The early 2000s were a different time. A wild time, even. The music ranged from incredible to downright terrible. The trends in music back then were very different from what they are today. Quite a few songs from that era have aged really badly, too. I doubt that these three 2000s songs would do anything other than flop (or cause a lot of online discourse) if they were released today. Let’s take a look!
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1. “Ur So Gay” by Katy Perry
“Ur So Gay” by Katy Perry isn’t the pop star’s only offensive song, but it’s loaded with a lot of questionable lyrics. This 2007 pop song opens up with the line “I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf while j*rking off listening to Mozart”. And it only gets worse from there.
The whole theme of this song is about Perry being hurt that a man wasn’t romantically interested in her, and she deduces that he absolutely must be homosexual. Why else wouldn’t he be interested in her?!
2. “This Is Why I’m Hot” by MIMS
This example of 2000s songs that would probably flop today isn’t horrible, controversial, or crude. Rather, it’s just too cringey to survive the 2020s social media critical landscape. The whole of the 2006 hip hop song “This Is Why I’m Hot” by MIMS is just about MIMS hyping himself up.
Lines like “I’m hot cause I’m fly / You ain’t cause you not” would have landed MIMS in eternal cringe memedom forever. The irony of this track is that MIMS breaks down, quite repetitively, why he’s an amazing musician; and yet, he never went on to make another true hit after this song.
3. “Don’t Trust Me” by 3OH!3
A very obvious entry on our list of 2000s songs that would flop today comes from early crunkcore outfit 3OH!3. “Don’t Trust Me” was a club favorite in 2008, but its lyrics are… interesting. In a morbid way. I don’t even feel comfortable including any lines from this song, considering it’s quite misogynistic. It even features a sexualizing line about Helen Keller. Yes, you read that correctly.
This song would likely flop today because of its subject matter, as well as the fact that crunkcore died off for a reason.
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