Rolling Worst Music of 2016 - Making That Meghan Trainor Money

Listening to Jasmine Thompson I'm just wondering whether she actually intends to sing like that or, if not, who exactly she's trying to sound like. The way she pronounces the *actual title of the song* is the most grating part.

Also, how it possible to make the lyrics of We Didn't Start The Fire even more stupid? I wouldn't have thought it could be done.

Cops are falling out of line
Congress running out of time
Ceiling being raised again
Who cares were broke anyway
Donald Trump, Hilary
Change is what we realy need
Drone Strikes, Neon Lights
American dreams

Bruce`s name is caitlyn now
Go ahead and show us how
The hardest thing for women is
Finding what to wear
Miley Cyrus free the breast
Kanye West for president
Charlie Sheen HIV
Tiger blood that what you mean!?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Gun laws GMO`s
Lamar ODOM, smart phones
Whoever said money was the answer that you need?
Middle east, Syria refugees hysteria
Seeking your asylum never seemed so fucking hard
Russian plane taken down
None of us are safe and sound
Even Christmas parties are a terrible affair

Charlie Hebdo Heresy
going down in infamy
ISIS at the rock show
Paris wont take anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Justin Bieber`s back again
Lebron James` balding head
Gay Marriage all the way
Malaysian Airlines disappeared
Tom Brady`s deflated balls
Adele and her a thousand calls
Chris Pratt, Jurassic World
Hover boards and Star Wars

Earthquakes, handshakes
Making deals with high stakes
Global warming, habits forming
Giving what you take
Do we realize what it takes?
Lives matter every race
Michael Brown blown away
What else do have to say!?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

oh dear lord please tell me those aren't real

They are. I watched that whole video in a kind of fascinated horror.

I mean, the content of the lyrics is bad enough, but they're so lazy that they don't even *try* to make it scan or match the original pacing.

I watched it twice, mostly to make sure that I wasn't having some dreadful hallucination the first time through.

they flipped the 'what else do i have to say' and 'i can't take it anymore' constructs

sigh

also jasmine thompson is clearly in the ellie goulding mold

As there isn't a thread for "this exists?!?", here's the hair metal song the balloon hoax boy has made about his experience. Don't worry, topic purists, it's pretty fucking bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbV_Sis99o

also jasmine thompson is clearly in the ellie goulding mold

Ah, that explains why I couldn't place it - I've been avoiding Ellie Goulding since I first heard her nails-down-blackboard wickle giwl voice.

Clearly. they locked the kid in a room while "Sweating Bullets" played on an endless loop. This may be one of the more abusive families ever.

so Mike Posner is back on the Hot 100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJf0p4yQek

bleh, this is the sort of song I can't even dislike, I just feel bad for the dude. even if he went to duke

Millennials are already having midlife crises?

That song makes me think of this anti smut group: http://www.fightthenewdrug.org

Hashtag IRL by Throwing Shade

OMG it's about social media WTF?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwQhkvMFuI

cosign, meant to post this but forgot

Ugh. 'Honeytrap' by her was one of my favourite tracks of last year. I actually still like the music on that one, but yeah, the motif is ridiculously shallow/stupid.

I seem to only come to these threads with songs whose merits I'm confused about.

Naomi Elizabeth - Do You Ever Feel Like You Might Be Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZE037e9Zc

Unlistenable garbage with a positive message is still unlistenable garbage. Does that help?

Re: masterpieces from January

Iggy Azalea's "Azillion" - um, maybe not *the* worst, but it does sound ridiculous. If they'd put more thought into it, they could've stumbled across a much better rhyme scheme like "incarceration", "nation" and "appreciation". It's got a few problems, anyway. (The n-word soundalike being the most egregious oversight.)

"We Didn't Start the Fire" - burning records in a furnace is never pleasant, but if only the DJs in the '80s had had more nous, they really could've cut this song off at the source. In defence of this version, it's quite well produced and is pretty much in the spirit of the original. But fuck 'em both.

"Red White and You" - ooh, a rock version of "Marvin Gaye" (country, w/e). I knew the thread shouldn't have been named after Meghan, her influence grows by the day.

"Fast Car" - who cares

Throwing Shade - almost feels like it belongs in Earliest mention of the internet in a song or title , the phrases are so clichéd. But I'll reserve criticism until I know whether the archaisms are part of a conceptual joke, or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjknndcGitI

xTheOxx 5 hours ago
Didn't like Peter Cetera then, don't like him now either.

Al Bhed 4 hours ago
umm.....I like this song and all, but the video kinda implies that Cee Lo wanted to fuck that panda

playlist is up to date with what's on spotify thus far. Back in a month.
ILM's Rolling Worst Songs 2016 Spotify Playlist

"mercy" is awesome wtf

Speaking of pandas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvRzBQtHlYE

that's pretty inoffensive all things considered.

The entirety of the new Bloc Party album that came out on Friday.

Devour your morsel 'cause I'm a maaaaaaaan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1i6EDj5FkM

Most of the album (judging by YT) isn't as funny/misjudged as it could've been. Maybe if they'd called it Urban Hymns II: Grab My Pamphlet

enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ay31B-1PI

lock thread.

Sounds like somebody really enjoyed that half of a Death Grips song they heard on their friend's computer.

that mouth

Al Jourgensen's new thing, Surgical Meth Machine, is basically late 80s Ministry crossed with gabber. I'm listening to the album now, and it's awful. It includes a cover of Devo's "Gates of Steel" that's just depressingly bad. Also, Jello Biafra is on it.

Thank you Singles Jukebox for alerting me Lukas Graham has a song climbing the Billboard charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCob76kigA

Which means that Strip No More might not be that far behind.

I also learned that Lukas Graham is a group, not a person, which makes me hate them even more.

there's a what in the who

Al Jourgensen's new thing, Surgical Meth Machine, is basically late 80s Ministry crossed with gabber

this sounds awesome as a concept but i also don't ever want to investigate it

lukas graham is such crap, apologies from denmark

wouldn't it be more logical to sing "when I was 7 yrs old" and not "once" btw?

It's okay, America has shipped over more than its share of shit music to the rest of the world.

Holy shit, when is this from, it is the worst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRviuL6vMY

released in 2015 but a huge top ten hit in 2016

are these the same guys who did that video that appeared on a Rolling Worst Music thread like three years ago where the guy shaves his head and puts on a balaclava? I didn't realise that they actually had a career

Those guys are really popular with the Warped Tour/Alternative Press crowd. (I don't hate that song.)

i hate how he says Goo Dole Days

i guess that's the least horrible twenty one pilots song i've ever heard

it is an awful song, hopefully i will never hear another one of theirs if it is supposedly one of their better ones

flo rida has another stinker that could challenge for #1 in coming weeks

i hate how he says Goo Dole Days

― qualx, Sunday, February 14, 2016 4:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a while I thought it was good dope days, like some kind of heavy drug song.

Goo Doll Days

Easy Target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGUwdqthio

I made it all the way to "Goo Dole Days" (even through that handshake) and turned it off.

oh man

Our society truly is crumbling beneath us

omg my jaw dropped

Is there some context here that I'm lacking, or something super offensive in the lyric that I'm missing, 'cause this just sounds like the same old Train shittiness to me.

Maybe they'll follow it up with something based off of Minuet in G.

lol at "play that song"

Playlist is updated for the month.

Jesus fuck that Train song

Spin's shitlist.

Only one I remember hearing is Timberlake, which I don't think is that bad at all.

we should do a year end poll i think.

Nah, 2016 was bad enough already.

okay, i'm convinced

i'm glad the trend of publishing year-end worst lists for singles is picking up now

we should do a year end poll i think.

+1

Somebody make it happen if you want.
Playlist is put to bed now, added the SPIN picks.

ILM's Rolling Worst Songs 2016 Spotify Playlist

Can we just award it to Seven Years?

i am more inclined to go with that ghostbusters theme

Have we mentioned Robbie Williams' 'I Love My Life' yet? Because honestly fuck off mate, how's anyone supposed to relate to that?

^^ I've thought about posting that one to the thread several times, but (luckily) forgot about it once I was on ilx again. It's excrutating. Whenever it pops up on the car radio or in a shop it drives me mad.

It breaks my brain trying to follow his thought process: 'Oi imma make a song about how I love life, drown it in cliches, that must be a bonafide hit amirite guys?'

It's like that 'hope I'm old before I die' song he did years ago that effectively inverted and toned down the Who. i remember my dad being incredulous - 'that's not very rock'n'roll!'

Dog Latin, so awful. My friend asked me to join her to his gig. No thanks.

Party like a Russian is in the SBIG / accidentally prescient box though

Normally, calling the new year's thread overdue at this point would be laughably premature, but 2017 has already seen two new Ed Sheeran singles.

You Didn't Want It, You Didn't Ask For It; The 2016 ILX Worst Song Poll