Rolling Worst Music of 2018

yess

technically 2017 but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXyLdg4mJxo

Even Dylan would be rolling his eyes at that quote.

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/images/jarthur-18.png

that video cracks me up because he's screaming I'M STANDING HERE NA-KED when he is sitting there, fully clothed.

Congratulations to ilxor Karl "Post" Malone on his smash hit song rockstar!

Hey now

This year’s entry for rock band slapped together by central casting.
https://youtu.be/Wsm0xo-sA5I

Sounds like Collective Soul.

"Saw these guys open for Nickelback a while ago and was pretty impressed! Their drummer had so much energy on stage and I liked how they interacted with the crowd"

Made it to 0:25

I often wonder what sincere, tearful "Bob Dylan" nitwits like Post Malone are talking about certainly not the hermetic cryptic weirdo funnyman I've loved all these years

Does this count? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/opinion/dating-metoo.htm

Dammit https://nyti.ms/2GRSt0W

Clicked the link without realizing I had my sound turned off, but immediately saw ukulele and smirking and didn't even bother trying to listen to it.

Please watch the video, sicko.

OK, I did. Exactly as unfunny and annoying as I expected. The only thing that made me laugh a bit was the guy's mild resemblance to a young Rodney Dangerfield.

I like Chloe x Halle but this is not good, their own personal "New Americana":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnyz__pc5M

This isn't good, but "New Americana" is an awfully low bar.

yeah, i don't even mind the kids are alright honestly
tbh if i hadn't known it was cxh going into it, i might feel different tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOq2mc6xqE

this really sums up everything bad about the late 2010s. all it needs is the imagine dragons guy snarling on backup

didn't really believe that was a JB cover until i hit play; the fucking nerve of some people

barf

let's take a super fun James Brown song but take out everything that is funky and cool and vibrant about it and replace it with a lifeless beat and an uncharismatic frontperson

Trying to imagine the hypothetical human being who would enjoy this song is even more difficult than trying to imagine the hypothetical human being who would still care about the 50 Shades series three movies in.

This has been compared to Neiked's "Sexual" but this is like the worst possible outcome of that song's impact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJahHkGD0YI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZla1ttZHaw

in which mr. dicky fantasizes about how wonderful it would be to be able to say the n-word if he were black

this song came on in my lyft last night and it filled me with rage

it was also a 'world premiere' on the iheart hip-hop station. happy bankruptcy you fucking motherfuckers

That video is a hate crime.

that's the dude from american vandal at the beginning?

who collaborated with the dicks

“I’m Kendall Jenner / I got a vagina / I’m gonna explore that right now / Holy s— I got a vagina / I’m gonna learn / I’m gonna understand the inner workings of a woman,” the 22-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star raps as Lil Dicky.

http://people.com/music/ed-sheeran-kendall-jenner-backlash-chris-brown-music-video/

I was waiting for "Freaky Friday" to pop up here.

Fictionalized nice guy version of Chris brown wishes all his troubles would just go away, lil dicky wishes he had Chris brown's level of credibility. Magic Asian makes their dreams come true. Worse than I imagined from reading about it.

hobo johnson

https://youtu.be/5MIVvnQHxeM

difficult to watch

https://youtu.be/1slMsfR5eJQ

https://youtu.be/fB5dyNMNdT8

the concept seems to be bringing the concept of quiet-loud dynamics to gross white-boy rap; ie alternating between mumbling and YELLING for no reason

havent been able to get more than ten seconds into this but can someone please tell me what the fuck this shit is

https://youtu.be/JaOabnTaYdA

didn't listen but i did see someone call it 'twenty one pilots for kids who listen to the front bottoms'

me at the beginning of this thread: "lol, terrible, thanks guys, needed a laugh today"

me after watching that hobo johnson video: "we must exterminate the white race"

Those Hobo Johnson videos are from 2016.

this one is new

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MIVvnQHxeM

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

if you love twenty one pilots, you'll also love these five rejected pilots we found in a backyard xp

WOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c24Wp4N34oA

WE HAVE A WINNER!

oh my god

I'm extremely thankful for my office walls today because I'm fucking dying of laughter

somewhat stunned this has not made it here yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jA7kpyqU8k

Quick-skipped past this abortion on the SYTYCD finale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpZcFWJ_6A

Immediately thought of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-QT74bzHFQ

Lol

here you are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN6zE-wJ2iE

Some d-bag turned one of my favorite Tom Waits songs into a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy outtake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJgyklly4Ds

“If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to hip-hop. There’s great hip-hop songs where they talk about life and they spit that real shit, but right now, there’s not a lot of people talking about real shit... Whenever I want to cry, whenever I want to sit down and have a nice cry, I’ll listen to some Bob Dylan. Or whenever I’m trying to have a good time and stay in a positive mood, I listen to hip-hop. Because it’s fun. I think hip-hop is important because it brings people together in a beautiful, happy way.”

― maura, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 10:35 AM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a very strange quote from post malone because, to me, his music is far from happy. it's like the paradigm of what mark fisher called depressive hedonia

not that i would expect post malone to be self aware but you know

haha, that tom waits cover is very bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXBHCQYxwr0

i feel very sad that a certain subset of gay men on the internet think that this reads as the future of pop

woulda posted this earlier but i thought it had already gotten posted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzD_yyEcp0M

woulda posted this earlier but i thought it had already gotten posted

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Is Marshmello some kind of Deadmau5 knockoff(?)

what if marshmello is actually just dr luke in a mask

oh jk he's not actually one of those anonymity-gimmick djs anymore

the "*OFFICIAL FRIENDZONE ANTHEM*" in the youtube vid title is just lol

yikes that's poor

the sweet but psycho is also crap, #1 in Denmark atm, at least it channels a bit of early gaga

it's a bit too obvious for my taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACEKhljj5bk

heard this on vegas' modern rock station the other night

protest the hero have really pivoted huh

if you really miss Rage that much why not just listen to them?

weirdly it sounded much worse surrounded by a bunch of indifferently heaped rock songs from the '70s '90s and today than it does in isolation rn

I loved this band's first two records, and I was looking forward to their upcoming one, but this is some edgelord bullshit (it's musically cloddish and ugly as well):

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

That Hyro the Hero thing is probably Whiney's favorite new song.

Eric Clapton - Jingle Bells (In Memory Of Avicii).

Yes, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C95EvXD86J8

It's actually… not as egregiously awful as I thought it would be?

a chance at least to update the old 'what did Eric Clapton do after he wrote Tears In Heaven' joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w-C0-zVaW8

can someone direct me to info on the dissonance trend in contemporary pop? I hear it in not bad stuff as well, like Black Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVO7xMofXko&feature=youtu.be

from this delightful article: https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/12/5/18126093/most-awkward-ellen-performances-2018

this isn't actually quiiite bad enough that i'd call it 'worst' anything but my goodness, i am astonished that anyone would actually try to have a breakthrough hit with this! the "love galore"-soundalike production, sza-type vocals on the verses and sevyn streeter-type vocals on the chorus, just reusing an entire chorus from an old hit verbatim without doing *anything* remotely ~clever~ with it. who thought this was a good idea? like damn, pick one wave to ride!

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

"sweet but psycho" is currently #2 in the UK charts and I honestly think this is the point I will have to give up on pop music as a source of pleasure

this is not new but i hate it omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4K7EcyUev4&t=

also any instrumental song from any TV ad with ukulele and glockenspiel as the most prominent instruments

fuck this is what i meant to post earlier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4K7EcyUev4

fuck this is what i meant to post earlier
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"sweet but psycho" is currently #2 in the UK charts and I honestly think this is the point I will have to give up on pop music as a source of pleasure

The Christmas #1 this country deserves this year

honestly, this isn't THAT bad but it was the only thread that seemed appropriate to post it in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCCchikcDc

maybe "most 2018 images"

"sweet but psycho" is currently #2 in the UK charts and I honestly think this is the point I will have to give up on pop music as a source of pleasure

The Christmas #1 this country deserves this year

Thank goodness for Sausage Rolls eh?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46647954

LadBaby

Do you DARE subject yourself to two and a half hours of the worst music ILM heard this year?

ILM's 2018 Rolling Worst Music Spotify Playlist

Incidentally, I will openly rep for three of these.

Sorry if this was already posted, but it did come out in 2018, and it is worst.

https://youtu.be/Hc3XIbUuTMc

how did jud jud wind up on the playlist?

Rolling Worst Music of 2018