Most Overrated Songs
 

This thread is basically just what the title says. Say what song you think is really overrated, and why.

Some of you will want to kill me for the song I'm posting:



I know lot of people love Nirvana, but this band never excited me and it never will. Well, maybe this is related to the fact that one of my cousins, when she was 16, had crush on Kurt Cobain and admired him for wanting to know how bullets tasted like. You can't imagine how annoying she was.

"Gangnam Style" and "Blurred Lines." End of story!

Some of you may remember this one: "Macarena". 'Nuff said.

Anything by Bob Dylan or John Lennon. "Imagine", in particular - one of the most banal songs I've ever heard, yet most people act like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

"Satisfaction" (and most other of their music) by the Rolling Stones. DEVO's was better.

Also anything by "Weird Al" Yankevic. His videos are funny though.

Bohemian Rhapsody. It's like 10 minutes long with only the last 2 being any good.

Yeah! Screw Yankevic! "Weird Al" Yankovic is so much better.

And the Rolling Stones? I know a transsexual hippie cartoonist (yes, all for real) who dislikes that band. And why shouldn't she, when that band has songs like "Under My Thumb", about a man who has a woman is said situation?

Type 97: To be fair, I'd never say Mick Jagger WASN'T a misogynist, but lots of famous musicians are bad with that, and worse. John Lennon hit women, including his first wife, yet women love him. Jimmy Page had his manager KIDNAP a 14-year-old girl in 1972 so he could have sex with her, and kept her locked away in secret for years so he couldn't be brought up on charges for sexually abusing a minor (for what it's worth, the girl, Lori Maddox, swears it was one of the greatest things that ever happened to her, go figure). People still love Led Zeppelin. These aren't "Maybe they did these things," these are things that actually happened that people have decided don't matter, because the people in question make pretty music.

My point being, nobody should expect musicians to be saints. Most of these people seek to become celebrities in the first place because they have some kind of personality disorder that makes them crave attention, and they believe normal "rules" of society don't apply to them. People can accept that musicians (and famous people in general) are scumbags, OR they can just never listen to music at all. :lol:

More to the topic: I'd say anything by The Grateful Dead. I am positive that they are the absolute sh*ttiest band that ever recorded anything in the history of music.

I suppose if I were to pick any single song, it would be "We Are The World", which got so much praise for its good intentions. Musically, it isn't very good.

Along the same vein, Do They Know It's Christmas is kinda obnoxious as well.

Bob Geldof himself has come to hate the song.

Anything by Justin Bieber. I swear, none of his songs are worthwhile to listen to.

And what about this?

That song is great. Nothing wrong with a catchy bubblegum pop song once in awhile.

Not a big fan of Blurred Lines and I can't understand how anyone could enjoy anything put out by Macklemore besides Thrift Shop.

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song was the most overrated piece of crap. There was nothing catchy or funny there.

I personally love Carly Rae Jepsen and "Call Me Maybe" and don't think it's overrated at all.

One that is overrated: "Friday" by Rebecca Black. So horrible.

This is a parody of Rebecca Black's Friday song.

It's called 'Rebecca Jack', for reasons that present themselves straight away.

"Friday" overrated? Did anyone ever take that song seriously? :lol:

Friday is not overrated, it's fuc*ing great!

12 year old kids driving, yay!

Have to disagree with you here. Rebecca Black's voice is horrible in that song.

People look at me funny when I start talking about music I hate, but here goes. And yes I do find these overrated. Anything by lil wayne, drake, Nikki minaj, or ymcmb period. That popping tags song. Gangnam style, sexy and I know it. All those teach a dance songs. Anything by Taylor swift. Pretty much everything new.


I sound like an old man

I'll agree with you on everything, except Taylor Swift. She was very good when she first started out in Country. She's just okay today, however. I mean, songs like "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "Everything Has Changed" are fun, but they aren't the greatest.

Plus, "Gangnam Style" is guilty pleasure.

I would say it would have to be the Harlem Shake. While it isn't arguably a 'song' and more of something to dance to, it's just that. The dance really bothered me onto all ends, even when I heard it during school hours.

It only got worse once I kept hearing about the Harlem Shake vs. Gangnam Style. (I would've picked neither, anyways. :trazz:)

I fixed it. Haha

Pretty much every artist has a popular song or two that gets more praise and more attention than it deserves. "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden; "Walk" by Pantera; "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest and "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin come to my mind.

It's funny you mention that song, I'm listening to it right now :lol:

Ain't nobody gonna dis Pantera on my watch, son...

...although I do far prefer "Cowboys From Hell" to "Walk".

Thanks for putting me in a Pantera mood, though. I'm gonna go listen to 'em right now. I swear, every time I put on their Greatest Hits album, I can almost taste blood and human flesh. "Hole in the SKYYYYYYYYY....!!!" :tgrin::tgrin::tgrin:

Hey, nothing against Pantera here. In fact, I even wore my Pantera hoodie today. I just find "Walk" a tad overplayed and overrated. It has a cool solo, and that's it.

I wish their cover of "Cat Scratch Fever" got more play. It's stripper-ific. :tgrin:

Can't decide whether I like theirs or Motörhead's cover of that song more. Also, I kinda like Pantera's cover of Planet Caravan.

This is blasphemy but I don't love Motorhead as others do. Pantera 110% all the way.

"Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Black Sabbath... IT'S GODDAMN ELECTRIC!!!" :tgrin::tgrin::tgrin:

Any cover of Whiskey in the Jar, even Metallica's.

Anything that's popular could been seen as being overrated. But we all like what we like. Pop music is waaaaayyyy overrated to me, but then again I like stuff that's Goddamn Electric. Foo fighters are overrated to me, Dave just bores me. Liked the earlier stuff, everlong and that. Some bands just explode like Nirvana into fame. They are surely awesome but probably overrated given the fame. I personally find Type-O Negative to be more awesome myself and they are so underrated. With both singers gone we can only enjoy the music.

Every song is overrated.

Even Thin Lizzy's? 'Cause for me, that's the definitive version.

Thrift Shop? (That's all that comes to my mind with that line.) Yeah, that song is overrated.

In particular:

Kelly Clarkson's "Whatever Makes You Stronger"
Carly Rae Jansen's "Call Me Maybe"
Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

Most Top 40 stuff since 2000