Disclaimer: the views expressed beneath are solely my very own. Be happy to learn on and disagree with any/all of my decisions, or add just a few of your personal to the listing, however right here they’re: probably the most annoying songs in the entire world, in no specific order.

1 Celine Dion: ‘My Coronary heart Will Go On’

I cherished this music once I first noticed Titanic. With its undulating melody and not-so-subtle key modifications, it pressed all the correct emotional buttons and suited the movie’s epic sweep. Take it out of context, although, and also you’re left with fromage, which, 25 years after the movie’s launch, hasn’t essentially ripened favourably with age.

2. Giacomo Puccini: ‘Nessun Dorma’ from Turandot

Sure it’s a fantastic tune. However ever since 1990, when Luciano Pavarotti made it synonymous with the World Cup, and the world went bananas for it, ‘Nessun Dorma’ has been completed to demise. What’s extra, it’s typically completed as a standalone music, with no hints as to what the heck it’s really about. I, for one, didn’t even realise it was from Puccini’s Turandot, till I first heard the opera and thought ‘what on earth is “Nessun Dorma” doing there?’ Maybe, that’s simply in addition to the premise of the opera is barely ridiculous, revolving round a princess who submits her suitors to a few riddles, threatening to have all of them executed in the event that they fail. Sung by the hero Calaf within the closing act, ‘Nessun Dorma’ is a boastful declaration that he’ll win Turandot in marriage. Which is, frankly, unbecoming.

3. Léo Delibes: Flower duet from Lakmé

Poor outdated Delibes might by no means have foreseen that the superbly serene Flower Duet from Lakmé, his 1883 opera, would in the future be commandeered by British Airways. It’s not his fault that this attractive music would in the future be diminished to on-hold music. Then once more, given how not often the precise opera will get carried out these days, a minimum of it’s some form of publicity, even when it’s laborious to like a music while you’ve heard it 327 occasions in a row.

4. Andrew Lloyd Webber: ‘Don’t Cry for me Argentina’ from Evita

Written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice whereas they had been researching the lifetime of Argentinian chief Eva Perón, ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ is among the best-known musical tearjerkers, significantly in Madonna’s model of it (pictured). Sadly, it’s additionally one of the crucial irritating: as a lot for the artificiality of the way in which it presents Argentinian tradition as for its sheer schmaltz.

Sure the music is wonderful, however, let’s simply take a look at the lyrics within the chilly gentle of day: ‘Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah / For the Lord God all-powerful reigneth / Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah / For the Lord God all-powerful reigneth / Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah.’ Personally, I feel it might do with just a few extra ‘Hallelujahs’.

6. Child Shark

I realise that is an outlier by way of style however I’m mentioning it anyway as a result of, my goodness, how I hate this music. It’s laborious to know how it’s got to over 13 billion views on YouTube provided that (in my humble opinion) it has no redeeming options. Not melody, lyrics, not even hand gestures. Nothing.

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7. Carl Maria von Weber: ‘Wir winden dir den Jungfernkranz’ from Der Freischütz

This contribution comes from Der Freischütz, Weber’s darkish story of a younger forester who finds himself, unknowingly, in league with the Satan as he makes an attempt to win a taking pictures contesting order to earn his girlfriend’s hand in marriage. Sung by a gaggle of bridesmaids, because the forester prepares to make use of his seventh and closing bullet, this music is only some minutes lengthy however is so hyper-repetitive and 4 sq. that it appears to go on ceaselessly.

8. Richard Strauss: Closing scene from Salome

This second in Strauss’s decadent 1905 opera sees the eponymous Salome singing, for twenty minutes, to the severed, bloodied head of John the Baptist. I’m undecided if ‘annoying’ is sort of the phrase, however it’s definitely a robust musical flavour that may not be to everybody’s style, not least as a result of it culminates in Salome passionately kissing the prophet’s useless lips, earlier than being crushed by Herod’s troopers.