Rolling worst music of 2026

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp7ULjb7S4Q

You could not pay me to unmute that

The still is enough for me.

it's real bad

i feel like the production and arrangement suit the current '90s-throwback zeitgeist, i don't care for morrissey's music in general but this could be a lot worse imo

meanwhile just checking on some other racists, don't worry they're getting roasted in the comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQ0R4MLmjw

i still cant get over naming yourself “Forgiato Blow”

he's made more than a few questionable decisions it would seem

https://bsky.app/profile/carlzoilus.bsky.social/post/3mbz4w4zpf22e

Thought that would show up. Anyway, it's about David Byrne's awkward cover of "Driver's License."

You could not pay me to unmute that

I double-checked his age, he's now 66, and I am just imagining someone that age shouting in an alley.

[Verse 1]
I found myself in Paris
She sat in mournful silence
By midnight came an outburst
So much louder than a cloudburst

[Chorus]
She said
Make-up is a lie
All make-up, make-up is a lie
All make-up, make-up is a lie
All make-up is a lie

[Verse 2]
I soon returned to Paris
To the garret of the poet
In her mind of blank reclusion
Until the same explosion

[Chorus]
Make-up is a lie
All make-up, all make-up is a lie
Oh, make-up, make-up is a lie
All make-up is a lie

[Verse 3]
Ten years passed in boredom
I made my way to Paris
To stand before her gravestone
I read the words in granite

[Chorus]
One, two, three, four, five
Make-up is a lie
All make-up, make-up is a lie
Make-up is a lie, make-up is a lie
All make-up is a lie
Make-up is a lie
All make-up, make-up is a lie
Make-up is a lie, make-up is a lie
All make-up is a lie

You made this up

A lie!

From the Genius annotations: "Keep it in mind that she says it, not Morrissey himself. It is not to be taken as antifeminist red-pill nonsense."

Oh my god

Very real lyrics

Okay I unmuted to hear a bit of it

Love to hear Moz wanking over a “Human Behavior” pastiche

If someone told me the new Moz was a Jordan Peterson cowrite they’d probably have me going for a minute or so.

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

sorry but this is terrible!

it's so openly and deeply cringe that it almost bends back to being cool to me, however song is def kinda unlistenable. big "look what you made me do" vibes

Ok the Don't Mess With the Zohan reference was unexpected

I feared that I may enjoy the Morissey song, but we need to face our fears and this one proved to be an illusion. it's really fucking bad, it sounds like a cruel parody, only it's not at all funny.

I mean it is pretty funny, just not intentionally

other things Morrissey thinks are a lie: vaccines, multiculturalism, Epstein Island

morrissey song is terrible in a great way where i wasn't expecting it to sound like that at all. i figured he'd still be doing his bland rockabilly-tinged thing but no he's fucking around with drum loops and a mandolin? shouldn't he have denounced drum loops as an insult to england at some point or something?

"you hate to become the thing that you hated" is that a morrissey song title

maybe can't find enough players prepared to work with him at this point

or indeed can't afford a band

By midnight came an outburst
So much louder than a cloudburst

"Fuck what rhymes with outburst"

bratwurst, surely

Woulda been a better choice

maybe can't find enough players prepared to work with him at this point

it looks like most of his band quit a few years back (he got replacements though) so he's mostly working with new collaborators. his new keyboard player wrote the music for this one which i guess explains the new direction

By midnight came an outburst
So much louder than a cloudburst
So much zingier than Fred Durst

When you’re sliding into first and you feel something burst

Is Robyn trying to make Venn house into a thing

As soon as I heard the guy's name I knew the new song from Matt Maeson would be at best aggressively mediocre. And it is, which in many ways is worse than bad:

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

I'm not going to watch the video because I'm sure it sucks. But I didn't know who he was so googled him, and he's this white dude from Virginia Beach who was raised ... well ... it's an origin story, alright.

Maeson was raised in Gloucester, Virginia. His parents were juvenile delinquents who later became "musicianaries", eventually playing in Christian metal bands. He was banned from listening to secular rock music on the radio until he was a teenager. Maeson started playing the guitar when he was 15. He performed at biker rallies and prisons with his parents' ministry. Maeson's uncle, who was a part of the same ministry, was murdered. Maeson's forearm tattoos "Born a sinner" and "Die a martyr" are inspired by his uncle's legacy.

Def. some crypto Christian Imagine Dragons vibes from this dork.

mumbling to myself “Forgiato Blow”

Forgiato Blow should sample "Orinoco Flow."

As soon as I saw the band named was Buffalo Traffic Jam and learned they were friends that met in Montana I suspected the music would suck, then mere seconds into this song thought, are we still really doing this shit?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWJssZIDac

(one minute in)

it’s true it’s illegal to cut your grass these days. also loved the invisible audience at the tpusa show

Strong candidate for worst track of the year, I was subjected to it on the BBC 6 Music Roundtable Show.

Muse - Be With You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2h1WDGRVhs

Ghastly vocals, cliched bad electronic beats and boring bland guitar solos. Empty over processed production. Fetch the puke bucket... chunder

Music Writer Keith Cameron scored it 1/10

it is terrible, but I've now had to listen to it a few times to try and work out which two things it reminds me of. had to give up as couldn't stand it any more. think it's some generic church youth song.

and Queen

mind you this is far from the worst thing Muse have done

song is eh fine, apart from his voice, and his voice is all over it.

So the 2026 World Cup song is some bro country bullshit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5LixsSFMTg

Don't know if the actual song I heard was from this year or not, but I was in line at Subway yesterday and they were playing a Jelly Roll song over the P.A. (I Shazam'd it, but already forgot the title--something about God forgiving me or some shit) and the kid behind the counter caught me involuntarily wincing. He apologized for the wait, but I assured him that no no, I was wincing because of the song. He smiled.

I was waiting for a flight in the DC airport a couple of days ago and sitting across from me were two camo-clad mooks looking around and talking shit about the "weirdos" around them. One had a Morgan Waller shirt on and I determined that they had been in town to see the white house UFC fight.

Boy George released a pro-Israel song, not linking it, I think this thread is done for the year

he's been pretty vocal about using AI to make music now for the cherry on top

Zionism and AI, two great flavours

This disappoints me (on both counts) more than I would have expected

Changed his tune from the days when war was stupid.

He also did an interview recently attacking young queer people for being "divisive" in their rhetoric.

Mm, lovely AI ska with George affecting a patois accent

lol dear god

zionist ai ska in a fake caribbean accent we surely are living in the golden age

something something chained to a radiator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh0GyxWgKPs

here's a great (i.e. horrific) one just in case noah kahan's "stick season" wasn't bad enough

that was basically Joni Mitchell compared to the 30 seconds of the Boy George song I listened to

anyway, nepo baby stuff aside, women can be bland guitar-slinging singer-songwriter goofs too

(also, is this a safe space? I kinda, sorta like a few songs off the recent Noah Kahan album)

anyway, nepo baby stuff aside, women can be bland guitar-slinging singer-songwriter goofs too

"nepo baby" is a little charitable given the kind of shit her father is responsible for. We're not exactly talking "child of acclaimed abstract painter" here

terrible father, but song is just kind of bland and unremarkable, not feeling the hate (or anything else)

I don't know, the song itself might be great, but getting a notice for a new track called "Cuckin' 'Round" by the band Yammer Jaw is a really off-putting combination of words.

Kinda interested in that if it’s a rewrite of Best Little Whorehouse’s “Sneakin’ Around.”

Learned about Backwoodz808 this week, ohhhh lord