Vote for the Worst Presents: The Worst Songs of the Decade 2000-2009

These are all shit but Toby Keith making money off 9/11 always did piss me off. What an asshole.

Did the Miley song get radio play are was it just on the Disney channel? I thought it was cute (if you're between 6 and 8).

All I have to say is that if I had bothered to watch the Brokencyde video/hear the song for the first time before right now, I would have voted until it was #1. It's like a bunch of Danny Noriega clones mixed emo, AutoTune, Lady Gaga, and Linkin Park-style screaming together into a hellish vat of wrong.<!--Session data-->

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Right on guys, conngratulations

I really enjoy VFTW and agree with just about everything said about AI contestants. As an American Soldier who has seen Toby Keith in concert in the Middle East twice, I can't go along with this pick for the reasons you claim. Toby didn't write this song to make money off of 9/11. He's a song writer. He just put words on a paper about how he felt as a Patriotic American. Most Americans agreed with the sentiment and were glad Toby said what they felt. At the time this song came out, Toby could have been considered a worster. Radio Program Directors had headaches over this song. He had the audacity to tell Muslims that we'd like to put a boot up their ass because it's the American way.

Toby and his band have toured US bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait at least eight times since 9/11. And Toby just doesn't play the large bases. He and one of his bandmates will take helicopters to small outposts where there are less than 100 Soldiers. He just believes in entertaining the troops.

I'm not an idiot who reads this site, gets offended by one statement then says, "I'll never be back." I just want everyone to know that I don't agree with this pick for the reasons stated. Otherwise, keep up the great work.

My daughter is 8 years old and a Miley Cyrus fan, but even she commented "Mom, 'Hoedown Throwdown' is a dumb song." Yep, sure is.

I am proud to say I have not one of these songs on my ipod. I think I have the Toby song on a CD somewhere, but I have no copies of any of the other shitty songs. Great choices, Soulja Boy pretty much sums up the shitty music of this decade. I fear what he comes up with next.

Just piping in to raise some ire: "Hoedown Throwdown" is on the eligible song list for Best Original Song at the Oscars.

I had to ban that song from my room at a thankless summer camp job. It's all the kids wanted to hear, and they'd get mad if I didn't do the dance. Sorry, I was hired to teach music and drama at a sports camp; I was already in enough pain having tubbed-up ex-high school superstars launch footballs and other assorted sports objects at me knowing damn well I can't catch it. I could not put up with "boom boom clap, boom-de-clap-de-clap" for six weeks. I didn't realize the kids would already know the song, so I made the mistake of bringing it with me the first day. Awful.

If it's any consolation, Toby Keith is the least worst on this list. (I kinda dig the whole boot up your ass thing, too.)

Thank you for recognizing Toby Keith's great steaming pile of ignorance and xenophobia in "Courtesy Of the Red, White and Blue". When he went through his ridiculously arrogant "How Do You Like Me Now" phase, I had to start apologizing that I had ever bought any of his (good) CDs previous to that (think "Dreamwalkin" and "Who's That Man"). Once that song came out, I had to throw them away completely and apologize to America for ever putting a dime into the pocket of that single-minded, opportunistic douchebag. Thanks for making me have to tell people I'm Canadian when I travel abroad, jerkass.

God, I can't believe Wind It Up was so far down on the list!!!

cptmcnair:

This is not a political web site and we'll thank you to keep your political views to yourself. But since you brought it up:

The USA and Israel are the 2 biggest terrorist states on the planet. They have been caught myriad times staging false flag terror attacks, with the biggest being 9/11. Toby Keith is just a brainwashed pro-State troll trying to cash in on the dumbed-down Stockholm Syndrome-addled masses.