A thousand times yes. I was asked to photograph a house party years ago and the client was hoping I’d give a discount because the singer of The Plain White Tees would be performing. First, like I care and haven’t photographed all sorts of public figures before. Second, I really really wanted to say I should be charging you more to sit through that dreck.
I don’t particularly love or hate this song, but I just did realize, referencing another thread, why, other than having a song about sailing, that Christopher Cross can be considered “Yacht Rock”. All the rest of the stuff I’ve heard from him is closer to “easy listening”. But this is definitely more yacht rockish than the other ones and I did not know it was him until now.
It’s annoying to me too, but oddly enough because it isn’t terrible. It’s almost great, but produced in a contemporary fashion rather than like disco, funk, or old school techno, which makes it annoying that it failed to be completely great.
Oh hell yes. I thought of this one too.
Compare Uptown Funk to Get Lucky by Daft Punk.
Both songs are similar, but Get Lucky WAS produced like “disco, funk or old school techno”, unlike Uptown Funk’s more “contemporary fashion”. It’s like both songs tried to get the same results through different routes. Uptown Funk was an annoying wreck while Get Lucky was quite excellent in comparison.
You are right. And it’s clear which group is better.
The four-chord wonder which hit #1 in 14 different countries, including three different US charts.
Yet another one.
“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips. There was a stretch of years where I swore I heard it every.single.time I walked into a store that had overhead music.
Weirdly enough, this was my partner’s high school graduation song (chosen by her high school class). No idea why, if you actually read the lyrics …
Same reason Republicans keep using “Born In The USA” in their campaigns.
I’m going to have to agree with this answer. Now, a lot of songs have been named in this thread that are very very bad, yes. But this one was really popular, and not just ironically…people really wanted to hear it! Still do! I…I can’t even… 
Now that said, I don’t think anyone’s brought up another very very bad song I’ve been thinking of. It probably wasn’t popular enough, though it’s now being used in a bloody commercial! The Blue’s Brothers’ Rubber Biscuit. It makes me kill people.
Class of 1974? My brother’s class wanted to use it also, but he and other people that had actually listened to the lyrics talked them out of it.
I always found “Antarctica” by Men Without Hats to be like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard. I liked most of the rest of the album.
Wait what, someone had the album? By the Men Without Record Contracts? I didn’t know there was even another song 
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This was in Iowa City in the mid-80s! So even weirder!
That wasn’t even an original. They went out of their way to cover it.
I’m thinking anything by Tony Orlando & Dawn has to be in the running.
It’s funny … because I have that album (“Rhythm of You”) as well … and I listen to it reasonably regularly. And I thought I was the only person in the world who had it. There’s nothing I find particularly more annoying about that song than any other song on the album. It’s all the same vibe.
Or they use Extreme’s “More Than Words” at a wedding.
No hate for Baby Shark?