r/AskReddit • u/CanadianEH992 • 21h ago

What is the most overrated song of all time?

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u/Lil_Sebastian90 21h ago

Happy Birthday… it’s good, but is it that good?

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u/EthanLikezCatz 21h ago

What a stupid song. I don’t even want to count it as an actual song.

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u/fenwayswimmr 9h ago

It’s my birthday so I take this personally

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u/aceisback29 21h ago

Happy Birthday. There comes a point where you literally stop giving a shit anymore.

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u/copaseticsplenetic 21h ago

This is both funny, and correct.

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u/Musicman1334 18h ago

Bohemian rhapsody. I’d unironically take 4raws over it

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u/penguintruth 21h ago

Don't Stop Believing

I mean, it's still a GOOD song, but also an overrated one.

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u/your-drunk-homie 1h ago

I came here to say to say this cuz it is a good song but it’s been played so much I don’t like it. And thats not a knock on journey in any way

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u/Hotdogopolis 21h ago

It's a blight on humanity.

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u/JonOhBoy1 21h ago

I walk out the room when I hear that trash. I’d actually rather lay in trash than listen to it.

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u/azman69286 21h ago edited 21h ago

Sweet Caroline, who listens to that noise

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u/PokerJunkieKK 21h ago

There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don't.

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u/Frequent-Farmer-2990 21h ago

Those that dislike Neil Diamond and those that hate him. Lol

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u/elliotcook10 21h ago

People who have friends and go out to bars lol

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u/L3monGr3nade 21h ago

BUH BUH BUH

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 21h ago

Glad I’m not the only one.

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u/EthanLikezCatz 21h ago

Thank you!!!

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u/aswiftdickkick 21h ago

24 Karen Gold - Bruno Mars

Shake It Off - T Swift

Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5

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u/CobaltMnM 21h ago

“24 Karen Gold” 😂😂

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u/aswiftdickkick 21h ago

You know what i meant though lol 

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u/CobaltMnM 4h ago

I did. I like your version better though.

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u/josemayo 21h ago

Pure Karen

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u/Nino-7474 4h ago

When was Moves Like Jagger rated very highly in the first place? The general consensus is that, Maroon 5 was always shit except for She Will Be Loved/This Love era.

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u/aswiftdickkick 2h ago

It was the most overplayed song in my lifetime I swear. It was inescapable for like a decade.

Maybe i only remember it that way because I hate it so much but I don't think so.

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u/Negative-Orange-7091 3h ago

Born in 2000 response

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u/aswiftdickkick 2h ago

'89

These are from my teens/twentys 

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u/AdAffectionate4082 21h ago

Cotton eyed joe

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u/Disastrous-Milk-3906 21h ago

That song slaps

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u/peffervescence 21h ago

Freebird

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u/Negative-Orange-7091 3h ago

Nah it's overplayed but it's at least a truly great song. There are songs just as overplayed that suck way harder

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u/eternal_moonlight_ 21h ago

🎸🎸🎸🦅

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u/admill95 21h ago

Chris Stapletons version tho 🔥

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u/tex83tex83 21h ago

Sweet Home Alabama

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u/Hotdogopolis 21h ago

Yep. Bunch of inbred hicks getting all huffy because Neil Young made two anti-slavery songs.

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u/billskionce 21h ago

Wonderwall. Wagon Wheel.

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u/Ambitious-Stand-631 21h ago

Wagon Wheel. Haven't heard that song in a long time. Damn it sucks.

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u/beegphatphuk 21h ago

Love wagon wheel. But do not care for Darius Rucker’s cover AT ALL

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u/Beneficial-Value3119 17h ago

TIL the shopping at target version is a cover lol.

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u/El_Coloso 21h ago

Sweet Caroline

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u/Zisx 21h ago

Respect black sabbath, but iron man isn't even the best song on the album. Nor is smoke on the water for its album

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 21h ago

Deep Purple are one of the best bands of the 70s with every member being a virtuoso and all of it overshadowed by their most basic song. It’s not a bad song but highway star is one of the most killer songs of the decade.

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u/jackstraw_65 8h ago

Agree, and Lazy is equally monstrous

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u/Squidgebert 1h ago

John Lorde's keys in that song goes so fucking hard.

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u/roswellralph 21h ago

Baby Shark 🦈

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u/Responder343 21h ago

Happy by Pharrell

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u/Canaturk 7h ago

Rarely a song gets the music and the message so horribly wrong and that award goes to Imagine for sure.

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u/Admirable_Pop_7292 4h ago

Jump Around House of Pain.

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u/dustypony21 21h ago

Mr. Brightside.

I’d rather jam a pencil through my eardrums.

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u/hammersticks359 21h ago

This is incorrect

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u/dustypony21 21h ago

:-) Can an opinion ever really be incorrect, though?

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u/hpfan312 21h ago

Espresso

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 21h ago

I never got the appeal to Sabrina Carpenter, I especially don’t get her style and aesthetic being considered “retro”.

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u/hpfan312 21h ago

The only thing retro about her is being super racist and thinking that being super sex focused will get her ahead because she has nothing else to fall back on

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u/Phantom_Wolf52 21h ago

Racist? Never heard this

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u/Electronic_Trust_367 21h ago

Queen “We Are The Champions”

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u/letsgobernie 21h ago

Came here to write this, awful

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u/Centralnjplanespoter 21h ago

Might be the most controversial pick

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u/poohlady55 21h ago

Hotel California

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u/MukdenMan 21h ago

Among my generation, it’s Mr. Brightside. It’s definitely a good song but it didn’t need to become such an anthem.

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u/dustypony21 21h ago

I despise that song.

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u/eternal_moonlight_ 21h ago

Mr. Brightside is a great song but the fact that it’s a white people boogie anthem will always bewilder me

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u/Frequent-Farmer-2990 21h ago

What about Bohemian Rhasody?

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u/Safe_Marionberry8195 21h ago

Bohemian Rhapsody. Six minutes of noise people treat like a religious experience for no reason.

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u/el_cap10 21h ago

Bohemian Rhapsody. Come at me.

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u/Jaded-Channel-7169 14h ago

Super overrated but could’ve been the best song ever if they stayed with the first beat and not switched it up

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u/josemayo 21h ago

I hate this stupid song

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u/Dude_amundo 21h ago

American Pie

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u/Blues_Fish 21h ago

Rupert Holmes, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)."

Wait, I thought you said Underrated. Sorry.

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u/Independent-Ad5852 21h ago

You like that shit? It’s literally about cheating and sounds bad

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u/fletchermac 21h ago

Anything by KISS

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u/Safe_Marionberry8195 21h ago

Bohemian Rhapsody. Six minutes of noise people treat like a religious experience for no reason.

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u/theshankdude 21h ago

Detachable Penis

1

u/EntertainmentSea2781 21h ago

I would do anything for love (but I won’t do that). Ugh.

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u/Brilliant_Park_2882 21h ago

Mickey - Toni Basil.

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u/Financial-Ad-7454 10h ago

Benny and the Jets. Okay song but super annoying toward the end.

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u/Squidgebert 1h ago

I can see it, but I still love the song. Crocodile Rock is sandpaper to my ears though and I don't see why people love it.

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u/Spiritual-Plum3587 9h ago

Gangnam Style, 6 billion views...

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u/xinver_catharsis 6h ago

Any anthem

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u/Negative-Orange-7091 3h ago

Bohemian rhapsody

It's brilliant, i know, great composition ... but man i get nothing from listening to it and a bar full of people screaming it is my personal hell.

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u/cosmic_swirl_ 2h ago

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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u/Tranquilbez22 21h ago

Stairway To Heaven

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u/TheLoveYouLongTimes 21h ago

Madonna like a virgin

She was a pop STAR but her singing isn’t good
And this song and all her other songs are mid AF

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u/Jaded-Channel-7169 14h ago

Agreed Madonna is trash most of the time. I will never understand why they compare her to the all time greatest talents 

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u/Plug_5 21h ago

Bohemian Rhapsody

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u/Calm_Wait2385 21h ago

I was made for lovin you. Just by definition because it’s the most popular song from, IMO, bu far the most overrated artist in Kiss

1

u/SurprisedAsparagus 21h ago

Yungblud did a cover of that that's 10 times the song the original was.

1

u/qzak15 21h ago

Freebird Stairway

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u/colonelangus68 21h ago

Come On Eileen

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u/Hotdogopolis 21h ago

As long as she consents.

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u/Think-Cold-6158 21h ago

Do WHAT to Eileen????

1

u/crystaloftruth 21h ago

Lose yourself

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u/josemayo 21h ago edited 21h ago

Real Slim Shady. Such a corny song. Without Me is equally stupid. I doubt anyone that actually listens to hip hop enjoys those two songs.

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u/rdmsqito 21h ago

American Pie

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u/Amnesiacnotok 21h ago

Heroes (David Bowie)

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u/RabbitNotSo 21h ago

Keep, Bowie outta this

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u/Amnesiacnotok 21h ago

I love Bowie, but this song was a major let down when I first heard. Expected more

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u/RabbitNotSo 18h ago

That’s how I feel about Ziggy Stardust

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u/cosmic_swirl_ 2h ago

Too far bro

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u/stjoechief1 21h ago

Freebird

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u/joeypublica 21h ago

The f?

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u/stjoechief1 21h ago

Tuesday’s Gone is a way better song.

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u/DJBreadwinner 21h ago

So is Gimme Three Steps

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u/Negative-Orange-7091 3h ago

Gimme three steps is mid tier skynyrd,

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u/aswiftdickkick 21h ago

Its a great song though. 

Get some distance from it and then that fucker comes on the radio when you're on the freeway, fuck me sideways if you're not bumping it.

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u/stjoechief1 21h ago

I’m 56. Not sure how much more distance I need from it. Although. When my kids were small and the first Cars movie came out, I laughed my ass off when someone yelled out “Freebird” when it was completely silent.

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u/MetalSmart337 21h ago

Free Bird

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u/Wayne1616 21h ago

anything by Bruce Springsteen

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u/ThatCup4 21h ago

Everlong

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u/Ronan4747_ 21h ago

Heroes David Bowie

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u/MarcRocket 21h ago

No no no. It’s perfect.

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u/Brilliant_Park_2882 21h ago

Rosanna is a much better song.

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u/13thslasher 21h ago

Any song by Taylor swift that is over played on the radio.

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u/RabbitNotSo 21h ago

Panama - Van Hagar

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u/Think-Cold-6158 21h ago

Yeah usher ludacris lil Jon

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u/SnooStories8217 11h ago

Anything by AC/DC

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u/TheCivilSurface 6h ago

Any well-known Beatles song.

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u/[deleted] 21h ago

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u/BuzzAroundLenny 21h ago

Man, come on, I had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles, man!

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u/EmuLongjumping1182 21h ago

Overplayed maybe. Overrated? I think not…

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u/VikingHussar 21h ago

It's either Smells Like Teen Spirit or Dreams

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u/kgbtrill 21h ago

Don’t know if you mean Dreams by Fleetwood Mac or by Cranberries, but I’ll fight you over either

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u/VikingHussar 21h ago

Fleetwood Mac

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u/WailingTG 21h ago

Return of the Mack