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Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1980

  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...