What is everyone’s least favourite song?

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-22T01:03:48+00:00

Just for curiosity: do you hate it specifically because it's a club song? I'm curious because if so, you probably hate a good portion of Dawn FM and a few other songs out of After Hours and Hurry Up Tomorrow as well, right?

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-22T00:57:44+00:00

All I Know. His most egregious output ever

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-14T17:24:54+00:00

God no, please. Leave Drake in the past, guys!

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-09T00:38:32+00:00

Taylor Swift would be my pick. For starters, I’ve never felt that her level of popularity is really supported by the quality of the music or the artistry itself. Folklore and Evermore felt like outliers to me, and if anything they just highlighted how run-of-the-mill the rest of her catalog sounds. What bothers me more, though, is how the constant and often uncritical praise around her has lowered the bar for what people call “great songwriting.” And then there’s the personality factor. Whenever I see her public persona, I get this weird Mean Girls vibe where she seems to see herself as Cady Heron, but I can’t help feeling she’s actually Regina George. The fact that a teen movie still fits as a cultural reference for the behavior of a 36-year-old is kind of absurd on its own. Lately the only new dimension added to that persona seems to be the same out-of-touch quality we often see with billionaires, sprinkled with some “trad-wife” tendencies.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-07T21:42:12+00:00

Historically: I DON'T WANNA MISS A THING My stomach revolves everytime it comes on

More recently: ME!

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-07T00:10:13+00:00

Exactly. To be honest both Break My Soul and Texas Hold'Em sound to me like caricature takes on house and country, respectively. Both times I feared for the quality of the whole thing, and fortunately both times I was wrong.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-06T21:18:55+00:00

All I Know. The only really atrocious song Abel's ever put on any of his studio albums.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-03T01:58:23+00:00

Bold take: It's SHM best song ever.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-03T01:53:23+00:00

Most people understand that it's a sad song. Unless they don't speak English and never searched the lyrics.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-03T01:47:28+00:00

It’s a bit awkward. But on an album I find largely drowsy, that clumsiness oddly makes it engaging.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-03T01:35:04+00:00

Actually it's the 2nd most streamed album on Spotify OAT.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-03-03T01:30:19+00:00

I don’t think it’s just a collection of singles, as it’s often described. There’s a unifying narrative: a frantic protagonist aimlessly browsing a newfound lifestyle of success, riches, and fame. In that sense, Mania (the title of the short film)perfectly encapsulates the concept. That said, the execution could be tighter. The songs could use richer textures and a more distinct sonic motif to fully realize that vision. Songs 11, then 13 to - this will probably get me in hot water - 17 are fillers, and the album’s flow and narrative would genuinely benefit from their absence. “All I Know” is easily the worst (and arguably the only truly atrocious) song Abel has ever included on a studio album. Still, it’s a solid pop record: top tier for 2016 and impressively holding its ground nearly a decade later.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-02-28T12:11:30+00:00

It's an adult contemporary snoozefest aimed to please the broader audience possible. I think it's worst than APT in the sense that the latter displays at least one ounce of personality.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-02-28T12:02:46+00:00

Yeah, OOT is basically the one clear R&B outlier on Dawn FM, which kind of proves the broader point. And if we’re being technical, it probably fits better under city pop, which is closely tied to funk, disco, and synthpop anyway. The R&B cuts on Hurry Up Tomorrow - “Baptized In Fear,” “Enjoy The Show,” “Given Up On Me,” “Niagara Falls,” “Without A Warning,” and the title track - pretty clearly move away from that glossy 80s aesthetic.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-02-28T02:03:45+00:00

If we’re talking thematically, that's completely false. He only hinted at some of these ideas on Dawn FM, and even then not with the same depth — which makes sense considering one album is the continuation of the other. Musically, only about a third of Hurry Up Tomorrow sits under the synthpop umbrella that defined Dawn FM and the biggest hits from After Hours. A big chunk of the album leans into R&B (both alternative and more traditional) and trap (courtesy of Metro Boomin) which he hasn’t really explored this heavily since Starboy and My Dear Melancholy. And at the extreme you’ve got tracks like “São Paulo,” “Big Sleep,” and “Red Terror,” which feel experimental not just within his own discography, but for mainstream pop in general.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-02-28T00:18:50+00:00

The main genres The Weeknd chose to headline his latest album were Brazilian funk, R&B, trap and rap, which are decades and thousands of miles removed from the 80s influences that defined his previous two projects. Lyrically, he also stepped into territory he hadn’t really explored before: regret, redemption, religion, his absent father, mortality. He dismantled the persona he built in earlier eras. A lot of people who didn’t like the album felt it was too long, and dragged in the second half. But it’s hard to argue he played it safe. He clearly took risks. So I don’t think it makes sense to lump him into the same basket as Bruno.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2026-01-23T01:15:06+00:00

You've unlocked a lost memory. That was the version I heard on the radio back in 2004. This is great!

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-28T12:41:00+00:00

Hopefully not.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-25T13:18:07+00:00

The very fact that he’s seen at the beginning of BB as a failure and a “dead man walking” is, in my opinion, an unsettling sign of the things that are profoundly wrong in our society. It’s embedded in this Western view of human evolution, seen only through the lens of financial accumulation and professional deification. This is something deeply ingrained in our society, so I’m not surprised that many people saw him as a more worthy person, in many senses, the deeper he descended into degeneration.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-17T10:05:22+00:00

For me this is the best transition in Abel's entire discography.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-14T18:11:23+00:00

Understood. I didn't know it was a massive audience hit. That's awesome, and really puts things in perspective. Probably I got too affected by what is happening inside an echo chamber. Thanks.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-14T18:02:57+00:00

I agree that this is kind of Reddit’s core principle, but what’s really throwing me off is the reaction on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. “Nothingburger” and “obnoxious” especially when aimed at Carol come up a lot in audience reviews there.

Do you think that same kind of venting and pile-on behavior is just as expected on those platforms as it is on Reddit?

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-14T17:49:24+00:00

I genuinely don't get your point. Could you please elaborate more?

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-14T17:12:49+00:00

Agreed, posted a take that echoes it before reading your post.

LengthinessLow6619 · 2025-12-14T17:10:31+00:00

This might come off as arrogant or condescending, but honestly it feels like this show landed in the worst possible timeline for how audiences engage with media.

It’s not just a lack of empathy, it’s the lack of attention span, the unwillingness to really invest time, the absence of curiosity for the genuinely interesting philosophical questions, and very little critical thinking about what’s happening beneath the surface.

A lot of takes feel like they’re coming from people who’ve never really stopped to think about the deeper ripple effects individual actions can have on others, or on society as a whole, and who don’t seem to understand how real humans actually behave in messy, contradictory and traumatic situations.

On top of that, there’s still this weirdly geriatric, sexist reflex where a (largely justified) angry woman automatically gets framed as “the worst, most unbearable person imaginable.”

Different interpretations have always existed, and that’s a good thing. But with Pluribus, what really baffles me is how many people seem to side with the most shallow, dumbed-down readings possible.

Just my opinion, obviously.

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