Worst Song Poll : Daniel Powter - Bad Day vs James Blunt - You're Beautiful

my vote is for james blunt

"Bad Day" is tuneless while "You're Beautiful" is just overplayed.

Daniel Powter is insufferably while James Blunt is just a bad David Gray copy.

So "Bad Day" all the way.

"Bad Day" has those anthemic choruses and that step up at the end and that arena-pop production, and to me is just so much more garish and awful than "You're Beautiful".

"Bad Day" is way, way down there with "Rockabye" and "Pepper".

anything released by Bon Jovi in the last 5 years wins hands down.

or arguably most of his career....

"always" is the worst Bon Jovi song by a country mile

OTM

but You're Beautiful is FAR FAR FAR WORSE!

for a while I didn't realize they weren't the same song ("Bad Day" and "You're Beautiful")...I actually thought the chorus of you're beautiful was the pre-chorus to Bad Day

BAD DAY wins this poll, which isn't to say that the blunt song isn't godawful

Powter isn't as much of an insufferable arrogant self loathing dick like Blunt and Beautiful is shit, the lyrics are crap and the vid was shit. This is not to say this wasn't the case with Powter I just really hate Blunt.

That's the spirit. Is this gonna come down to a USA vs UK thing? Blunt seems to be more hated by brits so far.

"Bad Day" is way, way down there with "Rockabye" and "Pepper".

-- Eazy, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:27 (49 minutes ago) Link

also "You're Beautiful" was awful but at least it came and went; I'm pretty sure "Bad Day" will be used in reality TV shows and at sporting events until the end of time.

(shrugs) I dunno, I don't see what's so bad about either of those blandly semi-catchy songs - at least, within the microgenre of 21st-century AAA bland-rock. In fact, first time I heard "Bad Day"'s refrain, I thought it was a new Steely Dan track I hadn't heard yet! (Only 'cause I was (barely) hearing it over the radio inside a van full of people, which gobbled up a lot of the frequencies.)

I'll reserve the majority share of my loathing for the likes of Rob Thomas and John Mayer, thanks.

Blunty needed 'help' to write YB.

Powter isn't as much of an insufferable arrogant self loathing dick like Blunt

How would anyone know? No-one knows a fun fact about Daniel Powter... OR DO THEY?

'Bad Day' is worse.

At least DPowter knows when to start singing!

At least DPowter doesn't think he's Jeff Buckley.

These records are both terrible and women who like them should be put into concentration camps and rohypnoled to within an inch of their lives!

These records are both terrible and women who like them should be put into concentration camps and rohypnoled to within an inch of their lives!

This is disgusting.

James Blunt, that song was bloody everywhere :(

This is really, really hard. I'm doing eeny, meeny, miney, moe on this one.

Actually, "You're Beautiful" reminded me, more than anything, of that fucking "Superman" song from a few years back. That one, I really hated, and was force-fed it at work everyday for a year. And when I'd decided that I couldn't possibly despise it more, I discovered that the performer called himself "Five For Fighting" and realized that I was mistaken.

Bad Day at the moment cos it always seems to be played on telly.

"Bad Day" is way, way down there with "Rockabye" and "Pepper".

-- Eazy, Thursday, 17 July 2008 01:27 (49 minutes ago) Link

this better not be the "Pepper" I think it is

-- bernard snowy, Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:19 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

OTM pepper rulz

also i think that other song is called lullaby

Is this thread a stand-up comedy routine from 2005?

Powter by miles. 'You're Beautiful' is an abomination, 'Bad Day' is just a bit shit.

oh shit that means i voted for DP not JB

"You're Beautiful" is much worse.

People who hate these records are well cool and hard.

Butthole's "Pepper"? That was pretty bad, yeah.

I don't hate "Bad Day" actually.

Have you noticed how much those "Mmmbop" dudes look like girls?

Also, man, I got so fed up with "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" when it was #1. His guitar wasn't even plugged in!

met Meredith Brooks one time, she didn't actually seem that bitchy at all

That Alanis Morissette song, Ironic, I mean, it takes until the third verse before there's any actual irony in there at all! Note to Americans - a black fly in your Chardonnay is NOT IRONIC!

America thanks you for that breaking news, Matt.

stfu dom:

After eight years, ILM finally has a thread for "Lullaby" by Shawn "Puffy" Mullins
Remember when people thought "My Humps" was the worst song ever?
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The Butts' "Pepper" is sick. That whole album is great actually.

Has the 2000's not produced more "worst song ever"s than any other decade, or am I crazy? I can take it if I'm crazy.. just let me know.

you're beautiful is comically, enjoyably awful, while bad day is just baaaaaad.

went with bad day as the worst

You're Beautiful wins for it's smarm.

'My Life Is Brilliant.......My Life Is Brilliant...'

FUCK OFF

I don't hate "Bad Day" actually.

-- o. nate, Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:04 AM (Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:04 AM) Bookmark Link

^^^ The chorus is enjoyably dopey. I never listen to it on purpose, but find it stuck in my head a lot and not minding it, whereas the Blunt tune once makes me want to shriek.

once

Not enough james blunt hate here

blunt by several million miles.

there.

Funny Alanis should be mentioned, because John Mayer's gawdawful "Say" (FAR worse than either of the songs being polled, oh yes it is) has got to be the most ironically (and idiotically) accidentally-meta-song since "Ironic" itself. Guy doesn't seem aware of the contradiction between advising someone to "Say what you need to say" - and then needlessly repeating it 837 fucking times before the song mercifully ends! Pot, meet kettle etc.

OOTH, maybe I'm wrong and he was fully aware of the inherent contradiction when he wrote/recorded the song; in which case, so what? Song's still crap.

never heard of it. has it been released in the uk?

both songs r fuckin hideous id rather take a shower with dan rather than listen to them

Beautiful is worse.

Fuel's Bad Day is worse than Powter's actually.

Pepper is one of the best radio singles of the 90s.

Worst song ever = "All For Love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting.

never heard of it. has it been released in the uk?

Hm, apparently not, according to Wikipedia. Or I misread it and it was released but didn't chart. Either way, I'm envious!

Another irritating factor: He mewls "Say what you need to say" a full 42 2/3 times - once every 5.5 seconds (yeah, I do my research!) - and yet still chooses to merely title it "Say", as though it were still 1993 and post-grunge one-word song titles were still hip. Jesus...

that reminds me of the one Dave Matthews Band song where he repeats "so much to say" about twenty times in a row. as a kid, I remember picking up on the irony of that and realizing for the first time that I was smarter than Dave Matthews. nowadays, I suppose the irony was probably intentional; but I'm still pretty sure I'm smarter than Dave Matthews.

He smokes a lot of pot, for what it's worth.

and he earns how much?

as though it were still 1993 and post-grunge one-word song titles were still hip

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/98/NumanCars.JPG/200px-NumanCars.JPG

He smokes a lot of pot, for what it's worth.

-- If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, July 21, 2008 10:45 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

so do I! maybe I'm being too hard on the dude

Is this gonna come down to a USA vs UK thing?

For what it's worth, Powter's Canadian.

I was talking about that it seems the usa posters hate powter more while uk ones seem to hate blunt more.

"Bad Day" is an adequate song, never understood the hate for it. So Blunt it is. I've never actually heard the entirety of "YB" but the chorus alone has ensured it a place in the pop Hall of Infamy.

And yes, I'm in UK.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7518881.stm

wallpaper music.

Actually, we should all together write "We're all going home together" right here!

We're all going home together

i really don't know. actually, i haven't even heard Bad Day, but You're Beautiful makes me want to curl up in my own vomit everytime i hear it so uh, that's my decision.

and it's a good decision

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A vote for sanity.

Yes. An overwhelming win.

not that he cares

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00536/SNF23BIZJB1-682_536858a.jpg

so not going to happen.. oh wait...

c-man taking the pic?

Buy Powter's house.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-01/44637409.jpg

See, "You're Beautiful" is like sitting on an airplane and hearing the guy behind you successfully picking up the woman sitting next to him with bad lines, whereas "Bad Day" is...I mean, it's really...it's just bad.

OK, he's buying a new house someplace.

James Blunt's house vs. Daniel Powter's house.