Hi, everyone. Bigthony Sadtano here, the Internet's busiest music nerd, continuing our 2024 List Week coverage, where, yeah, despite my excitement this year to get into the best music of the year, because there was quite a bit of that, to be honest, I also have to talk about what I felt was some of the worst music of the year as well, which is why in this video, we are doing the top 10 worst songs of the year.

10) Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - "CARNIVAL" ft. Rich the Kid & Playboi Carti

Let's go. Okay, number 10, we are going to do Kanye and Ty Dolla $ign with the big single off of their Vultures 1 album, Carnival, which also features Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, too. Yeah, it's not really as this song is outright trash, but it's bewildering that it got as popular as it did, considering how annoying the group chorus on the instrumental is. "You ride dick like a carnival." How mid and unimpressive this instrumental goes to show that as long as you brand something or package something as coming from Kanye, people will literally listen to the same thing they've already heard 30 million times and act excited about it.

I mean, as far as songs that go in this direction stylistically, Kanye has made way better stuff in the past because, again, the hook on this thing is just annoying to listen to. I actually don't even want to run through it the first time it plays. I just want to shut this garbage off immediately. The Columbine line in the first verse is awful. Ty's contribution to the track is underwhelming.

Then we have Kanye, who is as hypocritical as ever. He's literally complaining about porn being fed to us as we're children societally, when, meanwhile, he's literally making one of the most fucking porn brain songs of his entire career right here. If that's honestly your concern, if that's something you're worried about, you're certainly not helping the cause.

Of course, per usual, you can't listen to his stuff without having his bullshit shoved down your throat as he's complaining on this track about his kids being in a fake school when literally there are lawsuits against this man right now about how he made a fake school. He made a fucking fake school. Man, I shouldn't have to subject myself to this level of horse shit and gaslighting just to listen to somebody's fucking song. And yet that increasingly is the case with Kanye stuff these days.

Oh, yeah, not to mention the awful Playboi Carti feature on the back end of this thing where he's doing his Muppet voice flow. "She ride dick like a carnival." Yeah. Everything about the song is annoying. If you like it, I feel sorry for you. So yeah, that's number 10.

9) Quavo, Lenny Kravitz - "FLY"

At number nine, we are going to do Quavo and Lenny Kravitz with "Fly" because, yeah, that's societally what we truly need, a low-tier rap remix of Lenny Kravitz's "Fly Away". That's essentially what it is. You have some just awful autotune vocals, diaper level bars, bad vocal performance, unimpressive production.

Really the only thing that makes it stand out in any way, musically or commercially, is the fact that you have the Lenny Kravitz sample in there and that's it. It just goes to show how creatively bankrupt the music industry is these days, that so much of what we hear coming out of major labels on a regular basis is just rehashed stuff that was successful several decades ago.

Yeah, culturally, and musically, we are really spinning our wheels in the mud, which is why this annoying-ass song landed at number nine.

8) Meghan Trainor & T-Pain - "Been Like This"

Then we have number eight – that is going to be Meghan Trainor & T-Pain with "Been Like This".

Yeah, speaking of being creatively bankrupt, Meghan Trainor is essentially writing the same goddamned song she's been writing for the past 10 years because she's all about that bass and boom boom, et cetera. Meanwhile, she just has these vocals and vocal harmonies that are auto-tuned to death and sound so soulless and so sterile. It might as well be AI.

Of course, musically and stylistically, she's borrowing so heavily from jazz music, specifically in this case, stuff that sounds like it would go off in the speakeasy during the depression. Flappers would be dancing to this and going crazy. You can hear that in the melodies. You can hear that in the harmonies, but simultaneously, it's produced in a way to where it just sounds so alien and so robotic and so weird that any real spice or personality or soul that you might get by virtue of borrowing from these genres is just siphoned out. It's filtered out in whatever garbage process here and T-Pain went through to create this monstrosity.

But yeah, what is so disheartening about this song is that Meghan Trainor cannot seem to grow or evolve or change her style in any way in 10-plus year career. She's ruining and openly disrespecting perfectly good, classic, amazing vintage styles of music. The whole thing just sounds like a very gross shtick and thoughtless formula at this point that we're all moving through without even a care or even a modicum of creative effort. So, yeah, that's my number eight.

7) Falling In Reverse - "Ronald" (feat. Tech N9ne & Alex Terrible)

At number seven, we are going to go with Ronnie Radke's Falling In Reverse featuring Tech N9ne and Alex Terrible, "Ronald".

Yeah, this is essentially an over-the-top piece of modern mainstream loud rock trash that is pretty much every single thing an edgy white guy likes in a piece of music. Guitars and drums that are way too loud and compressed to death, generic scream vocals, white guy rapping fast, more fast rapping.

Also, a Russian guy who, if you look into his back history on the internet, has a covered-up Nazi tattoo on his elbow. If you're looking to create a hit song with a certain genre of dumb guy, that is the perfect fucking recipe that you want to be working with.

It's just really unfortunate to see with at least some listeners and some artists it's metal music reduced down to essentially be heavy, be fast, and that's it. There's no real brutality or any greater meaning or anything being communicated. It's just a very speedy, very aggressive pap.

Again, I feel like I've heard this same exact garbage combination before of metal and rap music. The only difference this time around is that it's engineered in such a way to where it will probably hit for you if you voted for Donald Trump or something.

8) Z-Pain, Mark Zuckerberg & T-Pain - "Get Low"

At number 6 on my worst list is going to be miraculously T-Pain again by virtue of him collaborating with Mark Zuckerberg on this Z-Pain project. I'm sorry T, it just has to be done. I don't mean to reference you so many times.

But yes, he and Mark got together to do a cover of Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz' "Get Low", which, yeah, there's been a lot of people responding to my negative response to this cover, saying like, oh, it's for Mark Zuckerberg's wife. Which, okay, if that's the case, export it into an MP3, zip it into some compressed file, send it off to your wife in an email, and leave it at that. Don't make me have to listen to it. Why should the rest of the world have to suffer through what you put your wife through?

But on top of that, even if that was the case, I don't want to hear some internet robber baron oligarch piece of trash do a fucking Lil Jon cover, especially one where his soulless ass, NPC, sim vocals are singing over terrible acoustic guitar licks and the driest and flattest and most boring production imaginable. I hope T-Pain charged this dude out of the ass to do this terrible cover. But yeah, this is awful. This is a nightmare. Nobody should ever have to suffer through this, which is why I put this at number 6.

5) Tom MacDonald x Ben Shapiro - "Facts"

Nobody also should have to suffer through our number 5 track. That is going to be "Facts" with Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro.

I do have to give it to Tom on this track on some level because I didn't think you could make Tom MacDonald rapping any worse, but actually, you can by adding Ben Shapiro into the equation. And not only is the instrumental garbage, not only is Ben Shapiro's rap delivery hilarious and awful, it sounds like he's fucking reading you a bunch of fine text at the end of a radio ad. But yeah, on top of it, the song is loaded with your average garbage, basic right wing facts don't care about your feelings BS talking points that you hear on Twitter day in and day out.

In addition to that, I feel like both of them had an opportunity here to conceptually dig down into a bunch of things that, I don't know, argue their ideological points, and bring facts to the table as it were. They don't even do that. I feel like they just titled the song "Facts" because Ben Shapiro was on the track, and that's it. No real thought went into it beyond that.

But yeah, the usual boring, soulless, mindless, right wing, red meat, Tom McDonald formula at play here, but with an annoying ass Ben Shapiro hero on the track. That's essentially what you're getting here, a total nightmare.

4) Nicki Minaj - "Big Foot"

At number four – diss tracks have been a hot point of discussion this year in 2024 – and what we have here is what, personally, I feel like has to be the worst one of the year. That would be "Big Foot" from Nicki Minaj.

Yeah, this song essentially sees her going at Megan Thee Stallion. And what else can I say other than that? This diss track is utter garbage, absolute trash. It makes no good hard-hitting points for the entirety of its run-time. The whole end of the song is taken up by this whispery series of ASMR threats that Nicki didn't even end up following through on after this beef with Megan transpired.

It's such an awful, ineffective, not funny, totally limp diss track that Megan didn't truly bother to respond in a formal or an expanded way. It's just so funny because Nicki is provably, for this generation, the biggest and most impactful female rapper of all time. And yet you make a diss track that is so awful that your opponent can essentially just leave you on red and go on about her life with maybe a few subtle jabs here and there.

And what is even funnier is that two, she put Nicki in this position where Megan has her arm twisted around behind her back, she only needed to say one line. She only needed to drop one "Megan's Law" bar, and it totally sent Nicki off the deep end. And Nicki had all the time and all of the resources in the world to actually make a diss track that could have hit.

Instead, we got "Big Foot" where she does not take Megan down a peg at all, comes with a bunch of stupid schoolyard insults, and can't really seem to pull any files on Meg outside of making claims that she lied about her mom and was lying about the Torey Lanez stuff, and then later does not go on to do the exposé that she promises she's going to later during the whispery threats on the end of the track.

So, yeah, awful, cringe, honestly embarrassing track. I feel like the only thing Nicki can do is just erase this song from the internet in order to save a little bit of face. But there you go. That's number four.

3) Snowd4y ft. Drake - "Wah Gwan Delilah"

At number three, this may not be a diss track, but it's certainly a weird way to follow up a diss track. That is going to be Snowd4y, "Wah Gwan Delilah" featuring Drake, because yes, this song that really should be forgotten from the internet, honestly, is one of the most disappointing ways to continue on about your life musically after losing one of the biggest rap beefs of all time against Kendrick Lamar, obviously.

But yeah, after "The Heart Part 6", after "Family Matters", it was pretty clear that Drake took the L against Kendrick. The only people who are continuing to live in the delusion that Drake won or really did much of anything are just hardcore Drake Stans. I guess as a means of showing the world that he's not thinking about this at all, when in fact he is, because months down the road, he went on to file a lawsuit against UMG.

Drake, I guess, put out this collab with Snowd4y, where he is essentially doing a cover of "Hey There Delilah" from the Plain White Tees, but with his crappy fake patois, "Oh, wah gwan Delilah." I mean, if it wasn't already annoying enough that he works that into so many freaking tracks where it's totally unnecessary. He's now doing it on one of the laziest, cheapest-sounding, and stupid covers of a song that we've heard this decade so far.

Awful track, awful cover, and totally embarrassing. Should be deleted from the internet. We don't need this.

2) Cash Cobain & J. Cole - "Grippy"

What we also didn't need was another weird follow-up post the whole Drake and Kendrick thing. This one involves J. Cole, though. That would be the Cash Cobain track with J. Cole, "Grippy".

Yeah, this song is really, truly a weird one. I mean, not only for Cash Cobain, because I feel like he was on a come-up for a moment, and then all of a sudden this track drops, which you would think for a producer who is really high, he'd want that J. Cole feature. He'd want that J. Cole crossover because that thing is going to expose more people to you.

However, if J. Cole handed this to me on my track, I would have to pass, even though it is J. Cole. Because what Cole did on this track was that he pulled together a series of bars that are so explicitly sexual but by no means in any way are they actually sexy. They're so repulsive in tone, they have the opposite effect.

Every time I hear this song, a little part of my soul dies that enjoys sex, and I just never want to have sex again or even think about sex as a concept, especially as J. Cole goes further and further into the track with the same stupid, mind-numbing, uninspired, repetitive flow, talking about how it's grippy over the most tedious and uninteresting instrumental. Giving us bars like, "When she sees me, she say she going to strip me / She going to chew on this stick like it's Wrigley's / Believe it or not, it's Ripley's / She said she was gay until I slayed, now she strictly dickly / I want to feel like I'm touching your kidneys / Like, bitch, I'm going to send all your kids to Disney / I'm going to pay a little extra, make sure they meet Mickey."

Jesus Christ, this is so gross. This is so cringe. We don't need this. We really didn't need this. How do songs like this pass through the hands and ears of multiple people and somehow get released? Why is nobody along the chain of supply here saying, 'Hold on, pause, pause. We can't put this out. This is garbage.' Yeah, I don't know. But we have it, and it's here, and it's my number two on this goddamn list.

1) David Guetta & OneRepublic - "I Don't Wanna Wait"

Number one, though, I'm just going to be blunt – it's going to be David Guetta with OneRepublic, "I Don't Want to Wait", which, believe it or not, actually charted very well, numerous top 10 spots across the globe. That is how popular this track is.

It's got to be one of the most solely and uninspired and formulaic, little like big, epic EDM pop dance songs that I've heard all year, really all decade. I feel like a track such as this just truly displays how just, I guess, passion and emotion-deficient a lot of our popular music is these days and how devoid of creativity and originality it is.

Not only are we talking about some of the most basic production that you've ever heard in electronic dance music, period. But also on top of it, the main melody of the track is just a fucking rehash of that O-Zone song that got popular because it ended up in the goddamn "Numa Numa" video.

Yes, the goddamn "Numa Numa" song is the inspiration for this soulless hellscape of a piece of music. Are we really that out of ideas at this point? Do we have nothing to offer the world? We're spending all this money on studios and engineering and collaborations and who knows whatever the hell else to make this?

Yeah, this is... I'm getting indigestion just thinking of this song and just, again, just how uninspired mainstream and popular music can be on certain levels in order to have an industry that creates something like this, but also for there to be a demand for this. But yeah, I'm going to leave it there. That's my number one.

Thank you guys for watching. Let me know down below what your least favorite or worst singles of the year are. I know you will. Have you given any of these tracks a listen? Do you love them? Do you hate them?

Anthony Fantano. Thank you for hanging around for our 2024 best and worst of the year coverage. Forever.