Tired of all those year-end “best-of” lists? Well here’s the antidote: Variety has put together a “Worst Songs of 2024” list, and some well-known names are on it.
“Been Like This,” Meghan Trainor‘s collab with one of her musical heroes, T-Pain, is on the list. Variety says that it isn’t “offensively awful,” but that it “lacks depth and soul.”
It’s harder on Jason Derulo and Michael Bublé‘s collab “Spicy Margarita,” writing, “If it seems Jason Derulo has released the same song multiple times for the last 10 years, it’s because he has … comparing a woman you met in Cabo to a spicy margarita is also such a ‘been there, done that.'”
Camila Cabello‘s collab with Playboy Carti, “I Love It,” is criticized for the rapper’s unintelligible mumbling and Camila’s repetition of the title phrase. “The whole track is less terrible than it is just hilarious,” writes Variety.
“I Don’t Wanna Wait” by David Guetta and OneRepublic makes the list for being “generic.” Also, writes Variety, “The year 2010 called and it wants its sound back.”
“Now or Never,” which features Pitbull rhyming over Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life,” is described by Variety as either “a calculated attempt at expanding [the rapper’s] demographic” or “both artists’ attempts at striking soundbite heaven or TikTok gold.”
JoJo Siwa’s attempt to reinvent herself as “edgy” with the song “Karma” is called “tepid” and “2011-sounding.” And Variety takes Ice Spice to task for her “flailing and vapid delivery” on the song “Think U the S*** (Fart).”
And of course, Katy Perry’s “Women’s World” is included. Variety calls it “tone-deaf” and “woefully out of step with the times,” with a “lyrical construct [that’s] about as creative as singing the ABCs.” Ouch.
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