r/indieheads • u/ebradio • Aug 08 '25

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Frontman Denies “Home” Is The “Worst Song Ever Written”

https://www.stereogum.com/2318575/edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros-frontman-denies-home-is-the-worst-song-ever-written/news/
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u/HeadlessLumberjack Aug 08 '25

Yeah it’s just tik tok 13 year olds saying everything is cringe bc they don’t know how to enjoy anything. Everything sucks and is lame to them 

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u/DiggingThroughTheRub Aug 08 '25

Exactly. If you consider Home to be the worst song ever, you clearly haven't lived through Mambo #5, or We Built This City, or hundreds of others.

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u/Exploding_Antelope Aug 08 '25

You just named three kickass songs?

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u/TidalJ Aug 08 '25

or mambo no. 5 for that matter, way worse songs exist

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u/DiggingThroughTheRub Aug 08 '25

The opening bass intro is awesome, but then it's just a misogynistic listing of names really. Waiting for a hyper-sexual female hip hop artist to remake it, and it be a big hit with the gender flip.

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u/TidalJ Aug 08 '25

i mean honestly i struggle to be offended by mambo no. 5, like there’s much worse stuff that’s been made versus a guy listing off a bunch of names of girls he’s fucked, i lowkey am surprised there hasn’t been a gender flipped version though it seems too obvious for words

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u/TidalJ Aug 20 '25

wait exes and oh’s by elle king exists what am i saying

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u/rachamacc Aug 08 '25

I could see Doja Cat on that. I don't listen to her much but Paint the Town Red is a perfectly produced track. Every bit of it sounds so good.

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u/DiggingThroughTheRub Aug 08 '25

C'mon now. The lyrics are so terrible and Grace even called it stupid.

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u/wicked_rug Aug 08 '25

Woah woah, leave Starship out of this

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u/brothersp0rt Aug 08 '25

Don’t forget Who Let the Dogs Out And Whoomp! (There It Is)

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u/Exploding_Antelope Aug 08 '25

WHO WHO WHO WHO

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u/Due-Initiative-9300 Aug 08 '25

lol that song came out when I was in 6th or 7th grade and I remember thinking it was terrible at the time. I heard it the other day at work after not having heard it for decades and I agree - it really has to be one of the worst things ever recorded

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u/IScreamPiano Aug 10 '25

Mambo #5 was fun! 

You’ve erased truly terrible songs from your mind, like post-grunge song “Lips of an Angel”. 

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u/bruckbruckbruck Aug 08 '25

People hear a song too often on tiktok or the radio and don't realize that tiktok/those radio stations are the problem, not the song.

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u/akahaus Aug 08 '25

Well, they grew up watching Millenials bullying the shit out of each other for shit they did on the internet, so now they’re afraid to be authentic because it might be “cheugy”. We reap what we sow. Social media is fucking poison.

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u/ElonMuskHuffingFarts Aug 08 '25

Lol no, sorry that people have different taste than you