The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2016

## List In Order

***10.) "Sit Still, Look Pretty"- Daya***

***9.) "One Call Away"- Charlie Puth***

***8.) "Just Like Fire"- P!nk***

***7.) "Me Too"- Meghan Trainor***

***6.) "Unsteady"- X Ambassadors***

***5.) "Let It Go"- James Bay***

***4.) "I hate u, I love u"- gnash ft. Olivia O'Brien***

***3.) "Pop Style"- Drake ft. The Throne***

***2.) "Lost Boy"- Ruth B***

***1.) "Gold"- Kiiara***

## Dishonorable Mentions

* "Never Be Like You"- Flume ft. Kai
* "Don't Let Me Down"- The Chainsmokers ft. Daya
* "2 Phones"- Kevin Gates
* "Really Really"- Kevin Gates
* "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"- Adele
* "NO"- Meghan Trainor
* "Hide Away"- Daya
* "Treat You Better"- Shawn Mendes
* "On My Mind"- Ellie Goulding
* "For Free"- DJ Khaled ft. Drake
* "White Iverson"- Post Malone

## Synopsis

Most of the songs in here fall into the "boring" category.

**#10:** Sean says that he likes feminist anthems as long as they're not preachy (e.g. Meghan Trainor's "NO", where the song's theme is stated outright without any wittiness to it). As for this song, he counts down the 5 worst lyrics.

5. "The only thing that a boy's gonna give a girl for free's captivity"- Sean brings up a counterargument where he says all women should pay for their boyfriends.

4. "This queen don't need a king"- Sean brings up her last song, "Hideaway", which is a song about how she wants a boyfriend.

3. "Mr. Right could be nice, for one night, But then he'd wanna take control and I would rather fly solo"- Sean quickly brings up how "control" and "solo" don't rhyme, and how her "Mr.Right" would be someone who didn't want to take control over her.

2. "That Snow White, she did it right in her life, had 7 men to do the chores, cause that's not what a lady's for"- Sean shows a scene where Snow White is sleeping, and text says that she is "literally sitting still and looking pretty"

1. "I'm a pretty girl, up in a pretty world, but they say pretty hurts"- Sean says that in a feminist anthem, Daya is still concerned about looking pretty, contradicting the main message.

**#9:** Sean mainly laughs at the line "Superman ain't got nothing on me" and how Charlie Puth comes off as too adorable for a line such as that. He also talks a bit about Charlie Puth's comedy YouTube channel.

**#8:** Sean talks a bit about how this song was overplayed on the radio and how it felt like one of the biggest songs in the US at the time despite barely cracking the top 10. He also says that Pink is great at making empowerment anthems and seems like an "awesome friend" to be around, but this song sounds very lame because:

* The song is about how you shouldn't be afraid to be different
* The production is flimsy
* An awkward melody in the verses
* The pre-chorus contains weird chanting that clashes with the beat
* The chorus uses fire as a metaphor for passion, which is overdone
* Pink tries to rap on the bridge

He also talks about the movie this song was composed for, and how it was an unneeded sequel.

**#7:** Sean calls this song so bad it's good, and says there are many bad things about it (the lyrics, the production, the weird sound effects on the bridge, the dissonance between the verses and the pre-chorus) but he finds this song funny instead of annoying (similar to "Body Like A Back Road"), and while this song is inept musically, it doesn't seem to have a toxic attitude that songs like "Dear Future Husband" have. He counts down the 9 worst lyrics in the song.

9. "Who's that sexy thing I see over there?

That's me, standin' in the mirror"- Sean says, *"Nah. Keep going."*

8. "Turn the bass up"- Sean mutters something incomprehensible, as the "turn the bass up" had a weird vocal effect applied to it.

7. "What's that icy thing hanging 'round my neck?

Um, that's gold, show me some respect, oh"- Sean notes how Meghan put on a giraffe onesie in the music video after demanding for respect

6. "My life's a movie, #TomCruise"- Sean prays for help because Meghan is hashtag rapping.

5. "So bless me baby, #Achoo"- Sean says the aforementioned prayer failed because Meghan is hashtag sneezing- a term he just coined.

4. "And I can't help loving myself

And I don't need nobody else, no, uh"- Sean notes how Meghan gets in a car with other people in the music video after saying she doesn't need anyone else.

3. "Turn the bass up"- This part was incomprehensible, but I think he said that this song implied the bass was not loud enough and he felt like putting this line on here twice.

2. "I walk in like a dime piece"- Sean says that most people would ignore a dime if they saw it on the street, and calls "dime piece" a stupid phrase.

1. "I never pay for my drinks"- Sean brings up her last song, "NO", about how she turns off a creepy guy, but this line implies that she has random guys at the bar pay for her drinks.

**#6:** Sean leads into the intro with bizarre but good trends in music, which eventually leads to "Renegades" by X Ambassadors. He says he liked "Renegades" despite it sounding like a car commercial, and says they should have a 2nd hit, and then plays this song. He says this is like an Imagine Dragons song without any oomph to it (explicitly comparing it to "Demons", a song he hates, but at half the tempo and with nothing interesting), the singer sounds like "the ghost of Chad Kroeger" and the lyrics are all cliche.

He notes that "Renegades" must have been a fluke, and concludes that this song makes him feel tired which is the opposite of what an Imagine Dragons song should do.

Then he says that the next few songs will be pretty boring.

**#5:** Sean compares this song to "Say You Won't Let Go" by James Arthur and "Let Her Go" by Passenger in the sense that they're all acoustic guitar ballads with the words "Let" and "Go" in the title, and both singers are one hit wonders.

He says there is no passion in this song, much like the bad music from 2016, criticizing the flimsy guitars, quiet production and the quiet singing from James Bay. He also says that he can't make any jokes about this song, despite it being called "Let It Go" (a possible joke might be that Bay sounds like he's letting himself go on this song) because it is so draining to talk about.

**#4:** Sean says the same thing about this song: the production is nonexistent, Olivia O'Brien sounds "forlorn" and gnash (the rapper) sounds like an "untalented 22 year old father singing his kid to sleep". He compares gnash's whispering to "Wait (The Whisper Song)", but then notes that this song sounds good in comparison to "Wait".

He also notes that the 2 performers have no chemistry together and simply coexist.

There is a joke at the beginning, though: when this song is announced as the #4, Sean says he hates it, and his brother pops up on the screen and asks if he loves it (making a pun on the title), and Sean clubs him on the head with an Elementia Chronicles book. (which is a running gag)

**#3:** Sean leads into the video by saying he has perfect pitch, which makes songs with off key melodies all the more jarring to him, including this one. In terms of the rest of the song, he says Drake once again referenced his beef with Meek Mill and rehashed the theme of "Started from the Bottom", Jay-Z & Kanye West barely appear and Drake's voice sounds awful and unpolished (unlike his other songs).

He also notes that 2016 was a bad year for Drake because all his songs were passable or worse, and that he inspired a wave of lazy minimalism, saying *"Drake didn't have the smelliest crap, but he taught the world how to poop"*.

Sean decides to check who produced this song, and he is surprised that it was produced by:

* Noah "40" Shebib (who produced "Take Care")
* Frank Dukes (who produced "Green Light")
* Boi-1da (who produced "The Blacker the Berry")

He suddenly screams "WHAT?????"

**#2:** Sean says that this song was created off of a six second Vine clip, and after that Ruth B. got signed to a record label and a music video was created. His main problem is that this song is pretty much a retell of the story of Peter Pan, with nothing new or interesting added to it.

**DM1:** Sean says that the producer, Flume, started a genre called future bass, and he said that the synth bass on this song removes any atmosphere this song (as well as the other future bass songs) have.

**DM2:** Sean has the exact same feelings on this song as "Never Be Like You".

**DM3:** Sean calls this a "so bad it's good" song.

**DM4:** Sean says that Kevin Gates tried to make a serious song here and it failed miserably.

**DM5:** Usually when reviewing an Adele song, Sean simply says "Adele." (this is another running gag). Here, he says *"Adele???"*

**DM6:** Sean says he agrees with the statement of this song

**DM7:** Sean says that the "good boys" wouldn't hide from her if she wasn't as bad at singing

**DM8:** Sean calls this song "worthless".

**DM9:** Sean says his opinion of this song has gotten better since "Look What You Made Me Do", another celebrity drama song came out, but he said that this is so much worse than "Don't", the song it is a response to.

**DM10:** Sean says he likes the beat (he also notes DJ Khaled didn't produce it despite being a so-called DJ), but he doesn't like the lyrics of this song which consists of Drake trying to convince a girl to drop out of school to become a prostitute, and calls this the unofficial #11.

**DM11:** Sean says that he doesn't really care about the entire cultural appropriation / racism conversation behind this, he just thinks it's a bad song.

**#1:** Sean calls this song a nothing of a song like #2, but with an extra layer of pretentiousness and arrogance. He leads into this song saying that it went double platinum, and before going platinum, it had to go "gold".

He also says it was overplayed and said that 5 different radio stations were playing this song at the same time.

As for the song itself, he says it is trying to be deep and avant-garde (similar to "Royals" by Lorde) but it is very boring and arrogant. He complains about the amount of reverb to try to sound reflective and mysterious, the beat is way too minimalistic to do anything interesting, and the lyrics are vague, nonsensical, told out of order just to sound unique and way too edgy for someone like Kiiara.

Finally, he criticizes the chorus, which consists of chopped up parts of the verses that sounds like nothing. He notes many people praised it as being innovative, and he ends the segment off by saying that she should "rest on her laurels" and take a permanent vacation from music.

## Trivia

* This is one of the few Diamond Axe Studios videos to have a jumpscare in them (at 11:06 in Part 2).
* In his #3 when talking about off key melodies, "We Fly High" by Jim Jones's video played in the background. Sean noted in another video that "We Fly High"'s synth melody sounded off key.