The Top Twenty Best Hit Songs of 2020 Part 2 (10 to 1)

Before reading on, please check out part one: Click here for 20 to 11

AND NOW FOR THE THRILLING CONCLUSION….


 You might be surprised to know that Billie Eilish was reasonably quiet in 2020 apart from the release of some scattered singles including a James Bond Theme but it was the first of the scattered singles post the album that got my attention.

10. “Everything I Wanted” by Billie Eilish

My god, this song breaks my heart, Billie sings about this nightmare she had where she commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge yet none of her friends or fans watching cared or even tried to stop her committing suicide, the nightmare sees Billie seek comfort from her brother Finneas reassures her that he’ll always be there to support her and deal with the feelings associated with the nightmare, the pair of them will okay as they have each other. It’s a gorgeous song that I am not sure got all the attention it deserved.

 

This next song is the only Australian entry on this list although there were one or two songs from Aussies that were close to making the list (“Bad Child” by Tones and I and “This City” by Sam Fischer) and it’s by a band that I have had quite a weird relationship with but yet…

 

9. “Live In Life” by The Rubens

There’s an inherent sleek pop sensibility to this song that ruminates over the breakdown of a relationship and all the second guessing that happens as the individual at first feels fine with it and then realizes “Well no…this is not okay, I need to do something to stop this break up from happening” but by the time that realization has dawned and goes about trying to fix things, the partner or person involved has upped and gone, it’s a devastating moment, it’s a rather dark and almost bitter song that wonders what could have been.

It’s not quite The Rubens best but my god, it’s a catchy song that I am glad I grew to like a lot, this is good stuff, am looking forward to that new Rubens album in February 2021.

We finally got the world’s busiest boyband on the ARIA singles chart…thank goodness…they have got a hit…

8. “Sugar” by Brockhampton

I was never going to leave this song off the best list, hell, this might just be the only time Brockhampton have chart success (thanks Tik Tok) in Australia and while I’ve not had time to fully dive into Brockhampton’s discography (still trying to figure out a starting point and I am also fully aware how my previous statements show a lack of faith in the Australian public) but “Sugar” is a concentrated piece of wonderful, I love the intricate melodies and how the lyrics talk about a relationship facing uncertainty and wanting to figure out why so the couple can move forward and move ahead together and the production plays up to the questions being asked about the relationship.

Hope to see a lot more of Brockhampton on the ARIA singles chart especially if it is more songs like this.



This song took a while to grow on me, I wasn’t even sure I liked it all that much when I first heard it however, I eventually realized the critics weren’t joking, this is Lady Gaga’s best pop song in years…

7. “Rain On Me” by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande

Let’s not mince words with this one, this is Lady Gaga’s best pop song since “Alejandro’ in 2010 with it’s splashy keys and production that supports both Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande perfectly, “Rain On Me” is almost the sort of pop song I would have expected to hear during the club boom in the early 2010s but unlike a lot of music from the club boom, it doesn’t feel like it’s going to get annoying and or old quick, the only reason I wasn’t the biggest fan of it was Lady Gaga say “Rain…On….Me” however I can see that it does work within in the song.

The lyrics play to pent up frustration about their lives and tears shed over situations they might be in and boy that sounds familiar in 2020 in a lot of ways with regard everything that has happened in this shitty year. ‘Rain On Me” is one of the best pop songs of the year”. I highly recommend you check it out.



For all the garbage that Tik Tok has enabled to chart this year, 2020 showed that there was openings for older songs that didn’t make their year end in their respective year and by openings I mean becoming a meme on Tik Tok thanks to a guy riding a skateboard and drinking cranberry juice while this next song was playing in the background…

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6. “Midnight Sky” by Miley Cyrus

This year was the year Miley Cyrus finally found the lane that her voice is suited too: pop/rock and boy it paid dividends to the point where “Plastic Hearts” is the best album of her career to date. “Midnight Sky” was the lead single from the album and was the song on this list that grew on me the fastest (the songs above it I liked from the jump), I thought this was merely good without really being great but subsequent listens to the song since it’s release earlier in the year have me convinced that this is Miley’s best song since “Nothing Breaks Like A Heart” with Mark Ronson, its not better than that song but it’s damn close.

The interpolation of “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks just works so god damn well so much so they basically mashed up Miley’s “Midnight Sky” with Nick “Edge of Seventeen” for one of the best remixes/mash ups of 2020 and seriously, Miley sounds stunning here.

Miley just needs to keep making pop/rock because while it’s not the best song on the album, its still AWESOME.



The UK is still the home of producing EDM/house bangers like this one…



5. “Head & Heart” by Joel Corry and MNEK

This song was one that I was reluctant to like at first, it felt like another EDM/house song but the more I heard it the more I liked it. Sound wise it reminded me of the early nineties dance music that dominated the charts with MNEK providing the vocals about how he has met this attractive girl who has his head saying “Uh oh, she’s trouble, it’s just a crush…stay away from her” but his heart wants something more than it just being a crush, it wants him to hook up with her, it’s actually framed a lot better than other songs in a similar lane like Taylor Swift’s “I knew You were trouble” in that Joel Corry and MNEK don’t frame themselves or this girl as caricatures in cartoons like Taylor did but as humans with very real feelings which is what I appreciate about “Head & Heart”. Good job!







Imagine if all music that came from the trap sound was like this:

4. “Mood” by 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior

I was stunned when I heard this song for the first time, a trap song that was tight, catchy and had a rock leaning with guitars that were bright, colourful and had a tonne of flavour…I thought this couldn’t be a real song coming from a sound that had been done to death to the point of being boring, derivative and generic but no, “Mood” was a real song and my god, its now one of my most played songs of the year because of its production and the fact both 24kGoldn and Iann Dior sound enthusiastic and deliver that ridiculously catchy hook with so much energy and passion that I get caught up in it.

Imagine if trap music leaned more into the rock/emo sound in 2017/18 rather than the ultimately way too dark to make their songs fun…trap music could have been awesome and honestly when rock music does finally find its way back on the charts in full, it might just have this unexpected gem among others to thank for it.

I also suspect that 24KGoldn might not be able to recreate this lightning in a bottle on his next release but hey at least I’m always in the mood for this song.

I really advise you all not to take my top three ranking all that seriously, at some point all three have been number one and I have had a nightmare of a time trying to figure out which song I loved the most but anyway here is the final Dua Lipa song to have made the list…



3. “Physical” by Dua Lipaspec

So I thought “Levitating” was going to be the Dua Lipa song that wound up fighting for the top spot on my best hit songs list when I set out to make it but I just couldn’t deny “Physical” after three or four more listens and it only got better every single time I heard it and yeah it is just so much better than Olivia Newton John’s “Physical” (I have NEVER liked that song, the beat and instrumentation doesn’t match the lyrics/sentiment of that song) that it interpolates on the hook in nearly every single possible way, it’s the sort of synth pop/power pop song that gets everyone on their bedroom dancefloors almost immediately that gorgeous persian flute sample that opens the song plays.

Unlike the lead single “Don’t Start Now”, “Physical” celebrates meeting somebody special and getting ‘physical’ with that person, it’s a song that is just out to have a good time and drag you along for the ride which happened every time I heard this song on the radio.

Also, this wasn’t a massive hit in the USA for some ungodly reason so yeah, I am delighted I can name it one of the best hit songs of the year in Australia.



There are four guarantees in our existence on earth: Life, death, taxes, and this song making a year end best hit songs list for 2020.



2. “Blinding Lights’ by The Weeknd

It kind of goes without saying or even needing to be said: “Blinding Lights” will go down as a classic song of the decade and maybe for years beyond this current decade and while it’s a brave prediction to make now, I can see it ending up getting the same classic treatment as the song “Blinding Lights” interpolates and deservedly so because it’s one of the best synthpop verging on new wave and dark wave songs I have heard in some time.

Every single element of this song works perfectly with The Weeknd delivering one of his best vocal performances since…I don’t know…possibly “Starboy” or “I Feel It Coming”, ‘Blinding Lights” just feels like an event in itself with just how huge and immense the production is unlike other songs where the release of the song is the event, “Blinding Lights” is a massive event of a song itself which of course helped to make the song absolutely huge around the world this year unlike a few songs last year which got labelled events more for the hype surrounding the release however “Blinding Lights” is still a damn great song and if it does become a classic…it will be richly deserved.



So even with all that “Blinding Lights” is not my best hit song of 2020 because given how terrible and miserable this year has been, there was one song that got me through the horror and sadness of the year and made me smile so if a song can do that in a year like this, it deserves top spot (Granted most of my top ten make me smile) so what song could it be…



1. “Adore You” by Harry Styles

Yeah, Harry finally did it and with a song that has its own share of flaws in that the multi tracked vocals sound a little wonky but honestly, I think that kind of adds to the charm of the song? Seriously, that “Ahhh” sounds exactly like what a person would do when adoring another and Harry’s vocal delivery just makes the song even better, he sounds like he is happy and also helps that his delivery reminds me a lot of Neil Finn’s vocal delivery of the verses on the Crowded House song “World Where You Live” which probably forms part of the reason that I think “Adore You” is a damn great song.

Hell, “Adore You” is just three and almost a half minutes of pure escapism and in a year like 2020 escaping on that fluffy white cloud with Harry Styles crooning about adoring somebody was enough to make me smile this year in amidst lockdowns, politics and a pandemic that refuses to just go away.

I adore this song and it’s the best hit song of 2020.

The Top 20 Best Hit Songs of 2020 Part 1 (20 to 11)

As I said in the preamble on my worst hit songs of 2020 list, this year was a pretty damn good one for popular music in spite of the world being a pandoras box of suck all year (seriously 2020 was just one big “open the box and find the next shitty thing to happen”) so I honestly have to say thank goodness the music on the charts this year mostly delivered, sure there were bad songs but they were more the outliers as the good to great songs exceeded the bad songs popularity so much so I have almost too much material for this list to just be a top ten with honourable mentions so this year, it’s a top twenty best hit songs of 2020.

The other reason for that is that there were some genuinely good songs that I loved this year that if I was doing a normal top ten list with five honourable mentions that I might not have gotten the opportunity to write about

All twenty songs must have made ARIA’s Year end singles chart for 2020 and a 2019 hit song is eligible for this list if it appears higher on the 2020 list than it did in 2019. Also I’d encourage you to not worry about the ranking so much because it’s been a nightmare to slot all this great music into placings for this list and no doubt I am going to regret a few of these rankings in the days ahead…lord knows I already have changed the placings several times.

 

Let us begin this adventure with a break out act from New Zealand...

20. "Glitter" by BENEE

So while Australia and the rest of the world fawned over "Supalonely" (feat Gus Dapperton like many grown adults cooing over a baby, I've felt like "Glitter" is the toddler who is crying out for love attention but is being ignored in favour of the baby and that is frustrating because "Glitter" is so much better than "Supalonely" with its bright guitars and BENEE just wanting somebody to hang out with her and burn the midnight oil together, it's a well crafted pop gem...it might have been a song that got big via tik tok but it still one I appreciate....it might have been neglected by way too many especially in the US but this didn't escape my attention...

Well there's at least four artists with multiple entries on this list...here's one of them...

19. "In Your Eyes" by The Weeknd

2020 was the year I finally completely got behind The Weeknd, "After Hours" is just such fantastic album and honestly I'd be hard pressed to pick just one highlight but yeah "In Your Eyes" is just killer 80s worship in the best way and with a fantastic saxophone solo to boot (there's nowhere near enough sax solos in popular music this year. 

Its a song where The Weeknd is longing to find a deeper connection with this girl that he has feelings for and sees that same longing in her eyes, he wants her to commit to him. Its actually the moment both Abel and the girl find that moment of happiness together, it's not quite my favourite song from "After Hours" but its still damn good...we'll get to more The Weeknd later.

So this pop act improved by leaps and bounds in 2020

 

18. “You Should Be Sad” by Halsey

There’s a lot of promise in Halsey’s album “Manic” that was released all the way back in January this year and this song was one of the reasons why, its about as close to country as the year end list gets this year as Halsey tears apart an ex (said to be G Eazy) who she doesn’t realize has issues because she’s completely in love with this guy so when she does realize he has some pretty serious issues going on so tries to help him only he can’t or doesn’t love anything or anyone including Halsey unless there’s something in it for him….it’s a bruising, heartbreaking song that is so much better than “Without Me”.

Thank goodness, Halsey improved and gave us some better music in 2020.

 

 

Sex as a food metaphor was a thing in 2020...we had "Yummy" which was unfortunate but at least there was this...

17. “Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles

This not the first song that references vaginas on this list...in fact...I am now slightly worried that you will think that I have some bizarre form of mentions or references to vagina in music addiction but yeah, this song is just the sort of chill summer song where Harry Styles voice albeit singing about the sugar from a watermelon giving him a high (aka: eating pussy is giving him a high)  may as well feel like the sun touching your skin when you first step outside and the production makes you wish you were at the beach rather than locked down inside...I guess we can pretend we are at the beach, right?

It's not better than another song which I will talk about later but it's a song that I return to a lot and over time it just kept getting better this year. I am so glad this became a hit because this just rules.

So this is one of four songs from its parent album making this list…yeah we’ve hit the first of the Dua Lipa songs.

16. “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa

So yeah, this song has suffered from overplay a little bit given it come out in the last few months of 2019 and there are better songs on Future Nostalgia as we will get to but it doesn’t change that the song is Dua Lipa telling a guy where to get off and that she’s ready to move on over a pop melody that’s just so perfectly retro and really awesome and the live performances of this song kicked all sorts of butt. It’s not Dua Lipa’s best song but it is still good.

 

Let us get to the other Halsey song that’s on this list….

15. ‘Be Kind” by Marshmello feat. Halsey

When I first heard that Marshmello and Halsey were releasing a song together, I groaned and thought ‘Well here goes another instant for my worst list alongside ‘Yummy’ and co” but then I gave the song a chance and…oh my goodness, this song was the best surprise in 2020, Halsey sounds good over Marshmello’s slightly over compressed production and she sells the song well. Marshmello’s drop isn’t even as annoying as the lyrics delve into a person who needs reassurance that it is okay to be vulnerable and scared around the person, he or she loves rather than hiding behind veneers of bravado that just don’t add up to much, its honestly pretty powerful stuff. Good job!

 

I am becoming a bit of a fan of this rapper, she can be a bit hot and cold but when she’s on like she was in 2020, there’s no stopping her…

14. “Savage” by Megan Thee Stallion

So let’s get something straight here, Megan thee Stallion is absolutely the next best female rapper on the charts behind Cardi B and “Savage” is all the more evidence of that with Megan out celebrating her complexity as a human being and as a rapper and she’s got the kind of attitude to carry it however I think Beyonce makes the song even better on the remix, the song is just a sassy load of fun and is the perfect entrée to discussing the other song Megan Thee Stallion was involved with but “Savage” just kicks all sorts of butt!.

 

If there was an award for ridiculous over reaction that helped a song to become a massive hit (okay without the over reaction from some, it still would have been a hit) however the controversy has always felt overblown and honestly, I’d just rather grab a bucket and a mop for that…

 

13. “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.

First things first, Ben Shapiro and the others who complained about the overtly sexual nature of the song, what’s so different about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion rapping about their vaginas to a male rapper flexing about his scrotum or how he is going to take YOUR girl and get her all slippery between the legs and regardless all the critics of “WAP” did were acting as Cardi B’s promotional team, she didn’t have a to do a thing to promote this song.

I liked “WAP pretty much from the jump mostly because there’s just so many quotable lines, the song is just way too much fun and absolutely hilarious to be hated plus it helps that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have bucket loads of charisma and personality; they work well together here. Yeah, the sample was a bit grating at first but the more I got used to it. Looking forward to the sophomore album, Cardi B.

 

Combine pop disco with a familiar bassline…sounds like a best list certainty to me!

 

12. “Break My Heart” by Dua Lipa

There’s a part of me sad that I couldn’t find room for this song in my top ten mostly because of that rhythm guitar that samples 80s classic “Need You Tonight” by INXS and that funk guitar that comes in during the chorus is fantastic along with the hints of violin and handclaps that don’t ever get annoying. The song’s lyrics play to the moment when finding the person who is “The One” making Dua happy than it occurs to her that this guy could very well end the relationship and break her heart, its a moment of vulnerability from Dua Lipa that really captures the self-doubt experienced in a relationship.

 

I have seen this next song on a few worst lists which I find pretty strange because it’s one of the better songs from the parent album….

 

11. “Rockstar” by DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch

 

This is where this list takes a turn for the dark because this song is surprisingly dark as DaBaby and Roddy Ricch draw comparisons between rappers’ gangster lifestyle and rockstars. DaBaby using his second verse to recount an incident in 2018 when he and his family were at the centre of an attempted robbery while in Walmart and talks about the moment, he shot the person responsible and warns the same will happen to anyone that threatens his family, it’s a dark moment on song with that trap beat driven by a guitar. It is an honest song from DaBaby and got to me a fair bit this year.

 

Stay tuned for part two

New Music Friday Review: 8th January Part 2. The Bandit and Flame Come in Closer

 "New Truck" by Florida Georgia Line

In short: NOT GOOD and an early contender for the worst song of 2021, If you want to see my full thoughts on this atrocity than here's the full review. 

Rating: 1/10

"And So It Went" by The Pretty Reckless feat. Tom Morello

So I am a bit of a Pretty Reckless fan and they've been rolling out the singles for their up coming fourth album called "Death by Rock 'n' Roll" due out next month with "And So It Went" being the third single for that project and I got to say, it's pretty good, it's not anywhere near what "25" (hell, that song is firmly entrenched as one of my favourite songs of 2021 already) is but its still solid..the guitars are crunchy and Tom Morello's guitar solo turns the song from merely being good to kicking butt and taking names...its good...check it out.

Rating: 7/10

"Come In Closer" by Rhye

So while we got the absolute worst of the year in Florida Georgia Line's "New Truck, we may also have gotten one of the best songs of the year in "Come In Closer" from Canadian R'n'B composer Rhye. This thing is slinky, there's grooves for miles longer than a motorway in any country and Rhye's voice sounds incredible, this has got me hyped to hear that new album in a couple of weeks. PLEASE CHECK THIS OUT.

Rating: 9/10

"Flames" by Mod Sun feat. Avril Lavigne

Okay to explain...Mod Sun (an acronym standing for "Movement on Dreams, Stand under None"), his real name being Derek Smith, he is a rapper, author and also rock musician..somehow and so he collaborated with Avril Lavigne for this song and...I'm left confused...I don't think the song is bad but Mod Sun and Avril don't mesh well together at all and the lyrics are pretty close to generic filler. The instrumentation is fine enough pop rock...if this is your thing than fair enough but otherwise I'll wait (nervously) for that next Avril album because this didn't do much for me at all.

Rating 4/10

"The Bandit" by Kings of Leon

I haven't thought much about this band in a long time...I know they released an album called "Walls" in the 2010s that wasn't well received by the critical set but I hadn't cared about a release from Kings of Leon in awhile so how is "The Bandit"?

Honestly it's not bad! The instrumentation sounds tighter and heavier sound that yeah works well with the vocals. The content of the song is pretty vague about this group of people who are desperate and frustrated in their chase to catch this bandit and it's never implied if they caught this bandit or if he or she got away, it's an interesting song to say the list.

Rating: 7/10

Top Ten WORST Hit Songs of 2020

 We have finally reached the end of this wretched, disgusting and frankly tiresome year however also means looking back on the year in popular music to find the absolute best and absolute worst 2020 had to offer on the ARIA singles chart and honestly…this year on the ARIA singles chart somehow defied the terribleness of the year, there’s not nearly as many bad or outright garbage songs as there were in 2018 or even last year however it does mean that the truly awful hits this year stuck out a lot more especially from one particular artist who spent 2020 infuriating me but we’ll get to that. 

Also it’s worth pointing out that a lot of the worst elements of pop music in 2020 came from things beyond the control of popular music like stan culture and all of the ugly offshoots that come from that on social media eg: doxxing of chart accounts (Let’s not forget that 2020 was the year that ChartData got doxxed by a certain fanbase over the number one position on the US Billboard Hot 100) and the bullying that I see so often in the comments under ChartData’s tweets and the songs trying to cash in on people’s emotions due to the pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns that occurred worldwide.

There was also the coronavirus pandemic and the music that was aiming to hit on people’s emotions. Unfortunately a lot of the good songs about the pandemic were kept off the charts and well…you’ll see…

However, we are going to talking about the music that got popular in Australia so before we get stuck into the list, it is time to go through the rules.

1. A song can only make this unfortunate list if it reached the ARIA year end singles chart so while "Hard to Forget" by Sam Hunt is absolutely disgusting, it didn't make the ARIA year end list (honestly, thank goodness for that because I really would have started questioning the intelligence of the Australian public

2. A song that made the 2019 year end list is also eligible but only if it peaked higher on the 2020 year end list 

3. No abuse, this list is my opinion and reflects the feelings I have had about the charting music this year, if you disagree with me than provide valid argument why a song doesn’t deserve to be on my worst hit songs list minus using stan lingo…stan lingo will earn you a patented laugh and a ‘the song still sucks’ reply.

Now that I have made that clear, let us get on with the list.

So in the past two years, Billie Eilish has become one of the biggest names in pop music but in 2020, she was pretty quiet apart from releasing a few scattered singles however Eilish being pretty quiet so set the stage for this travesty to happen… 

10. “You Broke Me First” by Tate McRae

I am convinced record labels watched as Billie Eilish set the world alight in 2019 with a sound that was very different from what others within pop music were doing at the time and pontificated on how they can get in on what Billie Eilish is doing and given Billie has had a reasonably quiet year, they turned to Tate McRae for this turgid slog of a song that tries to sell her scorn at this ex wanting her back after an ugly break up and honestly, McRae’s anger here is unconvincing and the production sounds washed out and lacks the kind menace and anger you’d think you would need for a song about a break up where the title is accusing the other person of breaking her first.

The song is also bland, derivative junk that Billie Eilish did better on “When the Party’s Over” in 2018/19…next!

As I said in the introduction, the world is in the midst of a pandemic which meant of course lockdowns and people staying home so of course the popular music tried to reflect on what people were going through which meant everyone from Twenty One Pilots to Luke Combs had to release their quarantine songs and for the most part. Some of them were good eg “Six Feet Apart” by Luke Combs and “Level of Concern” by Twenty One Pilots neither of which somehow became hits but we did get one quarantine song that became a hit courtesy of both these artists being managed by Scooter Braun…pity it sucks.

9. “Stuck with You” by Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber

This song represents the absolute worst of the songs that pandered toward people’s feelings toward the pandemic and what is unsettling about this song is that it’s Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, two superstars in the world of popular music who are capable of so much better. Can we start with the fact that Ariana’s crooning fails to harmonise with Justin Bieber who sounds completely bored and like he would rather be doing anything else than singing about being in lockdown? Ariana just overwhelms Bieber vocally and the lack of harmonising does bother me. 

Oh and the production sounds slapdash as well, four or five different sounds just slapped together in a slog sandwich…granted I do like the more rock production on the final bridge and what’s more Ariana sounds unsupported over it, she sounds better on the production given to Lady Gaga’s “Rain On Me”. All in all the production just sounds really flat and dare I say it…cheap which is not exactly a good thing given the two people on the god damn song!

As for the lyric “I could stay here forever”, NOBODY wants to be stuck in god damn quarantine forever, Ariana and Bieber and the more I look at the lyrics of this song, it’s less about being in quarantine and more about Bieber and Ariana being confused over their feelings and just wanting to hook up

At the end of the day, it’s a token charity song that’s not really worth much of anything and will more than likely be forgotten…except I am not done with Bieber yet…ugh…

In 2017/18, Camila Cabello had a massive hit with “Havana’ from her debut album, now “Havana” was an honourable mention on my best hit songs list for 2017…that song is still good to almost great and there are days where I wish I could find room to put it in the top ten for that year however in late 2019 she released a song that was nowhere near close to being in the same football stadium as “Havana”…

8. “My Oh My” by Camila Cabello feat. DaBaby

It is telling how much “My Oh My” cribs from “Havana” from the production to even Camila Cabello’s vocal delivery and swapping out Young Thug for DaBaby with the shocking part being just how wonky and awful “My Oh My” sounds, its tinny and doesn’t flatter Camila’s vocals at all, she sounds absolutely horrendous here.

The lyrics play to this hook up where this man only comes out at midnight and he is after one thing yet so is Camila…the writing on this song is more basic than the writing on fucking “Yummy”…Camila then swears she’s been a ‘good girl’ yet she doesn’t flesh out the details of what this other person wants her to do.

DaBaby’s verse contains some terrible lines like “She say I make her wet whenever my face pop up on TV” and “Pop star, I'm fresh up out the trap and I'm goin' Bieber”…given the year Justin Bieber has just had in terms of the music…it’s probably not the smartest flex ever,  Dababy!

This song is worthless and the fact this as so desperately shoved onto that last Camila Cabello album says A LOT.

This year, there was the good, bad and whatever the fact Justin Bieber shovelled out this year…here’s the first bit of evidence of that…

7. “Holy” by Justin Bieber frat. Chance the Rapper

So this is either another song for Justin Bieber’s wife or for Jesus…one or the other…it’s honestly hard to tell as the whole song is this turgid cornball nonsense perhaps exemplified by the chorus with the line “On God, running to the altar like a track star” which is right up there with the absolute worst lyrics Pat Monahan of Train has ever written! I know Evangelical Christians like to have their flock marry young and pump out the children but come on Justin, you aren’t Usain Bolt or any other fucking track star.

Then there’s Chance the Rapper whose verse pretty much locks this song into the worst list especially with lines like “I'm a believer, my heart is fleshy. Life is short with a temper like Joe Pesci” and “When they get messy, go lefty, like Lionel Messi”

In short this song is terrible especially in the song writing but the production has no power or bombast to it that you would think you’d need for a song that’s supposed to be religious, Bieber’s trying to add power to a song that is making me feel nothing but wanting to laugh at the stupid lyrics and no it doesn’t help that the song seems to have similar sentiments to a Florida Georgia Line song from a few years ago.

We will get to more of Bieber and stupid lyrics later….

Well here is an easy target…

6. “Sunday Best” by Surfaces

This is a song where the lyrics/vocal delivery and the production do not match, you would think that for a song where he is going on about ‘he is feeling good like he should’ that he would sound happy and energetic (although I’d take issue with that awfully chipper lyric given the year that 2020 has been) yet at best he sounds fucking constipated like he ate too much fibre and is now sitting on the toilet trying to pass this turd of a song out of his bowels.

What is with all the god damn empty platitudes about leaving a day better than you found it? I mean come on…1. There is only so much that people can do while they are in quarantine/lockdown 2. Saying whatever is not going to fix an issue, it’s how you deal with the issue.

The production on this song is a wash, for a song that is trying to be this perky number, the music sounds like it was written for a death march rather than actually sounding bright and happy so yeah if I wanted to be cheered up this year…this was the sound I kept out of my ears. Ugh!

This next song would not be here, let alone this high on the worst list if it weren’t for just one element of the song that just does not work at all and annoys me…

5, “Death Bed” by Powfu feat. Beabadoobee

This one is going to be reasonably short, “Death Bed” was a song that I liked originally, the content of the song is about a young man who is slowly dying and is talking to his partner about doing things with this partner and potentially meeting up with the person in whatever comes next after they die, it’s a lo fi hip hop song that at first was one that I was ambivalent on and willing to give a pass to when it first hit the ARIA singles chart.

However it took hearing this song one too many times on the radio to realize that there was one misconceived element of the song that was getting really distracting and really annoying…that element being Beabadoobee’s crooning behind Powfu’s verses which really took me out of the song and didn’t match at all with Powfu’s rather bleak verses. 

Ordinarily a song where there is just one element that does not work would not normally throw a song this high on a worst list but the crooning that ruins what could have potentially been a great song is disappointing.

There is an open question about whether external factors behind this next song are fuelling my hatred of it but yeah there is enough to the song that fuels the hatred So therefore…

4. “Say So” by Doja Cat

I didn’t want to put this song here…really…but I’ve never ever come to the conclusion that Doja Cat sounds good over that washed out and rather cheap sounding 80s style production that Daft Punk could do better with, she sounds harsh especially over that final verse, it’s not pleasant to listen to and given I think Doja Cat has a fair bit of talent, the production here is a shame.

As for the lyrics…they are your standard friend who is in love with Doja Cat and Doja wants this friend to tell her how he really feels rather than wasting time by beating around the bush which is fine but maybe this friend isn’t ready to admit he is in love with her, feels like she is trying to force it out of him rather than letting it be a natural moment when the other person is ready as well.

Then there are the external factors that push this song so high up on this list, the man who ruined Kesha’s career produced this song and the fact he can get a song with this limp beat that apparently pleased everyone this year makes me angry especially in light of the Me Too movement which somehow hasn’t taken a broad swipe at the music industry yet apart from ending the career of R. Kelly. Dr L*** career revival also saw him produce a song on that last posthumous Juice WRLD album which also become a hit. 

Fuck Dr L***.

Right foot up, left foot slide into the fucking bin, Drake.

3, “Toosie Slide” by Drake

There was absolutely no reason for Drake to make this song. None. He had his trap dance hits with both “Nice For What” and “In My Feelings” in 2018, there was no need for him to try to capitalise on people being at home bored during the pandemic but we got this fart of a song instead. Let us begin with the fact that this song is really only worth the 30 second Tik Tok meme where Drake sings “Left foot up, right foot slide. Right foot up, left foot slide. Basically, I am saying either way we ‘bout to slide, ayy”. That’s it… there is nothing else to it.” Nutbush City Limits” and “YMCA”, this is not.

At least both “Nutbush City Limits” and “YMCA” have a groove and energy to them that make doing the dances associated with those two songs fun, “Toosie Slide” has this monotonous trap beat that sounds so lethargic and tired which I find absolutely bizarre as in 2020, popular music is moving away from the tired and stale trap sound and really just showed that Drake wanted to show that there was still room in the marketplace for lame songs that could have been Vine videos in 2015/16. 

NEXT…

In my past top ten worst hit songs of a given year you might have noticed that I have a distaste for shitty cover songs….well 2020 did have one song that somehow become a hit much to my horror…

2. “Put Your Records On” by Ritt Momney

I am not a fan of the original “Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae…just too cloying and sweet for me but at no stage did anyone ask for a guy with the worst stage name since Lil Dicky to cover “Put Your Records On” and sap the warmth and sunshine out of the song with the trap percussion, it’s clunky, ugly and Ritt Momney having a voice that sits somewhere between having a head cold and a broken cassette tape that’s somehow still playing but break the damn tape deck.

Also the fact that Momney turned this song that was originally smooth and breezy empowerment song  into a choppy hook up song from a male perspective that comes across as completely awkward and comes nowhere near close to being smooth enough to fit the mood he is going for. 

This song is a clattering wall of noise that is not only uncomfortable to listen to but gets rather god damn unpleasant however it’s not the worst hit song of the year but before we find out what is…let’s go through some obligatory dishonourable mentions, shall we?

DHM1: “Yummy” by Justin Bieber

Yeeahhh, “Yummy” is still a bad song, it’s dated, lazy and shows that Justin Bieber hasn’t evolved or changed as an artist by dipping into dated trends from 2016/17 to sing about how yummy his wife’s vagina is. Somehow after hearing this song a few times, I do not blame DJ Khaled for refusing to eat pussy because there’s nothing here that makes the idea even vaguely attractive and Bieber’s squawking delivery just sets my teeth on edge and the fact that this crap got nominated for a Grammy says a lot about the joke the Grammys are.

Also, Justin…not signing a prenup is a silly idea…just saying…

DHM 2: “Falling” by Trevor Daniel

Yeah of the newcomers to hit the charts, Trevor Daniel is the least impressive of the lot and this song is just a trap clunker that Trevor Daniel just sounds off key on. Enough said. Next!

DHM 3: “Party Girl” by StaySolidRocky

Well this guy can be placed in the hall of one hit wonders because after this trap garbage, his career has gone nowhere…for good reason. “Party Girl” is your typically independent girl at the party who likes drugs and guns and apparently does not need anyone. Looks like everyone else decided that they did not need StaySolidRocky beyond this song as he has released other songs, but they’ve not hit the charts. Good riddance.

DHM 4: “Life is Good” by Future and Drake

Well this is a mess that only got worse as the year went on. Future has never been good in his lane of mumble rap under a thick smear of autotune. This song diverts into Drake’s usual playground of concern trolling women and complaining he can’t do his taxes because he is too turnt up. Geez. Let’s hope for better from both but especially Drake given his glorified simp album is coming in January..

DHM 5: “What’s a Man Gotta Do?” by the Jonas Brothers

Yeah this one has one of the most annoying hooks I’ve heard on a pop song in ages and the writing is so fucking corny, it makes my skin crawl, its like they glanced through other songs grabbed at lyrics and mashed them into this one pulsing headache of a song. Sorry guys, I won’t be grabbing you by the collar any time soon

Back to the list and the number one, I think I’ve signalled my pick for top spot enough in 2020, a song that makes me quiver with rage at how ugly the lyrics are and how lazy the production is…”Yummy” wasn’t the worst song that Justin Bieber released in 2020, guys…fight the real enemy…

1. “Intentions” by Justin Bieber feat. Quavo

This song underlines and underpins the ugly and regressive themes and attitudes about women on Justin Bieber’s abortion of an album “Changes” that he released in February and the fact that this became a hit is infuriating but not surprising that Bieber would turn to writing a song aimed at making Evangelical Christian style gender roles/stereotypes seem attractive to young women (alarming when you consider how much of his fanbase is young women).

Let’s start with the lyrics that border on being close to Train at their absolute worst to absolutely asinine, for a start “Heart full of equity, you’re an asset” is nowhere near close to being as sexy as Bieber thinks it is and only served to remind me that I needed to file my taxes and yet Bieber put it on the hook of a love song for his WIFE.

There is also ‘Stay in the kitchen cookin' up, got your own bread” Bieber intends his wife to be a 1950s housewife the typically demure way of staying home and cooking her own bread. Now it’s fine if she WANTS to stay home but what if that isn’t what she wants for her life and that’s before we get to the first verse where Bieber shouts out her parents for having sex and conceiving her which is just all sorts of ick…imagine going up to your partner’s parents and saying “Oh congratulations on making your son/daughter, he or she is a beauty”? Ewww.

What is more Bieber wants to give his girl’s parents a standing ovation for the way they raised her. Who the hell are you to judge on parenting, Bieber?

The line that says everything I need to know about how overwhelmingly shitty the lyrics are is this line in the second verse where he sings that she doesn’t need no sponsor because she’s the brand now like his wife is just some inanimate object with logos all over, she isn’t a fucking trophy!

Quavo comes in with this nothing of a verse where even he sounds like he would rather be eating tacos or doing anything other than appearing on this gutless turd of a song where the production is this spluttering mess with hi hats and percussion that doesn’t much the frankly icky vibe of the song and says a lot about the mess that was Justin Bieber’s “music” in 2020 so for all that “Intentions” by Justin Bieber feat. Quavo is the worst hit song of 2020.

Good 1992 Vibrations: 12th January. Black or White rules roost as The KLF get "Justified & Ancient"

Well we're into the first chart week of the new year and it's actually a lot more interesting than I had expected mostly because there's some challengers to a song that has been number one since mid December 1991 with that song being "Black Or White" by Michael Jackson which had enough sales to maintain itself at number one.

It's nearest challenger remains "Cream" by Prince and The New Power Generation which climbed one spot to number two this week while also posing a solid challenge is "Let's Talk about Sex" by Salt-N-Pepa whch clinbed one place to number three although it can be argued the reason why both these songs gained is that former number one "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred suffered a two place fall to number four. 

Then we have The Rockmelons collaboration with Deni Hines for a very early 90s cover of Bill Withers classic 'Ain't No Sunshine" which climbed two places to number five, 

The highest new entry of the week is at number six with "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on:Me" by George Michael and Elton John, more on this song later but it's certainly got the ingredients to be big with good sales. 

It pushed 'When Something Is Wrong with my baby" by Jimmy Barnes and John Farnham back one place to number seven.as it fades naturally.

All this meant that "Mysterious Ways" by U2 fell three places to number eight and is vulnerable to "All 4 Love" by Colour Me Bad up two places to hit the top ten at number nine. Dear god...I can only hope "Mysterious Ways" hangs on for grim death.

However in good news, "Come to Me" by Diesel rose two places to number ten, this song is really damn solid. Check it out.

Gains

So we had a few big gainers this week, most notably Seattle grunge band Nirvana with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" rising twenty places to 13, this is headed for the top ten...just watch.

Big Audio Dynamite II look headed for another hit with "The Globe" rising from 43 to 31 while Rozalla's "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good" jumped from 39 to 25...got a feeling that this one might make a top ten push at some stage but we'll see.

Roxette's "Spending My Time" climbed from 29 to 17 while Julian Lennon's "Saltwater" continues to rise, this week up 12 places to 16.

Re Entries

Just the one return with MC Hammer's pretty terrible "2 Legit 2 Quit" somehow back at number 44.

Losers

We have a lengthy list of losers this week folks so I'm starting at the bottom and working my way up. 

Dropping eight places to 49 is "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" by Bryan Adams (This song is a guilty pleasure for me so kind of sad to see it on the way out)

"I Gotcha" by Jiumy Barnes is losing it's grip on its place in the top 50 as it tumbles nine spots to 45 while Maybe Dolls plunged eight places to 43 with "Nervous Kid".

A song I absolutely dislike also took a big hit that being "Break in the Weather" by Jenny Morris which collapsed from 26 to 41...not sad to see this as Jenny has done better.

The Wonder Stuff's Australian Tour Souveneir EP called "Caught In My Shadow" slipped seven places to number 38 while "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch feat. Loleatta Holloway slipped nine spots to 29 (More on Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch in the new entries)

Another 1991 hit taking a fall was "Live Your Life Be Free" by Belinda Carlisle which dropped eight places to 27 while PM Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" tumbled from 15 to 22.

Metallica skidded from 14 to 21 with "The Unforgiven" while Tomislav Ivcic's anti war song and top ten hit "Stop the War in Croatia" took a twelve place hit to to number 20. while the other top ten hit to fall hard was Robbie Nevil's "Just Like You" which dropped nine places to 18. 

New Entries

Number 47: "How Can I Keep from Singing" by Enya

So I feel I need to say this, Enya's music is the epitome of background noise filler, it's the sort of music you put on when curing insomnia so how is this latest single from her 1991 album "Shepherd Moons"...honestly its more of the same background filler noise, Enya sounds nice on the song but the longer the song went the more I was convinced it doesn't belong on the ARIA singles chart. Fast forward!

Number 46: "Finally" by Ce Ce Peniston

Well okay, this is a bit of a wake up call after having to listen to that sleepy Enya song and it comes from an American former beauty queen turned singer and actress so I was kind of interested to hear song and yeah, it's fine...it's got a pop sensibility to it that makes the song work really well,and the lyrics describing somebody finally finding that person to love are cute...it's decent without being great...I'll still take it.

Number 40: "Justified & Ancient" by The KLF 

So The KLF are a British electronic hip hop act formed in 1987 and otherwise known as Justified Ancients of the Mu Mu and many other names. Its a pretty sample heavy song that uses country singer Tammy Wynette very well, she sounds GREAT here. and the harmonies around the hook are gorgeous. You know what? I dig this, its a bit oddball but hey, its a damn good song...hope it's a hit. 

Number 37: "Martika's Kitchen" by Martika

Alright so we've got a pop cut from one of the break out stars of the late 80s and honestly why does this song feel like a tamer version of Katy Perry's 2017 disaster "Bon Appetit" feat. Migos?. Especially as Martika proclaims "The oven is hot" and I almost get the sense she's calling her vagina a kitchen...look, I know it's probably not but the song leaves me with no choice but to make that interpretation! 

The song is trying to go for this sexy vibe that just doesn't work when Martika is singing like a silly seventeen year old girl who is reading Cleo or Cosmopolitan's sealed section full of dicks for the first time. Look, there are worse sex songs out there but yeah I don't have any desire to go back to this.

Number 33: "Wildside" by Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch

Ohh boy, I don't even know where ti start with this one, Mark Wahlberg and his "Funky Bunch" got a hit back in 1991 with "Good Vibrations" mostly due to Loleatta Holloway being an incredible vocalist so for their follow up they sample Lou Reed's "Walk on The Wild Side" (speeding up the tempo) to deliver a "Hey kids, don't take drugs: message in spite of the song they are sampling referencing oral sex! There's no real fire or passion that you would need to resonate or hit hard with teenagers who might be vulnerable to the pressure of taking drugs. 

"Wildside" is just sloppily put together and I do think they could have found a less cringey sample to make the song hit hard but ehh.

Number 6: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" by Elton John and George Michael

This song is originally a Elton John song that was written by Elton John and his co writer at the time Bernie Taupin, recorded and released in 1974, peaking at number 13 on the Kent Music Report and didn't make the year end list for that year which is weird so in 1991, Elton John brought George Michael on board for a live version of the song which the pair had first performed together at the 1985 Live Aid concerts. 

I'll be hoenst and say this isn't my favourite Elton John however this is still really damn god and Elton John and George Michael sound fantastic together...I love that the hook builds and builds into that chorus and that piano line is gorgeous. 

However it's only getting honourable mention because best of the week is going to "Justified & Ancient" by The KLF.

The worst of the week is going to Martika for "Martika's Kitchen" because that song is just cringe. Dishonourable mention to "Wildside" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch for messing up something that might have worked with a better choice of sample.

ARIA Singles Chart Top Ten/Chart Review: January 11th. Chart resets for 2021 in some ways..

 So this week saw a reset with all of the Christmas music gone and 2019 and 2020 releases rushing to fill the gaps although we did get four new songs on the chart this week but we'll get to that, let's deal firstly with the top ten where much to my delight, "Mood" by 24kGoldn and Iann Dior held onto the number one spot mostly thanks to streaming being at least consistent, it held up over "Without You" by The Kid Laroi which thankfully remains stuck at number two because the only traction it's got right now is mostly on Spotify.

"Head & Heart" by Joel Corry feat. MNEK remains stuck at number three as it still has some sales traction and streaming is still solid...it's hanging around a lot longer than I thought but it's coming under pressure from "Levitating" by Dua Lipa and DaBaby which rose one place to number four, this song has some streaming and while sales did take a hit this week, there's a tiny chance that it could go to number one in a few weeks time...we'll see.

There's a new entry at number five from Justin Bieber called "Anyone", we'll get into the song's quality later but it's here mostly thanks to good sales and streaming that while good wasn't able to push the song any higher.but might do in the weeks ahead.

Holding steady at number six is "positions" by Ariana Grande and also "Afterglow" by Ed Sheeran at number seven, the latter having sales traction and a little streaming.

Rising three places to number eight is "Fly Away" by Tones and I, this song has traction on sales and is climbing on streaming so this isn't going to go away any time soon and I am honestly fine with that as this is a good song, probably one of the first to be on my year end best list considerations.

"So Done" by The Kid Laroi went up one spot to number nine thanks to streaming, it moved past "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd which fell two places to number ten.

Gains

"Heat Waves" by Glass Animals gained 10 places to 22, "Monster" by Shawn Mendes feat. Justin Bieber rose six places to  29, "Paradise" by Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy climbed seven to 33 (actually annoyed about this song, the song is fine but Dermot Kennedy has done better eg: "Power over Me"). "Lasting Lover" by Sigala and James Arthur broke into the top twenty up eight places to 19. 

"Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles rebounded seven places to 17,  "34+35" by Ariana Grande returned up six places to 15 and it's got some traction now...it could go top ten soon.

Re Entries

So we had six returns this week, starting at 44 with "Circles" by Post Malone, "Wonder" by Shawn Mendes back at 45 (not a bad week for Mendes), "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Jubel feat. Neimy waltzed back in at 46, "For the Night" by Pop Smoke popped back in at 47, Justin Bieber's slightly less "Lonely" with Benny Blanco back at 48 and the worst of the returns being "Befote You Go" by Lewis Capaldi at 49 (the song still sucks)

Losses

The biggest loss was for "WAP" by Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion which slipped four places to 26 but that was really it in terms of losers.

Drop Outs

As I said at the beginning, all the drop outs were Christmas music.

New Entries

So there's a change to the way I am dealing with new entries this year. I am going to be doing a brief review of each of the new entries. Album bomb weeks will have rules which I will explain when we get to having an album bomb week likely from Drake later this month

So we've got four new entries, starting with

50. "Love Not War (the Tampa Beat)" by Jason DeRulo and Nuka

Do you ever get the feeling that an artist is using the next few singles to try to recreate the lightning in a bottle that was a previous hit? This was the feeling I got when I heard this song that Jason DeRulo co wrote, the song reworking Nuka's song "4 Brylean (WayzRmx2018)" with the lyrics playing to DeRulo just wanting him and this girl to get back to having sex rather than fighting and honestly it's a bit of a shame that DeRulo spends more time bragging about how much money he has spent on this giirl and bemoaning that when he and this girl stop touching they don't stay in touch...the lyrics kind of justify why this girl may not be keen to dive back in.

DeRulo just comes across as whinging here, it's not pleasant at all and as for the production...that horn swonk has got to be the most annoying sound ever and pervades pretty much everything but the verses. I think I'll pass on this one. Time to move on!

40. "The Business" by Tiesto

 So Tiesto is back on the ARIA singles chart for the first time since "Jackie Chan" with Post Malone and Preme in 2018 and I honestly don't see the appeal here, the instrumentation is your usual electronic/house song fare while the vocals are deep but don't provide much in the way of anything interesting especially when the lyrics just don't quite connect at all or even tell much of a story, its so vague, its not precisely bad but it's not anything I want to come back too.

38. "Good Days" by SZA

I've had a weird relationship when it comes to SZA, I've never really felt compelled to care about her music at all, her brand of R'n'B hasn't done anything for me in the past so when "Good Days" hit the ARIA singles chart I was wondering what I was in for but as it turned out SZA found a way to make a pretty compelling song that manages to connect, its a gentle piano song where SZA is reminding herself that the world might feel like its crumbling around her but there are still good days ahead and that the best is yet to come...the song is reassuring but not blind to the problems the world is facing. I like it. Good job!

5. "Anyone" by Justin Bieber

Okay...another Justin Bieber song...a song I will say I unfairly lashed out at mostly because it is better than the entirety of that last album and Bieber is at least a little more convincing in a song that sounds like it might be aimed at his wife...again...at least there's something in his delivery that's believable. I just wish the production was a bit more energetic rather than that popping drum line...just feels like there's something missing in the production...still doesn't change that while not good or great. It's passable.

Worst of the week is going to "Love Not War" by Jason DeRulo and Nuka. "Savage Love" may not have pissed me off like it did many others last year but the production and DeRulo not selling it at all with his delivery make it the obvious stand out for worst of the week.

SZA is getting best of the week for "Good Days". Good song that I hope becomes a sustainable hit as currently looks likely.

That wraps up the week, not sure whats coming next week, the US is bracing for a Morgan Wallen album bomb on the Hot 100 but as for the ARIA singles chart, I am not sure...it could be a quiet week as far as new entries go...we'll see on Saturday at 5pm AEDT

New Music Friday Review Part 1: January 8th. The WORST song of 2021 already?

So this is the lead single from the new Florida Georgia Line album coming soon and I was hoping they'd keep going on their trend from "Lit This Year"...a Christmas song that is pretty good coming from a duo known for bro country so what did we get with "New Truck"?

Seems for the last few years, we've had a song released in early January that was a clear stand out for the year end number one on the worst lists eg: "Yummy":by Justin Bieber last year and "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande in 2019, well "My Truck" by Florida Georgia is that song for 2021 because holy shit, where to even start?

Well let's start with the lyrics which are just Florida Georgia Line's checklist bro country bragging about having this new truck and therefore a new souped ride that they like too high and that's all before using the term 'shawty' like they are Justin Bieber in 2010...what a way to make your song sound instantly dated! Also adlibs because Florida Georgia Line think they can get away with trying to lazily merge country with using stale hip hop adlibs you'd find on Migos albums "Culture" and "Culture II" for that matter. The hip hop integration is at best lousy and at worst fucking insulting to both country and hip hop genres.

Also bragging about having alligator skin interiors? Not sure that's a brag you should be making in a time of strong animal rights considerations.

As for the production, well its closer to pop and hip hop with the leering gang vocals and a creaking noise in the second verse that I was convinced that somebody's cat had somehow been accidentally recorded and included in the mix with how off key it sounds (some cats can meow to a tune but not the one on this Florida Georgia Line song. The vocal delivery on the chorus reminds me of fucking "Swayze" by Zac Brown. Nothing goes with anything and there's not a hit of country instrumentation on the song apart of the braying vocals of the duo.

I originally thought that "My Truck" was so bad that it was perversely funny but than I realized that this could be the next evolution of fucking bro country where it barely even sounds like country music but will get played on country radio anyway...this song is absolute fucking ASS...DO NOT inflict this on anyone.

Rating: 1/10