Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! 🚨 It’s Shut Up Month on the podcast! 🚨 All August we’re reviewing songs with “Shut Up” in the title — the loud, the weird, and the unintentionally hilarious. From Rihanna’s speeding metaphors to Reece Mastin’s shouty romance, nothing is safe. New episodes every week on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die. Turn it up… then shut up. 🎧 DUBBY DUBBY is declaring WAR on big Energy! Use the promo code "1001songs" a...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! 🎙️ Welcome to “Shut Up Month” on 1001 Songs That Make You Want To Die 🎙️ This July, we’re diving headfirst into songs that told the world to pipe down — whether they meant it romantically, rebelliously, or just didn’t feel like having a conversation. Each episode, we dissect a song with “Shut Up” in the title, peeling back the layers of pop posturing, lyrical chaos, and accidental comedy. Today’s feature: Rihanna...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Becky G: "Shower" ★☆☆☆☆ By Someone Who’s Been Held Hostage in a Sephora for 36 Hours There are songs that change lives. There are songs that move culture. And then there is “Shower” by Becky G—a song that boldly asks, what if brushing your teeth could be a personality? Let’s be clear: “Shower” isn’t so much a pop song as it is a bubblegum-scented middle school diary entry set to a ringtone. Released in 2014, a s...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Silentó – “Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae)” TurnUp Records / Capitol – 2015 1.6 By the time Silentó commands us to “watch me whip,” a full seven seconds into the track, you already know you’ve boarded a train bound for post-ironic oblivion. What follows is not so much a song as it is an unrelenting instructional video, powered by algorithmic momentum and the spiritual energy of every PTA meeting gone wrong. “Watch Me ...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Kelly Osbourne: “Papa Don’t Preach” Epic Records, 2002 Pitchfork Rating: 3.7 In a move that can only be described as “aggressively Y2K,” Kelly Osbourne—daughter of Ozzy, wearer of neon hair, and survivor of MTV’s The Osbournes—emerged from the reality-TV fog of war to drop her cover of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.” A bold choice, given that Madonna’s version is iconic, controversial, and, crucially, good. Kelly...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Matchbox Twenty – "Unwell" Atlantic; 2003 3.2 By: Dax Mumberson, Pitchfork Contributor There are songs that define an era, and then there’s “Unwell” by Matchbox Twenty—a song that limply gestured at defining something before retreating back into a GAP sweater of its own design. Released in 2003, but spiritually 1998, “Unwell” is a murky broth of acoustic sincerity, radio-safe angst, and the sonic equivalent of a...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Divinyls – “I Touch Myself” (1990) ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Genre: Sexy Pop-Rock with a Side of Subtle Shouting If you’ve ever wanted to tell the entire world you’re into yourself—like, really into yourself—but with an Aussie accent and a jangly guitar riff behind you, "I Touch Myself" is your anthem. Released in 1990, this song boldly launched a thousand awkward glances across car radios, shopping centre PAs, and family BBQs....

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Chamillionaire – “Ridin’” [feat. Krayzie Bone] Universal; 2006 6.4 (but only if you're in a Dodge Charger with illegal tints) “Ridin’” is the rare kind of song that makes you feel both like a criminal and a misunderstood philosopher—if your philosophy thesis is mostly about how the cops are always watching, especially when you’re doing absolutely nothing suspicious in a 22-inch rimmed Escalade at 3am. Chamillion...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Flo Rida – “In the Ayer” [feat. will.i.am] Atlantic; 2008 2.1 If you’ve ever stared into a lava lamp and thought, “What if this could somehow be a song?”—well, congrats, your dream was made flesh in In the Ayer, the auditory equivalent of bedazzled cargo shorts and Axe body spray. Flo Rida, not known for subtlety or, say, substance, teams up with the ghost of will.i.am’s interest in music to bring us a track so ...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Luke Bryan – “That’s My Kind of Night” ⭐️ 1.9 / 10 Label: Cliché Hat Records, a Division of Bud Light Sounds If a monster truck rally had sex with a Bass Pro Shops flyer during an Axe Body Spray commercial, the baby would be “That’s My Kind of Night.” And that baby would grow up to wear cargo shorts year-round and call every woman “ma’am,” regardless of age. Luke Bryan, country music’s reigning fratboy-in-chief,...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Fergie – “Fergalicious” ⭐️ 2.1 / 10 Label: A Delicious Flop Pastry Records Ah yes, “Fergalicious” – the 2006 cultural artifact that dared to ask: what if a spelling bee had a sugar crash during a rave at Claire’s Accessories? Fergie, freshly emancipated from the Black Eyed Peas’ deeply important catalog of "My Humps" and "Let’s Get Retarded," decided it was time to define her solo artistry by shouting her name o...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Scandal’us – Me, Myself & I (2001) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Pitchfork, 10.0) In an era bloated with faux-indie self-seriousness and turn-of-the-millennium testosterone-pop, Me, Myself & I arrived like a rhinestoned meteor, obliterating subtlety and redefining post-reality-TV sonic maximalism. What begins as a breakup anthem quickly transcends genre, gender, and good taste, ascending into something close to pop transce...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Oh, of course Charli XCX is definitely just recycling that ultra-sophisticated, high-brow techno pop from the early 2000s—you know, the era of iconic lyrical masterpieces like "My Humps" and "Blue (Da Ba Dee)." She's just sitting in her neon-lit studio, sipping Surge, thinking, "What the world really needs right now is the spiritual successor to Eiffel 65 but with more eyeliner and existential dread." Because when...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Squidward is a grumpy, artistic octopus from SpongeBob SquarePants, known for his long, droopy nose that often reflects his mood and expressions. His nose is frequently the punchline of jokes—getting caught in doors, inflated, or mistaken for other objects—making it a running gag in the series. It symbolizes his exaggerated self-importance and often becomes a target of SpongeBob’s oblivious antics. DUBBY DUBB...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! No, "Miracles" by Insane Clown Posse (ICP) is not intended as a joke. Despite its viral reception and widespread mockery—particularly the line "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"—the song was created with sincerity. ICP aimed to express genuine wonder at everyday phenomena that are often overlooked. Violent J, one of the group's members, explained that the song is about appreciating the world around us and rekind...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! *“Short People” by Randy Newman is a snarky, satirical jab masquerading as a pop song, delivering a wildly exaggerated roast of vertically-challenged folks with lines so ludicrous they border on cartoon villainy. With its bouncing piano and upbeat melody, the song mocks short people for everything from their “little hands” to their inability to “get around,” all while clearly winking at the listener with tongue pl...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! In this unsettling reimagining, the smooth-talking, swagger-filled narrator isn’t here to party… he’s luring kids with charm, games, and magic tricks under the guise of fun. He struts through neighborhoods with a twisted grin, tossing candy, whispering riddles, and leading children astray with hypnotic dance moves. Dressed to impress in a shadowy pinstripe suit, he hides his true motives behind catchy rhymes and a...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! I wanna nap and rock all night! (And shuffle every day!) I wanna nap and rock all night! (Then golf and Matlock play!) DUBBY DUBBY is declaring WAR on big Energy! Use the promo code "1001songs" at checkout for 10% off! Subscribe to our Patreon for early access to episodes as well as Patreon exclusives episodes each week. Please tell your mates about the podcast and jump on Appl...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Imagine you are inside a sentient music store, where time doesn’t move forward but instead loops in soft-focus montages of bittersweet almost-memories. Ronan Keating, a man who simultaneously exists inside and outside the concept of love, strolls through this liminal space, not searching for something, but also kind of finding it. Every glance, every interaction, is both meaningful and meaningless—like trying to r...

Want to request a song? Tell us your rating? Send us a Text Message right now! Imagine you’re standing in a hallway that exists outside of time, where every door leads to a different parallel universe of past relationships—but only the ones where the emotional debris still lingers like a half-written text. You’re both the observer and the participant, reliving a moment that simultaneously happened, is happening, and never happened at all. The song is a mirror disguised as a memory, but it’s ...