If there’s one thing we can count on people for, it’s having really crappy taste in music. This phenomenon spans multiple generations. Every year, some band comes along, becomes wildly popular for a bit, then everyone tries to deny ever liking them in the first place. Fools, we saw you wearing those Hammer pants!
We aren’t going to deny it. We liked it all. We liked the hair bands, the boy bands. Up until Michael Jackson’s death, most of the world was pretending like Thrillermania never happened. It’s time to confess your sins.
We present the Top 10 Artists You Used to Like (But Deny Now).
10. Poison
Poison’s representing for all the hair metal bands, here. It could be Motley Crue, Ratt, Winger, pick any. Don’t foresake your spandex pants, now.
9. Aqua
It happens every couple years. Some band comes along and makes a godawful song about some pop culture thing, and the public eats it up, for about six months. See also: Rappin’ Duke.
8. Richard Marx
Just that hair alone screamed “easy listening.” Every generation needs a completely de-balled, devoid of soul rocker to keep up the tradition of crap.
7. Baha Men
It’s that song that annoys the crap out of you, partially because it’s just a really annoying song, and partially because you can’t go 20 minutes without someone singing it or quoting it in some inappropriate social context. Yeah, yeah. We get it. You’re “pretty fly for a white guy”. *punch*
6. Garth Brooks
Garth was like a bad boyfriend who kept leaving, and you kept taking him back. How many times did he quit music altogether before you finally realized he wasn’t going to change?
5. Jewel
Remember when you got into folk music, so you could try to score chicks at Lilith Fair? To be honest, we’re not ashamed. We’d do it all over again. But, then again, we’re sensitive, and we’d like to stay that way.
4. Billy Ray Cyrus
You know you had and if you weren’t doing the Achy Breaky, you were doing the Boot Scootin’ Boogie. Country music has sucked for a long, long time now. Hank and Johnny, why couldn’t you live forever?
Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart
3. Hanson
Every generation’s gotta have themselves a cheesy pop teenie bopper band. Jonas Brothers are the Hanson of their time.
2. New Kids on the Block
Who here got their tickets for the Reunion Tour? Some of us tried to tell you how much they sucked from the start.
1. Vanilla Ice
He may be the butt of everyone’s jokes now, but for a while there, they all had lines shaved in their heads, and were doing the running man. Van Winkle was the Great White Hope of the early 90s.
Still in denial? We’ve got more cheesy crap you used to like. Check out this Bobby Brown Dance Party, and Backstreet Boys just announced their own comeback tour.
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