21 of the Worst Song Lyrics of All Time
The pop music industry pretty much stopped having any interest in lyrics right around the time it stopped wanting to bang Fiona Apple. Seriously, there was an entire movement in the late ‘90s and early aughts, and a wildly successful one, when the vast majority of the Billboard Top 10 was written by a man who barely spoke English. His name is Max Martin, and he destroyed everything good in the world. No, really, look him up.
So we mostly just don’t pay much attention to the lyrics in pop songs. Hey, if it’s fun to sing, it doesn’t really matter what we’re singing. Sometimes, though, it’s impossible to ignore. Like, a shocking number of songs are about statutory rape and other sexual offenses. A shocking number. Others make no sense, and still others are mechanically sound but just stupid. They led user Reallyguyrealy to ask r/AskReddit, “What is, objectively, the worst song lyrics ever made?”
Their fellow Redditors sang all kinds of awful lyrics to the high heavens in response.
