# Uh-oh: The Most Annoying Pop Songs Ever Made **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 17, 2023, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281 "2023-11-17T06:58:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/21 "2023-11-17T15:03:31Z")
For me, it’s an entire genre. You know, songs like, “I Fall to Pieces”, by Patsy Cline. They’re weak, whiny, and annoying. LOL ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/22 "2023-11-17T15:28:52Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > I say uh-oh, because what does it mean if you like any of these songs? It means nothing. Some content creator somewhere needed to create some content. Lists are easy. Throwing shade is sure to get engagement. Taste is subjective. Like what you like and never apologize for it. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/23 "2023-11-17T15:30:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I just don’t get it. Is it because of the whole Jefferson Airplane thing? That’s certainly part of it. Grace Slick was the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, who produced some pretty cool rock in the late 60s (“White Rabbit”, “Somebody to Love”), so for her to perform a bland pop song was jarring. I admit the tune is kinda catchy, but the lyrics are completely inscrutable. Marconi plays the mambo ? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/24 "2023-11-17T16:04:14Z")
Ah, clickbait lists! But… how can it NOT have Love To Love You Baby? 3:20 of eargasm and not much else. And We Built This City sucks not because of the progression of the band, from JA to JS to S, but because it sucks. Almost as much as Stairway to Cleveland. Yeah? Fuck You we do what we want! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/25 "2023-11-17T16:14:51Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Those get annoying when you decipher their hidden subtext/double entendres. > > If you are singing about sex, then SING ABOUT SEX already! Don’t couch it in a bunch of warm fuzzy euphemisms and metaphors. Why so angry? You started out this morning feeling so polite. mmm ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/26 "2023-11-17T16:19:16Z")
What, no _Kokomo_? That _Bread and Butter_ song is one of the most irritating things I’ve ever heard. What was that guy’s problem? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/27 "2023-11-17T16:21:52Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > What, no _Kokomo_? Teacher says, every time Kokomo plays, an angel loses its wings! ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/28 "2023-11-17T16:27:05Z")
I like some of the songs on this list. And I like Patsy Cline. I can’t believe “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes isn’t it on this list, though. Hate that song. I mentioned that on a similar thread, and someone linked this inspired bit of lunacy: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/32FB-gYr49Y/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgXShCMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC5zaPIKwgmEc1_eH6nktmvBvFziQ "He Man - What's Going On - High Quality (Four Non Blondes)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/29 "2023-11-17T16:50:52Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > That’s certainly part of it. Grace Slick was the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, who produced some pretty cool rock in the late 60s (“White Rabbit”, “Somebody to Love”), so for her to perform a bland pop song was jarring. True, but I don’t see, say, Stevie Winwood taking any shit for “Higher Love” - although to be fair, it is a much better song. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/30 "2023-11-17T18:05:52Z")
Not a song on that list I hate. Some I’ve had enough of as any song gets tiresome after hearing it a million times. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/31 "2023-11-17T18:15:07Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > WBTC, while no classic, has a fairly catchy tune and doesn’t overdo it with the synchs. > > I just don’t get it. Is it because of the whole Jefferson Airplane thing? What bothered me about it (even back in high school when it came out) was all the anti-corporate rhetoric from mega-rich musicians recording on a major label, with MTV videos and all. Bit hypocritical there, guys? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/32 "2023-11-17T18:15:44Z")
I’m a little surprised that the #1 hit by Mr Astley isn’t on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/33 "2023-11-17T18:18:19Z")
And of course there’s a song about that > **[Chumbawamba - 4. Silly Love Songs (Jesus H. Christ, 1991) (RESTORED)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJjp5VuEyK4%2F)** > > Track 4 from Chumbawamba's Jesus H. Christ, 1991. Tragic Flop Records. Vinyl source. Matched EQ and tone with Shhh. I do not own the rights to this music.---... ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/34 "2023-11-17T19:01:34Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@TriPolar](#): > > > > but also easy listening type songs like Afternoon Delight which are only annoying when you hear them more than once a decade. > > Those get annoying when you decipher their hidden subtext/double entendres. > > If you are singing about sex, then SING ABOUT SEX already! Don’t couch it in a bunch of warm fuzzy euphemisms and metaphors. OK, _ **one line of the chorus** _ is metaphorical (_skyrockets in flight_), but it ain’t like the rest of the song is like deciphering the Da Vinci code or something: _Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight_ _Gonna grab some afternoon delight_ [snip] _Rubbin’ sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite_ _And the thought of lovin’ you is getting so exciting_ [snip] _Please be waiting for me, baby, when I come around_ _We could make a lot of lovin’ 'fore the sun goes down_ What more do ya want, an instruction manual and diagrams? 😏 ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/35 "2023-11-17T19:22:40Z")
> [@gnarator](#): > > I like some of the songs on this list. And I like Patsy Cline. Patsy Cline could sing the phone book and I’d put it on permanent repeat. ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/36 "2023-11-17T19:26:25Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Patsy Cline could sing the phone book and I’d put it on permanent repeat. You can come over anytime. I thought of another song that gets on my nerves–that Lee Greenwood “God Bless the USA” that they play at every sporting event. Craig Ferguson used to mock it with his “proud to be an AMURICAN” bit. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/37 "2023-11-17T19:31:46Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I range from don’t mind to actively like a lot of those songs. What the hell is wrong with the Police song? One of my faves! However, that effing Crazy Frog version of “Axel F” has absolutely got to go. > > ETA: Like below. I _like_ MMMBop. It’s a perfectly good and catchy pop song. Suffers from having been overplayed, but it’s fun and memorable. It got made fun of a lot at the time and, apparently, still, but I still contend it’s a decent pop tune. I’m really in @pulykamell’s camp here, I like a lot of those songs (not so much about MMMBop but my wife loves it). For me the writer has a hate of repetitive songs, or “uncomplicated” songs. It seems to me, in the words of one of our Pit threads, to be a “hipster flex”. Different music appeals to different people, and people’s tastes change over time. I’d agree that a lot of the music on the list lacks any sort of transcendence past the age in which was created or popular, but that doesn’t make them the “Most Annoying Pop Songs Ever Made”. I mean I’d have been impressed if they had taken shots at songs like “Yellow Submarine” which is often quoted as being super annoying if for nothing else than it’s earwurm-ability. And it has the same sort of repetition that the writer of the article hates… So, yeah, like what you like, dislike what you dislike, but the article? It’s selling clicks and a sense of superiority - not much else. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/38 "2023-11-17T19:45:02Z")
I’ve always liked “Blue.” I have a theory it was originally written with meaningful lyrics and they later changed it to the babble. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/39 "2023-11-17T19:47:12Z")
Kitsch vs camp: kitsch is pathetically sincere, while camp is deliberately bad. Most of the list is kitsch. For some reason, campy songs highlighting children’s outlooks were an airwave affliction 50 or so years ago. [Playground in my Mind](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BolPQL83hFA) (_my name is Michael! I got a nickel!_) [“I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcpodt0YCU&pp=ygUYbWVsYW5pZSByb2xsZXJza2F0ZSBzb25n) and, not to give short-shrift to kazoo classics, [I Love Onions](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ca028rU-0fQ&pp=ygUSaSBsaWtlIG9uaW9ucyBzb25n) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/40 "2023-11-17T19:47:52Z")
You’ve heard the remake with lyrics, right? It’s called “I’m Good (Blue)” by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281.md?page=3)