1/11/2024 0 Comments Twinkle twinkle little star videoIn the episode, Brittany Spanos and Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to discuss some candidates for worst song ever, while also exploring why some of their most-despised songs (Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” among them) are now among their favorites - and others, like Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” seem to permanently hover in some uncanny zone between hideousness and a weird species of greatness. It wouldn’t be nearly as much fun to be a fan of pop music if there was some kind of quality control that prevented songs like this from happening.” (To hear the whole episode, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play above.) “Terrible songs are a long and proud pop tradition. Rachel Platten’s yuppie psych-up anthem “Fight Song” is merely lousy the Doors’ “Touch Me” has just enough sweaty effort to breach the gates of worst-ness.Īnd even if it’s hard to decide on a consensus, maybe we need the idea of “worst songs.” “Bad taste is timeless,” Rob Sheffield says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. A certain level of craft and hookiness is required, and in fact, the harder the artist worked on the song, the more they went for it, the greater the chance at true terribleness. Still, it’s fairly clear what gives a song a shot at becoming one of the worst ever, instead of being simply bad. And for that matter, Leah Kate’s nursery-rhyme-biting, Olivia Rodrigo-aping TikTok irritant “Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch” is definitely this year’s contribution.īut in 2022, where all canons have been exploded and all taste strictures overturned, it’s hard for anyone to be as confident as, say, the defunct magazine Blender was when they created a much-discussed worst-songs list in 2004, topped by Starship’s “We Built This City.” Many of those songs, from 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” to Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” are now near-universally, if at least semi-ironically, beloved. There’s one thing we’re still sure of: Robin Thicke’s odious “Blurred Lines” is high on the list of the worst songs ever made.
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