critics about Honey song
The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the song frequently appears on "
worst songs of all-time" lists, and in April 2006, Todd Leopold of CNN named it the
"Worst Song of All Time."[1] Critics point out that the singer was actually quite mean to his Honey, pointing to lyrics including: she was "kinda dumb and kinda smart"; she "Came runnin' in all excited, Slipped and almost hurt herself, And I laughed till I cried."; his obliviousness to her emotional state "...caught her crying needlessly"; and culminating in her possible suicide "One day while I was not at home, While she was there and all alone, The angels came". Nonetheless, it remains heavily played on the radio and has been covered many times. In the 1970s when British radio DJ Tony Blackburn was going through his divorce with his wife Tessa Wyatt, he regularly played "Honey" and would comment live on air about how much he missed his wife.[2] This was parodied in the "mockumentary" Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era.