Iconic bad song of the decade

Maybe it’s because the gap between pop and lounge is not so wide ?

On the other hand, Pantera’s “Fucking Hostile” covered in (smart and snarky) lounge

Do you mean LA Woman? I’m not an expert on their music, although I do like it, but I’m not aware of any song with that name.

It’s pretty bad when someone who sings like this actually compete with you, when you sound like this.

Also, she uses autotune all the flipping time. It’s pretty much how those vocoder style effects are made now. She’s just going with the flow.

The tricky part is to choose a song that is also iconic.

My vote for any 80’s song is one that follows the overall trend of awkward production and making the versus really lame. I hate that! The song writers had learned by then that it’s the chorus that sells and that the verses should only be a build up to it. “Lady in Red” is a prime example of this. Make the verses interesting too, you cowards!

That’s It. I don’t care for the Doors though, so that’s the song i’m thinking of.

I heard this song last night shopping in a supermarket (why do they pipe bad 70’s music into supermarkets?) I’d heard the song before, unfortunately, but I never realized there was a long interlude featuring what I assume are muskrat noises. I just stood there in the bread aisle staring at the ceiling in wonder.

For that last decade, I nominate Party Like a Rockstar.

:rolleyes: Yeah, nothing improves hip hop like white guys with acoustic guitars.

The visual of you standing staring in wonder made me smile.

Hey, don’t roll your eyes like that! I didn’t like Gin + Juice till I heard the acoustic white guy version of it, either. I think I’ll look for it on Amazon right now

And to further the hijack, a few weeks ago I heard an interview with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an A-A band that plays old timey music from the small but vibrant Carolina A-A string band tradition. I was liking their music when they introduced a cover of theirs, a cover of a modern rap song which they they covered semi-old-timey but semi-hip hop. I was dreading this because I usually don’t go for stuff like that, but dang if I didn’t like the Carolina Chocolate Drops more when they inserted hip hop into traditional Carolina String Band music.

FWIW, I actually quite like the various acoustic versions of “Hey Ya!” but to say “I guess this innovative, clever, and extremely danceable hip hop song can’t be that bad because it can be transformed into acoustic white guy music” still makes me :rolleyes:.

I was amused by the acoustic version of “Gin + Juice” the first time I heard it, but the original is, unsurprisingly, vastly superior.

I think it can reveal hidden strengths or depths to a song if it can withstand a massive genre shift and still be listenable or even good.

Okay, that’s a good point.

It can’t be that bad (and it really wasn’t) if it translates to other styles this well. That’s my point.

I never asked for a cite. Maybe you confused me with someone else.

I only asked that you provide both sides of your opinions (a like and a dislike) so we could see where you were coming from.

I think, in the right hands, pretty much any genre of pop song can be transformed to any other genre of pop, especially if a good melody is involved. And I personally don’t think a lot of the genre hopping mentioned here is particularly “good.” I should add that if there are a lot of artists mining the same material, then there is something to be said for the strength of the original.

Didn’t Alanis Morrisette do a slow soulful parody of My Humps? That was hysterical.

So ashamed. I like alot of these! I can still understand the annoyance factor of most though.

And may I nominate 69 Boyz-Tootsie Roll for the 90’s.

An update: Last Sunday, the oldies station I listen to played “Seasons in the Sun” and “Afternoon Delight” within 10 minutes of each other.
Maybe it was the brandy and weed I was imbibing, but the badness of “Seasons in the Sun” lies not so much in the lyrics, which are passable, if a bit trite, but the inability of the singer to project even the slightest emotion into a song which deals with one of most primal events of life.
As for “Afternoon Delight,” I could take only about 30 seconds, even with the intoxicants, before I put on my Deep Purple greatest hits compilation (“Smoke on the Water” is a great song!).
I agree with those posters who said there were a lot of shitty songs done in the '70’s. I still maintain “Muskrat Love” is the smelliest of the shit.

I know a lot of people like that parody, but the extreme whine of her voice honestly made it worse than the original for me, and that’s saying something!

I’ve gotta say, the “Afternoon Delight” episode of Arrested Development has made that song a lot more bearable for me…