The Worst Song Ever

[Steve in North Hollywood]

I really do not want to step on anybody's toes here by pointing out how wrong they are because it is probably just an innocent matter of their not having actually heard this, THE ABSOLUTE WINNER of Worst Song Ever:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0[/youtube]

I could not get past 10 seconds of that. 

Is this what MTV is inspiring these days?

Yes.

Remember that episode of Buck Rogers where that band is becoming hugely popular and then they turn out to be Satanic?  Remember when it shows that band playing and it's just so ridiculously bizarre that you said to yourself "Music is never going to get THAT weird!"  Well, it's getting there.

P.S.  That is the same episode where Buck proclaims, "I like Three Dog Night."

[mcphee from the forum]

The song itself is just boring but seeing who performs it makes it something else entirely. It's as if they collectively own one Tricky 12" and heard a Daft Punk song on the radio and decided to form a band despite having never heard any other music ever. It's amazing, really. Certainly cannot qualify for the worst song ever, for me at least, if only for its anthropological implications.

[Stupornaut]

I really do not want to step on anybody's toes here by pointing out how wrong they are because it is probably just an innocent matter of their not having actually heard this, THE ABSOLUTE WINNER of Worst Song Ever:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0[/youtube]

I could not get past 10 seconds of that. 

Is this what MTV is inspiring these days?

Yes.

Never before in the history of YouTube has the essence of a clip been captured so perfectly in its preview.

Remember that episode of Buck Rogers where that band is becoming hugely popular and then they turn out to be Satanic?  Remember when it shows that band playing and it's just so ridiculously bizarre that you said to yourself "Music is never going to get THAT weird!"  Well, it's getting there.

P.S.  That is the same episode where Buck proclaims, "I like Three Dog Night."

Didn't that song later show up in a Grand Theft Auto game as lowrider contest music? Outside of the Buck Rogers context it sounded kinda cool.

EDIT: According to Wikipedia that Buck Rogers episode featured a character named "Tarkus" and another character played by Richard Moll. Also: Jerry Orbach!

[johnD]

I was going to suggest the song "Life is a Carnival" by The Band but that brokeNCYDE song is just awful


pretty good criticism from their wikipedia page:

Says August Brown of the Los Angeles Times, "The 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."

[daveB from Oakland]

I could not get past 10 seconds of that. 

I couldn't take my eyes off of it! It's like watching a train wreck. An inadvertently hilarious train werck.
This should be the theme song to Tool Academy.

brokeNCYDE may be the worst band name ever, and "Freaxxx" may be the worst song title ever, so these guys are working on a trifecta. But I don't know, for me this song might be crossing over into "so bad, it's good" territory. The auto-tune abuse. The vomitous screaming sound looped endlessly. The utterly pointless F-bombs. It's just an amazing confluence of moron signifiers.

I'll agree with Steve from NoH that the incomprehensibly weird future has arrived.

[buffcoat]

Which is worse - the song or the video?

First I thought song... no, video... no, song... no, video... OH GOD MAKE IT STOP NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Fido]

I love how their website describes brokenCYDE as "crunk/screamo/electronica." I'm embarrassed for Albuquerque, being mentioned in this context.

This is really, really old, but I respectfully (?) resubmit it as the worst song I could think of:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO18k215gpk[/youtube]

Maybe brokenCYDE is actually worse.

[Regular Joe]

Remember that episode of Buck Rogers where that band is becoming hugely popular and then they turn out to be Satanic?  Remember when it shows that band playing and it's just so ridiculously bizarre that you said to yourself "Music is never going to get THAT weird!"  Well, it's getting there.

I'll agree with Steve from NoH that the incomprehensibly weird future has arrived.

Gentlemen of your respective cities in California, please. They said the same thing about Gary Glitter, and look how that all turned out.

Then:


Now:

[dave from knoxville]

Karmakarmakarmakarmakarma Chameleon

Also, that Journey song that goes "Nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah na nah na nah na"

Oh wait, that's all of them

[sleepytako]

It is a tie between "What's Up?" by the 4 Non Blondes and "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly.  Both of those songs make me want to put my head in the oven.

But, despite how much I hated "What's Up?" and how it had that odd way of getting stuck in my head in repeat all the time in high school, the song actually has some odd nostalgic merit. Mind you the memories it pulls out are ones of teenage misdeeds and disgust. It's nostalgic memories of misdeeds and disgust, however which has some merit and pulls "What's Up?" just out of the worst song ever ranking for me.

I think the Spin Doctors also have this effect on me.

[sleepytako]

Sadly from work I cannot watch that brokeNCYDE clip, but two things I found of note... from their wiki page:

Members
Se7en (screams/gangster raps)
Mik L (autotune vocals)
Phat J (synths/backup vocals)
Antz (fog machine and lights)

Make of that what you will.

Also,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brokencyde
There's piles of glory on that page.

[reallynotclever]

Wow, i feel like I just took A chain to the face. I gotta go lay down.  You nailed it Steve.  Imagine if these kids lived next door to you.  Imagine your son is the lead screamer in brokenCYDE.  All things most of us can be thankful we're not. There is something kinda endearing about four wealthy suburban teens, who are all wildly talented & obviously know how to party.  Fighting against their parents & the laws of nature to become "HUGE Crunk/Screamo/Electronica STARS".  I can't wait for the movie.  Actually, this is straight out of "Idiocracy", YIKES!  Check out their myspace page, too funny.  http://www.myspace.com/brokencyde

[reallynotclever]

I meant to say "you nailed it Stupornaut".  I'll never be the same again.  I was going to suggest "To Hell With The Devil" by Stryper. I think brokencyde may be unrivaled with "Freaxxx".  Steve's points were also very true.  I loved that episode of Buck Rodgers.  Cheers!

[neilnumberman]

This is the worst song I've heard in a-loooong-while:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFo3YDz-Ak[/youtube]

And also, to the brokeNCYDE haters: It's not music that's meant for us. My dad might as well be reviewing Illmatic.

[mike_b]

They disabled direct linking, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ

People only remember the chorus of this song.  That's the least annoying part.