Rolling Worst Music 2021

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.

do people remember or care that lana del rey was an industry plant?

band accused of perpetuating rape culture bc they refer to the phenomenon of whiskey dick, really feel like the vultures were out for them

Yeah, that was one of the more egregiously bad takes, but also a lot of ugly "women must have had help with this" bullshit.

I know, I know, posting Tom MacDonald is cheating, but I was surprised by the fact that it *does* feature a few mildly woke-ish bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6JUNFAJ9o

i mean maybe it will grow on me but my first thought on getting to the end of it was this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG9KzyVO638

I don't mind that one. Sure, it's poppy emo and 90s-nostalgic teen bait, but it's way better than, y'know.

yeah that doesn't belong in this thread at all

dunno, ran through it three times and it's definitely not good. I am aware there's some reflexive gatekeeping going on in response to the track and i wanna make clear that's not my concern, especially as someone who's liked a lot of other willow work.

This is an Avril Levigne/Fefe Dobson homage I can get behind. I will probably never listen to it again, though.

it's kinda slight but totally unobjectionable

definitely better than Jada's metal band

i mean, sure. but it's getting 20x the exposure.

listening to a fated billionaire complain about how people are "putting cigarettes out on her back" over a weak retread of a weak retread of Boys Don't Cry rubs me the wrong way

"outside is that stuff that goes by my limo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RjWTEqJiMI

classic K&P sketch where there's just one joke over and over but the joke is really good

ilx has really turned on pop-punk this year

ilx has really turned on pop-punk this year

20 years late but I'll allow it

the willow song rules wtf

your reference points and mine are differently attuned

transparent soullllllll

really solid long lost early paramore single thanks for making me aware of it forks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0d8cUm20Gg

The album this is on is actually very good, but this song... why?

feels like there are six of these out right now

That song wh*te ppl love where the chorus is just someone whistling pic.twitter.com/tGJPclS06L

— Dylan Adler (@DylanAdler6) April 11, 2021

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

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