GTFO rolling worst music of 2014

The appropriation of the word "freak" by two quintessentially hetero douchebags?

I don't think "freak" means what you think it means?

haha xpost

Enrique Iglesias is the only performer who has ever successfully kept me from enjoying a song with Pitbull on it so I expect this to be terrible

Didn't mean to claim that "freak" had anything to do with queer culture (it obviously does not), but it is a word that people occasionally claim for themselves (and, more frequently, have tossed at them). "Appropriation" was the wrong word, though; they're not stealing anything, just (mis)using it without any understanding of any of the potential baggage.

I haven't listened to the song or watched the video but I'm pretty sure from the still that "freak" in this context means "freak in bed"

I doubt that Enrique is that either.

Oh my god, do artists have to think twice about putting out a song with "freak" in the title now, FFS

Not claiming that, and I've already back-peddled on "appropriation." Just trying to suss out what it is about this song that makes me so irrationally angry, and that's one thing I came up with. Obviously, I'm overthinking things.

it's just really horrible, simple as

I should have just left it at that.

It's bad, but it isn't thread-worthy bad.

Check your freakvilage.

it takes a village to freak a child

wait that came out wrong

overly busy rave synths + awkward multi-syllabic rhymes ("there you go" rhymes with "criminal"???) + an obnoxious vocal hook that Enrique appears to have lifted from the Pussycat Dolls' "Buttons" + Pitbull saying "skeet skeet skeet skeet" = no need to get into the semiotics of 'freak' to account for the awfulness of this trainwreck

I couldn't make it more than 30 seconds into Imagine Dragons, am I right to think that it's another entry in the insufferable "stomp-campfire microgenre"?

i'd be ok with stomp-campfire music if were just the sound of people stomping mixed with the sound of a campfire

brightblack morning light imo

campfires stomping on people forever

i'd be ok with stomp-campfire music if were just the sound of people stomping mixed with the sound of a campfire

You've just created the genre "Burning Man"

lol

I was thinking more like this http://open.spotify.com/track/11yJRn2U4Iu7Y1S5vHM5u5

brightblack morning light imo

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, May 5, 2014 6:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm; see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5QCtNOLDs

The one thing I can say for Pitbull/Enrique collaborations is that they're at the very least more tolerable than Pitbull/JLo collaborations (plus I kinda dig "I Like It")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST6nEvIEY4s

what even

I believe Kasabian decided to just give up on imitating Primal Scream and start parodying 90s club music.

LOL. I can't even properly loathe them because they're from my home town either.

I know that Luda's been in a slump with his singles lately but biting hooks from Aqua? God...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_BcMJ3iuS4

would never in a million years admit it but I found that Kasabian track strangely enjoyable, having never (knowingly) heard anything else of theirs

That's as bad as the song that steals its hook from "Fu-Gee-La."

Technically some of the worst shit of 2013, but I'm told this is charting now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ba_qTPA4Ds

certainly is time for mkto to inflict their hell on charts other than the australian ones

just wait until you guys hear "geronimo"

"Geronimo" is at least shitty in a 2014 kinda way (read: Mumford/Lumineers-aping). How something that sounds like an O-Town reject is charting in 2014 is beyond me.

It sounds like a sentient issue of GQ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRTM2CvsGd0

https://www.youtube.com/v/wRTM2CvsGd0

OK, I just can't embed anything ever, sry.

Remove the "s" so it's just "http://";.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRTM2CvsGd0

Haha thank you, now everyone can see this glorious illustration to the "historical heavy metal" contained within.

I hate the new John Legend song. That "all your perfect imperfections" line particularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6cy_1-gzg

LOVE YOUR CURVES AND ALL YOUR EDGES
ALL YOUR PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS

the FM transmitter i use to listen to my ipod is on the fritz, so i've been listening to a LOT of top 40 radio lately. i was going to see if ilx had a rolling thread on the subject but it turns out most of the songs i'd want to mention have already shown up in this thread.

ugh yeah that John Legend plays all the time at work... it's a hot garbage facial

To be fair Love in the Future is actually a pretty solid Legend album, so it kinda sucks that "All of Me" (one of the most boring songs on the album) ended up being the huge hit while the previous two singles were relative flops

wow happy birthday to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuM7hObGjWI

*barf*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6cy_1-gzg

― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Monday, May 26, 2014 8:53 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

gross

That is making my birthday less happy

http://www.popjustice.com/briefing/several-completely-shit-attempts-at-capturing-the-zeitgeist/127268/