Rolling Worst Music 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaCIkPQqpQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmMOASvXa9U

I didn't listen but just saw Tory Lanez has a song out with a Chris Brown feature

Also didn't listen, but just saw Post Malone has a song out titled "Only Wanna Be With You (Pokémon 25 Version)."

I did listen to that, and I don't really know why that exists.

the reason it exists are pokemon is doing a very strange 25th anniversary celebration that includes getting post malone to cover hootie & the blowfish. there's going to be a katy perry song about pikachu at some point too

Katy Perry singing about Pikachu for a Pokemon thing makes sense.
I just don't quite understand the decision for Post Malone to cover Hootie and the Blowfish for this.
Like if he was covering M2M's Don't Say You Love Me, that would make a lot more sense.

they put in a sample of a track from pokemon gold & silver in the cover, but yeah i'm totally baffled by the whole thing

decide for yourself. i can't handle this guys billygoat vibrato and stopped after like thirty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MF7LgQ-NWg

I guess this goes deep:

Post Malone Pays Tribute to the Wide World of Pokémon in P25 Music Virtual Concert https://variety.com/2021/music/news/post-malone-pokemon-concert-p25-music-1234917182/amp/

yeah, this was announced weeks ago
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=7894033&boardid=77&threadid=95942

the pits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydgxZnHFLi4
Jendrik • I Don’t Feel Hate

Post Malone among Pokémon singing, “you thought that it was special, but it was just the sex though” pic.twitter.com/RM8GH2LAcy

— Gene Park (@GenePark) February 28, 2021

what is going on here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xiRTq3N0Fo

imagine dragons and rick rubin ask, "what if zeal and ardor were unlistenable?"

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

the big boi/elvis atrocity is going to be tough to beat this year though

Is there a contractual obligation with the Elvis estate to remix his catalog every 10 years or so?

the big boi/elvis atrocity is going to be tough to beat this year though

'Cutthroat' already beats it imo.

I've been waiting patiently
I built this tower quietly
And when my well of Wellbutrin is
Running dry of serotonin
I can say things I don't mean
Or maybe it's the truth in me

lyrics were a mistake

Feeling very vindicated rn.

They are both terrible, but I almost feel like the Elvis/Big Boi trainwreck is the worst of the two because we could once expect decent things from Big Boi. I have no similar delusions of Imagine Dragons.

I hear Elvis made some good records too

Well, yeah. But Big Boi actively participated in making that song, Elvis.. uh, less so.

that imagine dragons song is unlistenable even by their standards to the point i cant see it being any sort of hit

Ohmygod, that song sounds like a practicing Mormon with writer's block heard Nine Inch Nails for the first time in his late '30s and was all "I've found my new direction!"

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

I can't tell if I love this or I'm horrified by it

I’m hearing an unimaginative remix of an absolute classic. def a missed opportunity, but it’s serviceable, nothing “worst” about it imo

yeah unimaginative is the problem here isn't it, just stick a beefy kick and some filter passes on it and call it a day

the problem is that I love a beefy kick and a filter pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsAnEP31N1Y

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

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skipped around, caught "just a tumblr girl and a sk8r boi" and bounced

I like this better than Taylor Swift.

cosign that.

the reaction to this band is so outsized, it feels almost too easy to predict some kind of LDR turnabout in their future

Yeah this is almost good, far from terrible.

they're on a dr luke label fwiw

i think this band is fun

the controversy is funny... i guess ppl who are too young to have lived thru sum 41 and avril lavigne need their own panic over "real" rock music

they're on a dr luke label fwiw

― global tetrahedron, Thursday, April 15, 2021 5:55 PM (one hour ago)

also this isn't correct

fine, the guitarist has a publishing contract with the label and also involved with another label or group in which Dr. Luke owns shares of

that accurate enough, j0rdan?

(for what it's worth, that's a serious question bc I have no idea and based that off of a tweet tbh)

I thought this might be a Tramp Stamps related revival. I agree the reaction is massively overblown but they really are so unbelievably corny.

It’s so astoundingly on the nose, but I don’t mind it tbh.

fine, the guitarist has a publishing contract with the label and also involved with another label or group in which Dr. Luke owns shares of

that accurate enough, j0rdan?

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:32 PM (seventeen minutes ago)

yeah that's more accurate. but the idea that dr. luke holding some small amount of shares in a company is tantamount to ownership in the way it is being framed w/in this controversy is specious

they're so ridiculously corny that i feel like they have to be in on it?

I like this better than Taylor Swift.

― pomenitul

Ditto.

Yet I’d rather listen to calls from my bank offering me service fees than Taylor Swift’s songs so the bar is pretty low.

this isn't awful at all

i love this shit obv

i'm gonna do my best to postpone listening and thus having an opinion until after everyone lets this go

I mean, it's fine if you were looking for a more woke, 2021 take on the Sum 41 sound, but I can't say that I was looking for that.

And I don't mean this as a criticism of the members themselves, especially considering how sexist most of the negative takes are, but it doesn't seem to bode well that they are already responding to critics with multi-page Instagram posts a month before the debut EP even comes out.

not so much "worst" as "most terribly produced and aggressively mediocre". also there are currently eight people in this band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV_5-DKhAvI

This has strong current-era New Order vibes to it

my god

https://open.spotify.com/track/0YDT9mp9Dj9gm2BnlXTM1V?si=CK_mySt4RGO5zJtJXonPgQ

haram

lol, i lasted until the first guy who wasn't marvin came on and opted out, unsubscribed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpTpT5i-PI

screencap is cute, never gonna click it tho

"electric" is just like completely forgettable rather than being horrible or anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqQGWrNQe8M

instantly thought of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85G5SI5Nu3s

"electric" is just like completely forgettable rather than being horrible or anything

Yeah, and it feels like sturdy pop worksmanship, compared to what’s in vogue these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFPs1514QA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFPs1514QA

Whoops! Wrong video (that song’s great). One sec, lemme try this again…

I swear I copied & pasted these correctly before; hopefully it works this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGCGc7sAUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhVxHJ8JzL4

straight in at number one on pre-order alone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT73GcwhCU
Martin Garrix ft. Bono & The Edge • We Are The People

i... don't hate the bella poarch song? I should, i know. i almost posted it here myself but then i played it again. it's very of the moment.

I won’t fault you for liking it! (Now, the Douchebag song, on the other hand…)

yeah that's pure garbage.

I know I'm getting soft for not hating that garrix/bono/edge shitshow

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

boris johnson looking like absolute shit dancing to an acoustic cover of “gangsta’s paradise” by these lads is the most aggressively english thing i can imagine pic.twitter.com/UiwEozHji2

— Dan Douglas (@dandouglas) May 30, 2021

It's 3 years old and there are 1000 awful acts that sound like this since Mumford & Sons, but the version of Gangsta's Paradise at 2:55 is *chef's kiss*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gno6xGqa5cA

always confuses me that these guys don't just cover pasttime paradise which would be no less problematic but at least then they wouldn't have to rap
i may have answered my own question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hu5iCqQVcM

Honestly I was dreading it was going to be a horrible Sade cover.

There are poster ads for that single all over Toronto. Even the artist portrait photos are hideous.

I will fully admit that it is stuff like that which makes me despair for the human race.

the sound of someone who knows he can put out the laziest shit imaginable and people will lap it up after being stuck inside for a year

i was expecting a lot worse honestly, that's not that terrible. bland but there's much much worse out there

a shame harris gave up on being tasteful though

That video would have looked dated in 1992. But that's probably the point, I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEwVithN1o
https://open.spotify.com/track/52OcsxUI2N383WZzKIakQL?si=v95wuiS5Sl-iy10BbKtUPQ&dl_branch=1

Sounds like Death Grips attempting to go pop.

not a fan of this veggie tales reboot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfiG_mXh1KM

i will admit to queuing up this thread based on the title alone and the old school beat isn't really that bad but come on here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm2QSLYW9R0

gotta be this one... (as shared on twitter by a sometimes ilxor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mmSOyhkK6I

^^^ Was just coming to post this. It's stunning — like, I watched a minute and a half of it and I feel like someone smacked me between the eyes with a mallet.

A Dutch accent is helpful is you're going to try rhyming "twerk" and "earth".

da da da da da da da

That's genuinely great. What a hook.

I genuinely like this song, friend of a friend I've never met, but she has apparently been getting tons of messages about that Ame Bibabi video from people being like "it's just like you"...and she is PISSED lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR0HjPJ1vU8

it makes me nervous when she doesn't steer the car

"The Rock - Face Off (Official Music Video) Tech Nine | The Rock New Song | Face Off Rock"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0gzen3z4k

only beta cucks hate this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SHL3DBS10M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrO7MLlMiLg

not good, but would probably be far more tolerable without the video

Andy Grammer - Damn It Feels Good To Be Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDza6TCO-RA

sending love and light to everyone who was paid to pretend they were having a good time with the 'Honey, I'm Good' guy in 2021

atrocious

This is my least favourite thing that I keep hearing out in the wild in 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qod03PVTLqk