What's the worst song you've ever heard?

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My worst song is Say by John Mayer, and I think it probably requires a little explanation.


I used to work at a hardware store, and like many retail stores they had music playing over the intercom. I don't know if this was the radio or what, but it seemed like at least once a day I'd hear it, if not twice or three times (if it was a long shift). Normally the music never stood out to me there, but this song in particular was driving me mad, and if you look at the lyrics you might see why...

Take out of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all your so called problems
Better put them in quotations

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Walkin' like a one man army
Fightin' with the shadows in your head
Livin' out the same old moment
Knowin' youd be better off instead
If you could only

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Have no fear for givin' in
Have no fear for givin' over
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much
Than to never to say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shakin'
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closin'
Do it with a heart wide open
A wide heart

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

The chorus of this song is just him singing "Say what you need to say" eight times. Not just that, the final chorus is two and a half times longer than the others, taking up the entire last third of the song. It goes on and on for what feels like forever.

I'm fairly certain you could use this song to torture people.
 
Oh goodie, another one. When I was working at a chain bookstore, we were promoting this "coffeeshop brew" CD featuring all these soft squishy indie artists. We'd play the same three samples tracks on the main PA throughout the day and they were the dumbest fucking things. I would actually time my breaks to these songs just to get away from them; as soon as the first chords played, I'd grab my purse and get out of there.

But especially this bitch. This bitch was the most sappy faux-female-empowerment LiveJournal-poetry-set-to-pop-chords shit I have ever heard.

 
MacArthur Park by Donna Summer.

Actually no. I just thought of the worst I ever heard. I actually, genuinely passed out listening to it, and woke up feeling dumber.

Alright you masochist, watch to the entirety of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" in one sitting, no breaks, no other stimulation. This is your final mission.

Chapters 1-33 - Playlist

Yes this is technically a SINGLE SONG. All 133 minutes of it.
 
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Former cheeta girl. 'nuff said.

oh and the description is worth a read :

ATTENTION: I am an actress and performer. I have been so since my first role in a television pilot at five years old. I played a character when I was a Cheetah Girl. I am playing a character in the music video for the song Spectacular, as I did in the Cheetah Girl movies.

The fact is, that sometimes women get intoxicated and have unprotected sex. My video puts this issue front and center. It is absurd to infer or suggest that I am condoning this behavior. Are Lady Gaga and Beyonce advocating murder with the Telephone video? Of, course not. Was Rihanna encouraging suicide with Russian Roulette? No. Was Madonna suggesting that young unmarried girls get pregnant with Papa Dont Preach? I dont think so. Is Academy Award winner Monique a proponent of incest because of her portrayal of Mary in the movie Precious. Clearly, the answer is no.

I wrote Spectacular and made the video to bring attention to a serious womens health and safety issue. Dont shoot the messenger."
 
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Because posting every song in the top 40 since the fall of Britpop would take way too much time and I don't think the site would handle that (with every One Direction song posted twice because fuck those guys).
 
This shit right here:

Someone I carpool with always plays the radio like an idiot, and this fucking song comes on constantly. It cracks me up when he says "yallready know who it is" because nobody has a goddamn clue who it is. He got signed to Capital Records off this one song that doesn't even have a first verse.
 
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Because posting every song in the top 40 since the fall of Britpop would take way too much time and I don't think the site would handle that (with every One Direction song posted twice because fuck those guys).
YAHURR
 
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The first time I heard that Anaconda song by Nicki Minaj in a sushi restaurant (of all places), I hated it. I don't know why it's so popular...

Because people are fucking stupid.

And Minaj thought that song didn't get nominated for some rinky dink award ceremony just because she was black, so she's unaware and a terrible person too.
 
An obvious choice, but:
It's not biting and clever satire of the current generation, it's just annoying to listen to.

Honestly though? The beat is catchy as all fuck, and the phrasing of the vocals is pretty cool IMO. Plus The Chainsmokers do have songs that are a lot better, in meaning and in execution. ("Kanye" in particular)

Lyrically, you're right. It's many leagues below the social commentary of 'American Pie' or even 'We Didn't Start the Fire'. But for what it is -- an intentionally brainless yet self-aware dance song -- it's not that bad. I do give it props for its attempts at biting satire.

I hate hate hate hate Anaconda though. I've never could physically listen to it in its entirety.
 
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