Five overplayed songs from the 1990s that continue to rot our brains

"I Don't Want to Wait" - Paula Cole

This part is meant as no offense to Cole as she seems like a decent person. Her songs might be a bit too fluffy and sunny at times, but at least she means what she writes. The issue is how the tunes are used. This song became the theme of the show Dawson's Creek which made the song a bit more trivial and less substantial than it should have been.

The song had good origins. Cole wrote the song about how her dying grandfather and his relationship with his wife and how Cole did not want to make the same mistakes of not taking each day for granted. There is a wholesomeness to the track that has value. The production and delivery of the tune lowers all of that, though. Maybe if someone had made a black metal version of the track it would highlight the good qualities.

"Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" - Bryan Adams

If you were around when this song first came out and screamed, "Eff Bryan Adams!" you would not be wrong. The song is stupidly catchy and you might hate it against your will. Don't fear, though. The song is rubbish and Adams likely knows it too. Maybe he threw out this tripe so it would be good enough for the horribleness that was the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but he should not have.

The issue is that the song overshadows anything else Adams did and forces him to do more of that terrible music. In the 1980s, Adams might not have been a ground-breaking artist, but he was at least making good rock songs. This tune is soft rock at its worst. Sadly, you might have danced to it at your middle school prom. If so, apologies are needed.