Worst Songs Ever

[Skunkle]

I've got an entry that I believe can beat anything posted before. This thread is OVER.

So, I'm sure some people know this. I didn't, I don't follow either singer whatsoever. Apparently current rapper Nicki Minaj and past rapper Lil' Kim have a huge, angry and bitter rivalry. Kim was indeed one of the earlier big names in female rappers, one of the pioneers as it were, and it seems she accused Minaj of parroting her style, and off went another of those hateful, spiteful rivalries which seem to exist in no other music genre beyond rap.

Minaj has created multiple songs to remind listeners that she hates Lil' Kim. Oh, does she ever hate Lil' Kim. The hate, it burns, forever and ever. And don't you (the public) ever forget it! (Lil' Kim has, it seems, also created numerous songs to remind listeners of how deeply she despises Nicki Minaj.) This particular song is called "Stupid Hoe." I vote it as the most painful song ever created. Play this as a torture device and the subject will beg you to switch to "Friday." I shan't link it here.

Look it up on YouTube if you'd like to have your ears bleed. I'll give you a sample of the chorus, though:
You a stupid hoe, you a stupid, stupid hoe!
You a stupid hoe, you a stupid, stupid hoe!
You a stupid hoe, you a stupid, stupid hoe!
You a stupid hoe, yeah, you a stupid, stupid hoe!
...repeat ad nauseam... I dare anyone to listen to this song in its entirety without screaming and smashing something. At least some of the previous entries here begin with, "It has a catchy tune, but..." or, "The lyrics are okay, except..." This song lacks the slightest touch of anything likeable; it has painfully poor lyrics in which Minaj compares Kim to assorted low-quality things, sort of like a twisted variant of "You're The Top." The music is as flat as a sheet of paper, its only hook of sorts being a repeating high-pitched noise which seems to be designed to make the listener go insane.

At least Rebecca Black didn't write any part of "Friday." The entire song was made for her, she just sang it, and her mother even thought it sounded vapid! Nicki Minaj, at least in part, wrote this masterpiece.

[bex1218]

That's a song I liked at first and then got sick of almost immediately due to overplay. Same goes for Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines

I forgot how weird Blurred Lines was as a vid. I am lucky enough to not have need to listen to the radio between my phone and ipod.

Any Skrillex song. Or dubstep for that matter.

I am trying to think of horrid 90s music. So far what I hated then, I love now. Odd.

[Skunkle]

One note I should make here-- think about it...

...every generation has a general tendency to dislike music of following generations. We're looking at today's vapid-seeming pop and thinking, "Why isn't there any great classic rock'n'roll being produced now?" People who grew up in the 1930s-early 50s were looking at 60s rock, and then even more, 70s rock, and thinking, "What's THIS crap? Why isn't there anyone still turning out good orchestral swing music? This music is worthless! The young people today have no taste."

The only big exception to this was disco, and I'm not sure what drove the hatred; a lot of disco had a good dance beat and used some full orchestra formerly only done in pop music by The Beatles. It was slickly-produced and polished. Loads of people proudly wearing "Disco Sucks" shirts in the early 80s were just as happy groovin' to it on the dance floor five years earlier. But for some reason, it got an extremely harsh backlash.

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[Andara Bledin]

I don't care for most of the Police's catalog, either. They tend to be simplistic and excessively repetitious.

[Skunkle]

Not a Police fan. Especially "Roxanne."

Another song a lot of people like that I don't is "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks. My mom agrees, but adds something I haven't heard much of: she says she often hears people talking about how deeply meaningful the lyrics are to them, and she finds them nonsensical. I got tired of it, though, back in the late 90s. A DJ who otherwise played stuff I loved was crazy about the song. There are seven recordings of that from Nicks, and this DJ played all of them in rotation, usually accompanied by some gushing about why this or that version was oh-so-special.

I suppose that's personal, though; if lyrics strike you, they strike you, and if they don't, they don't. I've heard several people talk about how deeply they were hit by the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova" and, while I generally like the song, its lyrics seem to me to be random nonsense, and the singer claims they pretty much were: written while drunk and high, listening to an album called "Supernova" and watching a documentary about Champagne manufacturing.

As for my last post up there, I just mean that music is subjective. Someone who likes "Friday" may not have bad taste, just different taste than mine. Lyrical content like "She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" was regarded pretty much the same way when it was new, as utter garbage with no substance or value at all.

If I had to nominate a song I'd consider true garbage, I again suggest Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe." Look up the lyrics, listen to the song, and I have a suspicion that, unless in your opinion Minaj and Lil' Kim's desperate battle of dissing each other is justified, you'll find this one appalling. I assume that many Minaj followers will enjoy it; as I understand, it uses several styles that are trademarks for her, including alter personalities signalled by different voices. Yet I can't shake the fact that the entire point of the song is, "I'm all that, and you're a piece of shit. Ball's in your court, come at me."

[Rageaholic]

I never liked Nicki Minaj anyway. Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[DGoddess]

that sounds a lot like one of Donna Summer's songs. *****reaching waaaaaayyyyy back into my memories of Disco in the mid 1970's****** I remember a 17 minute "song" of her having what could only be described as continious orgasms (though I could be wrong on that will have to look into it)

Love To Love You Baby, which was a hit for her originally in Europe before it took off here. The way I remember that being told (may have been on a segment of "Biography") was that Donna basically laid down in the recording studio, with the lights off and fooled around with the microphone and that's what they (Donna and the producers, Pete Bellotte and Georgio Moroder) came up with.

And the rest, as they say, is Disco history . . .

Okay, so I'm a Donna Summer fan . . . don't shoot me.

[catcul]

I never liked Nicki Minaj anyway. Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

You could also say the same thing about that crap she calls "music."

[DGoddess]

You could also say the same thing about that crap she calls "music."

That's pretty much my same sentiments over most of this noise folks call "music" these days.

Just give me the old stuff any day . . . 60's and 70s stuff and I'm happy.

[Ginger Tea]

I saw a Korean or Japanese cover of Call me maybe, even though there was a band on stage the sound was identical (least to my ears), it even had the wind down sound right at the end, that song is out of my list of hate, not that it was ever really terrible terrible, just not all that great compared to what else I could be listening to instead.
One of the saving graces was someone posted a mash up using the music matched to Head like a hole, the mashup is called call me a hole.

If I didn't post about it way back when, someone slowed down Friday to a 30 minute track, it's quite ambient and I should listen to it more as background noise.

[Gibbo]

If you're going to call a song best song ever then make it the best song ever, rather than soulless dirge that makes me want to pull out my eardrums. Yes One Direction I'm talking to you.

[Rageaholic]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but "Whistle" by Flo Rida is fucking disgusting.

[Rageaholic]

That's pretty much my same sentiments over most of this noise folks call "music" these days.

Just give me the old stuff any day . . . 60's and 70s stuff and I'm happy.

As someone in the younger generation...

I completely agree. Todays pop music pretty much sucks.

[Dreamstalker]

Anything by Mariah Carey (is she even relevant anymore?) is instant rage-inducing--long story short, I was once in a residential psych camp that used her 'songs' as an alarm clock. HAAATE.

Pretty much everything currently on my store's Muzak; there are a couple songs I used to like back in the day, but now due to over-repetition I can't stand.