{"id":119291,"date":"2025-02-18T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/18\/rolling-stone-identifies-so-called-terrible-songs-on-great-albums-by-harry-styles-taylor-swift-madonna\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:01:16","slug":"rolling-stone-identifies-so-called-terrible-songs-on-great-albums-by-harry-styles-taylor-swift-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/18\/rolling-stone-identifies-so-called-terrible-songs-on-great-albums-by-harry-styles-taylor-swift-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rolling Stone’ identifies so-called ‘terrible songs on great albums’ by Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another day, another Rolling Stone<\/em> list guaranteed to get fans up in arms. This time around, the publication is pointing out what it calls 50 Terrible Songs on Great Albums<\/strong><\/a>, noting, “There\u2019s always one. It\u2019s that single track on a great record that sucks to such a profound degree that it almost feels like a sick joke.”\u00a0Among the artists whose albums allegedly contain such songs: Harry Styles<\/strong>, Taylor Swift<\/strong>, Madonna<\/strong> and Britney Spears<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Number 39\u00a0on the list is “Treat People With Kindness,” which appears on Harry’s 2019 album, Fine Line<\/em>. Rolling Stone<\/em> dismisses it as a “sugary, gospel-tinged, Broadway-ready anthem where [he] delivers this simplistic mantra over and over and over.”<\/p>\n

Taylor appears on the list twice. Number 37 is “The Last Time,” her duet with Snow Patrol<\/strong>‘s Gary Lightbody<\/strong> on Red.<\/em> Rolling Stone<\/em> says, “Their voices don’t mesh well and the song just feels like a bad Snow Patrol song featuring Taylor Swift.”<\/p>\n

More controversially, the publication puts “Bad Blood,” from 1989<\/em>, at #17. Sure, it was a #1 hit and was nominated for a Grammy, but Rolling Stone<\/em> insists, “The song is limp and repetitive. And when Swift and [Katy<\/strong>] Perry<\/strong>” \u2014 the subject of the song \u2014 “made peace, the whole thing just seemed silly.”<\/p>\n

As for Madonna, her song “Dear Jessie,” from what’s generally considered her best album,\u00a0Like a Prayer<\/em>, is #26. Rolling Stone<\/em> writes, “It\u2019s just a terrible song on every level.”<\/p>\n

A song on Britney’s …Baby One More Time<\/em>\u00a0album called “E-Mail My Heart” is #24 on the list.\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em> calls it a “sappy ballad” and a “painfully mawkish song.”<\/p>\n

But they shouldn’t feel bad: Even such legendary acts as Bob Dylan<\/strong>, The Beatles<\/strong>, Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> and Michael Jackson<\/strong> are on the list, too.<\/p>\n

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Erskine\/Columbia Another day, another Rolling Stone list guaranteed to get fans up in arms. This time around, the publication is pointing out what it calls 50 Terrible Songs on Great Albums, noting, “There\u2019s always one. It\u2019s that single track on a great record that sucks to such a profound degreeRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}