Year-End post #1: My top 10 worst songs of 2021

Welcome everyone to my first year-end post. This post is gonna be My top 10 worst songs of 2021, and I’m so excited to share these with you guys. This post is just gonna show how much fun ripping a song apart is. Usually I keep my reviews on the short side when I do Weekend countdown posts, but these ones are gonna be a bit longer, so bare with me because there’s A LOT to cover in this one post alone, now before we get into this years bottom 10 songs I wanna remind y’all of my criteria for a song to make this list cuz it could be different than yours(In fact I’m 100% sure it’s different than everyone else’s)  

Here’s the criteria for songs being able to make the list. 

Any song that I listened to and didn’t like from October 2020-October 2021 is up to be on this list even if it didn’t chart(although the majority of these songs did chart) also I will be including Hitbound dropouts and AT40 OTV track dropouts just because there wasn’t really a lot of horrible songs this year(and cuz this is my first year doing this) some of the dropouts that we got were pretty bad though especially from Hits 1, so that’s another reason why I do that. Also for the blog posts I do have(cuz I’ve already reviewed some of these so surprisingly) the songs had to be highlighted in either Red or Orange, or if they started off as any better they had to have faded on me enough or they couldn’t have grown on me. 

Now before we get into the actual list I’ll add a few dishonorable mentions in here, and just put a few really snarky comments about each of them. 

Alexander 23-Cry over boys: If You wanna hear a song that will truly make You wanna cry. Take a listen to this. His voice is so bad and underwhelming. He makes JP Saxe look like a great vocalist. Good this never debuted the countdown. 

CKay-Love nwantiti(ah ah ah): This showed up just before the deadline. It didn’t make the list cuz it’s not as annoying as a certain other Afrobeats song that I’ll get to later, but it was pretty bad. No matter it’s at the bottom of the countdown it’s so unpopular in my opinion. 

Frances Forever-Space Girl: This is just that unappealing TikTok vibe that no one likes or cares for, especially me since I don’t think TikTok is that great. 

Jesy Nelson/Nicki Minaj Boyz: Nicki Minaj teaming up with a girl group vocalist that really fails to impress me. Of course this was great to listen to. 

Justus Bennetts-Bad day: This combines your classic stupid sounding TikToker vibe with just toxic lyrics that were used in a bad way. Glad this isn’t a hit. 

Leah Noble-Beginning middle end: Can You be my snooze fest of a song? LMAO talk about a boring ass song that doesn’t jags any appeal to it. What’s the reason Hits 1 put this on Hitbound in the first place? I don’t know but all I know is that it was pretty bad. 

LISA-Money: Another attempt of a solo Girl from a girl group failing to impress me. How great. Also who cares about Money and why does it need to be the subject of a song. 

Lorde-Solar power: This took boring to a whole other level. I mean I’ve liked Lordes stuff but this yeah this was just utter boringness. 

THE ANXIETY-Meet Me at our spot: This makes T R A N S P A R E N T S O U L. Look like the most awesome Hitbound dropout of the year even though it’s not. That song is pretty good compared to this though. 

One last thing there were 3 songs that missed the cutoff date. They’ll be considered for next year though. 

Amaarae/Kali Uchis/Moily-Sad girlz luv money(remix) 

Oliver Tree-Life goes on 

Walker Hayes-U Gurl 

Alright let’s get into the actual list now. 

10 Swedish House Mafia/Ty Dolla $ign/070 Shake- Lifetime 

                       

It’s not often that Swedish House Mafia gets a hit on the radio, in fact it’s been 8 or 9 years since they’ve gotten one because of the fact they all split up, but they suddenly returned this year and they’re coming out with a new album soon, and this was the first single off of it. Surprisingly enough this is also the only song on this list that didn’t make it Hits 1 and I’m very grateful that it didn’t. When I think of EDM artists I like I think of The Chainsmokers in particular because I seem to like all their music and cuz they also get a decent amount of radio hits, but ever since the pandemic began they’ve been on hiatus creating their 4th studio album and I can’t wait for it to be released, so while they’ve been working and while I’ve been waiting throughout the past year I mostly turned to House music as my EDM preference because that’s what seems to become big for EDM artists as of right now. This is simply not house though and it’s far from it. This I wouldn’t even begin to call it EDM, which is kinda embarrassing when You think of the fact this song is by the same group who just produced Moth to a flame, now that song is more like an EDM song this isn’t and I’ll explain why. First off the production sounds like shit even though it’s upbeat. The intro is some sort of guitar you’d find in African or Asian music and being in a music class in middle school where I had to listen and critique both those types of music I’m just saying from experience isn’t too fun because they sound so bad, and that’s honestly what the intro of this song sounds like to me some shitty ass Asian or African instrument that’s being incorporated into a dance song. Then there’s the actual beat of this thing and wow is it really good quality(sarcasm) I mean it sounds like they just took the lowest quality drum sequencer and some worldly sound to just drop a few notes off of, it’s honestly boring and unappealing to listen to it just sounds too worldly. Then we get to the vocalists. First off I’m not sure who 070 Shake is but man does she have a horrible voice. She barely even sings here except for in the chorus and it also sounds like she has some really distorted effects on her voice, and then there’s Ty Dolla $ign and I usually like his music but nope not this. He doesn’t sound good with this type of heat and once again it sounds like he has effects on his voice. Lyrically I don’t know what the Hell happened with this either but it’s definitely not appealing and not catchy or memorable to me at all. Overall I’m glad this didn’t make it to Hits 1 nor the actual AT40. 

Your probably very familiar with this next song if you’ve been seeing my blog lately 

9 Ritt Momney-Put Your records on

                                     

Ok so this started off as a decent song when I first heard it, and then later on as it became a bigger hit I realized just how awful this was. First off Ritt Momney(whoever the fuck he is) doesn’t sound good at all here. He literally does not have a great voice it sounds as if he has lots of affects on his voice and indeed he does. He’s pretty much drowned in auto tune throughout this whole thing, and I know that that’s probably not his fault but Come on if I’m being real here auto tune makes vocalists sound like complete shit unless we’re talking about certain rappers like Lil Nas X or Travis Scott. Vocalists like this guy though do not sound good with it on their voices. Not to mention this guy doesn’t even have a great voice anyways. It sounds like he’s a bit underwhelming or monotone or maybe a combination of both, whatever it is though I just don’t like it. Then we get to the production which almost makes this even worse. First off it’s very very basic and the buildup to the chorus kinda sucks honestly with his very monotone voice just without any instrumental in the first verse(or at least not any real sounding instrumental) then in the middle it dies down, which honestly I hate and it’s very stupid because it does that in the worst place(literally in the middle of the damn song) and then it picks back up, I just don’t understand that nor do I find it appealing. Now lyrically, let’s see well first off it’s a cover song so it’s not creative in any way, shape or form and the actual lyrics here are a bit wacky especially in the chorus, like what is,” girl put your records on.” Supposed to mean and how’s it supposed to fit in with the other lyrics, I just don’t understand that, and I probably never will. Also why the hell do the first 3 lines sound like they come from some random Maroon 5 song off their 2018 album Red Pill Blues cuz I swear I’ve heard them before so I think he must’ve stolen them from somewhere(although this is a cover song from 2006, so why am I assuming he stole from a song from 2018) anyways overall it’s not good, nor did the radio overplay of this thing do any good for Me or my taste in music 

. I see a lot of people getting triggered over this next one. 

8 Olivia Rodrigo-Deju Vu 

                      

I can’t say I hate a lot of Olivias songs in fact this one was the only one I hate, and My God is it annoying. There’s many reasons why this is just boring and unappealing to me. Let’s start off with the production. What the hell is this. The sound that they use in the intro and throughout the song in the background is really stupid and it sounds very child like and boring, and then we get to the actual beat of the song which is nothing but a bunch of overproduced drum lines. I just don’t like overproduction in music, it just doesn’t sound good overall and I just find it very unappealing and boring to listen to. Now we get to Olivia herself and wow she does not impress me here. She sounds so awful. The outro is the most atrocious outro I’ve probably ever heard in my life with her screaming,” I know You get Deju Vu.” On top of this crappy production. It’s just not good and unbeatable to listen to. She doesn’t sound good in the rest of the song either. I think she starts off really slow and boring and then get a bit angrier sounding as the song progresses and it just doesn’t sound good. The song is basically her complaining about an Ex-boyfriend like every other one of her songs is about that, and this one just had very boring and stupid lyrics to it unlike Drivers License, good 4 u and traitor. I just don’t get the appeal to this at all. I think I’ve said enough. Next song please. 

Ok so I’ve liked Justin Beiber throughout the year not only as a artist who has a great voice in his own music, but as an artist who has a great voice in other peoples music, and this really shows in songs like Stay, and his new his with Juice wrld called Wandered to L.A, but there was just one song where he nor even the lead artists impressed me on and that’s what we get next on this list. 

7 Wizkid/Justin Beiber/Tems-Essence(remix) 

              

Ok so there’s many reasons why this is just one of the most trashy and unappealing songs I have ever heard. First off let me say I’m not particularly a fan of worldly music(as you probably read in the review for lifetime) nor am I fan of Afrobeats in the slightest. It’s just unappealing, boring and generic music that doesn’t really need to be on pop radio and this is a great example of that. I’m using the remix of this because that’s the version that Hits 1 played, but on AT40 they use the original(which I’m sure is a lot worse) and even with Beiber being in this remix it doesn’t save the song from being horrible in the slightest. Beiber sounds alright here I guess, but there’s just no reason to have him on this I mean he just doesn’t fit in with this type of production or music in general, and it’s not like he saves it or anything like I’ve said before. His singing of the chorus in this thing is absolutely atrocious though it’s probably the worst thing I’ve heard from him in a very long time. Now on the note of both Wizkid and Tems vocals they both sound pretty bad here, and You can’t tell half of what the hell the lyrics are cuz of two things 1 their accents are just too thick and 2 the language barrier. I’m not sure what language they’re singing in here, but it’s definitely not good and not catchy like Spanish is. The lyrics I do understand are very questionable at best too, I feel as if it gets a bit too sexual. Now finally we have Wizkids second flaw, the production that he used. It’s very generic and just doesn’t sound good. The trumpets in the background are really annoying to. I was actually very confused when I first heard the beat in this song to cuz I honestly thought it was R&B-ish then once I found it it was Afrobeats I was like yeah no this is not for Me. Radio did not help with this either, even Hits 1 played it for a bit, thankfully it’s starting to lose traction though on mediabase which is good cuz soon it’ll be off the charts and radio. Can’t wait until that happens. Let’s move on. 

I generally like House and EDM in general but this next one was the farthest from either genre, and if You think I can’t stand the trumpets used in the beat of that last song try replacing them with saxophones in this next one and see how it turns out. 

6 SHOUSE-Love Tonight 

                    

Who the Hell would wanna call this dance music? I sure as hell wouldn’t. In fact considering this is labeled as Dance I’ll refer to it as the lowest of the low dance song I’ve probably ever heard. First off this should be nowhere near radio, yet Hits 1 decided to pick it up and make it a thing. It’s too long, and it just isn’t appealing to many people(I wouldn’t think) let’s dig into this production first. First off once again it sounds very worldly like the production did in Lifetime, and it just doesn’t appeal to me at all. Here’s the big problem with this though(let’s put big fat ranting scream right here) THE SAXOPHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Oh My God they’re so annoying in this song. First off once again a saxophone isn’t an instrument to be used in a house song like who the fuck thought that would be a great idea? Apparently SHOUSE did, and I’m sorry but it just doesn’t work out good at all. It’s playing literally throughout the whole song, and then during the outro it’s literally just the saxophone, which sounds creepy and makes me feel very uncomfortable and weirded out. It’s just not good, and then there’s the beat itself and it just doesn’t blend well because of the whole saxophone thing, and once again it sounds like some unappealing worldly shit that I wouldn’t like. The vocals on this thing are very boring also. I’m not sure if it’s actually SHOUSE who’s even singing here cuz I’ve read about who they are and they’re 2 guys from Australia. The vocalists here aren’t both males nor do they sound Australian either, so I’m not sure who these vocalists are, but they suck at singing. They just don’t sound good with the production, and their verses also just don’t hold up cuz the production in them has no buildup it’s just plain nothingness there almost except for a few claps. That’s really not a good instrumental baseline/melody and it really shows. Yeah let’s move on from this shit. 

Ok so this next one is literally the only slow K-pop song I’ve ever heard and it really shows why I won’t and can’t get into these guys. Thanks Hits 1 for making this a one to watch. 

5 X lovers/Chloe Moriando-Haunt You

                          

The X Lovers had their first song on Hits 1 in 2019 when their song Play Your game came out. Spoiler! I hated that song. It’s not great. Now this on the other hand started off as decent but then faded once I listened to it a few times, and learned just how boring and meaningless it was. First off this is by a K-pop group, and this shit right here is a very slow ballad. K-pop is not supposed to be a ballad-type genre. The production is very non-existent here, and that’s just not something that speaks radio to me needless to say one to watch cuz this is literally one of  only 2 one to watch songs within the past year that have been slow ballads. Next let’s get into the vocalists themselves. The X-lovers aren’t amazing vocalists by any means, needless to say their voices don’t fit in with the production, but then we get to Chloe Moriando, now I’m not sure who the Hell she is but something tells me she comes from TikTok cuz I when I looked up artists who might become popular in 2021 on Google last year, she came up somehow, and wow her picture looked hideous, I’m not sure what the fuck she was wearing but she it looked like a costume for a TikTok dance, so that’s why I assume she’s from TikTok. Her verse is far from great here, cuz her voice is not that great. It’s very grating and boring to hear. Plus her pitchiness doesn’t help either. Lyrically it’s very stupid and boring also. Overall who the Hell would wanna listen to this boring ass song. Let’s move to something that’s at least upbeat. 

Ok so by this point in the post You can probably tell that I don’t like a lot of foreign music. In fact my favorite foreign genre if You ask me would probably be Latin, but even sometimes Latin songs can be horrible, and this next song was one of those songs that crossed that line. 

4 Kali Uchis-Telepatia 

                     

Now I think I’m pretty lucky that Hits 1 doesn’t like Latin stuff in particular, but come on why did they have to get this. This is the most utterly worthless Latin song I have probably ever heard, and if being a big hit doesn’t help it’s cause here. There’s 1 thing that I will give Kali Uchis credit on here and that is that she does a pretty good job transitioning back and forth between English and Spanish because that’s something I’ve never seen a Latin artist do before, but that still doesn’t make the song any great or it’s writing for that matter. The lyrics here are actually sorta easy to understand but not by a whole lot, and it just doesn’t sit well with me. Let’s get to the big flaws of this song though which are the vocals and production. First off Kali Uchis doesn’t sound good here at all. She sounds a bit too over-sexy compared to someone like Karol G for example, and that really makes her vocals here really worse that they already are. It makes them sound really boring honestly. Now I’m not sure if I’m accurate on this next point or not(so someone please correct me if I’m wrong) but it sounds like she has some heavy vocal effects on her voice to, more specifically auto tune, She doesn’t sound like she’s completely drowned in it like Ritt Momney was in Put your records on, but if she doesn’t have it then the problem is simple, it doesn’t sound good with her Colombian accent. It just makes her sound even more weird than she should. Now we get to the other huge problem, the production and I don’t think I’ve ever heard  a more boring drum beat in my life until I heard this for the first time. I mean it’s literally just a basic repetitive drum beat for the whole damn song, and if I’m being honest bit sounds a bit overproduced, which I don’t like as I already explained in Deja Vu. The production overall is also not something I’d consider to be a Latin type beat, so it makes it even more uninteresting and boring to listen to compared to a normal Latin beat(which most of the ones I’ve heard are pretty good if You ask me) so yeah in simple terms this may be a Latin song, but it’s not one I find very fun to listen to today. Good thing this didn’t become big at Hits 1. 

If your reading this right now then that means today is finally the day You get a full explanation as to why I hate this next song. This one has been out since before I started this blog and I’ve had to switch its color coating around a few times cuz Hits 1 can’t decide what to do with one of my dishonorable mentions, but I recently decided to upgrade it a bit, but that doesn’t mean it’s still not a bad song. 

3 Doja Cat-Need to know 

                   

Alright so if You haven’t figured out already I hate this song in fact hate isn’t even the right word to be used here since this is so big, I despise it with a burning passion. Why You May ask? Well there’s a few reasons. First let’s get into Doja Cat. I like Doja as an artist but there’s some things I can’t stand in her music sometimes, I always seem to like more of her R&B stuff than her trap stuff like this and that’s just cuz she sounds better with her R&B voice than she does her Trap voice, and that’s a problem here. She simply just doesn’t sound good, her voice is overly annoying and kinda high-pitched at times, and she’s just not a very good rapper in this song specifically, which is why I’d much rather prefer Kiss Me More or Best friend compared to this. The production here doesn’t really help either because while people may think that it’s cool with it being futuristic, I for one do not. It just does a bad job mixing R&B and trap together with futuristic sounds, and those sounds they use in the intro and outro sound horribly annoying. I don’t know how anyone can like them. Now let’s get into the biggest reason why I hate this thing. The lyrics. I’m not sure what the fuck Doja was thinking when writing and releasing this song, but it’s definitely not something radio should be picking up on, because it’s way too sexual. Now it’s not that sexual songs are bad because trust I’ve heard tons of songs about sex before other than this. I’ve personally listened to 6ix9ime before and can say he’s way worse than Doja Cat when it comes to sexual references, I’ve also listened to this guy named Lil Spinach and he has a few sexual songs out, but the difference in his songs is that their just joke songs that I can laugh to, and they’re also not too graphic in nature. This on the other hand is. Now on another subject of sexual songs WAP from Cardi and Megan is way worse than this when it comes to how graphic it gets, but that song had some kinda catchy lines and decent production this on the other hand does not. I mean when I hear this on the radio I can really tell it’s not radio appropriate because on my local pop station they have to edit so much shit out of this thing, it’s not only curse words, it’s literally the words,” throw the pipe.” And also all the sexual actions in the 2nd verse, and while we’re on the subject of that verse what the fuck? It sounds like Doja is literally moaning in it. I mean come on all of that shit I just mentioned should say not radio appropriate to any programmer in the country, so maybe next time the label should think twice before they release shit that becomes popular on TikTok. Cuz I don’t think they can tell between what’s radio appropriate and what’s not radio appropriate. I think I’ve just about had it with this gross song and I also think I’ve said enough. Let’s move on. 

Ok so these last 2 songs were Hitbound dropouts but I’m counting them in here cuz they actually did try and do something on radio. First we have a song that takes being toxic to yourself and others and Just takes it to a whole new level, and surprise once again it’s another crappy overproduced song that just sucks. 

2 Girl In Red-Serotonin 

                     

 

Ok this song right here just takes fucked up to a really extreme level, and once again I despise it. I don’t even know where to begin with this one, but it’s not one that should’ve been released to radio(although it was) and while it didn’t even do shit on Hits 1 it still ended up on this list of mine cuz it did end up getting really big on alternative radio stations, and while it was there I just couldn’t stop thinking of how bad this was and I really had to ask why the fuck did alternative radio have to get this one. Let’s start with the vocals. They suck, Girl in Red does not have a great voice here at all and she just doesn’t fit in well with anything, and then there’s the bigger issues which are both the lyrics and production in this. First off this is beyond toxic lyrically. It really makes me question this singers mental health cuz when I hear lyrics such as,” I get intrusive thoughts like cutting my hands off, like jumping in front of a bus, like burning my hair off, and like killing somebody I love.” I really really really question what her mental state is, escpecially with that last one cuz none of those things would benefit her or anyone she likes, and so I’m sure it wouldn’t sit well with radio people, which is probably why Hits 1 decided not to push this shit. It’s literally all of that toxic shit in the verse and then the chorus just talks about how she’s running low on Serotonin. Sounds like she needs to get her mental health in order to me. Now here’s the other big problem with this. The production. Oh My God it’s overproduced to hell. The drum line in this is so overproduced, that it ruins the song for me, like I’ve said I just don’t like overproduction nor ever will, and this song is a perfect example of why I don’t like it, it just makes it sound like complete shit. Now then we get to who produced it, none other than Finneas O’Connell or Billie Eilishes brother, and he once again proves to me that he can’t produce anything for an artist other than his sister, and I’ll also give him some credit for Justin Beiber and Benny Blancos song Lonely but not too much cuz that’s a ballad and he’s more of an alternative artist, and him being featured here doesn’t help his cause for my taste in music cuz I personally hated what he did with Moral of the story last year, and this song just doesn’t make him look good to me, even though I like the majority of what him and Billie put out. All in all this song is a shitty toxic overproduced to hell piece of shit that was a complete waste of my time listening to this year, but it can’t be my #1 least favorite cuz there was one song that just blew up on TikTok that was so boring that even beats this at how shitty it is. 

Alright y’all have made it to my least favorite song of the year, congratulations on reading all my rants up until this point, now if there wasn’t a song that was from TikTok that didn’t suck this year as much as this one did them I wouldn’t know how to survive. I mean I don’t know who uses these boring ass songs in their TikToks but this had to be the worst one yet. I’m kinda a sucker for ballads to and yet this song makes every other ballad look really great. Again this one was a Hitbound dropout, which I know I don’t wanna use too much of, but I’m actually really happy this one didn’t end up making the countdown or anywhere past an OTV track on AT40, in fact it might still be an OTV track but I can’t remember. This one is obviously so boring so let’s just get into it already. 

Virtual drum roll please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep scrolling. You’ll get their eventually. 

#1 Madison Beer-Reckless 

                        

Alright so we’ve finally made it to My worst song of 2021, and in all honesty I’m a bit shocked that this is the song, but it is. Now I know that this one didn’t really do anything at Hits 1 nor did it end up doing anything on radio in general, but out of everything I’ve heard this year, it literally is the worst song out of all of them. Here’s why. It’s boring, it sounds awful, and it just isn’t something that I envision myself listening to. Where to start, where to start. I guess I’ll start with the production. This is a ballad and I respect that, as I tend to like ballads, but this one isn’t a ballad that serves any purpose being a huge hit. It’s literally the most boring thing I’ve ever heard probably in my 20 years of living. The instrumental here is so non existent, and generic that it literally ruins the purpose of having the song exist like there’s almost nothing there, it feels like she’s singing a pure a cappella. Now there’s also that toy box sound they used in the background, and it isn’t good at all, it’s childish and makes the song sound like something a 3 year old would listen to, and also how does it fit in here??????????? I don’t know but I just don’t think it serves as being a good background song for this, or any pop music in general. Toy boxes should stay with children’s music not with pop ballads. Now we get to Madison Beer herself who interestingly enough my favorite Youtuber Jack Doherty has met and knows(lucky he’s not reading this right now cuz he probably likes this song) Madison is quite pretty and she’s pretty young also(I think she’s around my age) anyways I first heard her song Home with You in 2018 and I really liked it and it was really great, then she followed that up with Hurts like Hell in 2019 which was a team up with one of my favorite rappers Offset, and you know it wasn’t the best song but it was pretty solid, and now about 2 years after that was released we get this from her and boy does she not sound good in it. She sounds like she has very heavy affects on her voice in the intro and outro to this song, and I think I’ve already said enough about why I hate affects so much on vocalists, so In short it just makes her sound like shit. Then throughout the rest of this thing she literally sings In such a boring as hell tone that it doesn’t even interest Me at all. I still to this day can’t remember half the lyrics in this thing because of how bad she sounded and how much of a snooze fest the production was, so I won’t comment on them, all I can’t really say is that they were boring and the same stupid love story I hear in every breakup song, but literally I still can’t remember some of them cuz of how boring this was. I literally just didn’t pay attention at all when Hits 1 played this on Hitbound, so yeah I’m glad it didn’t stick around for too long nor hasn’t done anything really to the charts. 

Alright well it feels great to get this off my chest, and if you stuck around and actually read everything then good for You. That’s my top 10 worst songs of the year and I hope y’all enjoyed and thanks for reading. If y’all agree or disagree with my opinions please feel free to leave comments as I don’t have comment moderation on anymore, but if you do please do 2 things for me. 1 be respectful of my opinion and anyone else’s opinions of these songs, and don’t argue with anyone if they agree or disagree with You, and 2 don’t spam up the comments it gets really annoying. Anyways thanks for reading and I’ll see y’all in my next weekend countdown review where My decisions are gonna be put to the test. Yay.