For better or worse 2009 was the year of Lady Gaga. Okay it is mostly the later because she is everything wrong with music today promoting style over substance. Lady Gaga is just Marilyn Manson with a sunnier disposition and much more hype (and a lot of hype it was, keep in mind even though people consider Lady Gaga the artist of 2009, Susan Boyle sold more albums in one month then Lady Gaga did in over a year). But with all the horrible music she put out this year, 2009 was so abundant of ear-splitting music, she only managed two of worst forty twice and couldn’t even crack the top ten. Here are the thirty-eight other songs besides the white noise Lady Gaga dispensed songs from the past twelve months that I would live a better life if I never hear again.
1. If U Seek Amy - Britney Spears
2. Kiss Me Thru the Phon - Soulja Boy Tell ‘em featuring Sammy
3. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
4. I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here Rap - Spencer Pratt
5. You're a Jerk - New Boyz
6. Right Now (Na Na Na) - Akon
7. Birthday Sex - Jeremih
8. All the Above - Maino featuring T-Pain
9. Turn My Swag On - Soulja Boy Tell ‘em
10. Stanky Legg - GS Boyz
11. LoveGame - Lady Gaga
12. Replay - Iyaz
13. Sugar - Flo Rider featuring Wynter
14. Don't Trust Me - 3OH!3
15. Fresh out the Oven - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
16. Dead and Gone - T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake
17. Take Your Shirt Off - T-Pain
18. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
19. Radar - Britney Spears
20. Right Round - Flo Rider
21. Shots - LMFAO and Lil' John
22. Hoedown Throwdown - Miley Cyrus
23. Whatcha Say - Jason Derula
24. Just Dance - Lady Gaga featuring Colby O’Donis
25. Love Sex Magic - Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake
26. I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls
27. Obsessed - Mariah Carey
28. Battlefield - Jordin Sparks
29. 3 - Britney Spears
30. Diva - Beyoncé
31. Beautiful - Akon featuring Colby O’Donis and Kardinal Offishial
32. Hush Hush; Hush Hush - The Pussycat Dolls
33. Hotel Room Service - Pitbull
34. Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
35. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull
36. S.O.S. (Let the Music Play) - Jordin Sparks
37. Fire Burning - Sean Kingston
38. Circus - Britney Spears
39. No Surprise - Daughtry
40. Prom Queen – Lil’ Wayne
You are right. There was a lot of bad music this year.
ReplyDeleteWhere the hell is pop champaigne!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't hotel room serviece or I know you want me number 1?!
ReplyDeleteYou really have a thing against idols winners ( and T.I.Especially Jordin Sparks.Please tell me why you consider Battlefield and Dead&Gone as 2 of the worst songs of the year?- Terence from S.A
ReplyDeleteTaylor Blue: It was so bad I could have easily had a top 60 and possibly even gotten up to 100. But that would be no way to spend Christmas week.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous #1: I guess I have been lucky enough to avoid that song.
Anonymous #2: We are really plitting here but for If U Seek Amy is number one because whenever I hear it I can feel my IQ drop double digets while the Pitbull ones only drop by a couple.
Terence: I really have a thing against American Idol in general. It is just mediocre singer singing crappy songs. This is proven out by only two legitimate success stories in eight seasons. As for Battlefield specifically, I have always found "Love is War" overdone and when she repeats the title it is just annoying.
As for Dead and Gone, T.I. is the most overrated rapper not named Lil' Wayne. And rappers who have Justin Timberlake singing thier hooks just lack any credibility. T.I. just repeating everything Justin sings in the chorus is just lame and reminds me of a skit 50 Cent did mocking Ja Rule off of The Future Is Now who did the exact same thing with anyone singing his hooks.
Justin Bieber is amazing<3
ReplyDeleteAnonymous #3: I'm am not sure what has to do with this list, but alrighty.
ReplyDeleteLil Wayne is the most overrated rapper ( You said that last year, remember).You have a point in a way about Dead & Gone. I've never looked at it from that point of view. However, I really like T.I.'S latest stuff ( Live your life, Dead & gone, Remember me )beacuse it's so hard now-a-days to get rappers who don't rap about sex,money,woman etc. And if they don't it's really not that remarkable.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I was anonymous #1.Go to youtube and check out pop champagne. I can assure you you'll put it in your top 10 .
I was also anonymous #2. ARE YOU SURE YOU'VE LISTENED TO PITBULLS LYRICS????!!! I think you need to go google his songs of '09 and read their lyrics instead of listening to them. "Momma got a ass like a donkey, like a monkey, looks like king kong..."-"Love me hate me say what you want about me but all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to FUCK ME. At least the person who wrote the song used 0,0001% of their brain to disguise the words "fuck me" in there unlike pitbull who just uses quotes and samples from other songs.- Terence from S.A
U agree that justin bieber's amazing? Haha that's cool.
ReplyDeleteTerence: I have been saying that for a while so I am sure I called Lil Wayne overrated last year when I couldn't get away from Lolipop. But you exactly nailed why I don't listen to as much rap these days, nothing has changed lyrically since the days of Biggy and Tupac except the overuse of Auto-Tune.
ReplyDeleteI think I am just going to go ahead and take your word on Pop Champagne, I have had enough of crappy music this week.
I guess I haven't really taken a listen to Pitbull's lyrics as his delivery is a little indesipherable at times (and I don't think I have heard the uncensored version). And it is not like the person who wrote If You See Amy came up with that phrase (its been around at least since I was in Middle School) and it is not like the songwriter hid it very much because "... all of the girls are begging to If You See Amy" makes absolutely no sence. But really, when it comes to the worst songs, we are just splitting hairs.
Anonymous: I didn't agree on Justin Bieber because I don't know who that is.
great list, tho i was hoping for some Rihanna or Chris Brown because they really need to disappear from the mainstream music scene.
ReplyDeleteAnon: Brown just missed the top (or, well, bottom) 40, as for Rihanna, I am certainly not her biggest fan, but I can't say I really hate anything she has done.
ReplyDeleteJustin bieber is the best new artist discovered by usher! Sung 4 Obama how don't u know him dude? & u guys r taking light hearted fun music 2 seriously calm down jeez one song can't entertain everyone....doesn't mean it's bad
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I don't know him because apparently he is new. And if he was discovered by Usher I think I will pass on getting to know him.
ReplyDeleteAnd if a song cannot entertain me then it is by defination bad and thus this list has purpose.
Yeah by usher is best song ever so don't h8 on usher
ReplyDeleteYou spelled definition wrong....you're a smart one.
ReplyDeleteYeah isn't even the best song of the decade, or even cracks the top 100 of the past ten years, so it is not even in the discussion for all time best.
ReplyDeleteSays the guy who spelled definition wrong......
ReplyDeleteVery good choices. It does seem like music gets worse and worse every year (well, at least mainstream music does)
ReplyDeleteOut of your list, I can tolerate the Britney songs, but can't argue with them being on this list.
I like the Jason Derulo and Mariah Carey song (I have no idea why I like Obsessed because I am definitely not a fan of hers)
Prom Queen is quite terrible, but I applaud Lil Wayne taking a risk..The rest of the album is even worse than that.
Definately mainstream music is getting worse, but not as a whole, my Best of 2009 is 250+ strong which is the largest pool I have ever had to widdle down to my Top 100.
ReplyDeleteI just don't like the Imogen Heap sound which is why Derulo is on here and I just do not understand why someone with such a strong voice, Mariah would stoop so low to use auto-tune. I wish she would just get back to her 90's heyday type songs.
I wish Mariah would just stop trying. I can't remember the last time she made a song I liked.
ReplyDeleteWhile I disagree with a couple of your choices (I usually have some guilty pleasures that you flat-out hate, so I'm used to it after a couple of years of this) I've really got to wonder why you put these songs in this order. I Gotta Feeling is definitely worse than Boom Boom Pow (which is, at least, unintentionally funny, whereas Feeling is the musical equivalent of violent assault).
But thank you for the Lady Gaga hate, and especially the Akon hate. Much appreciated.
Rookie: I would have to go all the way back to Butterfly (that is over a decade) before I could find anything Mariah has put out that has been any good.
ReplyDeleteSongs are usually listed in order of how my I feel my IQ lowering when I hear them and Boom Boom Pow is just a much dumber songs (which is why I could see why you would call it unintentionally funny) and I just want to punch the radio whenever Fergie says "I'm 3008, you're so 2000-and-late." Well technically I want to punch the radio whenever I hear Fergie's voice in general which is why I try not to listen to mainstream radio ever.
And you are welcome for the Lady Gaga and Akon hate.
I'm sure lady gaga needs your praise to be successfull& the song make her say wouldn't be possible without her buddy.
ReplyDeleteMary.J.Blidge actually thanked Lil Wayne last year for his "creativity".???????
ReplyDeleteDude, I hate Jason Derulo and his faggotry of using a good song's sample for an entire song's success
ReplyDeleteI hate Lil Wayne for making music (if you can even call it that) Im so glad his album leaked.
ReplyDeleteAs for Usher's album leak. I doubt it's gonna change anything about the poor sales it's gonna get. With a lead song like Papers a person can't expect much. He should just quit music because his albums are just going from bad to worse. Terence from S.A
why would daughtry be on this. that song is actually one of the few songs that actually meant something to the singer or group. the rest i can somewhat agree with, but no suprise is a very good SONG and i emphasize the word song
ReplyDeleteDaughtry is on here because they are peddling the same crappy post-grunge slop that the music industry has been pushing on rock radio ever since Bush basterdized the genre a decade and a half ago.
ReplyDeleteI think I know why he doesn't like idol winners... Manufactured shit... They are so talentless the can't even write there own terrible songs... I agree with most of the choices here but JLS aren't on it... There song beat again was quite simply brutal
ReplyDeleteOk so they don't write their own songs, that doesn't mean their talentless!!! Moron.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I can see what's going on here, this is obviously a very one sided list, because mostly everything there is hip hop, r&b, or rap, and apparently nobody here has caught on. It is because everyone here is as closed minded as you! Don't get me wrong, I agree with half the list there, but surely there are other worst songs, and surely other songs other than hip hop, r&b or rap are bad. But of course, your indie rock music is too precious to list, why, because it isn't mainstream. What, is underground music any better just because it didn't make millions of dollars? If you're against this genre, then don't listen to it, switch your radio dial to 98.7 or something, there problem solved!
ReplyDeleteLouis: you are making a baseless claim and shouldn't make generalizations on a person based one post, there is no bias against rap and R&B. If you would check out my 100 Best Songs of 2009 list, you would notice plenty of those genres (two in the top four). A bad song is a bad song no matter a genre. And of course I picked mainstream (and these songs are only mainstream because record companies pay radio station to play them), what fun would ther be picking songs no one has ever heard of. And I switched off my radio station five years off and never turned it back on.
ReplyDeleteUm... tell me why Boom Boom Pow is here? Hellooooooooooooo?
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Oh, and where are the Justin Bieber songs? AND Jonas Brothers songs, AND Hannah Montana songs?
ReplyDeleteBoom Boom Pow is here because it will lower your IQ if you listen to it multiple times and is full with some of the dumbest lyrics ever put to paper.
ReplyDeleteDo not know who Justin Bieber is. The Jonas Brothers are more bland than bad. And I am old and could be wrong, but I thought Miley Cyrus, who is on this list, was Hannah Montana.
Its always funny to me what people consider to be 'music' is what they hear on the radio. I haven't turned on the radio in months. There are tons of amazing artists out there, but you have to look. The radio is for the lazy teenagers who more concerned with being cool than actually hearing a good song. I really can't tell the difference between all the autotune songs on the radio.
ReplyDeleteOh, and how the F is Owl City not on this list? I actually found this page because I was expecting that song to be on some "worst of" list.
you really have a horrible taste in music if you think some of those songs are actually bad.
ReplyDeletePop ate my heart I know a lot of you are old rock or rock and country but you dont need to hate on the new music.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate new music, I can up with a list of a hundred great songs of last year also which was widdled down from a list of over 200 which is nuch more than the 40 here I hated.
ReplyDeleteAll of these songs are bad, but that's like every song on mainstream. From this alone I can determine you're some pretentious, indie loving f*** who thinks that criticizing media makes you more superior.
ReplyDeleteI think we have something in common.
makeas you 'more' superior = poor grammar clearly you are not a true snob like myself.
ReplyDeleteWOAHHHH. You're Bugging out there buddy, some of those songs are hot. I can name like ten of them. Like You're A jerk, that song is starting a whole new wave of dance. Come on now, you're probably
ReplyDeletelike 40 years old. The majority of those songs are for kids anyways, and you probably are still living in the 50's, that likes The Beatles and Led Zepplin or whatever. So stay in your drama dont judge any music acdept for your own
WTF man some of these songs are the best. Go to a nightclub and a lot of these songs are being played or go to billboard.
ReplyDeletewow, you must live under a rock cause you have no life and some of these songs are actually good, and keep your comments to yourself
ReplyDeletejeez...where is Owl City?
ReplyDeleteAnd 3OH!3 shouldn't even be called artist
Um? Half of these are great songs!
ReplyDeleteboom boom pow should be at the top
ReplyDeleteA pretty solid list in selection ('cept Gaga, I'll get there in a sec), but the order is up for debate. "Stanky Leg" might be the worst song in the history of hip hop, and should unhesitantly be number 1. "If You Seek Amy" doesn't make sense taken at face value, but in true Britney fashion, it's actually a slutty play on words. Say "F-U-C-K Me" in place of "If you seek amy," and the song suddenly makes wayyy too MUCH sense. This is widely known, but since you're older and Britney's awful anyways, I can forgive you for not knowing. Someone had to tell me too.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, T-Pain, Lil' Wayne, Soulja Boy, etc. so kudos on skewering them here. Also, thank you for NOT putting Owl City on here - he's an electropop genius.
Completely disagree with the Gaga characterization. Completely. She might be the BEST thing happening to pop these days. "Lovegame" is not her best, by far, and the "disco stick" lyric is stupid, but for real - she actually writes her own stuff, it's undeniably catchy as all hell, and the lyrics are usually pretty thought provoking if you listen to them. She's also a completely genuine person and artist, and woefully misunderstood. Try venturing beyond her singles, and see what you think. I suggest "Speechless" to really see her bare her soul.
I knew the double meaning behind If You Seek Amy and that is why it is my number one. Some one should tell Britney that to be a double entendre, it actually has to have two meaning.
ReplyDeleteAnd I stand by my Lady Gaga assessment, I have heard Speechless and some of her "deeper cut" and still don't get her. And I never understand the aurgment "But (s)he writes their own songs." This started getting brought up during the teen pop craze early last decade, but just because you write your own songs doesn't make you a credible artists, just look at the artists you cannot stand: Katy Perry, Black Eyed Peas, T-Pain, Lil' Wayne, and Soulja Boy all write their own songs too.
I guess the difference lies in that I can't stand those artists, while Gaga has me captivated. She stands head and shoulders above any of them. She's as credible an artist as they come. I'm baffled as to how she can be grouped on a list with the likes of Soulja Boy.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to group Lady Gaga with the likes of Soulja Boy, they both choose style over substance.
ReplyDeleteI could see how somebody might call her over-stylized, but it's patently absurd to accuse her of being as substance free as Soulja Boy. One has to be a remarkable combination of deaf and ignorant.
ReplyDeleteI mean, that's just how I see it. If one compares "Speechless," or, "Dance in the Dark," or hell, even "Poker Face," to "Crank that," or the aforementioned "Kiss me through the phone," I think it's clear the two stand in different universes of substance (not to mention genres...), and that maybe Gaga is the only artist in the club scene who has some substance to her style.
ReplyDeleteGranted, the songs I just listed are not the ones on your list, and the ones on your list are likely her weakest work, but you picked those two songs and generalized her as "everyting wrong with pop today." Sorry if that struck a nerve with me. This list is still solid.
You seem to not to realize there is a sizable generational gap (and gender for that matter) when it comes to Lady Gaga as you are not going to find too many of her fans older than twenty-three (or male, both of which I belong to). Everyone I know not only dislike her (the ones that know who she is) but most loath and would back up my claims that she is everything that is wrong with pop music (I have one friend who only refers her to Lady GagMe; though I wouldn't go that far).
ReplyDeleteThe media like to build Gaga as some huge artist, but in actually she only appeals to a niche audience (young girls) and not being in that group I just do not get Lady Gaga and most likely never will.
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on her and chaulk it up to a generational gap, but thank you for the kind comments on the rest of my list.
Agree to disagree is good. To be fair, though, she also has a really huge GAY fanbase, whose buying power is not to be underestimated. There is not a gay man under 25 on the planet who doesn't love her. This stands to reason, as she's a vocal supporter of LGBT rights. Also, gay men love her disco beats and the bipolar lyrics about boys...
ReplyDeletePeace out!
Whoa, wait a second. Susan Boyle a bigger artist than Gaga? Gaga is the first artist to reach one billion viral views, she's got 11.5 million albums sold, she's one of Time's 100 most influential people of the year, she had six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording, she's had five number one singles, and she's the first artist EVER to have four consecutive number ones on a debut album. All in two years. It's okay to not like her music, obviously, but saying Susan Boyle is a bigger artist just because of the album sales? It's crazy talk.
ReplyDeleteRecord sales have always been the litmus test for music artist. viral views just means she has obessive fans that just watch videos over and over again, Grammy's are subjective (and not a great baramorter of quality music and are bought and paid for by record labels, Hilary Clinton has more of them than the Beach Boys), singles charts are worthless because, again, record labels can ealialy, manipulate them. With that said, I never said that Boyle was bigger, I just pointed out that she sold more albums in a much shorter time.
ReplyDeleteWe shouldn't totally discount digital downloads, either. "Telephone" just creeped over 2 million, her sixth song to do that. Only matched by The Black Eyed Peas on that one. Perhaps you didn't say "bigger" artist, but you implied that Boyle is the true artist of 2009, which is your own wishful thinking. Good day.
ReplyDeleteI am not discrediting digital downloads (of least the legal kind) because, if I am not mistaked, that are included when it comed to albums sale, something like ten digital downloads equals one album sold.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have no wishful thinking about Boyle, I don't care too much for her either, I just used her as an example of how Lady Gaga is overhyped.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT GODDAMN OPINION! PERIOD.Scooter is entitled to his own opinions. I hate mainstream music sometimes. The radio overplays these "hits". Whatever you want, they play (which isn't exactly true). Respect everyone's thoughts; they might differ from yours. -Zann Cedarus Resport
ReplyDeleteboom boom pow is the worst song !
ReplyDeletestop hating on lady gaga she is a musical genious. have u heard paparazzi..now talk..
ReplyDeleteI love nearly all of those songs. Lady GaGa is epic. But it's all the matter of what taste you like so i'm not going to go on telling you things you've probally already have heard.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a matter with you how could someone not like dead and gone
ReplyDeleteIt is easy because it is a horrible song. It is laughable to have Justin Timberlake on a rap song. And I cannot hear T.I. without thinking of Antoine Merriweather.
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