What's the most overrated song ever?

[Kenbo Slice]

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.

 

[ItouKaiji]

I like the song and I don't think it's all that overrated. It's considered a classic for sure, but maybe just among your group of friends is it so overrated. I really don't hear it brought up all the time, or at least any more than any other song. Although I do tend to listen to it when it gets mentioned. It tells a pretty clear story which I dig.

If we're talking about overrated then I'd be more likely to put forward Nirvana. I don't think they're bad, but I also don't think the songs are anything special. I get why Nirvana is revered, they did capture something about the early 90s and then Kobain's suicide sealed their legacy.

But meh, it's all personal taste anyway.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

A small question for clarification: Are you talking about songs that seem to be universally loved even though you don't think they are actually very good? Or are you referring to what I call "being Top-Fortied to Death"?

What I mean by the latter are those songs that are played on EVERY radio station ALL THE TIME until you just want to rip the radio out of your dashboard and hurl it into a ditch.

If you mean the former? I'm not sure. There are some songs/groups that I have no taste for that seem to be really popular in other circles. Nirvana, for example, just doesn't appeal to me but I know a large number of people that love Cobain's work.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

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.

 

[Ritualist]

Anything by Taylor Swift.
Maybe YOU'RE the problem Taylor. Maybe YOU'RE the problem.
Grumpy face.

 

[Weaver]

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.

 

[ThreeName]

Lies. I fucking love Queen.


OT:

Congrats, you know how to use an autotune and make a simple-ass drum pattern. Come back when you learn how to write music.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

Every single fucking meme song ever.

Yes, it's wacky and unconventional. No it isn't funny. Stop it.

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

Stairway
Bohemian Rhapsody
Smells like teen spirit

Get rid of them.

 

[mechalynx]

Imagine. Ity's nice and all, but it don't see why it should top the list each year.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Lies. I fucking love Queen.


OT:

Congrats, you know how to use an autotune and make a simple-ass drum pattern. Come back when you learn how to write music.

Not that i disagree with you, but sadly that's probably the best song on the radio right now. Robin Thicke's "Blurred lines" Makes me hope for a nuclear holocaust or the sun to implode or something. I sincerely believe that the race which allowed that to become a big hit does not deserve to exist anymore.

A lot of Queen stuff is pretty overrated. I do like bohemian, but why the hell did We Will Rock You and fucking Bicycle end up being some of their legacy songs?

Spoiler: Especially since Queen has much better songs that nobody seems to know about.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well, this page will be exquisitely painful to read.

OT: "F**k You" by Cee Lo Green is apparently the best song our culture has put out since Beethoven, according to everyone I ever talk to.

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[FlashBack211]

Teen spirit, but I hate Nirvana. I quite like it but I get the point about Bohemian Rhapsody, that's a lot of credit for a song that pales in comparison to a lot of Queens other songs. As for Gangnam style, every time I mention it or encounter it in any way, I have surgery to have it removed from my brain...now, if you'll excuse me, I have a doctors appointment.

 

[Nazulu]

Yeah, Bohemian Rhapsody does get mentioned too often. However, I prefer that a lot more than Smells Like Teen Spirit or other more basic pop songs since it at least doesn't have the typical pop song layout, and it does change a lot, and the mock opera bit is something different as well. It is a great song so I guess I'm not too bothered that it's mentioned almost every time, but I do believe there are songs that have done more.

Same goes for Stairway To Heaven. Different structure again and it's designed in such a way that it feels like it's taking you on a journey (more than any Journey song. Yeah, take that Journey fans), and it just gets more exciting as it goes. That's right forum goers, you should try to understand why these songs are so popular. You also have to remember that they are commercial enough for most people to get into as well.

Hardly any of the songs I believe are the best make it to any list, but we can't all have it our way, can we. Oh well.

 

[Lost In The Void]

Every song ever is overrated. There I have now out hipstered everyone, we can go home now and talk about how music is subjective and thus nothing can truly be 'overrated'

 

[Silvanus]

Most definitely this.

In my old hometown, there were two clubs (terrible ones). Whenever I was roped into one of them, this song would always be played. More than once.


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.

 

[Robot Number V]

Though the music itself is actually pretty damn catchy, I'm gonna go with "Blurred Lines", simply because the lyrics seem to be about dude-bros deciding to rape someone because they're tired of having to ask permission before fucking someone. In the approximate words of a minor internet personality, "The lines he's talking about are the lines of CONSENT."

How anyone listens to the line "I know you want it" without cringing a little is beyond me.