For me it’s always been Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. It just annoys me to no end. Although I get why people like it and that it’s just a me thing but still and i can’t stand the music video either.
Runner up would be rooster by Alice in chains
Our House by Madness
It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
A lot of R&B feels painfully slow. Like nothing really is going wrong, but I’m almost immediately bored. I sometimes like other painfully slow things, but haven’t found a good entry point for this genre.
Fireflies by Owl City
Anything by Pitbull
Also, unpopular opinion, but I’m oddly adverse to anything by Ed Sheeran.
dont stop believing. makes my ears bleed
Just here to comment that there are so many songs listed in this thread that I like: Black Hole Sun, Rooster, No Rain, Wonderful Christmastime, Born to Run, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc.
None of these are my favorite songs or bands, but I like them.
Blind melon’s No Rain. Anything country. Braddah Iz’s Somewhere Over The Rainbow…don’t get me wrong, he’s a great singer, and there’s a lot of other songs he sings. I was still living in Hawaii at the time he passed away, and all the local stations played the shit out of that song for a month. Shit, EVERYONE was playing that song non-stop! So much to the point that it drives me crazy whenever I hear it.
Again, love Iz, can’t stand that song.
I much prefer Marusha’s version of ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.
Honestly, No Rain immediately came to mind, but if I am being honest it doesn’t disturb me as much as others. Damn close though. I think it was just a product of the massive amount of airtime that song got.
No rain and crash test dummies
Anything by Pink or Katy Perry or Vance Joy.
I believe that if there was a time anomaly and we lost all pop music from the early 2010’s we would be better off as a species.
Such a dark time for music that was.
Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
It’s just banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit.
And my sister absolutely played it to death when it came out.
The arc of that song is interesting. It was briefly niche/hipster, then massive and well-liked and now insanely derided and seen as a talisman for an entries genre of cringe, ‘stomp-clap’ bullshit. I expect in a decade or so it’ll get a renaissance.
Killing Me Softly With His Song
You’re so Vain by Carly Simon - it played two or three times a shift when I worked for a thrift store in high school…for some reason, it’s really the only song from those repetitive years I can’t stand, as that job helped me discover works by the Carpenters and I always generally liked “Oldies” anyway, but…goddamn, that song just grates my gears
Yeah luckily it doesn’t come on any place I’m walking around but I agree.
I figured I never really got it because it came out a few decades before I was born, a few pop songs have been like that for me
Superstition, Stevie Wonder. Ugh… He has other songs! In the context of the album, fine. As a track that plays on SO many playlists I just don’t want to hear it again.
Born to Run
I don’t care what anyone says that song blows chunks. So boring. However I could/can never get why Nirvana are so popular. But I like Layne years Alice and 90’s Pearl Jam so 50% of the Big 4 ain’t bad.
Honestly, I tend to be pretty capable of tolerating songs I don’t like. It’s artists and a small range of genres that give me trouble.
About the only song I can think of that comes close was that first backstreet boys song. Can’t remember the name, but it was the one that was all over the radio from their first album.
I liked other songs, but that one was such a generic pile of dreck that it came close to being intolerable from the beginning, and eventually got there. But even that, at first, it was just something I didn’t like and disliked strongly, but I could sit through it if necessary. It took a week or two before it reached nails-on-chalkboard levels.
Now, genre wise, contemporary christian just grates on me. Even the songs that are otherwise almost listenable suffer from the bland composition and empty lyrics that make them annoying. Since I’ve also dealt with people in the industry around the genre, including performers, knowing that those lyrics are utter bullshit to the vast majority of the idiots singing them makes it a very unpleasant thing.
CC suffers from the same cookie cutter writing that Nashville country does, but lacks the redeeming qualities of at least being catchy if you don’t pay attention to the lyrics.
Which, cookie cutter country isn’t something I can handle a lot of at once. But I can tolerate it.
Then again, I listen to death and black metal regularly, so I know damn good and well that what one person can enjoy is abrasive to others, and vice versa. So I tend not to judge the listener by what they listen to.
whole genres. Like a ton of country/western and rap but especially m&m. that friday song but like 99% of people can’t stand that.
You put that earworm in my head so now you have to suffer as well
It’s Friday, Friday Gotta get down on Friday Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend Friday, Friday Gettin’ down on Friday Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah) Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah) Fun, fun, fun, fun
lol. I have shingy happy people now anyway but I like that. turn your love around. and tommorrow shine.
There’s entire genres that I don’t like such as country or Christmas music. Specific songs have to be Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston. Wonderful Christmastime I already don’t like because it’s a Christmas song and almost all of those feel preachy and disingenuous, but a friend described the song as Paul trying out every button and knob on a synth and I can’t unheard that now. I Will Always Love You I just don’t like. The instrumental is there, but that’s all I can say about it since nothing seems to stand out and it just kinda sounds like background noise. And I understand that her vocal work is impressive, but that doesn’t make it a good song. Honestly, the song feels like I’m being yelled at for 4 and a half minutes
God I hate Wonderful Christmastime. It’s the laziest, most cynical cash-in on a Christmas song. It goes nowhere. Aaargh.
Have you heard the original Dolly Parton version of I will always love you? She’s got a less forceful voice in general, and her version was a much gentler delivery on top of that.
Not saying anything about you liking or not liking the song, just curious if it’s Whitney that’s the problem, the arrangement, or the song itself.
I didn’t even know Dolly sang the original, I’ve only ever heard Whitney’s version. Dolly’s is… slightly better, I think because like you said it is gentler. Still not a fan. Also I hear the Whitney Houston version at least once a day at work, that’s a big reason why I hate the song







