Top 10 Artists That Hate Their Own Songs
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These legendary songwriters are not shy of critiquing their own work! Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’ll be taking a look at our picks for the top 10 Artists that Hate Their Own Songs! For this list, we cover songwriters and lyricists like Robert Plant, Madonna, Bob Geldof, Michael Stipe, Pete Townshend, Mandy Moore, Frank Sinatra, Kurt Cobain and the Beastie Boys, and explain why they aren’t as big of fans of their music as you may think!
00:37 #10: Frank Sinatra
01:34 #9: Mandy Moore
02:23 #8: Bob Geldof
03:27 #7: Pete Townshend
04:23 #6: Madonna
05:22 #5: Robert Plant
06:20 #4: Michael Stipe
07:12 #3, #2 & #1: ???
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What!? Led Zeppelin hated Stairway to Heaven?! And you all so missed Rod Stewart Da Ya Think I'm Sexy. I understand why he hates that song
i don't care, fight for your right to party is a good song parody or not.
The real reason Cobain offed himself?! 😮
So happy to hear Pete Townsend doesnt like Pinball Wizard. That song is awful, I'm not sure why people enjoy it so much. I'll be honest though… the Who have quite a few stinkers.
I love Creep, I don't care if the band doesn't.
Mad Dona hates like a virgin because she's never been one.
Smells Like Teen Spirit is not even Nirvana's best song. Just listen to their other songs if you don't believe me
i heard the bee gees hates stayin alive
damn Frank don't hold back.
Courtney Love hated the riff from her biggest hit Celebrity Skin.
Where's Brenden Urie – I Write Sins, Not Tragedies?
Good topic, interested me so I clicked. You start off with Frank Sinatra, alright! And right after that: WHO? A Mandy Moore? What?? Who ist that? Is she even KNOWN outside the US? She doesn't like her first 2 albums now – who cares??
That almost ruined the list for me. All the other artists are well known worldwide. Who really cares about a Mandy?! Is she even still in the business? So she was 15? Thats not even an age to be legally responsible for her own doings. So obviously her approach wasn't very artistical.
Really, no one wants to know about Mandy, cause no one cares!
Lorde doesn't like "Royals" anymore http://news.iheart.com/photos/pop-pics/15-artists-who-hated-their-own-457990/#/4/25330966
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido
I always thought that "Fight for Your Right" sounded fake. But then again most songs are.
more like just because you sang it, doesn't mean you wrote it.
i love how this video went from Frank Sinatra to Mandy Moore…
BRENDON URIE
5:40 thank you. now I understand that Wayne's World Joke XD
shiny happy people is the dumbest Shit
I know George Michael didn't like Careless Whisper very much and never understood why anyone else liked it.
So you make songs, writing them or just singing them, with the hopes you have a hit, then you have the gall to bitch and complain because it becomes a huge hit? I fail to comprehend this. Does not compute….does not compute….Brain explodes
The artists have their reasons for hating these songs. It doesn't mean they're bad. I dig many of them. It does irritate me when someone says they love Nirvana and knows nothing before Nevermind.
They hate it because they heard it in their heads way earlier before we did. It didn't end up like they want to but they have to sing it again and again.
A lot of young artists put out crap songs that sell well and then when they get older (and often become parents themselves), they regret putting out such lame material that they oppose their own children getting. Ah, hypocrisy, how you are everywhere and obvious!
George Michael hated Careless Whisper. He said something like that knowing the fact that that song meant so much to so many people, when it meant nothing to him, made him lose his faith in music.
The fact that you guys didn't have He stopped loving her today by George Jones is upsetting. It may have saved his career but that man utterly despised that song
Simple Minds absolutely hated their song: "Don't You (Forget About Me)".
Radio Head hated "Creep" because PRINCE played it better.
My vote for worst song ever: Michael Bolton – "When I'm Back On My Feet Again".
Radiohead hated "Creep" so much that they just had to rip it off from the Hollies?
Bobby McFerrin hates that "Don't Worry Be Happy" is what he's most known for.
re: mandy moore- how can she hate them! they made her and have been 100x more successful than the other albums she made so they cant be that bad. i loved them and most girls my age at the time did… and that film clip is so cute haha