Normally, lists of the best or worst of anything offend my sensibilities, but Blender magazine’s fifty worst songs ever seems to nail it, topped by Starship’s “We Built This City.” I hated it way back in 1985, when I liked a lot of awful stuff.
The top ten:
- Starship, “We Built This City”
- Billy Ray Cyrus, “Achy Breaky Heart”
- Wang Chung, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”
- Limp Bizkit, “Rollin'”
- Vanilla Ice, “Ice Ice Baby”
- Huey Lewis and the News, “The Heart of Rock and Roll”
- Bobby McFerrin, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
- Eddie Murphy, “Party All the Time”
- Madonna, “American Life”
- Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, “Ebony and Ivory”
On a more serious note, Slate’s “The Depressive and the Psychopath” provides a clear-eyed perspective on the anniversary of the Columbine killings, casting the shootings as a function of two mental illnesses.
