The Worst of the Worst: GTFO 2014 POLL (Part One)

I really can't vote for anything other than "Rude" here.

i don't remember most of these but i have a real grudge against "car radio"

Yeah, Car Radio is a nadir for western culture.

#Selfie has to win this, surely?

voting for kongos

I like that timber timbre song :(

Even though Rude is probably not the worst of this bunch, it will likely win due to being the one that people are most familiar with since I doubt there are many who would take this seriously enough to check out every single horrible song on this list.

One possible advantage of this list is that, even for those of us who followed the thread throughout the year, something like "Rude" is gonna stand out more than all of the YouTube novelties and celebrity vanity projects which anyone who has heard them has already forgotten. Public nuisances deserve our derision far more than failed memes.

tempted to go with "Sheezus"

Voting for Ludacris because "partying actually makes me sad"-core Weeknd-esque R&B is the worst and pretty sure that song was the nail in the coffin for that particular trend

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR STARTING THIS POLL!!!! I have been following that Rolling Worst Songs thread all year, and holy moly there are some terrible songs on there.

Few songs make me straight up angry but "Best Day of My Life" always takes me there

xp Yeah but if anyone knows even one other song on this in addition to "Rude" odds are in favor of that song being perceived as worse.

Perhaps a link to the original thread would help.

Where is Hideaway?

oh wow, i'd forgotten about icejjfish

"The ballot of bull"

(c'mon, open goal there)

Perhaps a link to the original thread would help.

GTFO rolling worst music of 2014

"Red Hot Chili Peppers" - "Abracadabralifornia"

This sounds like a spoof RHCP song title.

Also not heard the Scooter track, but sad to see them on here.

I like that timber timbre song :(

― Moka, Saturday, January 3, 2015 5:37 PM (3 days ago)

Yeah, me too. Whats it doing here?

I have somehow managed to avoid hearing more than a few seconds of 'Rude'. My vote will probably go to 'Hello Kitty', but I might see if I can stand refreshing my memory on the others.

"Rude" is probably worse, but "On Top Of The World" has invaded my life more often and more painfully, that chorus is the song equivalent of how your tv gets louder during the ad break. I can feel it bleeding into the world around me at the gym even if I'm playing something else full blast on earphones.

I can't imagine much being worse than Rude. It's a gestalt of all of the most terrible North American rock songs of the last twenty five years.

xpost RCHP

Really I had to Google that, I thought it was a joke. Even a straitjacketed Frusciante would decline participating on that.

I've managed to avoid or just not hear almost all of these, but "Rude" is just oh my fucking god bad. Voted that.

Oh it seems to be a joke, I'm relieved humanity hasn't gone that low yet.

But it has gone as low as "Rude."

it's kind of amazing that we can have three IceJJFish songs and "Hello Kitty" in this poll and the correct answer is STILL "Rude"

Story behind the RHCP track

I kind of love "Rude" sorry

voting for kongos

― dyl, Saturday, January 3, 2015 10:35 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"One (Always Hardcore)" by Scooter was released in 2003. And it rules.

Abracadabralifornia is hilarious & obviously fake

I kind of love "Rude" sorry

no need to apologize, we're just being.... (wait for it) ... rude

I don't dislike the follow-up to Rude, Don't Kill The Magic, even though I know it is truly awful

ha that encapsulates how I feel about "#Selfie"

Timber Timbre's track iirc begins with a woozy vibe and "I wanna dance / I wanna dance / I wanna dance / with a black woman", which is a questionable line, even after learning it's about dude's gf. Weird thing to sing, first line of your first single

ha that encapsulates how I feel about "#Selfie"

― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"selfie" is initially catchy but ultimately obnoxious, "rude" is initially obnoxious but ultimately catchy

"Abracadabralifornia" still makes me laugh. So dead on.

ended up voting sheppard - total dégueulasse piece of crap song AND i learned that the father of a number of the group members is the director of a company that runs a detention centre on Manus Island

tough choice between "hello kitty" and "everyone is gay"

"everyone is gay" is extremely horrible, burn it to the ground

I had it narrowed down to those two as well, but went with "Everyone is Gay" based on the fact that I had been exposed to Hello Kitty the year before, possibly even in the 2013 Worst Songs thread.

"selfie" is initially catchy but ultimately obnoxious, "rude" is initially obnoxious but ultimately catchy

I agree re: "#Selfie" but for me "Rude" is initially obnoxious but ultimately insanely, egregiously obnoxious

I feel like Car Radio is this year's handy summation of everything that is terrible about the modern rock format.

Whereas I tend to agree with katherine re: Rude. I feel like this poll ironically enough is the specific context where its essential listenability is most apparent.

(Guitar solo is still terrible, though)

#selfie and Rude were the most-sung songs by the kids in my house this year.

Yeah, I just realized I actually only know what "Rude" is because it's apparently a popular tune at the preschool my girlfriend works at.

I know zero of these songs. I got through Rude, Car Radio and the first :30 of one of the IceJJFish things before I decided life's too short.

i don't understand all the vitriol towards "rude" other than being a thoroughly mediocre ubiquitous earworm when incredibly obnoxious, offensive songs like "hello kitty" and "everyone is gay" exists

strong nominee for 2015 is kid rock "first kiss" what complete garbage jesus. when i think of like the worst radio music this hits like all the criteria

#selfie and Rude were the most-sung songs by the kids in my house car this year.

I never grew to loathe #selfie. I never got close to tolerating Rude.

"Why you gotta be so rude?" also became a staple of household arguments.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted Hedley, inescapable on canadian radio all year.

For some reason "Best Day of My Life" was used to advertise (Toronto) Blue Jays games - before the game, during the game, and when you just tried to turn on the highlights late at night to avoid the "Best Day of My Life" Blue Jays commercials. It is therefore a close second.

is "best day of my life" one of those songs that was secretly written for a commercial but then got released as a full song?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Somehow "she looks so perfect" came out unscathed haha.

ugh I *definitely* would've voted for it (had I remembered to do so)