Back on September 1, I proclaimed LFO’s “Summer Girls” to be “the worst hit song ever recorded.” This prompted a friend to ask “Creed v. LFO-which is worse?” I wasn’t really familiar with the LFO’s work beyond “Summer Girls.” It turns out, though, that there are LFO non-hits that are substantially worse than their big hit. Consider, for example, “Girl on TV”:
I’m not saying that forcing detainees to listen to that song would be a war crime, but the ACLU would probably see it that way. And the less said about this one the better. On the other hand, even though “West Side Story” is arguably the weakest musically, it’s lyrics are a kind of mind-blowing postmodernist pastiche triumph. Consider the intertextual implications of “It reminds me of Romeo and Juliet / Like we’re living on a movie set” in the context of a song with that title. Slavoy Zizek should do some work with this subject.
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