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Over the past week, there’s been an ongoing debate about the “worst song ever” on X . . . and it’s getting pretty heated.
It’s unclear what started it.
One of the earlier posts gave the “worst song ever” title to: The 2010 song “Home“ by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
And it went viral enough that lead singer Alex Ebert put out a video response, where he claimed that the song was a actually pioneer of the “stomp-clap . . . folk pop thing.” He said that directly influenced bands like The Lumineers and Of Monsters and Men . . . to the point where he almost sued them.
(WARNING: There’s PROFANITY in his video. Love it, like it, or hate it, “Home” was definitely “of a time” 15 years ago . . . even if it sounds trite now.)
Anyway, here are some other “worst song ever” submissions on X:
1. “Hey, Soul Sister”, Train (2009)
2. “Happy”, Pharrell (2013)
3. “Sex on Fire”, Kings of Leon (2008)
4. “All About That Bass”, Meghan Trainor (2014)
5. “Moves Like Jagger”, Maroon 5 (2011)
6. “Blurred Lines”, Robin Thicke (2013)
7. “Cheerleader”, Omi (2012)
8. “Shape of You”, Ed Sheeran (2017)
9. “We Are Young”, Fun (2011)
10. “The worst song ever written is the whole discography of U2.”
Naturally, these are mostly just pop hits from the past two decades, so a lot of people questioned what makes these “the worst ever.”
One person even said, “People need to learn the difference between the worst song ever and an overplayed song. I refuse to believe ‘Mr. Brightside’ [by The Killers] is one of the worst songs ever.”
But someone else argued, “In order for a song to be the ‘worst ever,’ it must also be popular. It can’t be a deep cut that you CHOOSE to listen to. It must be forced upon you without your consent. Something you hear on the radio, in department stores, at bowling alleys. It has to inflict itself upon you.”
Then the REALEST person chimed in: “These people have clearly never been exposed to an eight-year-old’s Spotify playlist. You are talking about moderately annoying pop hits, while my children can put together three straight hours of songs to make God’s ears bleed.”
