Rolling Worst Music of 2019

happy new year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kfALLjeND4&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIr4Pw3daB4AIVl5d3Ch0jpgLGEAEYASAAEgJlVfD_BwE

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kfALLjeND4

could be a threadwinner already

Would fit snugly on a rolling worst music of the 2010s thread.

The music is truly awful, but his face is significantly worse.

A more jejune Gavin Rossdale.

oh...wow

The 90s revival is complete.

every generation gets the viva brother they deserve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlC8uz47qGo

If there's a way that music as bad as that Yungblud thing can be prevented from making it off the island in future, then Brexit will be worth it (to the rest of the world).

Knew the revive would be bcz of the fully deserved Malkmus stinker

I mean if you'd asked me in 1999 what Malkmus would be doing in 2019, my guess wouldn't have been too far from literally everything about that song and video.

I think it’s... fine

the yungblud sounds entirely indistinguishable from what white men were preferentially listening to for an entire decade

It sounds like if One Direction had just discovered Oasis or the Happy Mondays to me.

that's SM's lead single :|

https://www.facebook.com/LukasGraham/videos/923072611232320/

Lukas "Strip No More" Graham covering XXXTentacion's "SAD!"; thread can be locked now

lol oh dear

that was fast

https://pitchfork.com/news/danish-band-lukas-graham-remove-xxxtentacion-cover-from-spotify/

is this the thread for when you're painfully bored with a current aesthetic that refuses to die?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DIT8Y3LC6M

Perry Farrell has a solo album coming out in June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imHzbC8Nnuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6X2s3NrM38

So far 2019 is musically the worst year of this decade imo

in the nick of time.

k

Just checked the RYM top 200 records. Statistically, i like about 15-20 records from that list per year. now i found only 1. So unless the next 2/3rd of the year is going to be amazing, 2019 will be the worst

Sticking to the current top 10, Weyes Blood, The Caretaker, Waste of Space Orchestra, Billy Woods & Kenny Segal and Inter Arma are all great.

It's subjective of course.

Plus Little Simz (imo)

There's never been a year when RYM has basically jacked my own personal taste so hard haha

Quelle Chris and Little Simz aren't half bad either, although I think I prefer the former based on a cursory listen of each.

Alwsys Lot's of hip hop and metal on RYM, which i don't like, but maybe more so this year

Life is too short for Wandelweiser, though. Or my not having access to proper speakers atm (the worst part about being an ephemeral expat imho) is drawing me away from infrasounds.

Have you tried Maja S. K. Ratke's Sult? Or Maurice Louca's Elephantine?

Oh I like Quelle Chris too! Bung that on the list yeah.

This is now the rolling best 2019 music thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxGLPVvNjvY

in honor of "sweet but psycho" being spammed every 1.5 hours on the top 40 station here that i am astonished my cow*rkers can apparently tolerate leaving on for the entire day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7-eNouHA1U

Shout out to the unnecessary apostrophe in the title, and how it's basically just a straight rip of that terrible 2002 song that is still popular right now.

wow, that is awful. contrived and clunky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7_lOPvkac

that's good not bad

for each successive remix they should add someone who has a word that rhymes with hat that they can highlight in their verse.

I'M A BRAT MAN (Bushido raps about eating sausage)
I'M A GNAT MAN (Tiny from Xscape sings about being short)
I'M THE BATMAN (Robert Pattinson mumbles something)
I'M A LAT MAN (Terry Crews flexes)

This should optimally continue for seven hours.

get that out of this thread it rules

biddy biddy bop

it's an insult to the original!

http://www.inkedmag.com/.image/t_share/MTYxMTg2MTMwOTgzNjU5MDEw/tatman_social.jpg
http://i2.wp.com/www.teenagemutantninjaturtles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Master-Splinter-Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-III.jpeg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Fat_man.jpg
http://i2.wp.com/www.frrrkguys.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/4137420130_dea616fec8_b.jpg

Jeremy Renner reserving his spot:

Coming soon... pic.twitter.com/jnQfYhlyDP

— Jeremy Renner (@Renner4Real) June 26, 2019

Game of Thrones font!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjNCyjaVmiA

The name's in the title, you fool

there's a lil dicky freestyle on sway's show that i can't stop watching

Everything that Lil Dicky has ever done is a joke that wasn't even funny the first time

boy that sure is something

i am ashamed

RIP HARAMBE

https://youtu.be/Z1U2x63aERw

I guess the point is that it’s terrible but it’s definitely not a case of “so bad it’s good”, it’s not even fun.

Poncho De Nigris - viaje astral

https://youtu.be/td0di7O6KSE

So... bit of a backstory on this one: this guy is actually the not so talented brother of a famous soccer player in Mexico. Earlier this year he was invited to sing on meme-song “La Cobra” which was a big party hit in Mexico, and like most party hit, it’s terrible but also somewhat fun for a while.

This is the follow-up single after the success of the first one. It’s pretty much a remake, only this time they tried too hard to make it a meme video and song and it shows. This is just terrible, forced party music and the video is a cringefest for everyone involved.

Usually this thread is a lot more full by July so maybe this actually isn't the worst year.

hmmm maybe we’ve just become numb to run of the mill bad stuff... i forgot to post the kygo remix of whitney’s “higher love” and like 80000 other shitty “bops” with beats by boring dudes

luckily there’s steve aoki

http://youtu.be/lBOAl_6lJPM

Don't think I've ever heard the Avett Brothers before, despite them being relatively high profile and a long-lasting enterprise. But boy did this song rub me the wrong way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwebrzEldA0

The video maybe made things worse? Very taking-the-piss, so not ironic it's ironic? I can't tell.

that's bad but more so earnest it makes me a little uncomfortable.

omg that Steve Aoki thing is making me weep it's the most embarrassing thing i've heard in years.

that is horrific

Holy shit that's bad. My daughter and her friend are obsessed with Darren Criss. I keep conflating his name with Peter Criss and Criss Angel: Mind Freak.

ok, regardless of whether that Avett thing is the worst of the year or not, i'm kinda dying to know if:

a) the Avett Army has broken out in civil war over that song, brother against brother-style, OR

b) if they're all just so blindly loyal and believe the boys can do no wrong and, thus, everyone loves it

it's definitely one of the two.

i hate lots of songs all the time that don't get posted here

tf is this person and how can we stop it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ocfE8Ua-7U

From what I can tell, Avett fans are kind of mixed on the recorded song, but agree that the song *live* is the best song ever.

https://youtu.be/7XdadYIxdEE

Tonight, we go all night long
We party like Post Malone
Don't tell me to go-o-o
Yeah, we are never, ever going home, tonight
Ain't nobody kill my vibe
Don't tell me to go-o-o
Yeah, we are never, ever going home

this song is like cliché bingo

oh lol I just heard this song on So You Think You Can Dance but never really registered it as particularly bad since there's a million generic pop songs that sound like it

We party like Post Malone

i was like "that's a terrible line" then i click the link and it's the title of the damn song!!!

definitely belongs in this thread

I call this genre "Uber Driver"

I call this genre "Uber Driver"

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 2:03 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and the award for most accurate new genre name goes to..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrxBmyiMls

the bieber-sheeran collab is everywhere and it is godawful

https://youtu.be/y83x7MgzWOA

yeah it’s super bad.

Hinder covering "Life in the Fast Lane":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIT679UQFpw

man i dunno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2b7wE3lSKQ

wow i'm surprised hinder still exists

Taco Tuesday made me cry

wow i'm surprised hinder still exists

I saw an email - "Hinder Premieres Cover Of Eagles Song On Loudwire" and tweeted that every element in that sentence seemed like it should be from five years ago.

I call this genre "Uber Driver"

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, July 23, 2019 4:03 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

amazingly otm

We party like Post Malone

heard this in a shopping mall today (walked out of the store immediately) and came to this thread to see if it had already been posted

This goes here because it is the worst music of 2019

I have watched this twice and I simply can't believe it's real and that I haven't just been gassed by the Scarecrow's fear toxin pic.twitter.com/Qgn36xl6WC

— ACAB Rees-Mogg (@jelly_pack) August 7, 2019

no deal brexit now

wtf I love Brexit now

suspect it may be some new form of russian black ops

I like how they staged a little rally for the video.

OK, my daughter's friends asked her if she wanted to see Surfaces, so she asked me if she could. I had never heard of the band before, and between the generic name and the general who-the-fuck? vibe of the act there's just not much of a web presence I could find (unless it's on the dark web, aka Instagram). But I did find their latest video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_83KqwEEGw4

So what the fuck is this shit?

This doesn't sound altogether different from much of the pop crap ILX regularly stans for. Maybe if they didn't look like refugees from Degrassi?

The group has been praised for its genre-bending, feel-good music that has been compared to the likes of Sugar Ray and Rex Orange County.

The pair began their creative partnership by exchanging iPhone voice memos

west coast youtube vapid pop; not out of place in this thread

i watched like two of the videos in this thread and then this came up on my yt recommended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wFwPh-KbEY

this is like... post-mummy bought me a mustang for christmas band.

"She plays bass
Nothing matters 'cause we're both in space
Pretty shit we didn't ever date"

...really?

Can't find a youtube link for it or anything, but Bootsy Brewski Boogie by Bootsy Collins appeared on my Spotify release radar playlist and it is distinctively awful. It also appears to double as an ad for Bootsy Collins' brewery

"she plays bass" is actually great, will not be upset if all major label indie pop attempts to be the sundays

the lyrics of "She Plays Bass" are awful but her vocal tone and the guitars are lovely enough I'll forgive it

Was going to add a comment about She Plays Bass but katherine and boxedjoy have just said everything I wanted to say, so, yes, those things.

Also

the pop crap ILX regularly stans for

is quite the quote for next time there's an argument about rockism on here (next week probably)

i think i've seen that user post a variation on that exact comment several times before, not sure if he contributes anything constructive in threads that i don't read or if he just hate-reads this site then complains on it on rym or something

i'm into She Plays Bass

The new Tool album has leaked.

fuck a Tool

I was trying to figure out which long lost '90s indiepop Beabadoobee reminded me of, and I settled on The Autocollants. You Lie All the Time is probably my favorite song of hers

*indiepop act

“She Plays Bass” definitely illustrates how terrible lyrics can ruin an otherwise good-sounding song.

(Awful band name, too... the two counts of self-sabotage are impressive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMlKJGKyoCo

Didn't think that could get worse but then the guitar and glockenspiel showed up

His ex's friends otm.

this that throw up in your birken bag
also dude, nsync did the marionette thing like twenty plus years ago

I love this thread and it's mostly just fun and games but that blackbear song seems...insidious? Maybe it's all the ~young people~ commenters extolling how they can relate to this song and it's their life? Yikes.

Tom Walker’s “Just You And I” (2019 version) was on loop for about an hour in the place I went for lunch today until I gave up and asked for a manager. It is now at the top of my list.

There is no Rolling Worst Attempts at Celebrity Lifestyle Branding 2019 thread, so I'll just put this here:

https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/9/9/hawkeye-misses-the-target-case-file-141my-year-of-flops-ii-38-jeremy-renners-app

with special attention paid to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HllumpAwVLQ

i'm prob the only person who really hates this but this is just one of the dogshit tracks on the presumably bad new blink-182 record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9asRPqPbjo

morrisp has already posted it but Herve Pagez/Diplo/Charli XCX's "Spicy" (i.e. the Wannabe cover) might be the worst song of the year; it's certainly the least necessary

how's that new green day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3N06KyK3s0

yes, it's what you're afraid it is

thanks! I hate it

The video is somehow even worse than the song.

Was that from the Booksmart soundtrack or something?

juice wrld is garbage in a particularly garbage field of garbage

lmaooo

i would have respected it if he had done a straight cover w/ vitamin c's original verses + included the gospel choir etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSRpbLOfo0

This sounds like the theme song to an early 90s "heartland" sitcom. If this is the best country music can do, burn the genre to the ground and start over.

the album is excellent but thanks for your input

ya I'm not huge on that particular song myself but co-sign

it's the weakest song on the record definitely but it's not "burn the genre to the ground and start over" material

It’s a terrific song; I knew I’d be buying the album as soon as I heard the chorus.

I haven't listened to the highwomen album but that song is indeed not good -- I still can't believe someone recorded a cute pun on "Designing Women" in 2019 and claimed it was new and fresh

(and "designing women" was already a play on words, too)

I avoided this because my complete non-appreciation for most country music is well-known by this point and probably tired, but not nearly as tired as this song. It sounds like something characters on Glee would write as part of a special country-themed episode.

i like their cover of "The Chain" a lot; "redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

They're good singers! I just don't want to hear them sing this.

redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:28 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can't imagine what must be on the album that this track is the closest to, like, a jason aldean song

You guys are crazy, LOL

well, at least you got your display name right

>:-P

i like their cover of "The Chain" a lot; "redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:28 AM (one hour ago)

this is spot on, i think. album is good, this song is corny and clumsy but absolutely makes sense as a single / radio hit because most people are corny and they like clumsy

corny and clumsy aren't really the issue with it (I like both of those things) -- it's just dated and fusty

It's not an album full of cutting-edge song styles!

corny and clumsy and dated and fusty,
packed in the back of a chevy that's rusty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5RVKwIhrLc

someone is going all in on being whitey mcwhite lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7x_Yoq0Npw

oh no

not to judge but it's weird for her to big-up her looks on a single that doesn't have her photo on its cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKPtLFXSaY

(this is not a song of 2019, it's just what it reminded me of)

"can't spell eugenics without U"

I actually like their latest single ("Obsession") a lot, but this is... well, it's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2G9qar-yKw

wrong link -- "Obsession" is not some of the worst music of 2019, but this is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736XW09hJg4

that sure is one hell of a gauntlet thrown by the opening image and lyric

I wonder if 100 gecs would be here if it was a different year

I actually can't believe people are still spelling out the song's title and calling it a chorus. Aretha gets a pass because she was probably one of the first but jesus christ, "G-E-N-E-T-I-C-S?" Someone got paid to write that?

100 gecs are fairly unlistenable to me but definitely don't belong in this thread

Zac Brown - Swayze (feat. Sasha Sirota)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUA7ekl2oME

it's no ben wallers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyYJtp5R5k

Look who’s back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqZMi0tq-g

Surely one Stephen Malkmus is already one too many.

this song is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0hyYWKXF0Q

um I think I like this song :-/

It's fine for what it is.

i gotta say i like "dance monkey" quite a bit, "johnny run away" too.

is it cool if i post something in here that i'm pretty sure will be broadly disliked even though i kinda think it's a jam

eh fuck it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC728aVm3u8

That's fine, most things on here are fine, bit annoying perhaps, but fine.

Madeleina Kay on the other hand, worst vocal performance of the millennium.

He never left:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVgK-JJ4jpY

now we're talkin'

one of the worst things i've ever heard

as far as 420 jingle philosophy, i'll take afroman thank you very much

oof

i hate this a lot

https://youtu.be/19zYwxfXPUg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19zYwxfXPUg

Would be less oppressive without the visuals.

The horribly distorted-sounding production is the worst thing about it.

I don't mind that. They sound like Franz Ferdinand with fetal alcohol syndrome, but still better than the Strokes.

I can tell how much I would've loved that if it came out in 2004, but it's basically: What if Franz Ferdinand, Art Brut and Dogs Die in Hot Cars teamed up to make an album paying homage to the legacy of Los Campesinos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-b2xWjeQIU

the still video picture alone

she is going to keep being the worst until someone hits her with a car

(it’s the woman from karmin in case you didn’t know)

Sam Smith has covered "I Feel Love".

maura otm

come back Kraeyshawn all is forgiven

kreayshawn was always good

do you reckon that q'v'een herby is brazenly trying to break into the thinkpiece cycle (/pick up a few stray rageclicks here n there) or is she really truly following her muse here

oh danny brown, why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wYmWDjg3GI

Qveen Herby is truly queen of the herbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UfjXacfgkM

how horrendous can a chris brown song be and still be a hit on urban radio

No ceiling and no floor (feat. Qveen Herby)

I hate this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_83KqwEEGw4

yeah that sucks, also who likes sundays?

...she does:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DimpledDishonestAyeaye-size_restricted.gif

she doesn't like sundays, she just finds them preferable to mondays

what hath chance wrought

xp She says they're her fun days! That's pretty positive

that would actually be a pretty good video if those two guys got stabbed right when they come into the office and the remaining 2:30 is just ambient office sounds

lol

Man, I was stuck in a dentist's waiting room this morning, and no joke, whatever playlist they had on seemed to be literally all of my least favorite songs from the past several years, from "Hey Soul Sister" to that Bruno Mars "Count On Me" song to the Fray to ... well, more Train. I heard that atrocious "Play That Song" and "Drops of Jupiter," too. A lot of Train. I almost had to leave.

Uber Driver
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FSqG13Z9s

sorry that’s a double post. blackbear is the worst.

what was this? the youtube is gone.

Look who’s back:

― #YABASIC (morrisp), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:42 AM (two months ago)

"dance monkey" is now becoming a big hit in the states oh dear

My daughter went with a friend to see a band called ... Watersports? Waterparks? Waterpolo? Whatever it was, it sounded miserable.

ugh, never heard "Dance Monkey" until just now. It's bad, but the wiki entry starts with the makings of a good short story.

"Watson was born and raised in Mount Martha on the Mornington Peninsula. She learned how to play keyboards and drum pads at high school and later gathered experience performing local gigs and festivals."

It's been #1 over here for nine weeks now. Send help

i almost admire the "dance monkey" singer's commitment to her downright bizarre vocal affectations

Update: apparently my family has indeed heard it, but they do not seem to be fans. That sort of vocal affectation is all over the place these days.

i like dance monkey...

what was this? the youtube is gone.

It was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPrw_Nyq88U

ffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEzp0EItzWs

okay I just figured out the name of this song on the radio where an insane cursed puppet child shrieks about all the terrible things she's going to do to you unless you carry out her bidding.

It's 'Dance Monkey' by Tones & I

my niece (12) loves this song and she's right

It's one of these culture shock moments when you realise that something so weird can have such huge mass appeal... Her commitment to singing like a haunted Miss Piggy is commendable, but it also freaks me TF out.

the vocal is so crazy it just adds to the enjoyment/annoyance

ive never heard "before" pronounced as "befoay"...before

i was thinking more "demonic baby" than "insane cursed puppet child" myself

there have been times when i turned on the radio right in the middle of a particularly bizarre vocal 'moment' from that tune and it can be legitimately frightening

WHAN YAR DAN AH MEHK YA DOOV EET ALL AGEEYN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qMC5VIJGA

ahaha my 5 year old requests this song now, they must be playing it at 4K

took me a minute or so to realize the song was in fact in English

i don't "like" that song but i appreciate it in the midst of everything else on the pop radio station because at least it has some character

true, at least it's not bland. i swear pop is getting creepier lately

but yeah it's a pretty annoying song

heard it being given the acoustic guitar treatment in piccadilly circus a few weeks ago

i think Tones & I started off as a busker

she did. i like it! i also understand how it could turn rancid with replay.

fyi Rolling Worst Music of 2020

wow the Dance Monkey video is like, a Jackass skit circa 2001