10 Popular Songs That Are Actually Terrible

You cannot have a song called 'Sex On Fire' in this day and age. You just can't do it. Everyone's gonna think you have the clap. In fact, that's what I always thought, until this research in which I've found out that it was actually written about lead singer Caleb Followill's then-girlfriend. Which I feel is somehow worse considering the song is called 'Sex On Fire'.

The stop-start nature of the verses would have likely doomed the song through jagged melody were it not for the musicianship of the quartet and Caleb's vocal talents, doing his best Chris Cornell impersonation. The music video didn't help, a mish-mash of assorted furniture and edgy randomness. There's a mattress and a bath and someone's eating chicken and I don't know. Art.

Perhaps the worst part about the song though is that it can easily be labelled as "sellout" or a "cash-grab". The song's album, Only by the Night, was the band's fourth album and had a much more commercial alt rock vibe to it, as opposed to the band's previous efforts which all featured a more southern/garage rock makeup. In fact, FIFA veterans would've heard 'Red Morning Light' from their debut Youth & Young Manhood in the opening to FIFA 2004.