All of the hated songs I’m featuring this week are popular, as hated songs usually are. Nobody works up any vitriol over an obscure B-side.
Mariah Carey’s ‘Emotions’ was her fifth number one hit in a row (making her the only artist to ever have her first five singles reach #1). She dominated the airwaves in the early 90s the way Katy Perry has twenty years later.
Of the songs I’m featuring this week — all of which I hate — today’s selection is the one I’ve been forced to listed to the most.
That’s because the ‘Cha Cha Slide’ is the sort of obnoxious call-and-answer track that appeals to both sports arenas and children’s activity planners.
My family was eating at our favorite wings place the other day when Alanis Morissette’s ‘Ironic’ jumped out of the dining room speakers like a hyena pouncing on its prey.
Except the hyena would have had a more soothing voice.
I decided then and there that I would feature a week of songs that I dislike.
I don’t know if Fountains of Wayne have ever written a bad song.
They’ve certainly written better ones than others, and they have a tendency to put too many songs on their albums, but pound for pound and note for note I’d put Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger’s songwriting chops up there against anybody’s.
Today’s Random Weekend track is a cut from Jackson Browne’s 1993 album I’m Alive. There isn’t a bad song on that album.
Two things about this song have always struck me as funny. One is the background vocals, which include a man whose voice is so deep he sounds like a holdover from the Oak Ridge Boys.
Meet Me In Montauk 