Top 10 Worst Songs of 2016

It has occurred to me that we're 14 days into 2017 and I haven't revealed my most disliked songs for the year. I'll be honest, it wasn't a good year for music in 2016,  finding gold (good music) in the ARIA top 100 for 2016 was harder to find than finding something to watch on TV during the Christmas period. Any one of about 20 songs could have made this list but I did manage to narrow it down to my top 10.

10. “Hair” by Little Mix

I genuinely think Little Mix are a talented bunch of ladies and “Shoutout to My Ex” is a pretty good song but when they sit down to prepare their next album, can they please sit down with decent R ‘n’ B songwriters so they aren’t releasing songs like “Hair”. Ugh, this song had potential to be so much better but the sing songy chorus was just a massive no especially with the opening line of the chorus “Cause he was just a dick and I knew it. Got me sitting in this chair like I don’t care”. Just no way, Little Mix, you gals are so much better than this.

9. “Treat You Better’ by Shawn Mendes.

Not a lot to say about this generic if slightly whiny pop song. It’s just a boring song about a guy bitching his ex is with somebody else and now he wants her back. Yawn.

On a side note: would have also been very easy to slide “Stitches” in given it fits in the same mould of generic whine pop.

8. Fast Car by Jonas Blue

This is just plain bad when you take a classic song like Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and put a thumping dance beat and combine it with female vocals that lack emotion and don’t really convey any emotion. I’ll stick to the original thanks.

7. “Hands to Myself” by Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez could be a really good artist if she tried but “Hands to Myself” is basically a sound alike of that duet with Charlie Puth “We Don’t Talk anymore”, both use a lot of the same horrific sounds. Sorry Selena but I could keep my hands away from this vacuous excuse of a song.

6. Any song by The Chainsmokers

Yes, the group that brought us “#SELFIE” in 2015, brought even worse songs in 2016 with the pick of them being the number one song for the year in Australia “Closer” which features Halsey. Seriously? Screeching with a thumping dance beat does not make a good song. You can take your pick as fair as forgettable songs from the Chainsmokers.

5. “Love Yourself” by Justin Bieber

I put this song in mainly because I just think it could have been so much better, it needed something like a good guitar or piano riff which it didn’t get so in a sense that annoyed me and the singing is only just passable.

4. “Hide Away” by Daya

Less said about this song the better. I needed a place to hide away from this song last year. Daya has a decent voice but it was wasted on this song.

3. “Me Too” by Meghan Trainor

I am one of the few people who didn’t mind “No” to certain extent (not that I listened to it repeatedly because one listen at a time is enough) but then Meghan had to go and remind us that in effect she is a novelty musician whose welcome died when “All About that Bass” run ended in the charts. “Me Too” is a lyrical and musical disaster from start to finish

2. “Panda” by Desiigner

Now, how in the name of all that is good about music did this song chart? It’s just an annoying beat that doesn’t eventuate to a heck of a lot. Left me with a lot of headaches in 2016.

1.      “Work from Home” by Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla Sign

If it wasn’t bad enough, Fifth Harmony released one of the most annoying songs of 2015 with “Worth It”, they follow that up with the most stupid and annoying songs of 2016. There is nothing remotely saveable about "Work from Home". Its composition is lazy and no, getting somebody fired from their job is not a good idea hence plain stupid as a lyric in ANY song.