The Dumbest Songs of 2025
A break from our regularly scheduled program to discuss the absolute worst of the year.
Five Songs is a weekly series for paid Hearing Things subscribers in which we each choose a new song we like and write about why we can’t stop listening to it. That's usually what it is, anyway.
This was a great year for music, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t plenty of absolute clunkers released too. We here at Hearing Things love to recommend the best new music each week, but we’re still critics at heart. In the eternal spirit of hating, here are the five dumbest songs of 2025.