What's the most overrated song ever?

[Maze1125]

It's a fairly simple question that needs no explanation, so I'm going to get straight to the point.

This is the most overrated song, ever in my opinion. People worship this song likes God wrote it himself. I can't spend a day online or around certain friends without them circle jerking over this song. It's gotten to the point where if it's on the radio I have to change the station.

When I read the thread title, I knew exactly what song this thread was going to be about...
Seriously dude, you're not the first guy in the world to get annoyed that everyone likes BR, you're not special.

BH gets repeatedly voted the best song ever written by people who like it and repeatedly voted the worst song ever by people who are pissed off at the first group.

But, hey, that happens with everything that people like. How many freaking threads have there been titled "What's so great about Half-Life 2?" It doesn't matter how good something is, there's going to be a small group of people who feel the need constantly talk about how they hate it.

Threads like these prove nothing. If anything they prove how how good most the songs mention here really are, because if they weren't good then you all wouldn't feel the need to complain about them.

 

[Auron225]

Oh damn... it's too hard to pick just one 0.0 So many songs I'd will out of existence if I could. I can't narrow it down any further than this though;

Soulja Boy - Crank That (How did this EVER get popular?)
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (The infuriating thing is, it's catchy... but the lyrics are disgusting)
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Overplayed to the point of sheer lunacy)

I realize the 3 of them have already been mentioned, so to throw something else on the pyre;

Katy Perry - Fireworks

It's just not that good - why is it everywhere? All the time? Are those fireworks coming out of her tits?

 

[deathjavu]

Gangnam Style.

I just... didn't get it, and having it blasted at me everywhere from work dos to freaking school pantomimes did not help it either.

Its already been said, but Gangnam style. The song was average at best, and never would have caught on if not for its music video. Psy's stuff all sounds very similar to me, and its all very average.
Certainly not worthy of its seemingly godlike status it had for about 4 months straight.

Of course it doesn't make sense, it's in fucking Korean! Furthermore, it's (apparently) social commentary- South Korean social commentary. It DOUBLE doesn't make sense to foreigners. Non-koreans have pretty much nothing to measure the song on other than the computer beat. Oh and the dance, of course. Never thought I'd see another macarena outbreak in my lifetime, but there it is. No matter how incomprehensible the music, all you need is a sufficiently stupid dance.

Also? I STILL haven't listened to it in its entirety, have yet to see more than 10 seconds of it. HAH! Take that, "you've gotta watch this video lol!" asshats! I did not "gotta" and now I'm happier for it!

OT? Ima have to go with the ultrahipster dude that said "music is subjective" etc. Even if the music on the pop hits radio does make me want to carry a cane and shake it at people.

I guess I just subscribe to the theory that the absolute shittiest music will eventually be lost to time, hence I stay ~a decade behind the curve.

Who remembers any pop music from 2003? Anyone? No? I didn't think so.

 

[Jason Rayes]

For me it varies, anything that just gets too much air play. Ive had it numerous times where I actually don't mind a song a first and then its either on every radio station or every tv show and you just get sick of it. You change the station and I'll be fucked its the same godamn fucking song. It seriously shits me, this actually annoys me more than when its a song I've hated from the get go, that shit I never want to hear, but when I end up hating a song I originally liked because they whipped that dead horse til it was just bones...........ugh.

 

[SpAc3man]

A lot of songs that people moan about being overrated aren't necessarily considered the best songs offered by the band or genre.
They are remembered because they are the most influential songs. Smells Like Teen Spirit isn't Nirvana's best song. It's a good song but it is remembered because is was a key moment in the history of popular music. The same can be said for Bohemian Rhapsody. Not everyone's cup of tea, a view that applies to myself, but I'm not going to deny that it is possibly one of the greatest songs ever conceived when you consider how huge the influence was.

Songs are rated mainly on influence rather than how good they actually are.

 

[The_Echo]

Also, while I like a lot of what The Beatles came out with, I also think there's vast swathes of tedious stuff. They don't deserve that "best band of all TIME" label they often get.

Thank you.

I will never understand the appeal that the Beatles have, especially given they keep appealing decade after decade. In my opinion, their entire existence is overrated.

 

[Caiphus]

I don't know about overrated. I mean, people like what they like. I just know that I want to perform violent acts whenever anything from The Black Eyed Peas comes on the radio.

I mean srsly guys.

 

[mr wizard]

AC/DC - Back in Black.

Maybe it's just that every time I hear this song it's on the shittiest speaker/PA system imaginable, but I just don't like the song. Maybe I'm just sick of it.

Thank you!

Although I'd like to expand this to: Anything by AC/DC. I don't find the band all that offensive mind you. They even have a few songs I consider enjoyable. But for life of me, I can't understand how they get so much airplay on the radio, on soundtracks, commercials... whatever. It'd be one thing if those things would go through the AC/DC catalog and cherry pick more than 4 of their songs, but it's always Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill, Thunderstruck. Always.

If I had a music related prayer, it would be for God to send some different AC/DC CDs out to the radio stations of the world and let them try a different track every once in a while.

I would recommend going out and acquiring the Back in Black album. Probably the best album to come out of Australia.

EDIT: Oh crap, I was supposed to post something overrated. Erm...Pink comes to mind. I mean, come on, sitting at #1 on the ARIA charts while Horrorshow's new release is at #2? Come on. Enough butthurt over that, seriously overrated where I'm from. Also that Black Eyed Peas garbage that was being mentioned earlier I can't agree enough with.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

AC/DC - Back in Black.

Maybe it's just that every time I hear this song it's on the shittiest speaker/PA system imaginable, but I just don't like the song. Maybe I'm just sick of it.

Thank you!

Although I'd like to expand this to: Anything by AC/DC. I don't find the band all that offensive mind you. They even have a few songs I consider enjoyable. But for life of me, I can't understand how they get so much airplay on the radio, on soundtracks, commercials... whatever. It'd be one thing if those things would go through the AC/DC catalog and cherry pick more than 4 of their songs, but it's always Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill, Thunderstruck. Always.

If I had a music related prayer, it would be for God to send some different AC/DC CDs out to the radio stations of the world and let them try a different track every once in a while.

I would recommend going out and acquiring the Back in Black album. Probably the best album to come out of Australia.

EDIT: Oh crap, I was supposed to post something overrated. Erm...Pink comes to mind. I mean, come on, sitting at #1 on the ARIA charts while Horrorshow's new release is at #2? Come on. Enough butthurt over that, seriously overrated where I'm from. Also that Black Eyed Peas garbage that was being mentioned earlier I can't agree enough with.

I had the Back in Black album when it was a new release.

 

[Battenberg]

Money by Jessie J. I don't like Jessie J as it is but this song is, I think, the most hypocritical song I have ever heard.

I'm sorry but it blatantly is all about the money money money Jessie, how big a mansion did that song buy you in the end?

 

[lacktheknack]

There are a ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE ammount of overated songs.

Bohemian rhapsody is overated. A ok song, but is very overated.

Abba is one of the most overated bands in existance! Their songs are bland, whiney, drivel.
It's nothing more that a sickly wall of sound! They sound like
Blah, blah, blah, wahhhhhhh, whinne, wahhhhhhhh.

All the beatles songs are grotesquely overated garbage.

All of the beatles on their own are grotesquely overated garbage.
John Lennons garbage, especially. Imagine is sickly, vomititious, trite, cretinous, garbage!

The rolling stones songs are grotesquely overated garbage.

Your "overrated" thread posts are fun to read, but they don't actually explain anything. They only rage about has trash things are, but your reasoning is "because it is grotesque".

May I please ask WHY you don't like these bands? See if you can do it in two adjectives or less.

 

[kasperbbs]

Most of Michael Jacksons stuff and the Beatles, but it really just comes down to the fact that i don't like their music. And yeah, i can't imagine how Bohemian rhapsody got popular, but i don't really hear it playing anywhere.

 

[MrBaskerville]

Tool...

I like Tool, but they really aren't the most unique, technical and ground breaking band out there as some of their more rabid fanboys will have you believe. They are just a damn fine prog band that plays some cool tunes and possesses some quite impressive technical chops. I will dare to say that they are a bit one-tracked in their song writing.

Alos, yellow submarine is one of the most awful songs i have ever heard, i get Beatles, but i don't get why all of their work is so highly praised, some of their songs are pretty atrocious to my ears. Maxwell Silver Hammer anyone? Oh and i love prog, but some of the stuff from the 70s that is held in high regard is quite cheesy at times, i really can't stand some of the more silly moments in the genre. As much as i love Mike Oldfield, he does tend to write a song here and there that's just so cheesy that it becomes unlisteneable.

 

[Grampy_bone]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

 

[MrBaskerville]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

Probably not, considering how well Nevermind did at the time, it would have been remembered regardless of his death or not. They didn't become big when he died, maybe bigger, but they were already huge at the time.

 

[Grampy_bone]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

Probably not, considering how well Nevermind did at the time, it would have been remembered regardless of his death or not. They didn't become big when he died, maybe bigger, but they were already huge at the time.

There are lots and lots of bands that "became big" and are now either forgotten or considered an embarrassing fad (i.e. Backstreet Boys were HUGE, no one considers them "good" now though). The lack of success of any other mainstream grunge band tells us Nirvana's success was a fluke. We may have remembered them as "that one decent band from the 90's" but not as "ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG Nirvana is one of teh greatest bands of all timez evar evar evar!!!!!" that all the dumb hipster doofuses say.

 

[MrBaskerville]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

Probably not, considering how well Nevermind did at the time, it would have been remembered regardless of his death or not. They didn't become big when he died, maybe bigger, but they were already huge at the time.

There are lots and lots of bands that "became big" and are now either forgotten or considered an embarrassing fad (i.e. Backstreet Boys were HUGE, no one considers them "good" now though). The lack of success of any other mainstream grunge band tells us Nirvana's success was a fluke. We may have remembered them as "that one decent band from the 90's" but not as "ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG Nirvana is one of teh greatest bands of all timez evar evar evar!!!!!" that all the dumb hipster doofuses say.

That's true, but there is a difference, Backstreet Boys didn't have a couple of solid album releases, they didn't have any longevity or anything resembling the highly regarded MTV unplugged performance. Nirvana did a lot of things that made people remember them, it wasn't just his suicide that caused it. The thing with Nirvana is that they created a loyal fanbase of people of really liked their output and the strenght of their output made newer generations fans as well. His death probably boosted album sales, and some people might get into Nirvana because they jear about his suicide, but a lot of people get into the band because they discover they discover their albums, either through radio or similar artists.

But i do think his death might have had a negative impact on In Utero, that album is highly overlooked these days, everybody talks about Nevermind...

 

[smithy_2045]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

Yeah, those other grunge bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, no one remembers or cares about them anymore, right?

Also, Dave Grohl.


Most overrated song is Bohemian Rhapsody. Great song, but for crying out loud give it a rest.

 

[FabTails]

Probably Imagine by John Lennon. I love Lennon, but Imagine is a really simple song that carries a pretty cliche message.

I have no idea why it stuck and why it gets called the greatest song ever written. It's pleasant, sure. But there is nothing about it either sonically and lyrically that makes it great.

Yup. If Kurt Cobain hadn't offed himself Nirvana would have been forgotten with all the other grunge bands.

That's highly, highly unlikely and it is an unfounded thing to say. I don't think you could give me an example of a band that was as successful and praised as Nirvana that is totally "forgotten" about a few decades later. Don't make the mistake of thinking Nirvana were "one hit wonders" or anything like that. They were around for almost ten years and were just as praised as they were then as they are now. All three of their albums were huge releases that were praised to high heaven. I think to suggest they would have been forgotten if Cobain didn't die is crazy.

 

[hazabaza1]

Gonna break the mold for the all classic rock and Gangam Style and instead say half the popular rap artist stuff out there.
Lil' Wayne, Niki Minaj, that sort of stuff. Doubly depressing that they're so popular when artists like Sage Francis and P.O.S get completely overshadowed.