we gonna back out
Back to being real now
It's monkey see, monkey do
"Simon Says" play along but I don't want to
Who is he to tell me what to think and what to do?
It's always greed, greed, greed
How many Benjamins do you really need?
Don't want a puppet master pulling on my strings
They try to get into your heads
But in the end, you're only as good as
The next worst thing that's coming
Everybody should start running
When we gonna back out
Anybody know how
When we gonna back out
Back to being real now
What are we living for?
What are we longing for?
What are we waiting for?
I think you know, lets go
They try to get into your heads
But in the end, you're only as good as
The next worst thing that's coming
Everybody should start running
They try to get into your heads
But in the end, you're only as good as
The next worst thing that's coming
Everybody should start running
When we gonna back out
Anybody know how
When we gonna back out
Back to being real now
External links
References
- ↑ Wright, Lavinia Jones. "The Billboard Q&A: Rivers Cuomo" Billboard. 5 December 2008. https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/the-billboard-qa-rivers-cuomo-266147/
- ↑ "Cure to the Lonely" Musicbrainz. https://musicbrainz.org/work/ad325056-b84b-46e3-9197-d520e6e07631
