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21st Dec 2016

Here are the songs of 2016 with the lyrics that were hardest to understand

WHAT ARE THEY SINGING

Rebecca Keane

We’re all guilty of making up our own words to songs when we hear them for the first time.

And the second time. And the third time. And perhaps the fourth!

When I was younger I’d make up all manner of words and sentences trying to guess what words were being sung in my favourite song and even to this day I just mime along if I’m not entirely sure.

According to Genius however, there are 10 songs that are most looked up for their lyrics in 2016, meaning that very little people to nobody at all could understand what was being sung.

At number 10, we have The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey’s Closer which was looked up 476, 462 times.

Number 9 for most difficult lyrics was The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk’s Starboy whose lyrics were checked 493, 697 times.

8th place goes to twenty one pilot’s Heathens with 538, 252 while 7th for most confusing lyrics lies in the hands of Drake’s One Dance with a total of 563,600 views.

19-year-old singer Desiigner holds 6th, 5th and 4th places for songs Panda, Tiimmy Turner and Panda once again.

Drake’s chorus in One Dance holds 3rd place for the chorus of his song and Desiigner holds 2nd place for the chorus of Panda too.

At number 1, Rihanna’s Work was the most looked up song with a total of 1.3 MILLION views. According to Genius, it was words like ‘

According to Genius, it was words like ‘haffi’ in Rihanna’s chorus that confused so many people, causing them to check it all the time.

Riri, I’m not always entirely sure what you’re saying but you do supply us with some seriously good music.