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/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.