If you could make one singer never exist who would it be?

Michael Jackson. And I loved his music.

Wayne Newton

Manilow

Bryan

R1

You’re crazy. MJ has inspired the entire pop music industry.

Travis Scott

Joey Ramone.

Jessica Simpson

Glenn Close.

Ed Sheeran

Justin Timberlake

Whoever started the whisper-singing bullshit that's so popular these days.

Peggy Lee?

Paul McCartney. It's like an owl fucked a turtle.

Rihanna

Joey Ramone, really?

so many on my list

Adam Levine

Fred Durst

Kanye

Christina Haguliera

the singer of that dance monkey song

Mariah Carey. Literally beige.

Sara Bareilles. Just dreadful shouting the whole time

Anyone who lowered the bar, so J.Lo and Beyonce.

Mariah and that mind numbing Xmas album that never dies.

Taylor Swift

Bobby Goldsburo.

Michael Buble he worse that terrible because he is just so boring. He like wonder bread soaked in water.

Jeanette MacDonald

It's a tie - Janet J or the Beehive

Little Jimmy Osmond.

Miley

Anyone white.

It’s a tie - Sam Smith and Lily Allen.

Gwen Stefani

Meghan Trainor, obviously.

Don Henley

Selfishly I’d banish Elvis Costello because I hate the way he talk-sings.

Stevie Wonder

R34 Stay away from my Stevie records !

Madonna. Some good songs. Lowered the bar and championed vulgarity. Heralded the video star over substance, which damaged music industry and greatly influenced pop music artists and lowered public’s standards....many pop performers are hacks and this was not always the case..many one hit wonders, or flash in pan but they added to the conversation. She takes and drains. Her influence and legacy are destructive and bring down versus meaningful contribution.

Madonna. She started the whole, "you don't have to be talented, you just have to be over the top" bullshit that has resulted in countless, talentless singers becoming popular for reasons other than singing. I don't get it. Taylor Swift isn't far behind. I listen to her songs and just don't get her appeal at all and she doesn't even have a great voice. Adele is like this, too. She has a big voice, but my god she has no range and every single song sounds the same.

Madonna or something like her was inevitability.

[quote]If you could make one singer never exist who would it be?

[quote]The boring Adele.

I'll agree if we can also include the fat Adele, the whiny Adele, the drunk Adele, the trashy Adele and the much-too-thirsty Adele.

R5, you're crazy. He was a child rapist

R19, Beyonce has a better voice than a lot of pop stars. DLers hate her because she is black, I know you didn't mention Britney, who can't sing a note

Bruce Springsteen

Who the hell thinks Adele is the worst singer ever? She's not my favorite but there are tons of people more "boring" than her

Gary Glitter.

It's Britney, bitch. She ruined pop music.

R23 What is your native language? Just curious

John Legend. I don't understand how he has a career.

Dennis DeYoung

R47 He's very generic. Out of ALL the singers in the world, that's who you'd choose?

[quote] "DLers hate her because she is black"

Black or not: I don't hate her, but her warbling and yelling, and overly-manufactured image are off-putting. And her fans are even worse. That people treat her like the second coming of Christ is genuinely perplexing.

Lots: Britney, Justin, Janet, JLo, and others- can’t sing at all. Christina A. Celine Dion and the whole stream of Idol mimics with pipes lack artistry. Someone mentioned Peggy Lee. Look into her YouTube stuff and you will find a fair voice wrapped up in supreme artistry.

Katy Perry. She embodies trash, mediocrity, and insipidness, coated with confetti, cotton candy, and fondant.

Bryan Singer

Drake. Such a hateable, punchable face

Chris Brown

Lady Caca

Adele for sparking the fraus and those with mediocre taste in music to rush stream her overwrought shit yet again.

R46 English just type fast and don't proofread.

That disgusting dirt bag Kid Rock. Not that what he does is singing. Scream singing makes my ears ring and burn at the same time. And I see absolutely no talent about this guy anywhere. He's fugly, greasy and trash addled as as well.

I love you OP.

Any gangster rapper

Kanye

Eminem, the nazi trash enabler. Everyone I have encountered who listens to his grating, annoying voice has always seemed to be or turned out to be the worst kind of asshole.

Joey Ramone is unlistenable here. Ronnie's voice hasn't aged especially well but she retains her charm. Joey is lucky punk came along or he'd never find employment as a singer.

Oh I don't know, OP, after Aretha Franklin what was the fucking point of any of them anyway?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Anyone who uses auto tune.

R63 The way that critics creamed themselves over him in the early 2000s was so obnoxious. Though you would never guess from his victim complex that he was widely praised. It was also irksome how everyone was supposed to find his affection for his daughter adorable. As if adding a line about loving his sprog made up for a hundred other lyrics of violent, hate filled and insane ranting.

Another vote for madonna, without whose influence so many wouldn't have sought careers that put them on this list as well.

Another vote for Miley Cyrus.

Taylor Swift. Either her or Bieber... but leaning more towards her.

Just one? There’s so many useless pieces of shit. Firstly, Lizzo is truly the worst of the worst. Then I’d get rid of every single disgusting “rapper.” Then Celine Dion, John Mayer, Bieber, Aaron Carter, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore.

Jewel

Miss Shawn Mendes

Eminem

Barbara Streisand.

Frank SInatra. Thousands of karaoke and funerals would be lost without the execrable "My Way"

Janis Joplin to block

Shitney, Miley, Kid Rock, & Engelbert Humperdink,

Sinatra. Fuck his singing. Piece of shit human being.

Demi Lovato great voice, just too much drama.

Adele Adele Adele

R29 that's the one that gets raped all the time like Ro McG right?

Sorry, meant R79

Michael Bolton

Someone should have taken a time machine back to the original Jackson family cunt machine and sterilized her. Agreed.

Demi Lovato

Her (or "their," whichever you prefer) crazy non-binary "offended by everything in existence" personality drives me crazy.

Rod Stewart or Celine Dion.

So many shitty singers are so popular these days. Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande, Adam Levine, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, Drake.... Take one or all of them.

Mariah Carey

Lana Del Rey sounds like kermit the frog on Xanax, her songs are immature for her age, it's like they were written by a emo kid.

Lady Gaga, not going to lie, the little monsters are to blame.

Worst fandom

I’d get rid of every rapper ever, except Eminem. (I had a crush 20 years ago.)

Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli

None, since I don't listen to singers I don't like.

Ed Shitran

Courtney Love. She doesn't deserve to still be around. And if she had never been, maybe Kurt would be.

Elton John. Can't understand a word he sings and don't understand his popularity.

I can't pick just one, But here are some I loathe:

Madonna

Pat Benatar

Patti Smith

Courtney Love

Any country singer that mentions drinkin’ cheatin’ motorboatin’ etc. I can’t take that twangy shit.

Once and future fatty Adele. I hate her voice.

Big nose Babs, hearing her style of singing...screaming, and who wants to hear her attempt Christmas Carols...

Tiny Tim

Mariah Carey destroyed pop/R&B with her melissimatic caterwauling.

R92 Are you a fucking retard? Milli Vanilli lip synced so don't count as "singers". Dummy.

Eminem

I second R45

[Quote] Olivia Rodrigo

Preach!

Taylor Swift. Her narcissistic cult of personality is sickening.

Kid Rock. Awful person, awful singing, awful songs.

Shakira. She sounds like a goat.

^but her breasts are small & humble!

Harry Connick, Jr.

The truly revolting Taylor Swift.

r112 Prepare for 'Swifties' to come after you.

Grace Adler

Big tit

r108 Also punchable face.

There needs to be a separate post for singers who - rather than "never existed" - should have stopped after their initial success. Early Mariah had a nice voice and unique range. Then she worked it and worked it and what had been something unique became annoying. Madonna and Streisand fall into the same group.

Madonna should never have released the Like a Virgin album or True Blue? Or Like a Prayer?!

R118 Your mama should never have had all of her holes fucked by a million homeless black dudes. So?

R118 upspeaks.