Top 10 Worst Songs of 2023

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  • Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
  • Stinky stuff.
    Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town
    • Jason Aldean - Try Tha...
    TX2 - I Would Hate Me Too
    • TX2 - "I Would Hate Me...
    Falling in Reverse - Watch the World Burn
    • Falling In Reverse - "...
    Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond
    • Oliver Anthony - Rich ...
    Forgiato Blow - Boycott Target
    • Boycott Target - Forgi...
    Meghan Trainor - Mother
    • Meghan Trainor - Mothe...
    Grimes & Illangelo - I Wanna Be Software
    • I Wanna Be Software
    Kodak Black - No Love for a Thug
    • Kodak Black - No Love ...
    Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start the Fire
    • Fall Out Boy - We Didn...
    Donald J. Trump & J6 Prison Choir - Justice for All
    • Justice for All
    Honorable Mentions
    Colleen Ballinger - Toxic Gossip Train
    • Reviewing Colleen Ball...
    Anna Indiana - Betrayed by This Town
    • This AI Song Is Terrible
    BoyWithUke's Optimally Bad Song
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  • @varg1231
    @varg1231 5 місяців тому +1059

    Fun fact: Jason Aldean had four writers on that song that weren’t him, and he lives in a literal mansion while talking about working blue collar jobs in his songs. The man himself is a lie.

    • @skoop651
      @skoop651 5 місяців тому +2

      As if he was always rich

    • @pickles224
      @pickles224 5 місяців тому

      To his credit, you can technically have a mansion and live in a small town at the same time.
      But also, he’s an idiot and the song is absolutely awful.

    • @silvaskiproductions3937
      @silvaskiproductions3937 5 місяців тому +83

      4 writers for *that* is baffling

    • @kayleeblack4303
      @kayleeblack4303 5 місяців тому +10

      How many rappers make songs about the streets when they come from the suburbs (Drake)? It's cringe regardless.

    • @Yggdraseed
      @Yggdraseed 5 місяців тому +39

      @@kayleeblack4303 Well, Drake doesn't try to politically posture as some working class hero, to my knowledge. I couldn't tell you much about the guy, he's far from any music I listen to, but he at least seems honest about who he is and how he lives, for better or for worse. The problem is that Aldean is some rich asshole trying to pass himself off as the salt of the earth.

  • @myleskinney7431
    @myleskinney7431 6 місяців тому +2788

    all of these artists should be very proud that they achieved the amazing feat of pushing Corey Feldman off the worst songs list.

    • @ProducedByRIFT
      @ProducedByRIFT 6 місяців тому +22

      ‘of 2023’

    • @meganigga3000
      @meganigga3000 6 місяців тому +78

      ​@@ProducedByRIFT Corey had a song released recently

    • @axeavier
      @axeavier 6 місяців тому +68

      corey feldman never had a a bad hit ever

    • @myleskinney7431
      @myleskinney7431 6 місяців тому +42

      @@axeavier lovin lies is on my sex playlist

    • @ricochetsixtyten
      @ricochetsixtyten 6 місяців тому +11

      I bet hes working hard to create a song that will get him on next years list

  • @ApocalypseMoose
    @ApocalypseMoose 6 місяців тому +2535

    As someone who has lived in a small town most of his life, we've had about 4-5 different meth labs/houses around our area busted over the past 20 years.

    • @alienboy1322
      @alienboy1322 6 місяців тому +82

      That's good news. But don't tell Jason that.

    • @slick3996
      @slick3996 6 місяців тому +161

      try having 6-7 meth labs in a small town

    • @ayyboilmao
      @ayyboilmao 6 місяців тому +131

      So you’re telling me I SHOULD try that in a small town

    • @RoguSpanish
      @RoguSpanish 6 місяців тому

      As long as no american (or confederate) flag catches fire when those meth labs explode, conservatives don't care.

    • @greatheightsu
      @greatheightsu 6 місяців тому +4

      That's pretty cool.

  • @willsmi89
    @willsmi89 6 місяців тому +929

    What I also think is so funny about the Jason Aldean track is that he isn’t even from an actual small town. He grew up Macon Georgia which has a population of around 150,000 and lived most of his life in Nashville. So like… what Fucking small town was he even talking about? LOL

    • @V3r0nicle
      @V3r0nicle 6 місяців тому +102

      What I find even more hilarious is even with that. Most of the people who like the song who usually bitch about "authenticity" in music will go on about how "real" the song is

    • @nejdalej
      @nejdalej 6 місяців тому +63

      The small town he made up in his mind?

    • @glor1fy975
      @glor1fy975 6 місяців тому +59

      People here think anything outside of Metro Atlanta is a small town. (Also he didn't even write the fucking song 4 Nashville songwriters did lmao)

    • @jamesboice2763
      @jamesboice2763 6 місяців тому +75

      it's all performance. he's like a hetero act writing gay love ballads. he doesn't fight or fix things with his hands or ride horses, he sits in his mansion while a team of pop producers write songs that appeal to meth County USA

    • @my-spinning-wheel
      @my-spinning-wheel 6 місяців тому +27

      I live in a conservative small town with a population under 1,000 and even though people are very conservative (including myself) they would never act in a way that that song reflects lol...there are crazy people out there but most normal people are normal.

  • @rouge939
    @rouge939 6 місяців тому +4029

    *Insert unfunny played out joke about To Pimp a Butterfly here*

    • @peepnox7747
      @peepnox7747 6 місяців тому +196

      my pet rock died :(

    • @whaleblubber7380
      @whaleblubber7380 6 місяців тому +199

      Could’ve just posted the first half of that sentence & it would sum up his entire comment section

    • @kingkai2000
      @kingkai2000 6 місяців тому +55

      Fantano I'm very confused why all the songs on this list are TPAB songs considering you gave that album a 10/10

    • @elstovon
      @elstovon 6 місяців тому +38

      Finally the tides are turning

    • @shenanigansforsure
      @shenanigansforsure 6 місяців тому +26

      Thank you for saying this

  • @SpareMango
    @SpareMango 6 місяців тому +2851

    Hot take: conservative grifters shouldn't even be included in this. We all know tom macdonald and his sidekicks make terrible music, including them in this feels cheap and wastes spots for honest and interesting terrible attempts at music.
    It's also tiring to have to hear about tom macdonald clones 50 times a day when end of year lists come out

    • @slightexag
      @slightexag 6 місяців тому +227

      tom isn't relevant enough to be on a list. it legitimizes it as actual music, which it isn't

    • @guitarmaniac004
      @guitarmaniac004 6 місяців тому +53

      @@slightexag but that's the point. Tom has been excluded from anthony's lists for this very thing. I am not in Jason Aldean's fanbase at all, but I never would've heard of him if it wasn't for this video.

    • @yurifairy2969
      @yurifairy2969 6 місяців тому +265

      jason aldean isn't just a grifter, he's also massively popular. he's worth calling out.

    • @beigegecko
      @beigegecko 6 місяців тому +6

      forgiatto blow does simply because it’s fucking catchy and i hate it for it

    • @xmattx315
      @xmattx315 6 місяців тому +92

      It sucks, half of these tracks are fascist nonsense. Melon should stop giving them sunlight even if it’s dunking on them

  • @bigsoulja73
    @bigsoulja73 6 місяців тому +402

    I don’t particularly care for the Rich men north of Richmond song, but I think it being higher then the Boycott Target song is crazy.

    • @xenon5493
      @xenon5493 5 місяців тому +25

      Fr. Boycott target is HORRIBLE. At least the dude singing rich men can at least "sing" (I put that in quotes because he oversings like a mf)

    • @grantm2303
      @grantm2303 5 місяців тому +19

      he claims the songs about slavery. he is quite literally the only person who thinks that.

    • @futileexistence6913
      @futileexistence6913 5 місяців тому +7

      ​@@grantm2303he wrote the song so he chooses the meaning of the song

    • @stormblade2895
      @stormblade2895 5 місяців тому +13

      ​@@futileexistence6913art is up to the interpreter

    • @futileexistence6913
      @futileexistence6913 5 місяців тому

      @@stormblade2895 you definitely thought American psycho was about a big Chad alpha sigma doing big Chad alpha sigma things and not a mentality deranged individual

  • @andromedarainlight
    @andromedarainlight 4 місяці тому +21

    "Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 Prison Choir's Justice for All" was a sentence that felt like being hit point blank in the face by a fire hose.

  • @deshaunwatsonsmasseuse2371
    @deshaunwatsonsmasseuse2371 6 місяців тому +1419

    You just hate Falling in Reverse because your life isn’t a video game.

    • @V3r0nicle
      @V3r0nicle 6 місяців тому +158

      He ain't trying hard enough to beat the stage

    • @RohanAgrawalpeepeepoopoo
      @RohanAgrawalpeepeepoopoo 6 місяців тому +114

      But he can’t do that while still collecting coins

    • @gnasheroffthewall
      @gnasheroffthewall 6 місяців тому +100

      bro is NOT growing up to be a big boy

    • @Hi-fd4cw
      @Hi-fd4cw 6 місяців тому +38

      He does have an uncanny resemblance to his Smash main, Pacman

    • @s4ltenj0y3r
      @s4ltenj0y3r 5 місяців тому +20

      he’s not even trying hard to save the girl

  • @tungochuy
    @tungochuy 6 місяців тому +492

    Grimes is on her way to be everything ArtAngels doesn't have 😭

    • @wetlikewash8055
      @wetlikewash8055 6 місяців тому +92

      Elon ruins everything he touches😔

    • @gracemoseley6710
      @gracemoseley6710 6 місяців тому +102

      Art Angels was so good. Ugh I miss old Grimes.

    • @pyker1
      @pyker1 6 місяців тому

      @@wetlikewash8055?

    • @angel_of_rust
      @angel_of_rust 6 місяців тому

      Grimes didn't bathe whether or not Elon existed though@@wetlikewash8055

    • @floweryhue1214
      @floweryhue1214 6 місяців тому +88

      us grimes fans moved to yeule since.....

  • @RockedNet
    @RockedNet 6 місяців тому +557

    I had to work a show as a photographer with Falling In Reverse supporting A7X this year. During FIR's set, they did a cover of Smash Mouth's "All Star" filled with f bombs and him yelling at girls in the crowd.
    It still sounded better than "Watch The World Burn".

    • @GoTE_DocShock
      @GoTE_DocShock 5 місяців тому +12

      It was the heaviest song he ever played that night! And the lights were all green!

    • @rudeboyspodcast
      @rudeboyspodcast 5 місяців тому +8

      Yo, Rocked! I love your vids, dude.

    • @masterseal0418
      @masterseal0418 5 місяців тому +2

      At least it wasn't as bad as FIR's Gangster's Paradise cover, lol.

  • @gavinmahoney5402
    @gavinmahoney5402 6 місяців тому +346

    there are not 5 songs this year worse than Meghan Trainor's Mother and you know it

    • @default0467
      @default0467 6 місяців тому +31

      for me, at least rich men north of richmond is kind of a banger compared to other country tracks in this day and age. Regardless of the true political meaning, it doesn't enrage me like mother does

    • @deviantmoore9744
      @deviantmoore9744 6 місяців тому +9

      'I Would Hate Me Too' is worse.

    • @MelMelodyWerner
      @MelMelodyWerner 5 місяців тому +1

      I mean, if you want songs in general, the entirety of both the Blødúlvur and Kapnas albums are far worse. Blødúlvur may very well contain the worst music of all time; it is physically painful to listen to. even as a diehard metalhead who's loved her fair share of bricked records, that shit is SO badly mixed and devoid of any interesting riffage that it is the textbook definition of unlistenable.

    • @moose891
      @moose891 5 місяців тому +1

      Take the 2 hits Miley Cyrus had and that Last Night song and you're already over halfway there.

    • @argon7624
      @argon7624 5 місяців тому +5

      Idk i feel like the song inspiring people to lynch "them city folk *wink*" is a lot worse than an out of touch woman without original ideas or musical talent to back that lack up.

  • @kelleyreeves965
    @kelleyreeves965 6 місяців тому +558

    honorable mentions
    0:30 BoyWithUke's Optimally Bad Song
    1:02 Anna Indiana - Betrayed by This Town
    1:57 Colleen Ballinger - Toxic Gossip Train
    actual list
    2:33 Donald J. Trump & J6 Prison Choir - Justice for All
    3:33 Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start the Fire
    4:57 Kodak Black - No Love for a Thug
    5:43 Grimes & Illangelo - I Wanna Be Software
    7:05 Meghan Trainor - Mother
    8:06 Forgiato Blow - Boycott Target
    9:27 Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond
    11:26 Falling in Reverse - Watch the World Burn
    13:04 TX2 - I Would Hate Me Too
    14:08 Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town

    • @tylerchatham7093
      @tylerchatham7093 6 місяців тому +64

      Congratulations to Tom MacDonald for missing the cut

    • @daniellavaladez7820
      @daniellavaladez7820 6 місяців тому +6

      @@tylerchatham7093I’m honestly surprised him and Adam Calhoun didn’t make the list

    • @joaquin5929
      @joaquin5929 6 місяців тому +5

      @@daniellavaladez7820Fantano was just making him bigger when mentioning him 😂

    • @leftisbest7173
      @leftisbest7173 6 місяців тому +2

      ​@@tylerchatham7093 how did this horrible omission happen????

    • @mram7571
      @mram7571 6 місяців тому

      where is its getting hot by nle choppa

  • @bradleymartynsoldmedrugs1980
    @bradleymartynsoldmedrugs1980 6 місяців тому +114

    The lil uzi vert chop suey cover not being on this little should be a crime

    • @samt3412
      @samt3412 5 місяців тому +8

      I think the Fallout Boy cover should be replaced by CS. CS is so genuinely awful that it blows a mediocre We Didn't Start The Fire cover out of the water

    • @invrited8014
      @invrited8014 2 місяці тому +1

      @@samt3412L take

  • @kellybrincks
    @kellybrincks 6 місяців тому +176

    I love the bit where you refer to Radke as a singer songwriter. Classic

  • @fucnkooked
    @fucnkooked 6 місяців тому +71

    that Miranda sings song was actually for sale on iTunes for a little while, she only took it down after everyone called her out for it so its defs 'a single' in a way.

  • @FLUFFYCAT_PNW
    @FLUFFYCAT_PNW 6 місяців тому +596

    Man, you've been such a busy music nerd this year. Congrats to you on another year of music, UA-cam, Drake, and all the rest. Hope you and yours are well. Thank you for listening to all the music so i don't have to. It really makes life easier.

  • @mayitakeyourhatsir8632
    @mayitakeyourhatsir8632 6 місяців тому +78

    Huge Mark Wahlberg "I would have stopped 9/11" energy from that Jason Aldean track

  • @illiseanise
    @illiseanise 6 місяців тому +110

    A whole AJR album and not even a single song? Wow you must really love them.

    • @zacharywoloszynski4258
      @zacharywoloszynski4258 5 місяців тому +5

      Its not even that bad tbh

    • @AndroJonny95
      @AndroJonny95 5 місяців тому +9

      i unironically do not understand the ajr hate, they're really not that bad. nothing special sure, but perfectly fine and seem nice and genuine, and I've got a soft spot for a few tracks. i heard of them late so idk if their really early stuff is completely awful, but the last couple albums are decent enough

    • @benliss1591
      @benliss1591 5 місяців тому +10

      @@AndroJonny95listen to the song thirsty and you'll understand the hate

    • @emyyyxx
      @emyyyxx 5 місяців тому +1

      ⁠@@benliss1591within the first 15 seconds i started cracking up 😂😂😂😂 wow that’s something

    • @AndroJonny95
      @AndroJonny95 3 місяці тому

      @benliss1591 okay that is a bad song, and had i heard that first i probably wouldn't have bothered looking into them further, although that really doesn't seem representative of their more recent stuff, so my overall opinion hasn't changed. A lot of bands had some absolute trash in 2013, so i can't hold that against them too much 😂😂 but i do understand the hate a lil bit now, although still think it's overblown, their last couple albums are mediocre at worst, and pretty decent a lot of time time

  • @smashingairguitars
    @smashingairguitars 6 місяців тому +231

    Pat Finnerty's video on "Try That In A Small Town" was amazing. He ripped that song to pieces and it was well deserved.

  • @ParsnipPizza
    @ParsnipPizza 6 місяців тому +102

    Huge shoutout to the small town of Macon, GA. Just the beloved one horse stopover of 120,000+ people, about an hour from Atlanta

    • @eddiedingle767
      @eddiedingle767 6 місяців тому

      Macon Bacon, baby

    • @aR0ttenBANANA
      @aR0ttenBANANA 6 місяців тому +14

      And a blue town at that.

    • @The_Gake
      @The_Gake 6 місяців тому +1

      What happened there?

    • @RoguSpanish
      @RoguSpanish 6 місяців тому +25

      @@The_Gake That's where Jason Aldean is from. But hey, at least NOW he lives in a small town, in a huge mansion on an island off the coast of Florida. Just a small town country boy, he is!

    • @The_Gake
      @The_Gake 6 місяців тому

      lmao@@RoguSpanish

  • @BigOwl51
    @BigOwl51 6 місяців тому +144

    The fact that Jason Aldean is one of the best selling country singers OF ALL TIME is a crime against humanity. That man is the Maroon 5 of country, and Try That In A Small Town is only a small taste of how boring and generic his music can get. If anything, the fact that the song is political automatically makes it more interesting than 99% of his music, even if the politics are awful. Big Green Tractor is a banger though, I’ll give him that.

    • @J08Beats
      @J08Beats 6 місяців тому +4

      He’s best-selling of all time mainly from “Dirt Road Anthem” I feel like.

    • @marxman6896
      @marxman6896 6 місяців тому +15

      In fairness to Jason Aldean, he almost certainly doesn't write his own songs, or decide how to market himself. He's just a product for mouthbreathers to consume.

    • @undergroundkingz7969
      @undergroundkingz7969 6 місяців тому +3

      idk, as much as i dislike him and that song, he DOES have some bangers…

    • @undercookedtoast1479
      @undercookedtoast1479 5 місяців тому

      @@marxman68964 different people helped write Try That In A Small Town loooooooooooooooooool

    • @marxman6896
      @marxman6896 5 місяців тому

      @@undercookedtoast1479 Well yeah, you didn't think a modern country artist had any, like, creativity or talent, did you?

  • @YourLocalNobody420
    @YourLocalNobody420 6 місяців тому +75

    Didn’t expect fantano to sing every song on the list, let alone hitting every note perfectly.

  • @topthog
    @topthog 6 місяців тому +113

    Billie Joel's version of we didn't start the fire was year by year, it was a masterpiece because every line lead into and rhymed with the next, actually bringing you through history... Fall out boy just listed a load of shit that happened in a 30 year timespan... Absolute hogs trollop

    • @jeremywelker2642
      @jeremywelker2642 5 місяців тому

      Meh

    • @bamboozeled1227
      @bamboozeled1227 4 місяці тому +3

      I thought it was good…

    • @PyroFish2612
      @PyroFish2612 Місяць тому

      @@bamboozeled1227 Agreed, but maybe just because I’m a FOB fan, I thought it was one of the best covers ever.

  • @lilo5437
    @lilo5437 6 місяців тому +91

    Anthony saying “boots the house down” is something I never knew I needed

    • @lexcbaybee
      @lexcbaybee 6 місяців тому +8

      He really ate when he said that lol

    • @LifesNeverHumDrum
      @LifesNeverHumDrum 5 місяців тому +1

      @@lexcbaybeeand that’s on periodt

    • @rouge939
      @rouge939 22 дні тому

      Wtf does that even mean

  • @middaymeds
    @middaymeds 6 місяців тому +225

    Its a shame Back To Me by ¥$ hasnt dropped yet, because that songs either going in Anthony's worst songs list or best songs list, nowhere in between. Depends if he thinks the Kanye verse is absurdly hilarious and catchy or just lazy. Songs unique as that don't just fall out the sky, y'know.

    • @shashankdas4111
      @shashankdas4111 6 місяців тому +13

      I don't see anything about it to make his best songs list

    • @TrebleStarcrush
      @TrebleStarcrush 6 місяців тому +35

      That’s implying Kanye is going to release that album.

    • @CuttingGrass___
      @CuttingGrass___ 6 місяців тому +4

      ​@@shashankdas4111 he litreally raps a line from jay and silent bob it's not meant to be taken seriously

    • @icantusetwitch
      @icantusetwitch 6 місяців тому +13

      @@shashankdas4111because he thought kanye’s verse on 4th dimension was funny and he liked it. could be the same for back to me.

    • @elijahmoon5057
      @elijahmoon5057 6 місяців тому +3

      Don’t think it would be. A lot more terrible songs dropped this year at least Back 2 Me has some redeeming quality. I personally enjoy the song!

  • @northseapirate2313
    @northseapirate2313 6 місяців тому +78

    I work at a concert venue and before Jason sang “Try that in a Small Town” he went on some massive rant about cancel culture and how the “govment tryin’ to censure me”

    • @kennethgordon7900
      @kennethgordon7900 6 місяців тому

      They are - wake the f*** up. The Dept of Justice is working with big tech companies to censure content they don't like. The FBI told Facebook that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't real when they knew it was -- just to protect Joe Biden from criticism before the election. This is not opinion. It's a matter of public record.

    • @cassandracole4589
      @cassandracole4589 5 місяців тому +6

      From a paid staged concert event, Jason was silenced.

    • @GlitchStatix-oy8fn
      @GlitchStatix-oy8fn 23 дні тому

      It's not because of cancel culture, it's the governments and mainstream medias of the world that censors people.

    • @GlitchStatix-oy8fn
      @GlitchStatix-oy8fn 23 дні тому

      I'm getting censored right now trying to post this comment. Before he even made that song, the people who are aware of censorship knows that what you said in that comment is true. He never coined it.

  • @corncake4677
    @corncake4677 5 місяців тому +11

    DC is north of richmond. So the “Rich Men north of richmond” are the politicians. Although that dosen’t do much to make the song better it just shows that he isn’t really writin about like, rich corporations just congressmen

  • @dertodesking.
    @dertodesking. 6 місяців тому +74

    I think I had only heard the Grimes track out of these, and as terrible as that is, after checking out the other ones; the Grimes track sounds pretty good. Thank you Falling In Reverse!

    • @alexanderliu9376
      @alexanderliu9376 6 місяців тому +5

      Totally, it’s probably the most palatable of all the shit songs here. Not really saying much though, it’s still not good. Surprised the horrendous Fall Out Boy wasn’t way higher on the list

  • @SpawnRevenge92
    @SpawnRevenge92 6 місяців тому +29

    Still amazing to think Toxic Gossip Train really happened.

  • @dazman1972
    @dazman1972 6 місяців тому +28

    Honestly I love the Grimes tune. I'm a sucker for old school synth pop and this has shades of Pet Shop Boys for me

    • @frankwest7995
      @frankwest7995 5 місяців тому +2

      It’s one of my favorite songs of 2023

  • @lesam5015
    @lesam5015 6 місяців тому +36

    Pat Finnertys “why this song stinks” about try that in a small town is 100% worth a watch, really sheds light on how derivative the song (not genre generecism, it’s kind of plagiarism in some places) is and why jason Aldean just isn’t a great musician/performer beyond the lyrics to that dumpster fire

    • @Bitbatgaming
      @Bitbatgaming 5 місяців тому +1

      He’s an awesome UA-camr

    • @AnonymousuomynonA
      @AnonymousuomynonA 5 місяців тому

      but why does that warrant it being the worst song of the year? There are tons of rap music that is derivative as fuck, and talks about a lot more violent horrible shit than Aldean does.

    • @Bitbatgaming
      @Bitbatgaming 5 місяців тому +1

      It warrants it being the worst song of the year because of its overall messaging, and honestly you should a bit prejudiced@@AnonymousuomynonA

    • @AnonymousuomynonA
      @AnonymousuomynonA 5 місяців тому

      @@Bitbatgaming Yeah? What's the overall message of the hundreds of gangsterrap songs that talk about killing people, stealing, and dealing drugs?

    • @Bitbatgaming
      @Bitbatgaming 5 місяців тому +1

      @@AnonymousuomynonA you have a white hood in your closet. Not all raps songs are that and it’s very racist to assume.

  • @OlYables
    @OlYables 6 місяців тому +100

    A title like “Betrayed By This Town” hints that it could be a dark alt-country story song, but AI ain’t there yet.

    • @Hexmail787
      @Hexmail787 6 місяців тому +5

      Somebody get Jeff Tweedy on this

  • @BobDerGute84
    @BobDerGute84 6 місяців тому +55

    "Beep beep boop boop."
    - Antony Fantano, 2023

    • @vasvas8914
      @vasvas8914 6 місяців тому +1

      Racist

    • @seth131
      @seth131 5 місяців тому +1

      What a pitiful rebuttal.

  • @trobinson9342
    @trobinson9342 6 місяців тому +84

    In many years past the falling in reverse track would easily be the worst of the year but this year we got a truly special one.

  • @madizzle90
    @madizzle90 5 місяців тому +45

    The irony with Jason Aldean is that he’s spent much of his life in Nashville. Not exactly a small town.

    • @berrybluebird3842
      @berrybluebird3842 5 місяців тому +6

      In other words, a fraud.

    • @professorofsneakology3964
      @professorofsneakology3964 5 місяців тому +11

      He grew up in Macon, Georgia, which is also not a small town, and, conincidentally, the hometown of R.E.M.

    • @prettybueno1255
      @prettybueno1255 4 місяці тому +1

      @@professorofsneakology3964Hilarious when you consider that Macon is not only a large town but also is predominantly Black, which seems to be the demographic of “city folk” that he’s hinting to.
      R.E.M. is actually not from Macon, though. They’re from Athens.

    • @professorofsneakology3964
      @professorofsneakology3964 4 місяці тому

      @prettybueno1255 you are absolutely right. I a. Not sure why I was thinking R.E.M. was from Macon. I should have done my research.

  • @christopherlowery3797
    @christopherlowery3797 6 місяців тому +71

    The blessed worst-of lists, one of my favorite Christmas gifts 🎁

  • @globetrekker86
    @globetrekker86 5 місяців тому +9

    “Try that in a small town.”
    Oh, they are trying, Jason. Meth addiction is rife in quite a few of them

  • @Teebs1996
    @Teebs1996 5 місяців тому +38

    Hot take: Anthony is at his most entertaining to me when talking about the "worst" stuff.

  • @emrylmusic
    @emrylmusic 6 місяців тому +27

    Loved the carl wheezer impression at 13:24

  • @t.r.elliott1684
    @t.r.elliott1684 6 місяців тому +7

    I am so glad TX2 is on here. Industry plant just sucking up streams from braindead aesthetic chasing teenagers on the same label as so many talented artists. It upsets me so much and I'm glad you took a minute to acknowledge that horse piss.

  • @nathanmeaney2305
    @nathanmeaney2305 6 місяців тому +7

    Damn Fantano still taking Ls with that Oliver Anthony track. Can't accept that his interpretation is dead wrong lmao

  • @deztruct0823
    @deztruct0823 6 місяців тому +13

    "If you were nice that would make you special and interesting" so many people need to hear this

  • @chaeluvrr
    @chaeluvrr 6 місяців тому +19

    I still can’t fathom how Try That In A Small Town went number one, at least Seven blocked it from a debut at the top but it’s still crazy to me😭

    • @orange_penis
      @orange_penis 5 місяців тому

      What’s crazy bout it? U haven’t seen a song that softly promotes violence reach the top of the chart before?

  • @Boosker
    @Boosker 6 місяців тому +47

    I encourage everyone to listen to that "Justice For All" song. It is seriously uncanny..

    • @ObamaTheHedgehog
      @ObamaTheHedgehog 6 місяців тому

      When they say White People have no culture I point to this song. Checkmate

    • @JerzeyJimmy
      @JerzeyJimmy 6 місяців тому +7

      I'm not doing that but from the description melon gave I'm imagining something similar to an intro of something off one of ministry's bush-era albums

    • @OliviaCLTFC
      @OliviaCLTFC 6 місяців тому +9

      @@JerzeyJimmyeveryone wants to be tom waits nowadays but nobody’s willing to replicate his drinking habit.

    • @kangy3213
      @kangy3213 6 місяців тому +3

      WTF... was the choir recorded over a jail phone?

    • @manuling977
      @manuling977 6 місяців тому

      I’ll admit I actually did like it

  • @ericgeneric135
    @ericgeneric135 6 місяців тому +11

    What's even worse about the Aldean song is that he isn't even from a small town and he didn't even write the lyrics (Jason Isbell mocked him for that).

    • @kennethgordon7900
      @kennethgordon7900 6 місяців тому +1

      I 'did not know that country songs were directly from the artist's diary. So Johnny Cash really did kill a bunch of guys and Willie Nelson's a badass cowboy? Does that mean that Ice Cube really smoked a bunch of gangstas with his ak-47? Cause if Jason has to live in a small town to write about a small town, then everyone has to live their art.

  • @irishdlt8066
    @irishdlt8066 4 місяці тому +9

    That Rich Men North of Richmond take was insane. Saying it’s worse then
    1. The target song
    2. Megan’s mother song
    3. Every Tom McDonald track
    4. National Anthem (Trumps Version)
    5. Kodak falling asleep on the track
    Is crazzzzzzzy

  • @CranberryStrawberry
    @CranberryStrawberry 6 місяців тому +5

    Im on the left but this is just.. dunking on conservatives not the actual bad songs that came out this year from genuine artists ..

  • @thebigman8250
    @thebigman8250 5 місяців тому +4

    the precipitation of conservative brainrot in music over the past few years is truly astounding

  • @waterpistolaaron
    @waterpistolaaron 5 місяців тому +14

    Most "nerds" grow up to be beautiful artists, cool without trying, unique beings that we all obsess/lust over (or maybe it's just me). Grimes has Benjamin Buttoned TF outta that storyline though going from thr later to a try hard nerd that you're embarrassed to know.
    I mean, Grimes came into my life as this weird girl who had that "Man Repellant"-style that was so fucking intriguing, while featuring Brooke Candy, in her metallic stripper R2D2 look with insane platforms and white girl dreads, in her music video. She produced weird ethereal sounds with hypnotizing beats while claiming her biggest inspiration was Mariah Carey (like, what the actual fuck??). So fucking good!
    And now... this. She gives us this.😐😐😐
    I blame Elon Musk. He fucking ruins everything.

  • @fartexplosion4480
    @fartexplosion4480 6 місяців тому +17

    My guesses before even watching the video:
    10: David Guetta ft. Coi Leray and some other chick - What is Love
    9: Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town
    8: Lil Mabu - Mathematical Disrespect
    7: Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire
    6: If Tom McDonald came out with anything, put it here
    5: Jax - Cinderella Snapped
    4: Meghan Trainor - Mother
    3: Lil Pump - His stupid Trap/Heavy Metal awfulness
    2: Anna Indiana - Betrayed By This Town
    1: Colleen Ballinger - Toxic Gossip Train

    • @MannOfMen
      @MannOfMen 6 місяців тому +2

      5/10, see me after class

    • @thegreatandpowerfuldc5977
      @thegreatandpowerfuldc5977 5 місяців тому

      Toxic Gossip Train would definitely be my #1. And Jax definitely should've made the list.

  • @maxmedina5403
    @maxmedina5403 6 місяців тому +40

    Glad to see major music content creators, like Fantano and Pat Finnerty, dunking on that Jason Aldean track in the best way possible.

  • @RhapsodyHC
    @RhapsodyHC 6 місяців тому +13

    Political music is so tiring. I don’t understand how anyone can like music that panders so much.

    • @soydave1988
      @soydave1988 6 місяців тому +2

      That's what I wonder...like do they even realize that that they're being extremely pandered to, or do they know and just not care? Lol it's so weird

  • @Hubagubbasuperbowl
    @Hubagubbasuperbowl 6 місяців тому +14

    Jason? The same guy who ran off the Vegas stage when shots were being fired, and didn’t tell anyone else to get down? Too big a town

  • @Grace-tg4oy
    @Grace-tg4oy 5 місяців тому +5

    Grimes comes off as someone who wants to create cyberpunk art but doesn't understand what cyberpunk is. It's like she saw a still frame of Bladerunner and thought "That looks cool. :)" and has been trying to capture that essence ever since.

  • @jadegecko
    @jadegecko 6 місяців тому +37

    What I can't get over is that Fall Out Boy got the lyrics out of chronological order.
    That's, like, the conceit of the song. Each verse is a time capsule into a given decade or timespan.
    Meanwhile they willy-nilly pushed thirty years into the blender and said 'eh, nobody will notice'

  • @Livfree33
    @Livfree33 6 місяців тому +14

    That Grimes track sounds like a Devry University commercial.

  • @azurethecat
    @azurethecat 6 місяців тому +9

    worst songs list drops while twitter is down, immaculate timing.

    • @beigegecko
      @beigegecko 6 місяців тому +1

      is it? so on brand nowadays

  • @FlexForThoughtOrNotAThought
    @FlexForThoughtOrNotAThought 6 місяців тому +11

    Anyway,thank you for putting Mother and Watch A World Burn in top 10 worst songs of 2023,such an painfully to listen these song!😂
    Anyway,love you Fantano❤

  • @father042
    @father042 5 місяців тому +5

    This is less worst song list and more of a list of mediocre songs that Melon hates because of the politics

    • @Dimez757
      @Dimez757 5 місяців тому

      I’m more on the conservative side but I agree with him these songs are literally just trying to pander to the right side of the political spectrum.

    • @father042
      @father042 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Dimez757 True but he's fine with shitty songs when they pander to the left

    • @evanelston105
      @evanelston105 5 місяців тому

      @@father042 Buddy, not everything is a political battle. Give it up and get a life

    • @father042
      @father042 5 місяців тому +4

      @@evanelston105 You should tell that to Fantano

  • @Toopavix
    @Toopavix 6 місяців тому +11

    W fr on how he kept his word when he said he would put "watch the world burn" in one of the worst songs 😭😭😭😭

  • @SuperDrawBot
    @SuperDrawBot 5 місяців тому +5

    You know what I think a good version of "We Didn't Start the Fire of our generation"...? Funny Feeling by Bo Burnham. Dude can be a bit tacky but I do feel that song fits the description.

  • @Ne0nZombie
    @Ne0nZombie 2 місяці тому +4

    I had a feeling Colleen was gonna be here somehow lmao

  • @gwooseytunes5115
    @gwooseytunes5115 5 місяців тому +3

    dumbest part of of jason aldean's beautiful track "try that in a small town" is that he himself has never lived in one 💀 mans really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about

  • @toolatetocolonize
    @toolatetocolonize 6 місяців тому +6

    I’ll say the Plankton ai version of Toxic Gossip Train is veeeeeeeerrry listenable

  • @zaneridgley1054
    @zaneridgley1054 6 місяців тому +5

    I wonder if Anthony would have preferred rich men north of Richmond if it was about frivolous lawsuits against Sony?

  • @Underjoggle
    @Underjoggle 6 місяців тому +13

    maybe an odd thing to notice, but this video seems particularly well-lit, like you’re sitting under a skylight on a sunny day. good production 👍

  • @smurfette_blues7922
    @smurfette_blues7922 6 місяців тому +10

    All I took from this video is a clip of Anthony saying "boots the house down"

  • @noahbilling4493
    @noahbilling4493 6 місяців тому +27

    Anthony what the hell. I can't believe you would do this. I just can't believe it. Seriously how could you pull something like this. Unbelievable.

  • @chrisstorms4446
    @chrisstorms4446 6 місяців тому +11

    Great list!

  • @prod.natejalo1122
    @prod.natejalo1122 6 місяців тому +11

    chronically online vibes w this one
    edit: i couldn't escape that "try that in a small town" song. live in rural usa and that shit was on the radio 24/7. first time i heard it i was like no way he's saying that on a song. the whole song is unpatriotic as fuck. "try using your first amendment in a small town, see how far you make it"

  • @CinemaKnight
    @CinemaKnight 4 місяці тому +1

    4:30 Just went and read the Fall Out Boy lyrics, and on one hand some of the word choices just feel clunky in comparison to the original, but on the other hand (the history nerd part of me), part of the appeal of the Billy Joel version is that the events/people/things that he names are generally in chronological order from about 1949-1989 (Billy's entire life up to that point and a huge chunk of the Cold War), so even though they could be just a collection of disparate names, there is a clear progression that you can follow (each verse section can generally be separated into decades, ie. Harry Truman, Doris Day, to Little Rock, Pasternak, and so on). Fall Out Boy jumps from the 1990s to the 2020s back to the 2000s every half a bar, and so it is just a disparate collection of names with no sense of forward progression. Thank you for coming to my impromptu lecture on why I don't like a particular aspect of a Fall Out Boy song.

  • @luvkoaofficial
    @luvkoaofficial 6 місяців тому +11

    I loved all these tracks before this upload. Thank you for showing me the light Melon. Also Free🍉

  • @owen429
    @owen429 6 місяців тому +6

    Honestly these are more interesting than the best tracks lists. Super eclectic mix of tracks

  • @theriffwriter2194
    @theriffwriter2194 5 місяців тому +2

    I just discovered Pat Finnerty's channel. He breaks down "what makes this song stink" bar for bar and needless to says "Try That In A Small Town" doesn't have a single original chord progression. It's a great watch. Highly recommended!

  • @lemoneemelon8762
    @lemoneemelon8762 6 місяців тому +7

    I don't agree with you giving Trump the #1 song of the year just because you like his politics, but you do you Anthony

  • @emboldeneddave8134
    @emboldeneddave8134 6 місяців тому +6

    Anthony we know you’re bitter about Jpegmafia writing a diss track about you, but was there really any need to put BALD! on the worst list yet again?

  • @nucleus5141
    @nucleus5141 6 місяців тому +5

    the fact that Hi-rez's 2+2=5 didn't even make it in as honorable mention makes me think that either Melon didn't listen to it, or refused to bring it up out of sheer human decency. If it's the latter, I don't blame him.

  • @michaelceraweed
    @michaelceraweed 6 місяців тому +4

    as someone who is a HUGE Grimes fan and has been for the past 5 years, her music has become so soulless and unaware its baffling to me. Miss Anthropocene was one thing but songs like I Wanna Be Software and Shinigami Eyes had me genuinely shocked on how bad they were. listening to her older music sounds like a completely different artist. fingers crossed that somehow her next album will be better when it comes out in 80 years

  • @prod.trigod
    @prod.trigod 6 місяців тому +7

    Don't let this distract you from the fact that Anthon is pushing 60 💀

  • @shizzymcshizz
    @shizzymcshizz 6 місяців тому +5

    putting rich men north of richmond at #4 is weird. a bland outlaw country song with a vaguely populist conservative slant is worse than boycott target????

    • @flilix1
      @flilix1 6 місяців тому +2

      Look up the two videos he made about the song. Fantano completely misunderstood the song, brought up some conspiracy theories and doubled down on it.

    • @shizzymcshizz
      @shizzymcshizz 6 місяців тому +1

      @@flilix1 yea i’ve seen them, it was a pretty bad interpretation of the song. i don’t mind him hating the song, i just feel like he put the song on this list for the wrong reasons

  • @b3nzayizkoolyo
    @b3nzayizkoolyo 4 місяці тому +4

    The best drugs are in small towns

  • @turboshazed7370
    @turboshazed7370 6 місяців тому +12

    Ronnie is a walking spittoon

    • @adrianbyrdie
      @adrianbyrdie 6 місяців тому +1

      Welcome to the walking spitoon how chester are ya

    • @Vhs.dreams
      @Vhs.dreams 3 місяці тому

      Nah ya'll just don't have no music taste. Ronnie's songs are fire

    • @turboshazed7370
      @turboshazed7370 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Vhs.dreamsyour taste must taste like asshole then cause that's all you're gonna get with Runny RedPee.

  • @MidwesternMarx
    @MidwesternMarx 5 місяців тому +8

    Rich Men North of Richmond being higher than the Target song is sheer insanity. The Oliver Anthony song was based outside of the Fudge Rounds line.

    • @ewilcott
      @ewilcott 5 місяців тому

      Yeah but it also doesn't sound very good from a sonic perspective. Dude is oversinging like crazy.

    • @Mcxianyun
      @Mcxianyun 5 місяців тому +2

      Well the problem isn’t really the lyrics it’s the man behind it, who is batshit. Also the whole “north of Richmond” thing seems like a Neo confederate rallying cry

    • @testacals
      @testacals 29 днів тому

      @@Mcxianyun What ? How ? What has the dude done ? North of richmond is literally DC.

    • @testacals
      @testacals 29 днів тому

      From what he said the fudge rounds seems to refer to some government mishandling of funds.
      Kinda wild to see you guys here though.

    • @Mcxianyun
      @Mcxianyun 27 днів тому

      @@testacals he’s a conservative corporate plant trying to blame people on welfare for the country getting screwed over by capitalism

  • @mysteries_117
    @mysteries_117 6 місяців тому +5

    Really wish Lil Pump's Pump Rock x Heavy Metal was on here
    That song is horrible

  • @autisticDementia
    @autisticDementia 6 місяців тому +5

    Bro casually forget that Bongos and Pound Town both dropped this year

  • @Poke1236ok
    @Poke1236ok 6 місяців тому +2

    you should check out Dead but Dreaming by vivivivivi, its an album about a dead god and the world it created, pretty cool concept.

  • @VoidedCreature
    @VoidedCreature 6 місяців тому +9

    i don't even like the song at all, but Anthony dying on the "whAt about rich men SOUTH of Richmond???" is the dumbest fucking shit ever

  • @owen429
    @owen429 6 місяців тому +6

    Watch the World Burn sounds like an especially bad Epic Rap Battles of History verse.

    • @baiwatch1
      @baiwatch1 5 місяців тому

      You’re torturing me by reminding me of Epic Rap Battles.

  • @mikeclark3128
    @mikeclark3128 6 місяців тому +3

    Great! I’ve never heard of half of these artists and now I have. I thoroughly regret checking out that TX2 song.

  • @waywardlaser
    @waywardlaser 6 місяців тому +3

    I mean, FOB’s new album was full of references to the pandemic so I get why their cover of We Didn’t Start the Fire doesn’t have any.

  • @scarrantsandreviews
    @scarrantsandreviews 4 місяці тому +1

    I grew up in a small town. Such a small town that crusty old men where they were bemoaning a McDonald's opening up shop. They have since gotten a small Wal-Mart.
    A lot of the people I went to school with became meth junkies. There's a huge drug problem because there's not shit else to do. Plenty of wine moms and abusive pill-head dads who kinda let the neighborhood raise their kids. The story is the same for a lot of people from "small towns". Meth: perfectly reasonable to try in a small town

  • @Noirlore
    @Noirlore 6 місяців тому +3

    Wait does this guy think only queer people can say mother

    • @ImNotPhaT
      @ImNotPhaT 6 місяців тому

      I think the word "mother" has been co-opted by the queer community as another word for Queen.

  • @catmanjones8789
    @catmanjones8789 5 місяців тому +4

    I remember when I used to think Fantano and I had similar tastes those days are long gone

  • @bryanwallace5794
    @bryanwallace5794 Місяць тому +2

    I take it Fantano doesn’t particularly like conservatives. I get it, but the emotion and grit of Oliver Anthony is what makes that a good track. You don’t have to agree with the lyrics to feel it. Try that in a small town however, is perfectly placed.

  • @modernmusicmayhem769
    @modernmusicmayhem769 2 місяці тому +2

    I was actually surprised that Toxic Gossip Train wasn’t your number one

  • @SneakySneasel
    @SneakySneasel 6 місяців тому +5

    I knew a Ronnie Radke song would make the list but I thought it would be "Brother" just for the I LOST MY WAY AGAAAAAAAIN bit

  • @dthompson4356
    @dthompson4356 5 місяців тому +4

    I dont understand how anyone could ever listen to you.

  • @oofery5139
    @oofery5139 6 місяців тому +7

    man, i have to listen to Grimes more cus I Wanna Be Software is my first time listening to her and I quite like the song, albeit very blunt and somewhat obnoxious, the sound design is cool

    • @sappyjoy6190
      @sappyjoy6190 6 місяців тому +2

      Listen to artangels it’s genuinely her best album and gets better with each listen!

    • @blakewakan7489
      @blakewakan7489 5 місяців тому +1

      Agree that song slaps

  • @WilfredoWolganG
    @WilfredoWolganG 6 місяців тому +10

    As a gay man, Anthony calling out Megan Trainer for her song "Mother" saying "Nobody calls you that!" (lol) is a great way to end 2023.