One of my favorite blogs, Radley Balko’s The Agitator has a great feature called Five-Star Fridays where Radley shares some of his favorite music every Friday. However, just as light cannot exist without dark, and good cannot exist without evil, great music can only exist if there is truly awful music with which to compare it.
In that spirit, I’ve decided to introduce One-Star Mondays, a collection of the worst music ever made. It’s not enough to be bad; anyone can write a bad song. To make this category a song has to be both awful and catchy, so that it gets stuck in your head and plays over and over until you beg for the sweet release of death. Now that waterboarding is illegal, I offer this category to the US government as a next-generation interrogation technique.
There is only one song that is worthy of kicking this category off. A song that has been widely acclaimed as the worst song ever. Paul Anka’s ode to his own virility, (You’re) Having My Baby.
