This year, I've been trying to make up for the lack of best and worst lists posted on this site. I've been going back into previous years in which I was moderately aware of pop music, looking into the biggest songs, and deciding which ones I hate and which ones clicked for me. However, 2020 is different. 2020 is an extremely personal year for me, as it was the year I first got into popular music, with many of the biggest songs of the year clicking for me. Obviously, 2020 was a disastrous year for many, with the COVID-19 pandemic sending the world into chaos. It was a heartbreaking situation for many, and easily the craziest year of my life from that standpoint. In hindsight, it's clear that 2020, while an absolutely terrible year in numerous categories, was an excellent year for pop music. Looking through the 2020 Year-End list and the Top 40 hits throughout the year, there were a plethora of songs that would've easily been chosen for my list in other years that didn't make it. On the flip side, though, when the music was bad, it wasn't just bad, it was atrocious. Some of the songs that charted highly in 2020 featured morally questionable lyrics, vomit-inducing sounds, and completely irredeemable qualities. With that being said, that's my purpose for writing this list. I want to highlight and call out these awful qualities in a retrospective list.

As a reminder, I am quite lenient with what I consider a hit. For a song to qualify for this list, it must have either peaked in the top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 or been named one of the 100 biggest songs via Billboard's year-end list. This allows me to have a much more vast list of hits to choose from, and allows me to talk about music I either passionately disavow or have immense respect and love for. As always, I have a lot of songs I am ready to discuss thoroughly, so let us break down the horrid, unrepentant garbage at hand from the most disastrous year of the decade so far. Let us count down...

THE TOP TEN WORST HIT SONGS OF 2020

#10

I can't believe it's already been a whole four years since the train wreck of a year that 2020 was. It seemed like things were going wrong at every turn, and I'm sure people would want nothing more than to forget it ever happened. This won't be the last time I mention COVID-19 here, but I do want to try to keep the discussion of it to a minimum, to keep things in a better mood. However, for this first entry, it is necessary for me to talk about. During 2020, many people felt like things were going very downhill, like the world was ending. That did not mean we needed a hit song about it. 

10. If the World Was Ending - JP Saxe & Julia Michaels

This song's biggest crime is honestly just being demonstrably boring. It's a sappy piano ballad where two aggressively middle-of-the-road singers whine about how, if the world was ending, they'd want to go back to the house an ex they haven't dated in a year instead of spending that time with family and friends. This feels like such a misguided sentiment that I'm honestly certain these two didn't even notice. Who are these two anyway? Well, JP Saxe is a Canadian singer-songwriter who has literally never had another song hit the Hot 100, before or after this. Meanwhile, Julia Michaels is a songwriter who has written for many famous artists, including Anne-Marie, Sabrina Carpenter, and Dua Lipa. She also helped write Demi Lovato's "Commander in Chief," which would've topped this list easily if it hadn't been a deserved commercial failure on every level. Unfortunately for Michaels, though, she's one of those songwriters who just can't sing. She sounds like she's straining to hit every single note she attempts. But, yeah, you can see the pedigree we're working with here. One mediocre artist, and one bad singer who had a hand in writing one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life.

So, in criticizing this song, let's start with the sound. As I said earlier, this song is very boring. A song about the world ending shouldn't be limp and pathetic, it should sound chaotic and panicked. This song decides to go with the most basic, cookie-cutter chord progression I've ever heard. Apparently this was produced by FINNEAS, Billie Eilish's brother and main producer. ????? I thought he was good at making music. This has to be the worst song he's ever produced, right? This just more confuses me than anything. It doesn't help that the bare-bones production makes both Saxe and Michaels' vocals stand out more - which, trust me, you don't want. Saxe himself isn't terrible, but he clearly could sing at a higher range than this. Meanwhile, Michaels annunciates her words so weirdly and slurred that it all just blurs together. Every other word she sings out of rhythm in a way that is trying to add flair, but it comes across as smug and unnecessary. 

Now for this song's lyrics. This song is about two ex-lovers who, after an earthquake, start wondering what they would do if the world was actually ending. And, let me tell you, I don't think either of these two have their priorities straight. If the world was actually ending, they should be trying to contact their family and friends to say goodbye to them, not immediately running back to someone they broke up with a year ago to hook up one last time. There's only one possible explanation for this - both narrators are lonely losers who haven't even attempted human interactions since they broke up. I'm sure that's not how they wanted this to come across, but that's how it sounds to me. If the world was actually ending, I'd be glad I never have to listen to this song again.

#9

A song's backstory can affect its placement on my list just as much as its sound. When I discussed GAYLE's song "ABCDEFU" on my worst list, I talked about how it faked genuine artistry to try to make it go TikTok viral. That only added to my distaste towards that song, Just like that song, this next entry has a controversial story attached. However, unlike that song, this story is integral to this song's identity and just makes it all the more pathetic.

9. Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) - Jason Derulo & Jawsh 685

Jason Derulo is an artist I've always felt gets way too much hate. He's had some good songs like "The Other Side" and "Want To Want Me," and his worst songs are more funny than morally reprehensible. I like him a lot more than his inspiration, Chris Brown, so that's a positive at least. However, this is the song where I lost any semblance of respect I had for this guy. The story behind this song is that a 17-year-old, Jawsh 685, posted an instrumental, called "Laxed (Siren Beat)" to YouTube, and it went TikTok viral. While in the process of negotiating with numerous artists for a potential remix, Derulo went behind his back, recorded this terrible piece of garbage, and released it without clearing the sample with Jawsh. They eventually agreed to give Jawsh a credit on this, but it still rubs me the wrong way that Derulo would do something so completely selfish.

And, honestly, I don't even get why he did that. The "Laxed (Siren Beat)" instrumental just isn't good. No offense to Jawsh 685, as I know that this is a very important cultural style in New Zealand, but I just can't stand it. It doesn't sound like a pop song, it sounds like music you'd hear from the stands at a county fair. The trumpets sound completely artificial and the percussion is so over-the-top and bouncy it'd make a basketball look like a rock. It sounds corny and childish, which doesn't fit at all with the song's subject matter - having casual sex with someone who doesn't give two craps about you. Derulo makes that blatantly clear in the chorus, where he says "when you kiss me, I know you don't give two f**ks". And Derulo sings it in this over-the-top falsetto that just sounds atrocious. I'd legitimately rather hear Adam Levine sing this than Jason Derulo. That's how bad he sounds on this.

But what pisses me off the most is the blatant phoniness of it all. None of this is Jason's idea. The title "Savage Love" blatantly rips off the far superior Megan Thee Stallion song "Savage" from earlier in the year, Jason didn't make the instrumental, and he couldn't even get it to top the charts without enlisting the help of BTS. Since when has Jason ever been original, though? His first big hit, "Whatcha Say," was another blatant rip-off that used another artist's work almost beat-for-beat. It's almost satisfying that Jason starts his hit-making career and ends it the same way - ripping someone else off. Well, I am not going to stand for it. Let's hope we never have to hear from this guy again.

#8

2020 was a banner year for Lil Baby, who turned from an absolute joke rapper nobody had any respect for into an actual artist who made music with a purpose. His hit "The Bigger Picture" is probably the main example of this. While it won't be making my best list, it is a powerful message about the Black Lives Matter movement and what it stands for. "Sum 2 Prove" and "Emotionally Scared" are both also great songs that prove Lil Baby has legitimate talent when it comes to this. So, why, if I have all this praise, am I bringing his name up here? Well, no one has a perfect batting average in a year...

8. We Paid - Lil Baby & 42 Dugg

I don't mean to be insensitive with this or anything, but, who exactly is this song supposed to appeal to? I hate legitimately every single element of this song. For one, the beat begins with an ear-piercing hi-hat that honestly sounds terrible, with some weird whistling noises and mushy 808s in the background that don't help this atmosphere whatsoever. The next problem is that these two don't work together at all. Their voices are so different that it's jarring during the transition from one to the other. I already have issues with Lil Baby's mush-mouth on a lot of his songs, but it's so terrible on this. Meanwhile, 42 Dugg may possibly have the least appealing voice of any artist I've ever heard. Ever. I can't take him seriously. Not only does he sound comical, I can't understand a single word coming out of his mouth. He's like if Playboi Carti and Chad Kroeger got merged into a single entity, and I mean that in the harshest way possible. It's so bad I had to look up the lyrics. 

And these lyrics.... no. The first verse features Dugg making fun of fellow rapper Young Joc going bankrupt while also saying he'll "f**k with that dog like Vick". That is.. honestly disgusting. These are the first two lines of the song! Guess it makes sense why Dugg decided to perform this in a way that allowed nobody in the world to understand what he was saying - so he could hide that he's a reprehensible man who thinks animal abuse and poverty are things to joke about.  Then we get to Lil Baby himself. His lyrics aren't nearly as reprehensible as Dugg's, but they're still quite weird. He talks about taking a cup of lean to church and says that he "ran through a mil' every week coppin' weed". Like... man, there's no excuse to be spending a million dollars a week on weed. Not a single one. There's no weed in the world good enough that you need to be spending that much. 

And that's my main issue with this song. This is a song about how both 42 Dugg and Lil Baby need to hire a financial advisor. I'm joking with that obviously, but the way these two describe how they spend money is so over-the-top that it makes me legitimately think they have an addiction to buying stuff. I mean, that's what "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we paid" means. It's not about the fact that they suffered through bad events, which is what I assumed this song was about when I first heard the chorus back in 2020. Nope, it's about paying money for unnecessary things that aren't going to last. Cars, jewelry, Dickies, diamonds, Timbs, all this stuff. It's the materialistic-ness of it all. No, who am I kidding, it's the fact that 42 Dugg sounds like he's constipated throughout the entire thing, but I've got to point out something I hate about this morally. Lil Baby, I know you can do better than this. Do it. And as for you 42 Dugg, I have no idea what your calling is but it sure as hell ain't rap music. I wish you good luck in your career as a (spins random career wheel) Hotel Depot cashier.

#7

This is the entry, if any, that'll probably get me killed. I know that this group's fans are known for being very ruthless to defend their favorite group. So, in my defense, I'll say that this group does have a number of great songs. From what I can tell, though, this seems to be one of the fans' least favorite ones. That makes sense, because this is a song so bad that I legitimately don't know how anyone could take it seriously. 

7. Ice Cream - BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez

I hate songs that relate eating to sex. It's why I hate Katy Perry's "Bon Appetit". It's why I hate Billie Eilish's "Lunch". And it's why I hate this song. It's a sentiment that makes me vehemently uncomfortable, and honestly I'm not really sure why. With this song, it's pretty clear why. BLACKPINK's core fanbase is very young, and the double entendres this song utilizes are honestly just very, very gross. Not only that, but it does it over this thumping dance beat that doesn't sound refreshing like an ice cream cone, but instead gives me a migraine like a jackhammer is being inserted into my skull. That's my biggest issue with the song. It just sounds terrible. This beat doesn't work whatsoever. With Selena Gomez's nothing voice, it's such a massive contrast that I have no confidence could've worked in any alternate universe. It's obvious they were trying to go for a pop hit, but it just sucks.

It seems like they were mixing up the metaphors a lot too. The song is about ice cream, but the first lyric talks about being thirsty and sipping a Slurpee? Mixing up your food metaphors here, y'all. I will say there are some clever lyrics in the verses, but they're all soundtracked by this aggressive, confrontational beat that makes it so I can't appreciate them. Honestly, most of the lyrics are fine, but it's just the grossness of the double entendres and the jackhammer beat that make me dislike this so much. It's legitimately a painful listening experience, and the fact that it's only #7 on this list is a miracle (or a curse, depending on how you look at it). 

Look, I don't have a problem with K-pop. BLACKPINK's other single from 2020, "Lovesick Girls," was pretty good, and all of BTS' English singles were pretty decent in my eyes. This song isn't on the list because of it's of that genre, because I don't hate that genre at all. It's on the list because it's the worst example of that genre I can remember. The fact that this was pushed over "Lovesick Girls" was a mistake by the label, and I'm ashamed that we were okay with it.

#6

Oh, and speaking of bad songs with awful food metaphors for sex....

6. Yummy - Justin Bieber

This may be the most pathetic song on the list. Justin Bieber's attempt at an R&B jam goes wrong mostly due to that word. Yummy. That just gives me a disgusted feeling the same way the last song did. That is only a word that should be coming out if you're either 5 years old or a member of the Wiggles. Honestly, apart from that one word, this song isn't utterly terrible. I could imagine this working if Bieber used literally any other word. "Yeah you got that fabulous, that fabulous, that fabulousness," something like that could've worked. So, why is this higher than songs with much less redeeming qualities like "Ice Cream" and "We Paid"? Well...

If you noticed, the link to the video for "Yummy" is not to the original version of the song. While that is the version that charted, I wanted to discuss the remix of this song that makes it so much worse. Bieber decided having success was the main goal, so he tried to rope in the country audience as listeners. In this version of this song, Bieber puts on an obviously forced country accent and recruits Florida Georgia Line, the least respectable country stars, to create one of the most aggressively terrible pieces of music I've ever heard. In his verse, Bieber adjusts the lyric "get it done" to make it "get er' done," which is honestly just insulting to anyone who likes country music. Meanwhile, Florida Georgia Line talks about Waffle House and Chick-Fil-A while performing possibly the worst ad-lib I've ever heard in a song ("girl, I'm a lick it up"). I don't think there's a way you can listen to this and not get second-hand embarrassment. Justin Bieber was 26 years old when this came out, while Tyler Hubbard was 33 and Brian Kelley was 35. These are grown men. That is just humiliating. Looking at the top comments of this remix's YouTube video, everybody's talking about how Anthony Fantano named it the worst song of 2020. And that's about all the respect this song deserves.

But what really irks me is how Bieber thought he did something with this. He aggressively promoted this song, encouraging his fans to commit streaming fraud by playing it in their sleep on close to mute. It also sparked Pizzagate controversies due to the imagery of babies Justin Bieber pushes prior to the song's release. No joke, Bieber posted pictures of babies with the caption "yummy" prior to this song's release. That is just disturbing. He also went all-in on an over-the-top music video that features some of the most disgusting-looking food ever conceived. Bieber's "all-in" approach on this song was supposed to help it get to number one. Honestly, I'm glad he failed. Had "Yummy" reached the number one spot, it would easily the most embarrassing number one single of all time. Yes, that is including that Chuck Berry song about his ding-a-ling,. Just pathetic. 

#5

This is unfortunately another song where I'll have to reference the pandemic, as it's impossible for me to discuss this song in a vacuum without referring to it. While we were all stuck in our houses 4 years ago, it really brought out the true character of some people. This song is an example of ignorance. Two pampered children believing that the world revolves around them and not realizing that the pandemic created lifelong trauma for many and killed millions of people around the world. The fact that two of the world's biggest pop stars decided to use the pandemic as a way to make more money just sickens me, and with that, you already know where I'm heading, so here we go.

5. Stuck With U - Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber

"Stuck With U," I can tell was made with a good purpose. It was intended to raise money for the First Responders Children Foundation, and I can respect it for that, I guess. Apart from that, though, this song is utterly worthless. This is another "1-800-273-8255" by Logic situation where, despite the good intentions, you can tell the artists involved have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. While I don't think this song is as bad as that song, I do think that this is completely misguided. The entire problem with the COVID-19 pandemic is that nobody wanted to be stuck at home. It feels completely insensitive to all of the people who lost loved ones in the pandemic to make a song about how great it is to be stuck at home with others. 

In a vacuum, this song is fine. It's not a bad-sounding piece of music out of the context of the year 2020. However, the fact that they didn't put enough thought to realize how out-of-touch this is shows me how this wasn't a priority for these two. They didn't have to worry about what they were going to do to survive every day during the pandemic like so many Americans did. The line "we got all that we need here tonight" specifically angers me because so many people didn't. People were desperate. People lost their loved ones. Writing a song about how great it is to be stuck inside is an insult to everyone who lost family members, lost their jobs, and were affected from a mental health standpoint due to COVID-19. 

To me, this song represents the worst aspects of celebrities. They pretend to care about issues only to show that they clearly aren't actually interested in taking it seriously. Both Ariana and Justin saw this as a way to get a quick #1, and unlike "Yummy," this song actually hit number 1. All I can say is, while it's still better than other charity singles like Lil Dicky's "Earth" and the Gal Gadot-led "Imagine" cover, it's not good enough to defend.

#4

There are some songs that, despite having critical success and being loved by seemingly most music critics, I will never find appealing. Recently, it's been songs with explicitly sexual lyrics and obnoxious repetitiveness that I find to be terrible. Songs like Megan Thee Stallion's "Body" and Cardi B's "Up" are both examples of this. So, what would happen if you took those two songs, took every positive quality about them out of the picture, and mashed them together? You'd get this.

4. WAP - Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion

I saw so many YouTubers (such as Todd In The Shadows, for instance) say that this was one of the best songs of 2020. I am absolutely baffled by that take, as this song is like what would happen if you made "Ice Cream" 1,000,000 times more explicit, slowed down the background music, and replaced the jackhammer synth with some dude saying "there's some whores in this house" over and over. That production job alone was probably enough to get it on the list, as I thought it sounded like a disaster. It's so bare-bones and minimal yet so abrasive that I'm having trouble even comprehending it.

Then we get to Cardi and Megan. I can tell they have talent, and they both know how to flow well on a rap beat (especially Megan, who's flows on this song are actually kinda good), but the lyrics to this song just do not do it for me. Look, I'll be honest, I am someone who is not comfortable listening to overtly sexual lyrics. Out of all of the songs on this list, including my top 3, this is the one I would not be caught dead listening to. The phrase "wet ass p*ssy" is just gross to me. This entire song is just gross to me. Even if the overt sexuality somehow did appeal to me, the vibe is just completely deadened by the awful production on the instrumental. I cannot stand it. But, I understand why people like it. The problem is that the entire reason people like it is the reason I find it to be a legitimately painful song. 

This song, obviously, got many people's knickers in a twist. If you've watched Ben Shapiro's reaction video to this (and please do, it's utterly hilarious), you'll understand that conservative commentators especially hated this. While I'm not morally outraged the way they are, I also have an extreme distaste for this song. Megan and Cardi, I know you all have talent, but this is probably the worst thing I've heard from either of you. Now, if you excuse me, I'm gonna go listen to "Savage" and "I Like It" so I can listen to music I actually like.

#3

Do you remember when the Harlem Shake and What Does The Fox Say went viral? Turns out 2020 needed one of those! Unfortunately, this isn't close to as good as those two (this is not a compliment to those two). Instead of a fun jam that has something interesting attached to it, we get a pointless novelty that isn't good enough to justify its own existence.

3. Dance Monkey - Tones & I

"Dance Monkey" by Australian singer-songwriter Tones & I is one of the most baffling songs I've ever heard in my entire life. It was one of the most popular songs in the world in 2020, reaching the top 5 of year-end charts in numerous countries, including #1 in Hungary and Canada. And I can't say I don't get why. It's catchy, it's got a memorable rhythm and chorus, and it's something kids can easily dance and sing along to. So why is it number 3 ahead of songs I genuinely hate like "WAP" and "Stuck With U"? Well, the answer is kind of too obvious for words - the vocal performance on this song may legitimately be the worst I've ever heard in my entire life. The song's called "Dance Monkey," but she didn't have to actually sound like a monkey, which is what her extended syllables, especially the "oohh IIIII" at the end of the verse, sound like to me. They're so throaty and scratchy that they distract from what's supposed to be a fun and uplifting song. 

This is a song that it's very easy to get sick of. Hearing it on TikTok and YouTube all the time would absolutely kill any enjoyment of it if that's what happened. That did not happen for me. I hated this from the first listen. Even the production, which is supposed to be the good part, I can't stand. That piano riff at the beginning is simplistic and amateurish. It's a very basic four-chord pop song, which isn't a bad thing, but it just doesn't have any qualities that make it stand out from other pop music apart from Tones & I's ear-grating voice.

Then we get to just the complete world domination this song experienced. Honestly, I understand why it was popular, but the fact that it was so popular made it unbearable. I heard it all over TikTok, my little brother listened to it constantly, and it got worse every time I heard it. This is not a song meant to be played over and over again. This shouldn't have went viral. The fact that we, as a country, collectively decided that this song, with this vocal performance, deserved success just shows how poor of decision-makers we truly are. No wonder our only choices for President in 2020 were two old men who clearly aren't capable, if this is the kind of decision we're making when it doesn't matter.

#2

These next two entries are probably going to get... uncomfortable. Unlike all of the other songs on this list (apart from "Stuck with U"), these two songs have issues that go beyond just the songs themselves. They have to do with moral issues, questions about ethics, and discussions about what is acceptable in pop culture. However, if I'm being honest, a song can get me angry just by making me depressed. Nothing embodies that more than a song about feeling suicidal by a dead man and a murderer.

2. Suicidal (Remix) - YNW Melly & Juice WRLD

Rest in peace to Juice WRLD. He died far too young. Unfortunately for me, I never appreciated his music until after he died. I have more to discuss about him on my best list, but let me just say he is someone I have a lot of respect for. Unfortunately, "Suicidal" is the worst song he's ever made. Both he and Melly give subpar performances on this. The beat is just meh, and the lyrics are very uncomfortable. It's not bad enough that I would call it the second worst song of a year that features "Dance Monkey," but the context for this is what puts it over the edge for me. Juice WRLD, as I said before, passed away in 2019, before this song was released. He passed away from a suspected opioid overdose. Meanwhile, YNW Melly was accused of double homicide. To be fair to him, he has not been convicted, but the fact that his first single, "Murder On My Mind," is so similar to the case involved makes me hesitant to think he's innocent. I'm not going to say he isn't outright, as that would be foolish of me, but let's just say that this background 100% affected my opinion on the song.

Let's start with how Juice WRLD makes me feel on this. His verse discusses drinking Hennessy, which both rappers seem to use as a coping mechanism of some sort. He also states that this girl has "turned into [his] enemy" and that she's "got him taking medicine, these ain't no vitamins". That lyric probably would've made me uneasy before, but it makes me just disappointed now. I can't say that the fact that he died of a drug overdose makes me uneasy about it, since there's another song by him that references something similar that I'll be discussing on my best list, but this is a different feeling entirely. This song just sounds like depression. His verse isn't enough to get past the fact that listening to this makes me feel depressed.

Then we get to YNW Melly, who sings the main chorus about this girl's love being "suicidal," which I'm not entirely sure how to interpret. Is it an XXXTentacion situation where he'll kill himself if she leaves him, or is it a situation where his mental health is being harmed by having her around? It's a confusing line, in my opinion, but both options make me thoroughly uncomfortable. Then his verse... this is just wrong, man. This song was apparently recorded right before he turned himself in. The line "And I got too many enemies" may be the worst lyric of 2020. A man who's been accused of murdering two people should not be saying he's got enemies. This is just an ignorant line.

"Suicidal (Remix)" is a song that's just kind of bad out of context. In context, though, it becomes one of the worst vibes you'll ever hear in a rap song. It was easily my least favorite rap hit of 2020, which is saying something considering there were multiple rap songs on this list. The top two songs on this list are so far removed from the rest of this list in quality that putting them any lower than this would be a disservice to every other song on this list. In fact, the fact that this isn't #1 on my list just goes to show me how bad the music of 2020 could get. And my #1... well, you'll have to wait for a minute while you read the...

DISHONORABLE MENTIONS

DM. ily (i love you baby) - Surf Mesa feat. Emilee

The little loop this song is based around is fine on its own, it's just that Surf Mesa here does absolutely NOTHING with it. This song is just a 3-minute extension of that one loop and it's just so boring. A tiny whimper of a song that, just like I said about "Dance Monkey" before, doesn't do anything to justify its own existence.

DM. Supalonely - BENEE feat. Gus Dapperton

This song would've made the list at like #8 if Gus Dapperton wasn't on it. I'm being 100% serious there. BENEE's sour, auto-tune fueled, sarcastic mood completely spoils what could've been an upbeat, fun tune. Then here comes Gus Dapperton and you immediately realize what this song could've been. In all seriousness though, just no.

DM. Party Girl - StaySolidRocky

Easily the most amateur-sounding song of the year. This StaySolidRocky guy sounds like a Lil Baby impersonator who accidentally took too many Xanax pills. Also, this girl Rocky's talking about sounds like someone I would not want to be around whatsoever. Cocaine is an addiction, kids, don't fall for the hype.

DM. RITMO (Bad Boys For Life) - The Black Eyed Peas feat. J Balvin

Do we... need the Black Eyed Peas anymore? Fergie isn't there anymore, so what's even the point of their existence? Also, it's absolutely crazy to me that The Black Eyed Peas sampled a song by an artist called Corona in 2020. I blame them for this. [Note: The song came out before the pandemic started, so this coincidence is even more weird.]

DM. Juicy - Doja Cat feat. Tyga

This song is actually perfectly fine, but Tyga's a guy who once released a song where he bragged about being a pedophile. How in the hell is he still getting work?

DM. The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady - Eminem & Kid Cudi

Another song that's tolerable, but Eminem put out the single worst lyric of the year by saying "F*ck Drew Brees," which is something I don't think I could ever forgive him for. Who Dat, by the way.

DM. Toosie Slide - Drake

SPOILER ALERT - There is no Drake song on the actual list. Although, this was closer than you'd think. "Toosie Slide" is a pathetic cash grab by a man who's realized that he doesn't even have to put in effort to get a hit song. It's a good thing we never have to worry about him getting a hit again after this Kendrick this.

DM. Intentions - Justin Bieber feat. Quavo

Justin Bieber is just an enigma in pop music. This song especially. It sounds like a bounce house made out of sandpaper. Plus, he features just the actual weirdest lyrics ever. As an accounting major, the line "heart full of equity, you're an asset" just baffles me. That is not how that works, man. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS COMPLETELY.

DM. Be Like That - Kane Brown, Swae Lee, and Khalid

The only thing I can imagine when I hear this song is that time Kane Brown was on College GameDay and Lee Corso said something to the effect "you have a song called 'Be Like That'? Well, that game won't be like you just said it was". I am 100% certain Lee Corso has never actually heard this song, or any Kane Brown song for that matter.

DM. Trollz - 6ix9ine feat. Nicki Minaj

6ix9ine is an evil, scummy human being. This would've made the list if I didn't want to give him the dignity of taking up an actual spot on the list. I'd also like to take a second to address Nicki Minaj here. Why do you work with this guy? He was involved in the rape of a 13-year-old girl, he seems like the most malevolent human being on the planet, and he's never made anything worth listening to. The fact that you've still had hits after working with this piece of garbage is just pathetic.

And now, with that off my chest, here is my pick for the worst hit song of 2020..

#1

While I said that my top two picks were going to be uncomfortable, that does not mean that they were remotely close to each other in terms of quality. In fact, my #1 pick is quite possibly the single worst song to hit the Hot 100 this decade. That's saying something considering another song this guy made was, last year, considered one of the worst #1 hits of all time.

So, do you remember "Try That In A Small Town"? The #1 hit from 2023 where Jason Aldean claims that anyone committing crimes in a small town won't "make it down the road"? I left that song off of my worst of 2023 list, stating that I just didn't want to talk about it. In hindsight, that's not the way I should've went with that song. I wouldn't have put it at #1, considering the actual #1 on that list is, to this day, one of my least favorite songs of all time, but I should've done a better job addressing it. Why am I bringing this up? Well, I have a claim about my #1 that I don't know if I'll be able to defend. My argument is that "Try That In A Small Town" is not the worst song of the decade. It's not even the worst country song of the decade. Hell, it's not even the worst Jason Aldean song of the decade. I have never gotten to talk about this before, but, in 2020, Aldean put out a song so evil and repugnant that, to this day, it is still my least favorite song of all time.

1. Got What I Got - Jason Aldean

You're probably confused right now. Why did you go on that whole monologue only to put a charming little love song at #1? Well, if you think this is a charming little love song, you're wrong. This is a song about how Jason Aldean doesn't regret cheating on his wife, abandoning his family, and leaving them for a woman eleven years younger than he is. Do you think I'm reaching? Do you think I'm coming with excuses to bash a Jason Aldean song just because I was too nice to "Try That In A Small Town"? Nope. I've hated this song since I found out about the backstory before it, before that other song even existed. Let me make a very blunt statement here - if you cheat on your partner, you are an evil piece of trash. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you do it, you are evil.

Let's take a look at this song's chorus.

"When I got what I got, I don't miss what I had. The old me before you belongs to the past. In the back of your mind, you might think there's something more I want. But when I got what I got, girl, I don't".

That first line is the single most evil lyric to ever be written. He doesn't regret what he did. He doesn't regret cheating on his wife and leaving her and their two daughters behind to go mess around with an American Idol contestant. He doesn't regret starting to date that same girl less than a year after his divorce. That line is emblematic of everything wrong with Jason Aldean as a person. It doesn't matter to me that he didn't even write this song, because he hasn't written an actual song in years, it's the fact that he sang it at all that pisses me off to no end. 

Outside of that chorus, though, this song just sucks. It's dreary and dark in a way that a love song shouldn't be. The guitars in this sound pitiful, and the guitar solo in this sounds aggressive and uninspired. Although, I'm probably giving it much more credit than it deserves considering what it's soundtracking. It's an unpleasant vibe that I'm honestly shocked anyone could bear listening to at all. Combine that with the atrocious use of 808s on this, and you've got just a downright terrible sound that would be much better equipped where it belongs - in the garbage.

I am deeply ashamed that my country allowed this to even become a minor hit. As someone who's had people in his life pull this crap, this is emblematic of the worst parts of humanity. Let me restate what I said earlier. If you cheat on your spouse, you did one of the most evil things a human can possibly do - abandon the sanctity of marriage. And for that reason, "Got What I Got" is the most pathetic song to ever hit the Hot 100, and it is, in my opinion, the worst charting country single of all time.

Have a good rest of your day, please consider commenting your opinions down below. This is Lando from the Landoman Experiment, and I thank you for reading. Live long and prosper.