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I Will Wait for You by Mumford and Sons.
Only place I ever heard it was at a soul-sucking job I hated.
Any of the modern bro country BS, with white dudes trying to rap about trucks and shit. Had a coworker that’d blast that shit and it drove me insane.
I always thought that these kind of songs are just a bit. No wonder these fuckers like AI country songs
A disturbing amount of that shit is them singing about being cucked too. It’s fucking weird.
All I want for Christmas is you
I worked in retail in the early-mid 00s
Back when Christmas time meant the in-store music CD was just one disk we had on loop for basically 2 months rather than the usual selection of a few disks
I don’t think I’ve felt hatred like it since
♪ I don’t want a lot in Christmas ♪
I’m a crusty metal head. It takes a lot, and I mean A LOT, to make me hate a song. Design the Skyline’s 2011 flaming pile of shit Surrounded by Silence is the single worst metal song I’ve ever listened to. At a time where we had major musical juggernauts like BTBAM, Periphery, Protest the Hero, After the Burial, and so many other great technically sound musicians just hitting their stride or deep in their prime, Design the Skyline said ‘this’ll do.’
I could rip into this thing a million different ways. Lets just start with the fucking aesthetics. It’s 2011. I’m a year into college. Hipsterism is on the rise. Scene kids are dying out. These guys are the last vestige of an embarrassingly low period of teenage subculture. You got two lead screamers. A gelfling, and Rhea Ripley 12 years before her time. The bassist is little brother Ethan after Mom said let your little brother be in the band. 3 nondescript other dudes wearing girls clothing who are too embarrassed to show their faces at all. And a drummer who is too good for this shit. They’re children of that time. The first thing I thought to my self as soon as they show up in the video even back then is, ‘we’re still doing this?’
The start of the song is the best part. It’s this techy synth stuff with great dynamics that fits the era. It’s long enough to make you think we’re in for a good ride. Then it drops out and the actual band starts and hooooo boy is it bad. It’s pure WHAT THE FUCK! The two screamers go back and forth unintelligibly. The guitars are playing fuck all. The bass drops out like fucking Hetfield was mixing And Justice For All. It’s just chaos.
Then you get to the chorus. It’s autotuned to shit. In the actual video the gelfling is battling snow that keeps falling into his mouth. The Rhea clone is dry heaving and singing at the same time. He legit looks like he’s gonna be sick the way he’s moving. Then little brother Ethan comes in. He’s the most awkward, no confidence looking mother fucker of the whole video. He looks like he spent the whole day getting yelled at to move like this and you’ll look cool, but it was really a joke and he just looks stupid. To the point there’s a shot of the Rhea clone staring off and rolling his eyes while little brother Ethan is singing, like why is he here? It’s just a fucking mess. The best part of the chorus is this is the only time in the whole song it happens.
Then it returns back to the chaos of nothingness musically and you feel shock. Why am I being bombarded by this? What is the point of this song? What is the point of my life? There are legit musicians at this period of time. Misha Mansoor is working hard on P2. The boys in BTBAM are working hard on P2. Everybody is waiting for the next Contortionist album. You got a whole new movement in Djent. Then this shit forces it’s way into the spotlight like a distraction from the Epstein Files.
And when I tell you the description I’m writing is nothing compared to the hate this song got at the time, I fucking mean it. They released their record then split up. The amount of hate they got broke the band up. There was no way anyone was taking any of this shit seriously. That’s how bad it was.
Here it is. Do not enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSZI6UJEUQThe only other songs that makes me a fraction as upset as the above is Pause and Rib Woman on Frosting by Bent Knee. I can’t prove it but I really think those two songs caused a rift in the band that got Ben and Jess kicked out the band. Ben with out of control creativity that tanked a record on Pause. Whoever decided to have a high pitched alarm go off for a whole song deserves to be whipped. Nobody wants to listen to Jess moan for a whole song like Rib Woman. They’re lucky they had the cover of covid to leave, but man that record really upset a lot of people. None more than the band itself. They’ll never say it but it’s pretty obvious. The Hyperpop experiment was a failure.
Man, that was so much worse than I was expecting
I couldn’t finish it, I read this masterful take down and still pushed my luck. I think I need a cleansing song, my musical palette is defiled.
I’m sorry. I warned you but I’m still sorry.
Same, I got maybe 30-40 seconds in before I had to turn that trash off.
If you want a suggestion (that the OP also mentioned), check out Between the Buried and Me (I’m always partial to Prequel to the Sequel or anything off of the dual album Parallax/Parallax 2: Hypersleep dialogs - that playlist is my pallate cleanser)
Excellent, thank you
Commenting so I remember to give it a listen later. Sounds… greaaat.
This post was so good, I’m nominating it for Best of Lemmy material. You’ve got a way with words, my friend, and though I loathe to expose more innocents to this song’s noise, you painted such a vivid picture that this description is worth sharing.
LOL Thank you. That’s so funny. All these years later and this stupid song is getting me internet fame. HAAAAHAHAHAH!!!
Your description was so good, curiosity got the better of me and I clicked the link. I even made it through the whole thing, despite every urge to stop the pain. I think I’ve done irreparable damage to my recommendation algorithm. And to think I was just going to say Kokomo.
I think I’ve done irreparable damage to my recommendation algorithm.
Thanks for the warning! Opens private tab
[After watching] Okay. Wow. Well. Now that the song has stopped, my ears feel oddly empty. That was… a lot.
Kids - this is why we can’t go with every single idea we come up with, especially in a collaborative effort like a band. There are times we have to edit back for the sake of a shared project. It seems like everyone came into this song with their own list of “cool ideas” and the group decided, “Let’s just do them ALL!” There’s no cohesion, no direction, no shared vision. Everyone wants their moment and their thing, and the band just lets it all happen in one chaotic collection.
After watching this, I feel like them splitting up was bound to happen. At times it’s almost like they’re each trying to play a different song that happens to line up with what everyone else is playing. A band can’t function if the members can’t agree on what song they’re making. Props to the drummer, not just because OP is right that he’s too good for this, but because I can’t imagine how much worse this all would’ve sounded if the rest didn’t have someone skilled keeping time for them. The percussion is the lone scaffold holding all the different parts together. Sadly, it’s not enough.
At one point in watching, I imagined their poor parents living in a house where these kids were practicing in the garage. Or standing awkwardly at the back of some public performance, trying to support their kids but feeling deeply embarrassed and trying not to make eye contact with anyone.
I could rip into this thing a million different ways.
And so you have. Bravo!
I read your comment and clicked the link thinking it couldn’t possibly be as bad as you described. But it really is so bad that my shoulders physically lifted as my head sunk into my chest and I leaned back. It’s… just… so… bad.
Thanks for taking one for the team!
I’m just glad my sacrifice was not in vain.
I laughed when the song kicked in after the intro. Your description of the whole thing was completely accurate.
That drummer was definitely way too good, and that’s probably why he featured more heavily in the clip than I think I’ve ever seen a drummer feature. I hope he’s doing something fun now.
Maybe they’re just doing a Captain Beefheart cover. https://youtu.be/r9lpLm7jwQY
On the bright side, you’d given me a perfect example to share when they ask me why I don’t like 00s+ emo culture (in general), and their influence then and now in rock and metal music.
Wonderful Christmas Time.
It’s awful and Sir Paul McCartney should be ashamed of himself for making it
This is the first specific song I’ve seen mentioned twice in this thread (so far.)
I’m amused by how many Christmas songs are making this list. I imagine there wouldn’t be such strong feelings if we weren’t forced to listen to them ad nauseam for a month straight.
Simply having a
Amen, friend. It’s such a shit song.
My humps by Black Eyed Peas
Let’s get “it started” is another awful BEP song, and not just because the album version constantly repeats a slur
“what no it doesnt?” - me five minutes before discovering something crazy.
why the fuck was it that in the first place??? their songs barely make sense but that makes even less sense.
Are you talking about Let’s Get Retarded? That was the original version. Personally, I find “It started” to be moreso.
Yeah, but at least the radio version isn’t constantly repeating that slur, so it’s the superior version of a shit song.
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You’re showing your lack of intelligence here. Whatever you think the word means, the slur still a slur.
Do you think it’s ok to call people the n-word, even though you’re not trying to demean a black person?
Have you ever heard the phrase “getting stupid”? Well, this is one level beyond that.
Yes! I knew I wasn’t the only one. I used to have to get a coach to college and I feel like there was a solid three month period when I’d have to hear this shit on the driver’s radio twice a day.
The tune would be grating enough even if the lyrics weren’t completely asinine (pun intended).
Beyonce - single ladies
I hate the the lyrical content almost as much as the music part.
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it’s Paul McCartney.
Mr. Brightside by The Killers.
Really, anything by the Killers, but this one is so incredibly over played and it makes my brain hurt why anyone ever liked that song in the first place.
Do you hate the song, or the killers/their version of it?
Because I found a cover of it in the style of A7X that is probably the best version of it possible
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Both, but probably mostly just the killers.
Reviewing the lyrics, yeah, def not a fan of the song and (what I see as) the under lying message. And messages like that in songs are fairly important to me enjoying them.
That’s legit. I’m not a fan of the message necessarily (toxic monogamy is rather frustrating), but that version is just a massive ear worm for me
Interesting. Iirc this is a song that’s supposed to be describing how shitty thoughts get in that moment before we know if a betrayal has happened. Supposedly it’s a song meant to bring awareness to how shitty we can be in those moments when invasive thoughts start to take over. Which that’s why it’s never confirmed in the song if the cheating is real or just feared
The song is often misinterpreted. I would find an explanation of the
dungsong by Brandon Flowers if you want to be less bothered by the messaging of the song, even if that is so not the only reason you dislike it
The Killers are just so fucking… Boring. How do you go and have a name like “the killers” and be the most blah boring fucking music on the planet?
I don’t have a hated song but a hated genre, the bro country.
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Makes me wanna throw up. I can’t even explain why.
You’ve now been flagged an enemy of state in Sweden
Mamma Mia the Musical ruined fucking Abba for me. Can’t stand any of it anymore.
You mean you’re not charmed by the dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17? Or how the song describes her as “a teaser, you turn 'em on”?
Granted, I don’t get creepy vibes from it, probably because it’s written and sung by a woman. I imagine a teenager excited for prom and feeling on top of the world. But that isn’t a sentiment I ever shared, in fact the girls I saw get the most excited were people who’d bullied me when younger. So I get a more melancholy feeling from it than anything else.
it was such a letdown that, with a title like that, the Just Dance choreography of that song is boring as fuck
That ‘last christmas’ song by Wham or George or whomever. Stab me in the eye before I want to hear that again. Everyone talks about Mariah’s song this one is 10x worse.
Anything but the fucking Eagles, man.
Hotel California is forever on loop in Hell
Denied
NEXTWell I’m a running down the road
Looking for a commode
I’ve got seven tacos on my mind
Four with guacamole, two tomatoes only, one with sour cream and chives
Here’s a song that doesn’t make me angry, it makes me disappointed.
Why does it make me disappointed? I’m a certified Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman enjoyer, I’ve never tried to deny it. Jim Steinman wrote this song for Meat Loaf originally, but since Meat was going through some stuff, Jim released an album of his own with his version of the song. Now Jim, bless his heart, doesn’t have the voice to carry it, but the tune is one the best he’s written in my book. So the eventual Meat Loaf version should have been a banger. But compare the last 90s of Meat Loaf’s version to Steinman’s. Meat Loaf is singing it with barely any passion (by his standards). The removed the electric guitar wailing in the background (the best part of the song). Even the choir doesn’t seem as into it. The whole thing just seems like it’s had the joy sapped from it.
This is in stark contrast to Out of the Frying Pan (Jim, Meat) where everything in the Meat Loaf version is just more and I just god damned love that song.
Thank you for listening for to my TedX talk.
