I said that most of the country this year was actually pretty strong, but there are a few notable exceptions, one of them being this. Like “Walk It Talk It”, this song just bored me.ĭM #4: Kenny Chesney - Get Along (YE: #87, PEAK: #22) His rapping is ridiculously lifeless, the piano line mixed with the trap beat gets old quickly, and BlocBoy JB sounds terrible. If anything it exposed that at this point, Drake is just not even trying anymore. It’s a shame that none of them are really all that good - barring a few exceptions. All with an emotionless rapper and a production that’s just strings and a trap beat that feel so clumsily blended together, yeah this is pretty damn bad.ĭM #3: BlocBoy JB f/Drake - Look Alive (YE: #23, PEAK: #5)Īlright, Drake had a massive year in 2018, with 8 songs of his making the Hot 100 year-end. The song is essentially guilt tripping an ex into staying with him by threatening suicide. Honestly, on a musical level, this is probably the “best” of XXXTENTACION’s songs on the year-end list - seriously the other two only barely missed the list - but this song is here based on its message which is utterly despicable. I honestly like Migos more than pretty much everyone else says, but what is this? Who told Migos that Quavo rapping an insanely repetitive chorus in a staccato flow across a painfully stiff trap beat was a good idea? Really, in a year with a bunch of trap slog, if you weren’t offending me, the worst you could do was bore me, which this did, next!ĭM #2: XXXTENTACION - SAD! (YE: #17, PEAK: #1) Anyway, enough rambling, as always, the song must have had to debut on the year-end Hot 100 list in 2018 in order to qualify, so time to take a look at some truly offensive garbage towards the top of this list, but for now we’re sticking with normal “bad” with our dishonorable mentions.ĭM #1: Migos f/Drake - Walk It Talk It (YE: #43, PEAK: #10) I don’t really have the same anger towards this year than I do in 2019, but its worst hits are undeniably way worse, honestly my #1 worst pick for 2019 probably wouldn’t have even made my top 3 worst on this list, yeah that’s how egregious the lows were this year. Overall, there were 31 songs on this year-end list - including 2017 repeats - that fell into my “mediocre” tier or lower, which is honestly fewer than I initially expected. Country was making its comeback in the mainstream both years, with 2018 notching some genuine quality, while 2019’s country was quite mediocre. Trap had a great year in 2019 but a very poor year in 2018. Pop had an equal amount of dominance this year as it did in 2019, but it had more quality this year. I said in my 2019 lists that that year was a reverse 2018, and for the most part, that is true. So this is one of the worst years of the 2010s for the Hot 100 because multiple of its lows are “worst of the decade tier” atrocious, and that really weighs down an otherwise average and quite boring year for the charts. Honestly, in a way, the 2018 year-end was better than I expected it to be. This is all while pop was still pretty damn strong and country was beginning to make its comeback after practically disappearing for 2 years. But we’re not here to talk about the Hot AC charts, we’re here to talk about the Hot 100, so what did we get? Well, trap was still in full dominance on the Hot 100, however it’s not the fantastic trap that 2017 offered us, it was instead trap that was outright atrocious and genuinely offensive. But first, what did 2018 give us? Well, I’ll say this, for Hot AC music, 2018 was actually pretty damn great for that format - it was finally churning out some Hot AC-exclusive hits and wasn’t just a slower rate Pop format. But why is for different reasons than you’d expect. And yeah, that assertion was fully solidified after this relisten, 2018 was a terrible year for the Hot 100. Okay I knew this list was gonna suck even before I started checking it out. Well, scratch what I said at the end of my 2019 lists, it looks like I’m actually about to get this out before I leave!! Anyway hi guys, welcome back to Fire's Flaming Hot Takes, it’s time for another list!! Today we’re tearing into the top 10 worst hit songs of 2018!Ģ018 has developed a reputation of being one of the worst, if not the worst, year of the 2010s for the Hot 100 by many music critics, with some of the worst hit songs of the 2010s being on this year end. (this list was originally created on July 23, 2021) In the following few paragraphs, I take a look at one of the worst years of the 2010s for the Hot 100 and tear into the songs that really made it that bad.
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