The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2021
Hey guys, Drake here, and today we're looking at the worst hit songs of this year. 2021 was a very good year for music, I don't have much to say about, it just had a lot of fantastic music, but it did have some stuff I hated so worst list time. My rules are the same as usual so see one of my other top 10 lists for them if you are new to my blog. Also, as usual, this is only my list, music is subjective, you can disagree with me. So without further ado, my picks for The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2021.
10. Girls Want Girls - Drake, Lil Baby
This is just really boring outside of the one line, you know the one. Yes that line is awful but this is just boring as tar otherwise, so I don't have much to say about it. Next!
9. Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney
I don't have much to say about this one, because I honestly don't hate it all that much outside of a few elements, but those elements completely ruin it. I mean sure, the fact that this is a white man covering a song about female empowerment by a black woman kind of ruins the lyrics from the original. But really, the production is honestly fine. The problem is the vocals. Ritt Momney sounds terrible with incredibly poorly mixed autotune. And then there's the bridge, which is just unlistenable! So yeah this is just a terrible sounding cover that takes a shit on a pretty good song from the 2000s. Bad stuff!
8. You Broke Me First - Tate McRae
Oh this one. Now I think some of you are expecting me to dislike the lyrics but I honestly don't. I mean it's basically a more serious and bitter version of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift, a song that I love as you guys know from my 2012 lists. And I mean that song executes the concept better, but the lyrics here aren't bad in my opinion. No what got this song onto the list is how it sounds. Tate McRae is a terrible singer, sounds like a combination of Billie Ellish and Camila Cabello, a combination that is just awful! And the production is way too watery and stiff to convey Tate's anger! Terrible song.
7. Beggin' - Maneskin
Round 3 of songs that have no lyrical issues and just sound like shit in my opinion. The instrumental is poorly mixed. The singer sounds awful, like he's straining to even hit the notes. And yes I have heard newer music from this band, namely the song I Wanna Be Your Slave which is pretty good. But he just sounds awful here! That's really all I have to say.
6. Glad You Exist - Dan + Shay
Up until 2021, with the exception of that terrible song I Should Probably Go To Bed, I never really hated Dan + Shay anywhere near as much as others did. Tequila is still great, I still really like Speechless, and at their worst outside of the song I already mentioned they were just generic and forgettable with songs like All To Myself and 10,000 Hours. However, yeah I hated this from the first listen. This song sounds exactly like every other generic Dan + Shay song except a lot worse with weak production, annoying backing vocals, irritating as shit hook. And then there's the lyrics. Saying you're glad someone exists has to be the lamest compliment you can give someone. Like compliment her on what you love about her, or compliment her appearance or something I don't know, but just saying you're glad she exists is such a pathetic excuse for a compliment. Saying you love this girl just because she's choosing to stay with you and not someone else is also such a pathetic excuse for a compliment I'm surprised this girl has even stayed with him in the first place! That's really all I have to say.
5. Lonely - Justin Bieber, Benny Blanco
It's Justin Bieber yodeling do I need to say more? No but seriously, I hate this song! Now, yodeling in songs isn't always a bad thing in my opinion, I mean I still love Wind It Up by Gwen Stefani even if no one else does. But the difference between that song and this one in the yodeling is, well one, Gwen sounded good while doing it, where Justin sounds terrible yodeling! But two, Wind It Up was an upbeat, goofy song that isn't supposed to be taken seriously, so yodeling fits into it well. But Lonely is a song that's downbeat and supposed to be personal and introspective, so yodeling doesn't fit! And then there's the lyrics. Now on first listen before I did research, I actually had respect for the lyrics because it's Justin regretting the things he did in his early career and talking about how he only did them because he was a stupid kid and he was lonely, and that if we had known how lonely he was as a kid maybe we wouldn't have been so hard on him. But then, I found out that this song that is trying to be very personal wasn't written by Justin Bieber himself! I mean he has a writing credit, but the song was originally written by Finneas and Benny Blanco, the producers. Bieber read it and thought it would apply to him well and decided to record it with a few rewrites to add some personal details. Now, I normally don't have a issue with artists not writing their own songs in pop music, but that's because in most pop music, it's not very personal and therefore the artist not writing their own song isn't a problem for me. But when the songs are trying to be very personal, a song not being written by the artist is an issue for me. This song just feels very empty and hollow to me, like a pathetic attempt by Justin's team to make people feel more sorry for him and excuse the things he did, rather than a genuine song doing the same thing.
4. Astronaut In The Ocean - Masked Wolf
Ah the Baby or Friday of 2021, a song that only got popular because of everyone making fun of it and meme-ing it because of how much they hate it. And even though I don't mind Baby and I love Friday, yeah I absolutely agree this time because I hate this song. Now this song has defenders, some people like the hook, or the production, or his actual flows. I don't. The beat is very stiff and annoying, the hook is incredibly annoying and his flows irritate the piss out of me. Masked Wolf sounds so fucking proud of himself, while he's saying these laughably awful lyrics like "I believe in GOD, don't believe in THOT" and I hate it. And again these lyrics are laughably awful, I already mentioned the THOT lyric but there's more awful lines. Heck I don't even know what this song is supposed to mean. Like, Masked Wolf, you ever heard of something called staying on topic? Like most rappers don't just randomly talk about random things switching every few sentences. They might throw in random references at times but they stay on topic. This song is like "Baby's First Rap Song". But the real reason I hate this song so much is that it makes me think of my "mumble rap sucks" phase I had in 2019. Back then I hated basically every trap song and would use the term "mumble rap" to describe them. I am thoroughly embrassed that I had this phase and I now love a lot of trap music and have cooled hard on a lot of rappers I enjoyed then, like Eminem and NF. If I had heard Astronaut In The Ocean while I was in this phase I probably would have enjoyed it and been talking about how Masked Wolf is saving rap music from "mumble rappers" like Lil Baby. I try and forget that I ever had this phase and I now love a lot of trap music but hearing this song makes me think of that phase and that is the main reason I hate this song so much.
3. Just The Way - Parmalee, Blanco Brown
A big pet peeve of mine in music is when in love songs, the artist talks about how god made them for them. For instance, God Gave Me You by Blake Shelton or You Make It Easy by Jason Aldean. It makes these songs feel both douchy and selfish. And this song is worse than both of those. This song is about how these guys love all of this girl's imperfections because she was made this way by God and he doesn't mistakes. Now, I will defend a lot of "You're beautiful just the way you are" songs like Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars and What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction but when you bring in God it makes it feel very creepy. Especially with what else they say in this song. They constantly tell this girl to never change because she was made this way by God. So yeah, they're using God to convince her to never change or leave them because they love her imperfections so much. This song also sounds pretty bad, if pretty bland, for the record too.
2. The Good Ones - Gabby Barrett
Ugh not her again. I Hope is still one of my least favorite songs ever, and while I don't hate The Good Ones as much I still absolutely despise it. Gabby while her voice is probably decent is so poorly mixed that she sounds awful, just like she did on I Hope. And just like I Hope this song has some of the worst mixing of any hit song in years, way too overmixed! But the lyrics are quite different from I Hope. This is a love song to her husband, but in a way that I hate. The song describes all the things she loves about him, things like "He's the Bible by the bed...", "He's the T-Shirt I'm wearing...", etc. It just comes across as a very selfish relationship from Gabby. Not saying that Gabby doesn't treat her husband well, she probably does, but this song makes her come across like the woman that Meghan Trainor was satirically playing in Dear Future Husband. Also there's the fact that she's calling this guy "one of the good ones". If you don't know, Gabby Barett is a racist Trump supporter, and "one of the good ones" is a phrase that racists and homophobes use to describe someone of race/ someone gay who they like, one of the "only good ones of their race or sexuality" if you will. Now I think Gabby's husband is a straight white man who shares her political views, but it's still kinda unsettling hearing her describe her husband as "one of the good ones". Anyway, this is just an exhausting unlistenable trainwreck that I absolutely despise. So what managed to top it? Before we find out, some Dishonorable Mentions.
DM. Good Time - Niko Moon
The final cut from the list. Good Time more like Bad Tim.... dies
I like Dua Lipa but this one was not it.
DM. Arcade - Duncan Lawrence
This one sucks but I don't care about it enough to put it on the list proper.
DM. One Too Many - Keith Urban, P!nk
This would have had a shot at the list proper if I didn't refuse to acknowledge it as a hit song.
DM. Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) - Elton John, Dua Lipa
I remember when I first heard of this collab I was pretty hyped, and all I got was this useless nothing. Shame.
DM. If I Didn't Love You - Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood
Jason Aldean, and also this wastes Carrie Underwood which should be a national crime.
DM. Heat Waves - Glass Animals
Finally came to an opinion on this one, it sucks.
DM. Peaches - Justin Bieber, Giveon, Daniel Caesar
This would have made the list proper if not for the guest artists.
1. Without You - The Kid Laroi
This is not just my worst hit of the year but one of my least favorite songs ever, easily top 5. Why? Well, first the song just sounds awful. I hate The Kid LAROI's voice so much and this song is the biggest example of this. His vocals on this are unlistenable. The lyrics are toxic and unlikable and just incredibly irritating. But the reason why this is so high is because, well, in late 2020 and early 2021 I was kinda depressed for personal reasons and just fed up with the world. And there were two songs that were very big on pop radio at the time that were full of anger and hate that absolutely plagued me at that time. One was not eligible for this list since it debuted in 2020, and this was the other. Hearing a song full of hate and anger like this made me feel even more depressed and made life worse for me. And now, whenever I hear this song these days, I think of when I was depressed early this year and I get a bit depressed. This song has plagued me for a year and I really hope it doesn't do so for two. Without You by The Kid Laroi! The worst hit song of 2021!
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