Worst Songs 2010 – #4 – Harry Hill – I Want A Baby
It’s a little distressing that Harry Hill would think this was a good idea but more so that enough people agreed with him and it could
see the light of day. ‘I Want A Baby’ is supposed to be a comedy record but it fails in that it isn’t at all funny and instead turns into a desperately drawn-out excuse to point, laugh and sneer at the social underclass. The Guardian sums it up by saying:
It is a mean, sneery off-the-dial insult of a song that makes Vicky Pollard seem like sophisticated satire and a Daily Mail editorial a shining beacon of enlightened liberal thinking. If it is meant to be knowingly affectionate, any ironic winks were lost in the edit.
What sort of people would really laugh at this? Apes? People with only the most basic cognitive skills? Yes, there are people like those that Harry is making fun of but there’s nothing inherently funny about that. All this song seems to be looking for is a grunt of recognition from the audience: ‘ha ha chavs !’ Is that really a standard we should expect from one of the country’s most popular comedians? Is it fuck. Do better.
As the article in the Guardian points out. Lots of comedians have turned poking fun at ‘chavs’ into a something resembling social commentary but Harry is just looking down on people for cheap laughs. It’s totally classless and there’s nothing clever about it at all, it’s just stupid. Why did he do this? What the fuck was he thinking? Fortunately he’s been somewhat taken to task for this, but the damage can’t be undone. It will live on, offending all the senses, including common, forever.
