Rolling Worst Music of 2020

oh good, now we get a year of major label off brand megan trainor signees

saw an advert for a band named winston surfshirt on my way into work. can't listen to music right now but going to assume they belong here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kn0V5mpJe4

That guy is absolved of his crimes by virtue of brevity imo

Pootie Tang 2020.

almost did a spit take when he started rapping, a++++

I really wish I'd had my headphones on quieter before hitting play on that.

http://e.snmc.io/i/300/w/fe8ebf56350c6af3920af84893bdf837/7939005

watching him do the voice unaccompanied is even more unsettling (starting around 2:10)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOMzbB4CVc&feature=youtu.be

oh wow i'd just assumed he was using some pitch-shifting effect to get that sound, not doing the world's squeakiest falsetto

tangenttangent was invited to a gig tomorrow

this is one of the bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUZF2rWSdY

this is another of the bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFqoypXncF4

she intends to decline the offer

I spend some of my lunchtimes cleaning up acoustic (like pre-1925 pre-electric-mic) recordings and they have this narrow band of recorded sound, so you can cut off a lot of surface noise by fading down the high and low ends of the EQ. I could put that same filter over the Hide Your Mother track and it would still sound the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9uWPBDHEKE

That just sounds to me like a variation on pretty much every popular rap single since 2010

i haven't heard them because i don't have the stomach, but i feel like psychedelic nazis Black Magick SS probably belong here

I don't believe for a moment this band has any ties to nsbm, it's merely this year's Uncle Acid + edgelordiness. Music for Discogs speculators. That said, undeniably catchy from the bits I just heard online, not even close to worst music of 2020 imo. Sounds a little like Ghost BC via Bone Awl

lol, ponzi this isn't a "defend the indefensible" thread but your eagerness to immediately cape for some nazi bullshit you had literally never heard of five minutes ago is duly noted

also, lol that you "don't believe they have any ties to nsbm", you know hitler was in a band before burzum, right?

your eagerness to immediately cape for some nazi bullshit you had literally never heard of five minutes ago is duly noted

― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, April 20, 2020 12:07 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I check out everything posted itt and your post's (understandable) lack of a link inspired me go listen. I was expecting terrible music but didn't hear any. It just sounds like boilerplate catchy / crusty bm to me, albeit boilerplate catchy / crusty bm with questionable sleeve art

a quick look into it reveals they've released stuff on multiple actual nsbm labels so lol at the idea that they have no ties to nazism and are just edgelords using nazi imagery (which would still be indefensible)

For my own edification, which of these two labels has ties to usbm?

www.discogs.com/label/1335453-Creep-Purple

www.discogs.com/label/164278-Infinite-Wisdom-Productions

Because these are the only two labels who've released music by this band according to Discogs outside of obvious bootleg labels with this as their only release

obviously I meant nsbm

if you're willing to go look up their music to satisfy your curiosity, i'm sure you can just as easily look up their past affiliations with nazi record labels. i didn't post what i did to open up a discourse.

uh idk i think that "reich of the black sun" cassette on infinite wisdom looks pretty iffy??

I'm sure SS stands for Secret Santa

oh damn black magick ss doesn't have nazi themes in their music.... yet has a big ol' "ss" in their band name.... which means they're fuckin nazis

oh damn black magick ss doesn't have nazi themes in their music.... yet has a big ol' "ss" in their band name.... which means they're fuckin nazis

Yeah, I don't see the problem...

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EMQAAOSwGC9d1M1j/s-l1600.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/5hBec63qc_Ytvy_nYTZzfJdOYBk=/fit-in/600x590/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7058180-1524666854-9454.jpeg.jpg

https://static-1.bitchute.com/live/cover_images/RozwV2Av2Okk/iQH5JNoQHl6o_640x360.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Black-Magick-SS-Hidden-In-Plain-Sight-/master/978077

they've released vinyl on German nsbm label Darker Than Black and searching reveals a number of the bands on Infinite Wisdom are also nazis (Wolfblood, Baal Gadrial, Reich of the Black Sun). there's probably more but i'm too lazy to look further and it's pretty clear

I can’t get enough of the David Guetta video. I will watch it every time it shows up on the TL. The extended cut with a random Robert Pires appearance? Inject it. pic.twitter.com/b0MaXFWs82

— Luis Paez-Pumar (@lppny) May 31, 2020

uggggggggggggh

thats a good one

Oh god why would you do this to me, why would you do this to anyone.

To promote world peace and brotherhood.

MLK Jr is brought to you by BioSupplies.com
We have a dream.... of proven and safe disinfectant technology at affordable prices for midsize businesses!

i've been thinking about this; can we lock the thread now?

https://img.discogs.com/qsV79i2cDX_hHVdd0tnG6rAXxNQ=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-15091129-1586570975-3448.jpeg.jpg

Danzig - Danzig sings Elvis

crusty bm

Worst genre name 2020

I listened to a few tracks from that Danzig record, and it actually is kind of okay! but i also have a deep affection for Danzig's voice, and do impressions of him all the time lol.

I also want to say that David Guetta appropriating MLK Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech is about as horrifying and disgusting as the literal Nazi shit that was being talked about above it. Even if he was doing it for charity, it's completely despicable and without any redeeming qualities.

i think it's safe to say it is the worst readily available music of 2020 and there's real competition!

very much so. it also goes to show that Guetta doesn't know about the many excellent Detroit techno and Chicago house tracks made by Black people that sample the MLK speech quite effectively. either that or he doesn't care, and both cases are inexcusable.

Now Reese & Santonio? Play this at the next march, please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PSDADEO754

at least it's a pretty concise and suitably grotesque encapsulation of the relationship between '''edm''' (aka dance music that white heterosexuals have learned is socially acceptable for them to enjoy) and blackness in general

honestly the industry would do well to move on from that especially unfortunate phase in the marketing of dance music with all due haste. luckily this should not be particularly difficult to do in the united states, since most '''edm''' now struggles tremendously in that market and the small number of success stories are in the 'future-nostalgia' mold which openly takes abundant cues from more inclusive eras in dance music's history. hopefully soon we will all stop being terrorized in restaurants by sedated deep house covers of iconic hits by black artists with whispered anonymous vocals

you speak as if restaurants will exist in a few years

I confess to appropriating “edm” as a broad catchall to save myself from having to painstakingly apply increasingly detailed genre names in my iTunes library

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

I'm probably a bit biased because it was produced by the husband of a former co-worker I intensely dislike, but this is irredeemably awful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3BQmbeXPok

yeah that seems entirely unnecessary

(i will admit to having a short chuckle at all ye bully rooks with your buskin boots)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/06/26/police-sergeant-nashville-song-george-floyd-death/3262874001/

Ah! It's incredible

that is VERY nashville.
for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSf_57R1Og

“Watermelon Sugar” is good!
It’s also this year’s hit but last year’s song.

consider me on team insipid tbh

I made it 25 seconds into that Surf Mesa thing. The original song was horrible, and this is a horrible update.

I don't find Harry Styles charming or appealing at all, really, but he can at least sing. And that song sounds like the musicians were awake while they recorded it, which is a change of pace from 90% of the current pop I stumble across. They should have gone full retro Philly soul with the arrangement, though, because the parts where there are horns and drums are the best parts by about a thousand miles.

that logic is kind of what allowed charlie puth to happen on ilm though

lol it sounds like the musicians were awake but just barely

it's like walmart's marketing department decided to expand into the music biz all mean tested and water(melon)ed down

i'm still laughing at the edgy white rapper with face tattoos and black contacts who goes by the name of "tom macdonald"

irl lol

there is a weird Xtian/Q Anon vibe to all the comments on Tom MacDonald's videos. All this stuff about how he doesn't curse like the evil industry rappers and how he might be "Suicided" for calling out corporate music and the Illuminati. Then there's this:

2 weeks ago
Why does a self made self respecting man like this reminding me of the outlaws of country like Waylon hank jr and sr Merle haggard and Johnny cash men who didn’t care what record labels thought and sung the songs they wrote and how they felt

Johnny Qash, HanQ Williams Jr., Merle HagQard, and Waylon JenninQs, cheQs out.

A Boy Named Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiD39J2WTQc

The wait is over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04tOyd7XHno

Wait, did nobody post the Ian Brown COVID song here yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHn6KurHE0

outrageously lame, cloaked in pseudo-progressive set-dressing and middle-class true-american posturing but with all the musical bite and cleverness of a graham cracker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPsJFRGleA

Is justin bieber thing to just repeat the title word as a chorus? I don’t really feel in the mood to relisten to his singles but iirc “baby”, “sorry”, “yummy” and now this one have a chorus where he just repeats 2 syllable words 10x times.

Not really hating on those singles - althought yummy and holy are abysmal - but just noticed that thing. Just like Lady Gaga’s thing is to stutter in her choruses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8F7GZnERNU
feels like cheating maybe there's a separate thread for awful corp music

"digitization meets compartmentalization"

“...to the evils of the world”

why

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

That's one for the 'Sincerity' in Music thread.

The Importance of Being Ernest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZj8lrSZHsE

forgot to post this here... like, surprise, 2021 is going to suck too

even worse was the clean radio edit that replaced "bitcheeeees" in the 1st verse w/ "it's liiiiiiit"

omg, lmao

i would enjoy hearing someone yelling "ayo shut the fuck up" at them like the dude in the chappelle sketch yelling at john mayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgIlTyCiVYQ

no one is beating David Guetta's I Have A Dream MEGAMIX but that F2020 is very bad indeed

Might as well put this song in here, which to be fair isn't so much terrible as it is kinda lazy and not really bringing anything new to the table:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ISK1g54Fc

that song that everyone played at the end of bill and ted 3