--- description: Setting Yelp reviews to music turn petty grievances into high art title: The Ideal Way to Enjoy Harsh Yelp Reviews Are These Soothing Songs With Lyrics Like 'Shouldn't Have to Chew My Coffee' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Ideal Way to Enjoy Yelp Grievances Are These Soothing Songs With Lyrics Like 'Shouldn't Have to Chew My Coffee' by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 3, 2020 3:36 PM CUT by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 3, 2020 3:36 PM CUT Yelp at its best can be a helpful restaurant review site that can help hungry diners steer clear of a less than stellar spot. It’s also filled with personal and petty grievances. Turns out that Yelp has something else to offer the world, too: A wellspring of comedy content thanks to singer and comedian [Grace Hayes](https://www.tiktok.com/@graceorsomething "undefined"). Hayes takes lines from heartfelt complaints documented in one-star Yelp reviews of [fast food restaurants](https://time.com/3896465/taco-bell-fast-food-changes/ "undefined") and sets them to music, releasing them in bite-size portions on [TikTok](https://time.com/5583700/china-tech-tiktok-app/ "undefined") and sharing on social media. The result is a soothing rendition of someone’s complaint that their [Arby’s](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/18/michigan-teen-finds-finger-in-arbys-sandwich/ "undefined") order was nothing but a “mess of meats and curdled cheese.” As [_Eater_](https://www.eater.com/2019/12/27/21039351/yelp-reviews-tiktok "undefined") reports, Hayes didn’t just focus on one fast food chain, but several. Her TikTok account features songs dedicated to a different fast food restaurant including McDonald’s, [Taco Bell](https://time.com/5116272/taco-bell-burrito-throwing-incident/ "undefined"), and Arby’s. Hayes’s smooth tunes make every small injustice sound like a potential hit song. “Charged me for a water cup, changed my chalupa, the only beef they had was with me,” she sings, cribbing a line from the outraged Yelp reviews of a Taco Bell. In her ode to the Yelp reviews of McDonald’s, she soulfully sings, “I shouldn’t have to chew my coffee.” It’s a fair point that the fast food chain will hopefully take note of thanks to either the Yelp review or Hayes’s beautiful serenade. > [](https://twitter.com/Graceorsomethin/status/1198356499786911744) > [](https://twitter.com/Graceorsomethin/status/1198356254302695425) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5758072/yelp-reviews-tiktok/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5758072/yelp-reviews-tiktok/"},"headline":"The Ideal Way to Enjoy Yelp Grievances Are These Soothing Songs With Lyrics Like 'Shouldn't Have to Chew My Coffee'","datePublished":"2020-01-03T15:36:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:10.429Z","description":"Setting Yelp reviews to music turn petty grievances into high art","url":"https://time.com/5758072/yelp-reviews-tiktok/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Taco Bell","Mcdonald's","Viral News","tiktok"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5758072/yelp-reviews-tiktok/","name":"The Ideal Way to Enjoy Yelp Grievances Are These Soothing Songs With Lyrics Like 'Shouldn't Have to Chew My Coffee'"}}]}] ```