The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2021

## List In Order

*#10.)* **"Girls Want Girls"- Drake ft. Lil Baby**

#9.) **"Just The Way"- Parmalee & Blanco Brown**

#8.) **"Cry Baby"- Megan Thee Stallion & DaBaby**

#7.) **"I Should Probably Go To Bed"- Dan + Shay**

#6.) **"Track Star"- Mooski**

#5.) **"Breaking Up Was Easy In the 90's"- Sam Hunt**

#4.) **"On Me"- Lil Baby**

#3.) **"Good Time"- Niko Moon**

#2.) **"Fancy Like"- Walker Hayes**

#1.) **"Put Your Records On"- Ritt Momney**

## Dishonorable Mentions

* "What You Know 'Bout Love"- Pop Smoke
* "Late at Night"- Roddy Ricch ft. Mustard
* "Calling My Phone"- Lil Tjay ft. 6lack
* "Essence (Remix)"- WizKid ft. Tems & Justin Bieber
* "Yonaguni"- Bad Bunny
* "Love You Like I Used To"- Russell Dickerson
* "Whole Lotta Money (Remix)"- BIA ft. Nicki Minaj
* "Throat Baby (Go Baby)"- BRS Kash ft. DaBaby & City Girls
* "Wockesha"- Moneybagg Yo
* "Better Together"- Luke Combs
* "Therefore I Am"- Billie Eilish
* "Ball If I Want To"- DaBaby
* "Traitor"- Olivia Rodrigo
* "Good 4 U"- Olivia Rodrigo
* "Astronaut In The Ocean"- Masked Wolf

**Part 2:**

* "Way 2 Sexy"- Drake ft. Future & Young Thug
* "WITHOUT YOU"- The Kid Laroi
* "One Too Many"- Keith Urban & P!nk
* "The Good Ones"- Gabby Barrett
* "If I Didn't Love You"- Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
* "Beat Box"- SpotemGottem ft. Pooh Shiesty or DaBaby
* "You Broke Me First"- Tate McCrae
* "Arcade"- Duncan Laurence
* "Famous Friends"- Chris Young & Kane Brown
* "Go Crazy"- Chris Brown ft. Young Thug
* "Baddest"- Yung Bleu, Chris Brown & 2 Chainz
* "A-O-K"- Tai Verdes
* "Beautiful Mistakes"- Maroon 5 ft. Megan Thee Stallion
* "Lonely"- Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco

## Synopsis

**#10:** Sean says that Drake is primarily concerned with money than anything else, and is only popular due to the marketing and a list of popular guest stars. Sean called this song "pathetic", and argued that Drake said, "Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too" purely to stir up controversy and generate streams. He did say that this song was mind-numbingly catchy enough to make it not worth the effort to skip it, though.

**#9:** Sean calls this song "boyfriend country", and uses Russell Dickerson's "Love You Liked I Used To" as an example. Describing the genre where men will say anything to get their partners to love them, and says that it is only marginally better than bro country. He also compares the genre to boy bands like One Direction. As for the song in particular, he cites *"What you call your imperfections, I call beautiful, babe"* as a bad lyric, in particular.

**#8:** Sean talked a bit about how he thought it was funny that people were convinced that he thought the song was so awful he refused to even review it (in his Summer and Spring Top 40 Rankings). He reveals that he wasn't bothered as much by the crying-like noise in the background. However, he still thinks the song is terrible, and mentioned that this song showcased the worst aspects of DaBaby.

**#7:** Sean feels like there is no reason to make a song about the topic in particular (whether you should go to bed or call your partner to revive a failing relationship) and that it is very annoying. He also states that it is dramatic, particularly the outro.

**#6:** Sean talks a bit about songs that have gotten big off of Tik Tok, and calls this song very good for Tik Tok, and also notes this song got big off the radio more than anything else. However, he says the rest of this song is bad, and particularly says:

*"It's basically just "Worth It" by YK Osiris from a couple years ago with literally everything that made that song work surgically removed."*

He then proceeds to criticize the song's beat, vocal performance and lyrics, and states that "listeners might end up relating to the girl in the song running away from the singer".

**DM1:** Before talking about this, Sean mentioned that he doesn't think every dishonorable mention is bad, rather some parts of it are bad. He calls this song disappointing on how most of Pop Smoke's posthumous hits were R&B crooning songs and how it wasn't playing to his highest. Mentioning how Pop Smoke only has one drill hit song, when ironically, drill music is what he's known for.

**DM2:** Sean also mentions that this song is disappointing, and that DJ Mustard & Roddy Ricch are "playing it safe" and are piggybacking off current trends in music.

**DM3:** Sean calls this song boring.

**DM4:** Sean calls this song boring as well, and remarks how they tried to add Justin Bieber to make it less boring.

**DM5:** Sean doesn't analyze the song but wonders if Bad Bunny is a good or bad artist.

**DM6:** Sean says this song would be very high on the list if not for the rules. (While talking about "Just the Way" he said he couldn't really call this a 2021 hit)

**DM7:** Sean also called this song ineligible for the list (due to landing in the top 20 due to the remix). He calls BIA's voice "some cursed fusion of Fergie & 21 Savage", and remarks that even the Barbz didn't like this one, as it only hit #16 on the Hot 100.

**DM8:** Sean calls this song gross.

**DM9:** Sean says the beat (sample) from this song has been taken from another better song, that being "Foolish" by Ashanti. (which sampled "Stay With Me" by DeBarge)

**DM10:** Sean says that Luke Combs should not be making quiet country songs like this one.

**DM11:** Sean says he has been disappointed with Billie and her brother FINNEAS's recent work, pointing to this and "Your Power" as examples.

**DM12:** Sean uses this segment to call out DaBaby for his homophobic remarks.

**DM13:** Sean says this song is good at what it does (portraying a teenage girl who has been dumped), but he doesn't like what it does

**DM14:** Sean says this song is good, but it shrunk on him due to the massive overplay.

**DM15:** Sean also says this song is good sonically, but the lyrics sound like nonsense and are random. In order to prove his point, he assembles a remix of Astronaut in the Ocean where a bunch of other music reviewers and a few celebrities (Vanilla Ice, Right Said Fred, Chuck Norris, etc.) each rap a line (the lines have almost no relation to each other). The parody is called *Cucumber Melon Lotion*.

**#5:** Following up on how country music had a terrible year, Sean states that he dislikes this song for how it painted the "pathetic, borderline-creepy territory" of repeating trying to get into contact with an ex, even when the relationship is long dead. He compares this song to "Hard to Forget", a song that he defended because it was more upbeat and didn't seem to take itself seriously (also pointing out the "There Stands the Glass" sample), whereas this song just sounds bad and douchey.

He also pointed out on how this song mainly got big, not by sales or streaming, but by the radio. Even though "nobody" cared about this song.

**#4:** Sean opens up the segment by talking about how he disliked Lil Baby in 2018 but liked him more in 2020 (and his album *My Turn*). He then criticizes Lil Baby's vocal performance and the amount of effort that was put into the song (mentioning how Lil Baby admitted he made this song because he had nothing better to do, and the music video's introduction), and says that Lil Baby is trying to be Drake by phoning in every song and still have it be successful, but Lil Baby doesn't have a widespread appeal like Drake does. He also compares Lil Baby to Adam Sandler by saying that both of them have shown they have the potential to do amazing things but put in minimal effort into their work a lot of the time.

**#3:** Sean says that the vocal processing and trap instrumentation are bad, but his main problem with the song is that the tone is very condescending (similar to the tone of a bro-country song, despite the lyrics being different).

**#2:** Sean mentions that this was the one country song that blew up organically, and criticizes the concept of this song. He also wonders why anyone would listen to this.

**DM16:** Sean asks if this song is worse than Look What You Made Me Do, which also interpolates I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred. He says no, but remarks that the fact that he brought up that question indicates this song's quality.

**DM17:** Sean spends the segment joking at the infamous line, "Can't make a wife out of a hoe." and how that lyric is likely to age poorly.

**DM18:** Sean says that, even with his large respect for P!nk as an artist and person. Her recent songs make it more difficult to defend her.

**DM19:** Sean mocks on how Gabby's commercial and artistic peak was a bad Charlie Puth remix.

**DM20:** Sean once again criticizes this song's lyrics as being overly bland, even moreso than "Fight Song" by Rachel Platen.

**DM21:** Sean simply says, "No." (During the video, he also labels the song's featured artists as "way too many fucking people.")

**DM22:** Though Sean stated he softened on this song since the Winter 2021 Ranking, he still states that songs like these are not meant to be played constantly on the radio.

**DM23:** Sean states that this is a typical example of a song that prompts him to switch the station whenever it comes up on the radio.

**DM24:** Sean says this song is OK, but he doesn't like that two artists with first name Chris and last name Brown would collaborate, which is also a lead in for the next two DM's.

**DM25:** Sean says that if society is going to let bad people have long music careers, they should at least be good at music. Although, he says he's thinks this song is fine.

**DM26:** Sean remarks how radio is trying to push this song despite no one wanting to listen to it.

**DM27:** Sean believes this song contains everything bad about "Sunday Best".

**DM28:** Sean says he has no desire to listen to Adam Levine complaining about "having sex" with Megan Thee Stallion.

**DM29:** Sean reads Justin Bieber's About page on his YouTube channel to "comfort" him.

**#1:** At first, Sean states how on how most of his #1 worst hit songs tie to into his personal feelings in a way, that makes the song his least favorite. However, with the *Put Your Records On* cover, it mainly made Sean confused and surprised as to how it became popular enough on TikTok to run on the radio and get an industry push. He critiques on how this cover completely failed to capture the happy mood of the original 2006 version by Corrine Bailey Rae, from its jagged, warpy and deflated production to Jack Rutter's performance. With mentioning how the end of the chorus, the tempo grinds the music to a halt where Rutter scream-sings over grating sound effects.

*"Don't let those other boys fool you. Gotta love that afro hairdo..."*

He concludes by saying that there is a difference between showing appreciation and "showing appreciation by copying the same material, without paying attention to what made the original work, and this song is "trying to sound unique before sounding good."

## Trivia

* YouTuber Dream's single "Mask" was used as the transition music for this video.
* This is the 4th time in a row Sean has ended a "Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 20XX- Part 1" list with cameos from many different people.
* This is the first Worst List in which songs do not have to make the Billboard Hot 100 Year End list to be eligible. For instance, after it came out, #10, #7 and #5 did not make the Year End.
* Before the 2nd batch of dishonorable mentions, some Patreon supporters got to review their own dishonorable mentions
* This list is notable for having half of the list containing country songs which Sean explains that while he likes country music, 2021 was a bad year for the genre.
* Sean makes an announcement before beginning part 2, that the "Astronaut in The Ocean" parody, *"Cucumber Melon Lotion"* will be available to buy and stream (particularly on iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music and other platforms). It's meant to raise money for Mr. Beast & Mark Rober's #TeamSeas project where "each dollar will remove a pound of trash" contaminating the oceans.
	+ Said parody managed to make it to #2 on the iTunes Comedy charts.