Sites like Pandora are places that methodically remind me of all of those wonderful songs that somehow got lost in the shuffle of iPods and radio. From classic hip-hop to ’80s rock ballads to hard rock anthems, the Internet seems to know my every musical wish.
Until the disastrous happens, that is, and it decides to do a little experimenting. Like that time it tried to play Taylor Swift, and I almost threw my iPhone across the room. These are the 10 songs that I could go the rest of my life without hearing again. Pandora, take note.
10. “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” — Katy Perry
This one is simple. Comedian Rob Delaney expresses the problems with this song oh-so-eloquently in his article for vice.com and I tend to agree. For someone who tries to claim inspirational with songs such as Grammy Nominee “Firework,” there is no reason for her to glorify drunken debauchery that she can’t remember. There is nothing inspirational about that. In all honesty, I really like some of her music —”Thinking of You,” for example — so it’s really disappointing that she would fall so low with Last Friday Night.

9. “Grenade” — Bruno Mars
Really? Does this need to be explained? What is supposed to be a sweet and endearing song about love and protection quickly becomes an odd mess of potential death scenes that are not romantic but rather paint pictures of one Bruno Mars blowing himself up. All in the name of love. Which just really doesn’t make sense. It’s great to want to protect someone, but if you actually sit and think about his ideas, they’re not so cute. I don’t want chunks of my boyfriend hitting me after they’ve jumped on a grenade. Thanks.

8. “Follow Me” — Uncle Kracker
Maybe I have something against happy, feel-good songs, but I cannot stand this. It’s one of those “smack-you-in-the-face-with-happiness” types with a country twang that tried to worm its way into every single human’s heart by the end of 2003. But I didn’t let it. Instead, I sat and glared while people played and sang along around me.

7. “Stupid Hoe” — Nicki Minaj
I won’t lie, Nicki Minaj falls into the category of “oddly catchy” for me. I may or may not know every word of “Super Bass” by heart. However, this song is so unbelievably stupid that I cannot support it. It’s not even catchy. It’s just a girl saying derogatory, pointless things about everything and anything that she could think to insult. There isn’t anything redeeming about this song. Just another useless batch of noise that the radio will take and never let go of. And to think, we almost had a new, almost-talented female rapper. Oh well.

6. “Hey Ya” — OutKast @@http://www.last.fm/music/OutKast@@
I think I’m going to get a lot of hate for this. Our current editor-in-chief will probably be one of the haters. But it’s true. I cannot stand this song. I have the utmost respect for OutKast and the music they make, except this song. Maybe if I forced myself to listen to it, I could hear the awesome technical production work on the song, or the potentially awesome lyrics. But this song only brings one word to mind: annoying. I can’t get myself past it. As for forcing myself to listen to find it’s redeeming factors, the title says it all.

5. “Lollipop” — Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne has a bad habit of getting on my nerves. His voice, for one reason. I’ve never been a fan, even when Juvenile’s classic “Back that Azz Up” came out with one of his first cameos. It put an unfortunate black mark on the song. And then, this disaster comes out and proves to the world everything that is wrong with hip-hop today. Minimal production value, zero lyrical value and sexual nonsense that is only there to offend people. However, in an odd twist, Framing Hanley’s hard rock cover is confusing and strange. In other words, I like it. Judge all you want, I’m perfectly aware of my contradicting nature.@@http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/juvenile/artist.jhtml@@

4. “You Belong With Me” — Taylor Swift
Everyone should be thankful that I don’t have endless amounts of space to explain all of the reasons why I truly despise Taylor Swift. I really cannot express enough that she is the bane of my existence. Well, one of them. It wasn’t necessarily difficult to choose a song, because any one of them would have fit here. Her entire discography could be thrown into a giant pit of lava and I would be perfectly happy. I might even celebrate. Let’s just say, girly songs about girly lovey things that should only matter to 15-year-old girls are not my thing. And the person creating such a plethora of them will never be my favorite.

3. “Born This Way” — Lady Gaga
Once again, I’m sure people will disagree with me here. Here’s the thing; I don’t like her music. I can respect what she stands for, her lyrics and her insanity that passes for creative genius. But when the beat behind something doesn’t mix with me, I can’t like it. The melodies are not my thing. But I will always support On The Rocks’ randomly bursting into “Bad Romance.”

2. “Party In The U.S.A.” — Miley Cyrus
Think about it: If I hate Taylor Swift, I’m certainly not going to like Miley Cyrus. My term for her: talentless. Daddy was a weird one-hit-wonder in the ’90s and I’m not sure how that made it OK for his daughter to start singing. This song in particular tried to take over the world, and that made me angry. Also, the fact that someone decided it was a good idea to mix it with the Notorious B.I.G. classic “Party and Bullshit” makes me want to punch walls and knock over trash cans. That’s what you call a travesty.

1. “The Macarena” — Los del Rio
One word: irritating. If I’m lucky, I will actually never hear this song again. And I will die a happy lady.
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