The Worst of Music
Posted: December 3rd, 2018, 4:13 pm
It should be known that I enjoy bad music as much, if not more, as good music. I'm not talking about "guilty pleasures", I am talking about music that is so bad that it is good, similar to movies such as "The Room" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
The best example I could find of this is the album The Mixtape by Chingy. Despite being called a mixtape, you can find it for sale on iTunes and for free on Spotify. This "mixtape" is so obscure that it does not even have a Wikipedia page! I would not even describe it as music as much as a mixture of profanity and played-out "gangsta" cliches that come off as parody. While some would say that about his earlier songs such as Right Thurr and I Like That, those were at least catchy enough to be passable, and to blend into the radio or playlist mix as background noise. This, on the other hand, is noticeable for all the wrong reasons. What makes this album particularly "enjoyable" is the purely terrible songwriting. Songs such as 2 Kool 2 Dance and Get Your Swag Up have to be heard to be believed. It is the Birdemic or Manos "The Hands of Fate" of music - something so unbelievably terrible that it is better seen as a surrealist comedy. It is something so godawful that it has to be experienced at least once.
Feel free to comment on what music you think is "so bad, it's good" or just bad in general.
The best example I could find of this is the album The Mixtape by Chingy. Despite being called a mixtape, you can find it for sale on iTunes and for free on Spotify. This "mixtape" is so obscure that it does not even have a Wikipedia page! I would not even describe it as music as much as a mixture of profanity and played-out "gangsta" cliches that come off as parody. While some would say that about his earlier songs such as Right Thurr and I Like That, those were at least catchy enough to be passable, and to blend into the radio or playlist mix as background noise. This, on the other hand, is noticeable for all the wrong reasons. What makes this album particularly "enjoyable" is the purely terrible songwriting. Songs such as 2 Kool 2 Dance and Get Your Swag Up have to be heard to be believed. It is the Birdemic or Manos "The Hands of Fate" of music - something so unbelievably terrible that it is better seen as a surrealist comedy. It is something so godawful that it has to be experienced at least once.
Feel free to comment on what music you think is "so bad, it's good" or just bad in general.