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    Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros defends “Home” after the internet declared it the worst song of all time. He also calls out The Lumineers & Of Monsters And Men for deliberately copying his folk-pop style.
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    Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros defends “Home” after the internet declared it the worst song of all time. He also calls out The Lumineers & Of Monsters And Men for deliberately copying his folk-pop style.


    Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros defends “Home” after the internet declared it the worst song of all time. He also calls out The Lumineers & Of Monsters And Men for deliberately copying his folk-pop style.



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    2. spooky_bread38 on

      Like someone else said…soul sister by train is probably the worst song ever made. Home is cheesy but definitely not even close to the worst song ever.

    4. CMHex on

      I don’t like that song but how anyone could think it’s worse than Imagine Dragon’s “Thunder” is far beyond me

    5. thenoctilucent on

      I know so many late 80s early 90s millennials who had this as their wedding song. 9/13 are now divorced.

    6. DrFranFine on

      I want this to blow up into drake-vs-kendrick-sized beef between all the bands I passively listened to in 2013 but then forgot about. We need some low stakes absurd beef now. It would heal me.

    8. Jewelstorybro on

      I like the song. Home isn’t even one of their best songs though. I remember seeing them at Cochella in like 2009 or something. His mic stand fell off the stage and hit a guy in the head. He took the shirt off of his back and bandaged the guy up right there. Seems alright to me.

    11. Phantomtollboothtix on

      I’m thrilled to report I have never heard this song before now.

      That said- doesn’t sound any worse than any other bland banjo 2010s crap.

    12. gossamermaid on

      It’s just one of those milquetoast millennial songs of the era that was made for like car commercials or placement in a cw show. It’s fine. Also it was having a moment on TikTok a year or two ago, so weird that it’s now magically the worst.

      I’m convinced 90% of the reason it’s having “worst song ever” discussion rn is bc of the video of a live performance that’s going around on Twitter, particularly the appearance of the female vocalist.

    13. chhhhhhhhhhh95 on

      My contender for worst song ever (at least while I’ve been alive) continues to be ‘Rude’ by Magic. I also like the contribution of Imagine Dragon’s ‘Thunder’ that someone else shared

    14. Spidey5292 on

      Home isn’t even close to the worst song of all time. We literally have shit like dance monkey, hey soul sister, me!, mystical magical, etc. it’s not even the worst song in that stomp clap genre.

    15. NeedsToShutUp on

      Any worst song competition that doesn’t even consider novelty records of the 50s and 60s is going to miss some really horrid music. Let’s put it this way, “Alvin and the Chipmunks” had really bad imitators put out entire albums.

      Let alone [Disco Duck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_WEMCUhF0E).

    16. commelejardin on

      The “stomp clap” genre might be among the worst overall but—and this might be my millennial speaking—I don’t think really any specific song from said genre is *that* offensive?

    18. Be_Grand_ on

      I know there’s no such thing as “worst song” because art is subjective and we all have our own tastes, but Fireflies by Owl City makes me want to run into oncoming traffic.

    21. LastLibrary9508 on

      I liked it in 2010 but then found his solo artist stuff and preferred it much more. I do think if the lumineers didn’t exist, it wouldn’t be as cringey to people feel it is now in 2025.

    22. 29kk on

      worst song of all time? when Rude by Magic! is right there?

      him taking shots at two arguably much more successful bands is weird though

    23. este_simbottom on

      Jade Castrinos is the only redeeming thing about this band. I saw this band perform at some bar in Santa Barbara right at/before the explosion of home, I had no idea who they were, I was just going out with a friend, and she sang [this version](https://youtu.be/ZG5pfGSp7no?si=fWx4t3Rs1RHvyeHo) of “Fiya Wata” and it was STUNNING. I had goosebumps from my head to my toes. I searched forever for the version of Fiya Wata/Fire Water like the version she sang that night.

      Her talent deserves more than being associated with “Home” and this band.

    24. ptgmxnuestgc on

      I remember watching them at a summer jimmy kimmel special taping in college. Loved that song and it helped shape a genre that’s very quintessentially Millennial.

    26. warblerblaine on

      we all know the real barometer of a good song is if it is good, better, or worse when Glee covered it

    27. Mmmcheesyrice on

      Worst song imo is Big Yellow Taxi (cover) by Counting Crows was so bad that it ended Adam Duritz Celebrity dating streak.
      But the Tiny Desk of Home is so cringe it makes it a close second

    28. aceofhearts12 on

      I said this in a different thread, but the song itself is fine. I just don’t like the way the original is sung. Any cover I’ve heard of it is infinitely better.

    29. uy48 on

      The internet pisses me off. There are SO many MUCH worse songs. “Home” is literally so inoffensive, and this is just internet backlash to its long-standing popularity around the time it came out. Predictable pendulum swing. Everything somehow overstays its welcome and people just bag on shit literally because they liked it at one time and now they’re over it. I used to work at Harris Teeter and 70% of what came on the radio was worse than “Home.”

    30. Specific_Carob4461 on

      I will say that younger Gen Z truly has no idea what they’re talking about when they try to joke about stomp clap music…these kids are lumping in Edward Sharpe with Imagine Dragons and calling them both stomp clap despite peaking at different times and sounding nothing alike 😭😭😭

    31. Scared_Tumbleweed166 on

      I fucking loved this song when it first came out. Guess you had to be there lol

    32. Bel_Canto on

      Full disclosure, I hate Home. I hate it intensely, virulently, thoroughly. I hate its hokiness, its sloppiness-as-aesthetic, its hippy dippy 60s pastiche. I hate its insufferable wholesomeness. I’ve always thought Edward Sharpe was insufferable, and this little video is reinforcing that for me. I hated Home the first time I heard it, and that hatred has grown in intensity each of the million times I’ve heard its horrible jangle, its swampy morass of crowd vocals, its treacly sentimentality. I hate this song deeply and profoundly.

      But like, worst song? Cmon, I know that’s not true. This is one of the most beloved songs of this millennia (much to my chagrin).

    33. fscottHitzgerald on

      Everyone is debating bad music in the comments and I am learning once again that half of my downloaded library would drive a sane person into despair. Anyway, do any former emo kids remember botdf? Because I thought long and hard and I think anything by them is probably in my contenders for the worst song of all time

    34. Character-Math-7825 on

      I’m just shocked to learn that Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros is not a dude named Edward Sharpe and some musicians

    35. moonfruitpie on

      This is such an insult to all the Ima Robot songs that he wrote that are also terrible. (In a very enjoyable way)

    38. l3tigre on

      i would give him a pass but yeah, maybe they ARE responsible for all the stomp stomp whistle bands .. most of which are arguably worse.

    39. tadu1261 on

      I love this song… all versions. By all artists who have covered it. It reminds me of a very very specific happy memory in my life with my best friend and I will always defend that tune haha

    42. http--lovecraft on

      Nah that’s closer by Halsey and the chainsmokers lol. Song makes me want to kms 

    43. Independent_Act_7370 on

      Home is a cringefest, but for my money, ‘Chasing Cars’ is the biggest atrocity ever committed to tape.

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