Most annoying pop songs ever made

I'm glad they put that "Walk 500 Miles" song on. I hate that song with a passion.

They've included "Ice Ice Baby", but the original song it came from "Under Pressure" is just as bad.

Anything by The Carpenters and ABBA

Didn’t have the patience to scroll all the way to the end past so many click baits and ads, so I’m jus gonna leave this one here.

I Just Called. To Say. I Love You.

What Does The Fox Say?

It's actually a pretty good list.

[quote]"Under Pressure" is just as bad.

Not AS bad. I didn't particularly like it back in the day, but Freddie's vocals and David Bowie's presence made it better than Ice's ripoff of it.

I'm surprised that "Gangnam Style" wasn't on it.

You Light Up My Life

I think she's a talented singer and songwriter, but most of Lady Gaga's single discography.

"Celebration" by Kool & The Gang.

Walkin' On Sunshine and The Lion Sleeps Tonight are the two worst songs of all time, of any genre, and always will be.

You're Having My Baby, Disco Duck, We Are Family, Friday, You're Beautiful, Shake It Off, Come and Get It...there are actually waaay too many to list!

Barry Manilow "Looks like we made it"

Many Maroon 5 songs. Payphone, Sugar, Girls Like You, Don't Wanna Know, Moves Like Jagger, etc.

Gloria. CALLLLINNNNNGGGGGGG GLORIAAAAAAA. Child, just put a quarter in that payphone and do it already.

Anything by Train. I could hardly stand listening to the radio a years back when that stupid Drive By song was being played every 5 minutes.

Good that the list includes "We Built This City" by Starship. Pop dreck.

Great list actually, contains most of the worst contenders I can think of. My god, pop music can be fucking terrible at times.

""Under Pressure" is just as bad."

Opinions diverge, wildly.

"Walk Like An Egyptian"

I didn't know Egyptians walked a special way.

Hated these, too:

Starland Vocal Band - ‘Afternoon Delight’

Tom Jones - ‘What’s New Pussycat’

Hanson - ‘MMMBop’

Berlin - “Take My Breath Away”

I didn't mind "500 Miles," "Somebody That I Used to Know," or "Rock the Boat" (first song I ever danced to, in 1973). And I loved "Pumped Up Kicks." Every now and then, I'll listen to it 3 or 5 times in a row. And what was "I Will Always Love You" doing on that list.

Dodgy list, some are terrible songs and others are just over-played.

How did they leave Gangnam Style off that list? It played everywhere for a while, and the damn thing has something like four billion views on YouTube alone. You can't tell me its not annoyed people.

They really must hate I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue, because they list it twice (first one and then further down between Nikki Webster “Strawberry Kisses” and Baauer “Harlem Shake”).

Up on the Roof by James Taylor

Livin' La Vida Loca doesn't deserve to be on that list.

Bruno Mars IS Richard Ramirez in that link picture!!

Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It). God I hate that song.

Ahh, I like Boy George's voice on Karma Chameleon.

This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S without Hollerback Girl on it, Gwen has a lot to answer for. And I think a couple of Bruno Mars songs are there, but not the one that talks about “hot white Michelle Pfiefer.” Most of Nicklebacks oeuvre belong here, especially How You Remind Me. And possibly the song Seasons in the Sun should be here for its maudlin nature.

Neither Believe or Call Me Maybe should be on this list, they are Pop Song perfection and fit their genre to a T and should be exempt.

"Don't Go Breakin My Heart" Elton & Kiki Dee

"Muskrat Love" Cap'n & Tennille

"I Gotcha" Joe Tex

"When the Lights Go Down in the Ci-tay" and all other Journey songs.

"All Night Long"--Lionel Richie---had this as an earworm for weeks and wanted to slice open a wrist or two.

Totally agree about Berlin, unbelievable they won an Oscar for YTMBA.

Anything by Maroon 5. I have a reaction of physical nausea to all of their songs. I also despise most of John Mayer's music.

Jesus Christ! Did the makers of that list not realize what the internet has done to attention spans?

That being said, my only take away is that I learned that Kim Kardashian released music.

Like whore, like spawn, I guess.

That mind numbingly annoying "Two princess" from Spin Doctors that played everywhere in the early/mid 90's.

"You're beautiful" by James Blunt was some putrid shit too. Made worse by everyone swooning over one of the worst written songs with the stupidest lyrics.

R34 You don't think that " you're beautiful it's true/ but I'll never be with you" isn't the height of lyrical genius? Let me guess, you think Mozart was an overrated hack?

Personally I love Chumbawamba “Tubthumping”.

I am surprised that Shampoo's Trouble isn't included. Too British and therefore too obscure?

Honestly I disagree with some songs on this list. I like Pumped Up Kicks and Zombie.

"Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift should be on there.

Katy Perry - Roar, Firework

Miley - Party in the U.S.A.

Anything Maroon 5

Shawn & Camila - Senorita

Kesha - Tik Tok

I'm dreaming of a devious plan to substitute the full Spanish version of The Macarena for the Village People's YMCA (annoying in its own right!) next time Trump does his Nuremberg rally in my hometown. American Carnage ensues as surely as the alien heads exploded in Mars Attacks!

“True” by Spandau Ballet

Terrible list. Barbie Girl by Aqua is a satirical work of genius.

"Barbie Girl" may be good satire but it was still annoying sounding

I also remember being sick of "Zombie" it was a good song but suffered from over exposure.

Pretty decent list save a few exceptions.

Butterfly Kisses, absolute dreck. My dental hygienist loved it & criticized my mother for not liking it. Hokey Christian sickeningly sweet song.

Zombie does NOT belong here. I love that song. But I agree most of these are pretty annoying.

This is was written by a 22 year old moron.

I got bumped off the list before I got to college reading it but I don’t see Rick Astley - which should top any list like this.

WE BUILT THIS CITY.....ON ROCK AND ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

They left out this atrocity.

I think overexposure is a good reason for some songs to be included in that list. I hate Zombie by the Cranberries, because after its success they went more rock. Love their earlier work. After Zombie, they became a generic rock band.

Bangles' Eternal Flame is one of those songs I liked initially, but full on hated after it was played everywhere non-stop for months.

No Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy?". I call shenanigans!

I’m not reading an annoying list. Just adding here:

She's not a thing anymore (thank God) but most of Avril Lavigne's songs belong on here, especially Sk8r Boi and that Girlfriend song with lyrics that sound like they were written by the meanest 12-year-old girl ever:

[quote]She's like so whatever/ You could do so much better/ I think we should get together now/ And that's what everyone's talkin' about

I can’t believe Bruno Mars’ “Marry Me” is on this shitlist. It’s one of my top five songs from Glee.

I second ANYTHING by Journey or the Carpenters, and "We Built This City" may be the most evil earworm of all time. It gets in my head and makes me want to beat myself unconscious.

Also have loathed that Gotye song (Somebody I Used to Know?) from the moment I first heard it.

But Macarena gets a pass from me, especially in the authentic Spanish version.

I cannot listen to Pharrell Williams "Happy" without thinking of Meryl Streep shaking her tits to it at the Oscars.

Just like Glenn Close tried to upstage her (and completely failed) by shaking her ass to "Da Butt" at last year's Oscars.

Damn, I just watched the video for that "Agadoo" song on the list, which I'd never heard of before. It is literally insane -- like, I could make a more professional-looking video in my living room using only family members, an iphone and whatever supplies happen to be on hand in my apartment right now.

And don't get me started on the lyrics. Or the black pleather pants.

But the song is insanely catchy when you hear it just once. Hearing it any further times will, on the other hand, likely trigger hara-kiri.

Agree 100%, r54. I considered donating my corneas while watching Glenn go full-on jackass.

R46....Together Forever...**shudders**

Don't Stop Believing

Anything by the Black Eyed Peas

What R16 said. Any song by Train makes me murderous. I would slaughter nuns in my way, even holding puppies and kittens, to turn off the radio so I didn’t have to listen to lyrics like, “your lipstick stain on the front lobe of my left side brain” and something about his untrimmed chest hair. Now, I’m triggered!

Whatever, R60. The songs sound great, despite the purple prose / lyrics.

Are you deaf, R61? No they don't.

[quote]Damn, I just watched the video for that "Agadoo" song on the list, which I'd never heard of before. It is literally insane -- like, I could make a more professional-looking video in my living room using only family members, an iphone and whatever supplies happen to be on hand in my apartment right now.

It's truly bizarre.

“It’s a Small World”

Most annoying, nauseating, maddening song ever written.

Many of the songs on that list were not that bad just massively overplayed. We Built This City is one exception. Once was more than enough.

I find MMMBop fascinating. It's like that lead kid never heard of a consonant.

Sussudio

Okay, R62. You're the world's biggest music snob. That' s nice. 🙄

R55 "It is literally insane"

As are you for using the word "literally"

Nickelback has so many bad songs, how did they narrow it down to 1? "How You Remind Me" should be on there too.

Lots of Coldplay songs should be on here too.

Creed, Higher.

Madonna, Music (and I'm generally a huge fan).

NIckelback songs are not merely annoying. They're offensive. That band should be in jail. Ditto Creed. Though, thankfully they only had that one really huge song.

Agreed whoever said Roar by Katy Perry. I get why her a lot of her songs were so popular, but not that one. It's dreck.

Every single one in the past 15 years. Especially the songs where the female singers sound like Bjork.

Britney Spears, Baby One More Time Britney Spears, Oops (I Did it Again) Britney Spears, Sometimes Britney Spears, Stronger Britney Spears, TOXIC

Anything from Ace of Base - I found all of their song so moronic and never understood their popularity

Arms Wide Open by Creed

Nookie by Limp Bizkit

Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus

Listening to anything by Neil Young makes me want to blow my brains out. He is the most depressing musician ever.

Good list but Believe and Karma Cameleon are good for gays and need to be removed. I'm surprised not a single Weird Al song is on the list, especially Fat.

Hangin' Tough by the New Kids on the Block

What Makes You Beautiful by One DIrection. Actually, pretty much anything by One Direction

Whats Up by Non 4 Blondes.

r81, I despise that song. It's so inane, even by pop music standards.

Is "One Headlight" on the list, because it's annoying as fuck when it pops up on the oldies station.

I FUCKING Want it THAT Way. Always hated this inane song and people from my generation love it.

"Safety Dance" by Men Without Hands

OP- his HAIRDO is annoying

[quote]"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt was some putrid shit too. Made worse by everyone swooning over one of the worst written songs with the stupidest lyrics.

We were swooning in hopes that he'd take it all off. I jerked off to the video one morning.

R88 was he super built or something cuz I don't remember anything about that video other than some pasty skinny white ass giy singing in it.

You had a bad day.....

R78 I say this as a Joe Rogan fan, Young is a musical genius and those who find him too " depressing" are just trying to deny the own sad/nihhlistic sides of themselves.

You decide if he's built enough for you, muscle mary @ r89. I think he's beautiful, and I hoped that one day, he'd take his pants and subtrou off before he jumped.

As for Neil Young, for the most part I gave up on him when I read what he had to say about "faggot cashiers in grocery stores touching (his) potatoes" during the AIDS era.

R93 that was lamentable..but there is beauty in alot of his music that speaks for itself and I wouldn't want to sacrifice because the man had alot of massively stupid takes.

Someone would actually admit to being a Joe Rogan fan?

You rang?

Thank you guys for sharing these tracks. I must admit, I like quite a few of them.

What about Pretty Fly for a White Guy and that song by Sugar Ray that said something similar?

R85---TeLL ME WHY!

The Britney Spears catalog & her chipmunk sounds others call "vocals".

What a predictable list. I'd gladly listen to all of them compared to the shit put out today

R101 has awful taste

“I love you always forever” is soul crushing

That Work Work Work song

I adore The Police's music, but their absolute worst song was 'Every Breath You Take', that absurd stalker song that waaaay too many freaking morons assumed was a love song! 🤢 🤮🤢 🤮

SKYSCRAPER by DEMI LOVATO

Anything by Green Day.

"My Baby Is a Centerfold." I go berserk.

"Feelings"

"Angel Is a Centerfold"?

Anything by the Jonas Brothers, my niece was really into them years ago

Anything released in the last 30 years.

ugh. Now my head-track is playing most of these, over and over and over and over....

Sometimes when we touch. It is one of the worst songs ever made popular. And the lyrics are stupid to say the least. "I want to hold you till I die, till we both break down and cried". It makes zero sense. Those who love the song are mostly basic white people.

The original version of “Mah Na Mah Na” was not a children’s song like the article says. It was part of the soundtrack of the 1968 Mondo movie “Sweden: Heaven and Hell.”

Forgot to add above: anything, and I mean EVERY SINGLE SONG EVER RELEASED, by the inexplicably popular English bard Chris Rea. Sadly, his songs are all over the radio here in Europe.

This one. It is awful. Straight white men make the worst music.

Seeing Bruno Mars pictured on OP's article reminds me that one of the most annoying pop songs to me is his "The Lazy Song". It made me dislike him for awhile, until I read him talking about how much he hates that song now himself. Then he got all that "appropriation" bullshit laid on him and I actually think more fondly of him now, even though I don't really listen to his music. "24K Magic" is a great one for the gym though.

I don’t think anyone mentioned this atrocity…

I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight

Jessie's Girl

Sunglasses At Night

Material Girl

Don't Stop Believin'

Mickey

Eye Of The Tiger

Don't You Want Me

These Dreams

Will the 80s EVER die?

[quote] "Gloria. CALLLLINNNNNGGGGGGG GLORIAAAAAAA. Child, just put a quarter in that payphone and do it already."

Aw, I love this song. Long live the late Laura Branigan!

Utterly annoying, and I love it. Not going to get into the infamous English versions, it's just so much more irritating in French.

[quote] "Anything by the Jonas Brothers, my niece was really into them years ago"

Two of them are cute (Kevin & Nick), and that's all I ever need to know about them, R111. I can only imagine how annoying their musical output is. No thanks.

R112 you are so hip and smart.

We are the World.

Please, r124, share with us some of the best music of the last 30 years? Just five songs, perhaps. Ten if you're feeling generous.

Most everything by Queen -- "Bohemian Rhapsody", "I've Paid My Dues" etc.

R126 no you DL bitch.

I find “Single Ladies” by Beyoncé to be one of the most annoying songs ever created.

R129, it sounds like a video game glitch repeated over and over again.

Until yesterday I had completely forgotten this abortion of a song. This is horrendous! Can anyone really say they like it? It sounds like Dave just pressed "demo" on a casio keyboard and Annie sang over the top of it. It makes me want to rip my eardrums out.

(Incidentally, Touch seems to be a really terrible album all up, with the exception of "Here Comes the Rain Again". But as always, willing to be proved wrong).

I loved this song, & especially the video! Annie was so hammy in it.

How dare they include Cotton Eye Joe on that list

And in “Spanish”

Mariah Carey. I'm sorry but I hated her songs because they played them over and over at work. I would nearly drive off the road trying to change the station if one of songs came on.

Ebony and Ivory

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

Walking in Sunshine

Silly Love Songs

Dance Monkey

R101, who doesn't like "the shit they put out now," is one of those people who doesn't know what "they" are "putting out" (sic) now, shit or not.

Always Forever by Donna Lewis

I really hated that Shallow song by Gaga.

Afternoon Delight.

I Should Be So Lucky is a classic.

Stupid list.

The Stock Aitken Waterman sound is very jarring to the unacclimated ears.

Love it, or hate it?

Depends on my mood.

All About That Bass

Bump

r146 ... Bump, Bump

“It’s fat girl o’clock yeah it’s thick thirty”

'Wannabe' - the Spice Girls

I hated this song even as a young teen/member of its target audience. Awful.

Feelings by Morris Albert. It's nauseating.

I hate this song.

You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone. Kill yourself.

Ugh.

"Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats

"She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5. I want to punch someone or myself whenever I hear Levine's voice on the chorus.

r149 It's great for hookup profiles, though.

If you wanna be my lover, you GOTTA get with my friends

daddy has bills to pay.

My Lucky Number; Lena Lovich

"Sugar Shack" was the worst song of all time. (Well, maybe until "Afternoon Delight" came along.)

Ebony and Ivory.

That's What Friends Are For.

Nickelback, How You Remind Me. Still played incessantly on rock radio. Whyyyyyyyyy?