History Horrible / MusicSongs

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZLboRJUQs&pp=ygUPc3RpbXVsYXRlZCB0eWdh Stimulated]]''' by Tyga is a song about Tyga's sexual relationship with Kylie Jenner. At the time, Kylie was 17 and Tyga was 26. Already not off to a good start, but that's only the start of the song's problems. Tyga portrays himself as an abusive BastardBoyfriend, admitting there was no love in the relationship and he was only in it because he enjoyed the sex, calling Kylie a "bitch" and writing lines like "Shut up and let me finish, baby, I'll let you finish later," as well as having the song centered around the line "They say she young, I should have waited," so even someone who didn't have any knowledge of the context in which the song was created can know exactly why they should hate Tyga. And even if the listener either does not understand English or just does not care about the lyrics, Tyga is an unimpressive rapper at the best of times and this is one of his most flat and lifeless performances, and the beat, the only part of the song that is in any way pleasant to listen to, is ripped wholesale from another song, specifically a Robert Miles song called "Children". The song has a rating of 0.6 out of 5 on rateyourmusic.com, along with the song having the tags "disturbing", "crime", "hedonistic", and "vulgar", every music critic who acknowledged the song's existence tore it apart, and WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent labelled it as the worst song to chart anywhere in the entirety of the 2010s by a large margin in his video on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlYsuIb8XI&t=4374s Top 10 Worst Almost Hits of the 2010s]].

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZLboRJUQs&pp=ygUPc3RpbXVsYXRlZCB0eWdh Stimulated]]''' by Music/{{Tyga}} is a song about Tyga's sexual relationship with Kylie Jenner. At the time, Kylie was 17 and Tyga was 26. Already not off to a good start, but that's only the start of the song's problems. Tyga portrays himself as an abusive BastardBoyfriend, admitting there was no love in the relationship and he was only in it because he enjoyed the sex, calling Kylie a "bitch" and writing lines like "Shut up and let me finish, baby, I'll let you finish later," as well as having the song centered around the line "They say she young, I should have waited," so even someone who didn't have any knowledge of the context in which the song was created can know exactly why they should hate Tyga. And even if the listener either does not understand English or just does not care about the lyrics, Tyga is an unimpressive rapper at the best of times and this is one of his most flat and lifeless performances, and the beat, the only part of the song that is in any way pleasant to listen to, is ripped wholesale from another song, specifically a Robert Miles song called "Children". The song has a rating of 0.6 out of 5 on [[rateyourmusic.com rateyourmusic.com]], along with the song having the tags "disturbing", "crime", "hedonistic", and "vulgar", every music critic who acknowledged the song's existence tore it apart, and WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent labelled it as the worst song to chart anywhere in the entirety of the 2010s by a large margin in his video on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlYsuIb8XI&t=4374s Top 10 Worst Almost Hits of the 2010s]].

* '''"Literally I Can't"''', by Play-N-Skillz, Redfoo, Lil' Jon, and Enertia [=McFly=] was chosen by Billboard as the worst song to touch the weekly Hot 100 in the entirety of the [=2010s=], and listening to it, it's not hard to see why. Putting aside the irritating beat and unpleasant performances by the rappers, the song may have been ''intended'' as the ordinary type of woman-bashing anthem, with the concept of female chatter ruining the good time of male partiers. However, the specific things the female voice sample is saying make the implications even worse, with her being portrayed as annoying for...declining alcohol and refusing to perform sexual acts on Lil' Jon. It didn't take too long for backlash to hit, and not long afterwards, the artists involved took the song down from all official sources online. WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent tore into it on his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlYsuIb8XI Top 20 Worst Almost Hits of the 2010s]] video, where he gave it the #2 spot while unfavorably comparing it to the infamous "#selfie" by the Chainsmokers. Listen to it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yiSxyg7xsk&pp=ygURbGl0ZXJhbGx5IGkgY2FuJ3Q%3D here]], if you dare.

* Most of the music created by Music/{{AJR}} is generally disliked by audiences, but they do have a fanbase who generally enjoys their avant-garde musical ideas. Even those fans won't defend '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3deZAT-XY0 "Thirsty"]]'''. The song opens with a yodel breakdown, which is a very strange addition to a song about a drunken hookup. The rest of the song isn't that much better, with basic and underwhelming lyrics and production that only serve to make the yodeling more jarring. Even the brothers themselves consider it the weirdest song they've ever made, and their fans and haters alike tend to agree it's one of their worst, with the comment section of the official video being filled with people mocking the song.

* '''"Literally I Can't"''', by Play-N-Skillz, Redfoo, Lil' Jon, and Enertia [=McFly=] was chosen by Billboard as the worst song to touch the weekly Hot 100 in the entirety of the [=2010s=], and listening to it, it's not hard to see why. Putting aside the irritating beat and unpleasant performances by the rappers, the song may have been ''intended'' as the ordinary type of woman-bashing anthem, with the concept of female chatter ruining the good time of male partiers. However, the specific things the female voice sample is saying make the implications even worse, with her being portrayed as annoying for...declining alcohol and refusing to perform sexual acts on Lil' Jon. It didn't take too long for backlash to hit, and not long afterwards, the artists involved took the song down from all official sources online. WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent tore into it on his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlYsuIb8XI Top 20 Worst Almost Hits of the 2010s]] video, where he gave it the #2 spot while unfavorably comparing it to the infamous "#selfie" by the Chainsmokers.

'''Important Note''': To ensure that the song is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''.

* 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=GH4tXoeTRCY "FACK"]]''', a bonus track from his GreatestHitsAlbum ''Curtain Call''. The lyrics 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 [[{{Squick}} shoving a gerbil up his 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, as well as the title track to his 2018 album ''Kamikaze'', where "Fack 2017" is a RunningGag[[note]] He's threatening to drop another "Fack" if people don't leave him alone.[[/note]]. 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. The man himself [[https://genius.com/5140297 admitted]] he was on a ''lot'' of pills at the time of its writing. "Ambien will make you do crazy shit", indeed. [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]] [[https://youtu.be/D4r_CwjEs7g?t=360 called the gerbil line one of the worst lyrics he's ever heard]]. Weirdly enough, the song is on Apple Music’s “Essentials” playlist for Eminem-and wasn't always there.

* Heidi Montag of ''Series/TheHills'' fame made a music video for an incredibly bad single entitled '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZYGrC40Ko "Higher"]]'''. The video simply shows her [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing dancing, writhing, and walking]] at the beach, with said video most likely being shot with a camera phone. This becomes a painful experience when combined with Heidi's incredibly poor vocals and the video's ridiculous amount of jump cuts. [[http://www.agonybooth.com/agonizer/Heidi_Montag_s__Higher_.aspx This]] is [[HeroicBSOD what happens]] when Website/TheAgonyBooth gets exposed to it.

* Music/BrianWilson (yes, the one from Music/TheBeachBoys)'s song '''"Smart Girls"''', released only as a radio promo from the unreleased album ''Music/SweetInsanity'', in which Brian ''raps'' over a jumbled mess of samples from many of his earlier hits (some of which are in the ''wrong key'' for the song) about how sexy women with a [=PhD=] are. The results are rather [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00 sad.]] Unsurprisingly, Creator/SireRecords straight-up rejected the album as soon as they heard it. In the interests of total fairness, it's important to add that at this point Brian was dominated by his [[TheSvengali Svengali-like]], highly-unethical "therapist" Eugene Landy, whose meddling behavior 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.

* In 2020, Music/{{Wolfmother}} engaged in one of the most baffling {{genre shift}}s in history with the song '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_grd9ejLH58 "High on My Own Supply"]]''', which abandons the psychedelic HardRock the band is known for in favor of a generic EDM/future bass sound in an extremely obvious attempt to [[WereStillRelevantDammit cash in on the then-ongoing popularity of electronic music]]. Beyond that, the OdeToIntoxication lyrics are extremely basic and Andrew Stockdale puts no effort into his performance, with his grating, off-key vocals frequently failing to match the song's rhythm. [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]] placed it #10 on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsvZmbVuEw his Ten Worst Songs of 2020 list.]]

* In 2020, Music/{{Wolfmother}} engaged in one of the most baffling {{genre shift}}s in history with the song '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_grd9ejLH58 "High on My Own Supply"]]''', which abandons the psychedelic HardRock the band is known for in favor of a generic EDM/future bass sound in an extremely obvious attempt to [[TwoDecadesBehind cash in on the popularity of electronic music]]. Beyond that, the OdeToIntoxication lyrics are extremely basic and Andrew Stockdale puts no effort into his performance, with his grating, off-key vocals frequently failing to match the song's rhythm. [[WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop Anthony Fantano]] placed it #10 on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsvZmbVuEw his Ten Worst Songs of 2020 list.]]

* Music/TheClash's [[CreatorKiller final album]] ''Music/CutTheCrap'' is already considered to be an awful album overall[[note]]The only reason it's not listed on Horrible.MusicAlbums is because one song, "This is England", is considered a pretty good song[[/note]], but one song in particular stands out: the opening track, '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOorbmPSRs "Dictator"]]'''. While the rest of the album is at least passable production-wise, this track stands out as being the most unlistenable and poorly produced song on the album. It features a murky vocal mix that renders the lyrics unintelligible, a drum machine track that doesn't flow with the rest of the song, and a synth track that sounds like a toddler banging on the keyboard. Production aside, Joe Strummer does not sound like he's into this song at all, as he delivers a half-assed vocal performance where he sounds off-key and is slightly late delivering some lines. While that's all happening, there's this strange chatter going on in the background for the entire song, like someone left their radio in the recording booth during recording. What makes it even worse is that there are bootlegs of the album with a demo version of the song, which is far more in line with a traditional Clash song with an actual melody and hook, but it (as well as the rest of the album) became a victim of Bernard Rhodes' ExecutiveMeddling. It got some reviewers like WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows to question whether or not their equipment was malfunctioning. You can watch his review on the song [[https://youtu.be/L75tI8qZhIc?t=402 here.]]

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAl-xzN8e-M "Funky Man"]]''' is a strong contender for the worst rap song in history. A little backstory: In 1987, Dee Dee Ramone, bassist and co-founder of Music/TheRamones, noticed that HipHop was becoming more and more popular on the charts and he decided to capitalize on it. So, under the name "Dee Dee King", he released this repetitive, ego-stroking mess of a song that is simply one of the most embarrassing moments in punk rock history. Very few bought the single, and even fewer liked it. Unfortunately, Dee Dee decided hip hop was the route he wanted to go, left The Ramones, and released a whole ''album'' like this. Dee Dee was well known for being wacky, but this was downright madness. For more information, see WebVideo/TheHappySpaceman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Jg8oeAhd0 review of it.]]

-->''I'm not a baker but I got a lot of cream here''

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nczzdUzDmEw "I'm Horny"]]''' by [=GionnyScandal=] and Maite. Maite's [[GratuitousEnglish English]] is absolutely appalling: When she sings "I'm horny horny", it sounds like "I'm Ernie Ernie" instead, adding a pinch of unintentional humor to wash down all the suck. According to several translations, the Italian lyrics are just as bad:

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqvgoPMd7d8 "Movin' Up"]]''' by [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo 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 to a generic dance beat that probably came from a stock instrumental. Huffington Post UK described it as [[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/01/honey-boo-boo-music-video_n_8226116.html diabolical]].

* '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YdPucCkZU "She's Mad"]]''' by independent rapper [=PtheG=]. The music already defies melody, but the garbled AutoTune makes it virtually unlistenable.

* Gnesa's '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF2o5RDkq9A "Wilder"]]''' suffers from terrible, off-key singing; downright ear-screeching instrumentals; and horrible visuals. The producer must have realized this since they obviously attempted to hide her voice using extremely loud background music. It doesn't help that whoever posted the video not only [[AstroTurf hired a bunch of people to post fake positive comments]], but ratings are also disabled, and any negative comment will get deleted. Watch Danny Korcz from Audio Abominations [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hVVpFB84Kw tear this song apart.]] Interestingly, the song itself turns out decent when done by a person who can actually ''sing''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dc01C3KkVc Aaron Isles]] made a pretty good cover.

* In 1986, nine players on the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams New York Mets]] recorded a rap song called '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvufrpAhls "Get Metsmerized"]]''', inspired by the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Chicago Bears]]' "UsefulNotes/SuperBowl Shuffle". No effort was put into making it good at all; everyone is out of rhythm, Rafael Santana's verse is barely intelligible, the rhymes are all over the place, and more than half sound like they'd rather be doing something else. The single is now just a footnote in Mets' history and was pushed aside in favor of "Let's Go Mets Go", another cheer that defined the '86 season. It's so bad that, for a time, if you put "Worst song ever recorded" in Website/YouTube's search, this song would be the first result. Years later, Tim Teufel called it "[[CreatorBacklash unlistenable]]".

* The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic inspired a lot of songs of varying quality, with [[Horrible/MusicAlbums repeat]] [[Horrible/MusicCovers offender]][[note]]this isn't even his first mention on this very page[[/note]] Mike Love's single '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OVy33V_OI "This Too Shall Pass"]]''' being one of the more terrible ones. The song combines a [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly upbeat tune with amateurish lyrics about the death and disruption caused by the pandemic]] that read more like a high school student's first draft of a poetry class assignment, all drenched in Mike's trademark robotic production. It fell into obscurity almost immediately after release except as yet another target of mockery for fans of the Music/TheBeachBoys and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, but even that didn't last. [[DamnedByFaintPraise To its credit, it at least encourages following CDC guidelines.]]

* '''"Asian Girlz"''' by Day Above Ground is a "love ballad" that surpasses RaceFetish and lands squarely into just plain racist. It features insipid, poorly written lyrics that mostly just list racial stereotypes (even going into InterchangeableAsianCultures and AsianSpeekeeEngrish) with the occasional NonSequitur to force a rhyme, layered on top of a bland acoustic pop-punk track. The band quickly said ParodyRetcon on the song and claimed it was about decrying race fetishes, which is easily disproven by the song's trashy, fetishistic music video.[[note]]Not to mention that one of their defenses was that they would "[[NotHelpingYourCase never talk that way about the most beautiful women on Earth]]".[[/note]] The song fails as a comedy since it's no more clever than Googling "list of Asian stereotypes" and reading them out, it fails at being sexy thanks to ''bizarre'' lines like "Ninja pussy I'm stabbing" and "[[{{Ephebophile}} 17 or 23, baby, it doesn't matter to me]]", and it fails at being good music because of its dime-a-dozen production. The band would later apologize for releasing the song, as well as fire their lead singer for writing it. You can watch Sad Boyz cringe their way through the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfepAA5SQIg here.]]

* The UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic inspired a lot of songs of varying quality, with [[Horrible/MusicAlbums repeat]] [[Horrible/MusicCovers offender]][[note]]this isn't even his first mention on this very page[[/note]] Mike Love's single '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8OVy33V_OI "This Too Shall Pass"]]''' being one of the more terrible ones. The song combines a [[LyricalDissonance dissonantly upbeat tune with amateurish lyrics about the death and disruption caused by the pandemic]] that read more like a high school student's first draft of a poetry class assignment, all drenched in Mike's trademark robotic production. It fell into obscurity almost immediately after release except as yet another target of mockery for [[Music/TheBeachBoys Beach Boys]] fans, but even that didn't last. [[DamnedByFaintPraise To its credit, it at least encourages following CDC guidelines.]]

* '''"Asian Girlz"''' by Day Above Ground is a "love ballad" that surpasses RaceFetish and lands squarely into just plain racist. It features insipid, poorly written lyrics that mostly just list racial stereotypes (going into InterchangeableAsianCultures territory by mixing together references to different Asian cultures including Korean, Japanese, and Chinese), with the occasional NonSequitur to force a rhyme, layered on top of a bland acoustic pop-punk track. The band quickly said ParodyRetcon on the song and claimed it was about decrying race fetishes, which is easily disproven by the song's trashy, fetishistic music video.[[note]]Not to mention that one of their defenses was that they would "[[NotHelpingYourCase never talk that way about the most beautiful women on Earth]]"[[/note]] The song fails as a comedy since it's no more clever than Googling "list of Asian stereotypes" and reading them out, it fails at being sexy thanks to ''bizarre'' lines like "Ninja pussy I'm stabbing" and "[[{{Ephebophile}} 17 or 23, baby, it doesn't matter to me]]", and it fails at being good music because of its dime-a-dozen production. The band would later apologize for releasing the song, as well as fire their lead singer for writing it. You can watch Sad Boyz cringe their way through the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfepAA5SQIg here.]]

* '''"Asian Girlz"''' by Day Above Ground is a "love ballad" that surpasses RaceFetish and lands squarely into just plain racist. It features insipid, poorly written lyrics that are essentially just a list of racial stereotypes with the occasional NonSequitur to force a rhyme, layered on top of a bland acoustic pop-punk track. The band quickly said ParodyRetcon on the song and claimed it was about decrying race fetishes, which is easily disproven by the song's trashy, fetishy music video.[[note]]Not to mention that one of their defenses was that they would "[[NotHelpingYourCase never talk that way about the most beautiful women on Earth]]"[[/note]] The song fails as a comedy since it's literally as clever as Googling "list of Asian stereotypes" and reading them out, it fails at being sexy thanks to ''bizarre'' lines like "Ninja pussy I'm stabbing", and it fails at being good music because of its dime-a-dozen production. The band would later apologize for releasing the song, as well as fire their lead singer for writing it. You can watch Sad Boyz cringe their way through the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfepAA5SQIg here.]]

* Music/{{Weezer}} were one of the biggest bands in the rock music scene in the mid-90s, and to an extent the early 2000s, but things took a bad turn with the release of ''Make Believe'' in 2005, and the band hit their creative nadir in 2009. Released as a single from ''Raditude'' (which is considered a generally bad album overall), '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VewCBGU77eQ "Can't Stop Partying"]]''' is the band's attempt at creating a ''[[InDaClub club anthem]]''. According to frontman Rivers Cuomo, it's actually meant to be a darker song about someone who ''literally'' cannot stop partying, to the point where it's dangerous- but [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing it comes off a lot more like a serious]] [[OdeToIntoxication ode to the party animal lifestyle]]. Not helping is Music/LilWayne [[AWildRapperAppears popping up in the middle of the song]] to sing a verse that's really the only part of this song that doesn't feel out of place because he's always rapping about this stuff. The strange thing about this song is that it started out as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jULE2Mt6LS0 a much better acoustic song]] from the ''Alone II'' demo compilation that Rivers wrote a couple of years before [[note]](the lyrics were more or less the same, but the original music was [[LyricalDissonance much sadder sounding]], making the tone a lot more fitting to the song's original intent)[[/note]], so God knows why he decided to remake it into ''this.'' Thankfully, the band has never recorded another song like this until the somewhat better received "Feels Like Summer" (Which even then has nothing to do lyrically with this song), and things started to look up for them with the release of ''Everything Will be Alright in the End'' and ''Weezer (White Album)'' some years later.

* It's no secret that Music/TheBeachBoys went downhill from TheSeventies, but ''no'' other song they've ever released comes close to the [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPyVYCPDs0Y "Hey Little Tomboy"]]''', originally intended for their unreleased 1977 album ''[[Music/AdultChild1977 Adult/Child]]'' and released commercially the following year on ''[[Music/MIUAlbum M.I.U.]]'' Besides the blatant sexism in the concept, the lyrics are just plain ''creepy'', with the [[FromBadToWorse then 37-year-old]] Music/MikeLove starting off the song by telling the titular tomboy to ''sit on his lap'' and [[{{Squick}} saying he'll]] ''[[{{Squick}} teach her to kiss.]]'' Worse, everyone in the song except Carl Wilson sounds bored to tears. Peter Ames Carlin unsurprisingly named this "the most unsettling moment in the entire recorded history of the Beach Boys".

* ''"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 '''"Music/DoctorInDistress"'''. You can practically hear ''Series/DoctorWho'''s last remaining scrap of dignity being wrenched away. The generic instrumentals -- performed by a young Music/HansZimmer -- and near-unsingable lyrics would've been bad enough, but combined with having some of them performed by actors from the show who clearly have no musical talent whatsoever, and you get what Creator/ColinBaker described his participation in as "one of the worst decisions [he] ever made". It was so bad that Creator/TheBBC ''refused'' to air it on any of its television or radio stations, even though it was performed almost entirely by network celebrities. The single sold less than 1,000 copies and came nowhere close to recouping production costs, leaving no money to actually donate to charity (Baker and a few of the other participants instead donated out of their own pockets). In 2005, former series advisor Ian Levine (who wrote and co-produced the song) actually ''[[CreatorBacklash apologized]]'' for the entire thing, calling it [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2005/oct/22/1 "a balls-up fiasco"]]. [[https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/pop-between-realities-home-in-time-for-tea-30-doctor-in-distress Academic Elizabeth Sandifer]] found similarities between the song and UsefulNotes/LiveAid and accused it of equating the hiatus of a television series with famine in Africa--that it came out between Live Aid and its predecessor "Do They Know It's Christmas?" didn't help.

* Music/BrianWilson (yes, the one from Music/TheBeachBoys)'s song '''"Smart Girls"''', released only as a radio promo from the unreleased album ''Sweet Insanity'', in which Brian ''raps'' over a jumbled mess of samples from many of his earlier hits (some of which are in the ''wrong key'' for the song) about how sexy women with a [=PhD=] are. The results are rather [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0SnpN_O00 sad.]] Unsurprisingly, Creator/SireRecords straight-up rejected the album as soon as they heard it. In the interests of total fairness, it's important to add that at this point Brian was dominated by his [[TheSvengali Svengali-like]], highly-unethical "therapist" Eugene Landy, whose meddling behavior 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.