Is Marvin Gaye the worst song of the 2010's?

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- uses Marvin Gaye's name as a verb
- a tribute to Marvin Gaye somehow manages to be the least sexiest song about sex since Afternoon Delight
- a tribute to Marvin Gaye that sounds literally nothing like Marvin Gaye
- all of the lyrics are lame name drops of Marvin Gaye songs
- lazy chord progression
- inexplicable half-baked trap beats in Trainor's verse
- sang by the most asexual singers in the industry
- OH WOW DOO-WOP REVIVAL SO UNIQUE THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE

[Slow Learner]

I'm fairly sure that Trainor and Puth are anatomically like Barbie and Ken dolls.

[Alcon]

I like how they reference "Mercy, Mercy Me" like it's a sex song

[Cubby]

No it's not, it's a great song. The video is kinda lame but most are.

The worst songs of the 2010's are

Best Day of My Life   by American Authors
7 Years                     by Lukas Graham
Party Rock Anthem   by ROTFL
Blurred Lines            by Robin Thicke
See you Again          by "Wiz Khalifa"
Don't you Worry Child    by Swedish House Mafia    "Seattle's got a plan for you" WTF?
Any song by or featuring Waltzing Matilda Azalea. You're not a rapper and you never can be.

Actually looking back there have been more songs this decade that I like than ones I don't. That sounds heretical, but I would still rate this decade so far as having better songs than the 1970's, which I feel was the worst decade of the Rock and Roll Era that began in 1954.

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It's horrible, but it certainly has a lot of competition for 'worst song'.

[RightBehind]

Contemporary Mainstream Pop in general is just awful.

[Bojack Horseman]

"Gangnam Style," "What Does The Fox Say," and "Happy" are in a three-way tie for the worst songs of the 2010s, IMO. This decade has been the decade music forgot.

[Maxwell]

I hate that you made me google that song. Marvin Gaye's ghost should haunt them from this point on.

[Slow Learner]

"Gangnam Style," "What Does The Fox Say," and "Happy" are in a three-way tie for the worst songs of the 2010s, IMO. This decade has been the decade music forgot.

u fkn wot

[RaphaelDLG]

Eh, it's okay.  I think the post-blairite subtext makes it pretty interesting, lyrically speaking, with the extended metaphors and whatnot

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

"Gangnam Style," "What Does The Fox Say," and "Happy" are in a three-way tie for the worst songs of the 2010s, IMO. This decade has been the decade music forgot.

The first two of those songs weren't supposed to be 'good'.

[dead0man]

I have no idea what you're talking about but I can guarantee that it was not the worst song in whatever time frame you want to put it in (that is at least a day long).

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For novelty songs, 'fox' and 'Gangam style' are pretty great. Better than other chart-topping garbage like "disco duck", "Barbie girl", "blue da ba dee", "who let the dogs out" and ... so much more.

[dead0man]

I'm proud to say I only know three of those*, and have only ever heard one of them all the way through (and that was a punk cover).


*it was impossible to avoid letting the dogs out and that silly Korean dude.

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I'm a connoisseur of terrible novelty music that have inexplicably hit the charts, you see.

[dead0man]

I avoid music on radio like the plague.  Why would I want someone else to pick my music for me?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Side note on 'Gangnam Style': I once bought a bottle of Korean grain alcohol solely because it had a picture of Psy on it and it piqued a morbid curiosity in me. It's the only time I've been consciously aware of a celebrity endorsement working on me. I didn't end up drinking much of it.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

It's horrible, but it certainly has a lot of competition for 'worst song'.

[Slow Learner]

I'm a connoisseur of terrible novelty music that have inexplicably hit the charts, you see.

That pretty much is the British charts tho.

Frex; Cher Lloyd's inexplicable success.

[Maxwell]

It is not worse than "White Iverson" or any songs by Post Malone.