World’s Worst Songs: “Endless Love” by Diana Ross & Lionel Richie

Somebody smarter than I am will have to figure out just what caused pop music to go all wimpy in 1980 and 1981. After the heyday of disco but before the rise of MTV, during this brief period the pop charts were clogged with ballads: slow, syrupy, sappy, string-driven sludge. The exemplar of this period

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