by PC Marks

Created on: July 13, 2008   Last Updated: November 21, 2010

First I'd like to explain my logic of what makes a song bad. Songs with no meaning rank number one. I grew up listening to the likes of Marvin Gay, Al Green, The Whispers, and Dobey Gray. As I reached my teens, I became enthralled with the sounds of Michael Bolton, Michael Jackson, Hall and Oates. The ladies were present too. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin to name a few. Then the nineties let anyone with a dollar and a dream produce their own crap.

My idea of good music and mainstream teens today is so different. I'd like to take a poke at their music.

Some of the worst songs recorded in my opinion are:

Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot, a song celebrating women with humongous asses. So what if you have high blood pressure and the onset of adult diabetes. Sir Mix likes big butts and cannot lie.

Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, two out of touch celebrities with nothing better to do came up with the joke song of the century.

Lisa Stansfield's, Been Around the World - "and I can't find my baby." Get a clue Lisa, he doesn't want to be found, let it go. I credit this to the beginning of the stalker age.

Tony Braxton, I Love Me Some Him. Huh? Definitely not proper English but she still seems to get away with it, topping the charts every time.

Scream (Leave Me Alone), the Janet and Michael Jackson collaboration. Michael a handsome black young man turned into a freaky looking middle-aged white woman. Stop your bizarre behavior and maybe, just maybe, you will be left alone. Janet's forgiven for trying to have her brother's back. I'm still a fan.

Usher, Confessions. Loved the song, hated the idea of putting his personal business on wax and then clamming up when asked about it, although it was a brilliant move. The CD was flying off the shelves.

Christina Aguerila, Dirty- she did not to have take to such drastic measures to show us that she was all grown up. With a voice as powerful as hers, she didn't have to stoop to such tactics.

R Kelly, In The Closet- this had to be the dumbest waste of time. He actually sang the lyrics as a backdrop to a miniseries of himself and girlfriend cheating on each other including Hollywood drama of guns and midgets. What a waste of a beautiful talent.

Contagious, R Kelly and Mr. Bigg of the Isley brothers, another stupid conversational song about Kelly cheating on Mr. Brigg's niece, kind of a question and answer theme. I take it back, maybe Mr. Kelly is lacking in the talent department.

Anthony Hamilton, "Somebody's Baby," not sure if this is the actual name of the song. I understand that you are an artist full of expression. But really? Crying through a whole song just ruined it.

One more for Mr. Hamilton, Sister Big Bone. I would be highly offended if the best line you can come up with is, "sister big bone." Immediately I would send the loser packing after giving him a piece of my mind.

Madonna, I don't remember the name of the song but the video shows her hanging out with her girls and going to stripper shows acting like a male. Okay, Madonna, we get it. You're sexually experienced. If the need should present itself, you have no qualms when it comes to who satisfies them.

And last but not least, "Who Let The Dogs Out." For real? Are you serious? And who cares!

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