Popular songs you actually don’t like

[GodDamnVampire]

Neighbours a few doors away have been out in the garden, having a bbq and playing music.
Earlier, they played ‘Sweet Caroline’ on loop 4 times 🤪
I remember reading somewhere (maybe on MN?!) that some people can’t stand this song.
Personally, I don’t mind it, but maybe 4 times is a bit much!.

Are you a fan?
What other songs which are deemed “popular” but actually grates on your nerves?
Mine are Seal’s Kiss From a Rose, The B-52s Love Shack and Fairground Attraction’s Perfect - just for starters!

MacArthur Park
Ode to Billie Joe

Mary’s Prayer

That fucking Mr Brightside song. Everyone always runs to the dance floor when it comes on and I've no idea why. It's shite.

Can’t believe Mr Brightside is over 20 years old 😳

Same! But I don't switch it off, I find myself listening very closely in the hope of convincing myself that they're not actually singing, "Don't be afraid to catch fish."

I’ve got to the end of page 3 and no-one has mentioned “Shout” by Lulu.

Weeelllllllll

Anything by Ed fucking Sheeran. Like the modern day Stock Aitken and Waterman churning a mediocre track out every twenty minutes which has no soul or passion.

Also those first ones you quoted OP - although when I hear Kiss From A Rose now I think of the last National Lampoons film which makes me laugh at least

That “anxiety” song .

Me neither.

Aww, I love Unwritten.

Aren't her songs dreadful! Trite, mediocre, banal.

Yes, a very unpleasant person by all accounts. Apparently one of the least favourite celebrities of cabin crew.

Ode to billy Joe is a stunna! Nothing like it before or since. And when do you ever hear it played? I never hear it.

I think anyone that had to endure 24 weeks or whatever it was of MOK on Top of the Pops will feel like you!

It gives me the creeps

Oh what a night and celebrate. Enraging.

Wasn't that the song that Nev from The Call Centre always forced encouraged all of his employees to raucously sing along to at the start of every single working day?

Isn't there some kind of workplace-based equivalent of the Geneva Convention?!

Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Walking In Memphis ( Any version)
Would I Lie to You - Charles And Eddie
All Of Me - John Legend

I quite like Love Shack though!

Sweet Caroline is so overrated and also Hotel California by The Eagles 🙄😒 I don't get the fascination. I don't really get Time Warp either.
I absolutely cannot stand Dancing in the moonlight by Toploader, I massively dislike The Beautiful South, Believe by Cher, and that god awful song by Daniel Beddingfield, oh and a couple by Ed Sheeran makes my ears bleed!
I'm sure there's many others!

Whiter shade of pale - Procol Harum

Utter tripe.

Yes, I get it, it's not cheerful. But the unusual melody, the guitar riff, the violins, the story.. I find it haunting.

I’d love to know who did buy Mull of Kintyre originally as nobody I know likes it and I don’t like the sound of bagpipes myself , so I definitely didn’t buy it and had to turn it off if it came on the radio. The music video of it was pretty shit too. Mc Carthy on his own had some odd songs back then.

It gets played by violin ensembles in school concerts.