Top 10 Worst Songs of 2024
This song is just a diss track that shouldn't have been released on any large streaming platforms because it's just embarrassing. If you compare it to Megan Thee Stallion's track, it loses the race in every way. No one wants to listen to the same, uninteresting beat with a singer just rambling on the whole time.
You know how bad a song is when it's already ranked #2 on RateYourMusic's "bottom singles of all time" chart. Considering the hype that surrounded it around the time of its release and the fact it was made by an artist as high-profile as Nicki Minaj, it is totally justified. It is currently the #2 worst song of all time according to the RYM community behind only... "You Done Goofed" by Blood on the Dance Floor.
Ben "Rap Isn't Music" Shapiro, as per usual, shows how little any of his takes on anything matter to him, and how little they should matter to anyone. Clearly, he'll be willing to forego all kinds of beliefs he (supposedly) has, regardless of how much he's passionately yapped about it, if he sees it convenient for his relevancy. In this case, he takes one of his classics, "Rap isn't music", and does what every person with a baseball cap and sunglasses in their car as their profile pic does after seeing Tom MacDonald say things they like for the first time.
I guess to Ben, his stupid little rule about how rap only has rhythm as opposed to also having melody or harmony, just isn't as important as he claims it is. Unless he's willing to add an asterisk that says "Unless they say things I like. In that case, it's music." What would your "music expert" father have to say about this, Ben?
This is basically "Daylight 2.0". While "Daylight" has grown on me since its release and success, this new song might just not. David Kushner's vocals are too one-dimensional, and the melodrama sounds more forced than ever.
This song is overplayed but I think it's better than any song Lewis Capaldi has released in the last few months. In fact, I think this is the type of song Lewis Capaldi should've made right from the start. As for Benson Boone, his nasally vocals can get annoying, but his falsettos are actually pretty good and remind me of Harry Styles more than Lewis Capaldi.
This is a Lil Dicky song that is 8 minutes long. Yes, 8 minutes. And if you're wondering, is there any musical switch-ups to warrant that length? Is it linear enough to warrant it? No. This is a normal track from Lil Dicky, with him rapping at a length equivalent to 3 to 5 of his normal songs combined. He uses this absurd length of time to tell a long and convoluted, very unfunny story including themes of indecent exposure and lots of prison-related SA. For almost ten minutes. Admittedly, this does come from his TV show Dave, and it's supposed to function like its soundtrack, but this thing was released like an album, and this is certainly a song. A reprehensible, completely awful song in every shape of the way.
I discovered today the line where he defends Chris Brown in this, and for me that's a serious catalyst for having this song either be #1 or #2 for me, but of course there still is that Nicki track....I am just so tired of Chris Brown getting all these passes, and Kanye has the audacity to say "what they did to him". Exactly what did they do to him? He still consistently gets singles on the Year-End list. He still has a mass of people who will try to defend him. And between that and this song and this album, it's become clear that nothing is off-limits if you have the audience for it.
Coming from two music artists who made good songs, this is just cheap. What happened to authenticity in music nowadays? Just a pointless rehash of Whenever, Wherever. This trend is getting annoying.
Yet another bland radio-fodder EDM-pop song that features a lazy interpolation of a well-known, much better track. This trend really needs to disappear ASAP. Please don't let 2024 be another year of gimmicky samples, amen.
Oversampled and made to fit an audience from about a decade ago.
Not a great song by Camila. It sounds like a bad Charli XCX hyperpop song and Playboi Carti's appearance is kinda disappointing.
This song is identical to many of Ice Spice's older songs and tries to ride on earlier fame present this year. Lyrics are also not great.
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What the heck happened to Mumford & Sons? Who told them to collaborate with Pharrell Williams? This song is just incredibly bland and shows that R&B and folk do not mix.
This new Lil Nas X song is not bad but it's pretty disappointing compared to his earlier hits.
What on earth is this crap? Who told this girl to sing when she can't even sing? AutoTune is not enough to cover up her lack of skills sadly.
The absolute worst song from Vultures 1. The Chris Brown feature is very disappointing, the sample of "Gabriel" by Joe Goddard is just dreadful in every possible way, the beat is unfinished, and Ye's screaming during the second half of the song is sheer torture. An absolute nightmare to listen to!
The original song that this samples is so much better. This sounds so unfinished, and the effects on Chris Brown's vocals sound poorly done.
Vultures 1 went to number 1 on the Billboard 200. I think I just lost some of my faith in humanity.
This song isn't that bad, but it's too generic and it tries too hard to sound sexy. The music video is pretty fun to watch though.
If it wasn't for the attempt of sexy sounding vocals I wouldn't mind this song. It's not bad but the vocals kind of ruin it for me
Armin Van Buuren has officially joined the Lazy Samples Club. The hook from Guru Josh's "Infinity" is so lazily sampled and it makes me wish I wouldn't stay like this forever. I really hope this sample pandemic ends sooner rather than later. Also, RIP Guru Josh (1964-2015).
Such a useless remix of an already mid cover. Plus, AutoTune doesn't work on David Draiman's vocals.
This is just boring and repetitive.
It's not as bad as "Whatever" by Kygo, but it suffers from the same issue as the latter: it's cannibalized by a lazy sample of a well-known, much better track. Ella Henderson managed to ruin "Gangsta's Paradise" on this song, so much so that Coolio must be rolling in his grave (RIP Coolio, your music doesn't deserve such treatment).
Edit: the more I hear this song, the more I wish it could just burn in hell. Simply inexcusable! If Coolio were still alive today he surely wouldn't allow this to be released.
Yet another generic metal song made by these Judas Priest wannabes. It's no wonder they never quite achieved mainstream success. Their music in the early 1980s was good but nowadays it sounds way too phoned in and derivative.