The 10 Worst Songs of 2025

Cover your ears! It’s time to round up the worst songs of 2025.

I haven’t had time to do a lot of blogging this year, but I still found time to listen to a lot of new music - both good and bad. I’ll eventually get round to posting my favourite songs of the year, but for now here are a selection of the biggest stinkers.

There was A LOT of bad music in 2025. In fact, it was tough whittling this down to just 10 tracks. The K-pop Demon Hunters tracks weren’t considered as I actually think they are decent pop songs. However, I did wrestle with including Will Smith’s ‘Pretty Girls’, Taylor Swift’s ‘Wood’ and Daron Malakian’s ‘Your Lives Burn’. In the end, these were the songs that edged it…

10. ‘Ordinary’ – Alex Warren

It’s impressive how a song this ordinary managed to top the charts for so long. 13 weeks at number one??? It sounds like if Imagine Dragons tried to write a lullaby (Imagine Sheep?).

9. ‘Abracadabra’ – Lady Gaga

All the ‘rah-rah-roma’ gibberish was fun back in 2009. Here it feels like she’s trying too hard to recapture that wackiness with the ‘abracadabra/amor oo na na’ lyrics, and it ends up more goo goo gaga than Lady Gaga. The ‘Abra-cada-bra-ab-ra-ca-daaaa-braaaaa!’ drop is also exceptionally annoying.

8. ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ – Jojo Siwa

This is a totally unnecessary Kim Carnes cover and Jojo Siwa sounds like she has laryngitis. It’s still somehow better than last year’s ‘Karma’ though.

7. ‘Anxiety’ – Doechii

‘YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO CUT ME OUT’. Doechii ruins ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ by cutting out the Gotye vocals and replacing them with surface-level ramblings about anxiety. It didn’t take artists long to move onto the 2010s classics. Expect an awful remix/interpolation of ‘Call Me Maybe’ any time soon.    

6. ‘Gnarly’ – Kateye

This beat is gnaaaarly! In a good way! Unfortunately, the lyrics are gnarly, but in a bad way. They’re so clunky and stupid that they completely distract you from the wild production.

5. ‘Peanuts 2 An Elephant’ – Lil Wayne

In contrast to Katseye’s ‘Gnarly’, Lil Wayne’s ‘Peanuts 2 An Elephant’ features one of worst beats I’ve heard in my life. I can just about tolerate the Inspector-Gadget-like ‘boing boing’ synth, but that stock elephant sound effect repeated relentlessly throughout is just too much.   

4. ‘I Don’t Care’ – Megadeth

Dave Mustaine doesn’t care that he sounds like a badly dubbed anime villain. Admittedly, he’s never had the most pleasant-sounding voice, but there did used to be a convincing meanness to his snarl. Here, his delivery just sounds plain goofy.

3.‘Big Guy’ – Ice Spice

The producers of the new SpongeBob movie were probably not expecting poetry when they assigned Ice Spice to score the soundtrack, but I do wonder what their reactions were when she delivered them this: ‘BIG GUY, BIG GUY, BIG GUY, BIG GUY, SPONGEBOB BIG GUY PANTS OKAY’. Oh well, at least she’s not rapping about pooping and farting for once. It’s also amusing that they had to strap her into a rollercoaster in the music video to stop her from twerking.

2. ‘H*il H*tler’ – Ye

In order to give other artists a chance, I decided to limit the number of Kanye songs on this list to just one entry. There were others I could have featured, such as ‘Lonely Roads Still Go To Sunshine’, which contains a guest feature from P Diddy (recorded from prison) at the end. But ultimately, ‘H*il H*tler’ made the cut. It’s been deleted from pretty much every streaming platform, so I’ve chosen to simply feature a picture of Ye’s face in its place.

1. ‘We Are Charlie Kirk’ – Spalexma

A melodramatic AI-generated tribute to Charlie Kirk. I really thought Kanye was taking the crown this year, but this abomination well and truly usurped it. It contains the worst elements of the 2020s – right-wing-nutjob-worship and AI slop – neatly packaged into one song. It’s a dystopian nightmare. Merry Christmas!