The Worst Song in May

N&UR fans (or probably just me) will note that there was no song awarded the title of "worst" for the month of April. I was tempted by a few - Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" was rather irritating, but also inoffensive; the Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Dani California" was yet, another song about California from the California-based band, but it wasn't quite dreadful. I was extremely disappointed with Snow Patrol's recent single, "Hands Open," which sounded a bit like a Linkin Park ballad. I am not one to get lost in the past, so rather than awarding a song for April, I will simply move on to May.

Teddy Geiger looks about 14 and is the latest in a line of well-groomed, fake troubadours who sound nearly identical to John Mayer. Now that Mayer is off playing the "blues," I guess Geiger saw an open market for cliched cheese. He sings, "Wandering the streets, in a world underneath it all, Nothing seems to be, nothing tastes as sweet, As what I can't have, Like you and the way that you're twisting your hair round your finger" - and that is some deep shit. Calling out to shy boys everywhere, he croons, "Tonight I'm not afraid to tell you, I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have, and cannon ball into the water, I'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence I have, For you I will, For you I will." Of course, this song would be nothing without the video, in which we learn that object of his affection is none other than Laguna Beach's Kristin Cavallari. I guess it's simply economics - fifth grade poetry for the teenage girls and a barely legal blonde for the teenage boys. BTW - I hated high school.



::Previous Worsts::
1 "Beep," the Pussycat Dolls
2 "Unpredictable," Jaime Foxx
3 "Wings of a Butterfly," H.I.M.