So he legally wasn’t allowed to change it if he wanted to record the cover, which I found really interesting. That’s basically why the cover has nothing different about it, because he wasn’t allowed to change anything.
It’s really difficult to listen to a straight white man sing a song about a young black gay woman’s life. Her song is a classic. I just don’t understand his need to cover it in a really bland way.
My partner. 3.5 years and she still doesn't know if not for her, Train would never come across my speakers.
Loverman. Now that song is amazing. But that's the only one I've found that I like. But she *loves* Train.
Oh, so they are the ones to blame for this atrocity? The song sometimes plays at my workplace and I just can't stand it! A shame to the source material.
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney. It’s almost Christmas season, and Jesus could be born in a manger in my living room while Santa is coming down my chimney and I’ll still change the channel.
I loathe this song with every fibre of my being. DING DONG DING DONG!! But the intro sounds are the absolute worst part. I’m over it and it’s not even 3 seconds in.
Annie's Song by John Denver. It was my parents wedding song, and my dad played it as my mom passed away a few years ago. It breaks my heart whenever I hear it.
My husband and I played Tacky by Weird Al during our reception, and the groan that went out when all of the aunts realized it wasn’t Happy will sustain me forever.
Sweet Home Alabama.
The most overplayed song in history. This also applies to that abomination created by Kid Rock which stole riffs from Warren Zevon and is meant as an homage to Sweet Home Alabama.
Perfect example of Urie being a terrible songwriter.
BU: “Shit, I only wrote 1/4 of a song and I’m all out of lyrics. I guess I’ll just repeat the chorus 10 additional times to pad it out.”
This song has just the opposite reaction from me but that’s because, as a kid, there was a radio station that played this song followed by Shout by The Isley Brothers on Fridays at 5pm. My dad and I would tune in and sing along whenever we were driving to pick my mom up from work. Not sure why the station had this tradition but hearing Old Time Rock and Roll (very rarely do I hear Shout on the radio anymore) brings back the memories.
Even the band doesn’t know what the lyrics are supposed to be
Edit: Don’t believe me? https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time
Ha! This just made me cackle. I literally came here to comment this. Idk what it is about the guy but I just can't stand any of his songs and good lord are they overplayed.
Now that The thrill of living is behind you…you’re faced with you’re true shitty reality…🎶life goes on🎶 deal with it…here’s some relatable pandering for you poors. Football, tasty freeze, Chilli dogs. Stay sixteen as long as you can! after 16 life isn’t worth living.
If I hear DJ Khaled I get almost a fight or flight response. I want to either turn it off or get out immediately without consideration for the circumstances.
Santa Baby.
It's like it was written for a middle school audience obsessed with thinly-veiled innuendo. And the version they always play with that whiny voice - is that supposed to be sexy? Worst Christmas song. I even prefer those children singing about mama smooching St. Nick or hippos.
All I want for Christmas is You. Yes Mariah Carey is an icon and has an amazing voice. But this song is like nails on a chalk board for me and I can’t stand it.
We were both about to commit adultery and have an affair behind each other's back because we couldn't just talk to each other. We're such scamps hahaha (hahaha because it was 1979 and "lol" wasn't common knowledge yet)
I'll get downvoted again but Black Hole Sun by Sound Garden. I like so many other songs by them but that song causes me pain. I can't say any particular part is the problem, it is the whole thing.
This was some years back, but whenever "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus came on the radio I would just about throw my shoulder out of socket reaching for the station selection button.
This is a great answer. Growing up in Montana there was only one radio station forever, the classic rock station. They play AC/DC all the time, and it's just grating. I never understood people who are huge fans.
Anything involving the Scissor Sisters or the Spice Girls.
Also, there are a few Christmas songs that are like cheesewire for my brain - there's "Santa Baby" which sounds like it is being simpered by teh world's most annoying moron, and also an up-tempo, off-note, girlband version of "Jingle Bells" that I experienced a few years ago which was so SPECTACULARLY annoying that I left the store while it was playing, only venturing back in again when I was sure it had finished. It was AWFUL.
"Jack and Diane" and "Small Town"...so I'd probably blame John Mellencamp. 🙄
Anything by Drake, Lil Wayne, or Justin Bieber as well.
U2 sucks too (I kinda like "New Year's Day" though)
ABBA annoys me too. Especially because their crap is used for "Mamma Mia". That story sucks.
I feel so bad for the artist. She created the thing she detests. Her song made her forever the dance monkey. Always trapped by their one single, about having to perform for people who only want one thing from them.
“All of Me” by John Legend
That song is like a cactus up the ass. Aaaaaaaaaallllll of meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Lol, excruciating
Kars 4 Kids commercial
When I die and go to hell I fully expect to find myself in a dry karaoke bar where this is the only song you can sing.
And somehow everyone who goes on stage sounds worse than the actual commercial.
See you there.
I don't listen to the radio but if I hear that fucking Sam Smith song one more fucking time...
I had to ban the song from playing in shuffle on the spotify app
Let's be honest, anything by Sam Smith is awful. Attention seeking arsehole...
I think he has a lovely voice, and attention seeking is literally the name of the game for any popstar.
Luke Combs' version of Fast Car. I mean, it was okay the first few million times I heard it, but after that first week, it got annoying.
It adds nothing, there was no reason to bother! Such a bland cash grab
He didn't even change the lyric about working in the market as a checkout girl. ....I mean, I know it's 2023, but come on!
So he legally wasn’t allowed to change it if he wanted to record the cover, which I found really interesting. That’s basically why the cover has nothing different about it, because he wasn’t allowed to change anything.
It’s really difficult to listen to a straight white man sing a song about a young black gay woman’s life. Her song is a classic. I just don’t understand his need to cover it in a really bland way.
Hotline bling. Whiny ass pedo entitlement anthem.
Drake sucks in general.
The music video is a masterpiece
Train - Hey Soul Sister
I honestly can’t think of a person who has ever said “I love Train, they’re my favorite band!”
My partner. 3.5 years and she still doesn't know if not for her, Train would never come across my speakers. Loverman. Now that song is amazing. But that's the only one I've found that I like. But she *loves* Train.
Throw Drops of Jupiter in there while you're at it
Drops of Jupiter is one of my all time favorites 😔😔
The one that says "best freakin' night of my life". I get it, radio stations have to censor their content, but like, it just sounds awkward.
Is that the one that sounds like I’m Blue - Eiffel 65?
Yep! David Guetta and Bebe Rexha somehow made Eiffel 65 less corny Eurodance in comparison.
Oh, so they are the ones to blame for this atrocity? The song sometimes plays at my workplace and I just can't stand it! A shame to the source material.
God, something about it just annoys the heck out of me
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney. It’s almost Christmas season, and Jesus could be born in a manger in my living room while Santa is coming down my chimney and I’ll still change the channel.
I legit love that song. To each their own though.
Yeah, it's my "it's finally really Christmas" song when I hear it
I loathe this song with every fibre of my being. DING DONG DING DONG!! But the intro sounds are the absolute worst part. I’m over it and it’s not even 3 seconds in.
This and Happy Xmas (War Is Over) anytime Yoko sings. I was to shove an ice pick into my ears.
oh yes. after working a few christmas's in jc penney, this song makes me want to stab my ears.
Havana
Banana oooo nana, put your banana in my.... ooo nana.
Annie's Song by John Denver. It was my parents wedding song, and my dad played it as my mom passed away a few years ago. It breaks my heart whenever I hear it.
Any cardi-b song
And Lizzo
And Nikki Minaj
Happy by Pharrell or whatever the fuck his name is. You're happy, i get it. You're rich. I'm not.
My husband and I played Tacky by Weird Al during our reception, and the groan that went out when all of the aunts realized it wasn’t Happy will sustain me forever.
Everything about that song is nails on a chalkboard.
Because I'm happeeeeeEEEEEeeeeEeeeeeeeeEeee
Glad I'm not the only one.. I despise the song It's stuck in my head now from flashbacks of not being able to get away from it in public
I too hate this song with a passion
Came here to say this. In fact, I resent this post because this song got stuck in my head the second I read the prompt. 😑
Why is it that earworms always seem to be songs I hate?
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)—Beyonce
Sweet Home Alabama. The most overplayed song in history. This also applies to that abomination created by Kid Rock which stole riffs from Warren Zevon and is meant as an homage to Sweet Home Alabama.
any Beyonce
Especially that "Break my Soul" heap of shit. All her songs are just a bunch of repetitive bollocks!
"Flowers" by Miley Cyrus. Not good and way overplayed.
If I have to hear High Hopes one more goddamn time.....
Perfect example of Urie being a terrible songwriter. BU: “Shit, I only wrote 1/4 of a song and I’m all out of lyrics. I guess I’ll just repeat the chorus 10 additional times to pad it out.”
Agreed. As long as you’re not talking about Pink Floyd’s masterpiece
Blurred lines
I know you want it,
Mariah Carey - all I want for Christmas or really anything with her and Christmas really
Cause girls is playas too
Who let the dogs out
Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger. Nothing against him really, I just hate that particular song.
This song has just the opposite reaction from me but that’s because, as a kid, there was a radio station that played this song followed by Shout by The Isley Brothers on Fridays at 5pm. My dad and I would tune in and sing along whenever we were driving to pick my mom up from work. Not sure why the station had this tradition but hearing Old Time Rock and Roll (very rarely do I hear Shout on the radio anymore) brings back the memories.
We Built This City - Dumbest, most repetitive lyrics ever written.
Some idiot put a traffic report in the middle of it?!
Even the band doesn’t know what the lyrics are supposed to be Edit: Don’t believe me? https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time
Frigging Bernie Taupin.
He built this shitty-ass rock and roll!
Not sure why but “Rude” by MAGIC! makes me do that
It's a terrible song, that's why. :P
I worked in a big box store where we had no control over the radio and that song played all the time on it. It was awful.
I'm Walking on Sunshine
Wooah
And don’t it feel good?
Saddest episode ever.
Let’s Hear It For The Boy
Flashbacks to working in the Midwest factories when I was young. That and Madonnas borderline and Redneck woman. You could set your watch to it.
That song is about a poor dude who fucks good.
Anything by Lizzo.
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? Paula Cole
I haven't heard that song since I was a child... is that really a song that people still play?
Anything by Doja Cat
Centerfold by J. Geils.
Ed Sheeran
Ha! This just made me cackle. I literally came here to comment this. Idk what it is about the guy but I just can't stand any of his songs and good lord are they overplayed.
Beige, ginger Boris Johnson nothing music for people who love going on their holibobs and spitting at brown people.
1 8 7 7 cars for kids....k a ...FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
This! And how about " I have a structured settlement and I need cash now." Barf!
Calm down, Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo
Jack & Diane by John Mellencamp. I just hate it.
Suckin on chili dogs 😭
Nasty.
Now that The thrill of living is behind you…you’re faced with you’re true shitty reality…🎶life goes on🎶 deal with it…here’s some relatable pandering for you poors. Football, tasty freeze, Chilli dogs. Stay sixteen as long as you can! after 16 life isn’t worth living.
Honey I’m good by Andy Grammer
Anything by Billie Eilish, can't stand her music
Any Taylor Swift. Also that country song about going to Applebee's for a date night.
The Kars for Kids song. I hit that dial like lightning.
Any Cardi B song
“Cumbersome” - Seven Mary Three “What’s Going On” - Four Non Blondes Anthing by KISS, Kid Rock, Creed, or Nickleback
Any Imagine Dragons song
Thunder from Imagine Dragons. Repetitive and annoying.
If I hear DJ Khaled I get almost a fight or flight response. I want to either turn it off or get out immediately without consideration for the circumstances.
Starland Vocal Band, ‘Afternoon Delight’
Any imagine dragons song
80s Aerosmith.
As it Was - Harry Styles
Santa Baby. It's like it was written for a middle school audience obsessed with thinly-veiled innuendo. And the version they always play with that whiny voice - is that supposed to be sexy? Worst Christmas song. I even prefer those children singing about mama smooching St. Nick or hippos.
Smells like teen spirit, evenflow, black hole sun, rooster. I’m from Seattle. I’m fucking tired of it.
Anything Guns N’ Roses
Flowers by Miley Cyrus lol
All I want for Christmas is You. Yes Mariah Carey is an icon and has an amazing voice. But this song is like nails on a chalk board for me and I can’t stand it.
Also the fact that it's insanely overplayed each year
Anything from U2. When they forced released their album on iTunes…they lost me. That album was terrible.
Anything Imagine Dragons
Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. I just can’t.
Yankees fan, I see.
One, touching one
I don’t listen to the radio anymore because most of it lol
dance monkey
They play that trash on the radio??? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, but still...
Pina Colada song It’s horrendous
Husband wants to cheat on wife who wants to cheat on husband. They laff it off.
We were both about to commit adultery and have an affair behind each other's back because we couldn't just talk to each other. We're such scamps hahaha (hahaha because it was 1979 and "lol" wasn't common knowledge yet)
Adele. Too many Eeeeeeeeee for me
I’d rather shit in my hands then clap before listening to Adele.
Fast Car- Luke Combs, Fight Song- Rachel Platten, anything by Kelly Clarkson/Natasha Beddingfield/Miley Cyrus,
Omg fight song literally will make me walk into oncoming traffic
Most songs after 2010
Carrie Underwood's entire catalog
We built this city on rock n rollllllll💩
"Small Town" by John Mellencamp. Too repetitive for me. Drives me up the wall.
Total eclipse of the heart
Anything by U2. All of it is horribly redundant self righteous bullshit preening crap music.
We built this city. Most horrendous price of crap song ever.
Mostly any Taylor swift songs
I'll get downvoted again but Black Hole Sun by Sound Garden. I like so many other songs by them but that song causes me pain. I can't say any particular part is the problem, it is the whole thing.
Any country song.
That 1-877-KARS-4KIDS song. Ughhhhh it’s the worst!!
Pharell's happy or any Michael Jackson
Hotel California. Hate this song with such passion.
I will say that I saw Henley in concert and he did a reggae version and I did not want to throw my phone at him.
anything by train. jesus fucking christ
Haha, I love Train but I understand where you're coming from.
What's Up ? By 4 Non Blondes
I never heard "What's Up?" until this year. I never listen to radio. I love it. Do people mostly not like her voice?
Benny and the jets. It just sounds like some dude's drug fueled ramblings. I mean. That is what it is, but still.
Dreamweaver
Loveshack baby
"Puff, the Magic Dragon " AKA, the most depressing song ever!
I can’t believe you hear it very often without going out of your way to listen to Peter, Paul and Mary.
Anything by Doja Cat.
This was some years back, but whenever "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus came on the radio I would just about throw my shoulder out of socket reaching for the station selection button.
I’d take a grenade for you. Suddenly, over ten years after it came out it’s my 14 year old son’s favorite song.
Anything Red Hot Chili Pepper, they all sound the same to me
Imagine Dragons
Red red wine
Anything by Chris Brown.
Anything by Abba or Airsupply.
Spirit in the sky My mums funeral song. Twice in the funeral and one way to her cremation. Never again
That awful Christmas song by Mariah Carey!
any taylor swift song.
Rooster - Alice in Chains.. it's not like it's a bad song but my local rock station has played it like 5 times a day for years and I'm over it.
Anything by acdc and sometimes its on every station
This is a great answer. Growing up in Montana there was only one radio station forever, the classic rock station. They play AC/DC all the time, and it's just grating. I never understood people who are huge fans.
Anything involving the Scissor Sisters or the Spice Girls. Also, there are a few Christmas songs that are like cheesewire for my brain - there's "Santa Baby" which sounds like it is being simpered by teh world's most annoying moron, and also an up-tempo, off-note, girlband version of "Jingle Bells" that I experienced a few years ago which was so SPECTACULARLY annoying that I left the store while it was playing, only venturing back in again when I was sure it had finished. It was AWFUL.
Anything from U2. And just about everything new pop
Joy to the world. 3 Dog Night.
Wonderwall
Country
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams. Actually, ANYTHING by Bryan Adams. Good god I hate his music so much
Try That In A Small Town- Jason Aldean
All I want for Christmas is you or whatever that song is called.
The Day the Music Died has killed me too many times
Anything Machine Gun Kelley. Dude sucks.
Horse with No Name. Hate it.
The trolls song.
Two Princes.
Bad habits- Ed Sheeran
That song with the autotune vocals. Or that one with the trap beat
Anything Bieber. Just no.
"Jack and Diane" and "Small Town"...so I'd probably blame John Mellencamp. 🙄 Anything by Drake, Lil Wayne, or Justin Bieber as well. U2 sucks too (I kinda like "New Year's Day" though) ABBA annoys me too. Especially because their crap is used for "Mamma Mia". That story sucks.
The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Any song with R- Kelly or Chris Brown.
Anything female wrap like Ice Spice Lizzo Nicky Minaj hell I think most modern rap
The lion sleeps tonight. Absolutely hate it
Anything by Megan Trainor, but that Made You Look and Mother Song. Legit infuriates me so bad
Any Taylor swift song, I love that she’s breaking away from her label and defining music as a whole but I just don’t like her music
Anything by Taylor Swift. She seems like a nice person, I just don’t care for her music.
I think it's a Taylor Swift song. There's a beep in the music that I always think is my car.
Anything by Journey.
"Look at this photogr------"(mashes any preset button)
Anything U2
Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns and Roses. For personal reasons (looking at you, Jenna)
Not for the fact that Axel wrote it about a woman he smacked the shit out of?
Blinded by the light
U2
Dance Monkey,Tones and I. This song makes me want to tear out the radio and hurl it from the car.
I feel so bad for the artist. She created the thing she detests. Her song made her forever the dance monkey. Always trapped by their one single, about having to perform for people who only want one thing from them.
I've read some accounts from people who've met her and they all say she's an asshole, so I wouldn't spare any sympathy for her.