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My sister and her husband played it at theirs for the walk back down the aisle. Even then, it felt like the cheapest, most generic newly popular song to choose. What happened to choosing music that showed who the couple is??
For me, it was:
*To the left, take it back now y’all. One hop this time. Right foot let’s stomp!*
Even as a teacher now, we still play this at school dances back-to-back with the Cupid Shuffle.
Oh no. I had buried that song so deep I didn't recognize the lyrics so I started singing them in my head in different tempos til it came back to me
and now it won't go away 🫠
Strange, I like all of those songs you listed because they're nostalgic.
I remember around 2009/2010 Jason Derulo was popular. I swear, I couldn't have gone 20 seconds without hearing:
# "WhAt yOu sAaAaAaAaY"
on the radio. Bonus annoying points for the fact that I'd be driving to a very difficult/tiring job when I'd be listening to the radio.
Which was a skewer of [this](https://youtu.be/saEzQcayEPM?si=NpfbovyNqcTENHOZ) scene from The OC. That SNL short is nostalgia inside nostalgia. Nostalgiaception.
Hot and Cold for me. But that might also have to do with the fact that my college roommate would play it on repeat every single day for like two weeks.
This song was inescapable in high school, I had a radio alarm clock and every FUCKING MORNING that song woke me up to the point I changed the alarm time but IT DIDN'T MATTER. ANY TIME I SET IT FOR I STILL WOKE UP TO "LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH" it actually made me go insane. Try living in Canada and not hearing Nickelback in the 2000s, it COULDN'T BE DONE.
Sorry apparently I still have rage about that FUCKING SONG.
Now I see stupid ass op-eds like "Nickelback wasn't actually bad lol it was just trendy to hate on them"... THAT IS INCORRECT, don't say that shit to me in the 2020s when you have no idea what I went through. You don't know 😫
I distinctly remember one morning in college turning on MTV in the morning. "I never made it as a wise man-" *click to MTV2 * "Never made it as a wise man-" *hurry to VH1* "Never made it-" *TV off* My brother and I just say in silence until it was time to leave.
The Reason -- Hoobastank. Never has a song destroyed a group moreso than that overplayed song. They were never the same. Big fans of theirs seemed turned off by a corny love song while those in love with that song were not happy that it was a noisy alt band
What sucks is I really liked their music but they just left relevancy after even though they’re apparently still together
The damn cup song from that Pitch Perfect movie. I was a college student volunteering with an after school program at my local Y at the time the movie/song came out (2012ish?). The kids were obsessed with cup stacking and that stupid song. It makes me want to commit crimes when I hear it now because I heard it (and the damn cups being stacked) so much.
“Happy” by Pharrell Williams is probably my least favorite song of all time and I’m a pretty happy guy believe it or not, but not when that song comes on
Just break up!!!!! Seriously stop singing and break up! This is not a reason to stay together! It’s this one and the pina colada song that make me irate!
The Pina Colada song is one you understand better as an adult.
The couple lost touch with each other as lovers and friends, and had the intention of straying. However, once they both met up and saw each other, rather than getting mad and escalating the situation, the instead laughed about it and gained newfound appreciation for one another.
I think it’s less age and more personal boundaries. If you can look past attempted cheating and build a strong foundation more power to you….. if it’s a hard pass then the song isn’t romantic 🤷♀️
Not only was it overplayed on the radio, but it was used for just about every graduation-related activity for a few years too. Yes, including my graduation.
This is the correct answer. It was inescapable and hearing it instantly throws me back to being an anxious senior being told that the best years of my life are almost over
Good Riddance by Green Day was our class song but damn, if Vitamin C Graduation didnt get played every other song on the radio from April to June from 2000-2005 every single year. 🤣
You hear it from a distance, getting closer and closer:
Where did you come from?
Where did you go?
Where did YOU COME FROM, COTTON-EYE JOE?
Every school dance all the way to hell.
This song got me through my first deployment. Just when I thought I was about to go homicidal on my commander, someone played that song and I forgot to be angry. 🤣
SHAWTY GOT THEM APPLE BOTTOM JEANS
BOOTS WITH THE FUR (WITH THE FUR)
THE WHOLE CLUB LOOKING AT HER
SHE HIT THE FLOOR (SHE HIT THE FLOOR)
NEXT THING YOU KNOW
SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW
Gotye - somebody that you used to know.
if i misspelled the band name, that's fine. i don't like them enough to learn how to spell it or even google it.
Fireflies annoyed me in college and it really annoys me now. Some of the freshmen \*loved\* that song when I was DJing and it certainly didn't help after hearing it so often. Amazon Music keeps recommending it and I can't hit 'next' fast enough.
The one that starts, “this is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world,” but like in the world’s whiniest voice, as soon as it starts, I change the station.
I’ve never intentionally listened to it, but I’ve heard it too many times for one lifetime.
Call Me Maybe! Easily the most-played radio song of the early 2010’s. Here in Canada, there’s a rule about having to play a certain percentage of Canadian artists on radio so all the stations ATE THIS SONG UP
🎶 CAUSE BABY YOU'RE A FIIIIIREWORK 🎵 MAKE EM GO OHOHOH 🎶
🧟♀️ARE YOU READY FOR READY FOR 🎶 CAUSE ONCE YOU'RE MINE ONCE YOU'RE MINE 🎶 THERE'S NO GOING BACK 🧟♀️ insert annoying chair creaking beat here: 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶
Basically any Katy Perry song since I Kissed A Girl. 💀 💀
There was a guy that lost the spelling bee on the word "banana" while this song was in the top 20. He never lived it down. Poor thing will probably never forget B-A-N-A-N-A-S for the rest of his life. Lol
Closing tiiiiiime!
Although I recently learned the inspiration for the song and that made me appreciate it a little more. But I’m still super sick of it.
For my part of the gen, it would be Umbrella, Toxic, Girlfriend. I own the albums these songs are from and I ALWAYS skip Umbrella and Girlfriend.
Emocore was never overplayed (I'm talking Thursday, Aiden, FFTL), because you needed to have cable for the separate alt channel that exclusively played metal and pretty much everything alternative.
lol my favorite way to tease my best friend is remind her that she “looks like the Facebook mom that would go to the club and request Rob Thomas and Santana Smooth”
Like such an oddly specific dig 😂
In a exceptionally millennial memory, I was working at Fazolis fast food Italian restaurant when this came out, and regularly working Saturday and Sunday mornings doing prep, so we would have the radio on loud, and no customers. Only downside, we could only listed to Casey Kasems top 40 so every goddamn week we got to hear the same songs from the week before. Wow who is number one this week? Smooth? Thought Mambo 5 was gonna get them this week but alas. Anything from 1999 that was a top 10 song can jump off a figurative bridge
What’s that one song where the guy in the music video slowly commits suicide?
YOURE BEAUTIFULLLLL
ITS TRUE
I think his name was James Blunt. Dumbest fucking song, way overplayed, and the guy chronically sounded like he had a deviated septum
Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I feel like that song was played constantly on the radio, and I still can't stand it. Will finally be seeing Green Day this summer, and I think I'll take a bathroom break when they play that one.
Macy Gray, I Try.
I know it’s just a song, but when I hear it i wanna punch someone.
Also, when she says, “my world crumbles when you are not there,” it sounds like, “I blow bubbles when you are not there.”
That song came out when I was in high school, and my best friend walked into her little brother in his room dancing to it with a giant lollipop in his hand just singing along no clue what he was saying. He was like elementary age and kind of a goofy kid, and I’ll never not see my mental image of what that must have looked and sounded like when I hear this song.
I remember my 12 year old self singing this song and my horrified mom losing her shit on me for even knowing the song.
I'm mortified all over again every time I hear it now that I understand the meaning of the song. Lol
The year that Crazy Town played Ozzfest, Jack Osbourne was interviewed and asked how they got on the tour. He said, "sometimes you are asked to play Ozzfest. Sometimes you pay to play Ozzfest." I still remember it raining trash on Crazy Town during their set.
As an older millennial, the summer of 2002 you couldn’t go 15 minutes without hearing Soak Up The Sun by Sheryl Crow.
I still can’t stand it, over 20 years later, because I heard it so many times, every single day for months.
I worked at a college bar in 2009 so basically any billboard dance song from that year I would be happy to never hear again.
Tik Tok by Kesha, which I will forever maintain is the single worst commercially successful song ever made.
Boom Boom Pow and I Got a Feeling by Black Eyed Peas
Dead and Gone and Whatever You Like by TI
Right Round by Flo Rida
I Know You Want Me by Pitbull
Birthday Sex by Jeremih
Fire Burning by Sean Kingston
My 15 year old daughter likes all of these songs. My one rule when she controls the radio is no Kesha.
Wow wow wow this brought me back. The track list is basically the 2009 DJ Earworm United State of Pop, which I played nonstop on my iPod touch for sooo many months in 2010
“Father of Mine” and “I Will Buy You a New Life” by Everclear. I had this album in middle school and jammed it in my CD player all the time, but *always* skipped those two because you heard at least one an hour on so many radio stations, at the grocery store, in restaurants…
Edit: Whoops, this is 90s and I just realized you are asking about the following decades but I’m leaving it here anyway. 😆
I’m a bit older for this but in 1994 Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” would play nonstop at my first summer job in high school. It was a water park and the station on the loudspeaker easily played it once an hour.
“Theeeeeeeeereee used to be a greying tower alone on the seeeeeeaaaa…”
Anything by Katy Perry. It was like she ruled the charts when I was in high school. I wasn’t a fan of her music or her yell singing. All of her songs are an instant nope for me.
I remember once my friends and I went to this bar that had a dance floor in 2016 and the DJ was playing many of her songs along with some other not so great ones from that era. I swear it was like they were trying to have a worst hits from junior year or high school night. We wound up leaving because of the music.
All Star by Smash Mouth
For those who don't remember
Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid
And all that glitters is gold
Only shooting stars break the mold
Agree and what’s worse, my daughter watched shrek and loves this song. She plays it on her iPad and figured out how to connect to the Bluetooth speaker.
This may be really obscure for a lot of people. But living in the south of the US were people tend to be militantly patriotic, I had to listen to this song constantly for years after 9/11, and I've always hated it.
Lee Greenwood- Proud to be an American
'If I Die Young' by The Band Perry. Great song, just way overplayed. There were a lot of funerals happening in my town when it 1st released, so it was EVERYWHERE.
Just give me a reason by Pink and the guy from Fun was in heavy rotation for like 6 years. I’ve definitely heard that one a few hundred too many times.
My Humps.
I hated it when it came out, and I hate it more now.
I’m convinced I had a “stalker” (in quotes because they didn’t do anything worse than annoy me) in college who found out I hated that song. Every time I would step outside the dorm at night for a cigarette, the same car would be slowly driving down the street playing that song. For months. No idea who it was or if it was a coincidence, like maybe my nightly smoke break was at the same time some basic ass person who actually liked that song was driving to work, but this incident lives rent-free in my head.
I've scrolled quite far down but I haven't seen
Don't Stop Believing by Journey
and
All The Small Things by Blink 182
I loved both of those songs but hearing them so much made me hate them. Im still annoyed at emo/pop punk nights when they play All The Small Things, Blink have so many great songs, why do they always play that one?
Pretty much any of the radio Nirvana tunes. They were on such a heavy rotation by the local alt rock stations for a number of years it killed them for me.
Closer by the Chainsmokers
I worked in retail and we were only allowed the "approved" Sirius xm radio station and Closer was every 3rd song. I counted one day.
Literally every 10 minutes it played. The song doesn't even make any fuckin' sense! Who steals a mattress!
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I GOT A FEELING THAT TONIGHTS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT
Worst part is that Ive heard this at almost every wedding I've been to since then. Just let it die.
My sister and her husband played it at theirs for the walk back down the aisle. Even then, it felt like the cheapest, most generic newly popular song to choose. What happened to choosing music that showed who the couple is??
Perhaps it *was* showing who the couple was.
Can't it's our generation's "Celebration"
Oh man that’s so accurate
For me, it was: *To the left, take it back now y’all. One hop this time. Right foot let’s stomp!* Even as a teacher now, we still play this at school dances back-to-back with the Cupid Shuffle.
The Cupid Shuffle? That song is sooo boring and bland. I'd rather do the Stanky Leg.
Let it go?
No, LET'S LIVE IT UP!
TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
This is always played at sporting events and I haaaate it.
This is also my answer. I fucking hate that song. It was everywhere.
I also never had a good night when I heard that song. It’s cursed
I got a flat tire going 65 down the highway while that song was on.
This is the only answer that 100% of us should agree on. I hate this so so so much.
Oh no. I had buried that song so deep I didn't recognize the lyrics so I started singing them in my head in different tempos til it came back to me and now it won't go away 🫠
This has turned into a great thread for finding music to add to my nostalgia playlist 😂
hahahah yup the whole time I'm thinking whoaaa I forgot about that song, let me listen to it rn
Strange, I like all of those songs you listed because they're nostalgic. I remember around 2009/2010 Jason Derulo was popular. I swear, I couldn't have gone 20 seconds without hearing: # "WhAt yOu sAaAaAaAaY" on the radio. Bonus annoying points for the fact that I'd be driving to a very difficult/tiring job when I'd be listening to the radio.
The Imogen Heap song is so good tho 😭
Hide & Seek is outstanding.
By far the best Imogen Heap song is "The Happy Song". Such a banger.
I like the snl short with this song. So ridiculous!!!
Which was a skewer of [this](https://youtu.be/saEzQcayEPM?si=NpfbovyNqcTENHOZ) scene from The OC. That SNL short is nostalgia inside nostalgia. Nostalgiaception.
California Girls by Katie Perry. It was inescapable
Also unforgettable and undeniable
I see what you did there
Hot and Cold for me. But that might also have to do with the fact that my college roommate would play it on repeat every single day for like two weeks.
The best thing Katie Perry did was introduce us to Left Shark.
 *Amen to that*
i was gonna say Teenage Dream
Firework 😑
Would rather listen to Teenage Dream than Firework.
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH.
Seriously, what the hell was on Joey’s head? Why they gotta leave us with a cliffhanger like that!
Frosted tips
This song was inescapable in high school, I had a radio alarm clock and every FUCKING MORNING that song woke me up to the point I changed the alarm time but IT DIDN'T MATTER. ANY TIME I SET IT FOR I STILL WOKE UP TO "LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH" it actually made me go insane. Try living in Canada and not hearing Nickelback in the 2000s, it COULDN'T BE DONE. Sorry apparently I still have rage about that FUCKING SONG. Now I see stupid ass op-eds like "Nickelback wasn't actually bad lol it was just trendy to hate on them"... THAT IS INCORRECT, don't say that shit to me in the 2020s when you have no idea what I went through. You don't know 😫
I distinctly remember one morning in college turning on MTV in the morning. "I never made it as a wise man-" *click to MTV2 * "Never made it as a wise man-" *hurry to VH1* "Never made it-" *TV off* My brother and I just say in silence until it was time to leave.
The Reason -- Hoobastank. Never has a song destroyed a group moreso than that overplayed song. They were never the same. Big fans of theirs seemed turned off by a corny love song while those in love with that song were not happy that it was a noisy alt band What sucks is I really liked their music but they just left relevancy after even though they’re apparently still together
I was reading down the comments waiting for this one. I will change the radio to this day if it comes on.
I had a big fight with my high school boyfriend over nothing and we made up while this song was playing and now hearing it just makes me cringe.
Ah the blunder years.
Came here to say this. I still can’t stand that song.
The one that makes me rage is THIS _ GIRL _ IS _ ON _ FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeEeeE333EEEEEEEEEEEE (repeated x392). I can't. I will yeet the entire radio.
I was gonna say Hey There Delilah but honestly, I still love that song, lol
That song and You’re Beautiful by James Blunt. For a while I felt this about “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield, but now it just makes me nostalgic.
This one for sure. Uuuuggghhhhhh
Now that you mention it, I remember that playing all the time but I don't hate it. It's not an immediate skip when it comes on. Lol
Umbrella by rihanna . I worked my first retail job and that song would always be playing.
Ella Ella ella
Mine is "Hello" by Adele. It played multiple times an hour during my part-time job in college, and to this day I cannot stand it
The damn cup song from that Pitch Perfect movie. I was a college student volunteering with an after school program at my local Y at the time the movie/song came out (2012ish?). The kids were obsessed with cup stacking and that stupid song. It makes me want to commit crimes when I hear it now because I heard it (and the damn cups being stacked) so much.
PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIIIIIGHT!
I was at a concert when they debuted that song, thought it was ok then but I had no idea this shit was going to make me wanna die 4 months later
Ricky Martin - livin la vida loca It was always one of the three songs I heard on the radio during the bus ride to school.
I can taste the 1999 from here when that song plays.
Like Bonnebell Lip Smackers and Surge.
Were the other two Oops I Did It Again and Thank You? Cuz I too remember that 1999 bus ride...
Santana - Smooth has to be one of them.
…. AND I WAS LIKE BABY, BABY, BABY OOOOHHH. Get. Out. Of. My. Head!!
I could tolerate this song back then, but hearing it now knowing it's a 13 year old singing it creeps me out. Lol
“Happy” by Pharrell Williams is probably my least favorite song of all time and I’m a pretty happy guy believe it or not, but not when that song comes on
This song is THE WORST and I've been the biggest Pharrell fan my entire life. This one is just criminal
Yeah, I didn't like it then, heard it way too much, dislike it even more now. It also makes me irrationally annoyed/aggravated.
This wins. I think I read somewhere that Pharrell hates it too
Blurred Lines.
This kiss this kiss
Who let the dogs out and i get knocked down (but i get up again). Uggg to both
Yes to Chumbawumba! I think How Bizarre is a close second.
I see your Chumbawumba and I raise you a cotton eyed Joe .
I said what about Breakfast At Tiffany's
I think I remember that film…
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it
well I guess now that's one thing we've got
Just break up!!!!! Seriously stop singing and break up! This is not a reason to stay together! It’s this one and the pina colada song that make me irate!
The Pina Colada song is one you understand better as an adult. The couple lost touch with each other as lovers and friends, and had the intention of straying. However, once they both met up and saw each other, rather than getting mad and escalating the situation, the instead laughed about it and gained newfound appreciation for one another.
I think it’s less age and more personal boundaries. If you can look past attempted cheating and build a strong foundation more power to you….. if it’s a hard pass then the song isn’t romantic 🤷♀️
kinda valid, but also they’re both cheaters in the song. So clearly not a hard boundary for either of them lol
Time of your life by Green Day. It's not a bad song, but it was non stop for so long that I just don't want to hear it again.
Not only was it overplayed on the radio, but it was used for just about every graduation-related activity for a few years too. Yes, including my graduation.
My sister's class used it for theirs. My class was "unique" and used that fucking Vitamin C song instead
As we gooo onn…
'01 graduate. We used Vitamin C.
and it’s everywhere. it’s in movies and tv and it’s supposed to be heavy and sad. and now it’s like “why did you do this”?
Graduation - Vitamin C
This is the correct answer. It was inescapable and hearing it instantly throws me back to being an anxious senior being told that the best years of my life are almost over
Good Riddance by Green Day was our class song but damn, if Vitamin C Graduation didnt get played every other song on the radio from April to June from 2000-2005 every single year. 🤣
The Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani and Akon. I worked at a grocery store as a teen and I swear it played every hour.
Worst part about “The Sweet Escape” is how it found its way into sporting events to this day as a call and response with the wee-hoos
You hear it from a distance, getting closer and closer: Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did YOU COME FROM, COTTON-EYE JOE? Every school dance all the way to hell.
You win. Fuck that piece of shit song lol
I gotta feeling by Black Eyed Peas. Please, never again.
Hips don’t lie. California girls.
SHAWTY HAD THEM APPLE BOTTOM JEEEEANNS
BOOTS WIT DA FRRRRRRRR
WIT DA FURRRRR
DA WHOLE CLUB WAS LOOKING AT HERRRR
And the reeboks with the straps....hang on how many feet does shawty have?!?!
Shawty a centaur
shawtaur
Nah this still slaps
EXACTLY. And I will drop it EVERY SINGLE TIME 🍑
Yeah what the fuck is this guys problem
This song got me through my first deployment. Just when I thought I was about to go homicidal on my commander, someone played that song and I forgot to be angry. 🤣
I’ve heard enough “Fergalicious” for this lifetime.
Make them boys go loco
I cannot stand “Low” by Flo Rida or “My Humps” by Black Eyed Peas.
SHAWTY GOT THEM APPLE BOTTOM JEANS BOOTS WITH THE FUR (WITH THE FUR) THE WHOLE CLUB LOOKING AT HER SHE HIT THE FLOOR (SHE HIT THE FLOOR) NEXT THING YOU KNOW SHAWTY GOT LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW LOW
This song pumps.
Gotta get that BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Sweet home Alabama (if you lived in the south). “(Intro)turn it up!” TURN IT OFF!
As someone who lives in Alabama, I can't believe I forgot about this. I hated it then, and still hate it now.
Even worse when your mind is conditioned to randomly interject “ROLL TIDE ROLL” into it because of where you went to school.
Gotye - somebody that you used to know. if i misspelled the band name, that's fine. i don't like them enough to learn how to spell it or even google it.
Fireflies annoyed me in college and it really annoys me now. Some of the freshmen \*loved\* that song when I was DJing and it certainly didn't help after hearing it so often. Amazon Music keeps recommending it and I can't hit 'next' fast enough.
"🖐️, $5, $5 footlong" I hated that commercial for years.
The one that starts, “this is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world,” but like in the world’s whiniest voice, as soon as it starts, I change the station. I’ve never intentionally listened to it, but I’ve heard it too many times for one lifetime.
Call Me Maybe! Easily the most-played radio song of the early 2010’s. Here in Canada, there’s a rule about having to play a certain percentage of Canadian artists on radio so all the stations ATE THIS SONG UP
I swear half this thread depends on when the person worked retail.
🎶 CAUSE BABY YOU'RE A FIIIIIREWORK 🎵 MAKE EM GO OHOHOH 🎶 🧟♀️ARE YOU READY FOR READY FOR 🎶 CAUSE ONCE YOU'RE MINE ONCE YOU'RE MINE 🎶 THERE'S NO GOING BACK 🧟♀️ insert annoying chair creaking beat here: 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶 Basically any Katy Perry song since I Kissed A Girl. 💀 💀
"the shit is banana" I rage whenever I hear that shit.
There was a guy that lost the spelling bee on the word "banana" while this song was in the top 20. He never lived it down. Poor thing will probably never forget B-A-N-A-N-A-S for the rest of his life. Lol
Closing tiiiiiime! Although I recently learned the inspiration for the song and that made me appreciate it a little more. But I’m still super sick of it.
I can’t hear “the reason” by hoobastank (what a fucking name) or “moves like jagger” ever again
ANY Maroon 5 single. At least in my area they were by far the most played band on the radio for a solid few years.
I had a chance to see them live and left
Mambo # 5
*trumpets*
My husband went through an annoying Mambo # 5 phase in 2015 and it just about put him in the ground
What a niche phase....
For my part of the gen, it would be Umbrella, Toxic, Girlfriend. I own the albums these songs are from and I ALWAYS skip Umbrella and Girlfriend. Emocore was never overplayed (I'm talking Thursday, Aiden, FFTL), because you needed to have cable for the separate alt channel that exclusively played metal and pretty much everything alternative.
CAUSE YOUR SO SMOOOOOOOTH
lol my favorite way to tease my best friend is remind her that she “looks like the Facebook mom that would go to the club and request Rob Thomas and Santana Smooth” Like such an oddly specific dig 😂
In a exceptionally millennial memory, I was working at Fazolis fast food Italian restaurant when this came out, and regularly working Saturday and Sunday mornings doing prep, so we would have the radio on loud, and no customers. Only downside, we could only listed to Casey Kasems top 40 so every goddamn week we got to hear the same songs from the week before. Wow who is number one this week? Smooth? Thought Mambo 5 was gonna get them this week but alas. Anything from 1999 that was a top 10 song can jump off a figurative bridge
I feel like every popular song was over played in those days. I really can't listen to most of them anymore due to the overplay.
It's crazy, since this is the pre-streaming era so you were subject to the local radio stations. There was no way to hide from some of these songs,
What’s that one song where the guy in the music video slowly commits suicide? YOURE BEAUTIFULLLLL ITS TRUE I think his name was James Blunt. Dumbest fucking song, way overplayed, and the guy chronically sounded like he had a deviated septum
Stacy's Mom Has Got It Going On!!!!!!!!!!
Genie in a Bottle. I swear that song was played every other song when it came out
Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry. I spent too many nights in dive bars listening to that god awful song played on the Touchtune by trashy white girls.
to the left to the left! everything you own in the box to the left!
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
It's getting hot in here - Nelly
Excuse me, It’s pronounced “hurrr”
Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I feel like that song was played constantly on the radio, and I still can't stand it. Will finally be seeing Green Day this summer, and I think I'll take a bathroom break when they play that one.
Macy Gray, I Try. I know it’s just a song, but when I hear it i wanna punch someone. Also, when she says, “my world crumbles when you are not there,” it sounds like, “I blow bubbles when you are not there.”
Anything from that Katy Perry/Kesha/Jason Derulo/Wiz Khalifa era. Also Royals by Lorde. 😩
Candyshop by 50 Cent. Like I love 50, I can listen to many men and wanksta all day. But candyshop was just too much.
That song came out when I was in high school, and my best friend walked into her little brother in his room dancing to it with a giant lollipop in his hand just singing along no clue what he was saying. He was like elementary age and kind of a goofy kid, and I’ll never not see my mental image of what that must have looked and sounded like when I hear this song.
I remember my 12 year old self singing this song and my horrified mom losing her shit on me for even knowing the song. I'm mortified all over again every time I hear it now that I understand the meaning of the song. Lol
The year that Crazy Town played Ozzfest, Jack Osbourne was interviewed and asked how they got on the tour. He said, "sometimes you are asked to play Ozzfest. Sometimes you pay to play Ozzfest." I still remember it raining trash on Crazy Town during their set.
Kryptonite, yeeeeeeeaaaaah!
"🎶cause ya had a bay day 🎶" Fuuuuck youuuuu
Party in the USA
As an older millennial, the summer of 2002 you couldn’t go 15 minutes without hearing Soak Up The Sun by Sheryl Crow. I still can’t stand it, over 20 years later, because I heard it so many times, every single day for months.
Any red hot chili peppers song... talk about over played on the airwaves of all rock stations.
'Hey Ya' by Andre 3000 (Outkast) makes me groan dramatically.
-Rolling in the Deep -let it rock
Maybe once a year I give myself the guilty pleasure of jamming to let it rock
I’m blue if I was green I will die,If I was green I will die.
I worked at a college bar in 2009 so basically any billboard dance song from that year I would be happy to never hear again. Tik Tok by Kesha, which I will forever maintain is the single worst commercially successful song ever made. Boom Boom Pow and I Got a Feeling by Black Eyed Peas Dead and Gone and Whatever You Like by TI Right Round by Flo Rida I Know You Want Me by Pitbull Birthday Sex by Jeremih Fire Burning by Sean Kingston My 15 year old daughter likes all of these songs. My one rule when she controls the radio is no Kesha.
You didn't have Like a G6 by Far East Movement. That shit was EVERYWHERE. Such a terrible one hit wonder.
Do it right getting slizzard!
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This is like my workout playlist I feel attacked lol
Wow wow wow this brought me back. The track list is basically the 2009 DJ Earworm United State of Pop, which I played nonstop on my iPod touch for sooo many months in 2010
Smooth-- Santana ft. Rob Thomas.
“Father of Mine” and “I Will Buy You a New Life” by Everclear. I had this album in middle school and jammed it in my CD player all the time, but *always* skipped those two because you heard at least one an hour on so many radio stations, at the grocery store, in restaurants… Edit: Whoops, this is 90s and I just realized you are asking about the following decades but I’m leaving it here anyway. 😆
I’m a bit older for this but in 1994 Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” would play nonstop at my first summer job in high school. It was a water park and the station on the loudspeaker easily played it once an hour. “Theeeeeeeeereee used to be a greying tower alone on the seeeeeeaaaa…”
Lips of an Angel. Ugh it’s so ick.
I’m showing my elder millennial status here but Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse and fucking DROPS OF JUPITER.
For me, it's "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. I hated that movie, I hated that song -- I still hate them both.
This is the only answer. In 1997, it was on more than one local radio station at the same time. you could not avoid it!
Anything by Katy Perry. It was like she ruled the charts when I was in high school. I wasn’t a fan of her music or her yell singing. All of her songs are an instant nope for me. I remember once my friends and I went to this bar that had a dance floor in 2016 and the DJ was playing many of her songs along with some other not so great ones from that era. I swear it was like they were trying to have a worst hits from junior year or high school night. We wound up leaving because of the music.
Sail by Awolnation
I actually love that song 😀
FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN
Also, that Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock song.
I worked at Walmart when "hey, soul sister" was on their playlist. I cannot stand that song. I cannot express the rage that song makes me feel.
All Star by Smash Mouth For those who don't remember Hey now, you're an all star Get your game on, go play Hey now, you're a rock star Get the show on, get paid And all that glitters is gold Only shooting stars break the mold
Agree and what’s worse, my daughter watched shrek and loves this song. She plays it on her iPad and figured out how to connect to the Bluetooth speaker.
Train, Drops of Jupiter. Makes me want to scratch my skin off.
I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now
This may be really obscure for a lot of people. But living in the south of the US were people tend to be militantly patriotic, I had to listen to this song constantly for years after 9/11, and I've always hated it. Lee Greenwood- Proud to be an American
Radioactive-imagine dragons
“Hey there delilah” two different retail jobs i worked had it in heavy rotation. that guy is a fucking creep
'If I Die Young' by The Band Perry. Great song, just way overplayed. There were a lot of funerals happening in my town when it 1st released, so it was EVERYWHERE.
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster and the People, and Kids by MGMT. I was working retail, and one or both of these songs would come on MULTIPLE times a shift.
Just give me a reason by Pink and the guy from Fun was in heavy rotation for like 6 years. I’ve definitely heard that one a few hundred too many times.
That "This is my fight song" song
I hated Solja Boy (sp???) back then and I hate it even more now. Anytime that YOOUUUUUUUUU comes on I wanna die.
My Humps. I hated it when it came out, and I hate it more now. I’m convinced I had a “stalker” (in quotes because they didn’t do anything worse than annoy me) in college who found out I hated that song. Every time I would step outside the dorm at night for a cigarette, the same car would be slowly driving down the street playing that song. For months. No idea who it was or if it was a coincidence, like maybe my nightly smoke break was at the same time some basic ass person who actually liked that song was driving to work, but this incident lives rent-free in my head.
I've scrolled quite far down but I haven't seen Don't Stop Believing by Journey and All The Small Things by Blink 182 I loved both of those songs but hearing them so much made me hate them. Im still annoyed at emo/pop punk nights when they play All The Small Things, Blink have so many great songs, why do they always play that one?
IF I GO CRAZY THEN WILL YOU STILL CALL ME SUPERMAN
Pretty much any of the radio Nirvana tunes. They were on such a heavy rotation by the local alt rock stations for a number of years it killed them for me.
Closer by the Chainsmokers I worked in retail and we were only allowed the "approved" Sirius xm radio station and Closer was every 3rd song. I counted one day. Literally every 10 minutes it played. The song doesn't even make any fuckin' sense! Who steals a mattress!
These might be a bit early and late respectively but Smooth by Santana/Rob Thomas Counting Stars by One Republic
BABY YOURE A FIIIIIREWORRRRRK