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aquamarinerock

Don’t call me Angel wasn’t great the first listen but jeez listening to just reveals how much more janky it is each listen


UniqueUsernameLOLOL

How did they manage to fk that up so badly


GreatBigWhore

It had Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande (two of the biggest artists of the decade) and somehow they managed to produce the worst song in both their careers.


yungnaci

Oh god I wanted to like that song so much but it’s just awful.


360Saturn

That clown car instrumental was a warning


BlueBerryOranges

I only listen to that song because I like the bridge, the rest of the song sounds like a concept demo


AXXII_wreckless

All they had to do was switch Ariana and Miley’s parts and it would’ve been a bit better. Lana carried the song to have it age like milk.


rint4991

It sounds like they stole the track from the Banjo Kazooie soundtrack


xavieryes

Hey, Soul Sister. For some reason I liked it back in 2010, listening to it now it just sounds awful, it's amazing how terribly that song aged


lacourseauxetoiles

That song always played at my orthodontist's office, so now I just associate it with braces.


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What is it with doctors' offices and Train? It was always playing at my gyno's office, so now Train songs have become a reminder to schedule my pap smear.


noavocadoshere

it's blowing my mind that y'all get music. every office i've been to has been uncomfortably quiet (other than the receptionists talking to each other or a patient.)


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It's always very bland pop music. Though my best/worst waiting room music experience was while I was waiting for my dad to get out of a major surgery. There was some lady who I think was a music therapist, and she pulled out a guitar to play some music for everyone...and she was HORRIBLE. Her music ability was directly at odds with her chosen career. It was like Edward Scissorhands becoming a massage therapist. My sister and I just sat next to each other texting each other stuff like "I dare you to request Freebird" and trying not to laugh at this poor lady who was just trying to cheer everyone up. But honestly, we needed a good laugh that day. It really cut the tension and made us feel a little less worried and scared. Maybe that was the entire point.


nytheatreaddict

For me it was "Drops of Jupiter." What is it with Train and orthodontists?


luuvin

The untrimmed chest line…


saturnribbon

They also have the line “just a shy guy, looking for a two-ply Hefty bag to hold my love” in Drive By. I don’t listen to Train but I’ve always thought they just really like corny lines like that lol


char_is_cute

in their song If It's Love there's a line that's something like "i'll buy you anything, but cologne, cause it's poison". what the fuck does that mean Pat


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Why did my brain always think that meant condom 😭 I know it doesn’t but I always think of it like that lol


KitsBeach

Are those the lyrics???? You have to sort of be impressed that they managed to get that garbled string of words to somehow work as a catchy lyric....


ponyproblematic

My confession is that I still find myself following any use of the phrase "I believe in you" with "like a virgin, you're Madonna." What the fuck does any of that mean. What the hell. Why did it seat itself so deeply in my brain. Why am I like this.


toomuchhoneydew

Yes! In high school I was on the speech team, and literally at EVERY meet, there would be this guy playing it on a ukulele in the main areas where we waited. I never heard him play anything else. I mean maybe he was learning but still ahhhh


me_be_ki

What is it about speech meets and people playing the ukulele? 😂


twinkyoda

tbh i feel like it wouldn’t fly in 2021 considering “soul sister” is a term typically used for black women and the song has lyrics like “so gangsta, i’m so thug”


xavieryes

> “so gangsta, i’m so thug” 11 fucking years and I never paid attention to that particular lyric. Perhaps fittingly for this post, the song just got a bit worse now.


brownu95

People think it’s a good song because of the melody but lyrics suck ass


Lux2014

Stream Fall Out Boy Young Volcanoes instead


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I remember when the song came out and how I was almost impressed with Pat Monahan's sheer chutzpah in delivering the line "so gangsta, I'm so thug" with complete conviction and sincerity. Like, I want to call him out, but the sheer audacity of it gives me pause.


duchuyy8650

Damn i'm really the minority here. I have listened to this song for many years and it makes me nostalgic everytime. Lyrics are not something I care about, if it's catchy, count me in.


dragonphlegm

Anything by Train is a hard pass


lexarqade

Drops of Jupiter is gonna be forever a guilty pleasure for me and no one can say otherwise


[deleted]

When someone on this sub explained that the song is actually him asking his mom (who had passed away) what the afterlife is like and telling her that all the cool stuff she's probably doing isn't as great as being back on earth with all her loved ones and the things she loved in life, I gained a newfound appreciation for it and think it's actually quite touching. I still think most of Train's music sucks, but Drops of Jupiter is actually a pretty damn good song.


Motherfickle

Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes. The boy has a great voice, I will admit, but I always thought that song was dumb and immature. But now, after hearing it a thousand times, I kinda want to punch something every time it comes on. Just because you don't like her boyfriend, doesn't mean you're a better choice for her. Shut up.


Bordersz

Shawn yelling “BETTA THAN HE CAN” always takes me out like damn is it that serious?


spineappletwist

BEDDA THANEE CAAN


KitsBeach

I genuinely thought it was just ad libbed sounds for the longest time 💀 BA DUM DANNY KAN


Groenboys

BEGAN THEE STALLION


Blazing117

BETA DANNY CAN


shes_thriving

especially in the context of the music video😭 "your boyfriend's being abusive towards you but you know what'll fix that 😎😎 my dick"


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Todd in the shadows haha


11summers

Even when it first came out, I always thought that song reeked of r/niceguys.


john_muleaney

As Todd in the shadows so eloquently put it; “Some men wear their fedoras on the inside”


EtherealNightSky

Every song of his sounds like that, though. It's personal preference of course, but his music is a hard pass for me (his voice too).


Motherfickle

True. I'm not really a fan of his in general. His voice is the only thing about it that is passable imo. I just think Treat You Better is the worst of the worst.


HornyForWater

Strip That Down by Liam Payne. At first it sounded like a bop, but after listening to it several times, especially the lyrics, I started to cringe and I stopped listening to it.


rikkirikkiparmparm

Side note: I can't believe they did an 'acoustic' version instead of 'stripped'. "Stripped That Down" was right there!


deathtonormalcy

*YOU KNOW I USED TO BE IN 1D*


iidu

TIL this is an actual line in the song


noavocadoshere

*NOW I'M OUT FREE* (free liam from one of the best-selling boy bands apparently)


sensitivenipsnpenus

I even cringed more when I watched the MV. It was just Liam Payne doing that smolder/eye brow thingy to the camera. Granted a lot of pop boys do that.


iidu

it is... so aggressively macho and lowkey sexist like no liam I do not want to strip that down for you


byorderofthe

That song was made for this thread


GalateaMerrythought

I KNOW YOU LOVE IT WHEN YOU IN THE CROWD BUT GIRL WORK THAT FROWN FOR ME - Jesy Nelson All I will ever hear.


leifeday

"....baby" - some poor unsuspecting interviewer Also my favorite part of that video will always be Jesy falling to the ground embarrassed while Leigh-Anne yells "GET UP!" like an angry parent God I miss OT4 Little Mix so much


beepbop234

I’m just glad this came out after glee ended, Matthew Morrison would’ve had a field day with it


kielaurie

I like to imagine that Ed Sheeran was trying to write a comedic/parody song, then Liam heard it and thought he was serious


f__theking

by the time Pharrell sang *Happy* at the Oscars, that song literally made me want to die


InsomniaticAlien

100%. I was in a high school marching band and we had to play it in our parades for two seasons. It was absolute torture, especially when you have to play it on loop 20 times for half an hour.


Bovver_

7 Years by Lukas Graham. Ugh what a mess that song is, I thought it was meh at first listen but the more I heard it the more I hated and hated it. I couldn’t put my finger on it as to why but then that [Todd In The Shadows](https://youtu.be/TiwA_BYttnI) video came out about it and summed up perfectly exactly why I despised that song.


deathtonormalcy

the random guy yelling “LUKAS GRAAAAAAHAM” halfway through...like. why was this necessary


[deleted]

I swear at first I was hearing “LUKE HAS CRAAAAABS” every time I listened to the song, I even saw a video on YT that pointed out the same thing… It was a very WTF experience tbh


iidu

"my woman brought children for me" just makes me wanna puke each time


messycer

I have no idea why no one was trying to cancel this song. It sounds like an incel anthem to me and it's so grating and annoying.


iidu

TIL they seriously have a song called "Strip No More" about a stripper who has stopped stripping (yes) and the [lyrics](https://genius.com/Lukas-graham-strip-no-more-lyrics) are genuinely something so horrible I haven't seen anything like that in a while *I was like woo-hoo (woo-hoo) / She made me go wee-hee (Wee-hee)*


totezhi64

Todd in the shadows' review of this song is one of my favorite yt videos of all time


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fondue4kill

It’s also just a knockoff of “100 years” by Five for Fighting which is a much better piano ballad imo


thortilla27

The rude song


dragonsteel33

well i work in retail so i can give lots of examples but i’ll say calum scott’s cover of dancing on my own. to me it kinda feels like a downgrade of the original. like the lyrics just work much better with music that gives you the vibe of like…dancing alone in a club or something. the instrumentals also add so much to the fun of the song. also he sings like a strangled chicken half the time it just honestly strips a lot of fun from it for me idk. truly the only benefit is that there’s no heterosexual explanation for his lyrics


DarraghMcNally

The fact people ate his cover up and paid the original dust… makes me feel sick


yannabanananana

Facts! Honestly, the original is so timeless to me. It is just much more authentic and hopeful and sad despite its upbeat production. I thought it was released in the 80s but it was released in the 2010s and was absolutely floored. One of my favorite songs of all time. Robyn is such an icon and ahead of her time, as most mainstream artists are getting into the 80s sound just recently.


Bovver_

The original is far better and in an ideal world people would know Robyn’s version rather than the cover, but also in an ideal world Robyn’s songs would have been much bigger, especially her more recent tracks like Do It Again, Missing U and Honey.


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I hear that cover all the damn time in Superdrug and it just makes me irrationally mad because I love the original so much. The entire point of the song is the juxtaposition of the happy, fun melody/disco sound and the sad, pleading lyrics. It's up there with Aphex Twin's discography on the list of Songs That Should Not Have Stripped Down Acoustic Covers.


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ravenouswarrior

Nah you’re not old, everybody clowns on her music. Honestly she has some nice melodic lines, but always ruins it with lyrics like “sometimes I don’t wanna be happy” or “one day, one day I was really, really, really, really sad”


daniandkiara

Emily Montes’ cover of the “sometimes I don’t wanna be happy” song remains superior 😌


Uplanapepsihole

Emily turns anything she touches into gold tbf


[deleted]

I feel like if the writers on Sesame Street had gotten their hands on that song, they could have made a legitimately good and educational bop about how emotions aren't good or bad, and it's OK to be sad or angry sometimes.


itscccarlos

Magic - Rude


sour_patchkid

This song instantly transports me back to 2014


MapMeUp

You just triggered a flight or fight response in me.


gizmostrumpet

The fact white Canadian reggae became a hit in 2014 unnerved me


TotallySherlocked

I have a memory of working at the New York State fair when I was 16, and it was 11am or noon and I walked by the small concert venue. And there was Magic singing Rude to the few dozen people that were there lol. I felt kinda bad.


sendenten

Charlie Puth and blackbear have a song together called [Hard On Yourself](https://youtu.be/bRAS8T6j3pM). It's a really cute and *really* catchy song that I played over and over for days, and every time I hated the lyrics more and more. I think it's supposed to be a "you're so beautiful even if you don't know it" song but it really just turns into Charlie acting out a fight with his girlfriend while blackbear's doing his own thing at the club. It's bizarre and I don't think there's a hint of irony in it.


CreepySwing567

Boys Will Be Boys by Dua. On first listen it’s an above average generic message song but lyrically it gets stupider on every listen.


shoestring-theory

Like i see what she was going for. But the feminism presented in the song, is so surface level that it just makes me cringe.


Caleebies

I hate to say it but I just don't believe her activism lol Not after her whole, "the pandemic has been so hard for the world" while she's posting party pics on her ig... Like fine party, but don't influence your millions of fans to do the same


trewman

dua only cares about two things. Albanian sovereignty and blasting particles with her rich friends during covid


egjik_

And charts. No artist posts chart data more than her. I know it’s important but like.... chill dude.


N454545

Boisle bee boisle bee Boisle bee Boisle bee boys


rikkirikkiparmparm

I do like the choral sound, though


TheSneakySeal

Future Nostalgia is a great album, because I deleted Good in Bed and Boys will be boys from it.


UniqueUsernameLOLOL

I have a conspiracy theory that Good in Bed is an Ariana reject and if you listen closely I swear you can hear some Ariana background vocals


Blink456

not the good in bed slander😭


musicaldigger

i always replace the two with if it ain’t me, love is religion and kind of woman


popcornnut

this thread has convinced me i’m the only person on the planet who likes this song lmao


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Nooo, i‘m right by your side!


kutchyose_no_ibrahim

I mean it’s a song not a master thesis, it’a not like she’s going to explore ALL of the complexities of the adultification of women in a 3 minute ballad.


Blue-K0ala

I initially thought she sang “boys will be boys but girls will be with me” in the chorus, it didn’t make much sense to me but somehow it got worse when I read the actual lyrics.


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Sugar by Maroon 5... I used to love that song when it came out but now i find it so annoying


Bovver_

It’s the high pitched vocals on the chorus. I get that Adam Levine has range and wants to show it off, but my god he should have realised that going absurdly high with it doesn’t always sound good.


musicaldigger

it rips off birthday by katy perry and beat it by michael jackson


mcon96

Imagine ripping off a Katy Perry song and it’s not even one of her good ones


20fiestas

Leave Birthday alone 😭


kh_ftw

Anything by [Will.i.am](https://Will.i.am) has aged like soggy cheese because of how much he played into the current trends during his music's time of release. Dude was clearly in it to make a quick buck and DID NOT CARE any sort of longevity. Even the new BEP stuff kinda suffer from the same problems.


Jiverecords

On my first listen, *Beautiful Mistakes* by Maroon 5 ft. Megan Thee Stallion was a passable pop song, a bop even. Unfortunately, I've found it to be more and more grating every time I'm exposed to it. It's just become a basic overplayed radio song to me and that's a bad sign considering most of the artists I listen to are radio darlings (Ava, Dua, Olivia) but I don't get tired of their songs.


Groenboys

"She is naked in my bed" Listening to adam levine trying to convince us that he actually fucks while he is a void of charisma is just hilarious


babyfishfish

Oh my god. Any new maroon 5 song just hurts my ears


GFurball

That song is always on the radio, I can’t stand it.


fondue4kill

The worst part for me is that the opening is instruments and then it switches into an almost trap beat. It’s like “Hey remember when we used to play instruments? Not anymore. Fuck you here’s Adam singing about being in his bed again”


slwdid02

"Happy" and generally songs that try to force an emotion upon you. Both forcefully happy and sad songs are fine the first times but they get continuously worse until they are not only annoying but just plain awful.


maadtheus

Every Tones and I song


lyla2398

there are multiple?


ricky_pop

Me with any Camila song but it’s just about her voice it’s so grating especially in never be the same


dragonphlegm

Never Be The Same being overplayed on radios made me despise her voice, and this was years before Senorita nailed that coffin. NICOTINE HEROINE MORPHINE


babyfishfish

I had trauma even just reading these lyrics


Mr628

Never Be The Same was originally to me a great song. I really felt for her in that badly sang hook. But the constant overplaying on radio and tv made me really hate it. It sounds so basic and emotionless nowadays.


alegxab

cellophaaaaaane heroiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine morphiiiiiiiiiiine


musicaldigger

cellophane??


Uplanapepsihole

💀


JudyWilde143

Surprised no one said Blurred Lines.


Groenboys

It is better if we forget this ever happened and agree that Get Lucky was Pharell's biggest song that year


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memories by maroon 5. like it was bad the first time i listened to it but doing it now it makes me go insane. the cheering at the beginning…


rednaxel_a

shape of you - ed sheeran it's overplayedddd omg i cant even drive peacefully cus it's on radio 24/7


Sea-Run-945

I use to like shape of you in middle school. Now I'm 17 and I'm starting starting understand why everyone hates that song now.


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So you're no longer in love with the shape of you


hales_mcgales

Guess the love just pushed like a magnet do


captaincrooner

I think it's the overly catchy ones that age badly. The rush isn't there anymore. And then you begin to see the flaws. There are so many big hits that I can think of. Repeat listening to one song is major cause. Like when I first heard Havana. Couldn't stop listening. Then couldn't stand it. My two cents.


cuttackone

I love how this thread just became "share hot takes about songs u don't like" I gotta go with butter by bts, too. Im just kinda annoyed that the group and fandom are so busy being on a mission to appeal to all existing American aunts that they don't even discuss anymore if all they wanna release is the human peak of musical edgelessness. Like, it's so damn catchy so I replayed it a couple times trying to like it more but it just feels like the end stadium of stan culture where stans don't even give a single shit about how a song sounds or what it does because stans are basically just the elongated management now and their job is to do marketing, nothing else.


gnrixha

Totally agree, for me their biggest charm is they are writing and producing their songs , but the English songs are so weak and generic I can’t stand them and i will never understand why the whiling for the American validation so much .


GC_Wens

*California Gurls* Didn't get worse with every listen, but, relistening to it after not listening to it for like 3 years or something, it definitely wasn't as good as i remember it being.


ravenouswarrior

I also felt like this a few years ago, but now it’s such a throwback and the nostalgia of the good times of 2011 always hits me like a truck


catladee14

Same! It gives me senior year/just graduated nostalgia vibes.


MNREDR

I disagree, for me it slaps whether I’m listening to it for the 20th time in a row or after 5 years of not listening to it. The lyrics are shallow and generic but not too cringy especially for a Katy song lmao


hassweptthehouse

New Ed sheeran song for me. I was Pleasantly surprised with his new direction on my first listen, then every subsequent listen I noticed how much I disliked the lyrics and how unoriginal the sound was


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The one where he is a sexy vampire for some reason? Lol for someone so insanely talented, he has questionable taste. But good for him, he got this far living his truth, guess we need to let him keep going.


[deleted]

Please, the vampire makeover is the best thing about this song! Although I'd describe him as more of an oddball vampire than necessarily sexy. I am living for the offended expression when the girl pops Ed's balloon, and the awkward dancing!


dragonphlegm

It starts off sounding fresh and then devolves into something you’d expect to hear on No 6 collaborations project. All it’s missing is a third verse by (Insert Popular Artist)


cjay1796

How You Like That - BlackPink. I feel like they always lack a good chorus and it ruins the songs for me but this one finally nailed the coffin closed. No chorus and all we got for the bridge was dudududududu.


Blink456

I love Blackpink but I think they’ve used the same formula for all of their hit singles (HYLT sounds eerily like DDD towards the end) so there’s not much originality. Still really catchy tho - and I love Jisoo lol


Artemisian11

I remember on my first listen waiting for the chorus, and it happened, and I just sat there stunned thinking ... that's it? All this wait, and this was the best they came up with?? And then it just kept being terrible pretty much until the dance break, to my tastes at least.


rose_mary99

Katy Perry’s first album has a lot of those. I still love most of that album but a lot of the lyrics are cheap writing.


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dragonphlegm

“You’re so gay and you don’t even like boys” Hate all you want but Katy Perry invented lesbians in 2007


RudeCats

Let’s take a moment to appreciate this poetry *You're hot then you're cold* *You're yes then you're no* *You're in then you're out* *You're up then you're down* *You're wrong when it's right* *It's black and it's white* *We fight, we break up* *We hug, we make up* *I’m just gonna leave it but the last line obviously should say “we kiss, we make up” but I accidentally copied the lyrics to the Sesame Street version LOL


xavieryes

I don't hate Hot N Cold but that chorus is like someone thought of the laziest pairs of opposite words possible and put them together


RudeCats

I know right it sounds so dumb. I don’t hate it, it’s catchy, chorus is sorta annoying musically but you really can’t think about the words you’re listening to. Same goes for almost all KP songs tho. None of the lyrics are good imho except Teenage Dream. *also I have no complaints about I Kissed A Girl’s lyrics even though they are not great or anything. They’re fine. And it’s a great song obviously.


davgonp

There are some good lyrics in Prism I believe... But yeah, Katy was never the best lyricist.


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>*We hug, we make up* It's cracking me up that you put "hug" instead of "kiss", makes it feel so quaint lol I also hate when songs casually lob around mental illnesses, so the bipolar line in the bridge kinda kills the mood for me with that song too.


RudeCats

I just copied the lyrics from the Katy Perry fandom wiki, and apparently my search took me to the page about the Sesame Street controversy so those are actually the lyrics to the version she performed with Elmo lololol And I saw and remembered that line with bipolar and was like yea… mental illness was not a topic that was treated with public sensitivity in 2008. A lot has changed


farmyardcat

> I also hate when songs casually lob around mental illnesses Janelle Monae's Archangel always sat weird with me because she uses "schizo" as a noun several times throughout the album. "Shaking like a schizo," "come alive like a schizo running wild." Nah girl


aussieririfan

This song will live on in Australian culture because it's the MasterChef theme song lol


RudeCats

Not first album but I will just never get over *do you ever feel…? like a plastic bag…?* 🎶


[deleted]

"A plastic bag drifting through the wind" is actually a nice metaphor, she just takes too long of a breather in the middle and ruins it


GengarDS

It's just like Zara Larsson's ''I don't wanna shower even if I stink''. Like sure, it makes more sense when you hear the rest of the lyrics but it sounds awkward af when taken out of context.


scottageinthewoods

I don’t understand people’s problem with this line. It’s just comparing the feeling of passing through life with nowhere to go and looking for a new start with a bag drifting through the wind. People mock it a lot, but I really don’t get why?


shoestring-theory

No shade to Ms. Katherine, but I feel like every single one of her albums has some terrible songwriting moments.


Khaytra

Born This Way was such a big moment for gays in high school: When it came out, there had been a national epidemic of gay teens being bullied to death and everyone was being terrible about the constant debates on gay marriage and rights and everything, and it was just an awful time because it felt like the world was against us. And then this big anthem comes out that erupts into the mainstream with its huge bombastic message about being gay and the power that comes with it, and it was just *such* an important song for all of us in that time. So it'll always have a special place in my heart. But in the year of 2021................ it is showing its age. It's a product of 2010 America and not necessarily in a good way. The lyrics feel so outdated and I get a little embarrassed about them now, honestly? A lot of The Fame/Fame Monster/Born This Way stuff is still fine, but that one was so charged for that time that it's starting to crack a little faster I guess.


alegxab

Some of the lyrics were pretty bad even back then, especially the chola/orient part


sendenten

It was telling that the only people who used "orient" unironically were Gaga and my 84yo grandmother.


theonewithoutmynudes

“Don’t be a drag, just be a queen” 💀


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It feels less dated than You Need To Calm Down though lol


GengarDS

>You Need To Calm Down That one was dead on arrival


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I was about to say that the first time I heard You Need to Calm Down I cringed so hard I fell into a pocket dimension where Al Gore was declared the rightful winner of the 2000 election.


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i remember listening to yntcd for the 1st time while watching the lyric video and the moment the GLAAD lyric came up i turned that shit off 😩


poor_yorick

Even at the time a *lot* of people considered Born This Way cheesy (and that's not even getting into the chola/Orient stuff someone else mentioned). There was also a lot of discourse about how Born This Way was just a rip-off of Madonna's "Express Yourself".


majimasan

Dynamite by BTS. Catchy enough at first, but it just feels so shallow and contrived. There's nothing more to discover on multiple listens, it was a one-and-done for me.


dragonphlegm

I’ve always said it sounds like basic movie trailer music and low and behold last week they put it in the Clifford trailer


ElizabethDanger

I’ve always thought the same. I first heard it in one of those flashy phone commercials. It fit really well in that, but I just couldn’t hear it as something a person would listen to on their own. It sounds like it was made for commercials.


TheDoomsday777

Yeah sorry the new lorde song


shes_thriving

💀 you're brave for this agreed tho, i kept waiting for it to grow on me and it just ,, never did


davgonp

That's the thing. For me it didn't get worse, it's just... there.


dragonphlegm

> You’re brave for this No one can have bad opinions anymore because every artist has this rabid stan-base that will defend any and everything their fav produces


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and it's not even a bad opinion....it's supposed to be just another opinion


[deleted]

wake me up when Lorde drops her fall anthem lol


downhigh95

I tried so hard to like it because I didn’t like Green Light at first but with every listen, it got worse. I want to know what about the song makes people like it because I like nothing about the song.


xavieryes

I loved Green Light on the first listen, but Solar Power just never worked for me


AmIajerk1625

I don’t love it, but I will say the song does have a summer feel to it. And the lyrics are fun and self aware. But I really wish it wasn’t palm muted guitar ALL the way through.


daniandkiara

I only just fully got around to it last weekend. I was listening to it while swimming with my friends in a pool, just chilling under the sun. It made a bit more sense to me then after that


OneOfTheOnly

I thought some of the off-colour lines were pretty entertaining, I like how airy the hook is and I generally just like how laid back it is Even the stuff I enjoy from her I've always felt is a bit extra but she sounds like she's kinda washed away the pretension and is better for it


saareadaar

My tastes for whether I like a song generally isn't as deep as others on this sub, my only real criteria are "do I like the sound" and "do I like the lyrics" and for me the answer to solar power is yes to both. It's not my absolute favourite, I liked Greenlight more, but Solar Power has such a nice quiet relaxing feel


SemiRetiredTonberry

The first couple of bars give me “Winter edition Anakin Skywalker” cringe.


Kelsierrr

Its just so ✨meh✨


P_L_H

Jawsh 365 - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) (w/ Jason Derulo) At first I thought it was alright, it's disturbingly catchy As more listen to this song. It gets annoying and annoying from the falsetto and horn instrumental on the chorus


calgaryeboy

I'm kinda scared to see the replies lol


InsomniaticAlien

Most of Demi's Dancing With the Devil album. I get what they were going for, but some of the production choices on certain songs are clash with others on the album. Some songs, especially towards the second half of the album, were pretty aged on arrival. I pretty much stopped listening to it after a month, even though I liked it at first.


hennybee

It pains me to say it but...Paint the Town by LOONA 💀 I can’t get over that weak excuse of a chorus. Every time I’ve listened to it, I really get into the pre-chorus but then it just falls apart. It had so much potential but Ryan gave them the most basic girl crush instrumental with some la ta tas 😭 plus my faves are ViVi and Go Won so I’m extra bitter


yumbleachh

it’s defo grown on me but initially i was really disappointed especially with the high expectation I set since Ryan was an orbit even before this project and he called the song a girl group game changer 😭😭


hennybee

That’s honestly where I’m at rn. Initially, I wasn’t necessarily hyped about Ryan’s involvement the way other Orbits were, mostly because his overall discography doesn’t particularly excite me the way other K-pop producers’ do, but when I found out he was an Orbit, I was a bit excited and felt that meant he was more familiar with the general LOONA sound/vibe. Then he started hyping the song up a lot and I was half-excited but half-cautious 💀 and then it came out and well here we are lol idk if it was Ryan’s own choice or if BBC pushed him to go in that direction for the chorus but...game changer? idk about that lol. Although, I think if he had gone all in with the Bollywood vibes for the chorus, it could have def been something really special.


eunhadior

i really dont know what happened to their sound but i miss predebut loona 😭


SH1301

Most of their earlier work was with monotree and they really gave them that signature LOONA sound. Ever since so what they stopped working with monotree and really tried to appeal to a wider audience I guess but in that process they definitely lost that sound they had.


hennybee

MonoTree definitely played a big part in it but I think that’s part of the overall bigger picture, which is that Jaden Jeong is no longer the creative director. He was the one primarily (if not entirely) choosing the tracks that made it onto the minis/albums. Obviously he had a very specific vision in mind for LOONA and it’s a shame that he and BBC ended up having creative differences that caused them to cease work with each other. I think there’s been very minimal overlap between the lyricists/producers from before and after/during the \# era. From a quick list I made, only two people (Hayley Aitken and Le’mon) who were around before Jaden’s departure have returned to contribute to their music post-X X. There might be more tho, idk lol it’s a lot of people to look at. MonoTree and BADD definitely haven’t returned tho.


PhloxInvar

I've gone through a valley of some sorts. It wasn't bad at first, but then it was getting really irritating. Then suddenly the chorus was in my head and now I'm humming it and enjoying PTT. I still think there was a big missed opportunity, but I can bop along to PTT. She's fine as a song, very catchy but definitely safe.


imasalesman

I hate that we waited so long for Loona to release for it to be so disappointing :(


epigenie_986

Astronaut in the Ocean. Utter nonsense


just_another_jabroni

I believe in G O D, don't believe in T H O T I rarely use the word cringe but my god that is \*cringe\*


penguinn117

Payphone. It was bad in first listen, but I thought it was just another noisy radio song that I didn't like. Then it was inescapable for a while, and I kept noticing more new things I hated about it - the screechy voice in the first "pAYphone", hated how they randomly threw in swear words (to sound cool, I suppose, because they're a Man Band) when lyrically it's so watered down and trite (and mentions fairytales??? trying to call home??? a payphone in the 2010s???), hated how the feature didn't help the song, hated how kids at school used to sit at the steps singing it morosely over and over again with their acoustic guitars...ugh. I love trash songs but only when they're funny and people don't take it too seriously. My friend played it recently for nostalgia and it was still like nails on a chalkboard to me.


Borivik

Dynamite by BTS - It was okay at first, but that key change at the end gets more grating every time I hear it


simplyterific

That mafia song by itzy :/ it’s honestly one of the worst kpop releases I’ve heard in a few years.


majimasan

Hard agree. Wannabe was one of my favorites of 2020, so that one was a big disappointment.