Worst Song Ever of the Week, Volume 1

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  1. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    This week's worst song ever is:


    [video=youtube;fwK7ggA3-bU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwK7ggA3-bU[/video]


    Now of course, I can think of a few songs that are actually worse than this one. However, relatively few of them remind me of how terrible a once awesome band has now become. Seriously, it not only hurts my ears but causes me pain in the very depth of my artistic soul to be subjected to the dreadful noises in this audio compilation.

    What is your worst song ever for this week?
     
  2. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    For the week of November 6, 2000, this was the #69 – uh, yeah – single in Canada on the 100 Hit Tracks chart from Canada's definitive music trade magazine, RPM.

    The next week RPM ceased publication forever, surely out of shame.

    [video=youtube;97CtEReZEaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CtEReZEaQ[/video]

    In Canada's national music awards, the Junos, they won a 2001 nomination for Best New Artist. They lost to Nickelback. I am really not sure how I feel about this.

    A postscript, affirming some faith in humanity: Two of the three members of the group that did the foregoing now – surely out of penance – do stuff like this:

    [video=youtube;GJBtyr9aF9s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBtyr9aF9s[/video]
     
  3. messenger456

    messenger456 New Member

    This week's worst song is "School" by Ryan Bane. Dubbed the new Rebecca Black, his track has already gone viral having reached over 47,000 views in a month.

    Ryan Bane - School - YouTube
     
  4. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    Let me paraphase a large part of the lyrics of a song released last year:

    This is supposed to be a love song from the singer to the subject! The singer repeatedly promises to "help." Yeah, keep building up her confidence like this why don't you.

    This was the #1 single in the U.K., platinum in the U.S., etc. Stop the world.

    [video=youtube;crrOl0egI00]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrOl0egI00[/video]
     
  5. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    That boy band is scary looking.

    Anything by Psy could easily qualify as one of the worst songs ever.
    PSY - GENTLEMAN M/V - YouTube
     
  6. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    Well, here's a doooooozy. There was a lot of controversy in the news and blogosphere over this song. I'm not posting it here due to any of that. I'm posting it here because it is absolutely terrible. The sophomoric lyrics make me cringe and the LL Cool J spot sounds like it was spliced in by a grade schooler who just dowloaded his first copy of Audacity this morning.

    [video=youtube;KSurzeGvPrQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSurzeGvPrQ[/video]

    There might be good intent lying somewhere behind this misguided effort, but I'm too turned off by every second of this song to try to figure out what that intent might be.
     
  7. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    This... this... this COULD NOT POSSIBLY exist. How the...? What the...? What the heck did McDonald's slip in my coffee this morning? Excuse me everyone, I think I need to reserve this weekend for detox.
     
  8. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    Commenter HappySurge, on Ta-Nehisi Coates' excellent blog from The Atlantic:

     
  9. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    So Coates wrote, link above:

    In this light, though: If you want to advance the important American conversation about driving around in impressive cars with attractive women, inviting Nelly (2000a, 2000b) is exactly what your country act SHOULD do.

    [video=youtube;bmZ9xRO7M9M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmZ9xRO7M9M[/video]

    Not posted here as a worst song.
     
  10. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    Nelly and Tim McGraw was a good collaboration. This...not so much.
     
  11. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

    I don't like either song, but the former only makes me roll my eyes while the latter makes me wish I was of a different species than the collaborators.
     
  12. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    Well maybe your standards for country-rap songs about driving in cars with women are higher than mine. :p

    Anyway, if you want a country-rap-Top-40 act with a REALLY steep fall between their best and their worst work: Mr. Bubba Sparxxx.

    [video=youtube;DsMikuC8dzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMikuC8dzs[/video]

    His worst work is something called "Ms. New Booty." I will not post it. I don't recommend looking it up.
     
  13. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    The former is better, certainly.

    But I'm also… very okay with a world where a natural way to get mainstream attention for your new-country party song is to throw a party rapper into it.
     
  14. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    I wouldn't classify Bubba Sparxxx as a country-rap artist. Timbaland, who produced much of Bubba's early music, had a penchant for integrating other genres into his hip hop and r&b tracks. Many of them had a Middle Eastern and Indian influence.

    Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly - YouTube

    Timbaland also used a lot of electronic sounds in his music.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuW38VImiqA
     
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  15. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    There's a pretty tough competition to be the worst song ever by an act like Nickelback. Much of it from Nickelback! But this is the worst. It's from some sort of minor-league affiliate of Nickelback called Theory of a Deadman.

    [video=youtube;XXieR34Gy3I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXieR34Gy3I[/video]

    Besides being misogyny in carbon-based form, has a musical group ever had a less charismatic frontman? When your stage presence drags a source material called – I'm sorry – "Bitch Came Back" down even further you should really pack it in.

    Of course this is all sacriligious to "The Cat Came Back." The 1988 animated short by Cordell Barker and the National Film Board of Canada is, truly, magic, beloved by generations.

    [video=youtube;bETCusT5kNM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM[/video]
     
  16. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    This is one of my favorite karaoke songs.
     
  17. Jonathan Whatley

    Jonathan Whatley Well-Known Member

    I have no doubt that you can make this work.
     
  18. Maniac Craniac

    Maniac Craniac Moderator Staff Member

  19. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    I don't understand the appeal of death metal, black metal, and a bunch of other metal sub-genres I can't really tell apart. I don't even think hardcore metal fans can tell them apart half of the time given the arguments I've seen in the YouTube comments section. The same is true for house, techno, trance, ambient house, tech house, progressive house, progressive trance, tech trance, minimal techno, minimal house, etc. I never understood the need for all of these sub-genres. These sub-genres are so limiting that all of the songs in the sub-genres sound the same.

    However, I did listen to a lot of alternative metal and numetal when it was popular about 10-15 years ago. They are much more rhythmic and melodic than most other metal sub-genres. I also know that people probably don't understand some of the other music I listen to. Some people don't like that hip hop is not very melodic. I listen to it for the rhythm. A lot of people think that r&b is boring, but I love its soulfulness.

    The song that I hate the most right now just happens to be on the r&b charts. It's not that it's terrible; it's just unremarkable, but it's played all the time on 4 different stations in my city. Over 100 million views for a plain jane song that sounds like a knockoff of a Prince song?
    Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell - YouTube
     
  20. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

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