Worst Albums of 2024

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nerd and it's time for another

installment of 2024 list week with my

worst albums of the

Year yes just like every year I have to

talk about my worst singles I also have

to talk about my worst albums yes not

just Tiny Terrible songs but big

terrible records I have a top 10 here

for you but before I get into it I do

want to say this year's list is kind of

unique from every awful albums list

prior that I've done on this channel and

the reason why is that uh

2024 was a particularly saturated year

for new music and this is a trend that

has been moving upward slowly for quite

quite a while now and it's to the point

on this channel where I can't even cover

all of the records happening within a

365-day period uh that are warranting

some kind of discussion every week but

with so much music and so many projects

and a limited amount of time I just have

to you know make some kind of cut or

some kind of sacrifice somewhere and

when looking at these albums I'm just

thinking I don't want to review this

[ __ ] so there aren't even fulllength

in-depth reviews to uh cover every

single reason as to why these records

are awful in my opinion but I will try

to give the best snapshot possible of

each of them uh at least for the ones

that I didn't talk about prior all that

much and uh yeah you may be surprised to

see that uh many of the most negative

reviews I've dropped this year actually

don't even make the cut on this list

because in my opinion the these albums

were so much worse so with this list

we're actually digging a couple of crap

layers deeper into like not just the

worst of what you see me talking about

on my channel like just even even below

that now I will spoil this list a bit

and say that higher up on the list you

know what's not here uh artist like

Katie Perry with her new record 143

which for sure was super mediocre a

total disappointment but I just sort of

find the internet very negative

Collective reaction to that record

interesting because while it was bad uh

there were certainly worse pop albums

that dropped this year like this one

it's just that they didn't warrant the

same level of response because there was

nobody sitting here actually

anticipating this album would be good so

there was like you know no Collective

disappointment involved because honestly

every criticism you could level at the

Katy Perry album It's soulless it's

generic the the writing is Bland it's

boring yeah you could also say that goes

double for this Megan Trainer album but

on top of it it's obnoxious it's tacky

and it is uh outright annoying as Megan

Trainer keeps trying to write the same

goddamn three or four songs over and

over and over and over while again

pillaging and destroying Melody ideas

and CHT progressions and uh lyrical

Illusions to the world's of doop and

Jazz and soul yeah I mean if you want to

put Megan Trainer into a special Niche

genre all her own I would call it

soulless Soul nearly every [ __ ] song

on this thing sounds like a Target ad

which makes sense because Lawrence is uh

on the record too and I mean like you

know they're they're the number one stop

shop for that sort of thing on Tik Tok

but yeah awful record awful music ironic

title because this thing is going to

have no shelf life it was any discussion

about it when it dropped even less 6

months after the fact and you can just

basically extend that out to 6 years and

uh people won't even remember it

speaking of completely worthless no

shelf life albums that are essentially

meaningless trash and amount to nothing

uh we have number nine 69 black bald

yeah the point of this project was for

69ine to remind us that he exists

uh it's it's it's an outright failure

because not only did this thing not

really warrant any discussion once it

came out but it's uh so short and so

unmemorable and just uh so generic by 69

standards that there's nothing really to

even say about it I mean the standard of

quality for his music when he was

relevant was already pretty low and

every single song every single song on

this record just sounds like a shittier

version of a track he's released already

yeah no need to put yourself through the

thought experiment of what would 69

sound like if he just progressively got

worse and worse that exists and it's

right here I just have to come on here

and remind you that it exists because uh

this 19-minute project uh made

absolutely no impact whatsoever because

he's essentially put no effort into it I

don't even know why he's still trying to

push himself as a figure as a musician

as in anything because he's clearly not

trying at all at this point can we just

stop can we just quit can can we just

can we just know more the album at our

number eight spot though uh from tones

and I beautifully ordinary is a record

that by comparison is worse uh and yet

somehow sounds like there was actually

effort put into it now I do think there

were like some marginal improvements

made

to this album when compared to the

previous tones and eye record but uh

that is a very low bar to pass and even

if this austral Ian singer and

songwriter did uh pass it it it was

really just by the smidi of smid because

once again on this record uh we have

absolutely nasally obnoxious and Grading

vocal inflections that are now

delivering to us ballads that are going

for kind of an angle of vibe and emotion

that comes across more mature than the

last record when in reality it's just

Ultra melodramatic and gross and makes

me just go through eye roll after eye

roll after eye roll until like you know

I start to have my vision blurred and

that's when the records doing the whole

ballad thing there are actually pop

tracks and pop soul songs on this record

where it's really trying to get you hype

dig into some passion and it somehow

comes across even more annoying but yeah

this record is awful and tones and I

continues to be kind of a perplexing

figure in music to me because I've never

seen a Zoomer artist fall prey this hard

to like the worst and ugliest and most

hideous Millennial pop ballad tropes

just again and again and again and again

like seemingly that is where tones and

I's most major musical influences start

and end and somehow they are just

filtered in such a way to where they are

made worse uh in the music on this

record speaking speaking of things

getting worse uh we have number seven

which is a collaborative project between

MGK and trippy red uh that would be

genre sad boy as if uh emo trap and emo

rap uh wasn't already full of mediocre

terrible

annoying like just obnoxiously woe as me

records this project over here which

isn't even an entire album technically

it is an EP yeah somehow this

EP dips below those already very Bare

Bones quality standards uh and goes to

Subterranean levels of awfulness with

just one whiny corny song after another

with some of the most generic

songwriting this style of music has ever

seen and absolutely little to know like

vocal or personal creative Chemistry

Between MGK and trippy red on this

record why did they even make this

because it's not even that exciting it's

not like they came together with a sound

uh that was definitive to this style of

music or I don't know upped the anti in

anyway or was new or novel or exciting

it's just like one of the most boring

and uninspired emo trap records you're

ever going to hear and that's it boring

and uninspired though are two words I

would uh also use to describe our number

six album that would be the GE easy

record freak Show man this record is

perplexing because GE e at one time was

a rap artist of of note he's a guy who

actually made some bangers made some

waves he might have not been my cup of

tea but like there was a demand out

there for gey music he had a contingency

of fans and it's funny because I I

virtually saw no conversation around

this new album whatsoever I mean the

fallof is absolutely insane as bad as

some of the records and artists on this

list are you could argue still that like

many of them have passionate fan bases

that are actively engaged and deeply

care about what these artists do I

really can't say that's the case for GE

easy with this album cuz like this thing

really [ __ ] dropped to crickets and

it's funny because the lack of response

the lack of interest in this album uh

sort of takes what little wind This

Record might have in its sales behind

its narrative which like you know is all

about uh ge easy wrestling with Fame and

uh you know people confronting him about

switching up and so on and so forth when

it's like dude you don't have any Fame

to wrestle with on this album like there

might be some freak to this album but

believe me there is no show even with

the uh really [ __ ] annoying

ridiculous theatrical Carnival Barker

intro it tries to shove down your throat

and then every Mediocre song to come

afterwards with boring instrumentals

abso [ __ ] lutely sauceless bars and

and performances on the mic boring

features uninteresting song ideas like

this is handily one of the most

pointless albums of the year the record

at number five though on this list was

an even more difficult list and that is

going to be Skillet with Revolution yep

one of the crappiest and most annoying

bands in alternative metal is back and

they are bringing once again everything

that has always made them uh just

difficult to listen to and uh uninspired

and boring but then adding into that a

bunch of [ __ ] lyrics about how the

they're revolutionary and I don't care

about saying my beliefs if they're

unpopular you know just like all of that

super [ __ ] generic I'm worried about

cancel culture like right-wing adjacent

Pap that uh totally mindless morons seem

to latch onto so easily because they

don't actually think about the

implications of what any of that means

or where comes from yeah that's

essentially what this album stands for

and is making a big deal about you know

just like think about all of the generic

IL defined political opinions that were

voiced on like the recent Muse album but

uh they're a bit more right-wing coded

and somehow come across even dumber I

fight for my faith my

family it tries to sound so hard and so

dramatic and so righteous

simultaneously like it's the most

[ __ ] lame ass loud Rock you've ever

heard in your entire life I'm sorry if

you like this record if you mess with

this album you have no [ __ ] clue no

idea whatsoever like what rock music is

what rock music is all about what makes

Rock and metal music exciting and

thrilling all this record is is just

volume just loud guitars and Centrist

guy who listens to Joe Rogan whining and

bitching and crying moving up to number

four on the list that's going to be Ian

with valedictorian yeah this is another

one of the more pointless and uh crappy

projects that we've heard this year and

what's funny about this particular

rapper is that it's not the only stupid

[ __ ] project he's dropped in 2024

that was also goodby horses like having

to drop to like piss ass mediocre

projects in one year just to keep your

name on people's minds is hilarious

because it just goes to show how [ __ ]

uninspired and basic and surface level

and Bland his music is not only because

his lyricism sucks his delivery is

mediocre and non-specific like he is the

most non-descript rapper of all time his

beat choices are pretty terrible as well

but anything that is actually good or

valid about his music he just steals

from other artist be that future be that

cardi be that little baby like the guy

literally has nothing to his sound

nothing to his style the only thing that

sets him apart is that he's just like a

young white guy literally that's it this

project and goodbye horses are trash

they're a waste of time throw it in the

garbage listen to somebody better

everything that I'm saying about this

project applies to our number three spot

but it's somehow even worse and more

annoying to listen to that would be the

Lil mabu project uh genius G what the

[ __ ] is it young genius uh yeah all of

the biting all the cultural robbery all

that stuff that you can apply to Ian it

also applies even more to Lil Mau this

uh kid who has been hot on the New York

drill scene as of late but what's even

more annoying about Lil Mau is that like

he he's actually even more successful in

some respects and yet he seems

blissfully unaware of just how gross his

existence in the world of drill music is

and how far his white privilege if you

want to call it that uh has taken him

like there's literally a [ __ ] bar on

this record uh that has other drill

rappers collaborating with him on it by

the way many other rers are on this

record uh he says I wasn't supposed to

make it this far I'm talking racially

bro you're a [ __ ] young white boy who

was not born into destitution living in

New York City you literally were

supposed to make it and you are [ __ ]

making it but no he's so dumb and so

small-minded that like to him what he

thinks about all this is like yeah I'm

just a young white boy I'm not supposed

to make it as a rap artist it's hard for

us white guys in rap isn't it and as if

like it couldn't get any worse there's

actually even a verse on this thing

where he's telling this whole story

about how he gets away from uh being

pulled over by a cop as if like this

story wasn't supposed to end with him

driving away from the situation to begin

with but anyway he ends up lyrically

going through this whole rigma rooll

about how the cop pulls him over and

then he gets uh molested by the cop

during a search and then he pays the the

the cop 10K and drives off it's just so

ridiculously [ __ ] cringe and stupid I

can't believe it you could say that's

even more so the case for this record

that is at the number two spot here that

is Falling in Reverse with popular

Monster while it is true that Falling in

Reverse has always been the commercial

loud Rock brainchild of singer and

songwriter and rapper Ronnie radkey You

could argue that the band The Project as

it were has become even more centered

around Ronnie radkey as of late and this

album is indicative of the fact that in

the world publicly speaking there really

are two versions of Ronnie radkey

there's the version of him that will

often see on social media whining and

bitching and complaining and being

annoying talking about oh people don't

like me uh why do you guys hate me so

much uh I got cancelled before why would

you hate me why would you say things

about me that I don't like to hear I'm

just a small being so yeah you have that

side of Ronnie radkey and then you have

the popular Monster side here a record

that is fronted with an image here

that's like oh it's a mug shot and again

the title is popular Monster and when

you dig into the songs on the record

Ronald is just repeatedly writing about

what a [ __ ] loser douchebag piece of

[ __ ] he is I'm the bad guy I'm a Savage

I'm obsessive I'm dramatic I'm a Loner

I'm an addict I'm so goddamn problematic

I'm the bad guy I'm a loser I'm a psycho

believe the rumors so like ooh the world

hates me oh why does the world hate me

so much but also like every single bad

thing you hear about me believe it like

make up your [ __ ] stupid ass mind he

really wants to have it both ways he

wants to have his cake and eat it too he

wants to benefit from the perception

that he's dark and he's edgy and he's an

[ __ ] and he's a piece of garbage and

he's unlikable and he's an awful person

but simultaneously when there's actually

rep percussions for the behavior and the

reputation that comes along with those

things hey why are you saying that mean

stuff about me and simultaneously like

not only is that aspect of the album's

narrative and personality just outright

annoying but also like H there's just so

many shitty metal guitars on this record

that don't even sound good it's

overproduced crap the super pitch

corrected vocal harmonies are total [ __ ]

on top of that you have all of this like

Fast edgy white guy rapping happening

over a lot of these songs too so many

lyrical Miracle ass bars like really all

I want to say in response to this album

is grow up you're not 12 anymore take

some responsibility for your emotions

and act like a man and I don't mean man

in the uh gender role sense I mean just

be a full-grown adult start taking some

ownership for the way that people

perceive you because of how you present

yourself in the world you can't

broadcast the entire Globe oh I'm a dirt

bag I'm a piece of crap oh w w and then

want everyone afterwards to gravel at

your feet and think you're amazing

that's like some psychotic dictator [ __ ]

you're a musician write some good music

nobody cares about your crappy annoying

personality and there we go let's move

on to number one on this list that's

going to be the Kanye West and Ty doign

collab project vultures 2 which is just

such a messy unpolished turd that it

even had Kanye fans disappointed and

disillusioned when it came out this

thing is crap it's not worth your time

it's garbagio it's a mess I don't

care and that's my top 10 top 10 worst

albums of the Year there they are let me

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