Last weekend, British music fan Edward Carter and some friends were casually discussing songs they hated when he decided to extend the conversation to social media. “Dear Twitter,” he posted. “What is the song you most detest and despise? Thank you.” Within 48 hours, the bemused Brit, who had only around 1,000 Twitter followers, had received several thousand nominations from all over the world, and Lennon’s ballad was a repeat offender.
Amazed by the nerve he touched and the speed at which he received suggestions, Carter, a 36-year-old artist living in the southern coastal town of Brighton, collated the results into a blog post containing 337 deplorable ditties (listed in link). Since then, it’s gone viral, with people nominating even more songs they loathe.
“A lot of people seemed quite glad they weren’t alone in hating these songs,” he says. Does it have anything to do with Hypocrisy? I’m not sure of the Lennon timeline, but didn’t he write this nonsense about the same time he ditched England because of the tax bite he was taking to help pay for its socialist welfare state? Sure, depriving a rapacious lefty government of revenue by moving to someplace with a more sensible tax rate is clearly the morally correct thing to do, but isn’t transparancy of Lennon a bit much to stomach? I personally thing “We built this city on rock and roll” or “Cat’s in the cradle” vie for the title. What do you think?