Happy birthday. The social pressure to just start singing sucks and i hate it
I found your nightmare job: https://www.1happybirthday.com/faq.php
I sort of think this is the right answer.
Not a single mention of Nickelback at this point
Nobody actually hated Nickleback, we just all jumped on the bandwagon because one comedian made a stupid joke back in the 2000s and it went viral.
Pretty much what I always figured but enjoyed not finding them at all in these comments. Feels like vindication of my opinion. Though it’s not it just feels that way lol
Here’s the joke that started it all.
And a 21 minute documentary if you’re interested in more context.
Holy nostalgias batman. I think I watched that live…
To be fair them, there’s a lot out there that’s much, much worse.
I’ve never understood the hate except it just being a popular thing to hate on. Never felt like people actually hated them. Amuses me these comments suggest that might even be true
The one that goes “siiimply haaaving a wonderful Christmas time”
Any of the modern bro country BS, with white dudes trying to rap about trucks and shit. Had a coworker that’d blast that shit and it drove me insane.
I always thought that these kind of songs are just a bit. No wonder these fuckers like AI country songs
A disturbing amount of that shit is them singing about being cucked too. It’s fucking weird.
All I want for Christmas is you
I worked in retail in the early-mid 00s
Back when Christmas time meant the in-store music CD was just one disk we had on loop for basically 2 months rather than the usual selection of a few disks
I don’t think I’ve felt hatred like it since
♪ I don’t want a lot in Christmas ♪
Fucking Staind. It’s Been Awhile is one of the whiniest piece of shit songs with the dumbest lyrics ever written. Louie Louie is Shakespeare compared to that song. It came out right around the time Clear Channel was barfing out Christian rock garbage and I’d rather listen to Creed telling me about Jeebus’s arms wide open a million times before I’d listen to someone repeat the same emo trash “I’m 13 and this is deep” line in a song 14 fucking times.
Baby shark
Beyonce - single ladies
I hate the the lyrical content almost as much as the music part.
I’m a crusty metal head. It takes a lot, and I mean A LOT, to make me hate a song. Design the Skyline’s 2011 flaming pile of shit Surrounded by Silence is the single worst metal song I’ve ever listened to. At a time where we had major musical juggernauts like BTBAM, Periphery, Protest the Hero, After the Burial, and so many other great technically sound musicians just hitting their stride or deep in their prime, Design the Skyline said ‘this’ll do.’
I could rip into this thing a million different ways. Lets just start with the fucking aesthetics. It’s 2011. I’m a year into college. Hipsterism is on the rise. Scene kids are dying out. These guys are the last vestige of an embarrassingly low period of teenage subculture. You got two lead screamers. A gelfling, and Rhea Ripley 12 years before her time. The bassist is little brother Ethan after Mom said let your little brother be in the band. 3 nondescript other dudes wearing girls clothing who are too embarrassed to show their faces at all. And a drummer who is too good for this shit. They’re children of that time. The first thing I thought to my self as soon as they show up in the video even back then is, ‘we’re still doing this?’
The start of the song is the best part. It’s this techy synth stuff with great dynamics that fits the era. It’s long enough to make you think we’re in for a good ride. Then it drops out and the actual band starts and hooooo boy is it bad. It’s pure WHAT THE FUCK! The two screamers go back and forth unintelligibly. The guitars are playing fuck all. The bass drops out like fucking Hetfield was mixing And Justice For All. It’s just chaos.
Then you get to the chorus. It’s autotuned to shit. In the actual video the gelfling is battling snow that keeps falling into his mouth. The Rhea clone is dry heaving and singing at the same time. He legit looks like he’s gonna be sick the way he’s moving. Then little brother Ethan comes in. He’s the most awkward, no confidence looking mother fucker of the whole video. He looks like he spent the whole day getting yelled at to move like this and you’ll look cool, but it was really a joke and he just looks stupid. To the point there’s a shot of the Rhea clone staring off and rolling his eyes while little brother Ethan is singing, like why is he here? It’s just a fucking mess. The best part of the chorus is this is the only time in the whole song it happens.
Then it returns back to the chaos of nothingness musically and you feel shock. Why am I being bombarded by this? What is the point of this song? What is the point of my life? There are legit musicians at this period of time. Misha Mansoor is working hard on P2. The boys in BTBAM are working hard on P2. Everybody is waiting for the next Contortionist album. You got a whole new movement in Djent. Then this shit forces it’s way into the spotlight like a distraction from the Epstein Files.
And when I tell you the description I’m writing is nothing compared to the hate this song got at the time, I fucking mean it. They released their record then split up. The amount of hate they got broke the band up. There was no way anyone was taking any of this shit seriously. That’s how bad it was.
Here it is. Do not enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSZI6UJEUQThe only other songs that makes me a fraction as upset as the above is Pause and Rib Woman on Frosting by Bent Knee. I can’t prove it but I really think those two songs caused a rift in the band that got Ben and Jess kicked out the band. Ben with out of control creativity that tanked a record on Pause. Whoever decided to have a high pitched alarm go off for a whole song deserves to be whipped. Nobody wants to listen to Jess moan for a whole song like Rib Woman. They’re lucky they had the cover of covid to leave, but man that record really upset a lot of people. None more than the band itself. They’ll never say it but it’s pretty obvious. The Hyperpop experiment was a failure.
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it’s Paul McCartney.
Pharrell Williams - Happy, this song makes me immediately angry. Idk if this says more about me or the song hehe
I missed out on the hype train behind that song somehow, and heard it for the first time years later and was pretty impressed by it.
Though the “room without a roof” line irks me, because having experienced it, nothing could make me less happy
The only way I can tolerate this song is if it’s the Neus Remix
I’m into it. Always felt like the pace of the original was too frantic to sell the idea of unshakable good vibes. Make it saunter, and it comes across way less forced.
Man, it’s scary how many of these hated songs I like.
Most of them aren’t bad songs, per se, but a lot of what I’m seeing here are songs that got way too much airplay, so I understand why they’re hated. Most of us aren’t toddlers; we don’t want to hear the same song over and over again every single day, especially given how much underplayed talent there is out there in the world.
Yeah, I think you’re right. Mine was Like A Virgin, and it was super popular so I imagine a lot of people love it. And I hate it for being over-played.
I’m old, so I remember what it was like to have presets on the radio and I’m not even making this up. One time that song was playing on ALL five of my preset stations in my car, at the same time.
It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me!
Wait, radio presets aren’t a thing anymore? I’m 37 and I still rely on them to this day! My 30-year-old GF does too.
But I get what you mean. On more than one occasion I’ve heard the same song on 4 different stations as well (the first time I saw it happen, the song was Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams). That’s why I alternate my listening time in the car between FM and whatever I find on Android Auto.
You know, I’ve moved on to sources other than radio too and kind of forgot they ARE still a thing aren’t they? LOL. But yeah, that used to be ALL we had.
I love around half of these songs. I also like trash music, which I know, but like, I have a lot of these on my phone in a workout playlist.
Dance Monkey. It used to play several times a day, every day of the week, on the store radio in the place I used to work. Ugh
Anything AI generated.
I’m fine with it it’s used for silly things like making an artist sing a song well outside of their usual genre(s); it can be very entertaining. Using AI to replace human talent entirely is where I draw the line.
