Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners.
Amazingly, this “most unwanted music” contains little dissonance — that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way.
Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It’s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone.
OH MY GOD
THIS IS COMEDY GOLD. THE OPERA RAP.
The second movement reminds me of the singing teachers from SNL
my cat has been GLARING at the computer the entire time this song has been playing.
Suddenly i have the urge to shop at Walmart.
If you replaced the opera singer with a sultry dude’s voice at the upbeat part about 2 minutes in (with the woodwind background) you’d basically have sufjan stevens… I mean seriously just listen below (disclaimer: I love Sufjan Stevens)
WHY IS THIS SO HILARIOUS? AHAHAHAHA~~
oh my god opera rap.