Ladies and gentlemen, the worst song of 2012 and maybe the decade....

It's not like The Offspring were ever a good band or that we should expect much from these dorks, but man, is their new single "Cruising California (Bumpin' In My Trunk)" somethin' else. This makes "Come Out And Play" sound like The Feeding Of The 5000 in comparison, or as The AV Club put it, it makes "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" sound like My War. Side B even! It's just that awful. The band's fan-boys are trying to defend the track as a "joke" single, but as it should be noted, there's little evidence of satire or irony at work here, so even if this was meant to be little more than a novelty laugh at the expense of modern-day pop music, it fails at whatever broad parody it was ostensibly trying to achieve. This is the Meet The Spartans of the music world. Sit through this if you dare/can:

Comments

[boil]

Commercial rock sucks? Thnaks for the news.

[AntiBoredomTeam]

If you imagine that the lyrics are in Japanese, it's 10% better.

[Trod]

Worst song? Have you forgotten Loving You by Minnie Riperton? Ow, my ears!

[Paul Haney]

Don't diss Minnie, you jerk! Also, wrong era.

[will rodgers]

these clowns totally suck.
now in 2012, and always.

[Tim from Radio Clash]

Needs to have moar panpipes. Then it would rock. Or kazoos. Sadly with a bad panpipe synth and lack of kazoos, accordions, decent lyrics, and terrible autotuned chorus means it fails, and thus probably will be a massive hit.

[Trod]

@Paul Haney
Minnie's suckiness supersedes all eras.

@AnitBoredomTeam
+1

[Jonathan Steinke]

Trod, the adults are talking.

And you can scratch out another tick on the detractor list for this abomination. Not that I ever gave the Offspooge a second look either, but FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK...

[Kieran Faulkner]

so it's official then
the internet has no sense of humour

[Mr. Pants]

I fuckin LOVE rock n roll, dude!!

[danomatika]

Now now, they are just diversifying and reaching out to new audiences. Make perfect music sense right? We'll all be banging to tha new OSpring At tha clubb.

[Koshchei The Deathless]

Sounds like they're trying to take off the Black Eyed Peas - they manage to sound as bad as My Humps. Or worse? Is it possible to be worse than My Humps?

[Issac Maez]

I find this funny to read, especially because when growing up, i really considered The Offspring to be the coolest thing ever. I thought that they represent the highest peack in human behaviour, and if that's how americans do it, then so should I. (i'm of different nationality).
Obviously, I grew up and started to realize things, but still there was a period when i considered "pretty fly for a white guy" to be...you know..pretty fly :)

[Clarence Ewing]

Nope..."Friday" is still worse, by a mile and a half.

[Will A.]

Yep. Stinky. But it must be said that "Come Out And Play" was a perfect, 100% awesomesauce track. Let's not take that away from the ladz.

[Suzi from California]

The worst song is "SOME NIGHTS" by FUN. Piece of trash, irritating, HORRIBLE disgrace to actual musicians everywhere.

[Wackajack]

You don't know offspring if you think this is a genuine song and not a rip off of modern day POP ROCKERS. Listen to how he goes UH HUH and OHHH YEAH. Hasn't done that since Pretty Fly For A White Guy. You gonna tell me that was a serious song as well?

[Mark]

Worst Songs of 2012 as of October:

David Lynch "Crazy Clown Time"
Van Halen "Tattoo"
Nicki Minaj "Bees In A Trap"
Carly Rae Jespen "Call Me Maybe"
PSY "Gangnam Style"
Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Muse "Survival"
Matchbox 20 "She's So Mean"
Macklemore & Ryan "Thrift Shop"
Green Day "Oh Love"