Honestly there aren't that many songs from 2019 that pissed me off the same way as those from the first half of 2020 did. Still, here are some criminally bad and botched tunes from last year in my opinion:
What an embarrassing and immature song. Not to mention it comes off as a desperate attempt to ride off the coattails of "Hot Girl Summer"'s popularity. The worst part is you wouldn't tell that this is actually from a guy who is turning 30 this year!
And because 2020 is as awful musically as it can get, this was still a sleeper hit until a few weeks ago.
Can this band sink even lower in its extremely safe, bland and white bread songwriting? Let's hope not, like holy hell.
Still hate this. Just sounds like a big ugly wash of echoed vocals and sludgy repetitive lyrics. It all seems painfully robotic rather than anything close to geniune. Not to mention what a drag this song is... If someone ever made a tiring song that makes me wanna go home, it's this one.
Honestly the genre of reggaeton is really reaching a low point at this point. It's over saturating the charts, especially in Hispanic countries to ridiculous levels. The dembows are getting even more tiring than trap drums. I'm mentioning this because last year I took some Spanish classes and was curious to explore recent Latin hits, and it was an experience mostly met with displeasure. This one is particularly bad. Just a terrible mess of off-key, brash singing (please can someone give Anual AA some singing lessons) and an unpleasant high-pitched synth hook on a rhythm extrapolated from Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me". Literally nothing works.
This song is a complete failure to colossal levels. It might honestly be the worst song of the entire 2010s. Charity singles aren't exactly known for their quality in general, but this one in particular is completely irredeemable. The constant and obvious switch between autotuned vocals and clean singing is really tiring, the mix between the two will probably never work in my opinion. You either do one or the other, not both constantly clashing with eachother. The humor is ghastly and of extreme poor taste. Yet the song still finds a way of appearing very meaningful, preaching statements about the climate change despite making lowbrow jokes throughout the whole song. What a horrible contrast. It's like this song is made to only ever appeal to 12/13 year olds in its aesthetics, while it's supposed to reach as large a public as possible due to its message. It just doesn't work.
The music itself is insulting, taking the blandest "African" stock music possible, repeating the beat ad nauseam while still perpetuating the idea that Africa is one country in the lyrics. What a joke.
I still find it mind blowing that so many celebs (and we're talking some of the most popular celebs!) gave support to this unfunny, creatively bankrupt, clownish persona that this Lil Dicky. Ugh
