20 Questions

Actually didn't plan for that, but it's a nice bonus.

And you may not have even listened to the worst one yet!

This is why I ****ing hate searching for songs in this game. There always seems to be some red herring that sends you on a wild goose chase and ends up just wasting your time. How the **** does a song released in 2011 chart in 2010???

Anyway, I don't think it's Mean because that song is totally unmemorable (just like most of country era Swift songs are), but it is probably gonna end up being something stupid like "it was released in 2011 but only charted in 2017 because a movie it was used in made it famous hurr durr".

My Google search for Taylor Swift - Mean says 2010. So that probably eliminates that.

What the Hell made the year end chart btw, so it's not that.

Well god damn you're right.

So yeah I didn't find anything that fits on the billboard charts in the year 2011.

Okay this might be it. I get that exact Google bubble when I google it although the wiki says 2012. It charted in 2012 and topped at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is confirmed terrible.

Detective Aicirt found a post: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showp...

Ooo does something like call me maybe fit?

Nice work, lol, I think this one is in the bag.

That is a terrible song, I could only make it through the first 30 seconds of completely autotuned vocals.

Oooh nice! I feel fortunate not to know it

Geez, you didn't have to go all private investigator on my decade old posts.

But, yeah, that's obviously it.

Everything about that song is horrendous. She can't sing, the beat sucks, the lyrics are abysmal, and I don't know what the **** that grunting thing is.

A lot of your early suggestions were also really bad. (Dance Monkey in particular might be an all-time bottom 10 song)

A little annoyed that Call Me Maybe was mentioned. WTF Ervin?

If you insist on listening to over produced dance-pop, "Call Me Maybe" is about as good as you're going to find.

Haha maybe you disliked it! Who knew there would be such backlash over call me maybe

Ahem.

Give it a chill rob.

Nice find, Detective Aicirt!

I don't think I've actually heard that song before somehow. Confirmed awful.

And yeah, Taylor has a bunch of garbage under her belt. I would say it leans closer to all her songs being horrible than none of them lol.

Eb, top 5 WOAT pop songs...go!

Ooh, that's tough.

I'll come up with a list tomorrow.

Going to limit this to the last 15-20 years. I'm sure there was a bunch of crap from the 80s/90s/early 2000s that I just forgot about, so the comparisons won't be valid.

Also just focusing on pop songs and not rock songs that got play on pop radio (otherwise Lips of an Angel would definitely make this list).

Finally, I'm leaving off any novelty songs or songs that weren't actually hits.

1) Cher Lloyd - Want U Back
2) Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
3) Rihanna and Drake - Work
4) Meghan Trainor - Me Too
5) Tones and I - Dance Monkey
6) Justin Bieber - Peaches
7) Nicki Minaj - Everybody
8) Nicki Minaj - Stupid Hoe
9) Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband
10) Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora - Black Widow

It's likely I forgot some, but I'm quite confident that these are all worthy of top-level hate.

Unfortunately it's overloaded with female singers, but if I made a best pop songs counterpart, it would also be over half female singers.

I know what basically none of those are so feel pretty good about myself now

Worst song of all time?

Nope

WTF no.

You need to listen to more shitty music if you think that is remotely close to the worst ever.

Yes. It's a joke.

Thoughts on Hey Ya by Outkast? I find that song fascinating because in my mind it's objectively one of the worst songs of the millennium, but most people don't seem to see it as the steaming pile of dogshit that it truly is.