The Hunt for the Worst Musical Act: Blood on the Dancefloor

♬ ☢★Ikky-G ★☢ ♬ Nov 26, 2009

While on the surface, Blood on the Dancefloor seem fairly uncontroversial. They have typical scenester gender-bending members, music that sounds like it was made on Garageband and the typical rainbow coloured spew everywhere on their myspace and albums. In fact, the unassuming person might well dismiss them as yet another shitty scene band not even worth listening to. This attitude is only partially correct. While BOTDF are certainly unoriginal, and should not be listened to by any person wishing to maintain their sense of sanity and personal dignity, BOTDF are not just another Medic Droid or Dot Dot Curve. They are really, trully, soul-crushingly awful in every way, bringing them a cut above (below?) the pack.

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Dahvie Vanity will haunt me in my sleep in a scary way, and totally not in a sexual way.

And yes. That is a man.

No, really.

To add a little context to this band, their lead singer Dahvie Vanity was once accused of raping and sexually assaulting a 15 year old girl. Absolutepunk commenters rather succinctly added "Normally, they're only raping people's ears. Seems they've stepped their game up now." and "For Girl's Sake: Hope it's not true. For Music's Sake: Hope it's true." This just about summarises the situation - the members of this band are disgusting human beings who make disgusting music. While the charges do not appeared to have been pursued further, the content of the band's music suggests to me that even if this poor girl wasn't raped, Dahvie Vanity has absolutely unhealthy and unsatisfactory attitudes towards women and sex. The lead singer looks like a hag, and perhaps under the gunk, shitty hair (apparently he is a qualified hair dresser, idk?), and photoshop, he might be nice looking. But I really doubt it.

Starting at this top, this band is horribly, horribly cliched in every possible way. "Success is the best Revenge" is just one internet meme after another. When a band has a song called "IDGAF" which literally spells letters out, you know that that band is completely devoid of any kind of creativity or style.

Their music has a mediocre at best grasp of crunk, which is made entirely worse by the autotuned screams. Their beats seem to have very little to do with the lyrics, but are kind of incidental background music. I cant say the music background is terrible because its just too bland and garagebandy for me to hate properly. The lead singer's voice isn't even that terrible - again, its just too generic for me to hate properly. The music itself, aside from the standard shitty screams, is fairly unoffensive. It's the lyrics that are the killers.

I'm not suprised he was accused of raping someone - their lyrics in songs such as "success.." make casual references to rape. Their attitude towards sex is frankly demeaning and alarming given their popularity with young girls.

"Cyber cheat" glorifies online cheating.
"Ima Monster" - supersocker on your chests, let it drip down on your breasts
"IDGAF" - shut the fuck up bitch .... so suck my dick
"Scream for my Ice Cream" - Got a monster in my pants/ And if you ever get the chance/ Gunna cram it down your throat/ Watch you gasp for air & choke/ I'm gunna jizz all in your face/ I'm gunna wreck this fucking place/ Pull my hair smash the chair/ Break the bed & give me head
"I Heart Hello Kitty" - You scream "meat sucks!" / Well you're out of luck / I'll fuck you in the face / And leave a nice taste / A hot mess [ ....] H-E-L-L-O Blasting through your stereo K-I-T-T-Y Let me slip between your thighs H-E-L-L-O Coming straight from Tokyo K-I-T-T-Y My sex will leave you satisfied H-E-L-L-O Show me how you're such a hoe K-I-T-T-Y Bitch I'll make you fucking cry H-E-L-L-O Get down on your knees and blow K-I-T-T-Y You're such a fucking cutie pie!
"Bitches Get Stitches" - Talk your shit watch you get hit. Save the drama for your mama [...] Bitches get stitches they end up in ditches, So get the riches

Whats most disturbing is the combination of "cutsey" hello kitty imagery with sex and violence. Disturbing because the cutseyness is obviously aimed at young girls (as evidenced by all the scantily clad 13-14 yr olds photos on their myspace), but yet they're sexualising their youth in a really creepy, almost pedophilic, kind of way. The appeal of this band to young people, combined with the attitudes towards sex being pushed upon their fans makes this kind of music very dangerous.

Of course, no scene band is complete without songs about the haters, such as "Ima monster" and "Bitches Get Stitches" (You can talk your shit, you're only making me famous). O rly.

I hope everyone is sitting down before I make the following announcement:

Blood on the Dancefloor is worse than Brokencyde

I did not believe that this day would ever come, in which music sunk to worse lows than Brokencyde. Unfortunately, this journey to find the worst musical act of all time has brought me to this horrible, intolerable place in which I find myself taking back all the things I said about Brokencyde being the worst thing to ever happen to music. BOTDF's music itself is probably tolerable than Brokencyde, but their lyrics are incomparably worse. Worse in terms of being even more demeaning and offensive, but with the additional dimension of shittasticness in being cheesy, lame and poorly constructed (somehow, in some evil way, this is possible).

This band is the love child of Brokencyde and Jefree Star, taking the worst aspects of Brokencyde with their horrid interpretation of crunk combined with pig squeals, and marrying it with the meme-licious, cutseyness of Jefree Star, resulting in a monster far far worse than either. A monster that has come to life and will haunt the nightmares of all who dare to listen. What the fuck music, WHAT. THE. FUCK.