Fun fact: Jason Aldean had four writers on that song that weren’t him, and he lives in a literal mansion while talking about working blue collar jobs in his songs. The man himself is a lie.
@@kayleeblack4303 Well, Drake doesn't try to politically posture as some working class hero, to my knowledge. I couldn't tell you much about the guy, he's far from any music I listen to, but he at least seems honest about who he is and how he lives, for better or for worse. The problem is that Aldean is some rich asshole trying to pass himself off as the salt of the earth.
As someone who has lived in a small town most of his life, we've had about 4-5 different meth labs/houses around our area busted over the past 20 years.
What I also think is so funny about the Jason Aldean track is that he isn’t even from an actual small town. He grew up Macon Georgia which has a population of around 150,000 and lived most of his life in Nashville. So like… what Fucking small town was he even talking about? LOL
What I find even more hilarious is even with that. Most of the people who like the song who usually bitch about "authenticity" in music will go on about how "real" the song is
it's all performance. he's like a hetero act writing gay love ballads. he doesn't fight or fix things with his hands or ride horses, he sits in his mansion while a team of pop producers write songs that appeal to meth County USA
I live in a conservative small town with a population under 1,000 and even though people are very conservative (including myself) they would never act in a way that that song reflects lol...there are crazy people out there but most normal people are normal.
Hot take: conservative grifters shouldn't even be included in this. We all know tom macdonald and his sidekicks make terrible music, including them in this feels cheap and wastes spots for honest and interesting terrible attempts at music. It's also tiring to have to hear about tom macdonald clones 50 times a day when end of year lists come out
@@slightexag but that's the point. Tom has been excluded from anthony's lists for this very thing. I am not in Jason Aldean's fanbase at all, but I never would've heard of him if it wasn't for this video.
I had to work a show as a photographer with Falling In Reverse supporting A7X this year. During FIR's set, they did a cover of Smash Mouth's "All Star" filled with f bombs and him yelling at girls in the crowd. It still sounded better than "Watch The World Burn".
@@stormblade2895 you definitely thought American psycho was about a big Chad alpha sigma doing big Chad alpha sigma things and not a mentality deranged individual
for me, at least rich men north of richmond is kind of a banger compared to other country tracks in this day and age. Regardless of the true political meaning, it doesn't enrage me like mother does
I mean, if you want songs in general, the entirety of both the Blødúlvur and Kapnas albums are far worse. Blødúlvur may very well contain the worst music of all time; it is physically painful to listen to. even as a diehard metalhead who's loved her fair share of bricked records, that shit is SO badly mixed and devoid of any interesting riffage that it is the textbook definition of unlistenable.
Idk i feel like the song inspiring people to lynch "them city folk *wink*" is a lot worse than an out of touch woman without original ideas or musical talent to back that lack up.
honorable mentions 0:30 BoyWithUke's Optimally Bad Song 1:02 Anna Indiana - Betrayed by This Town 1:57 Colleen Ballinger - Toxic Gossip Train actual list 2:33 Donald J. Trump & J6 Prison Choir - Justice for All 3:33 Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start the Fire 4:57 Kodak Black - No Love for a Thug 5:43 Grimes & Illangelo - I Wanna Be Software 7:05 Meghan Trainor - Mother 8:06 Forgiato Blow - Boycott Target 9:27 Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond 11:26 Falling in Reverse - Watch the World Burn 13:04 TX2 - I Would Hate Me Too 14:08 Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town
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i unironically do not understand the ajr hate, they're really not that bad. nothing special sure, but perfectly fine and seem nice and genuine, and I've got a soft spot for a few tracks. i heard of them late so idk if their really early stuff is completely awful, but the last couple albums are decent enough
@benliss1591 okay that is a bad song, and had i heard that first i probably wouldn't have bothered looking into them further, although that really doesn't seem representative of their more recent stuff, so my overall opinion hasn't changed. A lot of bands had some absolute trash in 2013, so i can't hold that against them too much 😂😂 but i do understand the hate a lil bit now, although still think it's overblown, their last couple albums are mediocre at worst, and pretty decent a lot of time time
@@Tyler12905 That's where Jason Aldean is from. But hey, at least NOW he lives in a small town, in a huge mansion on an island off the coast of Florida. Just a small town country boy, he is!
The fact that Jason Aldean is one of the best selling country singers OF ALL TIME is a crime against humanity. That man is the Maroon 5 of country, and Try That In A Small Town is only a small taste of how boring and generic his music can get. If anything, the fact that the song is political automatically makes it more interesting than 99% of his music, even if the politics are awful. Big Green Tractor is a banger though, I’ll give him that.
In fairness to Jason Aldean, he almost certainly doesn't write his own songs, or decide how to market himself. He's just a product for mouthbreathers to consume.
DC is north of richmond. So the “Rich Men north of richmond” are the politicians. Although that dosen’t do much to make the song better it just shows that he isn’t really writin about like, rich corporations just congressmen
Pat Finnertys “why this song stinks” about try that in a small town is 100% worth a watch, really sheds light on how derivative the song (not genre generecism, it’s kind of plagiarism in some places) is and why jason Aldean just isn’t a great musician/performer beyond the lyrics to that dumpster fire
but why does that warrant it being the worst song of the year? There are tons of rap music that is derivative as fuck, and talks about a lot more violent horrible shit than Aldean does.
Its a shame Back To Me by ¥$ hasnt dropped yet, because that songs either going in Anthony's worst songs list or best songs list, nowhere in between. Depends if he thinks the Kanye verse is absurdly hilarious and catchy or just lazy. Songs unique as that don't just fall out the sky, y'know.
Billie Joel's version of we didn't start the fire was year by year, it was a masterpiece because every line lead into and rhymed with the next, actually bringing you through history... Fall out boy just listed a load of shit that happened in a 30 year timespan... Absolute hogs trollop
4:30 Just went and read the Fall Out Boy lyrics, and on one hand some of the word choices just feel clunky in comparison to the original, but on the other hand (the history nerd part of me), part of the appeal of the Billy Joel version is that the events/people/things that he names are generally in chronological order from about 1949-1989 (Billy's entire life up to that point and a huge chunk of the Cold War), so even though they could be just a collection of disparate names, there is a clear progression that you can follow (each verse section can generally be separated into decades, ie. Harry Truman, Doris Day, to Little Rock, Pasternak, and so on). Fall Out Boy jumps from the 1990s to the 2020s back to the 2000s every half a bar, and so it is just a disparate collection of names with no sense of forward progression. Thank you for coming to my impromptu lecture on why I don't like a particular aspect of a Fall Out Boy song.
I work at a concert venue and before Jason sang “Try that in a Small Town” he went on some massive rant about cancel culture and how the “woke mob tryin’ to censure me”
They are - wake the f*** up. The Dept of Justice is working with big tech companies to censure content they don't like. The FBI told Facebook that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't real when they knew it was -- just to protect Joe Biden from criticism before the election. This is not opinion. It's a matter of public record.
I'm getting censored right now trying to post this comment. Before he even made that song, the people who are aware of censorship knows that what you said in that comment is true. He never coined it.
I think I had only heard the Grimes track out of these, and as terrible as that is, after checking out the other ones; the Grimes track sounds pretty good. Thank you Falling In Reverse!
Totally, it’s probably the most palatable of all the shit songs here. Not really saying much though, it’s still not good. Surprised the horrendous Fall Out Boy wasn’t way higher on the list
@@professorofsneakology3964Hilarious when you consider that Macon is not only a large town but also is predominantly Black, which seems to be the demographic of “city folk” that he’s hinting to. R.E.M. is actually not from Macon, though. They’re from Athens.
Well the problem isn’t really the lyrics it’s the man behind it, who is batshit. Also the whole “north of Richmond” thing seems like a Neo confederate rallying cry
putting rich men north of richmond at #4 is weird. a bland outlaw country song with a vaguely populist conservative slant is worse than boycott target????
@@flilix1 yea i’ve seen them, it was a pretty bad interpretation of the song. i don’t mind him hating the song, i just feel like he put the song on this list for the wrong reasons
Man, Fantano triple-downed on the Rich Men song. Dude, it’s not a North Vs South song, it’s about politicians and “rich men” in DC. It’s really not that hard of a concept to grasp my guy.
Exactly! His criticism is full of "whataboutism". He fails to grasp that people can be rich without being powerful. If you're a DC politician with money, you're rich and powerful and you have influence.
What's even worse about the Aldean song is that he isn't even from a small town and he didn't even write the lyrics (Jason Isbell mocked him for that).
I 'did not know that country songs were directly from the artist's diary. So Johnny Cash really did kill a bunch of guys and Willie Nelson's a badass cowboy? Does that mean that Ice Cube really smoked a bunch of gangstas with his ak-47? Cause if Jason has to live in a small town to write about a small town, then everyone has to live their art.
I am so glad TX2 is on here. Industry plant just sucking up streams from braindead aesthetic chasing teenagers on the same label as so many talented artists. It upsets me so much and I'm glad you took a minute to acknowledge that horse piss.
That Rich Men North of Richmond take was insane. Saying it’s worse then 1. The target song 2. Megan’s mother song 3. Every Tom McDonald track 4. National Anthem (Trumps Version) 5. Kodak falling asleep on the track Is crazzzzzzzy
Grimes comes off as someone who wants to create cyberpunk art but doesn't understand what cyberpunk is. It's like she saw a still frame of Bladerunner and thought "That looks cool. :)" and has been trying to capture that essence ever since.
tbf I feel like that only really started being a prominent thing after getting with Musk, who your statement also applies to. Art Angels def isn't cyberpunk art, it's actually a damn solid album. She always had a bit of a thing for techno-futurism so having Elon Musk (this was before pedogate) want to date her must have seemed like a dream come true. Until he started getting abusive which culminated in kidnapping her children from her
I really don’t understand how rich man north of Richmond made it here way worst songs were released this year that deserve it more. It’s just a bland country song with a conservative lean to it. not anything to really care about
dumbest part of of jason aldean's beautiful track "try that in a small town" is that he himself has never lived in one 💀 mans really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about
What I can't get over is that Fall Out Boy got the lyrics out of chronological order. That's, like, the conceit of the song. Each verse is a time capsule into a given decade or timespan. Meanwhile they willy-nilly pushed thirty years into the blender and said 'eh, nobody will notice'
You know what I think a good version of "We Didn't Start the Fire of our generation"...? Funny Feeling by Bo Burnham. Dude can be a bit tacky but I do feel that song fits the description.
that Miranda sings song was actually for sale on iTunes for a little while, she only took it down after everyone called her out for it so its defs 'a single' in a way.
The Rich Men North of Richmond song is not bad because of the people who like the song. You didn’t have any critiques about the actual song because it is simply not that bad
I miss when Fantano would focus more on the sound rather than picking most songs purely for the subject matter and lyrics. Even the ones that actually sound like they deserve to be in this list, he seems to care mostly about the lyrics.
as far as i can tell, 5/10 of these songs are purely here for the subject matter. one of which, the rich men song, isnt even so much about the song itself, but rather the fact that conservatives endorse it. the other 5 songs i would say make sense being here on sound alone, but even when discussing those ones, he focuses mostly on the lyrical content. you can criticise the lyrical content of songs, but like, i just dont really care anymore. i wanna hear some shit that offends my earholes not my political opinions.
SexyRedd talks about robbing and murdering. He doesnt care at all. Even though ppl are dying, crime rates are heavy in these locations, he supports it. He loves it. He gives it a 8/10. ( not hating cause i liked quite a bit on that album) But a country guy acting tough? A country guy talking about problems that, lets be real, lots of the world related to? Anthony breaks down the lyrics and makes a 20 minute video explaining how “this stuff doesnt even happen!” “Racist symbolism!” “Right-wing” Blah blah blah.
Most "nerds" grow up to be beautiful artists, cool without trying, unique beings that we all obsess/lust over (or maybe it's just me). Grimes has Benjamin Buttoned TF outta that storyline though going from thr later to a try hard nerd that you're embarrassed to know. I mean, Grimes came into my life as this weird girl who had that "Man Repellant"-style that was so fucking intriguing, while featuring Brooke Candy, in her metallic stripper R2D2 look with insane platforms and white girl dreads, in her music video. She produced weird ethereal sounds with hypnotizing beats while claiming her biggest inspiration was Mariah Carey (like, what the actual fuck??). So fucking good! And now... this. She gives us this.😐😐😐 I blame Elon Musk. He fucking ruins everything.
I find it odd how fair Anthony tends to be with artists he doesn’t personally like, but when he has political gripes, all objectivity goes out the window. The rich men north of richmond track was beyond overrated but even on the basis of his own critiques it is at worst a mediocre song
There's practically nothing a person can be interested in that isn't tainted with politics there is no escaping it, I could tell right away this dude was going to be far from the exception, and it took no time whatsoever to confirm my suspicions. I did not make it to the end but it should not surprise me the RMNoR song made the list because of course it did.
Ofc the most left-leaning man on the internet puts Jason Aldean and Oliver Anthony on “worst tracks”…. Oh and a donald trump track 😂😂😂 ofc. Putting politics before music taste.
Honestly tho as much as most of these tracks are pandering garbage (the Oliver Anthony song wasn't that bad tho) I rlly do find it obnoxious when he goes on with that stereotypical "liberal" talk of "evil right wing people" up front and throws these songs on which in a just world most of them would be easily ignored
@@V3r0nicleNot surprised anymore by these comments he throws out. I literally looked to see if he put this Oliver song on as soon as i clicked on the video. Like… WORST SONG?! Also, Im a country fan, and I actually quite liked both of those songs. That Jason Aldean one, while not the most heartfelt, lyric heavy song, it has that Nickleback-catchiness to it where i catch myself singing it and not skipping it when it comes on even tho i know its kinda cheesy haha
i’m saying this as a left-leaning individual: you didn’t even touch on the musical quality of RMNOR. fair enough if you think it’s a shitty song based on factors outside of the lyrics, or the technical quality of the lyrics, but all i’m seeing is someone upset at a songwriter having a differing opinion.
I’m probably politically aligned with Melon on most subjects.. but I think a bad song list should mostly come down to the tracks being musically inept and soulless - not just because they hold differing social and political views to ours. There are hundreds of trite, corporate songs out there that are written in boardroom committees and ‘performed’ by attractive people who don’t know much about the writing and musical process. It’s not art, it’s coldly cynical corporate business. I take more offence at these songs than somebody who can actually write and play music with conviction and emotion, even if I don’t agree with their political views.
as someone who is a HUGE Grimes fan and has been for the past 5 years, her music has become so soulless and unaware its baffling to me. Miss Anthropocene was one thing but songs like I Wanna Be Software and Shinigami Eyes had me genuinely shocked on how bad they were. listening to her older music sounds like a completely different artist. fingers crossed that somehow her next album will be better when it comes out in 80 years
the fact that Hi-rez's 2+2=5 didn't even make it in as honorable mention makes me think that either Melon didn't listen to it, or refused to bring it up out of sheer human decency. If it's the latter, I don't blame him.
As someone who agrees with AF’e politics, it’s kind of frustrating that this video is more an opportunity to politically grandstand than examine the ten worst hit songs. But yeah that small town song is dog shit.
@@maadkid i just feel like he's basing his decisions more on whether he personally agrees with the message rather than the musical aspect of it like he did back in the corey feldman days, but you're right if that's an essential part of his criteria then i guess it makes sense
@@slick3996 fuck off with this delusional take, imagine thinking he's defending someone for liking her music (which btw can be looked at in a non political sense bc it has nothing in the music)
Seems like your only hang up with the Oliver Anthony song is that it attracted a wide conservative audience, which I think is really unfair, especially considering the artist denounced those kinds of people. The lyrics aren’t specific to individual issues since they’re supposed to be widely relatable to the working class of America, liberal or conservative or anywhere in between. Just seems weird to call a quaint, well performed song with an unfortunate audience one of the ten worst songs of the year.
Bro, i can't believe you missed the utterly terrible chop suey cover by lil uzi vert. It's a level of lazy I've almost never seen before and it sounds like garbage
chronically online vibes w this one edit: i couldn't escape that "try that in a small town" song. live in rural usa and that shit was on the radio 24/7. first time i heard it i was like no way he's saying that on a song. the whole song is unpatriotic as fuck. "try using your first amendment in a small town, see how far you make it"
Anthony, seriously, not a joke. The fact that you have to talk about Politics shows a problem in itself. The past few "worst song" year end lists have just been you "dunking" on conservatives and it's pretty boring, while also making these less fun to rewatch because they're dated in like 1 year.
@@lukeferetti6353 Its just a half baked 4Chan greentext level thinkpiece over some mediocre soundcloud B side instrumental at best. Giving it attention only serves to perpetuate its existence. If Anthony really had no other reason to do this every single year, he would just ignore them.
all of these artists should be very proud that they achieved the amazing feat of pushing Corey Feldman off the worst songs list.
‘of 2023’
@@ProducedByRIFT Corey had a song released recently
corey feldman never had a a bad hit ever
@@axeavier lovin lies is on my sex playlist
I bet hes working hard to create a song that will get him on next years list
Fun fact: Jason Aldean had four writers on that song that weren’t him, and he lives in a literal mansion while talking about working blue collar jobs in his songs. The man himself is a lie.
As if he was always rich
To his credit, you can technically have a mansion and live in a small town at the same time.
But also, he’s an idiot and the song is absolutely awful.
4 writers for *that* is baffling
How many rappers make songs about the streets when they come from the suburbs (Drake)? It's cringe regardless.
@@kayleeblack4303 Well, Drake doesn't try to politically posture as some working class hero, to my knowledge. I couldn't tell you much about the guy, he's far from any music I listen to, but he at least seems honest about who he is and how he lives, for better or for worse. The problem is that Aldean is some rich asshole trying to pass himself off as the salt of the earth.
As someone who has lived in a small town most of his life, we've had about 4-5 different meth labs/houses around our area busted over the past 20 years.
That's good news. But don't tell Jason that.
try having 6-7 meth labs in a small town
So you’re telling me I SHOULD try that in a small town
As long as no american (or confederate) flag catches fire when those meth labs explode, conservatives don't care.
That's pretty cool.
"Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 Prison Choir's Justice for All" was a sentence that felt like being hit point blank in the face by a fire hose.
You just hate Falling in Reverse because your life isn’t a video game.
He ain't trying hard enough to beat the stage
But he can’t do that while still collecting coins
bro is NOT growing up to be a big boy
He does have an uncanny resemblance to his Smash main, Pacman
he’s not even trying hard to save the girl
What I also think is so funny about the Jason Aldean track is that he isn’t even from an actual small town. He grew up Macon Georgia which has a population of around 150,000 and lived most of his life in Nashville. So like… what Fucking small town was he even talking about? LOL
What I find even more hilarious is even with that. Most of the people who like the song who usually bitch about "authenticity" in music will go on about how "real" the song is
The small town he made up in his mind?
People here think anything outside of Metro Atlanta is a small town. (Also he didn't even write the fucking song 4 Nashville songwriters did lmao)
it's all performance. he's like a hetero act writing gay love ballads. he doesn't fight or fix things with his hands or ride horses, he sits in his mansion while a team of pop producers write songs that appeal to meth County USA
I live in a conservative small town with a population under 1,000 and even though people are very conservative (including myself) they would never act in a way that that song reflects lol...there are crazy people out there but most normal people are normal.
Hot take: conservative grifters shouldn't even be included in this. We all know tom macdonald and his sidekicks make terrible music, including them in this feels cheap and wastes spots for honest and interesting terrible attempts at music.
It's also tiring to have to hear about tom macdonald clones 50 times a day when end of year lists come out
tom isn't relevant enough to be on a list. it legitimizes it as actual music, which it isn't
@@slightexag but that's the point. Tom has been excluded from anthony's lists for this very thing. I am not in Jason Aldean's fanbase at all, but I never would've heard of him if it wasn't for this video.
jason aldean isn't just a grifter, he's also massively popular. he's worth calling out.
forgiatto blow does simply because it’s fucking catchy and i hate it for it
It sucks, half of these tracks are fascist nonsense. Melon should stop giving them sunlight even if it’s dunking on them
I had to work a show as a photographer with Falling In Reverse supporting A7X this year. During FIR's set, they did a cover of Smash Mouth's "All Star" filled with f bombs and him yelling at girls in the crowd.
It still sounded better than "Watch The World Burn".
It was the heaviest song he ever played that night! And the lights were all green!
Yo, Rocked! I love your vids, dude.
At least it wasn't as bad as FIR's Gangster's Paradise cover, lol.
*Insert unfunny played out joke about To Pimp a Butterfly here*
my pet rock died :(
Could’ve just posted the first half of that sentence & it would sum up his entire comment section
Fantano I'm very confused why all the songs on this list are TPAB songs considering you gave that album a 10/10
Finally the tides are turning
Thank you for saying this
I love the bit where you refer to Radke as a singer songwriter. Classic
peak comedy
Grimes is on her way to be everything ArtAngels doesn't have 😭
Elon ruins everything he touches😔
Art Angels was so good. Ugh I miss old Grimes.
Grimes didn't bathe whether or not Elon existed though@@wetlikewash8055
us grimes fans moved to yeule since.....
I think she’s just experimenting she’ll find her way back lol
I don’t particularly care for the Rich men north of Richmond song, but I think it being higher then the Boycott Target song is crazy.
Fr. Boycott target is HORRIBLE. At least the dude singing rich men can at least "sing" (I put that in quotes because he oversings like a mf)
he claims the songs about slavery. he is quite literally the only person who thinks that.
@@grantm2303he wrote the song so he chooses the meaning of the song
@@futileexistence6913art is up to the interpreter
@@stormblade2895 you definitely thought American psycho was about a big Chad alpha sigma doing big Chad alpha sigma things and not a mentality deranged individual
there are not 5 songs this year worse than Meghan Trainor's Mother and you know it
for me, at least rich men north of richmond is kind of a banger compared to other country tracks in this day and age. Regardless of the true political meaning, it doesn't enrage me like mother does
'I Would Hate Me Too' is worse.
I mean, if you want songs in general, the entirety of both the Blødúlvur and Kapnas albums are far worse. Blødúlvur may very well contain the worst music of all time; it is physically painful to listen to. even as a diehard metalhead who's loved her fair share of bricked records, that shit is SO badly mixed and devoid of any interesting riffage that it is the textbook definition of unlistenable.
Take the 2 hits Miley Cyrus had and that Last Night song and you're already over halfway there.
Idk i feel like the song inspiring people to lynch "them city folk *wink*" is a lot worse than an out of touch woman without original ideas or musical talent to back that lack up.
honorable mentions
0:30 BoyWithUke's Optimally Bad Song
1:02 Anna Indiana - Betrayed by This Town
1:57 Colleen Ballinger - Toxic Gossip Train
actual list
2:33 Donald J. Trump & J6 Prison Choir - Justice for All
3:33 Fall Out Boy - We Didn’t Start the Fire
4:57 Kodak Black - No Love for a Thug
5:43 Grimes & Illangelo - I Wanna Be Software
7:05 Meghan Trainor - Mother
8:06 Forgiato Blow - Boycott Target
9:27 Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond
11:26 Falling in Reverse - Watch the World Burn
13:04 TX2 - I Would Hate Me Too
14:08 Jason Aldean - Try That in a Small Town
Congratulations to Tom MacDonald for missing the cut
@@tylerchatham7093I’m honestly surprised him and Adam Calhoun didn’t make the list
@@daniellavaladez7820Fantano was just making him bigger when mentioning him 😂
@@tylerchatham7093 how did this horrible omission happen????
where is its getting hot by nle choppa
why is everyone in the comments so offended that he doesn't like conservative songs? He's allowed to have his own opinion, why do y`'all care
Cause they think they are owning liberals by going against it. Lmao
Yeah, what a bunch of snowflakes, triggered at anything and trying to cancel everyone who does anything that they remotely disagree with.
Man, you've been such a busy music nerd this year. Congrats to you on another year of music, RUclips, Drake, and all the rest. Hope you and yours are well. Thank you for listening to all the music so i don't have to. It really makes life easier.
A whole AJR album and not even a single song? Wow you must really love them.
Its not even that bad tbh
i unironically do not understand the ajr hate, they're really not that bad. nothing special sure, but perfectly fine and seem nice and genuine, and I've got a soft spot for a few tracks. i heard of them late so idk if their really early stuff is completely awful, but the last couple albums are decent enough
@@AndroJonny95listen to the song thirsty and you'll understand the hate
@@benliss1591within the first 15 seconds i started cracking up 😂😂😂😂 wow that’s something
@benliss1591 okay that is a bad song, and had i heard that first i probably wouldn't have bothered looking into them further, although that really doesn't seem representative of their more recent stuff, so my overall opinion hasn't changed. A lot of bands had some absolute trash in 2013, so i can't hold that against them too much 😂😂 but i do understand the hate a lil bit now, although still think it's overblown, their last couple albums are mediocre at worst, and pretty decent a lot of time time
Didn’t expect fantano to sing every song on the list, let alone hitting every note perfectly.
Huge shoutout to the small town of Macon, GA. Just the beloved one horse stopover of 120,000+ people, about an hour from Atlanta
Macon Bacon, baby
And a blue town at that.
What happened there?
@@Tyler12905 That's where Jason Aldean is from. But hey, at least NOW he lives in a small town, in a huge mansion on an island off the coast of Florida. Just a small town country boy, he is!
lmao@@RoguSpanish
Still amazing to think Toxic Gossip Train really happened.
The fact that Jason Aldean is one of the best selling country singers OF ALL TIME is a crime against humanity. That man is the Maroon 5 of country, and Try That In A Small Town is only a small taste of how boring and generic his music can get. If anything, the fact that the song is political automatically makes it more interesting than 99% of his music, even if the politics are awful. Big Green Tractor is a banger though, I’ll give him that.
He’s best-selling of all time mainly from “Dirt Road Anthem” I feel like.
In fairness to Jason Aldean, he almost certainly doesn't write his own songs, or decide how to market himself. He's just a product for mouthbreathers to consume.
idk, as much as i dislike him and that song, he DOES have some bangers…
@@marxman68964 different people helped write Try That In A Small Town loooooooooooooooooool
@@undercookedtoast1479 Well yeah, you didn't think a modern country artist had any, like, creativity or talent, did you?
DC is north of richmond. So the “Rich Men north of richmond” are the politicians. Although that dosen’t do much to make the song better it just shows that he isn’t really writin about like, rich corporations just congressmen
Anthony saying “boots the house down” is something I never knew I needed
He really ate when he said that lol
@@lexcbaybeeand that’s on periodt
Wtf does that even mean
Pat Finnerty's video on "Try That In A Small Town" was amazing. He ripped that song to pieces and it was well deserved.
Yeah it was genius!
It's an incredible takedown
Pat needs more love glad to see him mentioned here!
was just about to comment this
Yes
A title like “Betrayed By This Town” hints that it could be a dark alt-country story song, but AI ain’t there yet.
Somebody get Jeff Tweedy on this
Pat Finnertys “why this song stinks” about try that in a small town is 100% worth a watch, really sheds light on how derivative the song (not genre generecism, it’s kind of plagiarism in some places) is and why jason Aldean just isn’t a great musician/performer beyond the lyrics to that dumpster fire
He’s an awesome RUclipsr
but why does that warrant it being the worst song of the year? There are tons of rap music that is derivative as fuck, and talks about a lot more violent horrible shit than Aldean does.
It warrants it being the worst song of the year because of its overall messaging, and honestly you should a bit prejudiced@@AnonymousuomynonA
@@Bitbatgaming Yeah? What's the overall message of the hundreds of gangsterrap songs that talk about killing people, stealing, and dealing drugs?
@@AnonymousuomynonA you have a white hood in your closet. Not all raps songs are that and it’s very racist to assume.
Its a shame Back To Me by ¥$ hasnt dropped yet, because that songs either going in Anthony's worst songs list or best songs list, nowhere in between. Depends if he thinks the Kanye verse is absurdly hilarious and catchy or just lazy. Songs unique as that don't just fall out the sky, y'know.
I don't see anything about it to make his best songs list
That’s implying Kanye is going to release that album.
@@shashankdas4111 he litreally raps a line from jay and silent bob it's not meant to be taken seriously
@@shashankdas4111because he thought kanye’s verse on 4th dimension was funny and he liked it. could be the same for back to me.
Don’t think it would be. A lot more terrible songs dropped this year at least Back 2 Me has some redeeming quality. I personally enjoy the song!
"If you were nice that would make you special and interesting" so many people need to hear this
The blessed worst-of lists, one of my favorite Christmas gifts 🎁
Same
Billie Joel's version of we didn't start the fire was year by year, it was a masterpiece because every line lead into and rhymed with the next, actually bringing you through history... Fall out boy just listed a load of shit that happened in a 30 year timespan... Absolute hogs trollop
Meh
I thought it was good…
@@bamboozeledyt Agreed, but maybe just because I’m a FOB fan, I thought it was one of the best covers ever.
4:30 Just went and read the Fall Out Boy lyrics, and on one hand some of the word choices just feel clunky in comparison to the original, but on the other hand (the history nerd part of me), part of the appeal of the Billy Joel version is that the events/people/things that he names are generally in chronological order from about 1949-1989 (Billy's entire life up to that point and a huge chunk of the Cold War), so even though they could be just a collection of disparate names, there is a clear progression that you can follow (each verse section can generally be separated into decades, ie. Harry Truman, Doris Day, to Little Rock, Pasternak, and so on). Fall Out Boy jumps from the 1990s to the 2020s back to the 2000s every half a bar, and so it is just a disparate collection of names with no sense of forward progression. Thank you for coming to my impromptu lecture on why I don't like a particular aspect of a Fall Out Boy song.
In many years past the falling in reverse track would easily be the worst of the year but this year we got a truly special one.
I work at a concert venue and before Jason sang “Try that in a Small Town” he went on some massive rant about cancel culture and how the “woke mob tryin’ to censure me”
They are - wake the f*** up. The Dept of Justice is working with big tech companies to censure content they don't like. The FBI told Facebook that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't real when they knew it was -- just to protect Joe Biden from criticism before the election. This is not opinion. It's a matter of public record.
From a paid staged concert event, Jason was silenced.
It's not because of cancel culture, it's the governments and mainstream medias of the world that censors people.
I'm getting censored right now trying to post this comment. Before he even made that song, the people who are aware of censorship knows that what you said in that comment is true. He never coined it.
I think I had only heard the Grimes track out of these, and as terrible as that is, after checking out the other ones; the Grimes track sounds pretty good. Thank you Falling In Reverse!
Totally, it’s probably the most palatable of all the shit songs here. Not really saying much though, it’s still not good. Surprised the horrendous Fall Out Boy wasn’t way higher on the list
I still can’t fathom how Try That In A Small Town went number one, at least Seven blocked it from a debut at the top but it’s still crazy to me😭
What’s crazy bout it? U haven’t seen a song that softly promotes violence reach the top of the chart before?
The irony with Jason Aldean is that he’s spent much of his life in Nashville. Not exactly a small town.
In other words, a fraud.
He grew up in Macon, Georgia, which is also not a small town, and, conincidentally, the hometown of R.E.M.
@@professorofsneakology3964Hilarious when you consider that Macon is not only a large town but also is predominantly Black, which seems to be the demographic of “city folk” that he’s hinting to.
R.E.M. is actually not from Macon, though. They’re from Athens.
@prettybueno1255 you are absolutely right. I a. Not sure why I was thinking R.E.M. was from Macon. I should have done my research.
“Try that in a small town.”
Oh, they are trying, Jason. Meth addiction is rife in quite a few of them
Honestly I love the Grimes tune. I'm a sucker for old school synth pop and this has shades of Pet Shop Boys for me
It’s one of my favorite songs of 2023
Rich Men North of Richmond being higher than the Target song is sheer insanity. The Oliver Anthony song was based outside of the Fudge Rounds line.
Yeah but it also doesn't sound very good from a sonic perspective. Dude is oversinging like crazy.
Well the problem isn’t really the lyrics it’s the man behind it, who is batshit. Also the whole “north of Richmond” thing seems like a Neo confederate rallying cry
@@Mcxianyun What ? How ? What has the dude done ? North of richmond is literally DC.
From what he said the fudge rounds seems to refer to some government mishandling of funds.
Kinda wild to see you guys here though.
@@testacals he’s a conservative corporate plant trying to blame people on welfare for the country getting screwed over by capitalism
Huge Mark Wahlberg "I would have stopped 9/11" energy from that Jason Aldean track
Loved the carl wheezer impression at 13:24
putting rich men north of richmond at #4 is weird. a bland outlaw country song with a vaguely populist conservative slant is worse than boycott target????
Look up the two videos he made about the song. Fantano completely misunderstood the song, brought up some conspiracy theories and doubled down on it.
@@flilix1 yea i’ve seen them, it was a pretty bad interpretation of the song. i don’t mind him hating the song, i just feel like he put the song on this list for the wrong reasons
"Beep beep boop boop."
- Antony Fantano, 2023
Racist
What a pitiful rebuttal.
Man, Fantano triple-downed on the Rich Men song.
Dude, it’s not a North Vs South song, it’s about politicians and “rich men” in DC.
It’s really not that hard of a concept to grasp my guy.
Why are the rich male politicians fat manlets eating fudge rounds? Or is that not what that verse is referring to? Please, enlighten me
Exactly! His criticism is full of "whataboutism". He fails to grasp that people can be rich without being powerful. If you're a DC politician with money, you're rich and powerful and you have influence.
Yeah. I'm sure this conservative singer really care about rich people.
@@maxlap7855 yeah the super “conservative singer” that was at Burning Man this yr 😉
What's even worse about the Aldean song is that he isn't even from a small town and he didn't even write the lyrics (Jason Isbell mocked him for that).
I 'did not know that country songs were directly from the artist's diary. So Johnny Cash really did kill a bunch of guys and Willie Nelson's a badass cowboy? Does that mean that Ice Cube really smoked a bunch of gangstas with his ak-47? Cause if Jason has to live in a small town to write about a small town, then everyone has to live their art.
I am so glad TX2 is on here. Industry plant just sucking up streams from braindead aesthetic chasing teenagers on the same label as so many talented artists. It upsets me so much and I'm glad you took a minute to acknowledge that horse piss.
That Rich Men North of Richmond take was insane. Saying it’s worse then
1. The target song
2. Megan’s mother song
3. Every Tom McDonald track
4. National Anthem (Trumps Version)
5. Kodak falling asleep on the track
Is crazzzzzzzy
Grimes comes off as someone who wants to create cyberpunk art but doesn't understand what cyberpunk is. It's like she saw a still frame of Bladerunner and thought "That looks cool. :)" and has been trying to capture that essence ever since.
tbf I feel like that only really started being a prominent thing after getting with Musk, who your statement also applies to. Art Angels def isn't cyberpunk art, it's actually a damn solid album. She always had a bit of a thing for techno-futurism so having Elon Musk (this was before pedogate) want to date her must have seemed like a dream come true. Until he started getting abusive which culminated in kidnapping her children from her
Political music is so tiring. I don’t understand how anyone can like music that panders so much.
That's what I wonder...like do they even realize that that they're being extremely pandered to, or do they know and just not care? Lol it's so weird
I wonder if Anthony would have preferred rich men north of Richmond if it was about frivolous lawsuits against Sony?
I encourage everyone to listen to that "Justice For All" song. It is seriously uncanny..
When they say White People have no culture I point to this song. Checkmate
I'm not doing that but from the description melon gave I'm imagining something similar to an intro of something off one of ministry's bush-era albums
@@jimmy3people0everyone wants to be tom waits nowadays but nobody’s willing to replicate his drinking habit.
WTF... was the choir recorded over a jail phone?
I’ll admit I actually did like it
Hot take: Anthony is at his most entertaining to me when talking about the "worst" stuff.
Jason? The same guy who ran off the Vegas stage when shots were being fired, and didn’t tell anyone else to get down? Too big a town
I really don’t understand how rich man north of Richmond made it here way worst songs were released this year that deserve it more. It’s just a bland country song with a conservative lean to it. not anything to really care about
Anthony wants you to know he is a lefty with a huge ego and a supercilious demeanor. 😒
@tylere.8436 or he just didnt like it, definitely one of the two
@@carstenmoney920 He's being too personal and dishing out a lot of ad hominems.
@@tylere.8436 its not a deep dive, its just a year end list, music is a personal thing. He also says that he doesnt just like how it sounds
That Grimes track sounds like a Devry University commercial.
dumbest part of of jason aldean's beautiful track "try that in a small town" is that he himself has never lived in one 💀 mans really doesn't have a clue what he's talking about
What I can't get over is that Fall Out Boy got the lyrics out of chronological order.
That's, like, the conceit of the song. Each verse is a time capsule into a given decade or timespan.
Meanwhile they willy-nilly pushed thirty years into the blender and said 'eh, nobody will notice'
worst songs list drops while twitter is down, immaculate timing.
is it? so on brand nowadays
the precipitation of conservative brainrot in music over the past few years is truly astounding
W fr on how he kept his word when he said he would put "watch the world burn" in one of the worst songs 😭😭😭😭
You know what I think a good version of "We Didn't Start the Fire of our generation"...? Funny Feeling by Bo Burnham. Dude can be a bit tacky but I do feel that song fits the description.
All I took from this video is a clip of Anthony saying "boots the house down"
that Miranda sings song was actually for sale on iTunes for a little while, she only took it down after everyone called her out for it so its defs 'a single' in a way.
Glad to see major music content creators, like Fantano and Pat Finnerty, dunking on that Jason Aldean track in the best way possible.
The Rich Men North of Richmond song is not bad because of the people who like the song. You didn’t have any critiques about the actual song because it is simply not that bad
*Fudge rounds*
Yeah... I miss when people could not drag politics into everything
He’s so obsessed with politics nowadays that he can’t even make a list without half the songs being written by conservatives
@@MaceShyzmost don’t tbh. Fantano just can’t stop talking bout it after the Faber(prolly wrong spelling)article
maybe an odd thing to notice, but this video seems particularly well-lit, like you’re sitting under a skylight on a sunny day. good production 👍
I remember when I used to think Fantano and I had similar tastes those days are long gone
Obviously, you haven’t heard my music.
New viewer here. Is Anthony gay/lgbt?
He wishes
I miss when Fantano would focus more on the sound rather than picking most songs purely for the subject matter and lyrics. Even the ones that actually sound like they deserve to be in this list, he seems to care mostly about the lyrics.
@pyker1 if its not english he cant tell if the artist is a conservative or not :^)
as far as i can tell, 5/10 of these songs are purely here for the subject matter. one of which, the rich men song, isnt even so much about the song itself, but rather the fact that conservatives endorse it. the other 5 songs i would say make sense being here on sound alone, but even when discussing those ones, he focuses mostly on the lyrical content. you can criticise the lyrical content of songs, but like, i just dont really care anymore. i wanna hear some shit that offends my earholes not my political opinions.
it’s all political with Fantano nowadays
SexyRedd talks about robbing and murdering. He doesnt care at all. Even though ppl are dying, crime rates are heavy in these locations, he supports it. He loves it. He gives it a 8/10. ( not hating cause i liked quite a bit on that album)
But a country guy acting tough? A country guy talking about problems that, lets be real, lots of the world related to? Anthony breaks down the lyrics and makes a 20 minute video explaining how “this stuff doesnt even happen!” “Racist symbolism!” “Right-wing” Blah blah blah.
he always cared mostly about the lyrics wdym
Most "nerds" grow up to be beautiful artists, cool without trying, unique beings that we all obsess/lust over (or maybe it's just me). Grimes has Benjamin Buttoned TF outta that storyline though going from thr later to a try hard nerd that you're embarrassed to know.
I mean, Grimes came into my life as this weird girl who had that "Man Repellant"-style that was so fucking intriguing, while featuring Brooke Candy, in her metallic stripper R2D2 look with insane platforms and white girl dreads, in her music video. She produced weird ethereal sounds with hypnotizing beats while claiming her biggest inspiration was Mariah Carey (like, what the actual fuck??). So fucking good!
And now... this. She gives us this.😐😐😐
I blame Elon Musk. He fucking ruins everything.
get yourself around Allie X instead, and Poppy. They're who Grimes could have been
I’ll say the Plankton ai version of Toxic Gossip Train is veeeeeeeerrry listenable
Wait does this guy think only queer people can say mother
I find it odd how fair Anthony tends to be with artists he doesn’t personally like, but when he has political gripes, all objectivity goes out the window. The rich men north of richmond track was beyond overrated but even on the basis of his own critiques it is at worst a mediocre song
He will hate anything that rightwingers love, and love anything that they hate. He has kinda become like that these days and its annoying
There's practically nothing a person can be interested in that isn't tainted with politics there is no escaping it, I could tell right away this dude was going to be far from the exception, and it took no time whatsoever to confirm my suspicions. I did not make it to the end but it should not surprise me the RMNoR song made the list because of course it did.
@@Jeremyak It made the list, because that songs blows.
@@xstoofpeer Would you also find it annoying, if Anthony hated all things that people on the left love? Or would that be ok?
@@danielhudson5186 Fantano literally said the song isn't bad, so you're contradicting yourself
Ofc the most left-leaning man on the internet puts Jason Aldean and Oliver Anthony on “worst tracks”…. Oh and a donald trump track 😂😂😂 ofc. Putting politics before music taste.
Honestly tho as much as most of these tracks are pandering garbage (the Oliver Anthony song wasn't that bad tho) I rlly do find it obnoxious when he goes on with that stereotypical "liberal" talk of "evil right wing people" up front and throws these songs on which in a just world most of them would be easily ignored
@@V3r0nicleNot surprised anymore by these comments he throws out. I literally looked to see if he put this Oliver song on as soon as i clicked on the video. Like… WORST SONG?!
Also, Im a country fan, and I actually quite liked both of those songs. That Jason Aldean one, while not the most heartfelt, lyric heavy song, it has that Nickleback-catchiness to it where i catch myself singing it and not skipping it when it comes on even tho i know its kinda cheesy haha
When are you going to realize politics can be part of music if they are in the lyrics, wow mind blown I know
Anthony we know you’re bitter about Jpegmafia writing a diss track about you, but was there really any need to put BALD! on the worst list yet again?
I don't agree with you giving Trump the #1 song of the year just because you like his politics, but you do you Anthony
i’m saying this as a left-leaning individual: you didn’t even touch on the musical quality of RMNOR. fair enough if you think it’s a shitty song based on factors outside of the lyrics, or the technical quality of the lyrics, but all i’m seeing is someone upset at a songwriter having a differing opinion.
I’m probably politically aligned with Melon on most subjects.. but I think a bad song list should mostly come down to the tracks being musically inept and soulless - not just because they hold differing social and political views to ours. There are hundreds of trite, corporate songs out there that are written in boardroom committees and ‘performed’ by attractive people who don’t know much about the writing and musical process. It’s not art, it’s coldly cynical corporate business. I take more offence at these songs than somebody who can actually write and play music with conviction and emotion, even if I don’t agree with their political views.
as someone who is a HUGE Grimes fan and has been for the past 5 years, her music has become so soulless and unaware its baffling to me. Miss Anthropocene was one thing but songs like I Wanna Be Software and Shinigami Eyes had me genuinely shocked on how bad they were. listening to her older music sounds like a completely different artist. fingers crossed that somehow her next album will be better when it comes out in 80 years
The best drugs are in small towns
the fact that Hi-rez's 2+2=5 didn't even make it in as honorable mention makes me think that either Melon didn't listen to it, or refused to bring it up out of sheer human decency. If it's the latter, I don't blame him.
I dont understand how anyone could ever listen to you.
Great list!
As someone who agrees with AF’e politics, it’s kind of frustrating that this video is more an opportunity to politically grandstand than examine the ten worst hit songs.
But yeah that small town song is dog shit.
melon it's about music not politics
when the music approaches politics yeah it about it too, plus its just his opinions that includes politics he doesn't need to be "neutral"
@@maadkid i just feel like he's basing his decisions more on whether he personally agrees with the message rather than the musical aspect of it like he did back in the corey feldman days, but you're right if that's an essential part of his criteria then i guess it makes sense
@@quamneTHE MESSAGE IS IN THE MUSIC AND PART OF THE MUSIC how many times does someone have to say this before understanding the simplest thing ever
@@praisethefirstborn6226 me personally i don't have to agree with the message to enjoy a song
Watch the World Burn sounds like an especially bad Epic Rap Battles of History verse.
You’re torturing me by reminding me of Epic Rap Battles.
will there be another list for songs that sound bad instead of just mid songs about American politics
Here's the kicker: They sound really bad, too! Turns out you CAN have it all!
no, the same way there won’t be a negative Sexxyredd review because that would be putting down a strong independent black queen
@@slick3996 fuck off with this delusional take, imagine thinking he's defending someone for liking her music (which btw can be looked at in a non political sense bc it has nothing in the music)
Seems like your only hang up with the Oliver Anthony song is that it attracted a wide conservative audience, which I think is really unfair, especially considering the artist denounced those kinds of people. The lyrics aren’t specific to individual issues since they’re supposed to be widely relatable to the working class of America, liberal or conservative or anywhere in between. Just seems weird to call a quaint, well performed song with an unfortunate audience one of the ten worst songs of the year.
It has a lyric moaning about poor people on welfare, please shut up
Anthony what the hell. I can't believe you would do this. I just can't believe it. Seriously how could you pull something like this. Unbelievable.
Bro, i can't believe you missed the utterly terrible chop suey cover by lil uzi vert. It's a level of lazy I've almost never seen before and it sounds like garbage
Really wish Lil Pump's Pump Rock x Heavy Metal was on here
That song is horrible
I dont think the oliver anthony song deserves to be on here, its just mediocre, theres definitely worse songs that could have taken its place
Lol still somehow misinterpreted the Oliver Anthony song. The problems the songs highlights are very clear. Just a sad analysis man.
He doesnt care. He’s just not a very good music critic when confronted with people he dislikes. Its not a good song but its not top 10 worst….
chronically online vibes w this one
edit: i couldn't escape that "try that in a small town" song. live in rural usa and that shit was on the radio 24/7. first time i heard it i was like no way he's saying that on a song. the whole song is unpatriotic as fuck. "try using your first amendment in a small town, see how far you make it"
Is this list about the music or politics?
Lukewarm Iq
Wow 4 out of 10 of your worst songs were conservative based. Someone got a topic living rent free? 😂😂😂
I was actually surprised that Toxic Gossip Train wasn’t your number one
Anthony, seriously, not a joke. The fact that you have to talk about Politics shows a problem in itself. The past few "worst song" year end lists have just been you "dunking" on conservatives and it's pretty boring, while also making these less fun to rewatch because they're dated in like 1 year.
Have they considered making better “art”
@@lukeferetti6353 Its just a half baked 4Chan greentext level thinkpiece over some mediocre soundcloud B side instrumental at best. Giving it attention only serves to perpetuate its existence. If Anthony really had no other reason to do this every single year, he would just ignore them.
A new edition of “5 terrible popular songs, and 5 stupid conservative songs that no one has heard of but I need to get my opinion out on”
2 of them were #1 hits tàrd
@@Dogy0909 I said 5 of them were known popular songs, need help reading? :(