Well folks, 2009 is almost at an end. (OK, I know it isn't but bear with me here) And what a year it's been for music. The BRiT awards continue to speed downhill to the valley of shitiness, Speech Debelle won the Mercury Prize award, Them Crooked Vultures are proving that Super Groups don't suck and Oasis (quite possibly the biggest band of the last 18 years) finally had one spat too many.
Of course it wasn't all good news, music also started to run down the shitter. And if last year's wildly successful (for me anyway) thread was anything to go by, you lot have a lot to say about what's shit and what isn't. So, opening slightly earlier this year I present to you the Unofficial Official Escapist Worst Songs Of 2009 Thread.
This year there is a twist though. Instead of just listing what we all think is the worst song individually; why don't we, the Escapist forum, collectively decide on the absolute worst song of 2009? From now til November the 29th this thread will be used to offer suggestions on the worst songs of the year. At 6pm on November the 29th, the suggestion phase will shut and I will tally up the votes. The 32 with the most votes will then be written onto scraps of paper and randomly, one by one, be drawn out of a hat. This will create a scenario which will pit them against each other in 1v1 matchups starting on November 30th and each day we will lose one song until eventually we have decided on a winner to take home the prestigeous prize.
Sound simple? Maybe in how I've worded it it doesn't but let's just lay down the ground rules.
1] Only music released in 2009, obviously. Re-releases are allowed but, again, as long as they were released or charted this year. So we are all allowed to get the shotguns out on Lady GaGa.
2] I understand that the suggestion phase is a little early this year and may shut a little early. So if a song of quality that is so bad, so tripe, so utterly awful that it has to be thrown in, it will be. Just bring it to my attention.
3] Don't say "This Year's X Factor Winner" for four reasons. a)It's not out yet. b) It's akin to shooting fish in a barrel with a fully loaded Fat Man switched to automatic. c) It's guarranteed to be shit putting it at an unfair advantage and d) It's giving it way too much credit. "Hero" was nominated for the Best Single BRiT Award this year! Do we really want to give Simon Cowell the satisfaction that we are talking about him? Alexandra Burkre is fine to rag on by the way.
4] You must explain why you chose each song
So now that the intro is out of the way, let's kick off with some suggestions.
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow And to think that I was excited for the Black Eyed Peas to return.
Lady GaGa - Just Dance Annoying, pretentious, out of date shite that still fails to just roll over and fucking die.
Anything that brokeNCYDE have done, are doing and are planning to do in the future The Four Horsemen called. They said they'll be here just after tea time.
So then, ideas. Suggestions. Let's get the ball rolling.
Of course it wasn't all good news, music also started to run down the shitter. And if last year's wildly successful (for me anyway) thread was anything to go by, you lot have a lot to say about what's shit and what isn't. So, opening slightly earlier this year I present to you the Unofficial Official Escapist Worst Songs Of 2009 Thread.
This year there is a twist though. Instead of just listing what we all think is the worst song individually; why don't we, the Escapist forum, collectively decide on the absolute worst song of 2009? From now til November the 29th this thread will be used to offer suggestions on the worst songs of the year. At 6pm on November the 29th, the suggestion phase will shut and I will tally up the votes. The 32 with the most votes will then be written onto scraps of paper and randomly, one by one, be drawn out of a hat. This will create a scenario which will pit them against each other in 1v1 matchups starting on November 30th and each day we will lose one song until eventually we have decided on a winner to take home the prestigeous prize.
Sound simple? Maybe in how I've worded it it doesn't but let's just lay down the ground rules.
1] Only music released in 2009, obviously. Re-releases are allowed but, again, as long as they were released or charted this year. So we are all allowed to get the shotguns out on Lady GaGa.
2] I understand that the suggestion phase is a little early this year and may shut a little early. So if a song of quality that is so bad, so tripe, so utterly awful that it has to be thrown in, it will be. Just bring it to my attention.
3] Don't say "This Year's X Factor Winner" for four reasons. a)It's not out yet. b) It's akin to shooting fish in a barrel with a fully loaded Fat Man switched to automatic. c) It's guarranteed to be shit putting it at an unfair advantage and d) It's giving it way too much credit. "Hero" was nominated for the Best Single BRiT Award this year! Do we really want to give Simon Cowell the satisfaction that we are talking about him? Alexandra Burkre is fine to rag on by the way.
4] You must explain why you chose each song
So now that the intro is out of the way, let's kick off with some suggestions.
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow And to think that I was excited for the Black Eyed Peas to return.
Lady GaGa - Just Dance Annoying, pretentious, out of date shite that still fails to just roll over and fucking die.
Anything that brokeNCYDE have done, are doing and are planning to do in the future The Four Horsemen called. They said they'll be here just after tea time.
So then, ideas. Suggestions. Let's get the ball rolling.
