World’s Worst Songs: “Finally Getting Up From Rock Bottom”

J.A. Bartlett October 16, 2012 14

You think finding a different bad song to write about every week is easy? That there’s no psychological price to be paid for this assignment?  That no harm is done to a man’s soul by voluntarily exposing himself to the worst kind of tripe week after week, and doing so long enough to form coherent thoughts about it?

You think you could do this job? Do you? Do you really?

That is Farrah Abraham, who is/was one of the stars of MTV’s Teen Mom, although I had never heard of her until a few days ago. “Finally Getting Up From Rock Bottom” is a single she released last August, if by “released” we mean “dredged up from a hitherto-uncharted hole in the deepest precinct of Hell.” I suppose one can’t entirely blame Abraham for this. After all, somebody else had to “write” it and “produce” it, if by “write” “and “produce” we mean “arrange to withdraw the protection of a loving God from the planet he created.”

Farrah has apparently released a whole goddamn album, on which are auto-tuned other random vocalizations that occasionally resemble human speech. Go looking for it if you want, don’t go looking for it if you want, I don’t care. I’m going off to pray for my own swift death.

  • Bob

    Holy crap, J.A. This is truly the world’s worst “song.” Holy crap.

  • Breadalbane

    This is mind-numbingly awful. I think I am a worse person for just having heard it.

  • jamesballenger

    Now that is a bad song! impossible to understand lyrics, nonsensical and grating. How can 2:22 feel like ten minutes? this is most definitely the darkest timeline.

  • NastyG
  • http://jabartlett.wordpress.com jabartlett

    That’s a bold artistic choice, singing in multiple keys on the same syllable.

  • nathan_az

    It’s going to be tough to top this. I’m scared.

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Wow, even the Auto-Tune seemed to be saying, “Fuck you, I want nothing to do with this.” It was at war with the vocal from word one. Yuck.

  • http://www.popdose.com/ DwDunphy

    This sounds like an auto-tuned 911 emergency call, with the caller in hysterics (and the listener the victim).

  • http://www.popdose.com/ DwDunphy

    I experienced more joy from the glowing reviews underneath the video — and by joy, I mean unprecedented confusion and fear for the species.

  • http://www.popdose.com/ DwDunphy

    I remember a friend once cynically said, “Boobs cover a multitude of sins.” I wonder if he was an executive producer for this project.

  • David_E

    Who knew? The seventh seal tearing sounds like auto tune.

  • http://www.discoskonfort.com/artists/drxl/ drxl

    “World’s Worst Songs” is not hyperbole

  • Old_Davy

    At 2:22, this is about as long as the average Beach Boys single from the early to mid 60′s. So why does it seem as long as “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”? Has modern pop music really sunk this low? I’m so glad I’m an old fart and don’t have to put up with crap like this like today’s teenagers.

  • JonCummings

    Why do I feel as though, if the artist name here had been Nine Inch Nails, we’d be hailing this as some sort of sinister latter-day classic?