Most overrated songs - Like unpopular opinions about music, but more specific

[JambledUpWords]

Says it right in the title. The song can be from any genre, era, singer, band, etc.

Overrated to me:

• Canon in D Major- lovely song, but played too much at weddings
• Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran- I like this song, but it’s been played too much
• Don’t Stop Believing by Journey- overplayed. Glee version overplayed as well. Can get annoying fast
• Whip and Nae Nae by Silento- a hit song that is a poor man’s Soulja Boy
• Für Elise by Beethoven- pretty song, but gets old fast after hearing too many times.
• All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey- fun song, but overplayed a ton
• Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana- song is an all-around mess.
• All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor- HAES anthem
• Lucky (Up All Night) by Daft Punk- a very bland song that should not have gotten nominated for a Grammy
• Call Me Maybe by Carley Rae Jepsen-heard this practically on repeat one summer and it drove me crazy
• Let It Go from Frozen- sounded nice at first but turned sour quickly when everyone started to do covers of it
• Hello by Adele- compared to her previous albums, this song in her album “25” was boring

 

[Princess Peaches]

Music major:powerlevel: here. I got so sick of hearing Oh Mio Babino Caro the first two years of college. So many soprano voice majors sing it. If another person in my program has sing a certain song a lot I won’t perform it or program it. I don’t like seeing a certain art song performed over and over.

 

[AnOminous]

Anything by Oasis. Fuck Liam Gallagher, that can't sing more than a single note motherfucker.

 

[TheCapybara]

Not really a song specifically, but I feel like the entirety of The Wall is overrated. I love Pink Floyd, and The Wall did have some great songs on it, like Comfortably Numb, Hey You, and Another Brick in the Wall, but I really don't think it deserves to stand up there with their best works, like Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon. I'd even rank Animals and Meddle higher, personally. On an unrelated note, Hotel California. I liked the song, but hearing it thousands of times whenever I turned on a radio drove me up the wall. Desperado is better.

 

[Outer Party Member]

Last Christmas and all the covers of it.

Enough is enough already.

 

[Slamerella]

Last Christmas and all the covers of it.

Enough is enough already.

Glad someone else has this sentiment. I heard it on the radio at work and I had so many thoughts about it.
"When will this shit end? How many times can she complain about Last Christmas? Was this song really this repetitive?"

 

[JambledUpWords]

A lot of Ariana Grande songs. She can sing, but her lack of enunciation is annoying. Her “Dangerous Woman” song is good, but songs like “Thank U, Next” , “God is a Woman” and “Side to Side” are way overly praised. “Thank U, Next” especially because it’s been promoted so much. The chorus of that song is grating.

 

[Kamiii]

All Christmas music.

 

[8777BB5]

Pinball Wizard by The Who.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

Anything and everything Beyonce. I don't think she's a singer so much as a songbot programmed to leverage her cult of personality. Technically, she has singing chops, but her songs say nothing to me beyond "I'm Beyonce, and I'm the queen. Let me tell you some more interesting things about how awesome and fabulous it is to be me, Beyonce."

 

[The Shadow]

I get that "Enter Sandman" and "Nothing Else Matters" were Metallica's big mainstream breaks. But they're pretty overrated compared to the rest of the Black album (which itself is over-hated in sectors).

"Wherever I May Roam" and "Holier than Thou" are pretty great though. "Of Wolf and Man" is rarely heard even when radio play Metallica's deep cuts, and it's great.

A lot of Ariana Grande songs. She can sing, but her lack of enunciation is annoying. Her “Dangerous Woman” song is good, but songs like “Thank U, Next” , “God is a Woman” and “Side to Side” are way overly praised. “Thank U, Next” especially because it’s been promoted so much. The chorus of that song is grating.

I heard someone describe Grande's voice as "an autotuned fart". Which I found to be overly generous.

 

[Desire Lines]

The Beatles's "Hey Jude". The "nananananananana" part is iconic and fucking amazing, but the first half of the song is a boring soapy ballad.

 

[AF 802]

Anything they play at work. Good God, could it get any more "lite rock radio station" than it already is?

While you occasionally get good shit like maybe some of the more pop-ish Foo Fighters tracks, it's a lot of god damn mom rock. I want to put my ears up to airplane engines anytime they play Colbie Calliat, my god, how can one person stomach that much mom trite?

Exact reason I'm glad I do backstock, because I can play my own music back there and nobody gives a shit.

 

[Digital Thunder]

Everything Shawn Wasabi's ever produced, as I'm decently certain he's responsible for the wave of super-saccharine, animu squee-heavy poppy trap that I can only imagine "Marble Soda" caused.

Separate special mention to Alan Walker's discography because it's infuriating to listen to for reasons I can't comprehend.

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

Nicki Minaj butchered one of my favorite novelty songs. And a lot of people loved it.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Enter Sandman by Metallica. I can't even play it anymore. Same goes with Smells Like Teen Spirit.

 

[Positron]

Im. Fucking. Magine.

Also Don McLean's "Vincent". For all its purple prose, this song just says "I understand art, unlike those perps."

 

[Andre The Roboto]

Michael Jackson's pretty overrated

 

[The Shadow]

Not a terrible song but:" Pink Floyd's "Money" might be the only song of theirs I legitimately can't stand. Probably because it's an awkward single uncomfortable wedged into an album it doesn't fit on. It's also overplayed.

Actually a terrible song: Journey sucks in general but "Don't Stop Believin'" is dogshit.

 

[Stoneheart]

Bobby Brown- Frank Zappa its the best known track of him, and its just some c-level song of him.