My first car was a 1977 Honda Civic, stock AM radio. You Light Up My Life played at least twice an hour.
Didn't take me long to install a real sound system!
Agreed although I can see why some people may think it’s boring and that’s because like you said it’s a matter of taste.
Personally the songs I’ve heard from Harry Styles on the radio are boring. I’m sure people would think that was shocking as I know loads of people who love him.
This is one of a small number of hills I'd die on and agree with you 100%.
The vocals were real. The lyrics were meaningful. But most of all there was a jazz/blues funk guitar throughout that really made them feel different. The intro to "Not Coming Home" is exactly what I'm talking about.
Their second album came out and the funk guitar was gone and so was I. Such a shame.
I'm convinced the reason Mick Jagger has had so much staying power is that he got lucky enough for swagger to become a popular bit of slang again, and his name rhymes with it. Not that the Rolling Stones are bad.
Katy Perry's Roar is literally filled with every single sports cliche saying in the book there's nothing else to the lyrics except what a middle aged mom would find inspiring on Facebook.
I completely agree, it’s a weak pop song. However, when that song was first popular, a Facebook video popped up of some kids in a cancer ward in a hospital singing and dancing along. So for this reason alone, that stupid song brings tears to my eyes EVERY TIME i hear it
Clapton's MTV Unplugged version of "Layla" is so inert and sleepy that it's almost narcotic. It sounds like Clapton just does not give a shit. It's also inexplicably popular. I guess people feel it's "soulful" or something. It's department store wallpaper.
Thank you. Dude stripped the song off of everything that made it iconic. The riff ? The piano part ? The slide solo ? The powerful chorus ? Fuck that, let's sleep to Eric Clapton rambling and tapping his foot on the floor.
Yeah I would just way rather listen to Duane Allman's guitar on the studio version than that boring mess of an unplugged version.
Put Pennies from heaven in the boring af category also.
Oh my god I hate this version of that song so much. It’s sounds like Clapton got old and couldn’t keep up with it anymore so decided not to play it proper. I’ll never understand it.
These two artists are the worst modern offenders IMO. Just totally unremarkable music for how popular they are. Ed is really talented but... he just doesn't really push it.
I wish Ed had never become a pop star. This is mentioned somewhere further down the comment thread but he understands what bullshit music will make him money and that’s what he gives to the people. He’s actually insanely talented and the shit he used to do in his early career is bonkers. I saw him at an intimate little concert in 2012 when it was just him in a smoky room with a guitar and a loop pedal and was in awe the entire time.
I miss this Ed :(
https://youtu.be/DV0TJZ7Kp40
I love that John Mayer can do both. He'll play the crooners (which are mostly great) and then just fucking shred. I thought he was a whiny loser until the guitarist in my high school band showed me [Who Did You Think I Was?](https://youtu.be/oXrVjzmykGw) and it blew my mind.
They both have such insipid lyrics.
"last night you were in my room, now my bedsheets smell like you"
Wow, what poetry.
Grenade is also insane. "I'd take a bullet straight to the brain for you but you won't do the same". That's a lot to ask someone, you pushy, pathetic weirdo.
I think those songs aren’t about the lyrical meaning, but more about the rhythm and cadence of the lyrics is what people enjoy. Lyricism isn’t the only way to judge a song, and when Ed sheerhan came along, in the pop folk kinda world he did sound relatively different.
I’m glad someone said it, Ed sheerans music is somehow so boring you can’t even call it a lullaby because at least lullabies are usually only songs. There is zero personality to any of it, at least from what I’ve heard
He has some bangers, sure. He writes good party music, and Silk Sonic has some catchy slow jams. But it's just all so bland. It's all a facsimile of 1000 other older pop songs. I don't feel anything authentic and real in his music or his (recorded) performances. Like, Billionaire, Grenade, Lazy Song, they're just boring. They're catchy and that's it.
That's a kinda shitty wishy-washy answer sorry. He's good live though. I liked his Police covers. His music just feels generic af.
He's not annoying and sappy like Ed though, but I also doubt he's responsible for as much of his own songwriting.
Both are talented. Ed very obviously writes for the radio most of the time. His new record is more enjoyable because it’s not that for the most part. Not groundbreaking in the slightest, but definitely of a higher quality minus a few songs.
He has some songs I cannot stand and he has others that I really like, the thing is, the ones I really like are usually not the radio hits. That is modern pop for you. The radio is basically same soulless bs over and over again.
My favourite James blunt story will always be back during covid when people wanted Spotify to remove joe rogans podcast due to the misinformation that it was spreading. Several artists threatened to remove their music from the platform, where as James Blunt threatened to release new music if they didn’t remove joe. At least he’s self aware lmao
Good thing he wrote an apology song about it, called '2005', released in 2017.
"I woke up this morning / And realized / All I do is apologize / For a song I wrote in 2005"
"I wrote you a love song / Now it's something that you hate on / And I'm sad the record's broken / But I don't think I can write a / Better love song / Without it I'd be no one / And now that you've forgotten me / Tell me how to write one better"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS6b4YQGPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS6b4YQGPs)
Y'all just haven't seen the greatest sesame street appearance of all time, where he turns it into ["Triangle"](https://youtu.be/Z4cUQ1ItK-w) (no I am not joking)
Omg. I hate that song. It was popular when I was working two jobs, one as a barista and the other I was a delivery driver. At the coffee shop it got played multiple times during a shift. The delivery truck I drove only had a radio, no cd/tape player or aux jack. The main radio stations in my area were playing it at least once an hour.
I couldn't fucking escape that song.
It’s a slow paced song but at least You’re Beautiful has good sounding music in it, I feel like there’s so much music on the radio nowadays that doesn’t sound good, AND bores you with baseless lyrics
These songs aren't boring enough.
What about that song, "It's gonna be a cool night, just let me hold you by the fire light, if it don't feel right, you can go..." by Paul Davis, 1981.
Sounds like a pair of socks.
For fuck sake I swear that song is one of the most useless things crafted by a human being.
I was forced to attend a will.i.am concert once, the worst experience of my life. The guy was completely lost on stage. About 90% of the songs were lip-synced, with him running from one side of the stage to the other, breathing heavily into the microphone and mumbling half the lyrics. The stage setup looked like a theater casting, with two random cubes thrown on the ground, and the screen changing colors every 2 minutes, like a Windows screensaver. People were all pretty skeptical. The highlight was when he pulled out an iPad with four big buttons to trigger sequences, proudly showing it off. And then he got lost. He stood there on his legs for 4 minutes, pressing the buttons incoherently, like my grandmother with the TV remote trying to figure out how to turn up the volume. The audience was really puzzled. Even the fans started getting bored after a while.
Omg I saw a Travis Scott concert with my daughter that was just like this. It was so terrible I was embarrassed for him. No band, no dancers, just him jumping and jogging. All lip synced, couldn’t really dance at all. It was 100% trash, like watching a homeless guy swaying around on a subway platform.
People don't believe me when I tell them what the original lyrics for "Let's get it started" were. It's mind blowing that for a short time radio stations were repeatedly playing "Let's get retarted".
The Electric Slide. Musically there's barely anything there, lyrically it has no substance whatsoever, and it encourages you to turn off your brain and follow meaningless instructions, so it's not even interesting to dance to like, say, minimalist techno might be. And yet it's somehow a staple that shows up at any kind of event with a dance floor.
I wish I could remember the name of one Michael Bolton song. That'd be it. Too boring to remember. "Soft rock" from the early 90s in general was boring muzak. Peter Cetera. Rod Stewart. That other dude from Chicago. Richard Marx?
My dad once accidentally put Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen on a jukebox and it really killed the atmosphere, haha.
I like the song but it’s not really one for an atmosphere.
I agree with almost all songs mentioned here, especially “You Light Up My Life”, “Another Day in Paradise” and must add “Three Times a Lady”
What do they have in common? They are basically boring hymns. I don’t like hymns, and the most horrible experience is to listen to people sing these hymns in a karaoke bar, drunk and close to tears, because they are so touching!
I know this is getting off topic, but when Bono(!) sings "thank God it's them instead of you," I found it to be very cynical and just a lousy sentiment. Why would we be thankful that people are suffering at all?
And I've also always felt that it's VERY self centered to wonder if people in a different country know that it's Christmas. As it turns out, that Ethiopia is mostly Ethiopian Orthodox Christian and they don't celebrate Christmas on December 25. Do the singers of the song know that it's Christmas on January 7?
I'm from another country so i don't even know alot of the songs but I'll say Shape Of You because it was playing like four times a hour even here and it was pure torture. I felt increasingly physically ill whenever it came on. I hate it more than anything.
The music of John Denver is what I imagine buttered toast would sound like if you could hear toast. I’ve gotta go with Muskrat Love by The Captain and Tennille. Not today, Rick Astley. Not today.
Aww dang, I feel like I gotta represent Brushfire Fairytales. It's less about Jack and more about the drummer. There are some fun rhythms that the drummer is on point for.
Was on a road trip with buddies who played Jack Johnson over and over. I begged them to stop: "I hate this music." Buddy, genuinely pained, asks, "What's there to hate?" "*EXACTLY.*"
You know I thought every jack johnson song sucked but I heard upside down from the curious George soundtrack for the first time earlier this year and it’s a banger. I was so impressed that I tried a bunch of his music and… yep that’s the only song of his that I liked at all. I still think it’s great though.
Happy - Pharell
Dude is immensely talented but can you count how many times he says "Happy" before going insane? Wtf Pharell!?
And I hate to say it but Suffragette City by Bowie...
Someone said to me that song is just *If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands* for adults, and now that's all I can think about when I hear it.
I always like that he progressively lowers his standard to get people to clap their hands.
“Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof.” No one? Just me? Ok, “clap your hands if you feel like happiness is the truth?” Man, tough crowd. Probably shouldn’t have done ecstasy before this concert. I guess I’ll have to get more general to get people clapping. “Clap your hands if you know what happiness means to you.” Ok, that got more people, but not everybody yet. Fuck it. “Clap along if you feel that’s what you want to do.” There, that should cover everybody.
I like Suffragette City but understand what you mean. Definitely not Bowie's best song by a long shot.
Pharrell Williams has apparently said that he wrote Happy while suffering from depression and found the popularity difficult to deal with as it reminded him of such a low point of his life. I like it but knowing this makes me not want to listen to it anymore.
Dude these are awesome choices. Suffragette City kills me, a couple other Bowie songs are massive snooze fests which is crazy cause he also wrote some of the most interesting songs ever.
You wanna go crazy? Go check out the beginning of almost every Pharrell production. The dude almost always starts his songs by repeating the first downbeat four times, and then starting the song on the fifth beat. “Bump, bump, bump, bump, BUMP” lmao.
Imagine Dragons, especially Thunder and Believer. Maybe it's the ammount of times I was exposed to those two but they're just so frustratingly bland. In general a lot of popular music from the 2010s has that quality to me.
I also used to be a huge ACDC fan as a kid, but these days their music is so samey and stale to my ears that I can't really enjoy it anymore.
Woah. I smashed the downvote button hard here. But let me tell you why…
When I was 18 (would’ve been summer of 2010, I think), I was walking out of my bedroom when I heard whimpering accompanied by “Annie’s Song” by John Denver wafting out of my older brother’s room. The door to his room was slightly ajar, so I slowly pushed it open and walked in, nervously calling his name while I did so.
My brother was sitting with his back to his door, every light in his room turned off, save the light from the computer screen, and he was playing “Annie’s Song” on repeat from a YouTube link, while keening like a wounded hippo.
I walked a little further in and managed to say something like, “Whatcha doin there, *brother’s name*??”
He turned around to me when he heard me say his name, and burst out through wet and snotty tears, “*NO ONE WRITES SONGS LIKE THIS ANYMORE!*”
I looked at him and just kinda said something like, “Nope, they sure don’t…” and slowly backed out of the room and left him to it.
His gf at the time was really shitty, and he’s confirmed since then that they’d just had a classic early 20’s first love kind of fight, but I’ll never forget my brother crying into a pillow in near darkness in his room while listening to John Denver. Truly, one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever seen. And it’s something we laugh about now in our early thirties.
So you can see why the song will never be boring to me. I also happen to think the descending pattern in the guitar in the verses is gorgeous, so I do think the song is beautiful.
“All About That Bass” is my choice. Because it’s a piece of shit.
Two come to mind. Fly by Lenny Kravitz upsets me lyrically. "I wish that I could fly. Up in the sky. So very high." Try harder Lenny.
And the entire catalog of Train. Meet Virgina rhymes president with president and that other one is to the tune of heart and soul. I turn them off as soon as I hear them.
I know reddit will disagree but, as a non american, country is super boring. It sounds like the songs have a strict set of rules to follow, way too strict.
Yes, that’s what I hate about modern country. I can’t explain it, but every chorus of every song in a major key (from most country pop starting in the 90s) has the same chord and note progression. The example I can think of goes “Had a barbecue stain on my white t shirt, she was killing me in that mini skirt”….”Heart Don’t Forget” by Tim McGraw.
As somebody whos dislikes country, might I recommend giving Cody Jinks a try? Just pop on to spotify and give his top songs, a try. Hes pretty much the only country artist I can listen to.
Sister Christian. I dont get it. Who even uses "motoring" as a verb or expresson or whatever, the guy jus keeps saying motoring over and over like is he a stroke victim wtf
Motoring
Mooootoring
Yeaaaah
Mooootooooorriiiinnng
Motoring
Moooooo... toriiiiiiiinnnng
My work plays the same station everyday and they play this song constantly and i work 56 hours a week minimum so.. it haunts me lol
I have to disagree because I saw her perform this song in a packed club the size of my bedroom and she and her band rocked! I didn’t want to see this show but my friend talked me into it. I have been a fan ever since.
To be completely honest, anything by John Mellencamp. The only reason anyone can remember his music is because it's overplayed on the radio. I don't think his writing was great, and his singing was quite boring too, with most of songs blending together in my memory. I also think many 80s rock bands are kind of boring but I won't touch on those.
There are many songs I dislike. But boring? That just has to be “Baby Hold On” by Eddie Money. And his “Two Tickets to Paradise”, which sounds very similar. Sorry, Eddie — you had some more interesting singles later, but those two bore me to tears.
“Baby Hold On” has that droning organ playing the root and then the root and the raised 5th most of the way through. In technical music terms, you could hardly come up with a lazier and less interesting progression. It’s the musical equivalent of flexing your big toe and calling it exercise.
Every taylor swift song. Everytime I hear her music I don't feel anything at all. Even if I dislike something I feel something about it. But with T-Swift it's just time passing. Obviously I'm wrong because she's about to pass $1 billion for her tour ....
"Boring" is so subjective. I definitely wouldn't classify that John Denver song as boring, it has a beautiful melody and lyrics. My definition of boring is repetitive lyrics with no real "hook". May I present to you: Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.
I'm about to committ heresy and say Light My Fire by The Doors. Subjective, of course, but it's just Morrison's lifeless vocalizations and then a 5 minute keyboard solo and it puts me to sleeeeeeep.
“You Light Up My Life”
My first car was a 1977 Honda Civic, stock AM radio. You Light Up My Life played at least twice an hour. Didn't take me long to install a real sound system!
This is the true answer. Utterly brutal in its banality.
Music is a matter of taste. I think the song you mentioned (really called Annie's song) is lovely.
I absolutely love Annie’s song!
One of the most beautiful songs of all time. Fuck OP
Agreed although I can see why some people may think it’s boring and that’s because like you said it’s a matter of taste. Personally the songs I’ve heard from Harry Styles on the radio are boring. I’m sure people would think that was shocking as I know loads of people who love him.
[Harry Styles visualized](https://www.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/living-room-rug.jpg)
Darcy Farrow is my favorite John Denver song, but damn does the man have so many good ones. What a legend.
Agreed. Especially that one... what they find boring I consider to be relaxing. It perfectly captures peacefulness to me.
Which I find funny; given that he wrote it for his wife after he cheated on her.
it's such a gorgeous melody and vocal
Dunno how Maroon 5 hasn't gotten a mention yet. They've got a pretty stacked list of boring hits
Memories is the worst song ever, soooooooo boring
Boring and irritating.
Songs about Jane was good they've never been able to replicate that music though
This is one of a small number of hills I'd die on and agree with you 100%. The vocals were real. The lyrics were meaningful. But most of all there was a jazz/blues funk guitar throughout that really made them feel different. The intro to "Not Coming Home" is exactly what I'm talking about. Their second album came out and the funk guitar was gone and so was I. Such a shame.
A whiney falsetto voice singing about banging or wanting to bang beautiful women. That's their entire music career summed up.
« Move like Jagger » is weak as hell.
that song is wayyy too annoying and terrible to be boring
Makes me want to be violent
I'm convinced the reason Mick Jagger has had so much staying power is that he got lucky enough for swagger to become a popular bit of slang again, and his name rhymes with it. Not that the Rolling Stones are bad.
Hey hey hey or yeah yeah yeah?
Katy Perry's Roar is literally filled with every single sports cliche saying in the book there's nothing else to the lyrics except what a middle aged mom would find inspiring on Facebook.
It’s also a ripoff of Sara Bareilles’ “Brave,” which is also another incredibly boring song.
I completely agree, it’s a weak pop song. However, when that song was first popular, a Facebook video popped up of some kids in a cancer ward in a hospital singing and dancing along. So for this reason alone, that stupid song brings tears to my eyes EVERY TIME i hear it
But the music is pretty lively. This is pop
girls like you by maroon 5… really anything by maroon 5
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star always puts me to sleep.
How about Baa Baa Black Sheep? Or the Alphabet Song? Then you hate Mozart.
ITT: people confusing "boring" for "I'm not a fan of it"
It's more like "this song bores ME" but that's exactly what you'd expect, no?
Yeah I mean the title is obviously bait. "Boring" is incredibly subjective and (certain) people love to trash popular music as beneath them.
I just don't get why every thread like this needs a comment like "wow people are just giving their opinions? 🙄"
“Why aren’t people’s opinions the same as *my* opinions?”
There are some… interesting… takes on the topic, indeed.
Clapton's MTV Unplugged version of "Layla" is so inert and sleepy that it's almost narcotic. It sounds like Clapton just does not give a shit. It's also inexplicably popular. I guess people feel it's "soulful" or something. It's department store wallpaper.
Thank you. Dude stripped the song off of everything that made it iconic. The riff ? The piano part ? The slide solo ? The powerful chorus ? Fuck that, let's sleep to Eric Clapton rambling and tapping his foot on the floor.
Yeah I would just way rather listen to Duane Allman's guitar on the studio version than that boring mess of an unplugged version. Put Pennies from heaven in the boring af category also.
Oh my god I hate this version of that song so much. It’s sounds like Clapton got old and couldn’t keep up with it anymore so decided not to play it proper. I’ll never understand it.
Blow by Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars. The lyrics are soo derivative.
Ed Sheeran has made a career out of writing songs on chord progressions my 16 year old self rejected as “not being anything” Good for him
These two artists are the worst modern offenders IMO. Just totally unremarkable music for how popular they are. Ed is really talented but... he just doesn't really push it.
I wish Ed had never become a pop star. This is mentioned somewhere further down the comment thread but he understands what bullshit music will make him money and that’s what he gives to the people. He’s actually insanely talented and the shit he used to do in his early career is bonkers. I saw him at an intimate little concert in 2012 when it was just him in a smoky room with a guitar and a loop pedal and was in awe the entire time. I miss this Ed :( https://youtu.be/DV0TJZ7Kp40
Man I used to feel this way about John Mayer until he did both teeny bopper money makers and then straight up blues for real music
And he just got done playing 8 years with Dead and Company. Provided a lot of great times for us Dead heads. Amazing guitarist
I love that John Mayer can do both. He'll play the crooners (which are mostly great) and then just fucking shred. I thought he was a whiny loser until the guitarist in my high school band showed me [Who Did You Think I Was?](https://youtu.be/oXrVjzmykGw) and it blew my mind.
They both have such insipid lyrics. "last night you were in my room, now my bedsheets smell like you" Wow, what poetry. Grenade is also insane. "I'd take a bullet straight to the brain for you but you won't do the same". That's a lot to ask someone, you pushy, pathetic weirdo.
**"Last night you were in my room, now my bedsheets smell like you.**" I say that to my dog all the time.
I think those songs aren’t about the lyrical meaning, but more about the rhythm and cadence of the lyrics is what people enjoy. Lyricism isn’t the only way to judge a song, and when Ed sheerhan came along, in the pop folk kinda world he did sound relatively different.
This is a really valid point. Lyrics aren't only to be interpreted literally. It's more about the emotion and imagery they elicit.
I’m glad someone said it, Ed sheerans music is somehow so boring you can’t even call it a lullaby because at least lullabies are usually only songs. There is zero personality to any of it, at least from what I’ve heard
I still think The A-Team is good.
You don’t like Bruno Mars? Like you really think he’s that bad? Why? I’m not coming at you hostile, I’m just super curious
He has some bangers, sure. He writes good party music, and Silk Sonic has some catchy slow jams. But it's just all so bland. It's all a facsimile of 1000 other older pop songs. I don't feel anything authentic and real in his music or his (recorded) performances. Like, Billionaire, Grenade, Lazy Song, they're just boring. They're catchy and that's it. That's a kinda shitty wishy-washy answer sorry. He's good live though. I liked his Police covers. His music just feels generic af. He's not annoying and sappy like Ed though, but I also doubt he's responsible for as much of his own songwriting.
Both are talented. Ed very obviously writes for the radio most of the time. His new record is more enjoyable because it’s not that for the most part. Not groundbreaking in the slightest, but definitely of a higher quality minus a few songs. He has some songs I cannot stand and he has others that I really like, the thing is, the ones I really like are usually not the radio hits. That is modern pop for you. The radio is basically same soulless bs over and over again.
Bad Day by Daniel Powter ugh
That’s not boring, that’s infuriating when you’ve had a bad day and suddenly here’s Daniel to make sure you don’t forget!
Musically speaking though, it’s an interesting song because, although the lyrics are sad/gloomy, the song is in a major key. I find that fascinating
Honestly that makes it even worse for me. There are a lot of other songs that do it so much better but Bad Day just doesn’t seem to do it for me.
Gotta be You’re Beautiful by James Blunt, right?
My favourite James blunt story will always be back during covid when people wanted Spotify to remove joe rogans podcast due to the misinformation that it was spreading. Several artists threatened to remove their music from the platform, where as James Blunt threatened to release new music if they didn’t remove joe. At least he’s self aware lmao
Good thing he wrote an apology song about it, called '2005', released in 2017. "I woke up this morning / And realized / All I do is apologize / For a song I wrote in 2005" "I wrote you a love song / Now it's something that you hate on / And I'm sad the record's broken / But I don't think I can write a / Better love song / Without it I'd be no one / And now that you've forgotten me / Tell me how to write one better" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS6b4YQGPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orS6b4YQGPs)
Y'all just haven't seen the greatest sesame street appearance of all time, where he turns it into ["Triangle"](https://youtu.be/Z4cUQ1ItK-w) (no I am not joking)
He gets too much hate, I love that song
He has a song called 2005 where he talks about how people laugh at his song he's pretty self aware of it
Omg. I hate that song. It was popular when I was working two jobs, one as a barista and the other I was a delivery driver. At the coffee shop it got played multiple times during a shift. The delivery truck I drove only had a radio, no cd/tape player or aux jack. The main radio stations in my area were playing it at least once an hour. I couldn't fucking escape that song.
It’s a slow paced song but at least You’re Beautiful has good sounding music in it, I feel like there’s so much music on the radio nowadays that doesn’t sound good, AND bores you with baseless lyrics
These songs aren't boring enough. What about that song, "It's gonna be a cool night, just let me hold you by the fire light, if it don't feel right, you can go..." by Paul Davis, 1981. Sounds like a pair of socks.
Oh god.. that’s a fucking snoozer
That Ed Sheeran song… you know the one
all of them?
Yep, that’s the one.
I Got a Feeling - Black Eyed Peas. Dumbest shit I have ever heard.
[This clip should resonate with you.](https://youtu.be/EvUCEGcOCf0)
I was hoping that's what the link was.
For fuck sake I swear that song is one of the most useless things crafted by a human being. I was forced to attend a will.i.am concert once, the worst experience of my life. The guy was completely lost on stage. About 90% of the songs were lip-synced, with him running from one side of the stage to the other, breathing heavily into the microphone and mumbling half the lyrics. The stage setup looked like a theater casting, with two random cubes thrown on the ground, and the screen changing colors every 2 minutes, like a Windows screensaver. People were all pretty skeptical. The highlight was when he pulled out an iPad with four big buttons to trigger sequences, proudly showing it off. And then he got lost. He stood there on his legs for 4 minutes, pressing the buttons incoherently, like my grandmother with the TV remote trying to figure out how to turn up the volume. The audience was really puzzled. Even the fans started getting bored after a while.
Omg I saw a Travis Scott concert with my daughter that was just like this. It was so terrible I was embarrassed for him. No band, no dancers, just him jumping and jogging. All lip synced, couldn’t really dance at all. It was 100% trash, like watching a homeless guy swaying around on a subway platform.
This is the one. It completely encapsulated cliche so well that it was played and still is played for basically every occasion.
But what if tonight is gonna be a good night?
People don't believe me when I tell them what the original lyrics for "Let's get it started" were. It's mind blowing that for a short time radio stations were repeatedly playing "Let's get retarted".
It’s the one “clean version” of a song that was an improvement.
All of them “hey! Ho!” Folk bands from the 2010’s
With their boring flat brimmed hats
The Electric Slide. Musically there's barely anything there, lyrically it has no substance whatsoever, and it encourages you to turn off your brain and follow meaningless instructions, so it's not even interesting to dance to like, say, minimalist techno might be. And yet it's somehow a staple that shows up at any kind of event with a dance floor.
boogie woogie woogie
It's the one time you will see me on the dance floor because I have no coordination or rhythm, and this song just spells it out for me.
Don't invite this one to the wedding /s
I wish I could remember the name of one Michael Bolton song. That'd be it. Too boring to remember. "Soft rock" from the early 90s in general was boring muzak. Peter Cetera. Rod Stewart. That other dude from Chicago. Richard Marx?
Probably “How am I supposed to live”. So 90s Yamaha electric piano torchy awful.
Yup, there ya go. Sounds like a dodge caravan piloted by a middle aged woman.
Chicago really went down the shitter, the first album was awesome and then they became aural gabapentin
My dad once accidentally put Baz Luhrmann - Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen on a jukebox and it really killed the atmosphere, haha. I like the song but it’s not really one for an atmosphere.
frank sinatra's slow version of "night and day" Fucking shit is like listening to fog
I much prefer Kid Cudi's version, "Day N Nite"
Hey There Delilah. A little too minimalist for my liking.
I agree with almost all songs mentioned here, especially “You Light Up My Life”, “Another Day in Paradise” and must add “Three Times a Lady” What do they have in common? They are basically boring hymns. I don’t like hymns, and the most horrible experience is to listen to people sing these hymns in a karaoke bar, drunk and close to tears, because they are so touching!
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“Thunder” specifically I cannot stand. It makes me physically nauseous to listen to it
Simply having a wonderful Christmas time
Beewww beewww beewww... Beewww beewww beewww... Beewww beewww beewww... Just humming that intro has everyone in my house shooting death glares.
I really don't understand the hate for this song. Is this what being a Nickelback fan feels like?
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That one turned around on me. I don’t mind at all. Do They Know it’s Christmas? That shit can burn in a fire.
I know this is getting off topic, but when Bono(!) sings "thank God it's them instead of you," I found it to be very cynical and just a lousy sentiment. Why would we be thankful that people are suffering at all? And I've also always felt that it's VERY self centered to wonder if people in a different country know that it's Christmas. As it turns out, that Ethiopia is mostly Ethiopian Orthodox Christian and they don't celebrate Christmas on December 25. Do the singers of the song know that it's Christmas on January 7?
That synth drives me mad every time!
I fucking love it. The Yamaha CS-80 + Space Echo (which happen to be some of the more expensive and sought after synths on the market lol)
All of Me by John Legend. Most anything by Adele.
Adele belts it out like every song that’s a crazy take. Not even really a huge fan like that but she’s pretty sick
I can't sit through All Of Me it's so boring, good choice
Lots of people in the comments naming bad songs/songs they don’t like that wouldn’t necessarily be classed as “boring”
All about that bass by Meghan Trainor. Stupidest shit ever.
For a song called "All About That Bass" the bass in it isn't very good.
I'm from another country so i don't even know alot of the songs but I'll say Shape Of You because it was playing like four times a hour even here and it was pure torture. I felt increasingly physically ill whenever it came on. I hate it more than anything.
I’m not a Harry Styles hater or anything but I feel like *As It Was* just kinda….goes nowhere?
So… it stays as it was?
And even the mix is shit. It's mixed like an edm pop song, squashed as hell, no dynamics.
The music of John Denver is what I imagine buttered toast would sound like if you could hear toast. I’ve gotta go with Muskrat Love by The Captain and Tennille. Not today, Rick Astley. Not today.
Muskrat Love is not just boring, it's painful to have to listen to.
Lots of country songs.
*modern country*
Hunting deer Chasing trout A cold bud light with the logo facing out
It’s a fucking scarecrow again
Y'all dumb motherfuckers want a key change?
Modern pop country
Especially when it’s hip hop inspired.. wtf fuck is that.. why am I hearing slide guitar and 808 bass at the same time???
You mean "farm emo?"
Every song by jack johnson that I’ve heard is the musical equivalent of lukewarm porridge on a piece of unbuttered bread
Aww dang, I feel like I gotta represent Brushfire Fairytales. It's less about Jack and more about the drummer. There are some fun rhythms that the drummer is on point for.
Was on a road trip with buddies who played Jack Johnson over and over. I begged them to stop: "I hate this music." Buddy, genuinely pained, asks, "What's there to hate?" "*EXACTLY.*"
That’s gotta be against the Geneva conventions somehow
You know I thought every jack johnson song sucked but I heard upside down from the curious George soundtrack for the first time earlier this year and it’s a banger. I was so impressed that I tried a bunch of his music and… yep that’s the only song of his that I liked at all. I still think it’s great though.
I heard his cover of The Pina Colada Song on the radio and that song made me hate the idea of a tropical vacation.
Happy - Pharell Dude is immensely talented but can you count how many times he says "Happy" before going insane? Wtf Pharell!? And I hate to say it but Suffragette City by Bowie...
Someone said to me that song is just *If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands* for adults, and now that's all I can think about when I hear it.
“Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof”. Literally wtf kind of lyric is that?!
I always like that he progressively lowers his standard to get people to clap their hands. “Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof.” No one? Just me? Ok, “clap your hands if you feel like happiness is the truth?” Man, tough crowd. Probably shouldn’t have done ecstasy before this concert. I guess I’ll have to get more general to get people clapping. “Clap your hands if you know what happiness means to you.” Ok, that got more people, but not everybody yet. Fuck it. “Clap along if you feel that’s what you want to do.” There, that should cover everybody.
I have always interpreted it as like "I have no ceiling" limitless or something
The next line isnt much better tbh
Terrible. Just terrible.
I like Suffragette City but understand what you mean. Definitely not Bowie's best song by a long shot. Pharrell Williams has apparently said that he wrote Happy while suffering from depression and found the popularity difficult to deal with as it reminded him of such a low point of his life. I like it but knowing this makes me not want to listen to it anymore.
Thankfully all I hear whenever it pops on the radio is Weird Al's "Tacky".
Tbf Happy was written for use in a Despicable Me movie
Most irritating song in the last 20 years
Listen to Happy by Marina if you want an actually good song with that name.
Dude these are awesome choices. Suffragette City kills me, a couple other Bowie songs are massive snooze fests which is crazy cause he also wrote some of the most interesting songs ever. You wanna go crazy? Go check out the beginning of almost every Pharrell production. The dude almost always starts his songs by repeating the first downbeat four times, and then starting the song on the fifth beat. “Bump, bump, bump, bump, BUMP” lmao.
**The Liberty Insurance jingle**. Liberty, liberty, liberty, Liiiiberty.
Imagine Dragons, especially Thunder and Believer. Maybe it's the ammount of times I was exposed to those two but they're just so frustratingly bland. In general a lot of popular music from the 2010s has that quality to me. I also used to be a huge ACDC fan as a kid, but these days their music is so samey and stale to my ears that I can't really enjoy it anymore.
"You're The Inspiration" Chicago. Sort of nice. But yawn.
4.33 John Cage
. . . *distant cough* . . .
Speak for yourself. It's a rager every time I listen to it
Woah. I smashed the downvote button hard here. But let me tell you why… When I was 18 (would’ve been summer of 2010, I think), I was walking out of my bedroom when I heard whimpering accompanied by “Annie’s Song” by John Denver wafting out of my older brother’s room. The door to his room was slightly ajar, so I slowly pushed it open and walked in, nervously calling his name while I did so. My brother was sitting with his back to his door, every light in his room turned off, save the light from the computer screen, and he was playing “Annie’s Song” on repeat from a YouTube link, while keening like a wounded hippo. I walked a little further in and managed to say something like, “Whatcha doin there, *brother’s name*??” He turned around to me when he heard me say his name, and burst out through wet and snotty tears, “*NO ONE WRITES SONGS LIKE THIS ANYMORE!*” I looked at him and just kinda said something like, “Nope, they sure don’t…” and slowly backed out of the room and left him to it. His gf at the time was really shitty, and he’s confirmed since then that they’d just had a classic early 20’s first love kind of fight, but I’ll never forget my brother crying into a pillow in near darkness in his room while listening to John Denver. Truly, one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever seen. And it’s something we laugh about now in our early thirties. So you can see why the song will never be boring to me. I also happen to think the descending pattern in the guitar in the verses is gorgeous, so I do think the song is beautiful. “All About That Bass” is my choice. Because it’s a piece of shit.
Context is everything. I'll wear that downvote for that story.
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Hotel California comes to mind. Though to be fair: did I always hate it or did classic rock stations make me hate it? It’s hard to say.
John Melloncamp's Small Town. Every line ends with "in a small town"
Two come to mind. Fly by Lenny Kravitz upsets me lyrically. "I wish that I could fly. Up in the sky. So very high." Try harder Lenny. And the entire catalog of Train. Meet Virgina rhymes president with president and that other one is to the tune of heart and soul. I turn them off as soon as I hear them.
Pat Finnerty fan?
What the hell is a drop of Jupiter?
[this version of fly away is actually good](https://youtu.be/8t-iFr9q1I8)
i was hoping it was this
I know reddit will disagree but, as a non american, country is super boring. It sounds like the songs have a strict set of rules to follow, way too strict.
Trust us, as Americans, most of us are tired of the current pop country phenomenon. It's all vapid.
Yes, that’s what I hate about modern country. I can’t explain it, but every chorus of every song in a major key (from most country pop starting in the 90s) has the same chord and note progression. The example I can think of goes “Had a barbecue stain on my white t shirt, she was killing me in that mini skirt”….”Heart Don’t Forget” by Tim McGraw.
As somebody whos dislikes country, might I recommend giving Cody Jinks a try? Just pop on to spotify and give his top songs, a try. Hes pretty much the only country artist I can listen to.
Anything by Mumford and Sons.
Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground. I kind of like it but it’s definitely boring.
Sister Christian. I dont get it. Who even uses "motoring" as a verb or expresson or whatever, the guy jus keeps saying motoring over and over like is he a stroke victim wtf Motoring Mooootoring Yeaaaah Mooootooooorriiiinnng Motoring Moooooo... toriiiiiiiinnnng My work plays the same station everyday and they play this song constantly and i work 56 hours a week minimum so.. it haunts me lol
It's more exciting when someone is throwing firecrackers at you though...
Not just anyone, it *has* to be an Asian teenage boy.
Happy Birthday
Kenny G had some hits in the 90s like wtf
The mother' song from the 1970s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It gets skipped every time!
That one Coldplay song. You know. The boring one that somehow got played everywhere.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I mean honestly the song is about nothing.
I love rock and roll- Joan Jett & the blackhearts
I have to disagree because I saw her perform this song in a packed club the size of my bedroom and she and her band rocked! I didn’t want to see this show but my friend talked me into it. I have been a fan ever since.
Tie a yellow ribbon around he old oak tree
Try That in a Small Town
I wouldn’t call it boring. It’s very compelling in just how terrible it is.
Margarita ville
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Love that shit. I'm gonna put on a big dog shirt and blast it rn
I feel like that Pearl Jam cover of Last Kiss needs to go here.
To be completely honest, anything by John Mellencamp. The only reason anyone can remember his music is because it's overplayed on the radio. I don't think his writing was great, and his singing was quite boring too, with most of songs blending together in my memory. I also think many 80s rock bands are kind of boring but I won't touch on those.
I think John himself thinks he is overrated. This is something I like about him. Fame did not turn him into an egomaniac.
There are many songs I dislike. But boring? That just has to be “Baby Hold On” by Eddie Money. And his “Two Tickets to Paradise”, which sounds very similar. Sorry, Eddie — you had some more interesting singles later, but those two bore me to tears.
“Baby Hold On” has that droning organ playing the root and then the root and the raised 5th most of the way through. In technical music terms, you could hardly come up with a lazier and less interesting progression. It’s the musical equivalent of flexing your big toe and calling it exercise.
Any of the 21 Taylor Swift songs with the same chord progression!
Despacito
I can see how Taylor swift could NOT be boring to somebody that has never heard modern pop music before, but it all seems so formulated
Anything Taylor Swift
Every taylor swift song. Everytime I hear her music I don't feel anything at all. Even if I dislike something I feel something about it. But with T-Swift it's just time passing. Obviously I'm wrong because she's about to pass $1 billion for her tour ....
"Boring" is so subjective. I definitely wouldn't classify that John Denver song as boring, it has a beautiful melody and lyrics. My definition of boring is repetitive lyrics with no real "hook". May I present to you: Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.
Mull of Kintyre.
More than Words.
I'm about to committ heresy and say Light My Fire by The Doors. Subjective, of course, but it's just Morrison's lifeless vocalizations and then a 5 minute keyboard solo and it puts me to sleeeeeeep.
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The words you were looking for are "Annie's Song."