Vote for the Worst Presents: The 10 Worst Songs of 2000

Over the next 10 weeks, we'll be featuring the worst songs from each year this decade. We'll be counting down the absolute worst songs to come out each year from 2000 to 2009, and we'll be bringing back all of the songs you wish you'd forgotten. These are the songs that people just can't seem to believe exist, because they're just so terrible. There is a good mixture of guilty pleasures (the awfully funny) and complete crapfests (the awful with no merit). At the end of the 10 weeks, you'll have an opportunity to vote on the worst song of the decade.

This week, starting off the decade, here are the 10 worst songs of 2000:

10. Macy Gray - I Try
Now honestly, this song isn't that bad. In fact, it's kind of good. But Macy Gray's voice is a thing of sheer terror. The fact that no one stopped her from releasing her own songs is a testament to the sad state of the music industry. Had someone else sung this song? It probably could have been a bigger hit. But the irony is that the song won a Grammy for Best Female Vocal Performance. Were the Grammy voters drunk the night they voted or was it a VFTW Victory?

9. Papa Roach - Last Resort
This terrible song with about wanting to kill yourself (that rocks about as hard as Britney Spears) somehow qualified as music back in 2000. The lyrics read like bad middle school poetry, the music is cliche, and sadly the band did not end up killing themselves like the lyrics promised. Papa Roach has apparently released many albums, yet no song has been as blatantly lame as this one.

8. Limp Bizkit - Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle)
Speaking of people who can't rock, give this song a listen and try to imagine that it was played on the radio as naseum. Fred Durst's voice is even whinier than I remember it being. The song encourages you to do a dance where you move in and move out, put your hands up and hands down... it's a pity they didn't take a cue from Papa Roach and encourage anyone who liked the song to add jumping off a bridge. Q Magzine lists the album that this song came from as one of the 50 worst albums of all time and Cracked.com calls it the worst album of all time.

7. Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out
Seriously. Who let the dogs out? Because whoever did it needs to own up. With brilliant lyrics like "Get back Scruffy, get back you flea infested mongrel" and "A doggie is nothing if he don't have a bone", it's a shame this song didn't win a Grammy. The song was used by just about every sports team at the time... something they probably all want to conveniently forget.

6. Sisqo - Thong Song
This song is about as ridiculous as Sisqo's hair. It became an anthem for guys who liked dumps like a truck (truck truck). Even funnier though is the song's cheesy million dollar video complete with helicopter shots and black light dancing.

5. Vitamin C - Graduation (Friends Forever)
Looking to cash in on the market of high school and middle school kids graduating that year, a girl with bright orange hair named Vitamin C released a song that defecated all over Pachelbel's Canon in D. Thankfully, shortly after it was released, this song graduated from the radio and hasn't been heard since.

4. NewSong - Christmas Shoes
This song fits into the "trying way too hard to mean something" realm. You know those songs that want to be bigger than they are? How about a song where a little boy needs to buy a pair of shoes before "momma meets Jesus tonight?" If you don't remember this gem, listen to it. It's even worse than you can imagine. It also inspired a terrible CBS made for TV movie. That should alone sell you on its atrocity.

3. Mystikal - Shake Ya Ass
Back around 2000, a producer named Pharrell was on a hot streak and seemed to produce every song on the radio. Of course, the songs were mostly crap, and this was his crowning achievement of feces. Mystikal basically just rambles over a minimal beat about how he wants to see a woman show him what she's working with. Mystikal pleaded guilty to sexual battery and extortion in 2003, and now he's serving some time in jail. Some extra years were probably added to his sentence for making America listen to this song.

2. Aaron Carter - Aaron's Party (Come Get It)
Hot on the heels of the success of the Backstreet Boys, record companies were looking to sign anything even remotely similar. So one company unwisely signed Backstreet Boy Nick Carter's little brother Aaron and released a rap (yes, rap) single. When the song starts out with a skinny white tween saying "Here's a little bit of old school for you", you know you're about to witness a travesty. It's hard to get worse than this.

1. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Eiffel 65 accomplishes what seemed imposible... releasing a song worse than "Aaron's Party". When "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" hit MTV with its silly blue alien video, it should have been been DOA. Rolling Stone said the song "blends Cher-esque vocoder vocals, trance-lite synth riffs, unabashed Eurodisco beats and a baby-babble chorus so infantile it makes the Teletubbies sound like Shakespeare." Just watch the video and you'll realize why nothing could ever top this as the worst song of 2000.

Did we miss a terrible song, or do you want to share your opinions? Leave us a comment. And check back for the worst songs of 2001 next week.
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