Rolling Worst Music of 2018

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

i certainly do

yo, that Hobo Johnson thing, i don't want to necessarily listen to it but that guy is doing something right.

what an unholy alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-rpd3S-48

I saw those chaps on Sesame Street. I've only just now come to realize they're a real group and (apparently) quite successful

Every single member looks like the victim of a kidnapping by a rogue hipster stylist

i went to a sold-out arena show of theirs up here. the audience was fanatic about them. (i was pretty impressed by the technique of the guy who beatboxed while playing cello, but otherwise...)

absolute wankers sure but probably impressive enough to swerve my greatest ire

chainsmokers obv satan

jack white thing too charmingly awful to really merit consideration

Pentatonix is cringeworthy but it's hard to get too riled up about them when their stuff isn't on the radio. Per all-knowing Wikipedia they have had four charting singles. Three of them were Christmas songs and the fourth hit #99 on the Hot 100.

That said, their last three albums went #2, #1, #1 (though again, two of them were Christmas albums)

my eldest uncle adores them

Pentatonix is cringeworthy but it's hard to get too riled up about them when their stuff isn't on the radio

1, they are on tv a lot
2, they opened for kelly clarkson
3, acapella is a huge thing among The Youth Of Today
4, thanks to their christmas releases they are a holiday-radio fixture (which negates your original point)

And one of their holiday-radio fixture tracks is a cover of Hallelujah.

3. acapella is a huge thing among The Youth Of Today

yeah they're really breaking down the walls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAST4Ja7uTU

every time this 'Mean To Be' song by Bebe Rexha (apparently) comes on the radio it makes me feel physically nauseous. The lameness of the repeating lines 'ride with me, ride with me' like the most watered-down version of pop-country, I feel like I'm on a horrible merry-go-round that I can't get off. There's plenty of tosh out there but not since Meghan Trainor has there been a song that actually make me want to barf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfuHitQ6exk

Apparently a 2017 song, though I've only heard this horrifying thing in the past few weeks. Three times now and gets progressively worse each time.

Brad's Youth of Today joke is underrated.

Sheeran trying to co-write his way into the worst of 2018 class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tvLIhEaEKo

2002: The summer where we spent time singing songs from 2000.

i wanted that anne-marie record to be way better than it was

a terrible attempt at describing it, but I feel like it's a symptom of baconed nostalgia

Thread delivers once again.

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