Bad Songs

While the fate of most bad movies at the box office is in coherence with their content, it is not so in the case of bad songs. This may be attributed to the fact that it is the tune of a song that catches the imagination of a listener instantly. Therefore a peppy track bogeyed down by unimaginative lyrics might have the fortune of a good run among the public. Hence, picking the worst songs of a year is as not as easy as picking bad movies because some people may actually like these songs and wouldn't mind humming them on and off.

Still, our ears find it difficult to recuperate from the pain afflicted by certain songs. The Malayalam movie industry threw quite a few ones conjured up with bizarre lyrics and unruly tunes upon us in the recent past. Here is the top 3 worst songs from Malayalam which gave me the creeps of late.

"അസല്‍ ആയി അസല്‍ ആയി നീ റോസാപൂവഴകെ
ഗസല്‍ ആയി ഗസല്‍ ആയി നീ മൂളുന്നോ അരികെ
life is a lonely lollipop
love life in love you single joy"

Well, this one has become an anthem of sorts among the fans of bad movies in Kerala these days. Despite the rhyme, the obviously unrelated words 'assal' and 'ghazal' only adds to the agony of this scream of a song. The lines in English is bound to leave us reminiscing a lot about the days we spent in grammar school. Arguably, the worst song of recent times.

ho barish ho

This song from the movie Red Chillies features a Grammy-aspirant girl band doubling up as a team of RJs in a radio network. Thankfully, people from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences never came across this song. Else, they would have had no qualms in awarding them with the iconic miniature gramophone for this number, for a different category though.

sha patha patha patha

It doesn't matter if the lines of a song starts with one language and then crosses over to several others while expressing an inner feeling if the progression itself is linear and natural. But this potpourri of a song has incongruous words from different languages sticking out with alarming ridicule.