'What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger': The Supercut (VIDEO)

"What does not destroy me makes me stronger," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche (in German) in 1888, unwittingly inspiring the modern musician's standby. Kelly, Kanye, Jay-Z, Metallica, one and all insist what doesn't kill us makes us...sing it with us now...stronger. Not weaker! Never ever weaker. Here Slacktory's compilation of the most desperate lyric in all of music.

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[feelingsinexile]

02:14 PM on 10/24/2011

"What doesn't kill me makes me stronger" is by now a cliche. I don't think any of the artists in the clip could name the source of that quote, however stronger it may make their academic credentials.

[BigWillyG]

03:56 PM on 10/18/2011

Ima let ya finish but Beyonce had the weakest lyric of the year.

[mimimus]

10:33 AM on 10/17/2011

What doesn't kill me only pisses me off more.

[stacknef]

09:22 AM on 10/17/2011

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? Jeeeez sometimes it makes you disabled, or depressed, or suicidal instead, but I guess you'll only find those lyrics in a country western song.

[Lew Taylor]

09:05 AM on 10/17/2011

Some great songwriters might have something of wisdom in two or three songs out of a whole career but, c'mon, really, don't take hit writers too seriously, the lyrics don't have a lot of deeper meaning, they're just trying to make a buck or three making you believe that. It's a living, Meh.

[Lew Taylor]

09:00 AM on 10/17/2011

Just inferring from the video, this seems to be the most consistently industry backed phrase in pop music. It looks like, if you include it, you're guaranteed to hit the airwaves. It's the phrase that can't lose! Damn, there went the hook for my next song...

[No7]

08:50 AM on 10/17/2011

when you play a country song backwards, you get you wife back, your truck back your dog back etc....when you play a rap song backwards....you still don't know what the hell they're talking about....

[bpalmer342]

08:46 AM on 10/17/2011

I'm a stick in the mud, brought up in the era of good music, I'm talking catoons, classical music with classical background music. BUT I can appreciate HipHop, truely an art form and total emersion in the creative process. Country music is comforting like looking at a photo alblum of days gone by.
So on and on and on, it's not all for money

[Paolo Cimarelli]

08:41 AM on 10/17/2011

Hip Hop/Rap has always been 90% sampling of older songs, using the beats/melodies or phrases or all of it. This story is about 30 years late.

[PJ1]

09:02 AM on 10/17/2011

and it can all be done from a computer. you don't have to know how to play anything and can still create a song from sampled sounds. buy some software and go to work, no real talent required. easy....

[Paolo Cimarelli]

10:20 AM on 10/17/2011

Sure it takes talent. Tell Buddy Valastro he just makes cakes.

[baldinia]

08:35 AM on 10/17/2011

Well then, Kanye ought to keep trying to get stronger, you know what I'm saying? Lol!

[rkeeeballs]

08:26 AM on 10/17/2011

The musical cookie cutter mill is in full operation..can't think of anything original ? Rip off a few lines ...nobody will notice ? ...right !...what happened to the real artist ?.. Kanye = SUX !

[carla777]

08:23 AM on 10/17/2011

I never realy liked him anyway, but after what he did to Taylor Swift at the awards, I lost all respect for him.

[StratSG]

08:21 AM on 10/17/2011

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll...flush the rest of this no talent crap.

[robertpss]

08:18 AM on 10/17/2011

I've long followed that ridiculous statement with: what doesn't kill me, just might maim me. I'm am not will to try a head-on with a semi, in the hopes that it will make me stronger.

[darkdaved]

08:18 AM on 10/17/2011

That which does not kill me only makes me stronger. Still, it usually hurts like a b*tch and occasionally leaves a nasty scar.