Another year, another list about pop music. This year was not that bad, from what I've heard. I do not listen to much pop music. When I went through Billboard's top 100 songs of the year, most of the songs were not bad enough for me to care about. However, I found some songs that deserve your negative attention. Also, I am trying a new warning system for songs with strong language or cuss words. I know I have a lot of family members that read this blog and would appreciate the warning.
Dishonorable Mentions:
Put Your Records On by Ritt Momney (Year-end Rank:#93)- Some local artist (He lives in Salt Lake.) tried his best to make a cover of "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae. My mom loved this song in 2007. The original has a warm, loving sound that Ritt completely disregards so he can replace it with bad Autotuning.
Beat Box by SPOTEMGOTTEM (Year-end Rank: #44)- Generic rap song, but the video is unintentionally funny. I like how the rapper flashes guns and shows off his tattoos while looking like he is 12. The vocal cracks in the song, do not really help him from looking like a kid.
Back in Blood by Pooh Shiesty feat. Lil Durk (Year-end Rank: #39)- Another song that's only crime is being generic although Pooh always sounds like he has trouble staying on beat.
Beautiful Mistakes by Maroon 5 feat. Megan Thee Stallion (Yeak-end Rank: #34)- Maroon 5 still has hits, which is insane since they have been in the spotlight for 17 years. Now all their frontman, Adam Levine, does is chase trends. This time he makes a pop song with a trap beat about all the casual sex he has or as he puts it "beautiful mistakes." Why do soccer moms still listen to them?
Lil Bit by Nelly and Florida-Georgia Line (Year-end Rank: #70)- Blatant cash grab from a rapper who has not had a solo hit since 2011 and a country act whose subgenre of country music has been passé for two years.
#10- Just The Way by Parmalee X Blanco Brown (Year-end Rank: #88)
Note for all those songwriters out there: If you are writing a love song about how you love all of your girl's imperfections, tear up everything you wrote and go find a different career. This sentiment is way less romantic than you think it is. Also, do not go into detail about each imperfection you love. It contradicts the entire topic of how much you love her. This song does that for the entire run time. It is trying to be loving, but feel more patronizing.
#9- Without You by the Kid LAROI (Year-end Rank:#17) (strong language)
Well, this song was written by a teenager. You can tell by all the raw immaturity and petty whininess. This kid trying to be sorrowful about his relationship, but his feelings are too over-the-top. He says " He can't make a wife out of a ho" and wants to be taken seriously. Also, his voice is terrible.
Remember when "WAP" came out last year? BRS Kash remembers. "WAP" did not work because it was extremely racy. It worked because it had clever, racy lyrics, a good production, and the rappers had solid flows. If you take all those things out, you get "Throat Baby." It is explicit for the sake of being explicit. It just feels gross with blunt oral sex lyrics.
#7 Good Time by Niko Moon (Year-end Rank: #84)
The best word to describe this song is lame. Niko is trying so hard to make a laid-back party song, but it is mostly unconvincing. This is an issue country music has had for years. The genre has been trying to use trap beats, like this song, and it always feels like a pose. Stick to what you are good at country. No need to be hip-hop.
#6 Fancy Like by Walker Hayes (Year-end Rank:#27)
This is the problem with "Good Time" time 5000. It also wants to be hip-hop, but it is not cool enough to pull it off. The song ultimately sounds corny with obvious product placement. And "She wanna dip me like them fries in her Frosty" is a line that is way too gross for this song.
#5 Track Star by Mooski (Year-end Rank: #75)
The obligatory TikTok song. This song works for the five seconds of the chorus. Everything else sounds off. That high-pitched noise comes at random times in the song. Mooski's delivery is all over the place. And the lyrics are a toxic mess about how this evil girl stole his heart and left.
The big problem with this song is that Bieber cannot emote properly. He is trying to sing about how hard his life has been, yet I don't feel his pain. This shouldn't be hard. He was a child star, and most of them has terrible childhoods. He plays the victim of being judged for the mistakes he made when he was younger, but he knew better for all of those mistakes. To top it off, he cusses in the chorus and it makes him sound very childish.
#3 Bang! by AJR (Year-end Rank:#56)
So many bad decisions for this song. AJR really needs to stop doing their own production. The high-pitched ad-libs in the background of the second verse sound badly mixed. The piano line throughout the song is too loud. The "Here we go" is cheesy and feels out of place. The lead singer needs to stop singing falsetto. And the lyrics are too boring to make me ignore all these issues.
#2 Way 2 Sexy by Drake feat Young Thug and Future (Year-end Rank:#48) (strong language)
This is fueled by Drake's laziness, and I am tired of Drake's laziness. He discovered the secret to success and has decided not to stretch himself ever again. This song is supposed to be funny, but monotonously quoting "I'm Too Sexy" is not comedy. Tell me when Drake decides to care again and stop coasting.
Other bad charting songs:
A-OK by Tai Verdes- Someone is happy to the point it is annoying.
Follow You by Imagine Dragons- RIP Imagine Dragons. You have now sold out all the way.
i hope ur miserable until ur dead by Nessa Barrett- The title says it all. An immature girl whines about her ex.
Tom McDonald- He had three songs crack the Hot 100 and they are all the same crap about how the Dems and the SJWs are destroying America. But remember, he is not right-wing or a conservative, he is a panderer, and on an unrelated note, Canadian.
#1 You're Mines Still by Yung Bleu feat. Drake (Year-end Rank: #58) (strong language)
This man is delusional and a creep. He talks about how his ex-girlfriend found a new man, but she is still in love with him. If that is true in any way, why did you break up? He says all these things about how she is going to bed angry and has noticed her new man is not him. I do not believe one word of it. I think he is a creepy douchebag who is mad that she found someone who is much better than him. This song is not detailed enough to make me think he is right. Then Drake comes in to complain about how the girl hugged another man. How petty.
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