Obviously this is subjective. Examples I have are Flip and Fill good imo

 

 

And bad imo

 

 

And Cyndi Lauper: Good

 

 

And bad

 

 

And Angel City Good

 

 

And Bad

 

 

Feel free to post your own examples....

Edited June 3, 20169 yr by TheSnake

Cheryl

Good: Call My Name

Bad: Pick almost any album track

Kylie Minogue - In My Arms is in my top 100 songs ever, Can't Get You Out Of My Head/Slow are two of my least faves :lol:

Blur - Caramel (best song over)

Blur - Crazybeat (among the worst songs ever)

Edited June 4, 20169 yr by Colm

Rihanna - Umbrella

Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money (awful) or Work (even worse)

Rihanna - Umbrella

Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money (awful) or Work (even worse)

 

 

She has far better songs than Umbrella in my opinion.

ikonek

 

 

to these~

 

If I'm solely thinking of follow-ups, big drops in quality that come to mind are:

 

Rihanna / We Found Love -> You Da One

The Saturdays / What About Us -> Gentleman

Girls Aloud / Something New -> Beautiful Cause You Love Me

Miley Cyrus / Wrecking Ball -> Adore You

Estelle / American Boy -> No Substitute Love

Spiller's Groovejet and Cry Baby - one of my favourite songs ever to one of the worst

 

Agree with Ethan's N-Trance example too, responsible for my absolute favourite song ever but on the whole they were pretty terrible.

I'll be listing these as Artist - Best song / Worst song

 

The Chainsmokers - Roses / #SELFIE

DJ Fresh - Gravity / Earthquake

Madonna - Vogue / Die Another Day

Rihanna - Russian Roulette / Work

Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home / Work

Beyoncé - Hymn For The Weekend / 7/11

DJ Snake - Lean On / Turn Down For What

Jason Derulo - Cheyenne / Wiggle

Little Mix - Black Magic / Cannonball

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes / The Laughing Gnome

Avicii - You Make Me / Waiting For Love

Usher - Don't Look Down / I Don't Mind

Chris Lorenzo - I Wanna Be / Rhymes

Tinie Tempah - Not Letting Go / We Don't Play No Games

Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself / Kill The Lights

 

I'll try to think of more.

Edited June 4, 20169 yr by Taylor Jago

Maroon 5 releasing "Daylight", "Love Somebody" and "Maps" in succession which ranged from a scale between utter dirge ("Daylight") to "I guess it was good the first couple hours but no" ("Maps"), and then releasing "Animals" which is probably one of the best songs in their discography

 

Jason DeRulo releasing "Marry Me" which was horrible vs. "Talk Dirty" which is his best song IMO

 

And don't get me started on Enrique Iglesias

It's already been said but Rihanna following up "We Found Love" with "You da One" was a huge drop in quality - especially when there was so much better material on that album to pick from.

 

Clean Bandit - "Rather Be" > "Extraordinary"

Major Lazer - "Lean On" > "Powerful" (back on a high with "Light It Up" though)

 

And then a recent opposite: Sia - "Cheap Thrills" > "Alive"

Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven / The Lazy Song

Beyonce - Partition / Hold Up

Rihanna - We Found Love / You Da One

Leona Lewis - Happy / I Got You

Girls Aloud - Biology / See the Day

Christina Aguilera - Dirrty / Your Body

Katy Perry - The Teenage Dream era / The PRISM era

Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U / Work Bitch

Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You / Heartbeat Song

 

I think there are a lot of artists who have had stellar songs yet have also had dire ones.

Best to Worst (In My Opinion)

 

Uniting Nations - Out of Touch/Ai No Corrida

Martin Solveig - Hello/+1

Diplo - C'Mon (Catch Em by Surprise)/Be Right There

Tiesto - C'Mon (catch Em by surprise)/ Red Lights

Muse - Starlight/Madness

Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall/Paradise

Nero - Guilt/Two Minds

Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend/This Is What you came For

David Guetta - Love Wont Let You Go/Shot You Down

Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone/Heartbeat Song

Modestep - Feel Good/Sunlight

Axwell - Feel The Vibe (When the Morning Comes)/ Something New

Naughty Boy - Lifted/ Running

Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You/ Feel The Vibe

Skrillex - Breakin A sweat/Where are U Now

Mallory Knox - Lighthouse/Beggars

Frank Turner - Recovery/The Way i Tend To Be

Iggy Azalea - Work/Fancy

Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons/ Boom Clap

Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again/When i Need You

Freemasons - Watchin/Heartbreak (Make Me A dancer)

Sunblock - First Time/ I'll Be ready

Deepest blue - Give It Away/Is it a sin

Beatfreakz - Somebody's Watchin Me/ Superfreak

Eric prydz - Call on me/ Proper education

Dannii Minogue - Perfection/I Begin To Wonder

Armand Van Helden - My My My/New York City Beat

Darren Hayes - Insatiable/Popular

clean bandit - Tears/rather Be

DJ Fresh - Tarantula/Say you Do

Louisa Johnson - tears/Forever Young

Rihanna - SOS/ Bitch better Have My Money

Edited June 4, 20169 yr by TheSnake

Please tell me you didn't just unfavourably compare 'I Begin To Wonder' to 'Perfection'?

Please tell me you didn't just unfavourably compare 'I Begin To Wonder' to 'Perfection'?

 

I just find the production a bit dull compared to Perfection :) It's not terrible though imo. I liked Who Do You love Now though.

Edited June 4, 20169 yr by TheSnake

Maroon 5 releasing "Daylight", "Love Somebody" and "Maps" in succession which ranged from a scale between utter dirge ("Daylight") to "I guess it was good the first couple hours but no" ("Maps"), and then releasing "Animals" which is probably one of the best songs in their discography

Major Lazer - "Lean On" > "Powerful" (back on a high with "Light It Up" though)

Completely agree with these!

 

For Usher it's more like "Caught Up" (or maybe "Climax") at his best, "DJ Got Us Fallin' in love at his worst. He was great for so many years that I can't imagine "Don't Look Down" being anywhere near his best! :lol:

How You Remind Me - good

Everything else Nickelback have ever recorded - appalling

Taylor Swift - Style/everything else she's ever written