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This section is devoted entirely to the
worst songs of all time. Well, maybe not the all-time worst
written songs or worst performances of all time. Perhaps "Really
irritating songs that used to be popular songs" would
be a better title. These are songs that, admit it or not,
that we all knew and mostly liked when they first came out.
These are songs that make us cringe when we hear them now
in front of loved ones. What were we thinking?
We're not talking about
music genres here. Parents/Adults have been whining about
what the "kids" were listening to since the 1920's.
That nasty Charleston stuff that evolved into that Sinful
Swinging, that enabled Elvis to gyrate, leading to Tina Turner
showing some leg, Jim Morrison performing nude, Ozzie biting
live bats, the Sex Pistols urinating on stage, James
Brown singing about his "Sex Machine", and Eminem
flipping the world "the bird" at the 2000 Grammys.
Don't tell us "all
rap is not music". You sound like your mom talking about
those long-haired, unkempt bad boys in "The Beatles",
or her mom harping about Elvis. Or those teachers who banned
swing dancing at the school dances during World War II.
People like Pat Boone
tried to make R & B/rock-n-roll acceptable to the masses,
yet, for all his pop music success, his greatest achievement
was the fathering of his daughter, Debbie Boone, who went
on to record the most successful bad song of all time, "You
Light Up My Life", lasting 10 weeks at Billboard's number
one, and over 20 weeks in the Top 40 in 1977. She won the
Grammy for best new artist as well. She never charted again,
which is just fine for those of us who heard it, on average,
a hundred thousand times that Summer of '77.
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