A. K. A. Which song do you hate the most?

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.

    “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, and “Fly Me To The Moon” by Frank Sinatra.

    If you put those songs in…anything, you’re a fucking hack.

    WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There’s nothing you can use it to say that hasn’t already been said by someone more clever than you.

    FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. “We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what’s the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?” “You’re not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It’s already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?”

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
    13·
    7 days ago

    I Will Survive - Something about this song just makes me murderous.

    Don’t Stop Believing - By the gods, please do stop. I love Journey, but just don’t play this.

    Bohemian Rhapsody - I think I’m just really tired of it. It’s been held up at such a pinnacle for so long and played far too often and I just can’t anymore. I don’t care. Turn it off.

  • starlinguk@lemmy.world
    102·
    7 days ago

    It’s weird how many people are mentioning older songs, because most modern songs are absolute trash. Just a refrain, singing the same 3 autotuned notes again and again.

      • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
        51·
        6 days ago

        Seriously, “most modern songs”? In the era with the most new music being produced in a massive number of different genres and styles that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago?

        I like the oldies as much as anyone else, heck I only really got into listening to music after discovering The Beatles and '70s prog rock as a teen. But if you can’t find good music being produced in 2025, that’s not a problem with the music industry, that’s a problem with you.

        If anyone reading this struggles to find new artists they like, I recommend checking out NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts as well as KEXP’s live performances on YouTube. I’ve found a lot of artists I love from these sources.

  • kdcd@sh.itjust.works
    91·
    7 days ago

    Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond. I’m from New England so I hear it often and the back story makes me cringe every time and I haaate it

    • Denjin@lemmings.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I sing Sweet Child O Mine and Sweet Caroline with the other songs melodies. Confuses people nicely.

    • Jimmybander@champserver.net
      2·
      6 days ago

      Went to a Yankee wedding in New Orleans(where i’m from). This tune came on and those people went nuts. Knew every word and I just stared in amazement.

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeah as someone who has spent almost their whole life in the Carolinas I am sick to death of that song, especially when people do the little singalong bits.

  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    7 days ago

    All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor. It is the only song I seriously hate, and also the only artist I seriously hate hearing. I don’t love the message, and Ialso don’t like the delivery at all. I think a factor is also how overplayed it was when it first came out.

  • Denjin@lemmings.world
    41·
    6 days ago

    Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.

    I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.

    It doesn’t make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Frankly, even the Buckley version is worse than the original. The song has a bad case of the “Born in the USA” syndrome.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 days ago

    Might be “Bohemian Rhapsody”, or “We will Rock You”. Which is odd, because Killer Queen is one of my favorite songs. Same artists can make crap or magic.

    And “Horse With No Name”, because of the godawful pretentious stupid lyrics.