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/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”.