Musical artists you can't stand!!

Any heavy metal band.

Gwen Stefani (sorry Blake)

Ariana Grande for her music and this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/tvshowbiz/video-1197200/Ariana-Grande-shares-donut-shop-PDA-licks-donuts.html

@thumper1 : Have to disagree with you on the ā€œSend in the Clownsā€ recording, where you say" no matter who is singing it." While I agree that Judy Collins should do music a favor and just go away, Sarah Vaughan ** tears that song up **, interpreting it for all the nuance, angst and irony the writer intended. Absolutely transformative, no joke.

For a listen, close your eyes and go there with her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PI_xb6jSD4

I cannot stand the cotton-throated Doobie Brothers.

(Are we allowed two?) I’d throw Anita Baker in there as well.

Kanye West, Drake and Jay Z. I’d also have to agree with Train.

I have never heard a Drake or Jay Z tune, and would not know Kanye West’s music if it were playing. I’ll have to go listen to Train to see what I am (not?) missing.

Train songs are so random and have such a flight of ideas most psychiatrists would diagnose them with psychosis.

Every time the radio starts playing Marcy Playground ā€œI smell sex and candyā€, Mr. B says, ā€œI see dead peopleā€ and changes radio station right away. ā€œMeet Virginiaā€ makes him so angry I want to jump out of the moving car! And if you have met Mr., you would never think he could get angry at anything. He is a sweetheart. :wink:

Paul McCartney. Totally overrated.

Don’t kill me!

I think the absolute worst song in creation is Paul Anka’s ā€œShe’s having my babyā€. Gag me!

^^^ We used to sing that song in church camp!!! =))

OMG. I played the link in #23 to Mr. His reaction, ā€œthat is a pretty bad karaokeā€ - really?! I snorted my wine. Sorry, Sarah.

Ha. Can’t do long drives with bff as she tries to play Abba to annoy me.

The legendary Arcade Fire

Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand. There’s a certain type of diva that I just don’t like.

I have a nomination for creepiest song ever: Take a Letter Maria. I found this song profoundly disturbing as a young child, and still find it quite creepy. Yet now I’m strangely drawn to it, too, like spectators at a train wreck. For those who don’t remember the twisted lyrics:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Y0x1jLkLg

A strange fact about this song: I once heard an interview with (the now late) Ahmet Ertegun, founder and long-time president of Atlantic Records – the record label of everyone from Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, and many, many other legends. Ertegun was asked to name his favorite songs ever recorded on the label and Take a Letter Maria was at the top of his list! The interview was shortly before he died – mid-2000s. So strange.

Bad song nominee (although not quite as bad as She’s Having My Baby): Macarthur Park

Bring the damn cake in from the rain. I don’t care how long it took to make it.

Afternoon Delight also qualifies as one of the worst songs of all time with no redeeming qualities. This is another song I found disturbing as a child because I couldn’t quite figure out what they were talking about.

Even more disturbing is knowing as an adult exactly what they are talking about @nottelling