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Worst songs ever written

Snoopy and the Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen

Convoy by C.W. McCall

Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus

Macarena by Los Del Rio

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum

It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp by Three 6 Mafia
 
A whiter shade of pale?????

That song is awesome!
 
You know what's odd?

Type in "R&B" in a youtube search bar and you'll get some of the worst songs ever written. Type in "Rhythm and Blues" and you'll get some of the best songs ever written. Anyway, since this is the worst songs thread ...

Some generic guy crooning on generic music:

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Granted there are some gems to be found there still:

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Jay Sean is kinda mind boggling. I think he was raised in Punjab (or by Punjabi parents?), but he makes the most generic music I've ever heard in my life.
 
Dumanios said:
Most of the stuff that is popular right now. The fact that I'm expected to like it is another problem. I like good music by people like the Beatles and Micheal Jackson. To anylyze certain singers, bands and songs:

Justin Beiber: Sounds like the girliest dude I've ever heard, can anyone say 'Dude sounds like a lady'?

Miley Cyrus: The music is pop, I don't like that.

Taylor Swift: She needs to be told that a banjo doesn't equal country, just like a trumpet doesn't equal an orchestra

Black Eyed Peas: I've gotta feeling is the worst song I have ever heard. Full Stop.

Jo Bros: I heard they broke up. Good.

Fireflies: This song is about a super-obsessive bug collector.

Ke$ha: Her song may be catchy as hell, that doesn't necessarily make it good.

Lady GaGa: Before she was famous(90s), she was good, now, she doesn't make any sense.

Poker Face: The only good thing that can come out of this song is a humorous Weird Al parody involving polka

Britney Spears: Bats*** insane. Period.
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Fireflies is about the singer, who suffers from insomnia and can't sleep. Not about bug collecting.
 
Red Door said:
It does not make it less terrible or the lyrics any better.
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That's really a matter of opinion, and you are certainly entitled to your own. I think it makes the lyrics very original. Love songs for example, are very overdone. How many songs exist about not being able to sleep though? Seriously.
 
Oldschooler88 said:
That's really a matter of opinion, and you are certainly entitled to your own. I think it makes the lyrics very original. Love songs for example, are very overdone. How many songs exist about not being able to sleep though? Seriously.
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Quality is not about originality. In fact, there is no part of originality that should make a song "good" or "bad." You can craft the same idea of a song in many forms, which is why there are "many" love songs.

It is an objective truth that Owl City has awful lyrics, especially in Fireflies.

The argument of originality equaling quality is very surprising coming from you, considering the band you worship comes up with over-used, homogeneous lyrics to copied riffs.
 
Red Door said:
Quality is not about originality. In fact, there is no part of originality that should make a song "good" or "bad." You can craft the same idea of a song in many forms, which is why there are "many" love songs.

It is an objective truth that Owl City has awful lyrics, especially in Fireflies.

The argument of originality equaling quality is very surprising coming from you, considering the band you worship comes up with over-used, homogeneous lyrics to copied riffs.
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The band I worship? I know what you're referring to and that's an ultra-fail. I made on thread about that band and one thread only. In reality, I haven't even listened to them for months. I'm a mild fan of Coldplay at most. More than anything, I was just angry they were falsley accused of plagarism.

For example, I hate rap music but if I rap star was falsley accused of something I would be just as defensive of the rap star as I would be for Coldplay. It has very little to do with whether I like the music or not- it matters as to whether an injustice is happening.

Viva la vida's lyrics are very original, and the riffs are not from anywhere. In fact, i'll have you know that Joe Satriani is not even the only one accusing them of plagarism. At least several other artist- including Cat Stevens have done the same thing. So tell me- which one should coldplay pay? Stevens? Satriani? Creeky boards? Or one of the other several groups that have accused them of copying?

Further more there only 12 notes that exist, so simularities are bound to exist. One of duffy's hit songs sounded nearly exactly the same as "time of the season" by the zombies, but of course she was never sued because that's just the way the industry is.

Quality is a part of originality up to a certain point and you certainly can't say that it is an "objective truth" that fireflies is an awful song. It is pure matter of opinion. Make one more personal attack against me and I will not hesitate to unleash my list.
 
Oldschooler88 said:
Viva la vida's lyrics are very original, and the riffs are not from anywhere. In fact, i'll have you know that Joe Satriani is not even the only one accusing them of plagarism. At least several other artist- including Cat Stevens have done the same thing. So tell me- which one should coldplay pay? Stevens? Satriani? Creeky boards? Or one of the other several groups that have accused them of copying?
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Well, that's not good, is it? It's amazing how many artists they can copy.

Quality is a part of originality up to a certain point and you certainly can't say that it is an "objective truth" that fireflies is an awful song. It is pure matter of opinion. Make one more personal attack against me and I will not hesitate to unleash my list.
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But your argument was the originality translates to quality, not the other way around. They are very different. And yes, it is quite objectively bad.
 
Red Door said:
Well, that's not good, is it? It's amazing how many artists they can copy.



But your argument was the originality translates to quality, not the other way around. They are very different. And yes, it is quite objectively bad.
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1) The point I was making was that there are only 12 notes in existance, so there are bound to be simularities between songs. And there are several songs like that, and many of them could have copied each other. Coldplay just gets all the attention because there version just happened to have the most commercial success, and everyone wants the money associated with that.

2) Did I say originality translates to quality? My mistake. What I meant to say that at least the song is original, and so many songs today are not original. You can't prove scientifically that Fireflies is objectively bad so therefore it's not. I'm not trying to "defend" Fireflies as a fan. I don't even like the song that much to tell you the truth. I'm just tired of people saying this song or that is can possibly be objectively bad, when in fact it can't.
 
Oldschooler88 said:
1) The point I was making was that there are only 12 notes in existance, so there are bound to be simularities between songs. And there are several songs like that, and many of them could have copied each other. Coldplay just gets all the attention because there version just happened to have the most commercial success, and everyone wants the money associated with that.

2) Did I say originality translates to quality? My mistake. What I meant to say that at least the song is original, and so many songs today are not original. You can't prove scientifically that Fireflies is objectively bad so therefore it's not. I'm not trying to "defend" Fireflies as a fan. I don't even like the song that much to tell you the truth. I'm just tired of people saying this song or that is can possibly be objectively bad, when in fact it can't.
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That first type of thinking is wrong and is what leads to copyright infringements.

And when you look at the lyrics of Fireflies, you see the repeating lines, lack of originality in wording, and simplicity and it is pretty easy to see why it is objectively bad.
 
Oldschooler88 said:
2) Did I say originality translates to quality? My mistake. What I meant to say that at least the song is original, and so many songs today are not original. You can't prove scientifically that Fireflies is objectively bad so therefore it's not. I'm not trying to "defend" Fireflies as a fan. I don't even like the song that much to tell you the truth. I'm just tired of people saying this song or that is can possibly be objectively bad, when in fact it can't.
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But that song isn't original at all, it clearly sounds like a shameless Postal Service ripoff.
 
dannyshenanigan said:
But that song isn't original at all, it clearly sounds like a shameless Postal Service ripoff.
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They're in the same genre of music. You could just as well say 50 cent is a rip off of other rappers. (not that I even like rap).

Perhaps there is a specific Postal Service song you are referring to though?
 
Oldschooler88 said:
They're in the same genre of music. You could just as well say 50 cent is a rip off of other rappers. (not that I even like rap).

Perhaps there is a specific Postal Service song you are referring to though?
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I dislike the Postal Service and have only heard that one popular song of theirs. When I first had the misfortune of hearing fireflies I thought they were the same band.

The vocal deliveries sound nearly identical (fireflies seems to have a little more awful autotune though), same generic synthpop-by-numbers sounds, and sappy lyrics. I found both lyrics to be very corny, but the line "Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs" from fireflies especially cringe worthy.

I'm hardly alone, I just wasted my time looking at a few reviews and every one of them pointed out the clear similarity to the Postal Service. It seems that the fellow from Owl city constantly has to defend his song from being a ripoff.
There are many songs out there who are genuinely original. Of all the songs out there, please don't refer to fireflies as original.
 
dannyshenanigan said:
I dislike the Postal Service and have only heard that one popular song of theirs. When I first had the misfortune of hearing fireflies I thought they were the same band.

The vocal deliveries sound nearly identical (fireflies seems to have a little more awful autotune though), same generic synthpop-by-numbers sounds, and sappy lyrics. I found both lyrics to be very corny, but the line "Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs" from fireflies especially cringe worthy.

I'm hardly alone, I just wasted my time looking at a few reviews and every one of them pointed out the clear similarity to the Postal Service. It seems that the fellow from Owl city constantly has to defend his song from being a ripoff.
There are many songs out there who are genuinely original. Of all the songs out there, please don't refer to fireflies as original.
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As to the vocal deliveries? Adam young and Ben Gibbard just happen to have a simular voice. Whether the lyrics are good are not is pure matter of opinion, though I have to agree with you that the line "I get a thousand hugs from 10,000 lighntning bugs" is a desperate attempt at a rhyme.

The lyrics of Fireflies and "Such Great Heights" (the one Postal service song that you say you have heard) have very little, if anything in common.

Again, they're just in the same genre of music. Btw I suggest you watch this if you want to see how much that music is unoriginal, and then you'll see what I mean by fireflies being original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
 
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