It’s the holiday season, which means plenty of gatherings with mixed company. As usual, the only way to endure these will be alcohol and increasingly loud music, both of which provide excellent media for ruining said gatherings. While you can always spike the punch to ensure the party gradually devolves into a psychotropic nightmare, you could also play any of these subtly skewed pop songs, which kick just an element or two slightly out of place to make the listener gradually go insane. Here’s a great example of the form: Green Day’s “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,” with the vocals a half-step off key. It sounds awful!
Blink-182’s emo-pop anthem “I Miss You” features vocals slowly increasing in pitch and music gradually decreasing. It sounds awful, and gets worse so over time, like a karaoke act gradually losing confidence but deciding to ratchet the conviction up to compensate.
Here’s Nickelback with every instrument subtly out of tune. It sounds less like an absolute disaster and more like a live Nickelback concert.