Cringy 2010s Songs

Shape Of You, Rude, #selfie, all about that bass, gangnam style, party rock anthem, old town road, that drake song about his bed and his mom, all the songs people used on challenges, hotline bling, Black Beatles, every mumble rap ever, that anti-trump song eminem made, swish swish bish, Me! And You need to calm down by Taylor Swift.

And finally: cool kids by echosmith, the ultimate 10s hipster "rock" song

If I had the power to whipe out songs from existence, this song would be up there. Everything from the extremely wrong feeling predatory imagery to the terrible singing to the self-sufficient assholery in high display here just makes me want to vomit.


This was such a childish ramp disguised as a (failed) comeback. I truly thought that with her pop direction Taylor matured as an artist but this felt like a huge betrayal to that sentiment. The ugly and disjointed music didn't help.


Oh you thought "Call Me Maybe" was generic and vapid? Try again. As much as I love Carly, this truly was a lowpoint for her. I normally don't have that much of a problem with overly optimistic songs, but this coupled with the very dull instrumentation makes it nothing but advent music.


What was even the point of Meghan Trainor? She did not succeed at empowering plus-size women the way Lizzo would much more successfully a few years later. In fact she might have made things worse for them with her divisive persona setting up a bad precedent. Her disappearance from the popular scene is no wonder. Truly one of biggest wastes of a charttopper in the previous decade.


People think of "Gucci Gang" as the penultimate bad trap song from 2017, but no one should forget that this song propelled one of the tackiest and most talentless personas of these last few years onto the popular scene. And this song might already be indicative of he represents: lotsa shouting but zero bite.


In general these fratbros did not deserve any continuous fame after their fairly horrible novelty song. While the verses are admittedly quite nice, it all comes crashing down with one of the most unpleasant bassdrops of that last decade. At the very least dubstep/brostep can be fun and energetic in its chaotic obnoxiousness, but this feels a washed up song suddenly taking a massive dump, which is not a representation of something I want to hear.


I already went quite in depth with my opinion on this in a rant in another thread, but basically the "humor" could only ever appeal to 13-15 years olds, which IMO does not belong in a charity single that's supposed to reach a general public.

God, this was the moment I lost all my patience with him. One might want to seperate the art from the artist, but this is a case where the asshole persona truly transgressed the art.

Behold a lesson in trying too hard. While there's nothing wrong per se with an artist trying to break from their image with a newly found rebellious side, this song felt more like a desperate call for attention mongering rather than a geniune testemonee of a reinvention. It sounds quite ahead of its time at least, but it's still pretty dull.


It truly felt like the Black Eyed Peas were getting worse and worse with each year that passed. They really should have ended it with "The E.N.D."! Their next and final album as a quartet was a huge mess of disjointed electronica. Most people don't really remember anything from it (as they should), besides maybe the occasional headache that songs like this could cause.


This was a personal moment of "I don't get it" back when it was huge. But flashforward to this year and relistening to it, I can't help but feel this is aging pretty horribly.