IIRC, it’s mostly shots of Cher in a feathery headdress thing, but shown from the tits up only, and younger, hotter people dancing… with the whole thing backlit in blue.
ETA: I found it, but I ain’t watchin’ it for you.
Ah! Okay. Not the same song, then. Here’s the one I was referring to.
I would like to nominate “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” for worst song since 1950…
Bah, the original “Baby Got Back” is a 90s classic! Sir Mix-a-Lot has a great sense of humor.
Yeah, “Baby Got Back” is fun. The Richard Cheese version loses its charm after the first listening, in my opinion. Once you got the joke–haha, pop song played in a lounge style–it just loses its replay value. In my opinion, of course.
Haven’t been around since I created the thread a few days ago, I’m impressed by the range of opinion…
Re: The Beatles early catalog, songs like “Hey Ya” –
In my opinion only, songs that just get so much airplay that you become sick of them shouldn’t qualify. I loved “Hey Ya” at first, and I like it again now that it’s no longer ubiquitous. I hated “Wildfire” right away, and it still sickens me.
Re: Disco Duck, Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weenie, et al. –
Again, my opinion only, but novelty songs are made to be stupid, and they don’t really qualify as being representative of the music of their era, except that they are generally made to parody that era. It’s kind of like judging the greatest or worst president based on how good the impressionists who play them on SNL are…
*My Humps *is not the worst song of any decade. It is the worst song in the history of humankind. And if there were other intelligent beings who made music before humankind I can’t imagine they could have possibly come up with anything worse either.
For the 60’s:
The Youngbloods: Get Together.
Come on people now, smile on your brother, everyone get together try and love one another right now.
Vomit.
But it was entertaining when the whole world sang it on the Simpsons!
The all-time worst 80’s song, IMHO, has to be “Hot Hot Hot”. Not the one by The Cure, that other, awful fake-Latin one. It’s a toe-curling song.
-BB
A bad music thread requires nominating “Alone Again, Naturally” by Gilbert O’Sullivan. 70’s, I think-
So does Lady Gaga :eek:
Actually, I think I will nominate Lady Gaga for the iconic bad song of the 2000s. I’m not even sure which song I heard.
But like all my nominations (well, except Unskinny Bop), her songs are close enough to being good that their ultimate suckitude is even sadder. If she didn’t use Autotune I’d dance to her at a club (if there were non autotune non rap techno clubs around anymore), if not actually purchase her stuff.
by Buster Poindexter. Or, rather, David Johansen, singer of the seminal proto-punk/glam rock band, The New York Dolls.
What’s crazy is that Lady Gaga has a fantastic voice, although I’m not a huge fan of her style of music. A friend of mine linked me to a video of her singing on the Ellen show…let me see if I can find it. Oh, here you go. She doesn’t need lots of effects.
Huh, I just found another video where she talks about how much she hates autotune.
Okay, so that’s her real voice but she chooses to sing like a processed voice. That is pretty crazy. If she sang like the non-processed-sounding half of the first clip she would be a good singer.
I also like Lady Gaga. Terrific arrangements, good production, occasionally clever lyrics, short skirts. What’s not to love?
Okay, her performing style. That is incredibly irritating.
I mean, we should really execute everyone who has ever used an autotune, and everyone who used anything like it (yeah, I’m looking at you, Alan Parsons). Then we should execute everyone who kind of sounded like they might have used one once.
Being raised in a “pop music is bad” house, I didn’t hear many of the 70s pop hits, and the ones I know are from “classic rock” radio. My only connection to Afternoon Delight was Will Hunting singing it to mock his therapist. I just found it on youtube, and that is AWFUL. The lyrics are cheezy and crude, the tune is the fat-free cottage cheese of music.
In retrospect, We Are the World is pretty generic, too. I think Do They Know it’s Christmas is much better.
“Hey Ya” can’t be the worst song of a decade if it can be sung like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEYcfHoWm2s
Clearly I’m a nerd, as I like a lot of these.
Maybe what’s needed is a Worst Ten Of the Decade
For me the songs that induce stabbiness are
Walkin On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
Obsession by Animotion
Pina Colada Song
My Heart Will Go On
Movin Out - Billy Joel
Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon
Sister Christian
Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie
Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
Green Tambourine
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Mojo Risin by the Doors
Papa Don’t Preach - Madonna
Thong Song
Dont You Want Me- Human League