The worst pop songs

[Sampson]

So I work a job where I have to listen to pop-rap.

Now, its a terrible genre to being with--simplistic synthetic rhythms, god-awful singing, and moronic lyrics.

Some songs are respectable simply because they're incredibly catchy. For example, Gaga's poker face.

Others are just so terrible that anyone who enjoys them deserves to be beaten to death with a shovel. Here are those songs:

Keisha- Tic Tok



Jay Z - Empire state of mind



Beyonce - Single Ladies



Justin Bieber - One less loney girl

[DK]

Re: The worst pop songs

Um, Single Ladies is amazing 8)

[Denmo]

Re: The worst pop songs

Sorry but, Poker Face is the worst thing since Brittney Spears.

At least Tik Tok has catchy background music.

[Alzar]

Re: The worst pop songs

i don't mind poker face

[DK]

Re: The worst pop songs

So that's it huh? We just divide into three camps from here?

[Tintenfisch]

Re: The worst pop songs

Thanks sampson! Now I have four favorite new tunes!

[Denmo]

Re: The worst pop songs

Bieber's is extremely creepy, and chock full of Auto-Tune.

[Perversion]

Re: The worst pop songs

Yeah, I'm obviously not a fan of this tripe (nor have I probably heard any of this...I didn't click play on any of the above), but I'll agree with Sampson and Alzar. Poker Face, while nowhere near good, is respectable if only for how catchy it is (and for the blatant innuendo).

[Duel]

Re: The worst pop songs

I don't listen to pop.

[josh]

Re: The worst pop songs

what! Single Ladies is a great song. so is Empire State of Mind. get over yourself.

[John Mora]

Re: The worst pop songs

Single Ladies and Poker Face are perfect pop confections~

[josh]

Re: The worst pop songs

also, saying that all pop music is bad is a really dismissive and ignorant statement. what about Brit pop, like Pulp or the Divine Comedy? or chamber pop, like Belle & Sebastian or Camera Obscura? dream pop, like Asobi Seksu or the Pains of Being Pure at Heart? Swedish pop like Jens Lekman or Lacrosse?

HUH? WHAT ABOUT THEM

[Armored]

Re: The worst pop songs

Pokerface is great.

Empire State Of Mind is also pretty good minus a couple of cheesy lines. Rap mostly sucked anyways, it needed to evolve.

[orius]

Re: The worst pop songs

I don't like pop. The most popular radio station around here is a Top 40 station, which I haven't listened to in years, I really only listened to it when I was a teen because everyone did. But I hated most of the stuff that they played, and sometimes it seems they just play the same damn playlist every day. I'm more into classic rock and the like myself.

So I'm not familar with the songs mentioned in this thread, nor do I wish to become familiar with them. I'd rather listen to rock/metal from the 70s or 80s, classical, or movie soundtracks. I also like various game music tracks too.

[John Mora]

Re: The worst pop songs

Q. What is your top favorite song and what genre is it?
A. I have several. For over a decade, it was Out Where the Lake Is, level 10 from the Sega Genesis game "Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind". It was until early 2006 that Winter Land (round 5-1 from Ristar, another Sega Genesis game) surpassed it, but not by much. Battle Zone came along (the battle music from Final Fantasy 9) and I shattered my old record nearly doubling a record held for a decade. When played on my MP3 player, I encountered the highest recorded compatibility - 3190 times better than neutral. FF1 World (the world map music from Final Fantasy (from Final Fantasy Origins) came along shortly after with one part causing me to get very comparable with Battle Zone. Both Battle Zone and FF1 World are the two highest favorites. Winter Land, is at a very distant third with OWTLI slightly behind at fourth.

As to what genre they are, other than being purely instrumental, I have no idea. I cannot easily tell what genre a song is by listening to it. I don't know much of a difference between Jazz and Country. I wouldn't know if a song was pop or not. I rarely get any more than 40% certainty. The only known song, Bahamas Zone (from Croc 2 in the first world where you need to get a key to unlock a cage and placed in the jungle), to pass 50% certainty is of Reggae, but not in my top ten list, although I've still logged over 10,000 lifetime plays. Nature in the Rough (from Jumping Flash 1 and world 1-1) has 40% certainty in that it is a Scottish song, but the exact genre is unknown. I don't know what genre Desert Zone, OWTLI, Winter Land, FF1 World, or Target Zone is and my certainty is below 10%. As a result, I can only make mere guesses to many of it.