What's the most overrated song ever?

[Daymo]

Smells like teen spirit, I don't hate grunge, I don't even hate Nirvana, it's just this one song sounds so muffled and awful and really has no quality to it that makes it stand out from other grunge songs, yet this is the one song to represent the entire genre, I don't get it.

 

[DragonLordSerge]

i would say Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven and John Lennon Imagine are the 2 that come to mind

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Can a song even be overrated? I was not aware that they can be.

Or maybe I just pay more attention to my own musical taste.

 

[mrdude2010]

It's a fairly simple question that needs no explanation, so I'm going to get straight to the point.

This is the most overrated song, ever in my opinion. People worship this song likes God wrote it himself. I can't spend a day online or around certain friends without them circle jerking over this song. It's gotten to the point where if it's on the radio I have to change the station.

This was pretty much what I was going to say. Don't get me wrong, I like it, and it's a good song, but the internet circlejerking over it has kind of made me want to avoid it.

 

[Maze1125]

It's a fairly simple question that needs no explanation, so I'm going to get straight to the point.

This is the most overrated song, ever in my opinion. People worship this song likes God wrote it himself. I can't spend a day online or around certain friends without them circle jerking over this song. It's gotten to the point where if it's on the radio I have to change the station.

When I read the thread title, I knew exactly what song this thread was going to be about...
Seriously dude, you're not the first guy in the world to get annoyed that everyone likes BR, you're not special.

BH gets repeatedly voted the best song ever written by people who like it and repeatedly voted the worst song ever by people who are pissed off at the first group.

But, hey, that happens with everything that people like. How many freaking threads have there been titled "What's so great about Half-Life 2?" It doesn't matter how good something is, there's going to be a small group of people who feel the need constantly talk about how they hate it.

Threads like these prove nothing. If anything they prove how how good most the songs mention here really are, because if they weren't good then you all wouldn't feel the need to complain about them.

 

[Auron225]

Oh damn... it's too hard to pick just one 0.0 So many songs I'd will out of existence if I could. I can't narrow it down any further than this though;

Soulja Boy - Crank That (How did this EVER get popular?)
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (The infuriating thing is, it's catchy... but the lyrics are disgusting)
Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Overplayed to the point of sheer lunacy)

I realize the 3 of them have already been mentioned, so to throw something else on the pyre;

Katy Perry - Fireworks

It's just not that good - why is it everywhere? All the time? Are those fireworks coming out of her tits?

 

[deathjavu]

Gangnam Style.

I just... didn't get it, and having it blasted at me everywhere from work dos to freaking school pantomimes did not help it either.

Its already been said, but Gangnam style. The song was average at best, and never would have caught on if not for its music video. Psy's stuff all sounds very similar to me, and its all very average.
Certainly not worthy of its seemingly godlike status it had for about 4 months straight.

Of course it doesn't make sense, it's in fucking Korean! Furthermore, it's (apparently) social commentary- South Korean social commentary. It DOUBLE doesn't make sense to foreigners. Non-koreans have pretty much nothing to measure the song on other than the computer beat. Oh and the dance, of course. Never thought I'd see another macarena outbreak in my lifetime, but there it is. No matter how incomprehensible the music, all you need is a sufficiently stupid dance.

Also? I STILL haven't listened to it in its entirety, have yet to see more than 10 seconds of it. HAH! Take that, "you've gotta watch this video lol!" asshats! I did not "gotta" and now I'm happier for it!

OT? Ima have to go with the ultrahipster dude that said "music is subjective" etc. Even if the music on the pop hits radio does make me want to carry a cane and shake it at people.

I guess I just subscribe to the theory that the absolute shittiest music will eventually be lost to time, hence I stay ~a decade behind the curve.

Who remembers any pop music from 2003? Anyone? No? I didn't think so.

 

[Jason Rayes]

For me it varies, anything that just gets too much air play. Ive had it numerous times where I actually don't mind a song a first and then its either on every radio station or every tv show and you just get sick of it. You change the station and I'll be fucked its the same godamn fucking song. It seriously shits me, this actually annoys me more than when its a song I've hated from the get go, that shit I never want to hear, but when I end up hating a song I originally liked because they whipped that dead horse til it was just bones...........ugh.

 

[SpAc3man]

A lot of songs that people moan about being overrated aren't necessarily considered the best songs offered by the band or genre.
They are remembered because they are the most influential songs. Smells Like Teen Spirit isn't Nirvana's best song. It's a good song but it is remembered because is was a key moment in the history of popular music. The same can be said for Bohemian Rhapsody. Not everyone's cup of tea, a view that applies to myself, but I'm not going to deny that it is possibly one of the greatest songs ever conceived when you consider how huge the influence was.

Songs are rated mainly on influence rather than how good they actually are.

 

[The_Echo]

Also, while I like a lot of what The Beatles came out with, I also think there's vast swathes of tedious stuff. They don't deserve that "best band of all TIME" label they often get.

Thank you.

I will never understand the appeal that the Beatles have, especially given they keep appealing decade after decade. In my opinion, their entire existence is overrated.

 

[Caiphus]

I don't know about overrated. I mean, people like what they like. I just know that I want to perform violent acts whenever anything from The Black Eyed Peas comes on the radio.

I mean srsly guys.

 

[mr wizard]

AC/DC - Back in Black.

Maybe it's just that every time I hear this song it's on the shittiest speaker/PA system imaginable, but I just don't like the song. Maybe I'm just sick of it.

Thank you!

Although I'd like to expand this to: Anything by AC/DC. I don't find the band all that offensive mind you. They even have a few songs I consider enjoyable. But for life of me, I can't understand how they get so much airplay on the radio, on soundtracks, commercials... whatever. It'd be one thing if those things would go through the AC/DC catalog and cherry pick more than 4 of their songs, but it's always Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill, Thunderstruck. Always.

If I had a music related prayer, it would be for God to send some different AC/DC CDs out to the radio stations of the world and let them try a different track every once in a while.

I would recommend going out and acquiring the Back in Black album. Probably the best album to come out of Australia.

EDIT: Oh crap, I was supposed to post something overrated. Erm...Pink comes to mind. I mean, come on, sitting at #1 on the ARIA charts while Horrorshow's new release is at #2? Come on. Enough butthurt over that, seriously overrated where I'm from. Also that Black Eyed Peas garbage that was being mentioned earlier I can't agree enough with.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

AC/DC - Back in Black.

Maybe it's just that every time I hear this song it's on the shittiest speaker/PA system imaginable, but I just don't like the song. Maybe I'm just sick of it.

Thank you!

Although I'd like to expand this to: Anything by AC/DC. I don't find the band all that offensive mind you. They even have a few songs I consider enjoyable. But for life of me, I can't understand how they get so much airplay on the radio, on soundtracks, commercials... whatever. It'd be one thing if those things would go through the AC/DC catalog and cherry pick more than 4 of their songs, but it's always Back in Black, Highway to Hell, Shoot to Thrill, Thunderstruck. Always.

If I had a music related prayer, it would be for God to send some different AC/DC CDs out to the radio stations of the world and let them try a different track every once in a while.

I would recommend going out and acquiring the Back in Black album. Probably the best album to come out of Australia.

EDIT: Oh crap, I was supposed to post something overrated. Erm...Pink comes to mind. I mean, come on, sitting at #1 on the ARIA charts while Horrorshow's new release is at #2? Come on. Enough butthurt over that, seriously overrated where I'm from. Also that Black Eyed Peas garbage that was being mentioned earlier I can't agree enough with.

I had the Back in Black album when it was a new release.

 

[Battenberg]

Money by Jessie J. I don't like Jessie J as it is but this song is, I think, the most hypocritical song I have ever heard.

I'm sorry but it blatantly is all about the money money money Jessie, how big a mansion did that song buy you in the end?

 

[lacktheknack]

There are a ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE ammount of overated songs.

Bohemian rhapsody is overated. A ok song, but is very overated.

Abba is one of the most overated bands in existance! Their songs are bland, whiney, drivel.
It's nothing more that a sickly wall of sound! They sound like
Blah, blah, blah, wahhhhhhh, whinne, wahhhhhhhh.

All the beatles songs are grotesquely overated garbage.

All of the beatles on their own are grotesquely overated garbage.
John Lennons garbage, especially. Imagine is sickly, vomititious, trite, cretinous, garbage!

The rolling stones songs are grotesquely overated garbage.

Your "overrated" thread posts are fun to read, but they don't actually explain anything. They only rage about has trash things are, but your reasoning is "because it is grotesque".

May I please ask WHY you don't like these bands? See if you can do it in two adjectives or less.

 

[kasperbbs]

Most of Michael Jacksons stuff and the Beatles, but it really just comes down to the fact that i don't like their music. And yeah, i can't imagine how Bohemian rhapsody got popular, but i don't really hear it playing anywhere.