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  • Lisa Gail Allred, a country "singer" from Texas who hilariously boasts that she sounds like Shania Twain and Faith Hill, and not like Kim Kelly's mom on Freaks and Geeks.
    • Her most (in)famous song is "3 Second Rule", a bizarre dance-country hybrid with dopey lyrics telling the narrator's significant other to "only look [at other women] for three seconds". Her voice is flat, nasal, and off-key, the backing vocals on the bridge sound like someone imitating SpongeBob, and the musical accompaniment is a limp backing beat that probably took ten seconds to churn out in GarageBand. The video is no better, showing Allred as a "teacher" to a classroom full of cowboys, none of whom look like they want to be there. Some critics and sites compared her unfavorably to "Friday".
    • Her ReverbNation page includes music of equally horrid nature, including tone-deaf covers of "Santa Baby", Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing" (a song noted as one of the prime examples of Incredibly Long Note in Country Music), and Heidi Newfield's "Johnny & June", along with insipid originals such as "Coffee or Tea". She supposedly had equally-wretched covers of LeAnn Rimes' "Blue" and Terri Clark's "Dirty Girl" and "You're Easy on the Eyes" (which was misspelled "Your Easy on the Eyes") on her ReverbNation page at one point, but they were taken down.
  • Animae Capronii, the solo Christian black metal project of Italian musician Cesare Sannino. He is incredibly prolific, releasing eight full-length albums in 2008 alone, but all his releases have the same faults: atrocious sound quality, powerless and frequently off-key vocals, badly-programmed drums, failed attempts at integrating keyboards (which sound like a $10 Casio) into the music, and clashing and dissonant melodies. Despite having been releasing music since 2003, he has never shown any sign of improving as a musician. Sannino stopped making black metal in 2015 and began performing power metal under the name Trust Your Heart... and it isn't any better.
  • Not even in the ever-polarizing niche of Harsh Noise is there any love for Arseterror. His body of work hides behind the industrial roots and anything-goes nature of the genre, to excuse tacking weak attempts at being shocking onto recordings with no vision beyond his mission statement of "annoying art [snobs] and hipsters." Songs often consist of repetitive, disorganized, self-indulgent noodlings, or else limp, talentless imitations of famously abrasive musicians—all rendered and recorded on very poor equipment. Even at his peak, he couldn't get released on all but the least discerning labels; everyone he ever worked with would go on to swear him off. He has since had to self-release and self-promote just to get anything out, and has thus been kicked off numerous websites for threatening his critics with rape, among other things.
  • Paolo Chiavator is a now-forgotten Italian internet personality who was also known by his alias 869 (a lame play on 883 and LOL, 69). Being tied with popular comedy metal band Prophilax (he was their sound engineer and webmaster, and the moniker "Chiavator" was taken from their former drummer, also named Paolo), he made songs and dubs that resembled their trademark gross-out sexual humor a bit too much; the dubs are objectively bad, but still entertaining enough to earn a moderate fanbase, while the songs are so terrible that nowadays they're hard to find, either because he had them taken them down out of shame or because they were removed for offensive content.
    • As "869", he was active from the late 90s to the start of the '00s. His songs were hosted on a website linked to Prophilax's, and they were horrible beyond belief. He sang over MIDI files of random songs (including cartoon theme songs) in a horrid off-key and off-tempo voice, sometimes with random pitch-shifting that makes lyrics hard to understand. The songs were overfilled with gratuitous blasphemies, cursing, vulgar sex slang, and very obscure and unexplained references, and shamelessly plagiarized lyrics from Prophilax. With their total lack of direction, (sometimes a song would stop dead in its tracks to spout out Paolo's unfunny sex jokes... or even more blasphemy) they fail to go over with even non-Italian speakers.
    • "Sexy Shop" starts with an angry customer being ripped off at a sex shop, and after raping the shopkeeper swerves into a string of insults directed at The Pope. Obviously, the shift is very jarring and happens without rhyme or reason, and it ends with a half-sung skit of him ranting aimlessly, with really bad impressions of the Pope and an old lady.
    • His worst song from that era could be "Nerkia Spropositata" (approx. "Oversized Kök"), which not only has indiscernible lyrics with ear-grating pitch-shifted vocals, but it sounds like both the backing track and the vocals were recorded with a broken microphone in an empty hallway. The track is made even more unbearable with loud belching and the usual random vulgarity, including a skit that substitutes it for a punchline.
    • "Hit Bestemmia" is even more preposterous, with Paolo spewing curse words over a MIDI version of "Blue" and doing nothing else with it.
    • As "Paolo Chiavator", he developed a self-indulgent, sex-fixated persona, and his songs didn't improve in the least: from a song that just straight-up insults the late Mother Teresa with no ending or trace of humor, to a horribly written song about anal sex that leans even harder (if that were possible) on the pointless blasphemy, and a godawful off-key vocal cover of "Le Tagliatelle di Nonna Pina", that showcases his nonexistent musical and acting skills. After a brief hiatus, he started making new material in the early 2010s, and they were better received, but after that, he seemed to have vanished from the web, until his unexpected return in 2021, when he started publishing dubs again.
  • Michal "Misha" Florian is a singer from the Czech Republic whose songs can be found on his YouTube channel, formerly named Mishovy Šílenostinote . Said songs (if they can even be called that) are horribly sung, obnoxious, and pretentious. He is also known for his inability to take criticism that shows up in many of his songs, which only adds to his egotism. The latter traits are taken to ridiculous heights in his diss tracks against his haters. Suspiciously, most his songs have "FOR KIDS" written on them, despite him singing about adult themes that would be normally considered unacceptable for his likely target audience (he often wears an uncensored "FUCK" cap in his videos). It's unknown if Misha is serious or not, with some speculating that his channel may actually be an elaborate joke by his older brother Metadon.
    • His most infamous song is about how much he enjoys Pokémon GO, and the lyrics are utterly banal, repetitive, and simplistic to the point that it's hard to defend even though he was only nine years old at the time, and even other kids don't enjoy it. The only good that came from this song is its use as a Running Gag in SiIvaGunner's Bait-and-Switch videos, which emphasize the competent - if still annoying - melody behind Misha's obnoxious voice.
    • After his Pokémon Go song got poked at by people such as Pyrocynical and LeafyIsHere, he released a song aimed at them. Said song is nothing more than a lazy diss track towards them, consisting mainly of calling them, along with RiceGum and Keemstar of DramaAlert, "cancer" and "retards"...just because they didn't like his music. It's made even worse by the fact that the latter two hadn't made any videos about Misha before he released the track or even seemed to know who he was at all, and even though the four YouTubers mentioned enough are very contentious in the internet community, even their detractors thought his song was poorly done.
    • After Misha's diss track was flooded with hate, he came out with another diss track, this time directed at his haters. Much like the song released before it, it features lazily made Take Thats at his haters ("You tried to bully me, but now, I make more money than your mother!"), as well as Misha declaring himself as the "next Justin Bieber" as he proceeds to mock well-known YouTube users such as Filthy Frank and Jacksepticeye. The diss track comes off as being insipid and plain laughable. It doesn't help mentioning that the soppy beat (which consists of none other than a repeated guitar riff alongside a small breakdown in the middle of the song) is nearly nonexistent. The video doesn't help, either: It shows Misha going around Prague as a Chick Magnet stealing girls from their boyfriend, all of whom seem to be way older than him. Near the end, Misha does a dance by a fountain with his brother doing a guitar solo, before cutting off to Misha Flipping the Bird to his haters. Akin to the last two tracks mentioned, it ended up putting a sock into Misha's Dear Negative Reader songs... for a while.
    • Then Misha came back with a rap song sung in Czech once again dedicated to his haters. He completely lets his It's All About Me attitude flow through the song, most of which is him guilt-tripping about how everyone has supposedly bullied him the entire year (but the amount of glamour in the video, including the fact he has g-men accompanying him and a suitcase of money, would make you think otherwise), all put under a repetitive bass sound. Even in his native language, where his voice is more natural and less broken, Misha still sounds off-key and as whiny as ever. The backlash of the song has been so fierce that Misha has had to disable the rating system for said video, although it hasn't stopped the comments section.
    • Not even Misha's parody songs are much better. An example is "I'M VEGAN, DEATH TO ALL MEAT EATERS!" - a Straw Vegan Misha declaring death to all meat-eaters (using arguments such as "meat-eaters live shorter lives", and for some reason he later says "pigs are more intelligent than three-year-old kids"). Once again, the song is filled with repetition, constant title drops, and a rather lousy rock instrumentation that sounds like what someone could piece together in 30 minutes using a generic sound system.
    • "THE BEST LEAGUE OF LEGENDS SONG!!!", which praises League of Legends while giving a feeble Take That! to its competitor, Defense of the Ancients. His claim that "Dota is for little children" is ridiculous in more than one way: Misha himself would fall under the umbrella of "little children", his videos' titles imply that they're targeted towards said demographic, and it's bordering on Blatant Lies as DotA is known for being much more complex and difficult to play than League of Legends, which would make it less appealing to younger players (if he wanted to insult DotA's player base, it would have made much more sense to make the opposite accusation, that they're stuck-up old-school elitists). The lyrics contain poor grammar, such as "Every time when I'm the best with so many kills in the row". He also complains about Russian players. This is all on top of the usual flaws with Misha's music.
    • "Trump Vs. Hillary" is marginally better than his other songs on a musical level, but is nonetheless one of the most insipid takes on the 2016 US presidential election. First is the song's manipulative tone, pandering to US viewers by echoing their sentiments on the election, then telling them to "vote for" or otherwise support Misha as he flaunts his pride.
    • Despite singing "fuck Donald Trump" in the aforementioned "Trump Vs. Hillary", Misha made another election-themed song called "Donald Trump for President", presumably purely for the sake of offending people who dislike Trump. The song might very well be Misha's worst to date, as it consists entirely of him yelling the song's title over a generic electronic music loop.
    • All this being said, his later songs are more listenable, and he has since released a serious music album in 2021, entitled Not the One, which shows some considerable improvement.
  • Flos Mariae was a band of Catholic sisters (Bellido Durán) who made the group as a promise to the Virgin Mary if their mother was healed from a malignant tumor. The problem is that their songs are bland and most of the women sing out of tune. The electronic enhancements accentuate the shoddiness of both the singers and the songs themselves are so poorly put together that they ruin the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and so overdone that they lose any seriousness. The video clips are unimaginative and flat. A notable song of theirs, "Viva el Papa" (Long Live the Pope) has off-putting singing and a cringeworthy descent of notes. In 2021, as a result of a dispute among the sisters, Flos Mariae split into two groups, Mariah's Pop and 4HBD, both just as atrocious as their predecessor.
  • Franchi$e dBaby. At best, he encompasses every negative cliché about white rappers plus every negative cliché about party rappers. At worst, he comes off as a less talented (and infinitely less likable) version of Wesley Willis. His beats are at least competent (likely because they were made by someone else), but he clearly doesn't care at all about his rapping (he even says so in a couple of songs). At several points, he stops singing entirely and just pants heavily into the microphone. If you dare, check out his only released album. Highlights include "Spencer Mayo Swag", "Bomb Ass Pussy", and the almost So Bad, It's Good "Boat".
  • Girls With Attitude was a group of session singers from Cambridge, Ontario, that consisted of preteen girls who sounded like they were on the verge of dying singing/talking about preteen life, combined with poor electronic instrumentation. They could have been a modern version of The Shaggs if they had any of the charm. Their most well-known song from their only album, "Don't Judge Me", just shows this - the lyrics are mundane at best and Padding at worst (the chorus is just them introducing themselves), the "singers" sound uninterested, and they're backed by a bored-sounding wah-wah synth so off-key and off-tempo that it sounds like it's from a different song.
  • Melbourne-based "rapper" Raed Melki has drawn scorn from an enormous amount of people, many of whom argue that his output doesn't even qualify as music. Why? Because it consists of cheap, pre-programmed beats that often seem to change direction abruptly and for no reason, over which Raed spouts a nearly incoherent mess of lyrics that seem to be improvised on the spot and stumbled over to catch up to the background music, and display no consistent rhyme scheme, if there's any at all. This, combined with his occasional rebuttals of critical comments, in posts consisting of a virtually indecipherable medley of expletives and bizarre colloquialisms, has led some to believe he may be insane, and the worst part of all is that they're not even the only reasons - in 2001, he called in a bomb threat to a casino.
  • Ostie is the black metal solo project of a man simply named "Prince Grothmer the Cruel ov Cobaltia" from Toronto. He's been involved in ten album releases since his start in 2012. His albums have received two reviews on Metal-Archives: a 1% and a 2%. His "screams" are quiet rasps into a microphone, mixed louder than anything else on the track. His lyrics are ridiculously over-the-top, with lines such as "You'll be frozen with hate". The backing music is a drum machine and what sounds like a guitar being tuned. To say that people are still unsure if he's serious or not is an understatement - some people think he's doing it as a joke, but his social media profiles appear to be completely serious. One reviewer even said that he hopes Ostie continues on, not because he likes it, but because he wants to see how much worse the music could possibly get.
  • Savage is allegedly an 80s-style Hair Metal band. In reality, it's just a guy named Scott Savage (not to be confused with the Jars of Clay drummer) and a bunch of session musicians. The background music is boring, which wouldn't be so bad if he himself weren't incredibly off-key and his lyrics weren't absolutely horrid. He produces and mixes the recordings himself, bungling everything from the mic placement to the sound quality to the post-production. Also of note, his promotion - "band" photos are just photographs of famous bands with himself photoshopped onto one of them, and he attributes his own reviews of his own albums to famous musicians as well.
    • To his credit, his 2014 album shows some improvement. His vocals seem to be more competent and the lyrics are far less puerile. On top of that, unlike a lot of the artists listed here, he appears to be a lot more humble about the negative reception. He has stated multiple times that he only does music as a hobby and doesn't take himself terribly seriously as an artist, which explains some of the weird imagery and album covers.
  • In 2004, a young lad known only as "Shadow of Death" sought to shake the metal world through his music as Apocalypse. He is regarded by metalheads everywhere as one of the worst. How bad is he? His most famous demo, Upon the Crimson Rivers, has 7 reviews on Metal Archives, with an average rating of 3%. The production is non-existent, the instrumentation is screwed up in ways previously unimaginable, and he doesn't as much sing as whisper hoarsely. If you're still interested, then go over here and remember - curiosity killed the cat.
  • Submarine Man is an American rapper who began recording in 2018. All of his tracks follow the same pattern: making bad parodies of rap hits, mentioning his foot fetish (and eating dog poop), heavily using Auto-Tune to the point of Sensory Abuse, and repetitive beats. His album covers are very cheaply made with Plotagon and Microsoft Paint. He claims to have been born in 1993, but sounds over a decade younger. Submarine Man's most infamous track is "Sese" by 6ix9ine, on which he guest starred with Lama Doodle and Footye North. The track was actually made without 6ix9ine's involvement, using audio clips of him from Instagram. Submarine Man has a user score of 11/100 on Album of the Year.
  • David Tanny is a notoriously unfunny novelty musician who has spent more than ten years "rapping" monotonously to bad MIDI tunes in an effort to get his music on The Dr. Demento Show, which he is a major fan of. The man was so desperate to get people to like his music, he took one of his earliest albums and re-released it with a Laugh Track.
  • Jan Terri. Her music will make you want to run screaming into traffic. She's tone-deaf as hell, her lyrics sound like they were written by a 12-year-old girl, her music videos are poorly made and boring, and she just doesn't realize just how untalented she is. The best thing to happen to her was Marilyn Manson feeling sorry for her and letting her open for one of his gigs. Besides that, she's usually forgotten... well, except the occasional person on the internet that makes fun of her videos.
    • The truTV program World's Dumbest... had lots and lots of fun with her song and music video for "Excuse My Christmas", on an episode of "World's Dumbest Performers". One comment (about a trio of amateurishly-drawn animated "Mexicans" with moustaches and wearing sombreros) stated that said piece of "animation" was too crude to be offensive.
  • Thrash Queen, easily the worst possible start for all-girl thrash with one of the most awful heavy metal albums under their belt. Strangely, their label still attempted to cash in on their name with a bunch of session musicians; the quality's better, but not in the way the producers hoped.
  • WoahhVicky, a social media personality best known for pretending to be black, has also released some horrendous songs:
    • This diss of YouTuber RiceGum. The entire chorus consists of Vicky making a shamelessly racist joke about his Asian ancestry and it just goes downhill from there. The racism is actually one of the more tolerable parts of the song because it's actually understandable words; the rest of it consists of Vicky mumbling incoherently over a generic trap beat. As Pyrocynical put it, "If you can understand a single word she says, you're lying." The song received so much hate it got taken down on Vicky's official YouTube channel, but not before several mirrors of the video had been made, exposing her lack of talent to even more viewers.
    • A few months later, Vicky dropped another diss track on Danielle Bregoli, better known as Internet celebrity and rapper Bhad Bhabie (who, while a contentious personality in the Internet community, does have legitimate fans who enjoy her music). In this track, Vicky still displays a complete lack of ability to enunciate properly and is ridiculously off-beat. Most of the YouTube comments are complaining something along the lines of "rap is dead" or asking when the English version of the song is coming out.

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