This ability of the sorcerer will wipe any one song of your choosing from the pages of history, as if it never existed! Gone from our reality. They were going to do it anyway, but they’re making you choose.

Which song would you pick?

(If you really can’t narrow it down to one, then try narrowing to three)

~picture credit goes to zenart07 , DeviantArt~

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    482·
    7 days ago

    Baby Shark. The entire time that ducking song was making it’s rounds through society, I managed to avoid it. I knew it was repetitive and awful, and through good fortune and luck, it missed me completely.

    Then I watched the new season of Umbrella Academy. Those motherfuckers.

    • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      The story of Baby Shark is kind of interesting. It used to be a camp song in the 90s. It didn’t become ridiculously popular until the infamous YouTube video that everyone knows. Various people and institutions have tried to sue for ownership, but it was ruled public domain. Anyone can release their own version of Baby Shark if they want.

  • Wowbagger@lemm.eeEnglish
    441·
    7 days ago

    The US national anthem. People will stand around before sporting events knowing that they used to do something but are mystified they can’t remember what.

  • Krzd@lemmy.world
    265·
    7 days ago

    Because it’s already starting again, “Last Christmas”. Fuck that garbage piece of shit song that’s ruining the lives of everyone that has to work in retail during Christmas.

    • Gloomy@mander.xyz
      11·
      7 days ago

      Good point. If the wizard did this you also would never know that such a song existed. Hence your “worst song in the world” spot would be filled with a different song the instant the spell hits.

      It shows how such categories as “the worst” and “the best” are only constructions of our mind.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    6 days ago

    Either the British or American national anthems, they’re both pretentious as fuck and it’d be kinda interesting to see if something like that has knock on effects down the line.

    • disgrunty@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      I’d say the American one because as a British person, I haven’t sung ours once in my entire life but Americans seem to sing theirs for everything.

  • EllE@lemmy.world
    237·
    7 days ago

    The American national anthem, please.

    It’s such a terrible song, and it keeps getting sung in weird ways by bad singers. I swear, as a non-american I’m subjugated to it more often than all other national anthems combined, including my own.

  • snf@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 days ago

    Everyone’s ragging on the Christmas retail ambience songs, but at least you can mitigate the risks of hearing those ones by staying the fuck out of shopping malls. My top three:

    • Cotton Eye Joe
    • Whatever that song is that’s basically just “tonight’s gonna be a good night” over and over
    • Danza Kuduro
  • Smoogs@lemmy.world
    207·
    7 days ago

    Baby it’s cold outside.

    Seems to be America’s favourite rape song played for the entire cold season.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
      15·
      7 days ago

      I was under the impression that this is a misconception about the songs meaning.

      At the time women would be expected to say no outright and go home. To say they have to leave, instead of having autonomy and being promiscuous.

      So in the song the woman wants to stay but is following the societal expectation to say they need to leave and the man is giving her all the excuses she could use to explain why she didnt leave, so people wouldnt suspect her of staying over to have sex.

      These days that expectation is not there so the song is interpreted in a different way and sounds super rapey.

      To be clear. I am not advocating for this old way of thinking, nor am i saying i know the explanation i have given is true. I am only telling what i have heard and felt like to me that actually makes a lot of sense in the right context.

      Basically, women wanted to be able to have sex with anyone they wanted, but people would look down on them for doing it. So, to avoid being ostracised, they would avoid situations like that.

      But again. I may be wrong. I have just heard this explanation and wanted to share.

      • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 days ago

        It was also written to be performed at the end of a party when they were telling the guests they didn’t have to go home but they couldn’t stay there

        • Smoogs@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          this song is a perfect example of tone deafness where a person doesn’t take a few steps back to reread how their lyrics land in pretty much most scenarios it is going to be received . Particularly in situations at the time for gender and how consent was pretty much frowned upon as a form of slut shaming or that men don’t have to take ‘no’ as an answer.