We’re a day late and a dollar short but it’s now time for this week’s Worst of Music. Surprisingly, I haven’t given a WoM to this week’s winner on the blog before but I know he’s won the WoM on the podcast. It has been well established that I hate what people currently refer to as dance music and autotune. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this week’s WoM is a dance song by David Guetta called Little Bad Girl. Continue reading
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Worst of Music: Miley Cyrus – Smells Like Teen Spirit
The gang over at recently wrapped up their search for the worst cover song of all-time. Normally, we would expect William Shatner’s cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds to take the top spot. However, the readers of Rolling Stone have found something worse to take the crown from Shatner and I don’t think the world is better for their discovery. The new #1 worst cover of all-time takes our Worst of Music award for this week. It’s Miley Cyrus doing a live cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Maroon 5 – Moves Like Jagger
I’ve never really understood why people like Maroon 5. Lead singer Adam Levine has an odd voice and the entire reason he seems to be in a band is so he can make out and roll around nude with impossibly gorgeous models in music videos. Unfortunately for us, he has to make music if he wants to keep sampling the talent which leads us to this week’s Worst of Music. Maroon 5 is back with a new single that only took two months after its debut on The Singing Bee (or whatever X-Factor knock-off that Levine was a part of on NBC) to near the top of the Billboard charts. This week’s WoM is Moves Like Jagger. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Taylor Swift – Lose Yourself (Live)
Feeling counts for so much in music. If you don’t sing a song the right way, you could turn any of the great Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards or Taupin/John songs from epic pieces of musical greatness into steaming piles of shit. And that brings us to this week’s Worst of Music. When you cover the greatest rap song of the 21st century, you have to do it justice to get away without earning a WoM to teach you a lesson. Last week, we heard about country starlet Taylor Swift covering Eminem’s Lose Yourself. It as so bad and soulless that I have no choice but to call it this week’s Worst of Music. Continue reading
Worst of Music: JLS – She Makes Me Wanna
One of the hardest parts of doing the Worst of Music is finding new WoM winners when the Billboard Hot 100’s top ten is filled with past WoM winners. This week’s Billboard top ten has five past WoM winners and a few pretty good songs to fill it out (shockingly). So I took a look at the UK Singles charts and didn’t have to look far for a WoM worthy song. I’ve never heard of JLS but after listening to their new #1 single, I wish no one else had either. Winning the Worst of Music award this week is X-Factor runner-up JLS for She Makes Me Wanna. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Hot Chelle Rae – Tonight Tonight
Before checking this week’s Billboard Hot 100 charts, I had never heard of the band Hot Chelle Rae. I half expected it to be a woman and almost thought the Dude Looks Like A Lady at the very start of the video was HCR. Turns out that it’s a band who have an album, an EP and three singles to their credit. One of those singles just happens to be this week’s Worst of Music winner. It’s Hot Chelle Rae’s song Tonight Tonight. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Rebecca Black – My Moment
Guess who’s back? A couple of weeks after we had Ark Music Factory’s latest “star,” we have the return of Ark’s original internet sensation, Rebecca Black. She seems to have taken note of all the criticism lobbed her and Ark’s way from Friday and dismissed it. And that leads us to this week’s Worst of Music from Rebecca Black called My Moment. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Arctic Monkeys – Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair
For this week’s Worst of Music award, we’ve gone off the board. This week’s WoM winner isn’t on the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK’s Top 40 singles charts. It’s just a song that randomly came on BBC Radio 1. But it was so bad that it stuck in my head as a guaranteed WoM winner. So rather than go to the usual charts, here’s an English indie band by the name of the Arctic Monkeys with Don’t Sit Down ‘Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Lexi St. George – Dancing to the Rhythm
Remember Ark Music Factory? They’re the soulless bastards that unleashed Rebecca Black on us. Well, with the encouragement of Good Morning America, they’re trying to make another teenager an overnight sensation. This time, CEO Patrice Wilson found his next superstar at a mall rather than thanks to her father’s wallet. This time, we’ve got Lexi St. George and her Ark-produced song Dancing to the Rhythm. God help us all. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Britney Spears – I Wanna Go
For this July 4th edition of the Worst of Music, I think it’s only appropriate that we look at the continuously falling musical star of one of America’s former sweethearts. Britney Spears shot to fame in the late 90s as jailbait but hasn’t held onto those heights since she married Kevin Federline. But nobody seems to have told her that her fifteen minutes are up. For example, she’s still releasing craptacular music and hoping her looks get her by with her new single I Wanna Go. Continue reading
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