What's your LEAST favorite song

That Mariah Carey one. You know the one.

She has so many good contenders, but one stands above them all. Good (horrible!) choice.
I was struggling to think of something I truly hate
I was coming up with a lot of bad tracks, sure, but they don't really inspire hatered
This one however, viscerally upsetting from the first bar
I found this version to be much more tolerable: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oY9O-WbMxO0

Take me to church by Hozier

Thats such an amazing song!
- I think there's so many Hozier songs that are better, but I agree, I don't think it's bad by any stretch. Maybe just a tad overplayed? Can see how people would hate it for that.

Black Hole Sun.

It's a tedious, grating and ridiculously repetitive dirge.

One day I realized I had been hearing it at least hourly on the radio while driving delivery and some switch in my head flipped. Can't stand it. I want to never hear it again. I've heard Black Hole Sun more times in my life than I want to and that amount needs to stop getting higher
Only partly related, I invented a fire eating trick named the Black Hole Sun :)

Sweet Home Alabama

When I still listened to the radio in the car, it started on one station, so I switched to another rock station. It was playing there too, on a different part. Switched to yet another rock station and it was also playing that terrible song!

My biggest beef with Sweet Home Alabama is, if people are ever singing along with it, or if they're singing it at karaoke. I should mention that I live in the South, so these people singing it are from the South, and even though the song itself isn't racist, the way these people emphasize certain lyrics, it sure sounds like they want it to be racist.
The whole thing makes me uncomfortable.
- It is absolutely a racist song. It's a "response" to Southern Man by Neil Young (great song btw)
God the "Watergate does not bother me... does your conscience bother you?" line alone puts this up there for me, and that's far from the only thing to dislike.

Gonna go against the grain here with something classical: Pachabel’s Canon in D. I liked it when I was a kid, for at least the first 10 or 20 times I heard it, but since then I’ve probably heard it thousands of times, and I’m not even a strings player. I’m not exaggerating either; it’s in so many commercials, weddings, movies, just over loudspeakers in the grocery store.. ugh it’s inescapable. Pretty the first few times, sure, but it’s so aggressively bland.

Have you seen Pachebel Rant?
- Haha I have, at least if I’m thinking of the right thing, the YouTube video? He stretches a few (my degrees are in music theory so I can hear what he means and not all of them are exactly the same chord progressions) but I feel seen nonetheless.
I could have sworn a friend of mine wrote this, because he often said the exact same thing. But, he was a string player.
Personally, it seems like I can't go a day without hearing one of The Four Seasons in media.
- Yeah, I feel for the string players, honestly. Especially the ones who take wedding gigs.
I didn't have a solid answer to the question until I read this. Absolutely gets the worst response from me.
First two chords and I'm like "nooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
The cello has to repeat the exact same 8 notes throughout the piece.

Shake it Off by Taylor Swift.

When it came out, I was a regular gym-goer. I would spend an hour and a half at the gym three days a week and hear that song at least three times every single time I was there. And then you'd hear it anywhere else that played music as well, like stores. It was just too much.

U2

Aerosmith - love in an elevator

Any christmas shit

Old U2 is actually pretty decent, I quite like The Unforgettable Fire
- Ill take your word, cuz I aint fucking listening to it
Carol of the Bells kicks ass.
Tell you what I can't stand, is The Obligatory Christmas Release. Some musical act, band or increasingly a solo "artist" gets big and especially if they have one brand-defining hit, they are required to do a Christmas release that is the thing they're known for with sleigh bells and a word salad of Christmas words including a refrain where they just shout "It's Christmas!!!" Los Del Rio did a Macarena Christmas mix. And we allowed society to continue anyway.
- https://youtu.be/od7GUy9XS7c
Oh good. There's someone else who doesn't see the appeal of U2.
And you just don't like Elevator because you missed the expertly hidden, subtle innuendos. 😂

Radio Ga Ga by Queen.

I had to listen to that shit played on loop for a week straight when the cruise ship I was working on chose it to be used to constantly stress test the PA system. Any time I hear it now, I get extremely angry and want to break something.

Sure that was a job and not a psychology experiment you were subjected to?

I Will Survive - Something about this song just makes me murderous.

Don't Stop Believing - By the gods, please do stop. I love Journey, but just don't play this.

Bohemian Rhapsody - I think I'm just really tired of it. It's been held up at such a pinnacle for so long and played far too often and I just can't anymore. I don't care. Turn it off.

dont stop believing killed journey for me i cant STAND them
All three of these are songs that, I probably on paper should enjoy, but I think through over- (and mis-) use have come to despise them.
Top choices if limited to genres I listen to.
I Will Survive
You're not welcome anymore.... >:(
I will survive original is pretty iconic masterpiece and hard not to sing along to. But a rock/funk version you ask?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU&pp=ygUTY2FrZSBpIHdpbGwgc3Vydml2ZQ%3D%3D
Don't stop believing is far more overplayed crap I do hate, though.

There are some interesting takes in here.

These folks gettin' bent up in here!

Probably Acky Breaky Heart.

All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun by Sheryl Crow, or any song where the artist is doing that annoying kind-of-singing-but-also-just-talking thing (NOT to be confused with rap, I do enjoy lots of rap and hip-hop). It's hard to explain. I think Red Hot Chili Peppers has a song where they do it too, and it annoys the fuck outta me.

"I'll be riding shotgun, underneath the hot sun".... It's the most aggressively boring thing I've ever heard

I feel the same about "Daughters" by John Mayer. That song sounds like my will to live gently sapping away.

It's weird how many people are mentioning older songs, because most modern songs are absolute trash. Just a refrain, singing the same 3 autotuned notes again and again.

I hate to say ok boomer but that is a painfully boomer take
- Seriously, "most modern songs"? In the era with the most new music being produced in a massive number of different genres and styles that would have been unimaginable just a generation ago?
  I like the oldies as much as anyone else, heck I only really got into listening to music after discovering The Beatles and '70s prog rock as a teen. But if you can't find good music being produced in 2025, that's not a problem with the music industry, that's a problem with you.
  If anyone reading this struggles to find new artists they like, I recommend checking out NPR's Tiny Desk concerts as well as KEXP's live performances on YouTube. I've found a lot of artists I love from these sources.

Kokomo

Beat me to it.

Dancing Queen by Abba. Something about the baseline makes me feel physically sick (literally, not figuratively). Can't bear it.

Anything by Morrissey. The histrionics are annoying enough but I think he's an objectively bad musician. He seems to just meander around with no discernable melody. Like, what are you even trying to do man? I'm pretty certain the actually catchy Smiths songs were written by someone else.

Runner up: Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish. If it comes on at a place of business I will immediately walk out of that business.

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond. I’m from New England so I hear it often and the back story makes me cringe every time and I haaate it

Went to a Yankee wedding in New Orleans(where i'm from). This tune came on and those people went nuts. Knew every word and I just stared in amazement.
Yeah as someone who has spent almost their whole life in the Carolinas I am sick to death of that song, especially when people do the little singalong bits.
I sing Sweet Child O Mine and Sweet Caroline with the other songs melodies. Confuses people nicely.

Guns ‘N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle. I don’t like GNR full stop, but the radio station I used to wake up to on the alarm clock would play that song at exactly the same time everyday.

Couldn’t understand why I used to wake up angry every morning until I changed stations.

YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE??????
- You’re in the jungle baby!

The Piña Colada Song.

It enrages me. I hear the first note and I want to break a window. If it comes on in the car, I almost break my wrist with how quickly I turn it off.

Most Justin Bieber songs but I despise his early stuff. I heard baby way too much back when you couldn't escape it

Edit: I thought of an even worse one, pon pon shit from cyberpunk. That song is the only reason bodyheat isn't my go to station in that game.

Hey Soul Sister by Train.

“I’m blue da da Dee da da da. “

Just typing it out makes me cringe.

All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor. It is the only song I seriously hate, and also the only artist I seriously hate hearing. I don't love the message, and Ialso don't like the delivery at all. I think a factor is also how overplayed it was when it first came out.

plus she took Ozempic to lose weight, so she wasnt all about that base at all, lol

I might as well go first: Emilia - Big Big World

I absolutely hated it when it was released and played everywhere, and I recently accidentally stumbled across it, and to the surprise of nobody, I still loathe it.

Melody of a lullaby.
Least interesting chord progression in existence.
Lyrics as if they were written by a 12 year old.
Annoying motifs.

Honorable mention: How you remind me. I'm not just bandwagoning on nicklelback hate here, I actually kinda like them, at least their first album. But that song is so overplayed and overrated I simply cannot stand it.

Wow, never heard this one before and completely agree with each point. Not sure where it would've seen much air time in the US back then, though I'm sure my hometown was small enough that no radio station had it.
- Scandinavia, around the turn of the millennium.
I had never heard it before, but it sounds like a song that would play on some straight-to-dvd knockoff of a Disney movie with janky 3d animation, with the director's daughter playing and singing the lead role.

Any modern country song. bonus if they say boots, beer, etc.

dance monkey by tones and i

I was just thinking how much I hate that song. Not enough to automatically put it on the bottom, but it's close.
- i didnt even want to type out its title and artist i hate it that much

Dance Monkey, for personal reasons

Knocking on heavens door - guns and roses

Weezer - Beverly Hills.

Weezer's only good song is Buddy Holly. All their other songs are terrible. And Beverly Hills is the worst.

Currently, that shitty pop song that sampled "Blue" by Eiffle 65. It was already a perfectly good club song (imo) and there was no need to ruin it.

SAIL

There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.

"What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, and "Fly Me To The Moon" by Frank Sinatra.

If you put those songs in...anything, you're a fucking hack.

WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There's nothing you can use it to say that hasn't already been said by someone more clever than you.

FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. "We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what's the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?" "You're not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It's already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?"

Anything from Pearl Jam.

It's weird that I have always liked their politics far more than their music. They were right about Ticketmaster way back in the day and the first to try boycotting them.
Yet god I can't give less of a fuck about their music.
- It's slow, and annoying. He sings in reverse. And it's odd because I actually like grunge music.
Came here specifically to say "Black" FUCK I hate that song.
DO DO DOOT DOO DO DO DOOOOOOO

Pretty much every song played by Walmart radio

Butterfly by Crazy Town

Sugar, baby.
- They somehow managed to be a worse Limp Bizkit.

Anything by guns and roses. I've turned off other people's radios at work when they come on. It's almost started fights but that shit can fuck right off. I can deal with anything else but there's so etbihg about gnr that gets up my nose.

I really believe Axl Rose is the worst rock singer of all time. Grating nonsense voice and stupid lyrics
- When they bailed on Brian Johnson and picked him up, I stopped listening to ac/dc altogether.

Some Nights by Fun

Goddamn if those are not the single worst vocals to cross my ear holes and they’re somehow popular with that shit. Everything from them is white boy preachy.

The solo 3 minutes in make me want to commit crimes. And not in the fun way.

Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt.

KPop. I can’t stand the boy bands and the weird fan culture.

Moves Like Jager, a song which I can not stand.

Thankfully not played everywhere anymore.

S s s s
A a a a
F f f f
E e e e
- T t t t
  Y y y y

Anything written by Sabrina Cuntpunter.

What a toxic, abusive, petty little shit she seems to proudly declare herself as.

Her lyrics is always implying that she is the queen and all men in her life should worship her. Then she will discard them for the pettiest reasons.
Her and Olivia Rodrigo are my go-to for teaching my daughter "how not to be."
Dunno if she wrote "thumbs" or the collab with Alan Walker, which I always thought were kinda based, but she was just starting to get popular then maybe. Really sad if she's let the fame go to her head that badly.
A soul is a terrible thing to waste. :(

Body like a Back Road 🤢🤮

Dominick the Donkey.

Was on a very short holiday CD at a very long job.

Holy shit I hate this song so much

Game Over by Falling In Reverse

Just listen to the first line and you'll understand

Baby Shark, do doo do doot do doo.

'Christmas Shoes'. Google it.

Any of the 6 million versions of Hallelujah except the original Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley.

I swear wannabe pop singers see it as some sort of rite of passage but they universally murder it either by trying to replicate on of those two and coming up painfully short or embellishing it with flourishes and superfluous variations.

It doesn't make you look deep and thoughtful it just highlights what an average singer you are.

Frankly, even the Buckley version is worse than the original. The song has a bad case of the "Born in the USA" syndrome.

I've been trying to find it for a while now, but I can't.

Constantly plays at Tesco supermarkets, goes like A ha a ha a ha, yuhoo yuhoo yuhoo, a ha ha haa haaa haaaa. No lyrics, just womans voice making these, I guess meant to be "happy and excited" noises made into a song that plays on repeat.

Whatever coldplay song is on the radio

Skibidi toilet, I hate it with a passion.

McArthur Park. I just don't get it.

What's not to get? Someone left my cake out in the rain, and I don't think that I can take it, because it took too long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again.
Someone left a cake out in the rain. Who even does that?
- People on a picnic when a downpour begins.

Might be "Bohemian Rhapsody", or "We will Rock You". Which is odd, because Killer Queen is one of my favorite songs. Same artists can make crap or magic.

And "Horse With No Name", because of the godawful pretentious stupid lyrics.

Heyyyyy brotherrrrrr.....

Kokomo

Happy birthday, there's a bunch of other traditional birthday songs passed down in other languages and cultures that are so much better than happy birthday

I was gonna say Happy by Pharrel Williams but someone else said Sweet Caroline and I might have to change my vote. Actually it's not that terrible of a song (Sweet Caroline I mean), but hearing it played at weddings and sporting events and then they pause it so everyone can scream BUM BUM BUMMM does get to me after the 5 millionth time.

Watermelon sugar

"home" by Edward Sharpe and the magnetic zeroes

it's gotta be just about the most banal, saccharine, faux-folksy bullshit I've ever heard.

And it certainly doesn't help that when it came out I was living at home still and my sister played it to death.

That's a great description of it. I hate that whole genre, tbh. It feels so fake.

Pour Some Sugar On Me. It's so terrible.

Older : Elton John - Bennie and the Jets

Newer: Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

What about the Flyers version, Bernie in the Nets?

Sweater weather. I already didn't like the downtempo vibe, but it got painfully overplayed back in the day. Unfortunately, I still hear it occasionally. Anything but that, please.

Toss up between Jenny (867-5309) for being absolutely disgusting on a conceptual level for glorifying stalker behavior or Owner of a Lonely Heart for going fucking nowhere and then having the audacity to drop a blaring synth note like it's a crescendo before going back to nothing.

That's not what Jenny is about. Jenny was a friend of the band that Jim Keller (song's author) was dating. There's lots of songs from back then that actually are creepy but I don't think that's one of them.
Also, a song about something bad is not an endorsment. For example Angel of Death by Slayer. Nirvana covered a Leadbelly song called Ain't It a Shame which is about the narrator beating his wife. Not an endorsment of spousal abuse from one of music's most famous feminists.
Sometimes s song is just telling a story, be it positive or negative.
As for Owner of a Lonely Heart, agreed. Annoying and over-played.

Zombie by The Cranberries. I just can't stand it.

"Last Christmas", any version

Anything by Drake.

MmmBop. I hated it the first time I heard it, I hate it now, and I only have to be reminded of it's existence and it will play in my head because it is so fucking catchy that somebody must have sacrificed the minimum of one newborn to some dark deity that thrives one human suffering.

Great song!
Hansen has a large discography with a bunch of good stuff in it and MmmBop.
My old boss used to die of cringe any time I started humming this song at the office.

Never be the same by Camila Cabello. Fucking annoying overplayed ass music.

Darude - Sandstorm

I'll see your Sandstorm and raise you Cotton Eyed Joe.
- Both such bangers!
What have you done?
Oooh, THAT one. I knew I recognized the name but had no idea what it was.
I think I actually like it more for the memes than as a song at this point

Whichever 21 Pilots "song" was played most recently in my vicinity.

Can you save my heavydirtysoul?

Baby shark

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars.

I'll even concede that's it's not the worst song I've heard, but I just hate it.

Don't you want me baby. Bananaphone. Feelings. But actually Don't you want me baby is the only one that doesn't stick in my head.

Country music.

That girl is on fiiirraaaaafrrrrhhaaarraaa

(Did someone just shoot a cat?)

Orange Crush by REM.

Oh come on! Shiny Happy People is by far worse.

Jump by Van Halen

Tattoo is their worst song. I love Van Halen.
- It’s a good song (Jump) but I am really sick of it.

u love u by Jax

Wagon Wheel

Wild World, by Cat Stevens. Some of the most patronizing lyrics I've ever heard. https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/catstevens/wildworld.html

Imagine dragons - cutthroat.

I refuse to believe that this is a real song. Id themselves are garbage in general, but this is just insane.

Lemon Tree by Fools Garden

Disappointed that I have not seen every song Dave Matthews has ever sung listed in here.

Of songs that other people like?

I hate Dust in the Wind, and House of the Rising Sun, and I never need to hear Stairway to Heaven again, I have used up my quota.

boy k-pop

also white rap like the Beastie boys, Eminem, kid rock, limp bizkit, macklemore, vanilla ice, the list goes on.

Hey, I really like DELETED...

I’d have to say ‘So Whatever’ by Nicole337

Tie between that Uncle Kracker song and this one country rock song that I dont know the name or artist of. Starts off with a gut saying "jingle jingaling" or something.

I don't just change the station if these come on. Radio just goes off, no more music that day.

jingle jingaling
This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ofuXYkYi0
- Nope, this isn't too bad. The song I am thinking of I believe is from the i0s or 90s.
  I may even have those words wrong, too.

Dubstep.

I kinda love dubstep tbh a lot of it is stupid but I love how distinct and intense it is.
Check out the earlier stuff if all you've heard from dubstep is sick drops & giant subs
https://youtu.be/8k_f2QK77ew
https://youtu.be/lcMAbnZy8l8

Nickleback

Oh, it's that one that's rap. I don't know the name of it though so I just don't listen to any of them.

le wrong generation. more like cRAP music, amirite?

I fucking hate "Dreams" by the cranberries. Can't stand that song.

I wouldn't say I hate it, but for me it's linger that I can't listen to. I really love zombie though.

"What's going on" by Four Non-Blondes - what a childish nepo baby song and what a dumb fucking name for a band.

I don't understand this comment... did some googling and I missing the nepotism bit?
Waiting on the world to change is that for me.
Awww I like that song