Kim Kardashian, Jam (Turn It Up) → The Flops

In the 13^th edition of The Flops (2026), we examine the questionable “Jam (Turn It Up),” recorded by Kim Kardashian. 

Like damn, bruh! Sis! C’mon! You thought it was bound to hit, but instead it was total shit – nothing but dookie 💩!  The songs that appear in The Flops didn’t hit, underperformed, or underwhelmed.  Flops are even more detrimental when the artist is considered a superstar and rarely misses the mark. Flops can even be successful, even if the quality sucked. Or maybe they’re not-so-bad, but they bombed on the charts.  This column highlights abject failure. In the 13^th edition of The Flops (2026), we examine the questionable “Jam (Turn It Up),” recorded by Kim Kardashian.

Those words, from a 2014 HuffPost article by Stephanie Marcus, came from the ‘horse’s mouth,’ Kim Kardashian.  No, Kim isn’t a horse – it’s just an idiom. But Kardashian at least understood, after the fact, that she should NOT have recorded “Jam (Turn It Up).” As she said herself, I don’t have a good voice.  Facts, facts, facts. One positive about “Jam (Turn It Up)”: part of the money was donated to charity. Still, the song is abysmal.  Tricky Stewart and The-Dream composed it… not one of their finer efforts.  The-Dream also produced it.

So, why is “Jam (Turn It Up)” an epic failure? It begins (and ends) with Kim Kardashian, PERIODT. She has mad personality outside of music; she shows none here 😳.  Flat as a pancake.  As she sings, she sounds tight, uncomfortable, and incredibly boring.  Even if you’re a bad singer, and she is, selling the song might earn some points.  She doesn’t sell it, and there’s not much to sell – C’mon Tricky and The-Dream!  Repetitive lyrics like “P-party music, party music” and “Turn me up, turn me up (Come on, come on)” don’t move the needle. The backdrop can’t atone for vocal or lyrical mediocrity either.  Beyond the intro, refrain, and later, in the chorus where “They playin’ my jam” 🙄, the verses don’t offer much substance. “My whole clique’s on the floor, the floor / We’re gonna party, then party some more, some more,” she brags in the first verse and adds, “Rosé up in the air / Feelin’ good, feelin’ great, just got paid.” Okay… and who gives a shit? Better yet, who gives a flying fizzuck? Especially from someone as affluent as Kim? The second verse is even grosser: “Maybach in the front, front / Pick out any boy that I want, want / DJ, here I am / Fe-feelin’ good, feelin’ great, just got paid.” Oh, for the love of God 😳! That 💩 reeks 🤢! Of course, there’s more in an uninspired bridge:

“Girls in the building, fellas in the club

Boys spendin’ money, the girls lookin’ good

I’m on the floor, livin’ my life

Feelin’ so good, feelin’ so right.”

“Jam (Turn It Up)” is the definition of an abject failure. Throw it in the trash because it f🤬🤬king sucks. Flop, flop, flopity, FLOPPPPP!

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Kim Kardashian → “Jam (Turn It Up)” → Kim Kardashian → 2011

Kim Kardashian, Jam (Turn It Up): The Flops No. 13 (2026) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Kim Kardashian; Will Oliveira from Pexels; Gordon Johnson, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]

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