I’m sorry but there are just some songs that were just plain stupid.  Some of them even were produced by some of my favorite groups, such as Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus.

Another one that strikes me as fitting this category was Bring Me Edelweiss (mixing Julie andrews via Abba with rap and house music)

Of course the music video was probably the reason why MTV first made the decision to get out of the music video business in the first place with midgets and purple cows and those Ricolah Players before Ricolah was invented.

In the late 80’s probably the best symbol for this was Vanilla Ice, infectious as hell but just stupid….

This was even recognized at the time and probably helped to create this genre.

Then there is the cattle call version of infectious and stupid.  Its one of those songs where you have to be herded (Zapp, move along little doggies) onto the dance floor.  No I’m not talking about the Chicken Dance, I’m talking about The Electric (aka The Electric Slide).