Worst of Music 2011: Pitbull – Give Me Everything

Another year has come and gone. That means it’s time to name the worst song of 2011. There were a lot of worthy contenders. Rebecca Black looked like a strong contender with Friday. B.o.B’s Strange Clouds made a late year charge for the 2011 WoM. Frequent airplay of Maroon 5’s abomination Moves Like Jagger kept it right in the hunt all year. But in the end, there could be only one winner. The worst song of 2011 is Pitbull’s Give Me Everything.

This song was ridiculous when I first wrote about it in May and it’s still ridiculous now. If you can’t figure that out in the first 7 seconds, then you’re completely clueless about music. In seven seconds, he plugs Kodak twice. After that, he mumbles most of his lyrics. Not the part about having it locked up like Lindsay Lohan, though, which got him sued. He also didn’t mumble the part about being willing to steal your girl because he’s a complete dick. Okay, that last part may have been implied.

Other non-Pitbull observations from the video: Ne-Yo seems awfully obsessed with the apocalypse and that the world might end. If you listen to the Mayans, Ne-Yo jumped the gun with this song. Nayer is clearly trying to pull off a devil’s threesome. She’s good looking but I don’t think she can quite make it work. Also, there are plugs for BlackBerry, Voli and Kodak (likely among other things) throughout the video. This song and video might not be a piece of music so much as a glorified ad. Maybe YouTube should let us skip this instead of the ad before the video.

So congrats, Pitbull. You’ve won the prestigious Worst of Music award for 2011.

Have a better WoM candidate for next week? Drop it in the comments.

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