# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/61 "2023-11-18T18:08:26Z")
I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for that. I’m up to my neck in a project right now. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/62 "2023-11-18T18:14:12Z")
Agreed, which is why I added that “nearly”. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/63 "2023-11-18T19:02:41Z")
I’m one too. And the answer to the OP’s question is indeed “Hey Jude.” Fifteen seconds of material expanded into fifteen minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/64 "2023-11-18T20:01:22Z")
For Mahna Mahna (it may actually be Mah Nà Mah Nà) the article has, “When it comes to melodies made for kids, folks tend to keep it simple…” It wasn’t made for kids. The original song was from a Swedish movie. The Wikipedia description of the movie is: The film is made up of nine segments focusing on different aspects of sexuality in Sweden, such as lesbian nightclubs, pornography , the swinging lifestyle of married couples…(and so forth). ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/65 "2023-11-19T01:23:08Z")
Cool. Wiki is great! [Mah Nà Mah Nà - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0) They say that in the US it was first on a 1969 Red Skelton show. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/66 "2023-11-19T04:52:40Z")
Yes, watch Sandra Bullock on the Muppets with “phenomena” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/67 "2023-11-19T06:27:07Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > “Afternoon Delight.” “Disco Duck.” Et cetera. Everybody hates those. For certain increasingly elderly values of “everybody”, perhaps. I’m 40 and I don’t think I’ve ever heard either song except from when they sang a snippet of the former in Anchorman. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/68 "2023-11-19T06:36:18Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > “Afternoon Delight.” “Disco Duck.” Et cetera. Everybody hates those. I like Afternoon delight, and Disco Duck is a novelty song. Youre supposed to hear it only a couple of times and get a chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/69 "2023-11-19T15:46:56Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _I like Afternoon delight, and Disco Duck is a novelty song. Youre supposed to hear it only a couple of times and get a chuckle._ As a Top 40 radio DJ when both of these were riding the charts, I played them far too often to be objective about them. I never liked or disliked “Afternoon Delight.” I’ve never really understood the hate for it, but it seems people always pick that one out on lists like these. To me, it was just another innocuous pop ditty. There were many of those in the 1970s. I don’t think I ever played it again after it had run its course. “Disco Duck” was a novelty record that never got any airplay after it dropped off the Top 40, but man oh man, was it ever a chore to have to play that every 2.5 hours for a couple of months! Should I ever be locked in a room with the threat of being tortured, all they would have to do is play “Disco Duck” on an endless loop and I’d sing like Tweety Bird. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/70 "2023-11-19T20:28:09Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > “Disco Duck” was a novelty record that never got any airplay after it dropped off the Top 40, but man oh man, was it ever a chore to have to play that every 2.5 hours for a couple of months! Should I ever be locked in a room with the threat of being tortured, all they would have to do is play “Disco Duck” on an endless loop and I’d sing like Tweety Bird. I can buy that. Some novelty songs should never be played more than once a DAY or maybe 8 hour shift in rotation. This includes the horrible :"_Grandma got Run over…"_ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/71 "2023-11-20T03:24:41Z")
For Og’s sake, mon! Finish your sentence! Grandma get run over… hurrying across Woodward Avenue on her way to work a double shift because her new insurance doesn’t cover her anti-migraine meds that were almost free with a really co-pay until last Friday ? . I agree with many of the OP’s list because almost any song gets annoying after the 100th time. And growing up in the '60s with an AM radio and only two “Top 40” stations meant hearing the Top 10 over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/72 "2023-11-20T03:41:55Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I love _Afternoon Delight._ Me too. For some reason it is one of the first pop songs I remember liking (I was nine at the time). Dunno why and I certainly didn’t understand the lyrics but it remains a song I enjoy (I understand the lyrics now). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/73 "2023-11-20T04:42:25Z")
> [@digs](#): > > For Og’s sake, mon! Finish your sentence! Grandma get run over… _by a reindeer_? If you have never heard that song, and you live in America, you are truly blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/74 "2023-11-20T07:07:41Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I agree with many of the OP’s list because almost any song gets annoying after the 100th time. And growing up in the '60s with an AM radio and only two “Top 40” stations meant hearing the Top 10 over and over. And the 70s too, here. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/75 "2023-11-20T07:08:33Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@DrDeth](#): > > > > I love _Afternoon Delight._ > > Me too. For some reason it is one of the first pop songs I remember liking (I was nine at the time). > > Dunno why and I certainly didn’t understand the lyrics but it remains a song I enjoy (I understand the lyrics now). Me three. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/76 "2023-11-20T08:14:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > For certain increasingly elderly values of “everybody”, perhaps. I’m 40 and I don’t think I’ve ever heard either song except from when they sang a snippet of the former in Anchorman. I was born the same year “Afternoon Delight” made it to #1 on the US charts. It’s not a song I remember hearing a lot, but I would hear it on occasion. I’m not surprised there are folks a few years younger than me who never heard the song, or, if they did hear it, it didn’t make enough of an impression to be memorable. I’m thinking there’s likely plenty of songs that played on oldies stations when I was a kid that people a few years younger than me are unfamiliar with. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/77 "2023-11-20T08:53:04Z")
I did not expect to recognize so many songs. It seemed to me that just picked songs that were widely popular outside the artists’ usual fans. I like all that I recognized save for two: Baby Shark because it really did get annoying, and Friday. And both of them I might like if they were redone: the for we with some style variation, and the latter without Rebecca Black’s nasal voice. Baby Shark is the only one I find annoying. Oh, and I like the sound of I Want Candy, but the lyrics seem creepy to me. Still, I don’t annoyed by it. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/78 "2023-11-20T16:08:02Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > You want repetitive? > > You want repetitive? And I again nominate the worst song ever to be played on the radio. > Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Check It Out Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now > > The Funk Soul Brother, Right About Now ---
**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 20, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/79 "2023-11-20T16:14:35Z")
Ah, good old late-90’s big beat music. Sounds much better in a club, sucks just listening to. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281/80 "2023-11-20T21:52:43Z")
Since I don’t want to steal **Mean Mr. Mustard** ’s thunder from his song polls, I’ll wait for the last letter to start a thread on the worst songs ever. I will follow his format tho, 150 total noms/3 polls, no letter-by-letter (my mind would become goo by the time we did the M’s). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-the-most-annoying-pop-songs-ever-made/993281.md?page=5)