10 Popular Songs That Are Actually Terrible

10. Owl City - Firelies

Somehow a staple of everyone's favourite "emo" phase despite having no similarities or connections to emo music or lifestyle, 'Fireflies' was the debut single from one-man electronica project Owl City. The result of discovering a loop pedal, the song draws you in with its bleep-bloop riff and singer Adam Young's baby skin-soft voice almost reaching ASMR levels of calm.

Lyrically though, the song just doesn't know what it wants to do with itself. Seemingly jumping at random from talking about bugs to insomnia and then to summer, it's like asking David Attenbrough to do a documentary after you've replaced the water in coffee with Red Bull. The music video's the same too, whilst other songs of this ilk do tend to have videos that air on the side of peculiar (hi Gorillaz!), 'Fireflies' is scattered with retro toys, figures and electronics that would make most modern hipsters blush.

Still, it occupied the number one spot of the Billboard 100 for two weeks and charted at the top in nine countries, and all came from his parents' basement so there's still hope for you yet. 'Fireflies' helped launch Young's music career which has seen him create music for films such as The Smurfs 2, The Croods and Wreck-It Ralph. Success is weird.