'Thong Song' Deemed 'Worst Song Ever' (No, This Is No April Fools' Joke)
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- April 1 always brings a lot of headlines that inspire disbelief, incredulity, even shock.
Luckily, they're uniformly revealed to be elaborate April Fools' Day pranks. But the most upsetting headline of them all this year is, brace yourself, actually true.
Are you sitting down?
According to a survey of Pioneer Press readers, the worst song of all time is Sisqo's "Thong Song." Yes, that "Thong Song." The song that boasts an insanely catchy chorus, an insistent neo-disco hustle breakdown, and a swooping key change for the ages.
The newspaper arrived at the conclusion by setting up brackets with 64 songs selected for their poor reputations. Somehow, readers honed in on "Thong Song" even against a field that initially included:
- Bobby McFerrin, "Don't Worry Be Happy"
- Beach Boys, "Kokomo"
- James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
- Creed, "With Arms Wide Open"
- Rebecca Black, "Friday"
- Black Eyed Peas, "My Humps"
- Morris Albert, "Feelings"
- Billy Ray Cyrus, "Achy Breaky Heart"
The slight seems even more ill-timed when one considers that Sisqo reportedly purchased a home in Maple Grove recently. He moved to Minnesota because he and his girlfriend decided it was an ideal spot to raise their children with her family close by.
An editorial in City Pages argued a number of reasons why "Thong Song" is not only not the worst song ever but may in fact be among the best. However, one response on Twitter dared to go there:
