rolling fuck this shit worst songs of 2015 thread

gonna end all my reviews like that

totally. "I'm a simple, eighth-generation hyper-chicken from a narrow-minded, backwoods asteroid, and I think the song is fine."

and ha, i almost brought up "rebel girl" rather than "she's amazing."

Apologies if this has been posted but i wanted to share the horror (i saw it on a friends FB wall - think there was an article about it somewhere perhaps as apparently the band have record industry exec connections)

anyway its just plain bad imo but judge for yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfol9YlSvPc

those guys scored an NYT profile
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/arts/music/sxsw-pays-off-for-the-prettiots.html?_r=0
i never got around to hearing it
it is not good on first listen

I don't know if I want to listen to it again necessarily but I found it inoffensive. Shit band name though. Like a portmanteau of pretty and Poirot. v bad

the NYT profile says it's a portmanteau of 'pretty' and 'idiots'. 'The Poirots' would be a nice band name

lol i was going to say "oh leave em alone, that cheap video implies they're not out of the oven yet" but it turns out the video was directed by richard kern

I find the premise of the song amusing, but the execution kinda lets it down -- & that singing style is terrible, of course, but I've resigned myself to the fact that it's here to stay

i asked my friend where she saw it and it was here. Didn't know about the NY Times article.
http://martiandanceinvasion.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/the-starving-artists-of-1.html

Danny goldberg's daughter? Just warning 90s folks - if you hate that on principle, you also have to hate That Dog

the drummer is the all grow(ing)-up Trachtenberg Family daughter; thought i knew her from somewhere

T/S Richard Kern vs Larry Clark

yeah, I was about to say, this sounds exactly like a that dog. song

(and IMO is far too good for this thread, also pretty good in general, also if you want to dismiss artists offhand because of their parents you've got a fuck of a lot of artists to dismiss)

i said the song was shit before i read anything about them

Yeah, this song is alright at best and ignorable at worst. I suspect they have the potential to make some REALLY BAD songs in the future, tho.

seems like glossy antifolk to me which i can like with proper massaging but there's not much going on there that makes me wanna stick around; though i agree it's not fuck this shit worst and there's a certain degree of not unfair to presume dog whistle commentary that goes along with slagging it as such
i would link to frankie cosmos' "birthday song" as "child of famous parents DIY lo-fi done right " corrective but i don't want that song in this thread

the NYT profile says it's a portmanteau of 'pretty' and 'idiots'.

well that's prettiotic

I suspect they have the potential to make some REALLY BAD songs in the future, tho.

They have the potential to make some great songs too, surely.

That song doesn't even annoy me as much as "88 lines about 44 girls."

He's whistling now

Judging from the video I was dreading that the Prettiots song was going to feature the first boyfriend singing at some point, but: Garfunkel and Oates > this song > Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse.

new britney/iggy goes here, though weirdly the instrumental is GREAT

iggy at least figured out what rhymes with iggy
(spoiler: it's iggy)

Well at least she's not trying to compare herself to Biggie.

Yeah, I actually really like the instrumental, particularly the bit leading into the chorus. Shame about the rest of it.

The worst song of 2015 has arrived. Please start polishing Christopher Owens' crown:

https://soundcloud.com/chri55ybaby/selfish-feelings/s-rTLPU

Ha, that guy's still around?

this fuckin' guy

he's like the dorm bro version of lana del rey

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0808919166_10.jpg

Dude's mouth is conspicuously unrestrained, work on it

Mark McGrath, Uncle Kracker & Kevin Griffin are UNCLE EZRA RAY

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

And here I thought if Uncle Kracker was going team up with two other artists it would be Steve from Smash Mouth and Violent J.

is the cover art a deliberate *fuck you* to those of us who bought tickets for the Mark McGrath cruise?

fucking hell, this is depressing it's like a memory of a summer party from 1994 that i didn't want to go to where a friend got molested

The whispery beginning of that Chris Owens song ("I gotcher number in my phone etc.") was bad, but the chorus has a pretty good hook. I didn't hate it.

this is real bad, but at least kind of amusingly so. definitely not what anybody had ever hoped for on Assemble the new Traveling Wilburys .

i love how mark mcgrath's delivery on the first verse, with the telephone filter, makes it sound like he's trying to channel art alexakis. he is 47 years old and singing this shit btw. kracker for his part has gotten pretty countrified, maybe a better look than his borderline old man hat steez on "follow me." griffin sounds basically the same as ever, and surprisingly... competent? like he probably could have just put this out under some anonymous name and posed as a new shit band you'll hear about for a minute, like Neon Trees or 3OH!3 or Hot Chelle Rae. apparently at some point he developed a whole career as a songwriter for acts like james blunt, daniel powter, barenaked ladies, and like half the career of someone named "howie day."

is the cover art a deliberate *fuck you* to those of us who bought tickets for the Mark McGrath cruise?

lol

Chris Owens' voice on that song is excruciating.

This would sound great blasting out the back of a wakeboarding tow-boat.

this would sound great blasting out of massive bloody holes in the backs of all the participants' heads

huh was vaguely curious about that Chris Owens record where he reportedly pulls some country/Buck Owens moves but oof that is some bad songwriting up there

nate ruess has inflicted lasting damage upon pop vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0BEJEIqAE8

Jesus Fishing Christ! All time low is an understatement.

maybe it's because i'm stoned right now but i actually kinda like this???

"B.Y.H.B." isn't playable in Canada. Sad face.

Turn that frown upside down!

I just want to be tapped into the zeitgeist.

spoiler: it stands for "bring ya hot body"

Trying to pick out the lyrics of "B.Y.H.B." through all of that autotune is as foolish as reading a book in the back of the van on the windy mountain roads between NC & Tennessee. I thought this style of production had finally fallen out of fashion; but, just like I've been trying to do my entire life, I forgot about country.