# Most Obnoxious Songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 13, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723 "2009-02-13T19:08:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/1 "2009-02-13T19:08:20Z")
Those songs that just make you want to punch the singer in the face.
I’ll nominate “Don’t cha”, by the Pussycat Dolls.
The lyrics remind me of a loser in a bar trying to hit on someone. “Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? C’mon, you know you do. Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me? Huh? Huh? Don’t cha- hey, why did you spill your drink down my shirt?”
For runner up, the music video to Avril Levigne’s “Girlfriend”. (I know- picking on an Avril Levigne song for being petty is like getting mad at water for being wet. But still). The song itself is pretty obnoxious- Avril is jealous of this girl who dared to _gasp_ go out with a hot guy that she (Avril) wants. The nerve! But that’s okay, Avril is going to scheme her way into Hot Boy’s affection and dispose of that awful, nasty Girlfriend. The video shows her heaping pain and humiliation on the poor girl, until finally the girl gets pushed down a hill in an outhouse, into a pond, and instead of helping her boyfriend sits there and laughs at her. Lovely.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/2 "2009-02-13T19:48:17Z")
Sure, those suck, but really the most obnoxious song I can think of is Banging in the Nails by the Tiger Lillies. I’m not linking to it because most people would find it horribly offensive, but there are several versions on YouTube.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/3 "2009-02-13T19:57:15Z")
That quasi-country song about the girl destroying her ex’s car while he’s out with another chick shooting pool. Also, anything by Katy Perry.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/4 "2009-02-13T20:14:03Z")
Just about any Kenny Rogers song, but his “Coward of the County” is particularly loathsome.
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### Author:  [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/5 "2009-02-13T20:14:45Z")
Red Neck Woman…that songs drives me crazy…
“Yes, I aspire to be a white-trash whore! Fantastic!”
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/6 "2009-02-13T20:15:36Z")
> [@corkboard](#):
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> That quasi-country song about the girl destroying her ex’s car while he’s out with another chick shooting pool.
Oh, tell me about it! Ya know, if it was a _man_ who wrecked his girlfriend’s ride when he found out _she_ was cheating, the song never would have seen the light of day!
John Mayer’s _Your Body is a Wonderland_
James Blunt’s _You’re Beautiful_
OneRepublic’s _Apologize_
Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow’s _Picture_
Whatever that “na-na-na” thing by Kylie Minogue is.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/7 "2009-02-13T20:15:58Z")
“Love the One You’re With.”
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/8 "2009-02-13T20:26:31Z")
Well, “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas was pretty annoying. Once when I was enduring my daughter listening to it for the 857th time, I had a sort of epiphany: If you listen to the vocal tone used in the chorus, it’s exactly like a “Nyaah nyaah nyaah” – as in a snotty little kid going, “I’ve got something you can’t have, nyaah nyaah nyaah”. It produces a sort of visceral response, like fingernails on a blackboard.
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### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/9 "2009-02-13T20:35:11Z")
“Hey There Delilah.” Just thinking about it makes me want to punch someone.
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### Author:  [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/10 "2009-02-13T20:43:54Z")
Who Let the Dogs Out? woof woof woof (d&r)
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/11 "2009-02-13T21:09:03Z")
Some rapper with a Jamaican accent (Shaggy?) has two pretty shitty songs that I can’t frakkin’ stand. One is about how his woman is great because she waits for him to get out of jail. :rolleyes: The other, his girlfirend catches him having sex in the batroom or the shower with another woman, and he denies it. My wife loves the songs, but they make me want to vomit.
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### Author:  [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/12 "2009-02-13T21:12:29Z")
That song (songs?) by Peter Frampton when he does that weird thing with his guitar. I listen to the classic rock station but whenever I start to hear anything by Frampton it makes me want to not only switch the channel but rip out the radio and toss it out the window.
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### Author:  [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/13 "2009-02-13T21:12:56Z")
Most Obnoxious Songs = everything on the radio
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/14 "2009-02-13T21:18:46Z")
> [@Seven](#):
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> Most Obnoxious Songs = everything on the radio
These days, yeah, pretty much.
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### Author:  [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/15 "2009-02-13T21:33:51Z")
“Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got.”
I looked it up to see who it is, and got Supertramp, but somebody said Gym Class Heroes, and I thought my kids told me the Supertramp version was a remake, so I don’t know. All I really know is it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/16 "2009-02-13T21:40:40Z")
> [@](#):
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> I looked it up to see who it is, and got Supertramp, but somebody said Gym Class Heroes, and I thought my kids told me the Supertramp version was a remake, so I don’t know.
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/17 "2009-02-13T21:40:49Z")
Speaking of the Pussycat Dolls, “When I Grow Up” is just awful.
Also, ''Should’ve Said No" and “Our Song” by Taylor Swift.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/18 "2009-02-13T21:44:37Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#):
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> Sure, those suck, but really the most obnoxious song I can think of is Banging in the Nails by the Tiger Lillies. I’m not linking to it because most people would find it horribly offensive, but there are several versions on YouTube.
I must be sick or obnoxious or both because I love that song. But the Lillies are an acquired taste and the singer’s voice can truly grate.
As for most obnoxious, I have to go with Christmas Shoes.
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/19 "2009-02-13T21:51:27Z")
> [@Daddypants](#):
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> Some rapper with a Jamaican accent (Shaggy?) has two pretty shitty songs that I can’t frakkin’ stand. One is about how his woman is great because she waits for him to get out of jail. :rolleyes: The other, his girlfirend catches him having sex in the batroom or the shower with another woman, and he denies it. My wife loves the songs, but they make me want to vomit.
Oh my god, It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy. The dumbest song ever. So let me get this right, your advise to me when I get walked in on fucking someone else by my girlfriend my clever response is supposed to be…It wasn’t me. Dude, you’re a fucking genius.
Also, Shaggy isn’t even Jamaican, dude’s from New York.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obnoxious-songs/485723/20 "2009-02-13T22:00:52Z")
> [@thirdwarning](#):
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> “Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got.”
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> I looked it up to see who it is, and got Supertramp, but somebody said Gym Class Heroes, and I thought my kids told me the Supertramp version was a remake, so I don’t know. All I really know is it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
Supertramp’s song (Breakfast in America) is the original, from 1979. Gym Class Heroes used the music and chorus (the lines in question) in their song Cupid’s Chokehold in 2002.
Both songs are kind of annoying.
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