[quote=“SigMan, post:56, topic:828448”]
Screeching voices and screeching guitars WTF?
[/QUOTE]A “metal” friend of mine once played a video for me that sounded just like that. I told him I didn’t like it. He grinned and responded, “Why? Is it too loud? Too extreme? Too hardcore?” I replied, “No. It’s boring.” He didn’t know what to say after that.
Mother of God. I think both Zarathustra and Strauss just woke up and got out of their respective graves so they’d be able to commit suicide. The only one of mine that’s a bad execution is Iglesias, and that shows mainly if you actually understand the song*; the rest are original and sounding as intended.
Nevertheless they’re out there and there’s more like them.
It’s apparently sort of an in-joke and performance art- supposed to be bad.
My Spanish isn’t good enough to quite see what’s so bad about that Las Ketchup song- it seems kind of Spice Girls-ish mixed with the Macarena. Not good, but not that bad.
That koala song though… eek.
Throw a good measure of Rapper’s Delight into the mix.
I dunno, I should hate the Las Ketchup song, given that you couldn’t escape it anywhere in Europe in a long gone summer, but I always have the video in mind, and the three ladies are real eye-candy, that soothes my pain inflicted by the music.
We used to call Christian Rock “Jesus is my boyfriend” music. However, I have to say there are some pretty talented Christian Rock bands out there, and some pretty good Christian Rock has been done by bands not associated with the genre. The Doobie Brothers (“Jesus is Just Alright”), Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck (“People Get Ready”), Norman Greenbaum (“Spirit in the Sky”) come to mind.
But if you think country is bad, and pop is bad, and bluegrass is bad, and rap is bad, let me introduce to you Gangstagrass, which mixes them all together:
Hah! Justified. 
Oh, Las Ketchup are a lot better than the Macarena; at least they didn’t manage to piss off half the country while trying to copyright something they hadn’t written (la Macarena was originally a military cadence). Mainly it’s the combination; except for JI, whose style I just can’t stomach, the other four have all been “The Summer Hit” one year or another. El Koala actually wasn’t aiming for that target but damn me if he didn’t split it in half.
Other beauties with lyrics related to those of El Koala include la puta de la cabra (that fuckin’ goat), a representative of Rural Bakalao; La Ramona, which was directly intended as the Spanish version of a redneck joke (except back then we didn’t know what a redneck was, we just had our own pueblerinos); or el tractor amarillo, this one written when we already knew what a redneck was.