What is the Worst Song Ever Written

If for some reason you want to hear the song, like if you're trolling a friend, or torturing a hostage or something, here it is:

Breaking down the worst song ever, without question.

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A little about me:

Sean Daniel is a man. A man of simple needs and desires. And the one desire, no, the one NEED, that stands above all is to spread the challenges, joy and intellectual stimulus of music to people of Earth and beyond.
Born on the mean streets of upper middle class suburban Chicago, Sean learned the ways of the world through the dizzying heights of success to the lonesome depths of failure and emerged with the promise of a better tomorrow reflecting in his eyes and fiery passion in his belly.
He plays and teaches guitar on his YouTube channel where he regularly releases original music and projects to the adulation of legions of fans, who often compare him to Chris Pratt and one time Ryan Reynolds. He’s currently in the market for a nice leather jacket.

[StichMethodGuitar]

I’m sure it’s a Phish song.... 5 seconds in.... let’s see

[kdrake]

Sean, if you could write a song like You’re Beautiful, you could afford to move out of your parent’s house. 😉

[Sabres]

This is only true in a world where the dying corpse of Jefferson Airplane didn't write and record "We Built This City."

[toddblenkhorn]

Sean this leads to an interesting question. This song is a horrific assault on the listener, but it made this d-bag rich and famous, even if it’s for a crappy song. If you had the opportunity to record this song before he did, knowing it would be as big as it was, would you do it?

[icemaster]

Actually I do end up feeling sorry for the protagonist. Not because he'll never see this woman again, but because he's a grown man who knows squat about basic human interaction. Or about writing songs.

[slingerace]

"MacArthur Park" gives it a good run for the money. Your sister seems really sweet. Was one of you adopted? :-)

[Zerothnz]

Nice to meet your sister, you two make a good team. I was really hoping you would choose Black Eyed Peas "I gotta feeling". Every second of that songs makes me want to take a screwdriver to my ear holes

[ronlight]

I'd never heard of James Blunt before, but I have to say, that's sort of what you expect from someone with a name like that. "I'm hip, I'm cool, I'm what's get you high, baby – I'm intoxicating." Hey, Sean, great call putting Christy on the couch with you. She's a nice unassuming presence and a good foil for a foiled subway pickup.

[joshuaparker]

I think the song is about him and his girlfriend are on the subway. Another girl and her boyfriend is on the train. The girl and him fall in love but they can't ever act on it truly because they are with someone already. Just my take on what the lyrics are saying.

[ertin]

I can pronounce words without a vowel at the end.

[gremy]

Brilliant also means very bright I.e. it shining like a star or sun. "My life saw an angel, of that I'm sure" can be translated as "I saw an angel, she lit up my life", like being blinded by beauty. In context of her not actually being an angel, it's saying "I saw a girl who lit up my life so bright that she must be an angel".

The "my love is pure" can be interpreted the same way. He saw someone that made him feel "pure unadulterated love" I.e. Spread an aura of pureness, like an angel.

It's a description of the reaction to seeing a the girl, rather than a claim of being brilliant and pure.

[politicalGRAFFITI]

I didn't know the song, so searched for it here on YouTube and found one video that had 108 million views! No accounting for taste I guess. Thanks, now I've got it stuck in my head.

PS British people use brilliant like we use awesome.

[Pariko]

Thom Yorke was at least straightforward in saying he was a creep.

[RedCarpetRoom]

I always thought the plan was to write this song in the hopes she would hear it and then somehow go find him because he was high and was making some severe and continuous lapse in his judgement #meme

[keiferwilliams]

My Pal Foot Foot by The Shaggs is objectively worse. The Shaggs were an all sibling band barricaded by an abusive father in their basement. They had no books on music theory or teacher. Part of the father's insanity was he thought they were the next Jackson 5, so he kept them there until they pieced together "music." The story/album is so weird that it become a cult hit before liking something ironically was in vogue. Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain list The Shaggs debut album as one of their favorites. It's worth a listen, quite a darkly humorous horror story in music history.

[mariovanberneveld]

For me, it's "Scream And Shout" by Will.I.Am and Britney Spears

[cholepriccee]

maybe he was just double stopping on the girl in the subway

[mattymatmatmat]

In defence of Mr blunt he is very self depricating of the music he makes, also he did a version of it for sesame Street which is gold.
I would vote for the song called "life" the lyrics go:
I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight I'd fear the most, I'd rather have a piece of toast and watch the evening news.
Life oh life ooh oh liiiife oh life, doo doo do do.

[danmar]

True story: back in 1966 I wrote a song called "On a Carousel" a couple of months before the brilliant Hollies came out with their version. Surprisingly some of the lyrics were somewhat similar. But, of course, their version was much better than mine. I still felt cheated out of fame and fortune!! That was the worst song ever written.

[themaninawhitecoatandhat]

you're beautiful was my favorite song for a long time but so overplayed on radio