The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2013

The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2013
Date Aired	January 11, 2014
Running Time	27:09
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Introduction

Todd plays Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko - "Stay" on the piano.

THE TOP TEN WORST HIT SONGS OF 2013
A year-end retrospective

Todd: Good fucking riddance!

Montage of clips of Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop", Pink ft. Nate Ruess - "Just Give Me a Reason", Lorde - "Royals", Justin Timberlake - "Mirrors", Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball", Eminem - "Berzerk", Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive", Ylvis - "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)", Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - "Can't Hold Us", and Lady Gaga - "Applause"

Todd (VO): No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself. Just burn the yearbooks for this one, I don't even want to record it for posterity. This was just the worst year for music that I can even remember. What an awful, awful twelve months it was. And it's not just me saying that either. The reviews are in. 2013—the worst year of music in recent memory. In fact, this year would've been better by being ever more terrible. But unfortunately, pop seemed to just be operating at a 4/10 throughout.

Todd: Goddamn, I'm grateful [clip of Miley Cyrus grinding Robin Thicke at VMAs] for the Twerktastrophe of 2013; at least it was a thing, in a year where music just didn't seem to matter anymore. Even the individual genre charts were disappointing.

Clips of Awolnation - "Sail", Bruno Mars - "When I Was Your Man", Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch - "Sweet Nothing"

Todd (VO): Rap struggled through mainstream relevance, rock has almost disappeared completely, country music is barely even recognizable, and almost everything we had left was soulless garbage. Just awful, awful, awful all year round. Even putting together a Worst list this year was difficult because so little was worth caring about one way or the other.

Todd: Things have gotta get better, right? I can't...I can't even... I just wanna get this over with. So with perpetual lateness, I present to you...

Clip of Taylor Swift - "I Knew You Were Trouble", which serves as the interlude throughout the countdown

Taylor: Oh! Oh! Trouble

Todd (VO): The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2013!

Taylor: Trouble, trouble

I knew you were trouble

#1

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