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I can't tell you how much of a goddamn party I threw seeing Marvin Gaye at #1. I thought maybe it was too obscure to get the kind of bile I spit at it when I first heard it, but thankfully it was not ignored. That song is an atrocity to good taste and to the reproductive cycle.

He actually liked the album version even less: <a href="https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/687783508337635331" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/687783508337635331</a>

Mara

don't want to defend Tswifty, but the version of Bad Blood isn't the album version, but a remix...

Zachery Egan

"Bad Blood" truly is an abomination of a song. I thought Taylor Swift was a decent songwriter before I heard this ear-splitting cacophony.

lithium_green

I will say that I like "Worth It" a lot. It certainly has the effect it was going for. It's a lot similar to "Hey Mama" in what they were trying to convey. In a way. They were making themselves hotter and asserting their dominance over you, the guy, by essentially telling you what you want to hear while still maintaining dominance because you know if you wrong them, you're fucked.

Josh Spicer

Oh good, somebody else okay with Uptown Funk #1 Best Song again.

Josh Spicer

Sad about Bad Blood but meh...

Josh Spicer

I usually watch everything on Youtube now days, but it seems this video has been blocked for copyright reasons.

Oh man, #1. When I saw Dear Future Husband on the list, I wondered to myself "I wonder if Todd will include that awful Marvin Gaye song, that one with the worst metaphor in the history of metaphor." Lo and behold, I was right.

Megan D

I'm an avowed Swiftie (thanks for introducing me to her music) and even I'm not keen on Bad Blood.

Kate Monks

I hated that "Bad Blood" music video, too. You think it's going to be awesome, but then it's just an endless cameo fest, Taylor Swift bragging that she can get all these famous people to show up and play-act in her video. And yeah, I'm about 95% it's Katy Perry - certainly Perry has taken it that way and returned fire on twitter.

Brett

The Trooper's a good choice for a fight song.

Aimee Thorne

Just for the record I would not complain if you gave Wiggle the Worst Song every year

The rending of #1 made my day. Eminently Quotable.

Greg Walters

It didn't get very powerful, but it stuck around long enough to do some damage.

Brad Riegner

Just you wait! "Let's Captain and Tennille and Muskrat Love" will be the new "Netflix and Chill"

Steve

Man I guess because I didn't hear it that much that the number 1 song was like a mid 30's on the charts but no right there at 75 at the year end list by Billboard. So yeah perfect choice I have no complaints.

Andrew Conrad

I generally agree but I would have included the version of "Bad Blood" without Kendrick on it. At least Kendrick makes it interesting

Andrew Lenahan

That's what I thought when I first heard it, too. Let's call it the second least sexy song about sex.

Brad Riegner

The modern day afternoon delight, that's what number 1 is

You made my day with your #1 because it is also my #1. I could feel my smile widening as you built up to it and I realized what it was going to be just seconds before you revealed it. I follow about half a dozen pop music critics and you are the only one who agrees with me on this one. It is the most consummate failure of a song to come out this year. P.S. Nice little shout-out to Alessia Cara on the ending card.

Brad Riegner

bad blood is only #X(spoilers, click to reveal)?? SHENANIGANS!

surasshu

I wouldn't complain if Uptown Funk was the best song this year again either, 2014 was the year of a bottomless pit of suck capped with a celestial light at the end of the tunnel. I'm so glad Maroon 5's Sugar got at least an "honourable" mention because I just loathe it. In fact, I think I hate it in the same way you hate Marvin Gay, it's so stripped down of anything that could remotely be called sexy, fun, or interesting. It's Maroon 5 at its blandest, which is so much worse than Adam Levine at his shrillest. Really looking forward to the best list this year.

Alina

I've heard quite a lot of people say "Jealous was awful, but Chains, that was a step in the right direction!" Ehh... Yeah, kinda agree with you on Chains. You might like Levels, though.

Let's Tenacious D and F**k Her Gently

Oh I'm so glad someone else hated that Marvin Gaye song! I felt so alone!

George Morgan

Solid list. Although I would have added Shut Up and Dance but that's just me. I have a few similar choices in my worst list.

Yvette

Yes yes yes we have the same worst song of the year! It might just be the worst song ever, I'd sooner listen to Wiggle than that trash, and that's saying something.

Kylie

*reaches number 3* HOW DARE YOU INCLUDE THIS SONG ON YOUR LIST...eh whatever, I don't actually care that much. In contrast to Talk Dirty, where the song was intolerable to me despite decent production, I genuinely enjoyed Worth It multiple times. However, the boring repetition of Kid Ink and the completely unimpressive singing eventually left me unsatisfied, though I still enjoy the production. It would probably work better as a Balkan Beat Box instrumental song.

Mara

Loved your inclusion of Maiden's "The Trooper"

I mercifully hadn't heard that last song yet. I hope to never hear it again.

Jason Stone

It didn't reach the top 20, or even the top 40.

Mara

I'm surprised "New Ameraucana" didn't make your Honorable Mentions.

Imogen Geier