As someone who has spent the last 50 years encountering the song "Yummy Yummy, Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy)", which charted at #4 in the US in 1968 and has regrettably never really gone away, I'm hard-pressed to think of literally any song I've heard that's worse.
No, I haven't convinced you? 1969 #1 hit "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.
1969. The Beatles. The Stones. Jimi. Aretha. Otis. Leonard Cohen. The Kinks.
No. Turn on the radio. Yummy, Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in My Tummy. When you get to my age, and you hear that damned song for the thousandth time, you just want to give up. No amount of Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or whoever is going to be worse. Ever.
It's a little hard to say in the now what's going to be a classic. There is definitely good music happening today but a lot mainstream pop right now is kind of sucky. I feel like e.g. in the 80's pop was better. Maybe in the 70's it was worse. It's somewhat cyclic. 90's worse again?
My daughters and their friends don't really listen to that crappy pop, they listen to other music, you have a lot more choice than "what's playing on the radio" these days.
No, I haven't convinced you? 1969 #1 hit "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.
1969. The Beatles. The Stones. Jimi. Aretha. Otis. Leonard Cohen. The Kinks.
No. Turn on the radio. Yummy, Yummy Yummy I've Got Love in My Tummy. When you get to my age, and you hear that damned song for the thousandth time, you just want to give up. No amount of Katy Perry or Justin Bieber or whoever is going to be worse. Ever.