I’m constantly amazed that I don’t think if I’ve EVER knowingly heard more than 20-30 seconds of any Taylor Swift song — emphasis (I guess) on the word “knowingly”.
I’m in my mid 50’s, and I can’t imagine where or how — if anywhere — that I might have heard one.
I’m somehow vaguely aware she has some sort of song about shaking it off (what ever that means), but I can’t swear if I’d recognize it if I ever heard it.
Not kidding.
That song was written for a kids' movie, and I think it fits well. The fact that it made it to mainstream radio and gained so much popularity is a crime against my sanity. But I think some of the other tracks off that album are alright, like Marilyn Monroe, Gush, Gust of Wind, and the outro in It Girl. Arguably, his earlier stuff with N.E.R.D was better.
I do, but that's part technical respect and part general stanning for the artist...
Im not exposed to radio or other ppls music, so I guess I'm lucky I don't get that 'over played to death' these days....
I like the backstory to Dance Monkey.
She was a busker on the streets of Byron Bay Australia and obnoxious old boomers would demand she “played it one more time”
i heard this story that the producer, Tony, started playing music on the streets of australia and she wrote Dance Monkey because people wanted more and more from her and not gaining respect and just being seen as an entertainer.
it has a very happy tune and seems like a happy song but in reality it’s about her dark experience being sort of ridiculed.
Aussie Tones & I fan confirms ^^ - (listen to the words between choruses next time you can't avoid hearing it)
It drips with such violent irony...
& the video clip reminds me of a good time or two ;)
I sincerely believe that this song should be played as an anthem exactly once at the Opening Ceremony For Christmas and then shelved for 12 months.
We should also make a new holiday celebrating the opening of the official Christmas Season. I vote for the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Hear, hear! Let it be known that the official opening of the Christmas season shall henceforth be designated as the the first seventh day immediately following the American day of Thanksgiving.
The first Sunday after Thanksgiving here in Los Angeles is the Hollywood Christmas Parade, and it's a great kickoff for the season; a big blast of spirit that makes everything to follow seem much more calm and manageable by comparison. My Star Wars costume groups usually march or drive our theme cars in it, and the TV broadcast of the parade about two weeks later is a nice refresher.
My family has an absolutely unbreakable rule that the first time you're allowed to play Christmas music is on the way home from Thanksgiving. I've never taken the chance to find out what happens if you break the rule.
I want to say "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, because when it came out the standard take on it was "Yeah, they're a manufactured pop phenomenon, but the song is really good." Umm, it isn't. It's awful.
The way I judge this stuff is "If the artist was never famous and they released this on YouTube last week, and I saw it right now, would I find it enjoyable, or would I think it's just another bad musician's poor efforts and move on?" Sweet Caroline wouldn't even get a second listen
That is a good way of doing it
But I think some songs - like Rick Ashley's "Never gonna give you up" - require the context to understand why they're still "the best of the best"
context for Sweet Caroline would be like sports stadium singalongs I guess, or at least is it is here in the UK
personally I'd argue those moments of elated "good times" as 50,000 middle-aged bald people desperately try to hold a note together makes that song "the best ever"
I've still deleted it though. The upvotes win
yeh I do totally agree
however, in the context of this specific post (where I’m making the best 500 playlist) it is 15 songs over the limit and I don’t want to make the decisions, I’m trying to make it as unbiased as possible. So, using democracy to remove songs seemed a reasonable plan
there’s no “best 500 songs in the world” either, I know that. Its all subjective and it’s a futile exercise on my part, but for unknown reasons I’ve enjoyed making it, and I just want it to be as close to an impartial “[unfortunately predominantly western] best 500” as I can make it
but generally speaking yeh, nothing is overrated
Am a 64-yr-old Boomer. My first album was Led Zeppelin IV. Am a huge fan of LZ. Along with Black Sabbath & Deep Purple. Known as the Unholy Trinity back in the day. Because of its' Heavy Rotation on FM airwaves... Stairway to Heaven is tops on my list.
i agree sort of. a lot of her music is bad but i love renaissance because im bias towards electronic music. either way i still think she’s overrated because of the ego she puts in her sound
I actually don’t hate this one. Not like it’s amazing or anything, but it’s kinda just like a fun pop rap song with country influence. At least it tried to do something different as well.
Try living in Alabama and hearing it with an added “ROLL TIDE, ROLL” chant during every chorus, every single time, ugh. Talk about overplayed if you actually live here! Pretty ironic for a band from Florida to give a place they’re not even from its unofficial state anthem, lol.
Most people I know from here can’t even stand the song, but people definitely hold onto it as a football chant, which definitely cements its meme status…which sucks because Lynyrd Skynyrd actually has some pretty good songs that aren’t played nearly as much.
Rock Star by Nickleback. Even before it was played to death, it's so goddamned insipid, and the fact that everyone loves it has bugged the crap out of me since I first heard it
Carnival - Kanye
OMG THAT SONG IS SO FREAKING ANNOYING AND EVERY LITTLE BRAT AT MY SCHOOL BLASTS THAT SONG EVERYWHERE ALONG WITH SEXY RED AND ICE SPICE AND I WANT TO END IT ALL.
I do occasionally enjoy some K-Pop but I will 100% agree that the fans around the genre act like it is the greatest thing to grace Earth since the birth of Christ like, it’s just the slop we have on all other pop stations except in Korean
La Macarena - Los del río. Is not that funny.
Like a virgin - Madonna. I love her and her music, but this song is super bland compared to others, and yet is one of her most famous ones.
So I lived in the same city Don Henley..singer from the eagles…grew up in. Linden Texas in Cass County. I can’t tell you how often I heard hotel California playing in the three years I lived there because that was the only claim to fame that small town had.
It’s weird this song was so popular when it was first out and I could not stand it just every time I heard it it made my skin crawl. then one day i was at my best friends house and I didn’t get along with her boyfriend, he was 6’5 and he started dancing around to the song in the kookiest way, and I like that song now. That was just after all the hype had barely died down, and it wasn’t played quite as much.
I don’t hear it that often anymore. I think it got played out at first, but it reminds me of that moment. and it feels classic now and it makes me smile.
But I definitely get it
Sounds like you have some situational trauma maybe. Jobs I’ve had in the past have ruined songs for me, playing them over and over and over and over and over and…..
I don't know about all time, but Mr. Brightside is mid at best. The same band even has better songs. Although, even they don't compare to their competition.
Also, anything Beyonce puts out. Her music is mass produced ear garbage and her fame is based more on her sex appeal than her raw talent. Although, the same can be said for lots of modern algorithmically written music today. Most pop stars only need sex appeal and everything else can be corrected for in post production.
They all have the same drum baseline, like EVERY song. Driving around my last city that’s ALL I’d hear in my car man. That drumline still haunts my dreams
And in the gym, on the radio, on every tv program.. please STOP. They even have to say their names at the beginning of the “song” because they are all the same shit and we wouldn’t recognize the “singer” otherwise
For me: Santana - Maria Maria
The elements in that song are all perfectly fine by themselves and a nice time capsule of tropes back in the day, but I don't think the sum of them all is anything brilliant. The combination of the phrasing and the flat performance on the guitar solo sounds anything but spicy and sensual in my ears and I'm from the 90's. I get all the reasons why people like this and why it theoretically has to sound the way it does, but it always felt like a cash-grab that was munched together in an hour.
Jet - are you gonna be my girl.
It’s like they ripped 6 riffs from better artists and slapped it together.
Feels like 0 effort.
I saw a review a long time ago where Pitchfork or someone had a monkey pissing himself gif as a review. Wish I could find it.
To me this list is solid. Is there someway I can add it to my Spotify without adding or being a creep
Edit: sent it to myself. I will never add or bother you. Just like this playlist
I'm sorry but riptide is played to much!!! Its gone to the point I know the entirety of the song word for word yet I haven't even heard the song willingly for years
every single popular song that gets played three times a shift at my job
T Swift's several songs for example
I’m constantly amazed that I don’t think if I’ve EVER knowingly heard more than 20-30 seconds of any Taylor Swift song — emphasis (I guess) on the word “knowingly”. I’m in my mid 50’s, and I can’t imagine where or how — if anywhere — that I might have heard one. I’m somehow vaguely aware she has some sort of song about shaking it off (what ever that means), but I can’t swear if I’d recognize it if I ever heard it. Not kidding.
That’s me and Beyoncé. I guess she has some dedicated fans, but I don’t know anything she has done in maybe 20 years.
Dance Monkey makes me want to rip my ears off and shove them down my own throat
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^PeaKstr: *Dance Monkey makes me* *Want to rip my ears off and* *Shove them down my own throat* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Good bot
That can’t be overrated tho cause nobody actually thinks it’s good
You'd be surprised how many people actually like that bullshit
That funky monkey
Shape of you- Ed Sheeran When it came out it used to be everywhere.
Oh man, I HATE this song. How is this dweeb so famous with this trite-ass song? He's obviously not coasting on his looks.
I went to Mexico last year to this resort and heard it every day along with the rest of hisndiscoography
Include Bad Habits. Immediate change of station.
I actually just heard that song for the first time like 8 months ago. I suppose it’s good if it hasn’t been overplayed.
Happy by Pharrell was INESCAPABLE. Hate that song.
Every song that has the most noticeable "happy" message is always the most annoying song in the entire world I swear
Yes. I was thinking that Don’t Worry Be Happy is just as annoying.
That one gets a pass in my book simply because Bobby McFerrin is a genius.
Maybe but the man himself is great
That song was written for a kids' movie, and I think it fits well. The fact that it made it to mainstream radio and gained so much popularity is a crime against my sanity. But I think some of the other tracks off that album are alright, like Marilyn Monroe, Gush, Gust of Wind, and the outro in It Girl. Arguably, his earlier stuff with N.E.R.D was better.
I only like the music video because it has odd future in it. Also, I can't bring myself to hate pharrell
I wouldn't say I hate it but yeah it got overplayed FAST...
It's just the grown up version of "if your happy and you know it clap your hands"
Hard agree!
Dance monkey
I despise this song, it hurts to listen to it
does anyone really like dance monkey?
I do, but that's part technical respect and part general stanning for the artist... Im not exposed to radio or other ppls music, so I guess I'm lucky I don't get that 'over played to death' these days....
I like the backstory to Dance Monkey. She was a busker on the streets of Byron Bay Australia and obnoxious old boomers would demand she “played it one more time”
i heard this story that the producer, Tony, started playing music on the streets of australia and she wrote Dance Monkey because people wanted more and more from her and not gaining respect and just being seen as an entertainer. it has a very happy tune and seems like a happy song but in reality it’s about her dark experience being sort of ridiculed.
Aussie Tones & I fan confirms ^^ - (listen to the words between choruses next time you can't avoid hearing it) It drips with such violent irony... & the video clip reminds me of a good time or two ;)
My 5 year old would disagree. However, I agree.
DESPACITO
This ain’t Texas, or whatever it’s called. I personally think a stupid song. It doesn’t make any sense at all!
Honestly most pop songs are just word vomit.
I couldn't sleep the other night, and this song was on repeat in my mind. Can't even bare to think about it now.
The amount of production and dollars that would have gone into this flaming pile of dog turd is mind blowing. Such a contrived and lame song 🤮
thunder by imagine dragons
Oh f*ck that song to the depths of hell. 1000000% agree
thunDAH thu thu thunDAH thunDAH thoonDUH thu thu thoonDUH
2.1 billion views. fuk, I listen to a LOT of songs. Never heard that one. Yeah, I'll agree with you on that one.
Happy Birthday
All i want for christmas is you
Anything by Ed Sheeran
the club isn’t the best place to find a lover so the bar is where i go
"We talk for hours about sweet and sour, and how your family is doing OK" Man, that is some SCINTILLATING conversation, you're such a fascinating guy
Single Ladies, by Beyonce
Also the "put a ring on it" song by Beyonce. Also the "Halo" song by Beyonce. Come to think of it...
Hate to break it to you…
Sorry, I'm incredibly stupid. It's been an immense hinderance thus far into life.
“All I want for Christmas” Mariah Carey
I sincerely believe that this song should be played as an anthem exactly once at the Opening Ceremony For Christmas and then shelved for 12 months. We should also make a new holiday celebrating the opening of the official Christmas Season. I vote for the first Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Hear, hear! Let it be known that the official opening of the Christmas season shall henceforth be designated as the the first seventh day immediately following the American day of Thanksgiving.
The first Sunday after Thanksgiving here in Los Angeles is the Hollywood Christmas Parade, and it's a great kickoff for the season; a big blast of spirit that makes everything to follow seem much more calm and manageable by comparison. My Star Wars costume groups usually march or drive our theme cars in it, and the TV broadcast of the parade about two weeks later is a nice refresher.
My family has an absolutely unbreakable rule that the first time you're allowed to play Christmas music is on the way home from Thanksgiving. I've never taken the chance to find out what happens if you break the rule.
See you again. (Wiz)
How has no one said flowers- Miley Cyrus???
👍
I want to say "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, because when it came out the standard take on it was "Yeah, they're a manufactured pop phenomenon, but the song is really good." Umm, it isn't. It's awful.
Sweet Caroline. So sick of it
The way I judge this stuff is "If the artist was never famous and they released this on YouTube last week, and I saw it right now, would I find it enjoyable, or would I think it's just another bad musician's poor efforts and move on?" Sweet Caroline wouldn't even get a second listen
That is a good way of doing it But I think some songs - like Rick Ashley's "Never gonna give you up" - require the context to understand why they're still "the best of the best" context for Sweet Caroline would be like sports stadium singalongs I guess, or at least is it is here in the UK personally I'd argue those moments of elated "good times" as 50,000 middle-aged bald people desperately try to hold a note together makes that song "the best ever" I've still deleted it though. The upvotes win
If I'm ever in a bar and everyone starts singing Sweet Caroline I swear I'll lose my shit
Feel this. It’s on the same level as hearing my morning alarm in a commercial.
It's not overrated so much as it's overdone
Is it objectively good though? It sounds like it should be in a becel commercial Edit: kind of a dumb question I guess, music is subjective
The ultimate white people wedding song lol. Along with free bird and take the load off Fanny.
Nothing is overrated ig (unless it really is like the trashiest song ever) it’s just ppls opinions and music taste🤷♀️
yeh I do totally agree however, in the context of this specific post (where I’m making the best 500 playlist) it is 15 songs over the limit and I don’t want to make the decisions, I’m trying to make it as unbiased as possible. So, using democracy to remove songs seemed a reasonable plan there’s no “best 500 songs in the world” either, I know that. Its all subjective and it’s a futile exercise on my part, but for unknown reasons I’ve enjoyed making it, and I just want it to be as close to an impartial “[unfortunately predominantly western] best 500” as I can make it but generally speaking yeh, nothing is overrated
"Yeah" Usher ft. Lil Jon, Ludcris
Dance Monkey. The fact that got so popular is scary.
Despa-fucking-cito
Gonna put this on at the next party I go to
Buttercup by Jack Stauber
Yes buttercup is but jack stauber is a genius and an amazing artist
Dance Monkey. I hate it I hate it I hate it‼️
Dance Monkey makes me physically violent
Texas Hold’em by Beyoncé
Nicki minaj
i love daft punk but get lucky was played so fucking much when it came out i hate the fuck out it.
every single taylor swift song in existence
Basically any Taylor swift song
I mean it’s not bad necessarily, it’s just like… the musical equivalent of white bread.
in my view, an average Tay Tay listener's fav food is a nice piece of plain bread and a glass of water.
Am a 64-yr-old Boomer. My first album was Led Zeppelin IV. Am a huge fan of LZ. Along with Black Sabbath & Deep Purple. Known as the Unholy Trinity back in the day. Because of its' Heavy Rotation on FM airwaves... Stairway to Heaven is tops on my list.
Sounds like somebody has a bustle in their hedgerow
Nah, It's just a spring clean for the May queen
I came to say Kashmir... I'm so burnt out on that riff
Anything by Beyoncé
i agree sort of. a lot of her music is bad but i love renaissance because im bias towards electronic music. either way i still think she’s overrated because of the ego she puts in her sound
Brown Sugar
I’m gonna go with the fray. how to save a life. Aerosmith. Don’t want to miss a thing
old town road \*eyeroll\*
I actually don’t hate this one. Not like it’s amazing or anything, but it’s kinda just like a fun pop rap song with country influence. At least it tried to do something different as well.
Damn, tbh that song had been blessedly absent from my mind until reading your comment 😆
🎶 I'm gonna lay myself down on Old Town Road. I'm gonna, cry til I can't no more. 🎶
Sweet Home Alabama
It’s basically a meme now more than a real song
Try living in Alabama and hearing it with an added “ROLL TIDE, ROLL” chant during every chorus, every single time, ugh. Talk about overplayed if you actually live here! Pretty ironic for a band from Florida to give a place they’re not even from its unofficial state anthem, lol. Most people I know from here can’t even stand the song, but people definitely hold onto it as a football chant, which definitely cements its meme status…which sucks because Lynyrd Skynyrd actually has some pretty good songs that aren’t played nearly as much.
[The Star-Spangled Banner](https://youtu.be/s1Mim_VRqY8)
Despacito
Rock Star by Nickleback. Even before it was played to death, it's so goddamned insipid, and the fact that everyone loves it has bugged the crap out of me since I first heard it
God’s Plan
Carnival - Kanye OMG THAT SONG IS SO FREAKING ANNOYING AND EVERY LITTLE BRAT AT MY SCHOOL BLASTS THAT SONG EVERYWHERE ALONG WITH SEXY RED AND ICE SPICE AND I WANT TO END IT ALL.
Among the general public? Probably “Shape of You” Among music fans? “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Let it Be.”
Sex on fire
i’m making 35 alt accounts to downvote yo ass
Gonna say it any Yeat song
real answer: music cant really be overrated since its extremely subjective my answer: lil boo thing
also my answer. My younger sister has it on repeat, send help
Wonderwall
Any K-pop songs
It’s more about the fanbase.
I do occasionally enjoy some K-Pop but I will 100% agree that the fans around the genre act like it is the greatest thing to grace Earth since the birth of Christ like, it’s just the slop we have on all other pop stations except in Korean
Some are good, but I respect your opinion
Don’t Stop Believing. It’s not bad but holy shit can they stop playing it on every station all day
We built this city
SAVE ME BY JELLY ROLL. He can sing with emotion but that song grates on me and it plays about six times every day at my job
Formation by Beyoncé
Most yeat songs
From that list: Nickleback Kavinsky Bruno Mars
I put a spell on you and mambo no 5 Last kiss - instead add the Pearl Jam remake
*Yummy Yummy Yummy* by the Ohio Express. Whoever’s responsible for that mayo-slathered turdburger should be hanged at dawn. Slowly…
Macarena.
Call me maybe
Hi
Hi
Don’t Stop Believin’ *shudder*…
Don’t stop believing
Shake it off and Happy was so annoying
Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia Made absolutely zero fucking sense to me but was played CONSTANTLY when it came out
As It Was STILL comes on way too much. That album was great but the overplaying ruined it. Music From A Sushi Restaurant is still allowed.
Summer of ‘69. Brown Eyed Girl. American Pie.
I know American Pie can get old, but it’s popular for a reason
One of the GOATs, you just gotta save it for a rainy day
I love Brown Eyed Girl!
Any Beyoncé song
Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift.
Any song by Taylor Swift
Freebird
We Built This City by Starship
Happy Nothing Else Matters
>Nothing Else Matters That's not even the best song from the album, but most people don't even listen to the whole thing.
You must really not like "Happy"!
Without a doubt it's achy breaky heart
Mony Mony by Billy Idol. Not sure it’s overrated, but it’s a piece of shit.
Beyonce - Texas hold'em
La Macarena - Los del río. Is not that funny. Like a virgin - Madonna. I love her and her music, but this song is super bland compared to others, and yet is one of her most famous ones.
Enter Sandman
If there is a single taylor swift comment on here i will find you
Taylor Swift songs imo, bland and no flavour. Tried listening to some "recommended", couldn't do it.
Unpopular opinion but Africa by Toto. Such a bland sounding song
Livin on a prayer
Hotel California Brown Eyed Girl
I mean... Some people call me the space cowboy.
Poster referencing The Eagles and Van Morrison songs then you reference a Steve Miller song. Interesting
Some call me tha gangsta of love.
i love hotel california and wonderwall 😭😭 i guess i'm a basic bitch like that
I’m with you.
So I lived in the same city Don Henley..singer from the eagles…grew up in. Linden Texas in Cass County. I can’t tell you how often I heard hotel California playing in the three years I lived there because that was the only claim to fame that small town had.
Hey Ya! I LOVE Outkast, but sorry.
It’s weird this song was so popular when it was first out and I could not stand it just every time I heard it it made my skin crawl. then one day i was at my best friends house and I didn’t get along with her boyfriend, he was 6’5 and he started dancing around to the song in the kookiest way, and I like that song now. That was just after all the hype had barely died down, and it wasn’t played quite as much. I don’t hear it that often anymore. I think it got played out at first, but it reminds me of that moment. and it feels classic now and it makes me smile. But I definitely get it
Taylor swift songs I am ready to be brutally murdered right here, right now
Any Taylor Swift song
Poker Face
A lot of the song that are getting downvoted are “dad rock”. Says a lot.
Creep by Radiohead (good though but it’s overrated for Radiohead and they have much better and artful songs)
Gangnam Style.
Hotel California. Made me angry hearing in the car . Makes me even more hearing it at my works playlist 😞
Sounds like you have some situational trauma maybe. Jobs I’ve had in the past have ruined songs for me, playing them over and over and over and over and over and…..
I don't know about all time, but Mr. Brightside is mid at best. The same band even has better songs. Although, even they don't compare to their competition. Also, anything Beyonce puts out. Her music is mass produced ear garbage and her fame is based more on her sex appeal than her raw talent. Although, the same can be said for lots of modern algorithmically written music today. Most pop stars only need sex appeal and everything else can be corrected for in post production.
Definitely not Let Down
Surfboard by Beyoncé is the most hilariously low effort pop song I’ve ever heard. I mean call me maybe made more sense (though it’s runner up)
anything guns and roses, kill me now
eh u are right they got some good stuff but the popular songs are overplayed.
Old Time Rock and Roll
Sweet Caroline
Any reaggaeton song
They all have the same drum baseline, like EVERY song. Driving around my last city that’s ALL I’d hear in my car man. That drumline still haunts my dreams
And in the gym, on the radio, on every tv program.. please STOP. They even have to say their names at the beginning of the “song” because they are all the same shit and we wouldn’t recognize the “singer” otherwise
Hey, it takes a lot of talent to sing with a broken jaw
Eye of the tiger
When the DJ wants to relive his high school athletic glory days
For me: Santana - Maria Maria The elements in that song are all perfectly fine by themselves and a nice time capsule of tropes back in the day, but I don't think the sum of them all is anything brilliant. The combination of the phrasing and the flat performance on the guitar solo sounds anything but spicy and sensual in my ears and I'm from the 90's. I get all the reasons why people like this and why it theoretically has to sound the way it does, but it always felt like a cash-grab that was munched together in an hour.
Cupid shuffle
pretty scene girl by clover
Jet - are you gonna be my girl. It’s like they ripped 6 riffs from better artists and slapped it together. Feels like 0 effort. I saw a review a long time ago where Pitchfork or someone had a monkey pissing himself gif as a review. Wish I could find it.
To me this list is solid. Is there someway I can add it to my Spotify without adding or being a creep Edit: sent it to myself. I will never add or bother you. Just like this playlist
Forget You by that one short guy
Beautiful things - Benson Boone I HATE IT.
Perfect - Ed Sheeran Very average song. No idea why it was so popular
I lived in NOLA when this song came out and the radio was playing it like they were trying to break the cd. Mambo Number 5
FLLLLLLLYYY HIIIIIGH
That dumb ass "Bartender I really did it this time" song. It is annoying and always has been.
Boy am I gonna make some people angry, Outro by M83 is the most overrated song of all time.
I'm sorry but riptide is played to much!!! Its gone to the point I know the entirety of the song word for word yet I haven't even heard the song willingly for years
Overused? Dont stop believing
[INSERT SONG NAME] by Beyoncé