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Thunder by Imagine Dragons
Fuck. That. Song.
fuck their whole discography bro
That fucking oh no song
Radioactive.
It had a novel, ear-grabbing sound at the time, but got overplayed to the point where it now just grates on my nerves.
Also: most American wedding reception traditions like The Electric Slide and The Chicken Dance. Do better. I once went to a reception where everyone did The Time Warp and it was amazing.
My Humps by the Black Eyes Peas.
It's one thing for a song to be bad, and this one was, but there was a period of what felt like months when I had to hear this at least twice a day because it would always be on the radio when I was on the coach to and from college.
Awful, awful, song.
Dang, that was gonna be my answer. Such a painfully repetitive song with dreadful vocals. I honestly envied the deaf when it was popular
I agree, the Black Eyed Peas released some terrible soulless garbage in the 2010s when EDM was everywhere and lyrics where mostly about partying and drinking a lot of alcohol.
I pick "The Time (Dirty Bit)". I hate everything about it, the generic sounds, the low effort lyrics, this fucking semi-robotic voice. It's so bad and uninspired it still makes me angry. People who deliberately listen to this scare me. More than half a billion views on YouTube, go figure.
all i want for christmas is youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuu-uuuuuu
The Bear Ghost cover of this song kinda redeemed it, for me anyway
I absolutely loathe No Scrubs by TLC.
spoiler
The lyrics are trashy and only convey judgement. Taken from the song: if you don't own your own car, own home, or don't dress like a prince, you're not worth it. The whole song is shitty IMHO (except for the beat/sound). The one line about not treating your partner right is sensible but the rest of the song doesn't match with any of that vibe. They're just conveying judgement. I already know I'm a loser in most people's eyes but hearing this song on the radio just miffs me.
I don't really care for the song myself, but I think you are not taking into account the world that was released into.
Women weren't a dominant force in hip hop, or pop, at that time, most of the mainstream popular stuff was bragging and violence. I think this song was an attempt to fit into that genre, while at the same time take a shot at the gigolo life style that was frequently on display in so much media of the time. A stub wasn't someone who didn't have anything, they were someone who never even tried to be someone. They were the type that tried to impress you with the car they were in... a car that wasn't even theirs...
I kind of realized this halfway when writing my reply but I gave up and just ended going with what I started writing. lol
I think you're right. The times the song was written in are different than the times now and so a lot of the context and influence came from different things. I just can't help but hear the lyrics and say "well, I don't own a car or a house". Idk. Just can't get past that.
I fully understand, some songs hit you weird even if they didn't mean to.
I really enjoyed listening to Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole until someone told me that the hangman sleeps with the guy's sister, but then hangs him and the sister.
At some point I reread the lyrics and did some research, and now I think her "gallows pole" is the hangman's dick, but still, I spent years thinking that the song was even darker than it really was, and now, even though I know it's not correct, I can't help but feel really uncomfortable when listening to it.
And it is not like scrubs is some masterpiece that needs to be listened to anyway.
Also, the inability to meet your goals doesn't make you a loser any more than meeting them makes you a winner. Keep striving for your goals dude, even if life only ever gives you shit sandwiches, the desire to move forward and be better is what makes someone a worthwhile person.
For me, it's "Jessie's Girl". The things we learn about this girl are: She has eyes, she has a body, at some times she talks cute with Jessie, she loves Jessie. Then the question, "Where can I find a woman like that?"
The contrast between the exceedingly generic description, and the exasperation (as if no other girl would suffice) annoys me every time I hear the lyrics. This is then multiplied by the fact that the song is catchy.
This is pretty much exactly what Bo Burnham said in one of his interviews, not about this specific song but just in general about those "love songs" which are like that.
Pretty Fly for a White Guy- The Offspring
awful. cringe all over.
Wondering what makes it unbearable for you? I always felt the cringe from that song was intentional due to its poking fun of the white guy and portraying him as cringe. So I guess I like it for that specific reason.
That, and the counting to 6 in Spanish (repeating 5 for no reason). Like why?
White guy trying to sound cool and failing
Exactly. Being cringe was the whole point of the song.
They did a really good job lol. I’ll be honest, I don’t quite catch things like that.
Oh I've been waiting for this. I have two, by the same band The Chainsmokers. "Don't let me down" and "Something just like this". Two song I absolutely despise, because I utterly love the first verses of both, and after these two moments of incredible music the song just turns to something that doesn't connect with me at all. All of the energy that's build up is released with this dance-poppy beat that just.. doesn't... work.... at all. And I utterly hate them because of this. There is so much potential there and yet it's all wasted. It's gotten to the point that I've been thinking about trying to remix the songs to fix this, but don't think I have enough musical skill.
Nothing is more despicable than wasted potential, and these songs are dripping with it.
It's a toss up
Place your hands by Reef
Or
Are you gonna be my girl by Jet
Both are a load of old bollocks
I'm an albatraoz
The music is slop, but the words are just aggravating and seem to have had little though put into them.
Anything by Train
I am like a bird by Nelly Furtado, followed closely by Sweet Caroline.
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
Lyrics
Anxiety, keep on trying me
I feel it quietly, tryna silence me, yeah
My anxiety, can't shake it off of me
Somebody's watchin' me and my anxiety, yeah
That's not Gotye's lyrics though, it's the trash song that uses the similar instrumentation by Doechii (had to Google that).
Wagon Wheel
Was playing pool with my wife at a local establishment when some kind of autotune country song played (I think it was via a TouchTunes jukebox). So whatever the fuck that was 💩
Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
It played on the radio of my high school bus basically everyday and my stupid redneck bus driver blared the radio so I couldn't drown it out with my own music easily.
Anything that starts off with "We the best music!"
And anytime a DJ or song has that "bwar bwAR Bwar bWar" sound effect. An immediate nope.
Friday - Rebecca Black. I refused to listen to it for many years. When I finally did, I was like - I get the hate. One day she released a new song that people were saying 'redeemed' her. It was also awful. I don't remember the name of it, nor do I care to look it up.
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