Mike Collins wrote:
To me, and perhaps anyone over 30?  Just hand me a gun so I can blow my brains out.

I am over 30. I like some of them. However, unlike most people in my age group, I do follow pop Top 40, and listen to everything from Johnny Cash and Miles Davis, to Beyonce and European black metal, so...

Except for Gangnam Style.

That song is absolutely awful.

Koryn wrote:
The Hamster Dance is AWESOME.

Ok.  I'll give you that one.    It still cracks me up. 

Like i said, depends on who you ask.  I'm sure there are a lot of young women who will like a lot of these songs.  But if I heard any of these songs coming from another guy's car, I'd have to ask for him to turn in his manhood card.  Ha!

Mike Collins wrote:
I'm sure there are a lot of young women who will like a lot of these songs.

Not necessarily "young," considering much of that music seems to be from the 90s and early 2000s.

That silly "ketchup song" is over a decade old - as indicated by the blue jean styles in the video. No one wears jeans like those anymore, except for people like me, who are poor and shop at Goodwill.

Jay  Edwards wrote:
Oh my, those are awful...

Uhhh...yeah.....that

Koryn wrote:

I am over 30. I like some of them. However, unlike most people in my age group, I do follow pop Top 40, and listen to everything from Johnny Cash and Miles Davis, to Beyonce and European black metal, so...

Except for Gangnam Style.

That song is absolutely awful.

Glad to find someone else who thinks it's irritating too.

I think it's a pathetically annoying meme, and should be stamped out of existence.

Chris Rifkin wrote:
And to answer your oP
the White Stripes makes me want to projectile vomit to death

Jack White is a sexy bitch.

T Brown wrote:
I can arm fart most of Stairway to Heaven... 

Yes, but can you say your ABCs backwards, and stand on one foot while touching the tip of your nose?

That's really all that matters.

Koryn wrote:

Yes, but can you say your ABCs backwards, and stand on one foot while touching the tip of your nose?

That's really all that matters.

you lost me at ABC's...darn you....

DOUGLASFOTOS wrote:
no this one!

http://youtu.be/XiBYM6g8Tck

Shorty shorts....ehh Macarena..I'm not trying to seduce you....the hell you say...

GK photo wrote:
ever notice how you only get really awful tunes stuck in your head? for that reason alone, i won't be hitting that link.

Reverse psychology

Koryn wrote:
That Friday song is actually so awful, it's good.

No, really.

It sort of has the same appeal that you get from watching a very badly acted horror movie, with plenty of comical, low-budget gore

It's been called an unwitting parody of pop, and not without reason. I always cringe for Ms Black whenever I hear it...
But yeah, most of these songs are not bad per se, just really bland and catchy. The auditory version of a blockbuster flick.
I prefer earlier pop, where you sometimes were in luck with a lyric that really means something (Eve of destruction, If I had a rocket launcher, the Russians), but you know, there is a time and place for workout/house cleaning music such as this recentish pop stuff.

GK photo wrote:
ever notice how you only get really awful tunes stuck in your head?

Like: "IIIIIIIII wanna rock and roll all niiiiiiiiight, and party ev-er-y day/IIIIIIIII wanna rock and roll all niiiiiiiiight, and party ev-er-y day."

It never gets any better either.

London Fog wrote:
Be prepared to lose 13mins of your life!

I'll take your word for it.

The 60's and 70's were a time of tremendous musical upheaval and creativity, but they also sold some real stinkers, and enough of my listening soul has already been sucked out over the years. I mean, there's awful music that you can still mindlessly jump up and down and dance to - and then there's the stuff that induces brain bleeding when the repressed memory is resurrected.