Top 10 Most Overhated Songs of All Time

The Top Ten
1 Baby - Justin Bieber

Personally I like this. It's a very cute song, despite Ludacris's awful rap verse. If you actually hate this for a real reason, okay.

But to say you hate it because you think it makes you look cool? Or because he looked/sounded like a girl? Really?

It's not even the most disliked video on YouTube anymore. It now has more likes than dislikes on YouTube (not by much, but still something).

In other words, the Bieber hate is old. Stop.

The amount of hate this song got in the early 2010s (the heyday of this site) was absolutely absurd. It's a harmless little pop song that, while repetitive and made for 2010 Bieber's core fanbase of teenage girls, is far from the worst thing ever.

So much better than Baby Shark! Baby Shark doesn't deserve billions of views, Ghost Rule does!

2 Friday- Rebecca Black

No, this is actually justified.
One of those choruses that try so hard to be both extremely cheerful and an earworm that it ends up being annoying, lyrics that sound like a foreigner has written it (I must know, not being a native speaker) and a bad vocal delivery by Rebecca Black. Which is weird, because if you look at her channel, she can actually sing pretty well. She is overhated as a singer because people judge her solely on this song which is terrible.

The hate is justified, but the fact that a stupid electropop song by an autotuned teenager is the second worst song ever because of her voice and the lyrics...is ridiculous when you consider that so many other songs are stupid and poorly sung. Also, the death threats she received. Come on, you don't see those comments come up on the videos of people like Kodak Black, but here they're common?

It actually does suck but its definitely overhated. Why you gotta send death threats to a person who didn't try while making Friday but had decent stuff?

3 Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus

The song is everything a pop song should be: it is catchy, well-produced and well performed. It leaves an impression. It is very memorable.
People don't hate the song, they hate the music video. But even that is not as bad. If you cut out the few seconds where she licks on the hammer, it is pretty aesthetic actually. Yes, nudity is aesthetic. European know that. And the imagery of her tearing a wall down in slow motion is a good visual metaphor. But the shots of her with her tongue out ruin the experience. It us just trying to look shocking and don't fit in the overall concept.

Deserves Number 2 right behind "Baby". This is one of Miley Cyrus' better songs. It's not great and it has shrunken on me, but the real hatred people have is the music video, which is just sickening.

This song was only hated because of the controversial video. If it wasn't for the video, I'm sure this song would have gotten much less hate.

4 Let It Go - Idina Menzel

What I never got: why does one of the most critically acclaimed movies and soundtracks get so much hate on this website?

Not a great song, but if it wasn't from Frozen and didn't get oversaturated, people wouldn't despise it so much.

I understand that Frozen is a bit annoying because it's always everywhere, but this song is actually good.

5 We Built This City - Starship

Oh, god no. It being rock doesn't make it overhated, this is a bad rock song.

According to certain music magazines:

This is different from Jefferson Airplane, so that makes it the worst song ever.
UGHGGHH

6 Best Song Ever - One Direction

NOTE: I referenced the Jonas Brotherd in this comment. That was before their comeback in 2019 and does not reflect my opinion on their current music.

This song is definition of mediocre. All of their songs I know are mediocre.
Actually, both One Direction and the Jonas Brothers are entirely mediocre and generic, make music that is far from being memorable. But they... don't suck. There is simply nothing outstanding here, neither positively nor negatively.
So... why exactly the hate?

It's just a mediocre and cheesy boyband song, but people call it the worst song of all time just because the title is Best Song Ever. Remember, the reason they named it that is probably because they were actually talking about another song in the lyrics.

Many people here love to hate on this song all because of title.

7 What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction

Nah this song is Annoying as hell to hear but to be fair I have heard worse

8 Revolution 9 - The Beatles

I agree with it being overhated. It's not supposed to be a good sounding song and people freak out like it's the worst song ever. It's not much of a song, it's more of an experience. It shouldn't be so hated.

The only song on this list that actually belongs on this list. The others deserve their hate.

The only Beatles song that I don't like!

9 7 Years - Lukas Graham

This is an awesome song about the story of someone's life. Stop hating on this song!

Annoying song that drives me nuts but there are much worser than this.

This song deserves its hate

This DESERVES it's hate.

10 Happy - Pharrell Williams

Whys this getting so much hate while depressing songs like Stairways to Potato Cancer are considered good?

This song is good. Overplayed, but it's a fun song.

I hate this stupid song, make it go away.

The Newcomers

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The Contenders
11 Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson

Both overrated and overhated at the same time. This song is actually decent.

12 Rockstar - Nickelback

The 3 Nickelback songs on my list are hated for literally all the wrong reasons but I'll go into detail about why each of them are overhated
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This one is treated as one of the worst songs ever but this song is actually very good and fun to listen to but the real reason this is overhated is people think this is actually supposed to be about the life of a Rockstar which is not the case it's a PARODY of a Life of a Rockstar so yeah that's why this is number 1 on my list

One of the most misunderstood songs of all time. It mocks the life style of rock stars. What's so bad about it? The video is fun to watch. Music is catchy, Billy Gibbons of ZZtop is featured, and so on. I don't get the hate.

People hate on this for all the wrong reasons (yes pun intended)

13 Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

Its an OK Song, it just gets annoying if you play it all over again

14 It's Everyday Bro - Jake Paul

I never understood why people don't like this song in the first place... like, it's jake paul when he was 20, what do you expect? I'm pretty sure he didn't make this song to be taken seriously in music. if you watch his old vlogs, there was a really playful and "just messing around" vibe. and this song is the same instance.

It deserves the hate in my opinion

15 Bohemian Rhapsody - Lil Meerkat

Stop hating this cover. It's just a joke song. I just really don't care about it. Lil Meerkat is a troll artist.

16 Bicycle Race - Queen

This is literally the only song in the top 10 that doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

Voting because someone "Single Ladies" got in the top ten.

17 Watch Me - Silento

If Crank That is still being regarded as one of the worst songs of all time than this deserves all the hate it gets because it is worse than crank that in fact it's a ripoff of Crank That and there's nothing to like about this song

2015 version of Crank That (already one of the worst songs ever). Wait a minute, what list am I on? I forgot because of the other comment here.

Terrible song but at least the lyrics is somewhat harmless.

18 Hello - Adele

Got hated because of overplayed.

19 Closer - The Chainsmokers

I still can't understand the hate for this, as well as anything The Chainsmokers have released since then.

It deserve hate. It's generic, simple and it gets old fast. Also the lyrics aren't that good in my opinion.

I personally love this song. I can see how it would be annoying to some people, but it reall is way over hated.

Honestly, this is deserving of the hate. Lazy, bland, annoying, simply awful.

20 Bon Appetit - Katy Perry

This is horrible.

21 #selfie - The Chainsmokers
22 All About that Bass - Meghan Trainor

No this song sucks!

This song sucks

This song sucks.

23 Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex

Yeah, overhated because dubstep gained too much popularity because of Skrillex. It's not meant for everyone. It's to electronic music what grindcore is to rock music overall.

24 The Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin
25 Gangnam Style - Psy
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