This is gonna be a big challenge for me. So far in my journey into going back to blogging, I've been talking about pop music from around 2000s to the 2020s which for the most part are my wheel house. I have also talked about how most of the songs I put on my best and worst lists didn't exactly align with the critical consesus and that's fine by me. But we are in a tricky territory because not only I'm going back to a time where my parents were in college or even working, but also facing a challenge talking about an infamous year. Let's face it, a lot of people have pointed out how 1980 was such a bad year for the pop chart. The reason was very obvious and could be summed up in three words "Disco demolition night". After the oversaturation of disco in 1979 (no joke a lot of artists were doing disco records even the whitebread one), there's a mass campaign of "Disco Sucks" by a radio DJ and it turned into riot and the burning of disco records...
Talking about nostalgia is very weird for me. Not only I have some of my fondness memories watching or hearing something that could lit up an emotional response, but also there's something that's achingly empty about it. That's why when ensembling this worst list is kinda difficult but also kinda not. Like I mentioned previously I was introduced of the concept of online criticism at the tail end of this year. And also I was in the hype cycle of Just Dance 2014 and all the rumored leaks that was happening. Till this day I still can't believe they add Just A Gigolo by Louis Prima on there, but in my defense the Rob Schneider movie with a gigolo in the title was released around this time. Because of that as you can see on my best list I have some songs that was tied to the Just Dance series where I get my pop music fix. Then I found less lame way to listen to pop music with Billboard chart, but that stretch of time between 2012-2014 was the prime time for my nostalgia wind...