# Cringiest song I've ever heard

2023-07-30

Many songs are cringe, so much as to become a meme. This blogpost is about
none of that. It is about a song that is cringe to _me_, even though
I only ever heard it once.

Cue ten-year-old me. My elementary school took all the students to
a theater. It was probably Teacher's Day, hence the afternoon off. There
was neither movie or play, just an assortment of performances to varying
degrees of entertainment. If I remember correctly, there was a magician
who claims to be related to Liu Qian. I had no idea what she was doing.

At some point the host (That Guy) decided to sing an ode to our teachers.
It was a rendition of a very mainstream pop song. I did not know, but
I was about to hear _the_ cringiest song. The verse is some generic pickup
lines and the chorus goes (translated):

> My beloved teacher, I love you  
> Let me walk into your world, and be together with you  
> My beloved teacher, I love you  
> I will do anything for you forever, in this life and the next

At this point we discovered that this was exactly the original song, but
with the word "teacher" instead of "girl". Not only that, we were all
asked to sing along to the "I love you". I might have cooperated (oops).
What's worse, the teachers were present, which adds to the cringe factor.

By changing one word, That Guy managed to transform an otherwise innocent
romantic song into pure horror. Let me clarify. I do _not_ want to walk
into my teacher's world. I do _not_ want to be "together" with my
teachers. They're real nice, yeah, but that doesn't mean I will "do
anything" or reincarnate myself for them, no thanks.

The whole theater was filled to the brim with cringe. I wonder how they
approved that song. They had one program to celebrate Teacher's Day, and
they celebrated in the worst way possible.

The difference between this song and memes is that memes are funny. It's
just cringe. And it is no longer possible to recreate it. I can tell this
story to you as a joke, and you'd be like, "haha, the song sure is
terrible", but you can't experience the damage it did to a pool of kids.