The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX

 

The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX

So, in my original 2014 lists, I said that 2014 was the worst year of the 2010s for pop music. And when revisiting this year, while I did discover that there were a few songs I was a tad too harsh on (hell, my best list had a shocking amount of competition), there were still a very high number of mediocre to bad songs on the year-end list for 2014, to the point that now, having listened to every year-end list of the 21st century thus far, this is easily the worst year for pop music this century so far.

But now for the big trends in pop music this year. 2014 was after the club boom completely collapsed but before trap took over the pop music landscape. Thus, this year was kind of transitional; somewhat of a free-for-all where every genre tried to compete for being the next big thing. We see this kind of period in pop music from decade to decade all the time. In the 2020s, for example, it’s probably 2023 and 2024. However, if 2013 was the wild wild West in the middle of a tornado, 2014 was the devastation after the storm, where in pop, it seemed like radio stations defaulted to the blandest pop songs to clog up the airways that became arguably the most annoyingly overplayed hits of the 2010s. Hip hop was dominated by DJ Mustard beats during a period where DJ Mustard only knew about 3 notes on his keyboard and overused them into the dirt.

And then there was country music...holy shit it was ROUGH, where the vapid party lyrics of the club boom sneaked into country songs and country artists desperately wanted to make hip hop music for people afraid of black people in bro-country. And yet, none of those artists even had the personality or charisma to make those songs fun!! So overall, not precisely a great year for the charts, to put it mildly. Because there was an overwhelming amount of material I had to cut from this list, even with my 10-song dishonorable mentions list (not even lying, I could make a top 40 of this list and still have material I’d have to cut).

But anyway, here’s my criteria for my list: the songs had to debut on the year-end list for 2014, but if a 2013 repeat finished higher on this year-end than in 2013, it’s also eligible. But if the repeat finished in the top 20, it can be eligible whether or not it’s higher here than in 2013, BUT, if the top 20 is lower, the repeat had to have hit a higher peak OR matched its peak in the previous year this year, which means that while something like OneRepublic’s “Counting Stars” is eligible, “Royals” by Lorde is not. So let’s kick this off with viewing my original worst list...

DMS:

Katy Perry - Birthday

Enrique Iglesias f/Sean Paul, Descemer Bueno, & Gente de Zona - Bailando

YG f/Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta

Jason Derulo - Trumpets

Rich Gang f/Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan - Lifestyle

Chris Brown f/Lil Wayne & Tyga - Loyal

Kid Ink f/Chris Brown - Show Me

10. Jason Aldean - Burnin’ It Down

9. Ed Sheeran - Sing

8. Kenny Chesney - American Kids

7. Jake Owen - Beachin’

6. Iggy Azalea f/Charli XCX - Fancy

5. Jason Derulo f/Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

4. Bobby Shmurda - Hot Boy

3. MAGIC! - Rude

2. Naughty Boy f/Sam Smith - La La La

1. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

Yeah, there are some changes I can already see here. What are those changes, you might ask? Let’s see, starting with our dishonorable mentions...

DM #1: American Authors - Best Day of My Life (YE: #31, PEAK: #11)

I’ll be honest...I liked this song at the time. I thought that this was at least happy and upbeat enough for me to have fun to. But yeah, this has aged like fucking dogshit. Vocalist Zac Barnett sounds like if modern Imagine Dragons was even further commercialized and the constant “ooh”’s and “whoa”’s are so annoying. And that’s before we get to how cringeworthy the content is! It’s infuriatingly cliche, you howled at the moon with friends and then the sun came crashing in, huh. And you had a dream so big and loud and then jumped so high you touched the clouds. These are lyrics that even 5th grade me could come up with, and 5th grade me literally wrote a poem that went like this:

“Christmastime was really great

I got all I wanted

For Christmas I got a pup

But it made me haunted”

And then there’s the production, which is generic as shit and when coupled with Imagine Dragons from Temu here, it sounds super insufferable. As a Pulse user said, this is the corporation anthem of the 2010s. This sounds like the musical equivalent of a Disney World commercial in the worst way possible. This could’ve easily made the list proper, but you know what, call it lingering nostalgia from 4th or 5th grade, I just can’t hate this song as much as I want to. Let’s quote another Pulse user, “You know the song ‘Fake Happy’? [Best Day Of My Life] is like if you took the feeling Hayley described as a burden on her in that song, and acted like it was a good thing and something to aspire to.” Sums it right up really. Terrible song.

DM #2: Mike WiLL Made-It f/Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa, & Juicy J - 23 (YE: #90, PEAK: #11)

I don’t know what the fuck it was with white women in 2014 thinking they could rap but you know what at least “Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift - a song I still consider one of Swift’s worst even if I don’t hate it as much as I used to - knew it was stupid and not trying to take itself seriously on some level. But in “23”, you can so clearly tell that Miley thinks she is as badass as she wants to come off as in the song and she straight up sounds uncomfortable acting the way she is in this song. But no, the main reason this made my dishonorable mentions is that utter cacophony of a beat, that siren going off is telling me I should evacuate the room immediately because there was a gas leak. And between this, “Shake It Off”, Katy Perry’s bad attempt at soccer mom’s first trap song that just missed this list in “Dark Horse”, and Iggy Azalea, this was a bad year to be a white female rapper. Sam Hunt and Chayce Beckham outsold. But speaking of Iggy Azalea...

DM #3: T.I. f/Iggy Azalea - No Mediocre (YE: #87, PEAK: #33)

I mean, this is probably one of 2014 DJ Mustard’s better produced beats, but that really isn’t saying much. And Iggy Azalea isn’t even the weak link on here, that’d be T.I., whose verse is so poorly edited and repetitive that it reminds me way too much of “I Think They Like Me” by Dem Franchize Boyz. Yeah, if there’s one thing this song got right, this is definitely far from mediocre, in that it’s fucking terrible instead.

DM #4: Jason Derulo f/2 Chainz - Talk Dirty (YE: #6, PEAK: #3)

The year-end Top 10 for 2014 is utterly abysmal - and this wasn’t even the worst song in there (stay tuned). But “Talk Dirty” is an utter migraine that feels weirdly racially motivated at some points. The song is about how Derulo can fuck any girl with a big booty from around the world and the song is littered with foreign language references!! It’s weirdly ironic that Jason Derulo says he can fuck any girl around the world and yet only references Spanish. And then there’s the couplet in 2 Chainz’s verse: “Dos Cadenas, close to genius/Sold out arenas, you can suck my penis”. And then there’s that Asian lady on the intro and outro going “what? I don’t understand”. I thought we learned from Hopsin’s “Happy Ending” that #StopAsianHate. But no, this made the dishonorable mentions primarily for that grating as hell synth riff. This could’ve easily been higher here, but let’s be real: we all know Jason Derulo somehow managed to make worse this year; stay tuned.

DM #5: Florida Georgia Line f/Luke Bryan - This Is How We Roll (YE: #49, PEAK: #15)

You know, this could’ve theoretically worked. The electric guitar delivers a somewhat promising melody and I’ve always thought Luke Bryan had a good singing voice. And on that bridge, his voice honestly sounds good!! And the hook is way more fun than it is in most other bro country songs. With all that, this song was really close to missing this list...but no, then both halves of Florida-Georgia Line were inspired by the white women who rapped on their hits this year and thought they could do it too. And then it all gets worse when they recruit Usher from Temu, sorry, I mean Jason Derulo, for a pop remix, where he claims that his accent’s got a little twang, little thang, which is even dumber than FGL saying that this mixtape’s got a little Hank, little Drake!! This was an actual top comment I saw on the YouTube audio for the Jason Derulo remix:

Let me repeat, a top comment on a YouTube video said this, top comments on YouTube videos are almost always overwhelmingly positive, and yet this was what they got!! A testament to how terrible this song is, really.

DM #6: Sam Smith - Stay with Me (YE: #10, PEAK: #2)

Okay, I’ve always thought this song was bad, but when re-listening to the year-end list for 2014, I was genuinely stunned by how much I hated this song, but good god, this is TERRIBLE. If anything, this song is basically the “Daylight” by David Kushner of the 2010s; an overwrought, pretentious ballad about something genuinely laughable. Sam Smith, here, is whining to a one-night stand that they feel so lonely and want that one night stand to be more than a one night stand. Sam, do you not know what a “one night” stand is? And they’re not doing anything to gain my sympathy either, the production is insufferably boring and yes, Sam does show some self awareness in the lyrics with “No, it's not a good look, gain some self-control/And deep down, I know this never works” but when the production is so uninteresting it hurts, I could give less of a shit about the lyrics unless they stick out as particularly bad. So on top of being laughable, it’s also tedious, boring, and pretentious. It sucks for all the reasons why “Daylight” by David Kushner was also terrible. The fact that this was in the YE top 10 for 2014 and still not the worst song in it (again, stay tuned) should be a testament to how bad this year was for music.

DM #7: Jessie J, Nicki Minaj, & Ariana Grande - Bang Bang (YE: #27, PEAK: #3)

This is the musical equivalent of the most annoying cheerleaders in your high school yelling in your ear during the homecoming basketball game, complete with the obnoxious spelling gimmick Nicki Minaj has in her verse. This song is complete noise, Everyone here sounds super shrill, especially Jessie J. The production is built entirely on handclaps and a mess of, I think horns? It’s so hard to tell what instruments are even being played in the chorus. The sad thing is, if this was a solo Ariana Grande song, it could’ve worked. Ari has the high youthful energy to match the cheerleader hype anthem vibe without being too annoying. I mean, this may be marginally better than AJR’s terrible hit from 2021, but this still REALLY sucks.

DM #8: YG featuring Jeezy and Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta (YE: #58, PEAK: #19)

This is just awful in every way. At least “Bang Bang”’s production, as annoying as it was, had some energy behind it. There’s no energy to be seen or heard in “My Hitta”, it just consists of a production with no momentum that sounds like it’s falling on its stomach every time that squawnking bass hits. Everyone sounds like they’re trying to mimic Young Thug at his least interesting by sounding perpetually constipated. Not really much to this, this is just really incompetent. One more thing, though, you wanna know how much they say the word “hitta” in this song? 121. And this production isn’t even dumb or energetic or anything enough to make the song at least funny as a meme!! Yeah, this wasn’t quite incompetent enough to make the actual list, but in many other years, it absolutely would’ve been.

DM #9:  Chris Brown f/Lil Wayne & Tyga - Loyal (YE: #30, PEAK: #9)

This song is here on its fundamental premise and Chris Brown being the one singing it, the repugnant little turd he is, it’s a song where Chris entices girls to cheat on their partners with him while singing “these hoes ain’t loyal”. Across a generic as hell 2014 DJ Mustard production- wait, apparently according to Wikipedia, DJ Mustard didn’t produce this. In fact, the only mention of him in that article whatsoever was this: “HipHopDX found Nic Nac's production on the song to be similar to DJ Mustard's production style.”...“SIMILAR TO”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????? So let’s get this straight, this Nic Nac motherfucker just asked DJ Mustard in 2014 “Hey can I copy your homework?” And DJ Mustard back then said “Sure, just change it up a little so it doesn’t look copied.” and the end result was this:

DM #10: Kenny Chesney - American Kids (YE: #73, PEAK: #23)

This song only didn’t make my actual top 10 because spoilers - there are already 3 bro country songs in it and I thought I should be practicing more restraint - because this was the last cut, trust me, this song is utter TRASH. Kenny Chesney’s vocals are super flat and non-emotive. And paired with this basic ass acoustic guitar production it feels unbearable, this is what I imagine would soundtrack a bunch of dads on a fishing trip on a summer day, so in that regard, this reminds me too much of Uncle Kracker’s atrocious cover of “Drift Away”, still one of my least favorite songs of all time. Well, let me be more specific; this sounds like if the dads had an uber-patriotic beach party before their fishing trip. I mean, this is definitely nowhere near as bad as Uncle Kracker’s “Drift Away”, but Kenny Chesney’s turtle-faced, flat-ass singing voice presence makes this feel unbearable, even despite the admittedly decent swing feel of the production. Yeah, if this is what the American kids like, I’m moving to Canada.

IDM: Robin Thicke f/T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines (YE: #83, PEAK: #1)

Oh yeah, this is another change I’m making. You know those “DM EX” or “HM EX” entries I had in some of my other lists right? Well this change is doing nothing more than renaming them; “IDM” stands for “ineligible dishonorable mention” (I took inspiration for this from Mr. 96 lol), there won’t be a certain number I’ll include and some lists won’t even have them altogether. But I’ll just include these if I feel passionate love/hate for them and would’ve made the list if they were eligible. Anyways let’s start the actual review, which I’ll just copy from my worst of all time list and move on: “But in the meantime, why do I consider this my least favorite song of all time? Well, I don’t really have an answer other than this limp, bare production that only has a bassline and cowbell brings Robin Thicke’s personality to the forefront and Thicke’s personality here is just repulsive. This is a combo that gives me an allergic reaction. Thicke’s falsetto in particular would drive dogs to run off a bridge and his lower register is just smug and self-satisfied and makes this utterly obnoxious. And then we get the lyrics which when you pair it with Thicke’s repugnant personality makes it come off as rapey. This song effectively killed Thicke’s career. Yes, this was one of the biggest hits of 2013 and the 2010s, but Thicke’s followup EP Paula did catastrophically low numbers worldwide that’d cause 6ix9ine to melt into a puddle in the hot sun if those were his numbers. I can’t say I feel sorry for Thicke either honestly.” And yes, if this was not a repeat, it would’ve topped this list and it wouldn’t have even been close. This song is the bane of my existence.

That’s a nice round of appetizers, let’s get onto the REAL stinkers now, shall we?...

10...No lie, I still remember one certain YouTube critic calling this song one of the best hit songs of the 2010s, and to this day I wonder...did that critic hear the same song I’m hearing?...

10. Jason Aldean - Burnin’ It Down Jake Owen - Beachin' (YE: #91, PEAK: #26)

In case you didn’t catch who that shade was directed at, that was towards Spectrum Pulse, this song placed ABOVE gems like “Burn” by Ellie Goulding and “Die Young” by Ke$ha!! And look, while I don’t think this is as atrocious as I used to think, this is still trash. I do actually think that Jake Owen’s rapping here is a step above that of other bro country artists at the time, though considering the bar is so low that it’s out the other side of Earth, that still doesn’t say much. And yeah, that rapping is the only reason I placed this in my top 10 proper. The electric guitar in the production isn’t awful, it’s pretty breezy for what it is. But even if this is one of the more “fun” bro country songs I’ve heard, the rapping just really drags this one down hard. Yeah, even as I say the rapping here is a cut above the rapping in other bro country songs, it still single-handedly dragged this song from being good to one of the worst hits of the year. That’s how low the bar is here, people.

9...So one song that missed this list altogether was “Don’t” by Ed Sheeran, it wasn’t a song I expected to like in the slightest when revisiting the year-end list, especially considering that it was part of a messy, stale drama from a decade ago. But my surprise was not only that I liked it, I found it considerably better than Ellie Goulding’s response song, “On My Mind”, which only barely missed my 2016 worst list. If you want the 2014 Ed Sheeran song that I’ve NOT gotten any kinder to, on the other hand...

9. Ed Sheeran - Sing (YE: #56, PEAK: #13)

This is just Ed Sheeran trying to remake “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke - which, as a reminder, is my least favorite song of all time!! - and while this isn’t nearly as bad as that atrocious dumpster fire of a song, Sheeran’s unlistenable falsetto and the “oh oh oh oh oooho”’s on the chorus still make me wanna jump out the second story window in my house. This doesn’t make me wanna sing, if this song was titled what it’d make the listeners want to do, it would be called “Die”.

8...2014 could be characterized as the year of many things, DJ Mustard, white female rappers, but arguably above everything else, it was the year of the ass.  There were so many ass anthems I could’ve chosen for this list, but this was one of the worst ones...

8. Kenny Chesney - American Kids Jason Derulo f/Snoop Dogg - Wiggle (YE: #40, PEAK: #5)

As Todd In The Shadows said in his retrospective of “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred, “Famous musicians don't actually know why butts are supposed to be attractive and are only vaguely aware of what they are.” On some level, it’s easy to read this as “so bad it’s good”, which is why I didn’t put this song higher here, I mean for fuck’s sakes he played the drop on a recorder, it should be impossible to take this seriously. But then you get the buildup into the non-existent crescendos and you realize that Jason Derulo is taking this seriously, as if he’s been put in a trance by this girl’s ass, so deep of a trance that all he can say is “go ham sammich” and “your booty like two planets” (what if the two planets in question are Pluto and Eris?) and “patty cake patty cake with no hands”. And somehow this still wasn’t Jason Derulo’s worst hit this year. Stay tuned...

7...So there were more than a few songs that I liked before revisiting this list that I was so repulsed by when relistening to them, two of them were both of Maroon 5’s hits this year; one being “Maps” which just barely missed this list, the other? Well...

7. Jake Owen - Beachin’ Maroon 5 - Animals-mals (YE: #62, PEAK: #3)

I can’t in good faith call this Maroon 5’s worst song when “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt Like A Motherfucker” and “Don’t Wanna Know” exist, but god, it’s really close. Sonically, this is shockingly similar to “This Summer” with the minor key guitars that just turn into a slurry of bad mixing in the chorus. This isn’t worse than “This Summer” because the song at least bothers to have energetic percussion. And I could also mention how Adam Levine’s vocals are super unsexy and shrill, but no, this song made my top 10 proper for the content, which is utterly repugnant. Does any girl find Levine saying he’s gonna prey on them and hunt them down and eat them alive like an animal- wait, sorry, like an animal-mal remotely sexy? And then we get that wolf howl, which is an utterly baffling artistic decision that at least Shakira could make sound sexy in “She Wolf”. This song’s lyrics are genuinely as creepy as Robin Thicke’s were on “Blurred Lines”!! And when paired with the video, I immediately want to call the cops on Levine for serial stalking. I know, the music video doesn’t have anything to do with how a song sounds, but when the message depicted in the video is plainly in the text of the lyrics, I’d say it’s fair game). Even when I first heard this as a 10 year-old, I was grossed out by the lyrics. I’m amazed I liked this song for so long. Bleh, this is utterly repugnant, screw this.

6...So bro country is a subgenre - artistic bankruptcy aside - that in order to really work, needs to at least be somewhat fun, it’s why “Beachin’” and “This Is How We Roll” aren’t higher - so what happens if you make a bro country song that doesn’t sound like anyone involved is having fun?...

6. Iggy Azalea f/Charli XCX - Fancy Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up (YE: #68, PEAK: #20)

Is there a single (sane) person in the world who actually likes this? “Bottoms Up” placed all the way up because of its sour minor key guitars and Brantley Gilbert’s painfully nasal voice that reminds me way more than it should of Uncle Kracker failing to convey any sort of good time. This is painfully soulless. Actually, I’ll say this right now, at this current level of quality on the 2024 building YE, this song would TOP my worst list this year. The fact that I found 5 songs worse here is scary. So what were those 5 songs?

5...You ever come across a song where one terrible artistic decision sends it straight into the musical uncanny valley?...

5. Jason Derulo f/Snoop Dogg - Wiggle Jason Derulo - Trumpets (YE: #61, PEAK: #14)

This is literally the uncanny valley of pop songs. The production sounds so fake and plastic that calling this an AJR song from Temu would be an insult to AJR. Complete with the weird backing vocals(?) that kick in during the second trumpet riff that literally sound like AJR provided backing vocals there!! But then we have to deal with Jason Derulo himself. He sounds horrendous here, he never had the strongest falsetto but his vocals here make him sound like a dying dog. He wrote this song just looking at his girl, which given “Wiggle”, I’m stunned that he wasn’t put into a trance by her ass. And then the songwriting. Derulo is trying to sound poetic but his references to other pop songs both remind me that I could be listening to far better music than this and yet are super confused and leave the listener not knowing what the analogies are. Her bra reminds you of a Katy Perry song, which one? Is it “California Gurls”, the one where she sprays whipped cream from her boobs in the music video? Or is it “Firework”, where fireworks come out of her boobs in that music video (holy shit I guess Teenage Dream era Katy Perry loved having things come out of her boobs)? Her eyes remind you of a Coldplay song, which one? Are her eyes “Yellow”? If they are, that might be jaundice, I’d see the doctor if I were you. Or is it that her eyes are “Paradise”? Or that they “Fix You”? See what I mean? This song’s writing is super confused and combined with the fakest sounding trumpet that Derulo could find, this song is right in the uncanny valley of pop songs. I can’t quite say that this is Jason Derulo’s worst song, given he culturally appropriated India in that “Jalebi Baby” remix, but this is still atrocious.

4...This song was one I hated so much when I made my original 2014 lists that it nearly topped my original worst list. And look, I know it’s a flaming hot take, but I’m sorry, I just can’t stand this song at all...

4. Bobby Shmurda - Hot Boy Naughty Boy f/Sam Smith - La La La (YE: #82, PEAK: #19)

I’ve found this song an atrocity since the very day I heard it, for one main reason, that child sample of “la la la la” is one of the most grating sounds I’ve ever heard, it’s like a cat scratched a chalkboard and the cat’s claws were razor blades. Not to mention, this production makes Sam Smith sound utterly pathetic. Their vocals sound like if you tried to remedy the chalkboard’s scratches with molasses (I know, random metaphor but that’s the first thing that came to my head lol). Nothing else really, this is an utterly cringeworthy song that makes me wanna cover my ears like a kid and go “la la la” to block out this utter noise pollution.

3...So back with “Stay With Me”, I said this “The fact that this was in the YE top 10 for 2014 and still not the worst song in it[...]”, but we haven’t seen any of those other songs. Well, it’s time to kill the magic...

3. MAGIC! - Rude (YE: #7, PEAK: #1)

This song being a #1 hit is utterly depressing, because it’s so toxic in a way that genuinely pisses me off. But I don’t even have to go that far to investigate the lyrics to hate this song, frontman Nasri Atweh singing “why u gotta be so wuuuude >:( don’t u no i’m human toooo >:(” which sounds so petulant and whiny that I instantly wanna  jump in front of a car. And then you dig into the actual lyrics, and it gets pissy and infuriating faaaaaaaaaaaast. The basic premise of the song is that Atweh goes and asks his girlfriend’s father for his blessing to marry his daughter. The father rejects him and Atweh throws a temper tantrum saying “I’m human too!! Don’t be wude 2 me!! >:(” And then he goes again and again to ask for the father’s blessing even though he said no. This is proven by this line in the final chorus: “no still means no”. And then the rest of the song is Atweh just saying “I don’t give a shit about what you say, I’ll just marry her anyway. She’ll follow me everywhere I go!!” Say, if you don’t give a crap about the father’s feelings, why ask for his blessing in the first place? And keep in mind that this is all while the girl in question is nowhere to be seen in this story. We don’t get her side of the story, so instead, we get Atweh proving that he’s an abusive, possessive prick to his girlfriend and the father of the girl in question at risk of losing contact with his own daughter. AT LEAST with Shawn Mendes’s “Treat You Better”, as toxic as that song is, I can believe that Shawn was trying to be sincere in rescuing the girl from this abusive relationship and just slipped up in the songwriting a bit. On “Rude”, Atweh makes it clear that his intentions are to be possessive and abusive. Coupled with the basic as shit pop reggae production, and I’m genuinely left sickened by this song. In so many other years, this would’ve ran away with my #1. And yet, there were still two songs I thought were worse. So what were they?

2...Both of my top 2 made my top 50 worst of all time list. This was my original #1 on this list, and while I was slightly more merciful on it for its good intentions this time around and given one single she released in 2023 that’s handedly the worst single in her discography, I get the sense that this woman’s career is over, at least until 2031 or something. But that doesn’t stop this song from being utterly unlistenable though!!...

2. Naughty Boy f/Sam Smith - La La La Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (YE: #8, PEAK: #1)

Look, this song is well-intentioned, but a few bad songwriting choices make this utterly insufferable. I wouldn’t think it’s very hard to make a body positivity anthem without putting down other groups of people, but I guess I’m wrong. Because this song tries to make overweight people feel good about their bodies, but in the process, skinny shames! From the fact that she’s bringing booty back and that we should tell them skinny bitches that or that she won’t be a stick figure or a Barbie doll. And then there’s this lyric: “No, I'm just playing, I know you think you're fat”, the way she delivers this sounds like she’s mocking people who feel insecure about their bodies!! You know, exactly the opposite of what the song is trying to do! And the lyrics that aren’t putting down other groups are just plain stupid, like Meghan calling her ass her boom boom or her saying “that booteh booteh”. Not to mention the doo-wop production has an annoying melody that makes my ears want to chop themselves off. I don’t know, I’m clearly not the target audience for this, so if this song in any way made you feel better about your body or helped you out at all, I’m glad this exists for your sake. I’m just explaining why I, personally, hate this.

1...Now for the song that topped my worst list redux, upon reflection of my feelings towards this artist in general and one of his songs that became a #1 hit in 2023, this wasn’t gonna be anything else...

1. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass Jason Aldean - Burnin’ It Down (YE: #63, PEAK: #12)

I’ve gone on time and time again that 2023’s “Try That In A Small Town” is a retread of this musically just with an added guitar solo and that this song is trying so hard to be sexy and it fails so catastrophically that it leaves the listener preferring to have sex with a used, soggy piece of toilet paper than Aldean himself. Aldean sounds as lovestruck as a wet dish towel here, he sounds like he just found out that his big green tractor from “Big Green Tractor” had an infection if you know what I mean. And then the production, which is a horrendous blend of country and R&B, with that electric guitar. But in addition to all of that, “Burnin’ It Down” encapsulates why I hate Jason Aldean so much (outside of him being an actual piece of shit IRL at least); he is a terrible singer with an inability to emote in any way and with his recycling of this song’s melody in “Try That In A Small Town”, he’s artistically bankrupt for good measure. Fuck this garbage. At least “All About That Bass” clearly had good intentions. I can’t say the same for this. “Burnin’ It Down” by Jason Aldean, without question the absolute WORST hit song of 2014. Hopefully this man’s career is over after “Try That In A Small Town” was a hit last year.

Well that’s another list redux finished!! Next up is my best list redux for this year, and I did allude to it at the start but there was a shocking amount of great songs I had to cut from there; but what will make that list? Feel free to leave predictions you may have in the comments below and in the meantime, this list’s Spotify playlist is right below this article. And until next time, keep it Fire!!

Spotify Playlist