Top Ten Worst Singer/Songwriters
A song is like a poem that is often read musically. Songwriting is not really easy as it seems. Poor writing skills gives away a poor quality song. If there are no good songwriters then what's the point?
Bret, your songs are worse than barbie's theme song.
Yes, Bret your songs are not that good. Stop crying about it.
Terrible voice and lyrics...
His strained nasal sound and improvising style are an embarrasment to listen to.
Yeah I agree, the only U2 song I like is Mysterious Ways because of the guitar rift
Whats the difference between god and bono
God doesn't think he is Bono!
How could Bob Dylan be worse than this FREAK and Demon Justin Bieber! What kind of sorcery is this crappy thing in this list! This DEMON should be number 1 ONE at all times in WORST SINGER - SONGWRITERS. His SONGS can KILL a person and Especially above all things his VOICE is really bad, irritating, like in hell that SUCKS! Worse than a mosquito's sound.
He should be #1! Aside from being a complete douchebag, he music sucks! And "Baby" is the worst of them all! Seriously, all he says is "Baby, baby, baby, ooh! " over and over. It's not even a song. Justin Bieber is NOT a musician, he's a dumb wannnabe who thinks he's a musician; Beliebers are just a bunch of morons who wouldn't know REAL music if it hit them in the face! Justin Bieber is a disgrace to the music industry!
The fact that bob Dylan, Freddie mercury and Bruce Springsteen are on this list is a joke. I am not a massive fan of Bruce but I can appreciate his lyrics. Freddie was great, he was not full of himself like many others
This message is only to reply the man say Freddie mercury will not be in this list the only few be Nicki Minnaj Taylor swift Justinn Beiber lady gaga and one direction hunn the world best singers are Taylor swift justin Bieber one direction and Lady gaga and the world worst singer is Freddi mercury
He only does cover songs that are just okay. Once he was singing The Star Spangled Banner and he read the lyrics of his HAND. You know that someone isn't a good singer when that happens.
Haha. First learn to spell his name, then insult him. Rose was a good songwriter, November Rain, Patience and Estranged were beautifully written songs.
Sure, Bob Dylan isn't the best singer but he is one hell of a songwriter. Axel, however, is bad at both.
If I were to make a list about the worst lists on this site, this would take the top 9 spots.
You know you are not great when you haven't released anything in over 15 years.
These lists are unbelievably stupid. To have Bob Dylan in the Top 5 is such a godawful atrocity that it makes me want to kill every idiot that voted on this list. Do you people even listen to Bob Dylan? Are you all completely brainless, dickless and hopelessly stupid? I hope everyone involved in the making of this website is massacred on Desolation Row.
Why is he even on this list? Anywhere?
Bob Dylan is amazing.
For God's sake, get Freddie Mercury and Bob Dylan out of the top ten!
Worst musician on the planet. Horrible voice!
He can't sing. At all.
I can't stand her she sounds like a squirrel with helium in her voice and stupid autotunes she's pretty though
"Friday"
(Yeah, Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ark)
Oo-ooh-ooh, hoo yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah-ah-ah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Seven A.M. , waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein' everything, the time is going'
Tickin' on and on, everybody's rushin'
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)
Kickin' in the front seat
Sittin' in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?
It's Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's looking' forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin' down on Friday
Everybody's looking' forward to the weekend
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Partyin', partyin' (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Looking' forward to the weekend
7:45, we're drivin' on the highway
Cruisin' so fast, I want time to fly
Fun, fun, ...more
Taylor is gorgeous, but after seeing all those breakup songs, I came to the conclusion she must have a terrible personality. Especially when, according to all her songs, it's always her exes' fault. All her exes should get together and make a song called "Maybe Your a Problem". by the way, whoever added Jon Bon Jovi in this list is an idiot and gives humans a bad name.
She is just awful. All of her songs have one meaning: YOU'RE A DICK, IT DEFINITELY ISN'T MY FAULT THAT MY RELATIONSHIPS NEVER WORK, I'VE HAD SO MANY BOYFRIENDS IT CAN'T BE MY FAULT! She is talentless, overrated, rinse and repeat, pop trash.
Do you really think your 5 year olds should be listening to lyrics saying I HAVE TO GET MY WAY 24 HOURS A DAY BECAUSE I'M HOT LIKE THAT (can't be tamed)
Who do you think you are? Miley Cyrus is my ROLE MODEL! Get a life whoever put her on this list!
Who's sold well over 300 million albums, currently on a 3 year world tour, more than 50 years in the music business & aged 72 - Sir Elton John, that's who - and he's still so much better than many of the artists around these days. If he hadn't collaborated with Bernie Taupin, no doubt he would've collaborated with another lyricist.
Agree with poster below, take away the lyrics & what have you got, sorry can't understand his elevation to some kind of legend. A guy like Pete ham of badfinger wrote songs from the heart & for me did more in his short lifetime than Elton John has done in 40 years.
Worst list ever! Elton John was one of the best musicians. Also bob Dylan and Bruce springsteen what the heck? Elton John has not a single bad song.
Well screw this list, Elton John is in my top 3 for best musicians ever with the other two being Imagine Dragons and AC/DC!
Very love love love
Lil Wayne is not a bad rapper
Can't stand his voice.
Lyrics that you'd swear an irritating, overly melodramatic 6th grade girl who eats paste wrote. Let's see how many words, "Danger Kitty" can rhyme with "loaded gun". His lyrics are copy and pasted from a cliche Thesaurus! Apparently slobbering all over Hillary Clinton's sensible shoes and every other liberal politician still won't make you an "artist". Who knew?
Are you kidding jovi and abba and reo speedwagon and Michael jackson and the bee here all should be at no one you know why and the Beatles and I could name names all day try and get any of there songs out of your head you can't it's impossible it's like my songwriting we are to catchy my name is derham Paul I am a singer songwriter and public performer and entertainer
He's far from the worst but his whole band is so overrated on these websites it's not even funny.
Jon Bon Jovi is an amazing songwriter and singer.
Although a lot of his songs were absolutely amazing. Some of his song such as bohemian rhapsody are, when assessed in reality, are songs with poorly held focuses and less than tolerable lyric structure. Please do the world a favour and get off the hype train people.
Wasn't he suppose to have written like thousands of songs and what I heard I don't care for. What do the rest sound like? I am scared.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Plant, Mayer, Taylor, Duritz, Diamond, Judy Collins, Carole King, Feliciano, Vanessa Carlton, and countless others would disagree with you.
Her songs are amazing but a lot of them sound the same but maybe it's just the way she sings.
Super overrated and not that big on that high pitched voice either.
She is one of the BEST! Laura Nyro is a little better though but dead.
This ugly walking plastic barbie doll can't make a song with lyrics that's actually make sense for a rat's ass. Nobody give's a crap about you being a stupid hoe ( based on her song " stupid hoe") even if you are one. And this song is suppose to be a diss to Lil Kim. Like any other Nicki Minaj wanna be, she goes on the stage, show's off half her plastic a$$ waving it back and forth singing " you a stupid hoe " over and over again. And when she get's off the stage she has her fan's saying " that was the best song and performance ever". If I was in the crowed I'd throw a water bottle at her and be like : THAT WAS THE WORST PERFORMANCE EVER, PLEASE EXIST ON THE RIGHT AND NEVER COME BACK. If we have wack rapper's like this than the hip hop industry could be in big trouble.
Ahahaaha I'm laughing my ass off. Nicki Minaj, in #21, and you have Bob Dylan in #4 and FREDDIE MERCURY in #10 and Elton John in #11 and Bon Jovi in #12... Okay... Calm down... Bob Dylan... is an exceptional songwriter. FREDDIE MERCURY IS A LEGENDARY SINGER/SONGWRITER. Dude, we're talking about Freddie Mercury here, who singlehandedly wrote one of the greatest songs ever, Bohemian Rhapsody, and one of the greatest anthems We Are The Champions, along with many many other great songs. His song writing skills are original, and produces music like no other. He is in the #10 spot in the Greatest Singer/Songwriter list (which I think he deserves higher), HOW IN THE WORLD CAN HE BE IN #10 HERE?!
Nicki Minaj, lower in the list... This is crazy. She raps, right, but she raps nonsense. She brings shame to rap music. Seriously, I used to like rap, until the existence of people like Nicki Minaj and Soulja Boy.
STILL, FREDDIE MERCURY?!
Don't get me wrong I would definitely sleep with her. But she'd have to be gagged the entire time, because if she opened her mouth once at any point during sex, I'd have to strangle her in self preservation. Her songs are >that< bad.
She cannot rap and her lyrics are trash.
When I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Heart did not write either of their songs that hit number one on Billboard magazine. But since they are not songwriters, that would disqualify them from this list anyway.
Your first point is actually more of a compliment considering what "pop" music sounds like these days and your second point is just a flat out lie.
According to Billboard magazine, your first point is actually false. Both Alone and These Dreams (sung by Nancy) are number one hits.
No song she has ever written has hit #1 on the Pop Charts and she not that good of a singer either.
She is also is one of the best-selling artists of all time. She won 4 Guinness World Records, 5 MTV Awards, 5 American Music Awards, 16'ASCAP Pop Music Awards, 5 Billboard Music Awards, 14 People's Choice, 1 Juno Award, 2 Myx Music Awards, 3 NRJ Awards, 6 Teen Choice and a Brit Award. ...read more.
You need to have music taste about this Freddie, Elvis, Bruce, MJ, Queen, Prince, Katy Perry, Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Pink and other singer unlike Miley (a bit) Kesha (a very bit) Bieber, Gaga and Nicki can you hear their song
Saying that she wouldn't make it on American Idol sounds more like a compliment to me.
Just terrible, even in this stage of fame I don't think she would make it on a mercian idol, or even the voice, heck! Not even all the T.V. shows!
Katy Perry doesn't write MOST of her songs. So why is she here?