History Horrible / Music

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-->--'''Hank Hill''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop, and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it[[note]]Todd in particular mostly reviews songs that, regardless of how awful they are, are far too popular to qualify[[/note]], nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural), to list it. Once it is listed, however, they can provide the detailed review.

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop, and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural), to list it. Once it is listed, however, they can provide the detailed review.

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows [[note]](Todd mostly reviews songs that, regardless of how awful they are, are far too popular to qualify anyways)[[/note]], WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop, and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural), to list it. Once it is listed, however, they can provide the detailed review.

# Try to find a sample on Website/YouTube if possible for a song or work in question. It really helps get some perspective to see if a work qualifies for this or not. Many artists may remove their original post if they find the overwhelmingly negative feedback coming from a song, so if the song is deleted try to find an alternate link (if possible).

-->-- '''Hank Hill''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''

No, we're not making fun of the songs you sing while you're in the shower. However, if you sang any of ''[[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible these]]'' songs in the shower, then ''[[RussianReversal the shower]]'' [[EvenTheDogIsAshamed would make fun of you]]. Just remember that the difference between music and noise is often purely subjective (even more so here). Besides, calling music like this noise is [[InsultToRocks an insult to the very concept of sound itself.]]

# When judging sales, keep certain facts in mind -- for one, even a gold record can be considered a commercial failure if [[ToughActToFollow the previous record by the artist sold triple platinum]].
# When considering music for this list, do some research and see if the album/band has had an important role in the development of a genre, subgenre, musical era, etc. For example, Music/LouReed's ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'', despite being critically panned, helped form NoiseRock and {{Shoegazing}}, along with being considered the UrExample of Noise Music. The more experimental works of Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno, ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'', ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' and ''Music/WeddingAlbum'', are also spared, as they were a major influence on the AvantGardeMusic genre. This also applies to classical music as well, where ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' is hailed as a musical milestone, though it's quite an uncomfortable one, and the works of Arnold Schoenberg show the composer's shift from harmony to atonality.

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows[[note]]Todd mostly reviews songs that, regardless of how awful they are, are far too popular to qualify anyways.[[/note]], WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural), to list it. Once it is listed, however, they can provide the detailed review.

# When considering music for this list, do some research and see if the album/band has had an important role in the development of something else. For example, Music/LouReed's ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'', despite being critically panned, helped form NoiseRock and {{Shoegazing}}, along with being considered the UrExample of Noise Music. The more experimental works of Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno, ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'', ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' and ''Music/WeddingAlbum'', are also spared, as they were a major influence on the AvantGardeMusic genre. This also applies to classical music as well, where ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' is hailed as a musical milestone, though it's quite an uncomfortable one, and the works of Arnold Schoenberg show the composer's shift from harmony to atonality.

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows,[[note]]Todd, in particular, mostly reviews songs that, regardless of how awful they are, are far too popular to qualify.[[/note]] WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. Once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.
# Try to find a sample on Website/YouTube if possible for a song or work in question. It really helps get some perspective to see if a work qualifies for this or not. Many artists may remove their original post if they find the overwhelmingly negative feedback coming from a song, so if the song is deleted try to help out by finding an alternate link (if possible).

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# Try to find a sample on Website/YouTube if possible for a song or work in question. It really helps get some perspective to see if a work qualifies for this trope or not. Many artists may remove their original post if they find the overwhelmingly negative feedback coming from a song, so if the song is deleted try to help out by finding an alternate link (if possible).

# It is neither horrible music just because WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows[[note]]Todd, in particular, mostly reviews songs that, regardless of how awful they are, are far too popular to qualify[[/note]], WebVideo/TheRapCritic, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop and/or any other CausticCritic reviewed it, nor is it horrible just because it has a flood of negative reviews on Amazon.com. There needs to be independent evidence, such as actual critics (emphasis on plural) for example, to list it. Once it is listed, they can provide the detailed review.

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* The late Daniel Smith was widely regarded as an impressive composer, a good musician, and a great writer where music theory is concerned. As an improv bassoonist, not so much. He got laughed out of every orchestra he'd auditioned for thanks to poor rhythm and articulation, his inability to find the right notes or tune his instrument properly, and his poor improvisation. His ratings on Amazon.com are consistent 1 or 2 star ratings, most of which have only been slightly boosted by fake reviews. What's tragic is that he seemed to be quite a knowledgeable composer and teacher, but he was just not a very good instrumentalist. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0WCx1IcE4 Take a listen]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMnDO4fzlk for yourself.]]
* In general, almost every record company and/or radio DJ has to wade through mountains of amateur musicians looking for their big break. While they do, occasionally, find some genuinely good (or, at least, potentially good) candidates, [[SturgeonsLaw most of these submissions are ear-bleeding crap]] with embarrassingly incompetent musicianship and horrid songwriting. In fact, actor Creator/PaulRudd, when recounting his days as a radio DJ during an interview about his movie ''Film/ThisIs40'', briefly described what he found to be foolproof signs of disposable music submissions. For example, if the band described themselves as being "a lot like Music/PearlJam," their submission was immediately tossed in the garbage ([[BiasSteamroller and not just because Paul Rudd doesn't like Pearl Jam]]).
* '''[[http://www.nepanewsletter.com/best “Greatest Songs of the Pop-Rock-Alternative-Garage Era”]]''' and its subsequent worst list, which could be described as AOL Magazine's list (see below for more details) if it was rewritten by a person with a great disdain of North American music. To give you a start - The lists often praise many UK-based singers while bashing any artist from North America or nearby (Creator/BobSeger and Creator/TomPetty especially). Meanwhile, the greatest list includes 125 songs by Music/TheBeatles (they aren't even listed, so they could literally be ANY Beatles songs, even their more polarizing songs) and 33 songs by Music/TheCure (also not listed), which appears to be a dire case of {{Padding}}. In addition, there is also the author's [[CriticalResearchFailure blatantly incorrect claims]] (during one part, he claims [[BlatantLies The Cure's music is banned in North America]], yet you can hear their music on many oldies stations), which add up to the suspicion that the person really hates North American music (despite the fact the site claims to be from north-eastern Pennsylvania). The worst part may very well be the fat jokes the author makes about the girls of Music/{{Heart}} while bashing their music, or the fact that they compare American broadcasters to [[GodwinsLaw Nazis]] for playing American music (calling it brainwashing to play John Mellancamp over Music/JoyDivision).

!!Music Magazines and Books
%% In order by book or magazine title. %%
* The now taken down AOL Radio's '''"100 Worst Songs Ever"''' list by classic rock fan Matthew Wilkening (who went on to become the founder and editor-in-chief for the website Ultimate Classic Rock, which has a much better reputation than this list does), which can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110707152046/http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/09/11/worst-songs/?icid=main archived here]]. The list seems to have been sloppily made with a single, lousy purpose in mind - to show the creator's obsessive hatred of pop music, and is filled with {{Padding}}. Each song's passage about it is completely uninformative and non-descriptive as to why the song is terrible (e.g. the whole piece on "This is Why I'm Hot" by MIMS is "First off, he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much. Second, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment he repeats 'This is why I'm hot' too much]]"), and the author [[BiasSteamroller sometimes completely lets his preferences for classic rock musicians and distate for pop music in general slide through in certain passages]]. It doesn't help that list is larded with several songs that are totally questionable, such as novelty songs he takes too seriously, songs the author misunderstands (he [[CriticalResearchFailure totally misinterprets the story in "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree"]] -- it's about a prisoner returning home, not a soldier), several number-one hit songs (such as the theme tune to ''Series/{{Friends}}''), and finally, the song at the top of the list is [[Series/JerseyShore DJ Pauly D's]] "(It's Time to) Beat Dat Beat", indicating how rushed the list is. The author also tries to, and completely fails at, cracking jokes in the paragraphs (with the worst one being a tastelessly sexist TakeThat at Helen Reddy's "''I Am Woman''").
* '''''The Encyclopedia of Indie Rock''''' is an insult to anyone who has ever written an archive based on artists. [[RougeAnglesOfSatin It's filled with grammatical errors and awkward wording.]] Also, it's not uncommon for authors to get their facts wrong every now and then, [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer but this one has so many glaringly obvious factual errors that it makes you wonder if the book is a parody of encyclopedia books in general.]] The many errors include:
** Confusing which members of At The Drive-In formed the bands Sparta and Music/TheMarsVolta.
** Including entries on James Blunt and Flyleaf, neither of which could be considered indie rock at all (the book's introduction tries - and fails - to convince readers that these artists ''are'' indie rock).
** A passing mention that an associate of the band Music/CamperVanBeethoven had recorded an acoustic version of "Music/PinkFloyd's classic "[[Music/LedZeppelin Stairway to Heaven]]". Aside from the misattribution, it appears that the book managed to conflate Camper Van Beethoven's "Stairway To Heavan (Sic)"—an instrumental that's completely unrelated to the Led Zeppelin song of almost the same name—with their cover of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive".
*** In the same entry, there is a reference to a "new" Camper Van Beethoven song called "Tusk" which "might be an allusion to the Music/FleetwoodMac album of the same name". This was apparently a mangled reference to the band's 2002 full-length cover of the entire ''Tusk'' album.
** Claiming that J Mascis left Music/DinosaurJr. in 1988 (Lou Barlow was the member of the band to leave, and he was fired… by Mascis, who by 1994 was in fact [[IAmTheBand the only original member remaining]] in the band until the original lineup reunited in 2005).
** There was a mention that Dischord Records was founded in 1970 (ten years before it actually was) that can be attributed as a typo, but listing Music/NeutralMilkHotel's ''In The Aeroplane Over The Sea'' as being released in 2003 rather than 1998 has no excuse.
** Chris Funk of Music/TheDecemberists appeared on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', "hosted by Creator/StephenColbert, ''star'' of the NBC ''dramedy'' ''Series/TheOfficeUS''". First of, the wrong "[[Creator/SteveCarell Steve]]" is described. They were on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' at the same time at one point which, without fact checking, [[OneSteveLimit might have been the problem]].
*** Also, ''The Office'' has no more dramatic moments than any other sitcom.
** In the Music/SonicYouth entry, it's mentioned that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore divorced in the early 2000s (Gordon and Moore split in 2011, but when the book was published, they had been married for over 20 years. The indie rock couple that divorced in the early 2000s was Robert Schneider and Hilarie Sidney of The Apples in Stereo).
** The sentence "The Music/NineInchNails won a Grammy for their cover of Music/JohnnyCash's classic song 'Hurt'". It was their song to begin with, ''Cash's'' version was the cover. Of course, since the release of Cash's cover in 2002, [[CoveredUp this has been an]] [[NewerThanTheyThink astonishingly common mistake]] by media types. Nine Inch Nails never received a Grammy for the song either. They won a Grammy award for "Wish", back in 1993, which was mainly used as a source for SelfDeprecation by Trent Reznor.
*** Also, NIN plays ''industrial'' rock, not indie rock. [[IAmTheBand Moreover, it's not a they]], up until 2016 at least.
%% In order by book or magazine title. %%

!!Music Videos
%% In order by song name. %%
* The stars of ''Series/MiamiVice'' both bombed horribly when they attempted solo music careers, and their music videos were no exception:
** While the quality of Don Johnson's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk "Heartbeat"]] is debatable, the music video is just ''terrible''. It was originally part of an hour-long HBO special. Focusing on a cameraman (Johnson) who goes to South America to document civil warfare, the special still doesn't make much sense, as each segment of the special was backed by a song from Johnson's album. Taken by itself, "Heartbeat" is a confusing mess of random images and scenes, along with Johnson painfully overacting every lyric. There's a reason why this special has never been released, and "Heartbeat" is the triggerpoint. When Creator/{{MTV}} did a "worst videos ever" special ("25 Lame") in 1999, this was the video that "topped" the list.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84tlNzppyw "Just the Way I Planned It"]] by Philip Michael Thomas premiered on the VHS release of his seminal film ''Death Drug'', and by all accounts it's still hard to decide which one's worse. "Just the Way I Planned It" featured an inexplicable concept (PMT stands on top of a pyramid and dances like a robot while getting groped by backup dancers), cheap special effects (even for the '80s), and lyrics that didn't match the video in any way, shape, or form. It should be noted that Thomas' CD (of the same name) was released at the zenith of ''Vice''[='s=] popularity, and it ''still'' flopped.
* On a musical level, Jenna Rose's "O.M.G" was a considerable step up from "My Jeans". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1VVT3xTBb0 The video]], however, is utterly reprehensible, given that she was only twelve years old when she filmed it. From the opening crawl of "Jenna Rose as the Teen Boom-Boom Doll," you know what it's going to be from the start -- three lengthy, unsettling minutes of an adolescent girl being portrayed as a sex symbol. On top of that is the apathetic acting (the lip-sync hardly tries to be convincing, and the backup dancers appear at points to really not want to be there) and a lighting technician who has no idea what he's doing.
* The utterly contemptible video for Alison Gold's "[[https://vimeo.com/87515710 Shush Up]]", attempts to portray her as a sexualised criminal who is put to death in the electric chair. This would all be well and good if it wasn't for the fact that Alison Gold was only 12 when this video was made, and attempts to portray her as being MsFanservice whilst dancing in a Stripperific costume with an assortment of similarly scantily-clad females. Alison Gold's music and videos had always attracted negative attention, but this made even fans of "[[SoBadItsGood Chinese]] [[UnfortunateImplications Food]]" cringe. The backlash was swift and brutal and resulted in the official video being taken down from Alison Gold's YouTube after only several days. It was so bad that it may even have [[CreatorKiller killed her career before it even began]], as she has not released anything since. It also killed the career of Patrice Wilson, the mastermind behind Ark Music Factory and much of its acts, who awkwardly defended the video and called it "[[ItsNotPornItsArt art]]". After the backlash towards "Shush Up", with the lone exceptions of Music/RebeccaBlack and Wilson himself (who released a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jzmxGrqdPE new single]] in 2015 which only gained attention for its [[SurrealMusicVideo utterly bizarre music video]]), none of Ark/[=PMW=] Live's acts have released anything or done anything noteworthy ever since.
* Music/BillySquier's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZvl2aqIyNg Rock Me Tonite]]" video was the machine gun that shot his stardom down. The video showed Squier doing some [[AmbiguouslyGay not very manly dance moves]], some of which include stripteases on his bed and he remains in rather femme-looking clothes for the duration of it, getting dressed and putting on a [[RealMenWearPink pink tank top]]. The video, directed by Kenny Ortega, may have been considered SoBadItsGood if it were made today... but back in 1984, many TV stations refused to air it, and he lost a huge portion of his fanbase because of the video, making the song his last ever "hit" (the fact that it was a hit may be questionable too, as it was dropped from several radio stations not long after). It frequently appears in "Worst Music Videos Ever" list and Squier himself refuses to even talk about it.
* While most will agree that Music/{{Rush}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ "Time Stand Still"]] is one of their best songs, the video, on the other hand, has next to no supporters because of how awful it is. The video shows the band and guest singer Aimee Mann flying around in mid-air through some studio and over some lazy chroma-keyed backgrounds, with next to no effort put into making it look at least mildly effective. The video hasn't shown up on any one of their DVD releases and the band remains unusually quiet about it, and the video continues to top "worst music videos ever" lists today.
* Creator/EddieMurphy's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-psc7CJi8&p=EE0957A674DABA48&playnext=1&index=3 Whatzupwitu]]", featuring an appearance by Music/MichaelJackson, made its way to the number three position on the MTV "25 Lame" list. Jackson had not yet been tainted by his career-destroying scandal when this arrived in mid-1993, and Murphy had managed a pop hit with "Party All the Time" in TheEighties, yet this ''still'' wasn't a hit. The clip's been compared to Music/DavidBowie and Music/MickJagger's notorious "Dancing in the Street" video due to its copious amounts of HomoeroticSubtext. But while that was SoBadItsGood (at worst), this just pairs a bland song with lazy greenscreen visuals. WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows took a quick look at it in his [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/one-hit-wonderland/38421-one-hit-wonderland-party-all-the-time-by-eddie-murphy One Hit Wonderland video about Murphy's recording career]], and thought that it might be a reason why both performers had such a rough go of it in TheNineties. WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow also looks at the music video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6KUbr_3jjE here]], saying that it is the strangest thing Music/MichaelJackson has ever been involved with.
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[[folder:Soundtracks]]
!!Film
%% In order by film. %%
* The "score" to the SoBadItsGood slasher flick ''Film/DontGoInTheWoods'' was evidently supposed to sound creepy and atonal, but the composer seemingly had no idea how to mix it properly. The results sound like a bunch of random electronic noises horribly mushed together, and it gets quite grating really quickly. Considering that the same composer also did the infamously awkward (albeit catchy) ''VideoGame/CaptainNovolin'' soundtrack, this is not at all surprising. The sole bright spot may as well be the credits song, with its goofy lyrics sung to the tune of "The Teddy Bear's Picnic".
* ''Film/TheFaculty'' featured a cover of Music/PinkFloyd's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBIzHB2gMLI "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"]] by the {{supergroup}} Class of '99, with [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Tom Morello]] on lead guitar, [[Music/JanesAddiction Stephen Perkins]] on drums, Martyn [=LeNoble=] of Porno for Pyros on bass, and [[Music/AliceInChains Layne Staley]] on vocals. A supergroup with members of some of the biggest AlternativeRock and metal bands of TheNineties covering Pink Floyd's famous anti-authority anthem sounds like a great idea...\\\
Except Staley's vocals are absolutely, dreadfully bad. Staley, deep in the throes of drug addiction, with health problems and missing teeth, lazily slurs his way through the song and sounds almost completely monotone, like he's bored and has no idea what he's doing there. Even the famous line "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HEY! TEACHERS! LEAVE THESE KIDS ALONE!]]" is fairly quiet here. It's a tragic monument to the downward spiral that Staley had fallen into by then; this was the last song he ever recorded before his death from a drug overdose four years later. Notice that while the other band members all filmed their appearances specifically for the video, the shots of Staley were all taken from archival footage of Mad Season's ''Live at the Moore'' concert in 1995. To show how the vocals affected this track, the soundtrack also features an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJfQWHUNTk instrumental cover of Parts 1 and 2 of "Another Brick in the Wall".]] While [[EndingFatigue overly long]], there's nothing wrong with the performance, which is a pretty solid and moody alt-rock rendition. Then the video there changes to the full version around the five-minute mark...
* ''Film/MonsterAGoGo'' already has an entry in the [[Horrible/LiveActionFilms film category]], but the score they gave it is just the icing on the cake. To elaborate, it consists mainly of sparse, jangly {{Scare Chord}}s played on a Fender Rhodes electric piano and [[SensoryAbuse amplified to distortion]]; it's atonal, harsh, and probably meant to be creepy, but it just gets annoying after a while. The composer/musician responsible is not listed in the credits, perhaps out of shame.
* ''Film/{{North}}'' [[Horrible/LiveActionFilms is already a terrible film]], but the random country song sung by Creator/DanAykroyd and Music/RebaMcEntire is inexcusable. It has cringeworthy lyrics, sung to the theme from ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', is terribly sung, and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment has no reason to be there]].
* The English dub of Creator/DingoPictures' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYTjTUZ_w4 Wabuu]]'' (the stand-alone DVD version, not the excerpt that is part of the [=PS2=] multimedia disc ''The Countryside Bears''), apart from Wabuu's theme song at the beginning and end, has an irritating CreepyCircusMusic loop throughout throughout the film on top of the normal music tracks heard in the original German version and other dubs. In one scene it plays ''on top of itself'', and out of sync to boot. Wabuu's theme itself is little better, having the English lyrics played on top of the German ones.

!!Live-Action TV
* When Netflix bought the rights to stream the American version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', Showtime had already lost the rights to the majority of the soundtrack, whuch resulted in Netflix having to replace them with [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong either mockbuster versions of the songs]] or different songs altogether, to an extremely mixed effect. A good deal were SoOkayItsAverage at worst and a few instances had fans even claiming some were even better than the original, but a great number of them were downright irredeemable. A few examples include (but are not limited to):
** The Dyke Nite scene in 1x16, where Geri Halliwell's cover of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" was replaced with an absolutely pathetic mockbuster tune with a singer completely off-singing the line "You got caught red-handed/reaching into someone else's little cookie jar". Pain ensued.
** The gay pride dance scene in season 2, which even defenders of Netflix can't defend.
** 3x12 originally had Music/{{Muse}}'s cover of "Feeling Good". In its place came an absolutely pathetic knockoff with the same riffs and some guy trying and failing ''hilariously'' to sound like Matt Bellamy while whining some angsty lyrics.

!!Video Games
%% In order by video game. %%
%%* Many [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsT2FiajyLQ pirated]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1refp4D5oo video]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBKW0kDHIQ games]] are keen on having horrible music.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8z2jnOUrQY title screen music]] from the NES version of ''720°'' is a complete butchery of [[https://youtu.be/LVZu2U6RcGc?t=9m27s a much cooler tune]] from the original arcade version. The other tracks from the game (all three of them) are pretty poor in their own right, but at least they don't sound as horribly off-key as the title theme.
* ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' has several bad tunes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6NhzcCXzM "Crazy Shuf(f)le"]] is one of the most prominent, but the other notable ones are [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPtPDOagHx8 "And They Came/Beeps N' Blips"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwCO7lwHrA "Operation Moon"]].
** As a result of one of the game's [[GameBreakingBug many glitches]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHMOorKpIKM the music in the third level of "Lollipops"]] is straight up NightmareFuel. Supposedly it was meant to the play the music from the first level, but it somehow turned it into this. It even changes if you move around and do stuff (results can also vary depending on your emulator). One of the comments said that it sounded like [[VideoGame/EarthBound Giygas]] raping an UsefulNotes/Atari2600.
-->'''[=YouTube=] commenter''': The best music, in my opinion, gives you this wonderful soaring feeling in your chest. This, however, manages to provoke the exact opposite effect. I now feel as if I have no soul. This music has made me feel like a simple meat-bag stuffed haphazardly with organs, incapable of turning off the horrid un-sound being pumped into his ears.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtU-s4S3rM entire soundtrack]] from the NES version of ''The Adventures of'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Rocky and Bullwinkle}}'' is absolutely horrendous. All the songs are poorly looped, have terrible instrument usage and are arranged very poorly. Considering how short they are and the length of the stages, it will wear on you really quickly.
** The music from the second level deserves a special mention. The link above is what the song is supposed to sound like normally. In the actual game, the sound effects for the "Goof Bombs" are accidently coded to interfere with the sound channels, making that already terrible song '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3bVLXMgjA even worse]]'''.
-->'''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''': Oh my God! I didn't know the NES was capable of producing such an ear-piercing sound! That's awful!
* The DOS adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' stays mostly silent, which is a good thing because [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uKxQohVaQ&t=22s the sound is loud and heavily distorted]]. The developers attempted to rip the movie's soundtrack and adapt it for the PC Speaker, and ended up with a result worse than had they just made music for the sound engine (which in itself can only play screechy 8-bit noises). The audio as-is wouldn't be out of place in a [[SensoryAbuse more obnoxious]] WebAnimation/YouTubePoop. Joel from ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' witnessed the torture from the sound on this game [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlINcoyCDRk here,]] stating that if All Dogs Go to Heaven, he just went to Hell from this experience.
* The Genesis version of Incredible Technologies' LicensedGame of ''Series/AmericanGladiators'', which [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames sucked across all platforms for numerous other reasons]], goes the ''Hong Kong '97'' route by playing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ9MFdOOcl8 a single music track]] nonstop throughout the whole game, which happens to be an ear-bleeding FM-synth butchery of the formerly passable intro theme of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqMr9EoNloY SNES version]].
* The title music for the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''Automania'' is probably one of the most cacophonous video game soundtracks ever made. [[SchmuckBait Listen to it]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Iw48KyJz8 here]] (by the way, it's the improved 128K version, in the 48K version only the tune you hear in the title screen was played, incessantly, for the entire game).
* ''VideoGame/BackToTheFuture1989'' has, as its only BGM (aside from the "Johnny B. Goode" music minigame mentioned below), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOMu36rw-Yg a cheap 8-bit rendition]] of Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teIjLbHOvZE "The Power Of Love"]] sped up to near-unrecognizability. Like ''VideoGame/HongKong97'', it plays uninterrupted throughout the game, with the exception of the minigames. WordOfGod says that the developer's sound engine only supported playing music back at [=150bpm=], which no-one bothered telling the composer until he had already arranged it at the correct, slower tempo, and there was no time to redo it; the same thing happened to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBMAmg-dnk the game's rendition]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38v3-SSGcM "Johnny B. Goode"]] by Music/ChuckBerry, but it's nowhere near as grating because it plays for only one minigame. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOw56d2A95c Here's how it apparently]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40aKNX5_Ldw was supposed to sound]].
* ''Bebe's Kids'' for SNES is already [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerations an infamously awful game]] with terrible music, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyWK1AEqTI the final boss theme]] is the icing of shit. The same annoying words are repeated constantly to a horrible hip-hop beat; it is played during an already crappy boss; and worst of all, [[EarWorm good luck trying to get it out of your head.]]
* The MS-DOS port of ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' has a really, ''really'' [[SensoryAbuse loud and ear-piercing]] rendition of "Axel F" that plays on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjfuFXKeEJI title screen]]. Guru Larry appropriately described it sounding like someone strangling an ice-cream van.
* A ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' fan game called ''Castle Quest'' has some pretty good music for the most part, with the exception of the song played in the final stage. Said song is quite literally the most repetitive theme since ''VideoGame/HongKong97'', with the song lasting just ''two'' seconds before it loops. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uWGb1Sbvnw Listen to it here.]]
* From ''VideoGame/DianShiMaLi'' ([[FanNickname Mario Lottery]]) — [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCqqViJPRMs PUSH START TO RICH]].
* The music for the Sega 32X port of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is without a doubt evidence on how [[PortingDisaster a single bad port]] can ruin [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic one of the most awesome songs to ever be included in a video game.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsfjHCFosw Here's the original MS-DOS version of the Level 1 theme]]… and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM here's the 32X version of that same song.]] The raw electric guitar sounds of the original tune were butchered completely into what sounds like a very bad case of flatulence. Strangely enough, prototype versions of the 32X port had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-ulwaeS2E a version]] that, while sounding fairly flat and dull, wasn't anywhere near as grating as the one used in the finished version.
* The soundtrack from the horrible webgame ''Dontrel Dolphin'' in its entirety just defies description, other than possibly saying it sounds like the work of someone on a combination of acid and crack trying to play a horror movie score while wearing oven mitts. Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJvlKza3yJo The title theme]] in all its... ''glory'', and if that isn't enough for you, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBYKSjV_9ZA this full playthrough]] shows off the rest of the game's soundtrack.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUw5ONBhL0 Farmyard Fun]]'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}}. Poor ears of listener.
* ''Fire Fly'' for the Atari 2600 is a really bad game by the already terrible company known as [[Horrible/VideoGamesOther Mythicon]]. What makes it even worse is the background music they wrote for it. They tried to make it mimic the sound of the titular bug flying around during gameplay, but due to the limitations of the 2600 and their sheer incompetence, they made it sound like a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoH73376l48 drunk synthesizer on the toilet]].
** They didn't improve with the other two games they made for the same system. ''Sorcerer'' has this really annoying [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkT12XF2dB8 whistle-like tune]] accompanied with an awful buzzing noise whenever you encounter an enemy, and ''[=Star Fox=]'' (no relation to the [[VideoGames/{{StarFox}} famous Nintendo game]]) constantly barrages you with its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Fh6jbn1rE obnoxious sound effects]].
* ''VideoGame/HoshiWoMiruHito'' (''Stargazers'') may be Japan's equivalent of ''Action 52'', but its soundtrack wasn't one of the few redeeming qualities. All the songs consist of high pitched notes and are arranged beyond abysmal level. As a result, the town and battle themes almost sound like something out of a fever dream, and the rest of the songs are absolutely ear-splitting. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMyZuGbt9k This video]] (which demonstrates ''Stargazers''[='=] [[DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming mind-blowing flaws]]) shows off some of the music. Apparently, the composer of ''Stargazers'' is ''Naoki Morishima'', who wrote the music for the Famicom exclusive ''The Black Bass'' and its sequel, as seen below and who programmed all of the games he created.
* While the Red Chinese children's anthem "I Love Beijing Tiananmen" is not horrible, ''VideoGame/HongKong97'' infamously uses a [[BrokenRecord 5-second loop]] of it as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkxbYWQuJU the only song]] - in fact, ''the only audio'' - in the entire game. Worse, the loop runs independently of what's going on in the game, meaning ''it never stops even when you die''. Unlike other examples on the page, it was blatantly stolen from another source rather than made from scratch. If you're curious about the original version that the game ripped from, it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is_Z2K7guKs here]].
* The pathetic SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of the [[Franchise/IndianaJones "Raiders March"]] in the NES version of ''VideoGame/{{Hydlide}}''. It actually first appeared in the otherwise [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] ''Hydlide II'', and is unfortunately indicative of the quality of music on the UsefulNotes/PC88 before later models gave it a sound chip and improved games soundtrack by leaps and bounds. Here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tk2fhCj_bw two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGIYEw6Umg tracks]] of these songs from the NES port.
* Sachen's (Color Dreams to be exact) soundtracks are generally as shoddy as the games themselves, but ''Silent Assault'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTHk8y_BkQ music]] is horrible even by their standards. The sole BGM track consists of a monophonic sine wave melody accompanied by white noise military drums.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfS5bjfKwLE Juri's theme]] in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' sounds quite masterful and fitting for the character's nature… But for some reason, when the theme returned in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterV V]]'', it suddenly turned into this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRSy5xRhFs really lazy techno piece]].
* The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' GameMod ''Hammer Bro Demo 3'' (which is [[Horrible/VideoGamesOther horrible in its own right]]) has some of this whenever the creator ported music from other games himself. Take the [[AwesomeMusic/MegaMan brilliant music]] from the VideoGame/MegaManClassic series, make it sound like a cat being tortured and someone banging the keys in succession and you've got some of the 'songs' used in this game. If you like the original music, hearing them in this will probably break you. Just compare them [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCC7IoUabG4 here]], it's absolutely appalling how bad these renditions are (they're the first ones shown in the comparisons).
** The music from said hack can stoop even lower than this. One of the songs (which is supposed to be the peaceful Cascade Capers theme from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'') did not utilize the correct samples, making the music [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0QBsFm4oDI pure ear rape]], and even managed to change the pitch of the sound effects into the level.
* Too many themes from educational ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' games fall straight into this. Seriously, listen to the music from ''Mario Teaches Typing'' or ''Mario's Early Years''. It's torture on the ears. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQbxoOxxNiE "Mario Teaches Typing" music (with extremely annoying typing sounds)]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMGDXM7OV8 "Mario's Early Years" music.]]
** The music in ''Mario Teaches Typing'' can get much worse. The link above is what you get if you had a compatible sound card. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXB-oNGEhY&feature=related If your sound card wasn't compatible with the game]], however, then it would play the music and sound effects ''through the PC Speaker'', creating sounds that [=ScrewAttack.com=] likened to "a retarded R2-D2."
* ''VideoGame/MegaManII'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy is already infamous on its own, mostly thanks to the grating, excessively high-pitched arrangements that manage to kill perfectly good compositions like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs_uIiAZhXE Air Man's theme]] - and Music/SiIvaGunner improved on that by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCA15jEoSlU rearranging it in the style of]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 the NES games.]]
* The NES port of ''[[VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo 1942]]'' has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwivbWwnt8 an extremely beepy and irritating rendition of the ''March of Midway'']] that plays throughout ''every single stage''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eODZgkinVQ The overworld theme]] of the Famicom exclusive ''Onyanko Town'' is SensoryAbuse at its finest, with it being a completely whacked-out arrangement of "Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells" from ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'', which loops every 5 seconds.
* ''Videogame/RType III'' for the GBA is pure PortingDisaster on all fronts, and that includes the BGM. Most SNES games that were ported to the GBA tend to have botched music because of the different sound chips between the two systems, but in this situation the developers lost the original source code and they redid it from scratch. Shockingly, how they the recreated music (with the GBA soundchip in mind) has to be heard to be believed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-WSAIseZY Here's the original Force Select music]], and [[http://youtu.be/4PmhQ_uOFrs?t=24s here's the GBA version.]] It gets worse if you compare the theme for the first stage: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoGRjih0xcA SNES]] and [[http://youtu.be/4PmhQ_uOFrs?t=57s GBA]]. Hell, compare it to the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELv3NI51dOU C64 version]] from ''R-Type'', which was made in 1988.
* The ''[[UpdatedRerelease Dual Shock]]'' version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcF7E69C6Q what sounds like]] somebody randomly banging the white keys on a cheap Casio (or midi controller) set to "horn." When it was revealed that credited composer Mamoru Samuragochi, believed to be the Japanese [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]] as he claimed to be hearing-impaired, was a fraud and had secretly paid someone else to write the soundtrack, it predictably resulted in jokes that this particular song was the only one he had written himself.
* While the NES version of ''VideoGame/{{Rygar}}'' is well known for its distinctly atmospheric soundtrack, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfgyZrJCHs the theme for the Palace of Dorago]] stands out (in a bad way) for being nothing but a four-note loop. Considering how disproportionately short it is to the length of the dungeon its featured in, it gets repetitive very quickly.
* ''[[CompilationRerelease Sega Smash Pack Volume 1]]'', on the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, suffers from a horribly butchered soundtrack; the included Mega Drive games sound like a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jucChh8Hw8o Master System]] at best and an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8d89_tmtDY Atari 2600]] at worst, while ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' sounded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfkGtyAYqI4 worse than]] in its [[Horrible/VideoGameGenerationsFifthToSixth already bad]] Game Boy Advance port. While the compilation was [[PortingDisaster patchy to begin with]], the soundtrack alone yielded a 4 out of 10 from Gamespot.
* ''Sherlock Holmes: Hakushaku Reijou Yuukai Jiken'' took the music to the extreme by trying to make it as high-pitched as possible, making it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESgyK1pTbjg painful.]]
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Genesis'' for GBA was a rushed-out-the-door PortingDisaster in all respects. This includes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYs3PYJj-pw the]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwu2YIdblw4 BGM.]] Rather than try to synthesize it from scratch, they threw in MIDI files of the original melodies, with ear-grating, tinny samples which are incredibly low-fidelity, even by GBA standards.
* The ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' GameMod "Hyper X" is notable for being one of the first Sonic hacks to have its entire soundtrack revamped. However, [[TropesAreTools this isn't always a good thing]], as all of the new songs sound like they're either [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwF3IJP1Lc missing audio channels]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dr9gWFmWU using inappropriate instruments]], or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBi3xjjKkV4 are simply off-key]].
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeLKMuHkq9k intro theme]] to Japan-only game ''The Black Bass'' for the original Famicom[[note]]not to be confused with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWhTjfNWPQ the game]] that was released for the NES by the same title and developer, that was the [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel vastly improved sequel to the original]], which was called ''The Black Bass II'' in Japan[[/note]] has to heard to be believed. One of the lead channels sounds corrupted to the point where it's grating.
* ''[[Literature/WheresWally The Great Waldo Search]]'' for the NES may be [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel an improvement]] over its predecessor, ''Where's Waldo'', but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Whaqp8RdA its background music is atrocious]]. ''Where's Waldo'', [[Horrible/VideoGames as terrible as it was in its own right]], at least had the benefit of having [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Julian LeFay]] as its composer.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7fd4pvxjV4 SNES version]] doesn't fare much better. Aside from a terrible rendition of the ''Where's Waldo'' theme song -- the NES version by contrast had a digitized version of the theme, a rarity for an 8-bit console -- the soundtrack features a grand total of ''four'' songs. The ones used for the first, second and fourth levels are mediocre, but the one featured in the third level is absolutely awful.
* The 16-bit console ports of ''Film/WaynesWorld'', as the [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd AVGN]] put it, has the "all-time worst butchering of Music/BohemianRhapsody". The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCpcuoZpgfk Genesis version]] is leaning towards this as that rendition is trying its hardest to not sound like a depressed organ. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHNuJB86-bY SNES version]], while still terrible, is rather amusing as it sounds like someone is spamming the accordion.
* An example that likely would've gone unheard of in this day and age had it not been for WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJAh0SlTS8 Speed Skating "music"]] from the NES port of ''Winter Games''. For reference, [[https://youtu.be/THhYAyJPMHI?t=9m20s this]] is the same bit of music from the original Amiga version; certainly nothing very impressive, but it at least ''sounds'' like music, rather than an audio chip having a nervous breakdown.
* ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors III'' — "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-QUJskVKk Thief's Guild]]", which is even written by Creator/DavidWise of all people. The track starts out fine but, 50 seconds in, devolves into random notes. It's pretty jarring, considering how good the rest of the game's soundtrack is.
* Generally, playing any old MS DOS game without a soundcard would lead to this, since the computer would try and play both the soundtrack and sound effects with seemingly random beeps. The entry for Mario Teaches Typing has one good example of this, but this ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' port was even worse for it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7uZ3imlyo The original soundtrack is basically impossible to make out with all the beeping instead of actual instruments.]]

!!Anime Theme Songs
%% In order by anime title. %%
* While it is debatable which version of "[[Anime/DragonballKai Dragon Soul]]" is better (between Creator/SeanSchemmel and Creator/VicMignogna, and sometimes [[SubbingVsDubbing Takayoshi Tanimoto]]), hardly anyone would argue that they're at least better than the version sung by Creator/JustinCook. [[SuperlativeDubbing He's a brilliant voice actor]] but a mediocre singer, and seems to be doing a bad impersonation of [[Music/TheWallflowers Jakob Dylan]].
* ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'' is already [[Horrible/AnimeAndManga a bad show]], but what makes it even worse is its opening theme song that was sung by someone who can't sing for the life of her. She sounds like a really bored person trying to sing a fast-paced song. And that long note she holds near the end is a huge BrownNote. If your ears can take it, here's a link for it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY9BrSdbi_8 here]].
* If you can [[IncrediblyLamePun Believe It]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xoTBZrzko the German theme]] (which is sung with English lyrics) to ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' may be even worse than the examples listed already, if not the worst anime theme, period. It starts promising with the Third Hokage narrating about the Nine-Tail Fox's attack, before turning into a bad rap song. The vocals are off-key, the main singer sounds drunk and bored, and the lyrics are incoherent with a use of PainfulRhyme. They tried rhyming "cool" (to describe Sasuke) with "beautiful" (to describe Sakura).

!!Western Animation
%% In order by cartoon title. %%
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YaeYt2OXzo The theme song]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheBrothersFlub'' is speculated to be at least a contributing factor to the cartoon's failure, if not ''the reason'', simply because the vocals are awful. They feature the shrillest tenor imaginable singing nothing in particular, as counterpoint to a {{Simpleton Voice}}d baritone chanting "flub," plus the odd random noise here and there. Tragically, the end credits instrumental is perfectly fine, so it would have been listenable if not for those vocals. WebVideo/RebelTaxi and WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter have both included it high in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UlciEF_e6o respective]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuT5KZtxdxc lists]] of worst cartoon theme songs.

!!Vanity Plate
* The theme accompanying the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RxufMc3Fb4 Class Video]]'' logo. The melody seems to be quite okay, but there are very long pauses and there is no regard for the dynamics at all. Hearing this makes you feel as if the music is still loading instead of being a musical piece on its own, making the line between music and random sounds blurrier than its almost pixelated background.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Songs]]
%% In order by song name. %%
* Porn star Riley Reid released a short rap song called '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72GTz6dHcF0 8 Ball Shawty]]"''' in order to demonstrate her multifaceted "[[TemptingFate talent]]". [[CaptainObvious It...did not work]]. It features such ''terrible'' lyricism as "[[RefugeInAudacity Pink pussy make that dick have a heart attack]]" and "Spit stringin' from my mouth, let you fuck my face[[note]]''this doesn't rhyme with the previous line, or'' '''''[[LyricalShoehorn even fit to the beat]]'''''.[[/note]] / Good nutritious nut / On deck n***a, eat me out n***a". The song's entire last third basically consists of Reid, a white woman, using the N-word over and over again. The beat also samples Reid's own moans from her, ahem, "cinematic masterpieces". {{Cr1tikal}} did a video about it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XtW4GmgqY here]].
* The decision about whether to build a new Islamic center near what was once the World Trade Center ("Ground Zero") is one of heated debate (which, of course, is [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment best left to another website]]). However, it did inspire some awful songs from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaQBrTROj2w either]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mywb_ZfwEzI side]] of the issue.
%%* A general rule: [=YouTube=] will usually have the worst of the bunch:
%%** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAtP97vCUt4 This guy.]]
%%** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dJonNLu6U This girl.]] That is, unless the video is a joke.
%%** This guy [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArCFB6j8-8 did]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9o2xmT4esU three]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Am2ogvisLY songs]], all of which are off-key and dull.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5brkwzJFaoM These two kids]] who attempt to do their own rap song and fail… miserably. Now, it's not even something that if watched by people, they'd ignore the quality and go "D'awww, that's so cute!". No, not at all. They're two 10-year-olds attempting to do a BoastfulRap, but with the mentality of, well, 10-year-olds, with [[ClusterFBomb all that entails]].
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSurzeGvPrQ "Accidental Racist"]]''' by Music/BradPaisley and Music/LLCoolJ is the ultimate example of how ''not'' to do a song about racism. The intended meaning of the song was an attempt to find common ground between {{Good Ol Boy}}s and inner-city black folk, but instead it makes both white Southerners and African-Americans look bad. Paisley comes off as whiny, defensive, and ignorant of the loaded history that [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the Confederate flag]] holds with a large segment of the population, while LL Cool J comes off as a walking "hood rat" stereotype with his lyrics about sagging pants and gold chains. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ML3066YRUA Here's]] WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows and WebVideo/TheRapCritic tearing the song apart while debating over which artist has the worst parts of the song in general.
* Regardless of how people feel about Music/SouljaBoy, it's the consensus is that his song '''"Anime"''' is utterly terrible. He discusses the subject with all the thought ([[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer and research]]) of a pothead pacing through a comics store, it closes with the audio equivalent of LeaveTheCameraRunning, and it sounds like it was recorded in his bathroom. But hey, don't take ''our'' word for it — ask [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SigTe4p3caU Y Ruler of Time]] about it (with guest cameos by Michael "Skitch" Schiciano and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows).
* ''"This song is bad. Not SoBadItsGood, and not Music/MichaelJackson 'Bad'. Just plain '''''bad.'''''"'' That's ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' regarding the ill-conceived 1985 charity single '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTSbFeWwro Doctor In Distress]]"'''. You can practically hear the show's last remaining scrap of dignity being wrenched away. The generic music and near-unsingable lyrics would have been bad enough, but combined with having some of them performed by actors from the show who clearly had no musical talent whatsoever, and you get one spectacular mess. Creator/ColinBaker reportedly described his participation as "one of the worst decisions [he] ever made".
** Just how bad was it? Creator/TheBBC ''refused'' to air the song on any of its television or radio stations, despite the fact that it was performed almost entirely by network celebrities. The single sold less than a thousand copies, and came nowhere close to recouping production costs, leaving no money to donate to charity. In 2005, former series advisor Ian Levine (who wrote and co-produced the song) actually ''apologized'' for the entire thing, calling it [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2005/oct/22/1 "a balls-up fiasco"]].
* Music/{{Eminem}} is commonly regarded as one of the best rappers of all time, but not even his most hardcore fans can defend his song '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUVPDJiaUlk "Fack"]]''', a bonus track from his GreatestHitsAlbum ''Curtain Call''. The lyrics to this song are [[FetishRetardant very sexually disturbing]] to say the least, Eminem pulls off an irritating accent throughout the song reminiscent of a whining [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman]], and he goes as far as to rapping about, get this... [[{{Squick}} shoving a gerbil up your ass through a tube]] (which even forms the outro). Eminem is renowned for his irreverent humor and his [[CrossesTheLineTwice willingness to push the envelope]], but this isn't controversial, provocative or even humorous. It's just tasteless, lazy, and above all, ''annoying''. Eminem himself poked fun of it in his 2014 song "Shady XV" off of the ''Shady XV'' compilation album; he had [[https://genius.com/5140297 this]] to say about it on the song's Genius page. WebVideo/TheRapCritic and Creator/MarcMues had some words to say about this song on their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cYPJQvYFmk Top 10 Worst Eminem Songs]] collaboration video, [[spoiler:in which "Fack" topped the list]]. To make things worse, as that video pointed out, after a short skit track, this is the first proper song on the aforementioned GreatestHitsAlbum - imagine someone who's just starting to get into Eminem's music hearing ''this'' as an introduction.
* In 1986, nine players on the New York Mets recorded a rap song called '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvufrpAhls Get Metsmerized]]"''', inspired by the Chicago Bears' "Superbowl Shuffle". No effort was put into making it good; everyone is out of rhythm (Rafael Santana's verse is barely legible), the rhymes are all over the place and more than half act like they'd rather be doing something else. The single is but a footnote in Mets' history and was pushed aside in favor of "Let's Go Mets Go", another cheer that defined the '86 season. For a time, if you put "Worse song ever recorded" in Website/YouTube's search, this song would be the first result. Years later, Tim Teufel called it "[[OldShame unlistenable]]".
* Heidi Montag of ''Series/TheHills'' fame made a music video for an incredibly bad single entitled '''"Higher"'''. [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Heidi_Montag_s__Higher_.aspx This]] is [[HeroicBSOD what happens]] when Website/TheAgonyBooth gets exposed to it.
* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczzdUzDmEw "I'm Horny"]]''' by [=GionnyScandal=] and Maite. Maite's English is appalling. When she sings "I'm horny horny" it [[{{Mondegreen}} sounds like]] "I'm Ernie Ernie" instead, adding a pinch of {{Narm}} to wash down all the suck. According to several translations, the Italian lyrics are just as bad:
-->''I'm not a baker but I got a lot of cream here''
* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-P85gWS0I "I'm a Slick Rick"]]''' by comedian [=Nick Cannon=] is his attempt to diss Music/{{Eminem}}, but fails miserably. The song is loaded with out of place references to Music/{{SlickRick}} and ''Cali Swag District'', forced rhyming and lyrics and pathetic excuses for insults that come off as Nick calling Eminem a liar, That's It! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gASsY9x_UAE The song has often called the worst diss track in history, and for a good reason.]]
* Creator/KimKardashian's single '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHp7sq1Tzn0 "Jam (Turn It Up)"]]''', which was badly received by both critics and the public. It's monotonous and lifeless to the point of [[LyricalDissonance sounding almost depressing]], and unfortunately not even AutoTune can save Kim's voice, as at times she still sounds slightly off-key. She has since viewed the song as an OldShame, [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/13/kim-kardashian-regret_n_5674990.html and even admitted she isn't a good enough singer to pull it off]]. WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow bashes the song and video [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85kKC1luiA here]]
* '''"[[https://youtu.be/eDZXWraYnM0 The Kersal Massive]]"''' — the song begins "Got on the bus wi' ma' daysavah / smoked a reefa in da cornah", before decaying into a rhythmless ClusterFBomb and a caustic (or not) TakeThat against the town of Levenshulme, not to mention the rather pointless [[LesserStar Garfunkel]] "Ginger Joe", whose only contribution to the song is "yeah man, yeah man".
** In 2010, a few brave Englishmen doing a televised countdown of the Top 50 Viral Videos tracked down the aforementioned "Ginger Joe" and asked him a few questions about the video. It turns out that it was an entry for a competition of some kind and [[EverybodyMustGetStoned they were all as high as a kite]] while making it.
* In the 1990s, Komar, Melamid and Dave Soldier carried out a set of polls of the American public: One concerning what people generally liked the most in music, one concerning what they generally hated. From this, they composed two songs. "The Most Unwanted Song" was the better of the two by a long shot (details can be found [[SoBadItsGood/{{Music}} here]]) '''[[http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/komar_melamid/KomarMelamid_The-Most-Wanted-Song.mp3 "The Most Wanted Song,"]]''' however, was a simpering, pandering, [[TastesLikeDiabetes vomitously saccharine]], miserably written, glacial, insipid, and overly repetitive trainwreck bearing [[ClicheStorm cliché after cliché after cliché]] and an off-key guitar solo.
* '''[[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/01/honey-boo-boo-music-video_n_8226116.html "Movin' Up"]]''' by Honey Boo Boo is another blatant attempt by the child pageant and reality tv star to stay famous. The song consists of Honey Boo Boo warbling incoherently into a mic. Huffington Post described it as diabolical.
* Jenna Rose's '''[[https://youtu.be/0XMy9WeI_fw "My Jeans"]]'''. She sings about this pair of jeans she wants and that apparently every celebrity wears, throwing in anecdotes about her "swag" and how celebrities "wore those jeans just like me". Her voice is so {{Autotune}}d that it's enough to make you wonder if she even sang on it, with the beat often overpowering her voice. In addition, there's the [[AWildRapperAppears token rap]] in the middle. [[CoversAlwaysLie The cover of the single]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking doesn't even have Jenna wearing jeans]]. [=JuniorfanReturns=] bashes the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1uFMEL0ds here]].
* Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki released a charity song called '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_dbcPMsK_Q "Oxygen"]]'''. As a Website/YouTube commenter put it, she sounds like a "retarded robot" in the song. The lyrics are awful as well.
* What happens when Creator/LeaMichele is possessed by Music/NickiMinaj, who in turn is possessed by a drug addict? You get Shira's '''"[[https://youtu.be/FICMXXm-hgg Pound On My Muffin]]"''', an amazing train-wreck of a song that is about as sexy as [[NauseaFuel your grandma's autopsy]]. Watch WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow rip it and its music video a new hole [[https://vimeo.com/91189545 here]].
* While the entirety of the album ''Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven'' by Music/KidCudi can be spared since there are fans that defend the album, there are not even hardcore fans that can defend '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7eofl08ZI "The Return of Chip Douglas (Demo)"]]''' for being on here in the first place. While most of the songs from that album can be considered by some to at least be SoBadItsGood, The Return of Chip Douglas just takes the issues that makes most of the songs there be in that range and just increases it tenfold between a repetitive acoustic guitar four-note loop (scrapes included), nasally vocals that also sound real whiny, laughable at best lyrics, and an ending where he's just more yelling incoherently than anything else (which one YouTube commenter best describes as Kid Cudi making wild animal noises).
* '''[[https://youtu.be/OzsGmdmhDTI Ontroerend Goed's Sirens]]''' sound absolutely nothing like the sirens from Greek Mythology. Rather, their sound seems to be the result of what would happen if a howler monkey gave birth to an ambulance. [[DontExplainTheJoke In other words, they sound like a DIFFERENT kind of siren]]. All in all, whatever message is attempted falls flat because, be it from a symbolism overdose or just an apparent lack of talent on someone's end, in the end it's just ''screaming and wailing and hooting'' rather than anything resembling a tune.
* Brian Wilson's (yes, the one from Music/TheBeachBoys) song '''"Smart Girls"''', released only as a radio promo from the unreleased album ''Sweet Insanity'', in which Brian ''raps'' over samples from many of his earlier hits. The results are… [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00 sad.]] Unsurprisingly, Creator/SireRecords point-blank rejected the album once they heard it. In the interests of total fairness, it is important to add that Brian at this point was dominated by [[TheSvengali his Svengali-like]], highly unethical "therapist" Eugene Landy, whose meddling behaviour was already known, and remarked on by Andy Paley during the sessions for Brian's solo SelfTitledAlbum. At least one good thing came out of the ''Sweet Insanity'' fiasco - it resulted in a lawsuit that allowed Brian to disentangle himself from Landy and later undergo a CareerResurrection, while Landy himself was hit with more legal action and lost his medical license due to the gross malpractice and abuses that he had indulged in towards Brian.
* [[XtremeKoolLetterz X-tReMe PoWeR]] is a band composed of children [[TotallyRadical trying to]] [[RuleAbidingRebel be cool]], and their only song, '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQUlr4Xc3s Respect and Obey Authority]]"''', reflects this. On a technical level, the vocals switch between monotone and sing-songy, the instrumental is repetitive and bland, and the rhymes lack in variety or creativity. It's also a spectacular example of a CluelessAesop: the lyrics sound like something a dictator would say to their people ("[[BlindObedience Do what [we] say, and everything will be okay]]!"). Naturally, [=YouTube=] commenters assume this is propaganda.
* '''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YdPucCkZU She's Mad]]"''' by independent rapper [=PtheG=]. Put on [=YouTube=] in mid-2009, and eventually brought to the attention of Website/{{Fark}} under the headline "Worst. AutoTune. Ever," the song briefly brought [=PtheG=] a lot of attention based on the utter discord of the song. The music already defies melody, but the garbled autotune makes it virtually unlistenable.
* Ex-Cheetah Girl Kiely Williams tried to reinvent herself as DarkerAndEdgier in an apparent attempt to cash in on ''Rated R''-era Music/{{Rihanna}}, but instead comes off as the most vapid female on Earth. Here it is: '''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J96ujGstSUw Spectacular.]]"''' A touching tribute to binge drinking, unprotected sex with strangers, and date rape. Sample lyrics: ''"Last I remember I was [[ShoutOut face down, ass up]], clothes off"''. Brings a lump to your throat, doesn't it? Not only did it effectively [[CreatorKiller end her career]], she eventually tried to justify making it by claiming that it's actually a protest against the behaviors in the song.
* The Ex-Girlfriends' '''[[https://youtu.be/EIyewSf0Lws "We Are The Party"]]''' tries to reach for Black Eyed Peas or LMFAO-level catchiness but fails horribly. Both the beat and lyrics are just awful.
* Gnesa's '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF2o5RDkq9A "Wilder"]]''' suffers from terrible, off-key singing; downright ear-screeching instrumentals; and horrible visuals. The director must have realized this since he obviously attempted to hide her voice using extremely loud background music. And it doesn't help that whoever posted the video hired a bunch of people to post fake positive comments. Ratings are disabled, and any negative comment would get deleted. Watch Danny Korcz from Audio Abominations [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hVVpFB84Kw tearing this song apart.]]
** But as it turns out, the song itself (lyrics, that is) turn out all right when done by a person who can actually ''sing''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dc01C3KkVc This guy]] made a pretty good cover.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZBA8-Zf14 This "80's" remix of "Stickerbush Symphony"]] from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' is probably the most childhood-ruining songs ever created, considering the original song it was based on [[AwesomeMusic/DonkeyKongCountry was so iconic]]. The remix is horribly off-key and the instruments are both droning, screechy, and distorted. It almost sounds a tune used for a Creepypasta, but not even fans of the genre would use it in their works, and the remix wasn't made with that in mind either. (By the way, the link given above is a re-upload; the remixer removed the original video, presumably due to embarrassment.)
* Not exactly a "remix," but if you've ever tried to look for a dubstep remix of "[[Music/TheVillagePeople YMCA]]" on YouTube, then there's a good chance you have seen [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPVt-v8LIJc this video]]. It's just a kid recording himself saying, "DUBSTEP! Wah wah wah wah wah waaah, wah waaah!" to the tune of the song. At some points in the video, he whispers his made-up lyrics, and tries to hold back his laughter. While it may be pretty humorous at first, he manages to record for over [[OverlyLongGag five minutes]].
* This "remix" of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic's'' "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHOvUVhWFi0 Equestria Girls]]". It's identical to the actual song, but with an instrumental of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uYt3hEmAtE Cutie Mark Crusaders theme]] playing under it - little to no attempt is made to ensure the two harmonize or even have the same tempo.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVnt67P8Cos This]] claims to be a dubstep remix of Music/PearlJam's "Jeremy", when in reality it's a generic techno loop with the lyrics to "Jeremy" played completely out of sync with the rest of the song with a pitch shift, reverb, and slower tempo added for good measure.
* While Headphoneboy's mashups can range anywhere from simply mediocre to kind of decent, he's got stuff which would make DJ Broken Window ashamed. One example: the breathtakingly awful, beyond just lazy "[[http://www.man-likemachines.com/peoplerunincircles.mp3 People Run In Circles]]", a mashup of Music/JohnLennon's "Imagine", and Gary Jules' version of "Mad World". It sounds like he simply took both tracks and played them at the same time, without any attempt to harmonize them.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xexZf6OoL54 This]] "mashup" of Music/{{Adele}}'s "Rolling in the Deep" and Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" sounds like nothing more than the instrumental and acapella put on fast-forward and slapped together with no effort to harmonize them whatsoever.


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* Amateur [[GarageBand garage]] cover bands can often be terrible, but there are few who manage to rupture the space-time continuum with their awfulness.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc This band]] horribly butchers "[[Music/{{Europe}} The Final Countdown]]". The keyboardist has the completely wrong sound on his synth and misses several notes, completely ruining the song's most iconic part, and the singer has absolutely no energy or passion ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKWhfpgHpE&nohtml5=False You know you have a bad cover, when the original singer criticizes you]]).
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jg5pjvwjw These guys]] try to cover "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Smells Like Teen Spirit]]". The guitarist plays the EpicRiff at the wrong rhythm, and the singer just screams the lyrics during the chorus.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0 These musicians]] (who later named themselves [[AppropriatedAppellation "Hush"]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTEaEgQYkNc&nohtml5=False as]] SelfDeprecation) fail horribly to cover "[[Music/PinkFloyd Comfortably Numb]]". Their versions of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYk3lEb_fe4&nohtml5=False "Cocaine"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyGukH50Row "Wish You Were Here"]] also deserve mention.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUmCat6TlfE This]] cover of [[Music/GunsNRoses "Sweet Child O'Mine"]] by three shirtless Brazilian boys. Each member seems to be playing a different song, the instruments' tuning is off, the singing even worse...
** [[https://youtu.be/AZaF_IhAJK4 This miserable excuse for a cover of]] Music/BreakingBenjamin's "Anthem of the Angels". The guitars are too loud and in the wrong tone, the drumming is too hard and the singing is horribly off key.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3RaZ1DJJo This talent show cover]] of "[[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Feel Good Inc.]]". It sounds like neither of them can sing, and the only backing track is one of them poorly playing the bass riff.
* "The Star-Spangled Banner" is widely considered one of the most difficult national anthems to sing. There are two reasons why: the song's tune was adapted from that of a ''drinking song'' and the lyrics came from a poem that wasn't meant to be sung. It's often a miracle when the singer ''doesn't'' find a way to mangle it, and it's perhaps notable that one of the most famous covers of it, Music/JimiHendrix's version, omits the lyrics altogether. However, there are some that have utterly failed in their performances of it:
** The NationalAnthem performance by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMHJxSYhrS0 Carl Lewis.]] This one got the crowd ''booing'', something that even other horrendous renditions of the anthem don't tend to elicit. It's worth noting that he seemed fully aware of his sub-par performance however, saying "Uh oh!" after his voice cracked at one point and briefly interrupting with "[[SelfDeprecation I'll make up for it now!]]" towards the end, seeming to win back a few members of the crowd by belting out the last note successfully.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1YVhcLD2c Roseanne Barr]] at a San Diego Padres game in 1990. The only explanation is that she was {{troll}}ing the audience, going by her spitting at the end and the fact that she seemed to be laughing her way through it. By the end, the booing drowns her out.
** Music/ChristinaAguilera has proven, twice, that the US National Anthem just isn't her bag:
*** The first during the 2004 NBA All-Star game had quite a disrespectful version to a large crowd which had, at its forefront, multiple visibly displeased Army officials. She used the song as an excuse to show off. This is made worse by her slurred speech and her turning ''the American National Anthem'' into a pop R&B tune. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5R19IUugw Watch at your own risk]], especially if you're American.
*** She did more of the same during Super Bowl XLV. This time, she ''changed the melody to show off her pipes and botched some of the lyrics.'' [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]]; through the whole thing, she sounded either gratingly off-key or borderline asthmatic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdSCEr3028 Here, have a listen.]]
** Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery's 2005 Atlanta NASCAR Nextel Cup race performance. To be fair, he was suffering from acoustic neuroma (an inner-ear nerve condition) at the time, which meant that not only was he off-key, he was perpetually off-balance. He didn't even remove his hat. Many fans had the reasonable assumption that he was drunk.
** None of any of these can hold a candle to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDEPd7ygIII Scott Stapp's insulting performance from 2006]]. Sorry, Scott, but {{Yarling}} was probably not the right direction.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XW9IcijGqA Alexis Normand's performance]] at the 2013 Memorial Cup goes beyond terrible. She forgot the anthem's lyrics after the third line, after which she just started making up noises that sound like words. Her bungling of the lyrics got so embarrassing that ''the Canadian crowd had to step in and finish the song for her''. This is made even worse given that the side from Portland, Oregon that had over ten Americans in their lineup. Normand eventually apologized on Twitter, saying that she wished she spent more time learning the lyrics.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCYcFpjbOY Madison Rising]], "America's [[InformedAbility Most Patriotic Rock Band]]". It has a Naval vet wrapping himself in an American flag, and the song arranged InTheStyleOf Music/{{Creed}}. They've performed it elsewhere, but its most infamous performance was at the NASCAR Nationwide Series' [=DRIVE4COPD=] 300 at Daytona in 2014; you could see the drivers had "What the fuck I am listening to?" looks written on their faces.
** [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas Fergie]] performed the anthem at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, [[http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/fergie-sings-the-national-anthem-at-the-nba-all-star-game.html and it has to be heard to be believed]]. The most common description was that she sounded like a boozy lounge singer trying to show off her range, while many joked that it was part of a plot to get even the most diehard patriots to take the knee in protest. Many players were visibly shown [[{{Corpsing}} trying their hardest not to laugh]], like Draymond Green, and the performance was met with almost immediate infamy; Fergie herself [[http://people.com/music/fergie-apologizes-nba-all-star-national-anthem/ later apologized for it]].
** Even ''instrumental'' versions can still suck. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTsgnTzhiaQ This school]] got the bright idea to entrust this responsibility to a guy who had probably never even touched a guitar in his life prior to this performance. Why nobody stops him midway through ''or has the balls to tell him he flat-out cannot play it at all'' is beyond comprehension. The little metal flourishes only make it worse, and make him seem to be compensating by faux-shredding.
* Canada's national anthem "O Canada", on the other hand, may be easier to sing (especially while sober), but even that doesn't stop someone from gloriously fucking it up.
** When the Canadian Football League launched a brief, ill-fated expansion into the US in the mid-'90s, one of the "highlights" was when Dennis K. C. Parks, a UsefulNotes/LasVegas lounge singer, was brought on at the last minute to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXzASiXX8U perform "O Canada"]] to open a game between the Las Vegas Posse and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Having never heard the song performed live before, he sang it to the tune of "O Christmas Tree" and botched the lyrics, leading the owner of the Posse to [[http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-25/sports/sp-19683_1_o-canada publicly apologize to all Canadians]] and even Vice President UsefulNotes/AlGore (who was meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chretien at the time) to mention the incident during a speech. Parks did eventually redeem himself when he was [[http://nationalpost.com/sports/football/cfl/the-true-and-strong-and-free-why-the-cfls-humiliating-expansion-to-the-united-states-was-actually-a-force-for-good/wcm/37d99a95-9619-477d-b0a0-9be2dfe29c63 invited to perform the anthem]] at a Hamilton Tiger-Cats game, where, having actually heard the song sung properly this time, he managed to nail it.
** In July 2017, Canadian singer Jocelyn Alice, known for her 2015 single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4by2-TKtcZw Jackpot]]", sang "O Canada" before the MLB All-Star game in Miami, only for her rendition to be torn to shreds ''mid-performance''. In addition to sounding strained, asthmatic and horribly off key, Alice ''giggled'' during the line "God keep our land". The audience can be heard reacting and the players clearly look confused, and it's not hard to see why. The performance was lambasted on social media, and Alice has kept quiet during the blowback for obvious reasons.
** At a baseball game in 2016, The Tenors [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WHJMklV__U performed the anthem themselves]], with Remigio Pereira changing the line "With glowing hearts, we see thee rise, the true north strong and free" to "We're all brothers and sisters, [[UnfortunateImplications All lives matter to the brave]]." The audience can be heard jeering in said clip, and the Tenors themselves have priceless reactions. Pereira was sacked from the group following this incident; he since has attempted damage control by claiming he "wasn't changing the lyrics" but rather the "French" lyrics... ''despite the fact that it was the English version they were singing''.
* After Harry Caray passed away, the Chicago Cubs started using guest celebrities to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the Seventh-Inning Stretch at Wrigley Field. Quite a few have been extremely bad — Mike Ditka's version was probably the first to gain infamy for its awfulness; [[UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} Jeff Gordon]], Tony Romo, and Creator/DeniseRichards have also turned in horrendous renditions. Even being a professional musician doesn't guarantee you'll do a good version — Music/OzzyOsbourne's performance is one of the worst of the lot.
* While his behavior [[http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/philip-anselmo-denies-being-racist-after-white-power-shoutout-at-dimebash-event/ at the end of the night]] of the January 22nd, 2016 [[Music/{{Pantera}} Dimebash]] event was what got all the press, Phil Anselmo's actual performances that night were absolutely embarrassing. Chief among them was a cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iznjos9Qi7Q "A New Level"]] with (among others) Robb Flynn, Rex Brown, and Dave Grohl that was preceded by obnoxious rambling (which was not restricted to that song alone; he probably spent more time going on drunken tangents than actually performing) from a clearly inebriated Phil (to add insult to injury, Brown was visibly irritated by the second minute in); furthermore, he also blew his lines twice and made the whole band start over again, calling the crowd "a buncha pussies" after the first failed take. Phil also slurred his words when he was otherwise able to perform his parts, and, much to Flynn's sheer disbelief, mouthed "white power" and gave the Hitler salute right there on stage during the first chorus. He went on to bungle [[Music/{{Motorhead}} "Ace of Spades"]], not so much singing as bellowing into the mic to the general tune of the song (complete with audible slurring) and capped it off with a drunken backwards stagger that nearly caused him to fall over until Grohl caught him. To finish off the night, he rambled for so long that [[Music/TypeONegative Johnny Kelly]] actually took the microphone away from him; it was about a minute after that he capped things with the infamous salute and cry that went viral. He ruined not only the whole evening, but the audience's respect for him.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ib3l8Wx45M Amanda Brunker's performance at Oxegen 2011]]. Listen and shudder as she murders Music/{{U2}}'s ''With Or Without You''. It isn't helped by the fact that she's a non-singer [[FridgeLogic trying to sing at a music festival]]. When interviewed after and asked how she got the gig (She was a standin for Music/JessieJ, who had broken her leg), she answered that she had put in around twenty years of [[AccidentalInnuendo groundwork]].
* The 1952 Broadway musical revue ''Two's Company'' starred Creator/BetteDavis, who made her entrance singing "just turn me loose on Broadway as a musical comedy star" despite her demonstrated lack of singing and dancing skills. Though the show was a flop it left behind an original cast album, and the tracks featuring Bette Davis are often painful to listen to.
* Creator/{{MTV}}'s Video Music Awards can have some great performances, but there are a few that are just atrocious:
** Music/PaulaAbdul's performance at the 1991 edition. During the post Milli Vanilli scandal years, certain other big Pop stars tried to make it known that they weren't lip-syncing either. Abdul, who was accused of the same thing at the time after reportedly having a lawsuit thrown at her by a former backup singer of hers, tried to show everyone that she could sing and never lip-synced to anyone else's voice. Unfortunately, her live shaky vocals (due to the heavy dancing) failed to impress, as well as her unflattering outfit.
** Music/BritneySpears's performance at the 2007 edition. She's lip-syncing, and this time it's obvious. Her weight, while not terribly overweight, is no longer in the shape that it was years earlier, made even noticeable by an unflattering two piece outfit. Her dancing is terribly choreographed--she moves as if she has crippling arthritis--and her expression of DullSurprise makes her look positively robotic. It might have been better if she had foregone the dancing and sung for real. To top it off, Britney completely ignored the advice of her stylists, opting to wear an ugly and obvious hair weave and an unflattering stage costume.
*** An episode of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', entitled "[=iFix=] a Pop Star", parodied said performance. Carly, Sam and Freddie were invited to direct fictional singer Ginger Fox's comeback performance, but find it hard to do so, what with Ginger Fox acting like a spoiled brat and failing to ''try'' during rehearsals. At the end, the gang has her lip-sync in her performance and try to cover up the obvious syncing fails with tons of smoke, but not before Ginger Fox marches "around the stage like an idiot" and flaunts her unshaven armpits.
** Music/MileyCyrus' performance at the 2013 edition. She sounded hideously off-key, like she was either high or out of breath, while going over the top with sexual imagery in a transparent attempt to shock. Almost immediately, the performance was criticized and condemned from all quarters, with Music/{{Rihanna}} and Music/OneDirection's unimpressed reaction in the audience going viral.[[note]]Another supposed reaction shot of Creator/WillSmith and his family looking shocked was also circulated, but it turned out it was actually their positive reaction to Music/LadyGaga's performance earlier in the night.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Creed}}'s December '02 concert at the Allstate Arena, near Chicago. Scott Stapp's numerous substance abuse habits came to a head here--he showed up strung out of his mind, mumbled along to five or so songs, then decided to take a nap. When he realized he hadn't performed a full set, he showed up again, and continued singing--completely independent of the band--before passing out onstage. Unsurprisingly, it was a key contributor to their 2003 break-up and got the band in a lot of legal trouble.
* Speaking of post-grunge, there was Music/PuddleOfMudd's 2004 performance in Toledo, Ohio, where a very inebriated Wes Scantlin admitted only four songs in that he was too drunk to continue. As a result, his thoroughly pissed-off bandmates walked off the stage, leaving him to fend for himself. Too drunk to know to follow them, he remained on stage for another thirty minutes, where he drunkenly warbled random ad-libbed songs and insulted the crowd while throwing back bottles and other assorted projectiles that they had lobbed at him before finally staggering away, where he was arrested by the Toledo police for disorderly conduct. Additional charges were later filed after he repeatedly spat on the back windows of the cruiser that was transporting him to be booked. After being released on a $150 cash bond, he vowed to never play in Toledo again because he was [[NeverMyFault "arrested for nothing"]], but it's likely that the incident probably made him a PersonaNonGrata in the Toledo metro area anyways.
%%* Former ''Real Housewife'' and current [[AttentionWhore fame whore]] Danielle Staub, along with three ''Series/JerseyShore''-esque meathead dancers, perform (in the loosest sense possible) the song "Real Close" [[http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/7000c099-bee0-4cde-8194-b1430d26260d/News/NJ-Housewife-Danielle-Staub-Performs-LIVE live in front of a trapped morning show audience.]]
* From ''Real Housewives''
** Kim Zolciak's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClozVzbQDs Google Me]]".
** Another gem from ''Real Housewives'' lady Countess [=LuAnn=] — "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEDvlSAMhQU Money Can't Buy You Class]]". It can't buy you talent, either.
* 90's British reggae star Finley Quaye's unforgivably awful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKkMJ_LnnVc performance]] at the Convent Club in Woodchester. [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/finley-quaye-kicked-stage-after-6058057 So bad, it gained the attention of the British press.]] Finley stood with his back to the crowd, refusing to look straight at them, and did nothing but lifelessly play a single three-chord progression on a badly-tuned guitar for half an hour straight, with occasional bouts of half-baked noodling that did nothing to break up the monotony. Meanwhile his backing band droned on, even more repetitively than him. The concert ended with the promoter, already very impatient after the TroubledProduction Quaye had turned the show into (and his numerous contract violations), sending the entire band off for "polluting [the] venue with bullshit," apologizing to the crowd directly, and refunding all tickets.
* Usually, Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai is a very good musician. She has been known to move people to tears. But she also has hearing problems as the result of nerve degeneration. With proper audio feedback, she can correct for this; but in one case, on ''Series/BritainsGotTalent,'' she was not provided with such. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPLWhmH5bDc This]] was the result. Czikai would later file a discrimination complaint over the absence of said feedback, but it was dropped, on the grounds that they only apply to job conditions.
* Music/{{Hole}}'s June 2010 show at Washington DC's 9:30 Club. Let's forget for a moment that it started nearly an hour late and that Courtney's voice certainly wasn't at its best; the three-hour train wreck had a awful setlist interspersed with roughly an hour's worth of aimless gasbagging. Multiple covers were played, all of them butchered. The songs that were theirs were only faintly remembered, with several bars worth of lines frequently skipped. The intervals between numbers were longer than they should have been, and she had an assistant who was recording the set via [=iPhone=]. She put much more thought into performing to it than the audience, to the point where she rudely lashed out at a crowd member who found the assistant distracting. By the end, well over half the audience (and most of the band) had left, the crowd swearing and clutching their tickets in disgust.
* Jemini's performance of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5kgSeZHfw "Cry Baby"]] at the 2003 Series/EurovisionSongContest is one of the few entries (especially in the post-1966 era of the competition) to ever receive ''[[MedalOfDishonor nul points]]'' all around. While some attributed their failure to backlash against the UK for its support of the Iraq War, there's no getting around the fact that their performance was flat-out dreadful, with both of the duo's members being hideously out of tune. Shortly after, they were dropped from their label, and their album never materialized; they broke up the following year.
* Music/MariahCarey's performance in Times Square for New Year's Rockin' Eve 2017. It was plagued by technical difficulties that weren't picked up beforehand due to the lack of a soundcheck before the performance, which got bad enough that Mariah eventually [[http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mariah-careys-new-years-eve-performance-what-went-wrong-w458587 gave up]] and ended the performance early. Afterwards, Mariah's team and Dick Clark Productions [[http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/mariah-carey-dick-clarks-new-years-rockin-eve-performance-video-lip-sync-response-a7505156.html blamed each other]] for the debacle, with the former claiming that a broken earpiece prevented Mariah from singing along to the backing track, and the latter accusing Mariah of trying to lip-sync and skipping the soundcheck.
* Music/MilliVanilli's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff08y_AXXzE MTV performance at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT.]] There was already suspicion that neither Robert Pilatus nor Fabrice Morvan, who ostensibly comprised the group, made any of its music. This practically confirmed it. The track the two were lip-syncing to [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch skipped mid-chorus]]. They spent a while trying to pass it off as deliberate before giving up and fleeing the stage. Worse, the whole concert was ''televised.'' It was the beginning of the end for Rob and Fab's careers, and it really didn't help that their producer fessed up soon afterwards. Morvan, Pilatus, and Milli Vanilli's label faced nearly thirty separate fraud lawsuits soon after. The band became the only act in history to have a Grammy withdrawn. Soon after, Arista Records dropped the group and deleted the master of their first album. Their attempts to carry on without Morvan and Pilatus required a total rebranding in order to so much as get an international release.
** And as for Rob & Fab themselves? Well, they attempted to redeem themselves by putting out music with their actual vocals on it, and went on ''Series/TheArsenioHallShow'' to prove their integrity. And sadly, this performance, of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew38sjEH91c "We Can Get It On"]] (warning: low quality), was also not good: Fab was game but singing out of his range, while Rob looked - and very much sounded - way too nervous to give any kind of good performance here.
* Music/NickiMinaj's performance of ''Roman Holiday'' [[http://youtu.be/8qT3PGToUzU at the 2012 Grammys]] was, putting it kindly, a disaster. The performance began with a horribly off-key rendition of [[Theatre/WestSideStory "I Feel Pretty"]], and an overlong video of her alter-ego Roman possessed by a demon. Then, the song started, and Minaj seemed both unsure of what her dance moves were supposed to be and out of breath constantly, the offensive religious imagery notwithstanding. The performance then ended with her "levitating" and singing an off-key rendition of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" while trying to seem evil (and, predictably, failing). The performance was poorly received by the public, was labeled classless and outraged not only religious groups and parents, but ''fans of Nicki themselves''.
* Julio Preciado's performance of the Mexican National Anthem in the 2009 Carribean Series baseball tournament. He sang the whole thing while being (apparently) drunk, since he forgot the lyrics of the anthem in the middle of the whole performance, mixed the rhythm with "The Star-Spangled Banner" at some point, and made up a few lines that are not in the anthem. Needless to say, people got really mad at him to the point that they booed him off the field, and he also earned himself a fine from the Mexican government for the perceived mockery on his performance.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' is known for its musical guests. Some of them have delivered legendary performances on the show, others… have been legendarily ''bad''.
** Music/AshleeSimpson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RrLAgi_mBY embarrassing debacle]] on the Season 30 episode hosted by Creator/JudeLaw is one of the most infamous moments in the show's history, revealing to the world the ugly truth about her lip-syncing. It's among the most notorious live performances of the decade, ending with the humiliating sight of Ashlee doing an awkward 'hoe-down' before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving the stage]] [[TheShowMustGoOn while the band plays on]] and the show cuts to commercial. She became a national laughingstock and her generation's Music/MilliVanilli literally overnight... but it wasn't this performance that would end her career for good. That came a few months later, and is described a couple of entries below.
** Music/{{Eminem}}'s performance of [[http://truba.com/video/97196/ "Just Lose It"]] on the Season 30 episode hosted by Creator/KateWinslet was a prime demonstration of horrible. The lip-syncing was obvious, Eminem looked lifeless on stage, and at one point (around 1:17), he can be seen licking his lips while the track played on without him. The worst part? This was just ''one week'' after Ashlee Simpson's 'hoe-down', so both he and the ''SNL'' producers should've known better.
** Lip-syncing would have been much preferable to Music/KanyeWest's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4jrMuus-Fc performance]] of "Love Lockdown" (''without'' AutoTune) on the season 34 Christmas episode hosted by Creator/HughLaurie. They should have just had Hugh sing.
** While a lovely studio singer, Music/LanaDelRey has proven that she is definitely ''not'' a good live singer. She [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iu4gqxWeYE performed]] her viral hit tune "Video Games" on the Season 37 episode hosted by Creator/DanielRadcliffe, and it was painful to watch. She seemed to mumble most of the words and was constantly out of breath, and at times it almost sounded like she didn't even know the words to her own song. The performance has gotten her a bad rap and despite being talented, she recently has become more known for her bad ''SNL'' performance. In fact, ''SNL itself'' made fun of it on the next new episode (hosted by Channing Tatum with musical guest Bon Iver) by having Creator/KristenWiig as Lana Del Rey interrupt Weekend Update to talk about her horrible performance.
** The Season 40 episode hosted by Creator/JimCarrey saw Music/IggyAzalea and MØ perform their hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9cbInp_Og "Beg For It"]]. While Iggy was in her element, this was MØ's first televised live performance, and her inexperience combined with technical issues produced an utter disaster on her part. Her singing and dancing were badly out-of-step with the beat of the song, and she looked like she had a bad case of stage fright. She was so embarrassed by her performance that she [[https://twitter.com/MOMOMOYOUTH/status/526467603121045504 publicly apologized]] for it.
* Creator/WilliamShatner [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWOmHUvKBw covering Harry Chapin's "Taxi"]] on ''The Dinah Shore Show'' circa 1973 (yes, that's a timecode). Even by ''his'' standards, it's awful.
* Music/AshleeSimpson strikes again, this time with an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY2cN3BgPsU utterly dreadful performance]] of her single "La La" at the [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6791368/ Orange Bowl]] on January 4, 2005. Coming just a couple of months after her ''SNL'' disaster (see above), this time she was committed to proving that she could sing live. It backfired badly -- her vocals are so hideously off-key that it's not clear that she's even trying to sing as opposed to just shouting the lyrics. When she's done, ''the entire stadium'' is booing, and a shout of "You suck!" can be heard from the crowd if you have very good ears (provided they hadn't self-destructed from being subjected to three minutes of terrible singing). It stood in sharp contrast to Music/KellyClarkson's performance just before her, which earned plaudits despite being plagued by technical problems. Between the ''SNL'' performance and this one, Ashlee's once-promising pop music career [[CreatorKiller imploded in an instant]].
* In a strange meta-example, there's the case of Spinal Tap, a parody "band" created for the mockumentary ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''. A few years after the movie was released, "Spinal Tap" did a live stage tour. The Folksmen of ''Film/AMightyWind'' fame (played by the same actors as Spinal Tap) "opened" for Spinal Tap. A significant portion of the audience ''completely'' missed the joke, apparently thinking Spinal Tap was a real heavy metal band, and didn't understand why the opening act for the concert was a trio singing folk songs. In one memorable instance in New York the audience actually attempted to ''boo the Folksmen off the stage'' in favor of… the exact same people.
* Every year, the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl halftime show serves as a platform for some of America's biggest pop musicians. Some artists have used the occasion to knock it out of the park… but others have sent their careers into a tailspin.
** In the early years of the Super Bowl, halftime was mainly a showcase for university marching bands and drill teams. That changed when Up With People, a '60s collective that formed to counter the anti-establishment views of the counterculture[[note]]The group was formed by Moral Re-Armament, a severely conservative Christian cult; it may be worth noting that Alcoholics Anonymous also sprang from MR (back when it was known as the Oxford Group)[[/note]], performed four halftime shows in 1976, '80, '82, and '86. As [[http://deadspin.com/5980867/remembering-up-with-people-the-gay-quasi-cult-that-invented-the-super-bowl-halftime-show noted]] by ''Deadspin'', they pretty much invented the modern Super Bowl halftime show that truly came into its own in TheNineties… but they also brought with them their [[TastesLikeDiabetes hyper-saccharine]] sensibilities, which by TheEighties were seen as embarrassing. These days, their performances are still a punchline that often get named as being among the worst Super Bowl halftime shows in history. [[note]]Fun fact: Creator/GlennClose used to be a member of Up with People. Reporters are told [[OldShame not to ask her about that]].[[/note]]
** The 2004 performance by Music/JanetJackson and Music/JustinTimberlake at Super Bowl XXXVIII went down in history for all the wrong reasons, with Timberlake accidentally ripping off a piece of Jackson's top and exposing her bare breast (albeit adorned with a nipple shield) for half a second. The concert ended immediately at that moment, with Jackson's two-decade-spanning career [[CreatorKiller destroyed by the incident]] (though Timberlake's soon recovered), and it sparked both a backlash over indecency in the media and a counter-backlash over censorship and prudishness in American culture. The NFL played it safe after the incident, blacklisting Creator/{{MTV}} (which had previously produced the well-received Super Bowl XXXV halftime show in 2001) from producing the show again, implementing a [[LiveButDelayed five-second delay]] for the show in later years, and enlisting classic rock musicians to perform from 2005 through 2010[[note]]Music/PaulMcCartney performed in 2005, Music/TheRollingStones in 2006, Music/{{Prince}} in 2007, Music/TomPetty & the Heartbreakers in 2008, Music/BruceSpringsteen and the E Street Band in 2009, and Music/TheWho in 2010[[/note]]; only in 2011 did they bring another modern pop act to perform. And speaking of...
** ...we have the Music/BlackEyedPeas' performance at the Super Bowl XLV halftime show in 2011. Their reliance on AutoTune translated terribly to a live concert event, as they delivered horribly off-key renditions of some of their most recent hits and performed stiff dance moves. The performance is often cited as a CreatorKiller for the band, which saw airplay and sales fall off dramatically in the weeks and months after before going on hiatus the following year.
* There have been some truly memorable impromptu live performances, such as the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert and Music/{{U2}}'s mimicry of it for their "Where the Streets Have No Name" video. However, LA small-time RapRock band Imperial Stars' 2010 performance of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL5S5_16t8E Traffic Jam 101]]" was not one of them. This band (whose original song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsfeqw8Wzw4 is already awful]]) thought they would win fame, fortune and attention to homeless children by setting up and performing ''[[WhatAnIdiot right on 3 lanes of Los Angeles' busy 101 freeway]]''. Instead they "won" the wrath of the city's drivers as well as jail time and several viral videos of their "performance" on [=YouTube=]. It gained [[ColbertBump even more infamy]] after it was heavily mocked by comedian Creator/JoeRogan during his 2012 performance at The Tabernacle.
* '''''Skeletons from the Opera Closet''''' is a book about everything the operatic world doesn't want you to know -- including a section on some of the worst operas ever written and another about the most unusual, if not the worst, ways operas have been performed.
** The winner of the "worst operas" section, "I Bombieri (Opera's Greatest Duds)," is ''Montezuma'' by Roger Sessions, front and center, with horrible atonal and serial music and a poorly worded libretto by Giuseppe Borgese. (There are a few operas in that section that aren't as horrible as the section says, but most of them are downright bad. ''Adriana Lecouvreur'' by Francesco Cilea and ''Mitridate, re di Ponto'' by Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart (then aged 14) -- lambasted respectively for historical inaccuracy and monotony -- fall more under the SoBadItsGood category, but ''Alfonso und Estrella'' by Music/FranzSchubert is one of the prime examples why he never succeeded in the theater -- it suffers from a repetitive libretto and indistinguishable music.)
** The winner of the "worst/weirdest performances" section -- "Sweet Diva, Did You See That?" -- was the 1976 Bayreuth production of ''Der Ring des Niebelungen'' -- or, as the German critics called it, the "Centennial Scandal" -- that transferred the story to the Industrial Revolution, with the Rhinemaidens as prostitutes and the gods as capitalist fatcats, and was nearly booed off the stage by the outraged audience. Other such performances included ''Die Walküre'' as if ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had existed in 1970 and ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'' translated into Kabuki theater.
* José Feliciano's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gZWIE081po performance]] of "[[Music/ThePolice Every Breath You Take]]" at the 2017 Polar Music Prize was met with widespread ridicule. While the rest of the performance pretty much replicated the original version, he attempted playing the song's guitar line in his own signature style, which simply didn't work. His playing was drastically out of sync with the song's rhythm, so much so broadcast of his guitar stopped after an awful solo. Infamously, shots of the audience showed Music/{{Sting}} looking ''very'' uncomfortable during the performance.
* The 2017 Grammys had a lot of memorable moments, from stage mics not working, to a stunning Prince tribute. But one moment that was memorable for the completely ''wrong'' reasons was an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQVNsTnku5c inexplicable mash-up]] of Music/KelseaBallerini's "Peter Pan" and Music/LukasGraham's "7 Years", performed by Graham and Ballerini themselves. Both artists looked awkward, extremely uncomfortable together with absolutely zero chemistry whatsoever, but that's not even the worst part: the performance itself was absolutely ''abysmal''. For one, both songs have different key signatures and tempos, requiring Ballerini to have to butcher the tempo of her own song just for it to fit. Neither song seemed to mesh well together thematically or stylistically, and both had extremely differing stage presences; Ballerini's more reserved approach contrasted greatly with Graham's bombastic singing and vocal noodling, even singing ''way outside his range'' at one point just to show off his pipes ''on a song that didn't even warrant it''. Its presence in Best/Worst of the Grammys is either in the "Worst" or "weirdest" section, and fans of either artist didn't react more kindly either.

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