The Most Unwanted Song (FULL VERSION)

FraKctured · 2.1M views · 2012-09-25 · 21:59

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Overview

The 1997 novelty song by Komar and Melamid with composer Dave Soldier, built from survey results on what listeners dislike most in music. It features bagpipes, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir urging shopping at Wal-Mart.

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Cited in threads about taste and terrible music as a famously engineered 'worst song', mostly for its curiosity value.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2015–2024

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Music performance & songs Satire & parody

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endgame · 2024-11 · Recommendation
I know your description includes "still get regular radio play", but one of my favourite pieces of troll music is "The Most Unwanted Song". They surveyed people to find the things they liked least in music and put it all together. I don't want to spoil just how creatively awful it is or what's in there, so I'll just drop the link and go. [VIDEO]
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jonnycat · 2023-03 · Recommendation
A tangent from the point of the post, but Komar & Melamid did a similar "experiment" with music to produce both the most wanted and most unwanted songs, and the results are amazing/hilarious. The most unwanted song, for example, features all the thing people dislike in music (according to their surveys): opera singers rapping about cowboys, bagpipes, uncomfortably slow tempos, and choirs of children singing ad jingles among other things. [VIDEO]
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Sohcahtoa82 · 2021-11 · Reference
> written by a team constructed by a label to create the most generically likeable music possible A few years ago, a group engineered the most un likeable song ever: [VIDEO] Featuring bagpipes, a rapping opera singer, country music, and a children's choir singing holiday music that ends with telling you to do your shopping at Wal-mart.
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