"I Banned It In The Car" – People Are Sharing The Popular Songs They Really, Really, Realllllyy Hate

Can whoever let the dogs out PLEASE finally right your wrongs.

We recently shared a list of songs that irk, ire, annoy, and gall Twitter (or X, I guess) users the second they hear them. And you had so much to say in the comments that we thought we'd turn the replies into their own, separate post! Here are some responses that caught our eye:

1. "All About That Bass" by Megan Trainor

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"It makes me stabby. I banned it in the car in 2014, along with anything by Maroon 5 and Blink-182. Sometimes you just have to put your foot down."

—tastymalaise

2. "Hey Soul Sister" by Train

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"Anything by Train really, but especially this song! 😖"

—mike517

"I used to carpool with a girl and she only had Train CDs. She would play 'Meet Virginia' on repeat. My God, that was torture."

—deadzy

3. "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I

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"If you ever purposely chose to listen to 'Dance Monkey', then I don't trust your opinion on anything."

—adi4

4. "Unholy" by Sam Smith and Kim Petras

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"That annoying song was used by everyone for every TikTok and Insta reel imaginable for months on end. It was dreadful the first time I heard it, and it only got worse."

—chrisf4cdf2ec7e

5. "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen

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"I can’t be the only one sick of 'Last Night', it’s been playing since FEBRUARY."

—ilovebenadryl

6. "Closer" by the Chainsmokers ft. Halsey (or, as this person will forever know it, "Mattressgate")

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"I. Hate. That. Song. So. Much.

The percussive background noises sound like they took MIDI sound files of someone snapping and clapping, but stretched them out a little too long so the sounds are just awful sounding.

I DESPISE the line 'the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in Boulder', because how do you steal an entire mattress? Did your roommate back in Boulder just come home one day to their mattress being gone? Did you steal the box spring with it? Mattresses are notoriously unwieldy to move. Did you steal like, a little kid mattress from them and that's the only way you were able to steal it without needing help? God forbid you stole your roommate's queen-size mattress! How on Earth would you move that by yourself, or did you enlist your other shitty shady friends to steal your roommate's mattress?"

—captainkappa173

7. "What Does The Fox Say" by Ylvis

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"How did this not make the original list?"

—flubber7777

"Oh my lord. My husband inexplicably loves that song and it makes me want to murder someone."

—dustable

8. “Who Let the Dogs Out?” by Baha Men

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"This is a throwback, but 'Who Let the Dogs Out?' was the most baffling hit of my entire life. Truly an abomination of sound. Hated it from the moment I heard it."

—snugglykittens

"Somebody else here said 'Who Let the Dogs Out', which was probably one of the dumbest songs ever created."

—becxxxxx

9. "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees

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"I worked at a garden centre for about 18 months in my teens, and there was an advert for some grass feed stuff called Evergreen that used the song and changed the lyrics. It was on the screen by the tills and played about once every half hour. I'm sure it was a contributing factor to me quitting."

—b481d76f3c

10. "Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners

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"This song ruins any party atmosphere I try to create. I will storm off the dance floor and put on something amazing like Cha-Cha Slide as an antidote to undo the negativity!"

—d4979c4387

11. "About Damn Time" by Lizzo

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"I love Lizzo to absolute pieces but oh my God, 'About Damn Time' damn near drove me crazy last summer. It was on the radio constantly, it was in the grocery store, it was in commercials – you literally could not escape it for about a month and a half."

—marisak4212bc09f

12. "Red Red Wine" by UB40.

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"I was in high school when that monstrosity came out. So many other great songs got cheated out of being Number 1 because of that horrible screed. Consider yourself truly blessed if you've never heard it. There was no escaping that on MTV or the radio in 1988/9.

And if you did somehow manage to escape it, 'I've Had The Time of My Life' from Dirty Dancing was there to make your ears bleed. Those two songs made me hate radio as the '80s ended."

—crystalballerina

13. "Piano Man" by Billy Joel

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"Now, I like a lot of Billy Joel's music, but that one annoys me because it goes on and on and on and on..."

—legoforest

14. "Together in Electric Dreams" by Philip Oakey

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"I have tinnitus that tends to mimic and play a random sound, voice, or fragment of a song on loop, which can last minutes, hours, days, or weeks.

Once had Oakey's first two lines 'I only knew you for a while / I never saw your smile' on loop all day – roughly 56 times per minute from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep – for four days.

It wasn't the longest duration of a song fragment on loop, but I loathe his voice with the intensity of a thousand suns. Especially how he went 'I only knew you for a whiiiile'."

—prolix

15. "Bad Habits" by Ed Sheeran

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"I CANNOT STAND 'SHIVERS' OR 'BAD HABITS'. A lot of his other songs are pretty good, IMO. It's just that these two songs make me wanna break the radio, they are so overplayed."

—silverelf64

16. “Soak Up the Sun” by Cheryl Crow

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"I still can’t listen to this after hearing it on repeat so many times from my job in 2002/3ish. Like, stop singing about how you’re poor, rich lady!"

—laurae4525fb3d9

17. "Let It Go" from Frozen

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"Everybody forgot the true crime at hand that is 'LET IT GO'. That $#!+ sends me."

—jazlyns2

18. "Girl On Fire" by Alicia Keys

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"It's been wayyyyy overplayed for anything stereotypically associated with women, IMO. Need a song for a tampon advert, you got it! Advert for gym wear... I got the song for you!"

—turophile

19. "The Reason" by Hoobastank

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"It's mainly because of the lyrics. When you start off an apology with 'I'm not a perfect person', I'm done listening. Also, I never liked 'Young Folks' by Peter Bjorn and Young because of the whistling. There, I said it."

—kasias

20. "Love Shack" by the B52s

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"I work retail and it’s on my store’s playlist. It makes me irrationally angry."

—jackiec4a3aa6064

21. "The Whistle Song" by DJ Aligator Project

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"I feel the same about 'Drop It Like It's Hot', but then again, I just hate whistling in general – sensitive ears."

—notjessicasmile

22. "One Call Away" by Charlie Puth

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"I don’t know the name of the song, but it’s by Charlie Puth, I think, where he sings that 'Superman’s got nothing on me', but says 'me' like 'may' to rhyme with 'day.' I hear that a few times a week at work and it gets stuck in my head and I hate it."

—imbatmom2

23. "Sure Thing" by Miguel

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"It was a good song, but it got wayyyyyyy overplayed."

—isabellelondon22

24. "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers

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"'Mr. Brightside' and 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies' need to GO."

—haileyclarke19

"'I Write Sins' is so annoying! 'Mr. Brightside' was okay the first 2000 times... 🙃"

—vix_da_vixen

25. "The Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani

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"My spine clenches when I hear that one."

—becxxxxx

26. "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Ray Jepsen

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"I just cannot stand that song. At its peak, I started literally leaving rooms when the song was played. I hated it so much that my brothers and friends started singing it to me if we were arguing just to divert my attention.

Still hate it 😅."

—mariead

27. "Drivers License" by Olivia Rodrigo

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"Insanely overplayed and not even that good. I swear if I hear it one more time, I’m going to kill someone."

—nycgirl2014

Did we leave any out? Let us know in the comments below!

Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.