awful.
Maybe they thought a guy was funny-looking, funny-sounding, something physical or non-musical that makes him or her popular.
I don’t know the guy’s name, not because he’s not famous, but because I don’t pay attention to modern pop culture, but I do remember “She bang”
Wesley Willis… His humor was his frustration, trying to insert as many words in a measure as possible, along with the way he yelled into the microphone. As well as the outlandish songs like “Suck My Dog’s Dick”
Prince
(running for my very life)
Not long after “Lovesexy” came out, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and EVERY.SINGLE.TIME someone purchased that, they would cringe and say, “…the cover…”
For me, it’s the Beastie Boys
Madonna is a distant second.
BTW, “She Bangs” was sung by Ricky Martin.
Then there are the singer-songwriters who are immensely influential despite the fact that their voices were, by conventional standards, terrible.
Willie Nelson
Grrr
August 27, 2019, 2:19am
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I feel like Edith Bunker deserves a mention.
Rebecca Black is the definitive answer.
Wiki has a page all about this: Outsider music - Wikipedia
Also, “Congress Woman Parker”. Plus, lots of non-musical celebrities who put out a silly music recording (Bruce Willis, etc.)
I believe the OP is referring to William Hung’s performance of the song on one of those reality TV competitions.
Before Florence Foster Jenkins, there were the Cherry Sisters
The Cherry Sisters – Addie (1859–1942), Effie (1867–1944), Ella (1854–1934), Lizzie (1857–1936), and Jessie Cherry (1871–1903) – were five sisters from Marion, Iowa who formed a notorious vaudeville touring act in the late 19th century. They were also the plaintiffs in a landmark 1901 legal case heard by the Iowa Supreme Court, Cherry v. Des Moines Leader, which was instrumental in establishing and confirming the right of the press to fair comment.
The Cherry Sisters' vaudeville act, Something ...
Addie Cherry described the Cherry sisters’ work as “concerts,–literary entertainments.”[3] Titled Something Good, Something Sad, their show featured songs, dances, skits, morality plays and essays authored and performed by the sisters. Some of their songs featured new lyrics set to traditional standards; others were completely original compositions. Musical accompaniment was provided for some numbers by Elizabeth and Jessie, who played the piano and bass drum. The material had strong patriotic and religious themes; in one scene, Jessie was suspended from a cross in an imitation of the crucifixion.[1][2][4][5]
The act was received politely by the sisters’ neighbors in Marion, but when it went on the road, it received overwhelmingly negative responses from the audiences to which it played. Spectators routinely laughed, heckled, catcalled, booed and threw vegetables at the sisters throughout the entire performance. In several instances the audience violence reached dangerous proportions: in one incident in Dubuque, a fire extinguisher was sprayed directly into one of the sisters’ faces, and the show was stopped by the local marshals to prevent further harm. Eventually the sisters performed behind a wire mesh curtain to avoid being struck by projectiles from the audience, although they would later deny that this had ever been necessary
I think there are a lot of “Florences” out there… Might not be doing opera, but have money backing them, subsidizing everything they do, payouts to critics, etc…
His character was cringe-worthy; TTT was more in the realm of campy.
Tiny Tim was actually quite a good singer and some of his recordings are enjoyable.
William Shatner’s rendition of Mr. Tambourine Man is quite unforgettable.