The VILLAGE VOICE has named their TOP 20 WORST SONGS FOR 2010, and TRAIN’s “Hey, Soul Sister” topped the list as the worst song of the year. Here is the rest of the bottom 10:
- Die Antwoord, “Orinoco Ninja Flow (Wedding DJ’s Remix)”
- Santana featuring Scott Stapp, “Fortunate Son”
- Ludacris featuring Nicki Minaj, “My Chick Bad”
- Aaron Lewis featuring George Jones, Charlie Daniels, and Chris Young, “Country Boy”
- Salem, “Trap Door”
- Artists for Haiti, “We Are The World 25 For Haiti”
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “Don’t Pull Me Over”
- Cast of Glee, “Loser”
- Bret Michaels, “What I Got”
- Train, “Hey, Soul Sister”
The Village Voice is not the only place that Train’s song was named Worst of 2010. Here are some other “accolades” the song has received this year:
- Campaign to stop using Train’s HEY SOUL SISTER in advertising, aka “stop advertising from pulling a Train“
- Stern fans speak up regarding their hatred for the song
- How Train ruined the ukelele
- Train was inspired by INXS. (Really?)
- HEY SOUL SISTER could possibly be the most annoying song ever written
- HEY SOUL SISTER is the best selling song on iTunes in 2010
- There exists no song worse than HEY SOUL SISTER
- Blender’s BEST, WORST, and EVERYTHING ELSE song of the year… including “SONG THAT MOST MENTIONS MR. MISTER“ and other categories