The Top 10 Most Infuriating Songs of 2007

By NADIA PFLAUM

Here, in no real order, are the ten songs of this year that make me want to cut off my face:

Gym Class Heroes, “Cupid’s Chokehold.” Their “sample” of Supertramp was actually just wholesale theft of a good chorus, plus rewritten lyrics so repugnant that I bet they actually penned them themselves.

J. Holiday, “Bed.” It’s not because of the chorus that sounds like he’s crying. It’s these lines, spoken to a girl: My angel, this is wonderful/Thanks for lettin’ me bless ya/ Come down, fly, right, drift back into heaven. The only reason a dude should ever talk like that in bed is if he digs being slapped.

Fergie, “Big Girls.” At least in this one she’s not just stealing the best part of a JJ Fad song. Here she sings, I need to be with myself and center, clarity, peace, serenity, which are sentiments she probably ripped off a poster of a waterfall hanging in a dentist’s waiting room.

Akon, “Sorry, Blame it on Me.” This song is supposed to be an apology for Akon’s famous dry-humping-of-an-underage-girl-onstage incident. But the song lyrics basically say that he’s not sorry and that it was the club’s fault for letting the girl in. Since when is pop music for weasely non-apologies? That’s what politics are for.

6. Timbaland and Nelly Furtado, , “Give it to Me.” Best misheard lyrics ever: “I’m Miss International, got bank up to my taco.” Unfortunately, according to the lyrics on hiphopdx.com, she’s really singing, Amnesty International got Bankok to Mantauk on lock. What? Anyway, the real reason this song is on this list is because the radio WORE IT OUT.