A. K. A. Which song do you hate the most?
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That Mariah Carey one. You know the one.
She has so many good contenders, but one stands above them all. Good (horrible!) choice.
I was struggling to think of something I truly hate
I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don’t really inspire hatered
This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar
Take me to church by Hozier
Sweet Home Alabama
When I still listened to the radio in the car, it started on one station, so I switched to another rock station. It was playing there too, on a different part. Switched to yet another rock station and it was also playing that terrible song!
My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they’re singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn’t racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.
The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
God the “Watergate does not bother me… does your conscience bother you?” line alone puts this up there for me, and that’s far from the only thing to dislike.
There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.
“What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, and “Fly Me To The Moon” by Frank Sinatra.
If you put those songs in…anything, you’re a fucking hack.
WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There’s nothing you can use it to say that hasn’t already been said by someone more clever than you.
FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. “We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what’s the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?” “You’re not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It’s already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?”
Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store… ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.
Have you seen Pachebel Rant?
Haha I have, at least if I’m thinking of the right thing, the YouTube video? He stretches a few (my degrees are in music theory so I can hear what he means and not all of them are exactly the same chord progressions) but I feel seen nonetheless.
Yeah, Rob Paravonian.
I could have sworn a friend of mine wrote this, because he often said the exact same thing. But, he was a string player.
Personally, it seems like I can’t go a day without hearing one of The Four Seasons in media.
Yeah, I feel for the string players, honestly. Especially the ones who take wedding gigs.
I didn’t have a solid answer to the question until I read this. Absolutely gets the worst response from me.
First two chords and I’m like “nooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
The cello has to repeat the exact same 8 notes throughout the piece.
Any modern country song. bonus if they say boots, beer, etc.
“big truck, love christ. Second truck, hate wife”
Trucks!
U2
Aerosmith - love in an elevator
Any christmas shit
Carol of the Bells kicks ass.
Tell you what I can’t stand, is The Obligatory Christmas Release. Some musical act, band or increasingly a solo “artist” gets big and especially if they have one brand-defining hit, they are required to do a Christmas release that is the thing they’re known for with sleigh bells and a word salad of Christmas words including a refrain where they just shout “It’s Christmas!!!” Los Del Rio did a Macarena Christmas mix. And we allowed society to continue anyway.
Old U2 is actually pretty decent, I quite like The Unforgettable Fire
Ill take your word, cuz I aint fucking listening to it
Oh good. There’s someone else who doesn’t see the appeal of U2.
And you just don’t like Elevator because you missed the expertly hidden, subtle innuendos. 😂
Wild World, by Cat Stevens. Some of the most patronizing lyrics I’ve ever heard. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/wildworld.html
I Will Survive - Something about this song just makes me murderous.
Don’t Stop Believing - By the gods, please do stop. I love Journey, but just don’t play this.
Bohemian Rhapsody - I think I’m just really tired of it. It’s been held up at such a pinnacle for so long and played far too often and I just can’t anymore. I don’t care. Turn it off.
I will survive original is pretty iconic masterpiece and hard not to sing along to. But a rock/funk version you ask?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU&pp=ygUTY2FrZSBpIHdpbGwgc3Vydml2ZQ%3D%3D
Don’t stop believing is far more overplayed crap I do hate, though.
All three of these are songs that, I probably on paper should enjoy, but I think through over- (and mis-) use have come to despise them.
Top choices if limited to genres I listen to.
dont stop believing killed journey for me i cant STAND them
Pour Some Sugar On Me. It’s so terrible.
Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.
I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.
It doesn’t make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.
Frankly, even the Buckley version is worse than the original. The song has a bad case of the “Born in the USA” syndrome.
Might be “Bohemian Rhapsody”, or “We will Rock You”. Which is odd, because Killer Queen is one of my favorite songs. Same artists can make crap or magic.
And “Horse With No Name”, because of the godawful pretentious stupid lyrics.
There are some interesting takes in here.
These folks gettin’ bent up in here!
All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun by Sheryl Crow, or any song where the artist is doing that annoying kind-of-singing-but-also-just-talking thing (NOT to be confused with rap, I do enjoy lots of rap and hip-hop). It’s hard to explain. I think Red Hot Chili Peppers has a song where they do it too, and it annoys the fuck outta me.
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond. I’m from New England so I hear it often and the back story makes me cringe every time and I haaate it
I sing Sweet Child O Mine and Sweet Caroline with the other songs melodies. Confuses people nicely.
Yeah as someone who has spent almost their whole life in the Carolinas I am sick to death of that song, especially when people do the little singalong bits.
