"Worst song ever"...

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 22 Mar 2011 5:01 pm

This is good...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/e7ReCtipPac

It's Friday...and it's also Groundhog Day!

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 22 Mar 2011 5:07 pm

Seriously though, I think this song is life affirming. It's about kids having fun. There is so much negativity and anger and hate projected in so much music, I find the innocent joy this song projects to be a welcome breath of fresh air.
If I had teenage kids I'd much rather that they listen to this than to all the negative stuff that's out there.

Mike, on that we can agree!

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 22 Mar 2011 9:35 pm

Come to think of it,I agree with Mike. It's just a silly,CLEAN,teeny bopper song. Light years ahead of the filth by Eimeim,Snoop Dog,etc,about incest,killing cops, and all women are ho's. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

Chris Schlotzhauer · Post by **Chris Schlotzhauer** » 23 Mar 2011 8:21 am

Charles Davidson wrote:Come to think of it,I agree with Mike. It's just a silly,CLEAN,teeny bopper song. Light years ahead of the filth by Eimeim,Snoop Dog,etc,about incest,killing cops, and all women are ho's. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

I agree. You may not like the song, but to me, the definition of a good song is when you heard it once, you can't get it out of your head, or by the time is half way over, you can sing along.
Remember Achy Breaky Heart? Horrible/great song

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 24 Mar 2011 1:55 pm

Leslie Ehrlich wrote:
Rick Campbell wrote:I don't see what's so bad about it. I've heard much worse on today's country radio, and even the Grand Ole Opry in recent times. To me the timing and structure is the same as some of the new country acts. I do miss the steel with the excessive use of the first string raise.
So that's why that song sounds so bad. There's no steel with excessive use of the first string raise.

Leslie,

I think you've got a point.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 24 Mar 2011 5:39 pm

I find it a fun, harmless teen/tween song that's targeted exactly to its audience and what they care about. It's snappy. Not bad at all. Billy Don't Be a Hero, Alone Again Naturally, etc etc now those are truly bad songs!

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 24 Mar 2011 5:45 pm

The lyrics to Alone Again Naturally are really depressing, but I like the music. I think it would make a pretty good steel guitar instrumental.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 25 Mar 2011 7:19 am

Yep, nobody does depression like the Irish, but I agree Mike, it would make a great (steel) instrumental.
Andy - a "truly bad song?" Hardly. This song was covered by artists like Neil Diamond, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Elton John and the Pet Shop Boys, and Cass Elliot. It was also #1 in Billboard for six weeks in 1972. Obviously, it had something going for it, but in spite of that, I guess we all have our opinions. $:\$

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 25 Mar 2011 7:28 am

Not to forget "Claire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKInjg66fY

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 25 Mar 2011 7:32 am

Mike Neer wrote

Well, I couldn't make it past the first chorus, but I like the line, "gotta have my bowl". Laughing Then she ruins it with "of cereal." I'll bet she hasn't a clue.

You'd like to think she doesn't, but....chances are, she does

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 25 Mar 2011 8:46 am

Larry Miller wrote:Mike Neer wrote
Well, I couldn't make it past the first chorus, but I like the line, "gotta have my bowl". Laughing Then she ruins it with "of cereal." I'll bet she hasn't a clue.
You'd like to think she doesn't, but....chances are, she does

I sound like her dad, don't I? Not my little angel....

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 25 Mar 2011 11:06 am

My have to change my vote. Saw her on Leno. Man, what a obnoxious little girl.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 25 Mar 2011 10:18 pm

Good night, that video had surpassed 50,000,000 views and has added another half million in just the past few hours (well it is Friday, after all)...

At this rate, she's probably going to...take over the world or something..

I think there must be subliminal messages in the music.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 7 Apr 2011 8:57 pm

Well, it's almost to a colossal 90 million views...

I read somewhere that there is now a legal battle going on over who actually owns the song..

It's it funny how everything is happy-go-lucky until it blows up...then it all hits the fan.

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 8 Apr 2011 7:12 am

Well, it's almost to a colossal 90 million views...

Duane, there's no accounting for taste ……

John Steele (deceased) · Post by **John Steele (deceased)** » 8 Apr 2011 9:06 am

Duane, there's no accounting for taste ……

Apparently.
I don't know how it happened, but the radio in my car got turned on accidentally this week (I'm usually more careful !). Anyway, the song was accompanied by the typical insistent plastic dance beat, and some chick singing "I like my bass real low..."
How profound, I thought. Before spending too much time wondering what sort of bass isn't "real low", or wondering how insipidly stupid you would have to be to buy music so pointless and pandering, the breathless announcer surfaced, wiping the drool from his chin, to tell me that it was the newest, latest, greatest, by.....
Brittany Spears.

I thought she'd already been relegated to the "What were were thinking" bin.

- John

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 8 Apr 2011 2:37 pm

Anything sung (big ol' air quotes around "sung") by Michael McDonald or Barry White.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 8 Apr 2011 2:57 pm

Ever hear the sho-biz axiom "There's no such thing as bad publicity?" It's true. The more people complain about Friday being the worst song ever, the more people will watch the video.

I was told that the best thing an artist can hope for is for 95% of the people to love his or her work, and for 5% to hate it with a passionate hatred usually reserved for mothers in law and vampire serial killers from outer space.

(Somebody please write a bad review of my CDs. Pretty please.

)

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 8 Apr 2011 5:05 pm

Charles Davidson wrote:Come to think of it,I agree with Mike. It's just a silly,CLEAN,teeny bopper song. Light years ahead of the filth by Eimeim,Snoop Dog,etc,about incest,killing cops, and all women are ho's. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

+1

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 8 Apr 2011 6:00 pm

John Steele wrote:some chick singing "I like my bass real low..."
How profound, I thought. Before spending too much time wondering what sort of bass isn't "real low"

That which comes from a J-bass bridge pickup through a Peavey solid state head an matching 8x10... That can sound about as low, rich and deep as someone shoving ballpoint pens in your ears...with the caps on.