In the biggest year for pop music in years, the worst music stands out.
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Oh god I thought you were actually doing a BetterHelp sponsorship 😭😭😭💔
I find myself looking forward to seeing this upload every year, I'm really excited to watch this!!!
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My mom who is also a huge fan of jimin also didn't like this song at all, so you're safe don't worry! 😂
This is the best part of the year imo
I swear the Jimin song, the music for it, sounds eerily similar to True Faith by New Order. Like for a moment I was transported to the opening of American Psycho (because that's where I first heard it) where Patrick is in the club and threatens the woman working the bar if she doesn't honor his chit or something.
As someone who doesn't follow pop music much, if at all, this is genuinely the first time I have heard of the Ben Shapiro song and…. What?
Amazing to see that "hiphop for people that are afraid of black people" is still going strong is Trashville.
So now we don’t even want to mention David Guetta right?
I like to gage how good my year was, musically, by how many of the songs on Todd’s worst list I managed to completely avoid and how many of the ones on his best I heard. I’m so happy to report I’m 0/10 on this list, let’s see how the best list goes 🎉🎉🎉
Jack Harlow will never be anything more than David from Roseanne doing his best Drake impression to me.
big foot not on the list is the biggest shock to me
Ah, Tom Mcdonald, noted patriit from Canada. Naturally the MAGA geniuses eat it up.
I cannot wait to be slightly annoyed
UH-OH UH-OH UH-OH TODD DON'T PUT A BTS GUY ON THE WORST LIST!!! YOU'VE GOT SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR!!! 😮😧 but actually, smart move to try pitting the solo stans against each other. Its crazy enough to work.
This kind of list is far easier to make when you are a dishwasher stuck listening to the radio with a limited playlist for hours
i am also not a purist that hates pop country, i just dont like country
jimin has better songs on bts albums than his own
As a kpop fan and someone who likes BTS, jimin has always being a mid singer, so focusing a solo on his voice was not a great idea specially if they keep on pushing the high pitch tone that he clearly struggles with, as a fan is sad because you have all the money and ways to do something great but I fear they get surrounded by yes man and so what comes out is just … mleh.
As a certified kpop enjoyer all of jimins recent comebacks are so impressively terrible whereas jungkooks standing next to you is one of my favourite kpop song ever I think someone monkey pawed bts' solo success and ended up cursing jimin to making the worlds most unbearable music ever written
ty dolla sign STILL flows, honeslty, he was good in kendrick's pop out show too, and god knows why he works with kanye. carnival may be the only bearable thing on both vultures just because of rich the kid and ty
17:28 Todd we're all friends here the mgk album wasnt good ❤
Covering Country Roads (badly) has to be some of the lamest shit you can do as an artist. Ok, the Chevrolet commercial was definitely worse, JFC.
Kanye is drugged asf tho
oh jimid getting smoked 😭
Would love to hear your thoughts on this new dua lipa era
The fact that every artist on the worst list (including the features) is a man is deeply funny to me. Guess the men couldn’t hang in 2024!
Bts army here and i gotta say that who was not my fav so im with you there but also DW the ARMY doesn't come for ppl with a difference in taste opinion at least not in any numbers 😂
(I wish the rap/hiphop solo stuff went higher chart wise simply bc I'm so interested if you'd like or ate it)
Mgk is evolving faster than any Pokémon ever. Lol. Or slower? Because he stays in a genre for at least two good years. I’ll give him that.
lets see what the kamala supporter has to say xD
Doesn't Tom have a bunch of sexual and violent bragging when he's not reassuring Ben Shapiro he won't corrupt the children? Pick a lane.
The last Justin Timberlake song I liked was Sin Fin with Romeo Santos, a smooth little bop.
I think hes great in film tho, needs a role where he wears a bunch of makeup and prosthetics so I cant tell its fucking him though.
And now that you mention it, Lil Dicky will have a feature with Jelly Roll in 2025.
THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING CHEVROLET ITS SOOO BAD
33:36 – 33:39 Todd: "Sucks" Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I fucking love Carnival. Lol
"If MGK gets anymore tattoos it officially counts as blackface" might be the quote of the year for me.
The BetterHelp jumpscare almost killed me
Lol, I have actually never heard that "Beautiful Things" song all the way through, since my wife HATES it so much that we have to change the radio station anytime it comes on.
2024. It's not about music it's about performance. Music is, in a lot of cases, almost coincidental to the performance.
idk I found the dua lipa album pretty good training season is one of my favorites from the album.
As for carnival… I mean its one of the few ok songs on the album imo. And I guess for me I don't actually feel offended by it despite the song being heinous but it being #1 for this list? idk its more of a hate the content not the song that much, but you don't really like trap much anyway. It reminds me of when UONEO was the "worst" song of the year for a lot of people. Like its an evil song but bro have you listened to rap? There's vile shit in the lyrics of every era, and people decide one thing is to much despite "references" to domestic abuse all over the place
Look you don't have to like the music but every "pop" critic is so quick to s ay that "he hasn't been good for years!" and theyve been saying that since yeezus despite the fact that he hasreleased many criticially acclaimed albums since then, and their criticism is always the same: take a ridiculous line and call it trash based on that. Ill never forget rap critic calling runaway trash because of the "sent a picture of my dick" line. Like if you are still in the frame of mind as that just stop talking about hip hop at this point because it's not for you. You don't get modern hip hop and thats fine
Like are you gonna go back and say Too Short is a 0 for its content? Or UGK? or any horrorcore rapper?
Lol. As an ARMY (BTS fan), i kinda agree, the production behind the who wasn't really good. Like jimin's voice sounds off. Also, ARMY is waiting for BTS return in 2025 and we'll be bigger than ever lol. We didnt dissolve and go away. We're silently watching😂.
Also, we were able to pull 20M concurrent viewers when one of the members went live last week during their military leave day.
The Jack Harlowe video should get a few extra points for having one of those cute little fried chicken puppies in it.
I give Kanye a pass because he's mentally ill. I just figure he knows not what he does.
36:50 It's called "dogging".
1:31 its the end of December, the election has been over, get over it. You telling everyone that your opinion on music is the right opinion to have is bs. Let people enjoy their music. And dont find a way to make it about politics youre not Kendrick
Thank you for saying it, because K-pop irritates the crap outta me too! 🤮
All these years, still haven’t gotten any better at piano?
3:45 he's not wrong though Mr morale was a mid album
Calling women’s world Katy Perry’s worst song when she released ok just this week is unfortunate timing
as someone who does drive on dirt, i WOULD be happier if the county would pave my goddamn roads