I feel no sympathy towards her pain since she put herself through this. It’s a case where both parties are clearly toxic for one another, but neither one wants to be held accountable. This is another addition to the numerous Halsey songs about bad relationships, this one in particular is aimed at G-Eazy, who she dated for a while and collaborated on Him & I and like most Halsey songs, the writing brings it down. There’s also a bridge that interpolates Justin Timberlake’s Cry Me A River for some random reason. The reverb-heavy production feels like a shot of Novocain to the brain in its dour drowsiness and that description could be said about Halsey’s vocal performance. Of all the songs that Halsey has ever made, Without Me isn’t the worst one, but it’s still problematic in different ways. This was the third biggest song of the year. Neither artists involved looked good and it’s a pain to listen to. I did the math it's like 2000 dollars every wordĮither way you cut it, this song is bad. I left a flock of rappers dead and burned While Auto-Tuned out, he’s talking about how he could hit your girl, but you can’t hit his and this awkwardly forced rhyme scheme. J Cole is honestly the best part of the song and even he sucked. STD, I run my ward, fuck a fed and his daughter Got your broad in the garage eatin' semen (Woo) It’s not like the lyrics make up for it because they’re just as bad. People are really calling this dude a legend and I’m not seeing it at all. But then there’s Young Thug, whose sledgehammer-to-the-nuts high-pitched squawking ruins the entire mood of the song. Travis Scott gives a typical chorus that sounds like he was half-asleep and while I don’t dislike the production, it’s nothing that special. The London is one of those songs that could have been decent, but man, does it miss the mark. These are the ten worst songs of 2019.īefore we begin, here are the first 5 dishonorable mentions.
We’re a few weeks away from 2020, so let’s celebrate the end of the 2010s decade by looking at the best and worst that 2019 has to offer, starting with the worst because, well, it’s just a tradition now with these lists of mine.
Overall, 2019 was a pretty middle-of-the-road year that didn’t generate that much strong feelings from me, especially compared to other years.
Even in terms of the good songs, there weren’t that many that I would call great or future classics. The bad songs didn’t really piss me off that much since most of them were more mediocre than straight-up terrible. Pop music made a resurgence after a lackluster 2018, hip-hop and trap are still going strong and dominating, country music is still at an identity crisis, and TikTok has pretty much become the new Vine in making new viral hits every week. Then again, after last year, there’s nowhere else to go but up. Well, I’ll say this: 2019 was a hell of a lot better than 2018.