Vote Now for ILM's WORST SONG of 2015 - Voting Closed

Yup, will do. And i got it!

I'd very much like to encourage voters to say a few words about their picks if you're into it.

Meghan Trainor is hilarious

Anyone who doesn't think that "Honey I'm Good" is the worst song of the year hasn't heard it.

2 voters so far... it's an easy ballot! Send em in early!

listening to the whole spotify playlist (from hell), sending a ballot as soon as possible.

Aww man, I really like "Girl Crush" and the Jason Derulo song!

Got Christopher Owens in my crosshairs though

Maaan, Meghan Trainor puts up a valiant fight but there's no way this isnt Fucking Bitches in the Hood

i've heard three of these and i quite like two of them! wait, no, i didn't see 'dear future husband'.

A few of these (Fetty Wap, Jason Derulo, Demi Lovato) don't belong here at all and should be in contention for the 77

It's Marvin Gaye vs Honey I'm Good for ultimate worst for me but that J Sutta thing is also truly abominable

the first 10 seconds of that Nate Ruess song are amazing

It's Big Sean IDFWU imo

i think of that as one of the worst songs of 2014 tbh

again though, the songlist comes from songs mentioned in the thread (hence fetty, demi, derulo and other songs that lots of people on ilx will happily ryde or die for)

write-ins are totally welcome

given that marvin gaye is the worst song of the new millennium...

sorry train and vanessa carlton/counting crows, you had a good run

i always listen to twenty seconds of "marvin gaye" and then turn it off so you might be right! I guess for me, worst song is the worst song i can stomach powering through and anything that I can't even get that far with doesn't qualify.

i think macklemore's "downtown" is something we can all get behind here

the video is a sack of dogshit too

Macklemore is a tire fire given human form

it's hard for me to hate (or especially WANT to hate) downtown when it is getting Caz, KMD and Melle Mel paid
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hip-hop-pioneers-from-macklemores-downtown-get-long-overdue-props-20150918

Thanks for doing this poll Forks. The countdown should be fun! I will be sending a ballot, it's just been affected by Christmas. Not because it's a busy time, but because the music in shops has made all this stuff seem kinda good.

Coolio. Right now it's three ballots; twenty would make it interesting and more would make it more interesting!

Again, you want to mail forksclovetofu at gmail dot com your top five worst songs of the year. Your #1 gets five points, #2 gets four points, #3 gets three points, #4 gets two points, #5 gets one point. Simple stuff, so vote.

You could always extend the deadline a while past Jan 1st... For this poll, prolonging the agony is highly appropriate.

Meghan Trainor's "Better When I'm Dancin'" is an improvement, dare I say it? Though she does fail to pronounce the word "music". She calls it "moozic", for some reason.

Melody Thomas discussed the badness of "Dead Future Husband" or whatever the title is, on Radio New Zealand's Matinee Idle.

Thanks to all contributors for an entertaining and informative year of crappery. On some level, the world probably needs bad moozic, in order for there to be so much great moozic.

For my ballot, I would have voted for the properly hateful shit, but it would've meant a very grim ballot topped by "I Love Females". And as heinous as that song is as a (mis)use of music, I feel bad giving it any credit at all. Even in this.

So instead, I went for the super awesome funny-but-crap option. Songs that remind me of talent, even if they display little of it. They're also the ones that gave me the most laughs, which is why I enjoy these threads after all:

5: Baby Dic - "Death Metal Dizzle"
Baby Dic is one outrageous dude. A totally outrageous paradigm.

4: Black Eyed Peas with David Guetta - "Awesome (This Is Awesome)"
It's not awesome. BUT hearing a band desperately pad out a song to four times its official "full" length... that's awesome.

3: Roslyn Moore - "In the Burbs"
The sub-burbs really aren't as cool as Roslyn thinks, nor as hellish as she makes them sound. Tune's okay, in a kind of annoying way.

2: Chris Holmes - "Born Work Die"
"Shove this tuner up your ass". Six minutes long.

1: AronChupa - "I'm an Albatraoz"
All kinds of daft. This song's stupidity has also infected the Wikipedia article about it:

Ekberg raps about a woman who she calls a mouse and refers to in a vulgar way.

The word albatraoz is a made up word, created to reference an albatross[4] and the group itself. Mouse is also a play on words, as the Swedish for mouse is 'mus', which also means vagina, or pussy, which can also mean 'cat'.

totally doing a write-in campaign for "Hotline Bling"

Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me

no

the ballot options looks like a masterfully crafted list of fake 'worst' songs, would excelsior if not real

I think I need to do a write in vote for Taylor Swift's Bad Blood Remix.

Why this separate poll when the big one that serves the same purpose will kick off soon?

ho ho ho

Why not just use this one? (Once it gets enough votes.) I think this is only the second year when there's been any 'Worst Song' poll.

Okay y'all, time to actually do this if you're doing it. Put your vote in tonight!

Shit, I actually signed up for spotify for the first time so I could scope all these terrible songs. Is it Dec 31 by midnight? If so, I think I can do this on my commute tonight and tomorrow.

December 31 means end of day tomorrow but everybody is gonna be gettin drunk then so beat the rush.

You may need extra booze

What's the deal with Slem Igen?

Well, so far this is easier than the time I tried to brute-force myself into liking animal collective.

This Nate Ruess song is pretty unlistenable.

voted "Hotline Bling" for its pernicious virality, cover versions, memes etc. fucking worst crap ever.

Just realized that Ex's and Oh's isn't on here. Shame. That's the worst one I've heard in the wild.

Oh wait, I just got to the My Neck cover. Never. Fucking. Mind.

How many songs were nommed for both best and worst?

By my count (and i'm doing a lot of counting with this nonsense these days!) that honor was bestowed on Fall Out Boy, Fetty Wap, Ellie Goulding, Sam Hunt, Demi Lovato and Joanna Newsom.

er, that is the artists were nominated for both. If you mean the exact song, that would be "679" from Fetty Wap, "Take Your Time" from Sam Hunt and "Cool For the Summer" by Demi.

Let us not forget this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_H5fhBoeJU

What's the deal with Slem Igen?

Niels could explain more, but the Danish "Blak & Jimillian" lyrics, when translated into garbled English, seem to be very Thicke-esque. (Or Thicke's-ghostwriter-esque or whatever.)

Oh "Slem Igen"'s the title, oh wgaf

I'd like to put a good word in for "Strip No More"

Voted!

8 ballots and about 24 hours to go! Easy poll to vote in, you only need one least fave to enter!

I'll have something for sure

5 is really tough. So many of these deserve to be recognized for their awfulness.

Sent. Worth noting that Elle King - My Neck, My Back is not included on the list above, but IS on the spotify playlist so I voted for it. Her and Meghan Trainor should win some kind of white dude in the old man hat voice prize.

11 ballots now, put in your vote today!

I'll put some of these covers into Worst & Best cover songs? when I get time. (Disturbed's "Sound of Silence" = best, obviously)

I'm doing this first thing once I get home tonight.

please do! i have 13 ballots right now and would like to get it to at least 20 and then do a top 10.
make my sad, sad, sad dream a reality.
Also, anyone want to help with graphics for the roll out?

All it takes is 1-5 bad songs people! Get your votes in!

I VO(mi)TED

Now is your time, latecomers and lurkers, and of course all our Ilmers in American Samoa where 2015 still hasn't ended.

okay, that's 16. I'm gonna go to a party and then cut this off when I'm back. Any late votes, get em in now and I'll roll out the top ten Monday

voted!

xp Please load this playlist at the party plzzzzz ok maybe not

1 short of 20... there's a tie at the top! Help break it!

Easy poll to vote in

It's not that easy if it involves purposedly submitting yourself to music that is most likely awful.

Hey, if Tame Impala fans can do it..

What's the usual tiebreak method? P4k popularity?

Forks, let us know when you finally decide to stop accept votes and I'll update the thread title accordingly.

i voted, hopefully made it in under the wire

yup, you're in al
we got 21! Let's close it and I'll try to get something together for a Monday top 13 roll-out.

w00t may the terriblest win!

if I had known the name of Alessia Cara – "Here" I would have posted it in the rolling worst songs thread

Yeah, its dreadful.

can't wait for it to show up in the top 77(?) rollout and hear the chorus of moans

actually idk it probably won't, i don't remember noticing much enthusiasm for it here

I finallyheard Marvin Gaye yesterday, prob would've been worth a vote but guessing it'll do Ok on this poll anyway.

ILM's Worst Songs of 2015