12 Most Hated Rock Albums Of All Time
3. Raditude - Weezer
Weezer have had one of the most uneven career trajectories of any pop punk act. The band have created some of the most heartfelt tunes of the entire genre on albums like Pinkerton and their blue-colored debut, but as they kept trucking through the 2000s, they kept tweaking parts of their sound that were best left untouched.
Though many fans went along for the ride, it's pretty hard to defend the band's 2009 album Raditude in retrospect. Rather than going back to their roots, this album marked a change in Weezer's sound which involved professional songwriters coming into the picture to help Rivers Cuomo write the material. What fans ended up with was some of the most generic millennial pop of the decade, with songs that made Weezer look like a bunch of dads trying to fit in with what's hip these days. Weezer has every right to experiment with their sound, but once you find Lil Wayne rapping on one of your tracks, you know something went drastically wrong.
While most Weezer records still felt like they had heart, this is the one record that feels like it was made solely to market to a pop audience. Weezer have since recovered from such sins, but Raditude is still seen the Voldemort of their catalog.