Rolling Worst Music of 2019

Also

the pop crap ILX regularly stans for

is quite the quote for next time there's an argument about rockism on here (next week probably)

i think i've seen that user post a variation on that exact comment several times before, not sure if he contributes anything constructive in threads that i don't read or if he just hate-reads this site then complains on it on rym or something

i'm into She Plays Bass

The new Tool album has leaked.

fuck a Tool

I was trying to figure out which long lost '90s indiepop Beabadoobee reminded me of, and I settled on The Autocollants. You Lie All the Time is probably my favorite song of hers

*indiepop act

“She Plays Bass” definitely illustrates how terrible lyrics can ruin an otherwise good-sounding song.

(Awful band name, too... the two counts of self-sabotage are impressive)

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

Didn't think that could get worse but then the guitar and glockenspiel showed up

His ex's friends otm.

this that throw up in your birken bag
also dude, nsync did the marionette thing like twenty plus years ago

I love this thread and it's mostly just fun and games but that blackbear song seems...insidious? Maybe it's all the ~young people~ commenters extolling how they can relate to this song and it's their life? Yikes.

Tom Walker’s “Just You And I” (2019 version) was on loop for about an hour in the place I went for lunch today until I gave up and asked for a manager. It is now at the top of my list.

There is no Rolling Worst Attempts at Celebrity Lifestyle Branding 2019 thread, so I'll just put this here:

https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2019/9/9/hawkeye-misses-the-target-case-file-141my-year-of-flops-ii-38-jeremy-renners-app

with special attention paid to this:

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

i'm prob the only person who really hates this but this is just one of the dogshit tracks on the presumably bad new blink-182 record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9asRPqPbjo

morrisp has already posted it but Herve Pagez/Diplo/Charli XCX's "Spicy" (i.e. the Wannabe cover) might be the worst song of the year; it's certainly the least necessary

how's that new green day?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3N06KyK3s0

yes, it's what you're afraid it is

thanks! I hate it

The video is somehow even worse than the song.

Was that from the Booksmart soundtrack or something?

juice wrld is garbage in a particularly garbage field of garbage

lmaooo

i would have respected it if he had done a straight cover w/ vitamin c's original verses + included the gospel choir etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSRpbLOfo0

This sounds like the theme song to an early 90s "heartland" sitcom. If this is the best country music can do, burn the genre to the ground and start over.

the album is excellent but thanks for your input

ya I'm not huge on that particular song myself but co-sign

it's the weakest song on the record definitely but it's not "burn the genre to the ground and start over" material

It’s a terrific song; I knew I’d be buying the album as soon as I heard the chorus.

I haven't listened to the highwomen album but that song is indeed not good -- I still can't believe someone recorded a cute pun on "Designing Women" in 2019 and claimed it was new and fresh

(and "designing women" was already a play on words, too)

I avoided this because my complete non-appreciation for most country music is well-known by this point and probably tired, but not nearly as tired as this song. It sounds like something characters on Glee would write as part of a special country-themed episode.

i like their cover of "The Chain" a lot; "redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

They're good singers! I just don't want to hear them sing this.

redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:28 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can't imagine what must be on the album that this track is the closest to, like, a jason aldean song

You guys are crazy, LOL

well, at least you got your display name right

>:-P

i like their cover of "The Chain" a lot; "redesigning women" is a bum track but maybe the most likely one off that album to get some pop country radio coverage?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:28 AM (one hour ago)

this is spot on, i think. album is good, this song is corny and clumsy but absolutely makes sense as a single / radio hit because most people are corny and they like clumsy

corny and clumsy aren't really the issue with it (I like both of those things) -- it's just dated and fusty

It's not an album full of cutting-edge song styles!

corny and clumsy and dated and fusty,
packed in the back of a chevy that's rusty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5RVKwIhrLc

someone is going all in on being whitey mcwhite lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7x_Yoq0Npw

oh no

not to judge but it's weird for her to big-up her looks on a single that doesn't have her photo on its cover?

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

(this is not a song of 2019, it's just what it reminded me of)

"can't spell eugenics without U"