Worst Songs Of The 00's - Page 2

What kind of sick person blocks youtube? I can watch the videos, I just don't have speakers so I can't hear them

Fixed, Judas.

Much obliged, Justin

I nominate about 99.999999% of the new music played on rock radio today.

Daniel Porter just won the Bill Board award for ONE HIT WONDER of the DECADE

Fuck you.

EDIT: Eh, never mind. Way late on this one.

Everybody keeps mentioning Brokencyde but are they even relevant or are they just some obscure band that everybody takes great pleasure in slagging?

After listening to some of the local pop radio stations in the past few weeks, I could easily see idiots digging that type of shit.

My Top Six:

6) Alan Jackson - Where Were You? (any 9/11 exploitation song could go here, but this one sticks out most)
5) Eminem - We Made You
4) Plain White Tees - Hey There Delilah
3) Fort Minor - Where'd You Go?
2) Kanye West - Heartless
1) Every Nickelback song. No one Nickelback song is unique from any of their others in any way.

I'll give James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" a pass for inspiring a great Weird Al song.

Aside from overplay, I've always been surprised at the level of hate aimed at this song. It's actually pretty good for what it is - guitar pop band tries to do Simon & Garfunkel (with a touch of seriously de-fanged Elliott Smith) and does a reasonably decent job at it.

If we're talking dumbed-down, half-assed ripoffs, Owl City's crimes are far more egregious (even if I don't think they're worthy of decade worst status).

Crazy talk.

Crazier talk. That's like giving Nickelback a pass for inspiring Nickelback humor.

Ouch, and I thought it was okay to like Owl City.

And the obvious answer is that heart-warming ode to lynching and vigilante justice, "Beer for my Horses" by one Tobias Keith. Fuck that song.

Runner up: "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock.

Second Runner up: "The Monster is Loose" by Meat Loaf. Oh how the mighty have fallen. :: sad face ::

Oh, and "Bubbletoes" by Jack Johnson. Fuck Jack Johnson so, so, so, so, so, so much.

It may someday be okay if the guy comes clean and admits that his entire shtick is "Postal Service for Dummies" (which is a ridiculous concept to begin with, since there's nothing hard about the Postal Service, but his version is most certainly "the dumb version").

I try not to let background get in the way of aesthetics, but I don't think I've ever heard such a blatant case of the majors cashing in on an excellent, original independent band's style. Maybe the guy came by his PS approximation organically and it wasn't a matter of his label saying "hey, can you deliver that line a little more like Ben Gibbard?" or "how about throwing some more old-fashioned Atari-sounding beeps on there," but it's certainly no coincidence that Owl City (Billboard album peak - 7, song peak -1) is on Universal Republic and Postal Service (Billboard album peak - 114, no singles charted) was on Sub Pop.

So, yeah, as long as he maintains that "uh, yeah, I think I heard 'em once" excuse, he is One With Nickelback in my book.

I've been blissfully unaware of top 40 country since my undergraduate days (during which the occasional Garth Brooks and Shania Twain were as unavoidable as Dave Matthews), but I'll trust you on all alleged Toby Keith crimes against humanity. "All Summer Long" is certainly a contender, too.

I concur.

Yeah, you could say that. I want to genuinely hear John Ritter's reasoning on why 'Heartless' is one of the worst songs of the decade.

Does. Not. Compute. (***says it in Auto-Tune***)

Hey There Delilah - Plain White Tees

All Summer Long - Kid Rock

If I Were A Boy - Beyonce

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne

Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas


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You guys are taking crazy pills if you seriously think Hey There Delilah and Stacy's Mom are the worst songs of the decade.

There's a difference between a song that is annoying, a song that is bad, and a song that is outright reprehensible because of what it's saying. "Don't Trust Me," which is basically a date-rape anthem, is far worse than "Let's Get It Started." And so "Beer for my Horses," which equates the antiquated right wing "back in my day" nostalgia with America's penchant and history of hanging people who 'got out of line' or 'didn't know their place' is far worse than any of the other songs in this thread.

Can we converge on all these factors and agree on Asher Roth - I Love College?

You're not a fan of pizza at a dollar a slice, Justin?

You typed my reasoning for me. The song is the perfect example of how unneeded and overused effects can kill an otherwise harmless song.

ANY AMERICA FUCK YEAH song that isn't the one from Team America. Re: all 9/11 exploitation ballads. Also, where were you when they built the ladder to heaven?

That fucking rendition of "Lollipop" from the Dell netbook commercials.

Anything by Fallout Boy or Good Charlotte.

"All the Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". Fuck that song, Beyonce is beautiful but she really, really grates on me.

Any Gwen Stefani solo effort.

Oh, and I LOVE the Dynamite Hack version of "Boyz N the Hood"!

But that song doesn't exist without autotune - that's like saying an unneeded and overused drum solo kills "Wipe Out." That song and the entire album from which "Heartless" comes rely heavily on autotune to make a conceptual point. It's not just window-dressing.

The only reasonI can see for hating "Stacy's Mom" and "Hey There Delilah" is overplay and, frankly, that doesn't cut it for Worst of the Decade. "Stacy's Mom" may not be Fountains of Wayne's lyrical peak, but it's a pretty stellar pop song from a melody and arrangement standpoint.

And "Delilah" - well, that's just insanely innocuous. As mentioned above, the hate makes utterly no sense to me, assuming you don't hate other acoustic-backed pop ballads. Maybe someone would care to explain it without using "overplayed" as rationale?

Surely Limp Bizkit had to have recorded a song sometime this decade, right? So that.

Me too. Although, I would say that Brooks and Twain weren't all that bad. Their successors? Ugh.

Both "Rollin'" and their cover of "Behind Blue Eyes" qualify. Worthy additions to the list, both.

Just don't like the voice. I think the lyrics are dumb too. Overplay does have a lot to do with it, I will admit, but I hated the song from the get-go and never understood why people liked it before it "hit it big."

I hate this song because he can't even take a stand on which song he's ripping off.

I'll agree to disagree. If you're in to the concept of auto-tune, then this song and album are for you. I think it's just plain silly and makes everything sound so fake. I played the shit out of Graduation and was really disappointed with 808's and Heartbreak.

As for All Summer Long, I could totally live with him covering Sweet Home Alabama, because, well, fuck that song. But Zevon? Come on.

Say what you want about her and her personality, but that song is pretty killer.

I'm not necessarily for or or against the concept of Auto-Tune. Kanye made it work to his advantage on 808s & Heartbreak, and he incorporated it into his songwriting better than any artist I've heard. It also helped put the focus on his lyrics more than ever, and he wrote arguably his best on that album.

What may sound "fake" to you revealed a vulnerablity and emotional nakedness from my perspective.

Also, I was being absolutely literal when I said that the song wouldn't exist without autotune - Kanye isn't a singer and probably couldn't have hit those notes without help. Like the song or don't like it, but how can autotune ruin a "completely harmless" song when autotune is exactly what makes its existence possible?

Yeah, I totally agree. It's just all around god awful.

To some extent I understand the hate for "Put a Ring on it", but overall, Beyonce is pretty god damn solid. She's got a great voice, and she knows how to put out songs that make you want to fucking move.

Maybe it's because I've been to some amazing parties where this song is played, and as soon as it comes on, everyone (including most of the punk and metal people that I hang out with) start dancing, but despite some of the lyrical retardation, "Diva" is a great song with an incredible beat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNM5HW13_O8

You're right, Kanye's not a singer. He's a rapper, and needs to stick to rapping and writing. Kanye could have written the song and given it to someone with the right singing chops, but instead used the auto-tune to let himself perform it, though it was well out of his range. I'd much rather hear someone actually sing a song than have someone with less vocal range use effects to water it down. But if you like it, fine. It's a matter of opinion, and mine is that it's really bad.

I had forgotten about Limp Bizkit until I read this thread. "Nookie" and "Faith" are proof that Satan exists.

"Glorious Dawn" and Autotune the News alone justify the existence and use of that effect.

"Stacy's Mom" is one of those songs that shows sometimes a band's best known hit is very far away from their best song. It's a fun song but it hardly compares to what Fountains of Wayne have done after.

I always forget that "Delilah" exists until I hear it again. Then I dislike it for the entire three minutes that it's on and then go back to forgetting it exists. It's disposable.

"I'm Old and Boring : The Thread (2009 Hollaback Remix)"

What good new music gets played on rock radio?

Granted, I don't tune in all that much, but the overwhelming majority of shit played around here is of the Puddle of Mudd, 3 Days Grace, Killswitch Engage, Kid Rock, etc. etc. etc. variety.

Almost anything good is an older tune. I'm certainly not saying there isn't great rock music today. But I'll be damned it much sees airplay here in the South (which, of course, says a mouthful).

This monstrosity managed to make it just before the deadline.

Kesha, "Tik Tok"

That song is liver failure set to music.

I believe you left out a $, sir.

Not about to give her any more money than she already has.

The $ substitution in the name is so 1996...

Valid points all, even though she or her paymasters would probably cite some sort of contrived "post-ironic" nonsense behind that move.

You're not alone, sir. In the car/at home it's either iTunes/iPod (i.e. my choice of tunes), or if the radio does go on, it's talk of some variety.

Getting Satelite radio, or having access to a good college radio station would do a lot of people here some good.

Or use last.fm

If you listen to more than 30 minutes of radio a day and hate commercials and a lack of decent music, it's worth the 15 bucks.