Also, if they were referring to anything Mel Brooks, that's not even true. Because one year later, the multi-Tony award-winning musical The Producers hit Broadway.
"Fake plastic submarine" is what the band used to call girls who "tried too hard" to be sexy in high school. So yeah... It's an inside joke. Source: Seventeen year old DJ banter that I still remember. I'm not a fan of the band or anything. I just have an encyclopedic knowledge of stupid shit.
Elizabeth Mancini Can you substantiate that somehow? It’s been a huge mystery to fans of the song for over a decade now. Literally no one except for you seems to know this bit of info lol
@@constructionbootgazer I would have thought it was because submarines have a lot of "sea men" inside of them. Like that seems to be the literal joke to me at least.
@@PeterGriffin11 Yeah nothing is offensive about that song. This is just an example of how careful people were about being PC in 2017. (Todd not the band)
I think the singer was saying that there was a contradiction between people telling him he’s insignificant and yet telling him that his words matter. I think that he should’ve resolved that by saying that his words did, in fact, matter, and he should be responsible, but maybe if the same person told him both of these things, then he could correctly be calling out some hypocrisy.
Clearly you didn't live through the 90's early, mid, or late because there was nothing innocent about it lol. Actually considering political correctness and the lowering violent crime rate this is the innocent time compared to them 😂.
The moment I heard the Hannah Montana theme, I kinda had the same reaction when we found out the nerdy guy from the Buggles produced All The Things She Said.
WHAT? Wow I did not know that! I always assumed it was their manager Ivan shapovalov cause it was made in russian 3 years prior. Wow that’s so weird aha!
@@rejunshane Trevor horn wrote the English words for All the things she said. Original music was by Sergei Galoyan who was 17 at the time and lyrics were by Elena Kiper
According to Urban Dictionary, a submarine is anyone less than a marine, like a navy man, sailor, etc. Therefore, she impersonates low ranking military personnel.
I remember this song was HYPED back in the day and these guys were going to be the next big thing. I literally haven't heard of anything besides this song from them.
Rocked Technically you have. We all have. "1985" was written by the singer Mitch Allen who let Bowling for Soup use it to become the song we all know today.
If you've heard a pop song on the radio you've heard the lead vocalists writing. He's written a few dozen hit singles for pop artists over the past two decades.
I know I'm four years late to this party but these guys wrote 1985 that made Bowling for Soup famous and I find that fascinating. A two hit wonder if their original version made it big, but they gave the song to their friends to let them have a chance of getting big with it, and they did. Wild stuff.
AKA: how to nonsensically torpedo your career with one song. Because yea, the fact that they not only wrote and recorded this song, but made it a single, raises a lot of questions. It feels like someone was especially proud of that track, even with multiple people telling them not to do it.
Everything from him writing "1985" onwards is how I imagine all the non-Trevor Horn fans must've felt watching the end of the "Video Killed The Radio Star" episode.
It turns out you can make a Mel Brooks movie today. . . if you're as funny as Mel Brooks. Just like you can make George Carlin jokes today. . . if you're Christopher Titus.
Emilio-Vision Unlike The Producers or Blazing Saddles, Joho Rabbit very much a love it/hate it affair. That’s a large black mark on it when people can’t even agree on whether it’s an ignorant, tone deaf Nazi movie or just an innocently sweet Nazi movie.
When he whipped out the gasoline . . . "Welcome to One Hit Wonderland, Where bad singles burn! Todd in the Shadows will teach you all a lesson you won't learn!"
Mychael Darklighter Granted, Carlin would probably disagree with you 100% on what “political correctness” is. The type of political correctness he spoke of was created by the people in power, not by minorities.
@@taffysaur The term "political correctness" was literally invented by a conservative talk show host to complain about him not being allowed to use the n word. It's never been anything but a dog whistle.
AKA one of the most unique aircraft in US inventory. Still holds the record for fixed wing flight. Also it had quartz windshields sonicly fused to the titanium frame. A rare breed of a singular quality.
Todd is my all-time favorite content creator for many reasons, but one of them is the way he is able to consistently embrace the anonymous nature of his character to be able add to the 'lore' of his show whenever he wants. In this case, Todd has beef with Baltimore and I love it.
Is it me, or does the band look like a bunch of late 20-early 30 somethings trying to look like teenagers? I mean, something just looks off about these guys.
Yeah. I think it seemed kinda weird back then too. They blur the line of satire. Is this guy making fun of us or trying to hang out? Seemed like they were trying too hard. It’s like that “felt emo” character that guy plays. They probably should have come out with a few more hyper pop singles before they dropped something social.
SR-71 was a band I listened to a lot as an angsty preteen and then when I finally heard the more upbeat stuff they were known for it came as a suprise. Probably the reverse experience for most people but I still keep a few of their songs on my rotation. What can I say, dude can write a hook.
@Tom Ffrench He absolutely complains about political correctness. He got called out for saying the N word and went on a huge rant sefending himself saying it's okay because he has a black friend etc. etc. and did a full 180 on Allison and co.
According to Wikipedia, his only hit in America was "What Is Love". Although, yeah, he was huge in Germany. What Is Love was #11 in the U.S., but both it and his follow-up were number fucking two in Germany.
According to Wookieepedia, "It's a little known fact that that man had the most consectutive number 1 hit songs in history. He is most definitely not a 1 hit wonder."
This song had a personal impact on me. Pop punk was becoming pretty big at the time and bands like Sum 41 were getting tons of radio play (I listened to the local alternative radio station a lot back in the 90's). "Right Now" (the SR-71 song, not the Van Halen song (insert Crystal Pepsi joke)) started getting lots of play and it was a pretty good song for what it was. I think a lot of people thought that SR-71 would be just as big as the other bands. The problem is, we never heard any other songs from them on the radio. Back then, I was still proudly building my "impressive" CD collection, inspired by my older brother who had done so before me, so I was always excited to find new music that I liked and having a job and disposable income meant that I could afford to buy music instead of downloading it. Physical media had tangible value, and I loved going through the album booklets. Besides, back then I was still stuck on dial-up so downloading a single 160kbps mp3 (I refused to download 128kbps files because they sounded like garbage) often took an hour or more. Buying my music was the obvious choice. Except in this case, because I only knew the one song. This was quickly becoming a problem in this era of music, it was a pattern that I noticed happening over and over again: band breaks into the mainstream behind the strength of a single song, one that doesn't sound like any of the other songs on the album. People buy the album based on one radio hit only to never listen to the album they paid $14 for ever again. The song turns into a sour reminder of the wasted money and we all end up hating the song that caused us to buy it in the first place. SR-71 was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Never again would I buy an album without listening to the whole thing first. I started to download music, not keep it, but to simply audition the entire album before spending money on it. This prevented me from buying a lot of albums that I would have otherwise hated. In my opinion, I think this is probably the biggest reason why the music industry began railing against piracy so hard in the first place. It's not that most people were unwilling to pay for music, it's that people got sick of buying bad music just for one good song. People were tired of being duped by the radio hit that didn't sound anything like the band's other music. Record companies couldn't dump their trash onto customers who had the ability to actually listen to the album first before buying. I've never stopped buying music that I like, primarily because I strongly believe in supporting great artists, and I can't count how many albums I've bought multiple times: the original disc got scratched or lost, so I bought another one; I wanted it in digital format and didn't feel like ripping, so I bought another one; I got interested in collecting vinyl, so I bought another one; etc. I will buy music multiple times over if it's THAT good. But I refuse to pay for an entire album blind, unless it's an artist that I'm intimately familiar with (and even that sometimes burns me, as for whatever reason I really did not enjoy KMFDM's "Tohuvabohu" although I give them a pass, because I love the band). At the end of the day, I was young and stupid and this song really isn't that good. I never should have bought that album. But I'm kinda glad I did, since it taught me a valuable lesson.
Your story is a bit like mine. I got my first CD player at 16 and the first two I bought was AC/DC Who Made Who and Lost Boys soundtrack. I hated tapes so much lol. I but music still as well for much the same reasons but sites like RU-vid and such are a freaking godsend as is the ability to buy a single song rather than the whole CD. I actually ended up with 2 or CDs by Cold because I was looking for a song (that they didn't even do, it was a Tonic song lol). Luckily I ended up liking a lot of the music Cold did so it wasn't a complete waste. I was very confused when people started griping about paying a dollar for a song because CD singles were 5 for one, maybe two songs. I'm not an album listener (for the most part) so I live being able to look up songs I run across and listen to them a few times to decide on which I like enough to buy. I have 3 different playlists on RU-vid. The first one is where I dump any song that I hear a bit of and think I might like. And I'll go through it every other month or so The second is where I move the ones that make the cut from the first list then I'll go through them to move any to the list of ones I'm for sure going to buy Sorry for the novel but I haven't run into many people that purchase music similar to how I do :)
The Rock Critic I love how Todd says there wasn't a care in the world in 2000 but then I watch your first Green Day retrospective and you talk about Minority, because it seems like there may have been at least a few cares according to that song.
I had a falling-out with this genre too. But every time one of these songs comes on, I smile and remember it as good shit. This was one of my favorites.
11:37 The reason Mel Brooks's work has survived and thrived despite the incredibly controversial content is not just because the overall work is brilliant and hilarious, but because it _has a point._ The takeaway from the scene in _Blazing Saddles_ with the old woman is not, "Wow, SJWs are ruining pop culture, we should be able to say this shit _now,"_ it's, "Wow, this old bitch sure is backwards thinking." I really shouldn't have to explain this, but _you aren't supposed to be empathizing with the characters saying the N-word._
That's the entire point of the line. Mel's movies are brilliant satires that use humor to force you to think about serious subjects. They presented racism as it was, not sugarcoated or lessened, but as real and in your face as the people who face it every day see it. They never glorified the racists or their ideologies. They mocked them relentlessly and made you laugh AT them and at how dumb they were. That's why they worked so well. But nowadays, because the political climate is edging further and further into mindless outrage you can't make a movie like without people calling for boycotts. People will hear that they say the n-word in the movie and instead of asking about the context of it, they jump straight to "this movie is racist! Cancel the director and the actors!" Hell, on HBO Max when streaming Blazing Saddles, the movie now comes with a freaking disclaimer at the beginning about the movie and how it's a satire and not actually racist. Mel Brooks HIMSELF has said that political correctness will lead to the death of comedy and that Blazing Saddles would not be greenlit today because of it.
@@campbellsoup93Thank You. It felt like I’ve been seeing this non-stop, admittedly one can make an argument that they didn’t intend it for that and with their sound can make it look like it’s for the N-Word but still.
Our Mum she's so house proud, nothing ever slows her down and a mess is not allowed. Our House it has a crowd there's always something happening and its usually quite loud.
Is barbie girl by Aqua an option? I don't know if they're one hit wonders but that song was everywhere in the late 90's, and it would fit right into the series imo
The perspective given by Todd's final lines make the song a great piece of metafiction. He's singing about the band he's in right along with them. It's incredibly honest, seen that way.
Being from Baltimore, I always think these guys were bigger than they were because this band was EVERYWHERE for a good 10 years. They seemed to headline a show every two weeks. Same thing happened with Local H in the 90s; one minor hit nationally, but plugged by the local alt-rock station so incessantly that you almost believed they were a legit big deal.
I genuinely love this song. And I remember spending so many fun hours playing Splashdown on the X-Box with this song playing in the background. I will always think of the fun times I had playing that game when I hear this song.
That's exactly how I got into this song! I absolutely loved it from the first time I saw Splashdown from a Stuntman extra; *stupid* fun, too! The game's awesome, especially with the songs used.
I used to LOVE this song. I remember going to buy the CD at Media Play with a friend, and I put it on in the parking lot. By time we drove to the edge of the lot, she told me to turn around so she could go buy it too. Lol
Yeah it's super weird. Usually the rhyme is bad bc whatever made sense didn't quite rhyme, or they shoehorned a random word in that doesn't make sense bc it rhymes; but this doesn't rhyme and doesn't make any sense.
I found this song MUCH later (I wanna say around 2007-8 when I discovered that these bands weren't absolute garbage as I thought at the time...at age 8). I didn't ever realize anyone EVER cared about SR-71, but they were my JAM for like, a month...which is pretty much exactly what you'd expect. Super nostalgia for me here.
I actually like this band for a lot of years, as an angsty pleb music lover I still like them. I found them through RU-vid AMVs back in like 2007 like a lot of people. Also as a fan of Sly Cooper and angsty music, hearing their original name was Honor Among Thieves makes me really happy
I was a little young for this genre, but I ended up hardcore into it in my teens. It helped that it transitioned smoothlessly into the pop rock of the late 2000s.
As an australian. HOW DARE YOU. Eh, he did Midnight Oil, I get it. (That also goes back to a different band that could be a one hit wonder over there too. Split Enz.)
This song reminds me of those childhood Fridays going to Blockbuster to rent Splashdown for PS2 and the live-action Scooby Doo movie on VCR, then grabbing some Butterfinger BB's and a bottle of Surge on the way out the door. And that was basically the early 2000s in a single sentence. The only thing missing was a dude with frosted tips standing in front of the GAP next door, wearing 2 layers of pastel polo shirts, Oakleys, and a backwards visor while spouting some casual racism about Middle-Eastern people into his Nokia Brick and then making a gay joke and using the R-word in the same sentence when a girl takes affront to him calling her "babe".
I love Blockbuster as much as the next guy, and I used to be super nostalgic for the 2000's, but looking back, yeah it was kinda dogshit like every other decade
Also he was in the latest Alvin and the Chipmunks movie (Road Chip), so clearly still culturally relevant. :) Also I keep hearing and seeing him interviewed.
Yeah, he stays busy. A few years ago he did a one man show (I believe titled "This Filthy World") where he talked about his life, career and influences and it's just fantastic.
Used to play this song right after "Makes no difference" by Sum 41 before starting my workouts in high school. Those two songs just go TOO well together. Hard to believe its been 20 years since both were popular.
Contrary to the Baltimore bashing in the video, Baltimore was home to legends Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, and Frank Zappa. A bit more recent though it's not my taste, Cisquo. And more to my taste, one helluva metal and punk scene, great bands like War On Women.
@@lordmanshaft1112 But isn't that what one hit wonders are? I'm sure most of them have other good songs; those good songs just weren't popular. "Stacy's Mom" was the only Fountains of Wayne song that got into the Billboard Hot 100. It definitely belongs in this series.
A. Like with All in the Family, the racist(s) is/are meant to be buffoons. B. Mel Brooks wanted primarily to make you laugh. Douchebags want to make themselves laugh (or as close to that as possible, considering the all-consuming rage they tend to vent at every chance).
@@andrebrynkus2055 Actually in that case it was because that's what I immediately thought of as soon as I saw the band's name, and I commented it before actually watching >.> he does obviously mention it since that's like the only notable thing about them, but, otherwise outside the vid most people are unaware, I was until like 2015....
I remember this song. This was a part of my Napster mix cd in 2000 along with Absolutely (Story of a girl), Teenage Dirtbag and the theme songs to every show that was on Toonami at that time.
I legit love this song, also being a pop-punker in the early '00s (Blink 182 with New Found Glory was my first concert), but I am shocked and appalled to find out about the rest of their "career". That is fascinating, and the reason this video series is so great. Thank you.
@@BeeKay5150 yep, 2001 for sure. My second concert later that same year was New Found Glory headlining on their own. At that show, the crowd bounced so hard during their set that that we literally began to break the venue's floor. Everyone was made to leave, and then after a while those that stuck around, including me, got to see the end of the show with NFG playing in the downstairs bar/lounge area. It was a pretty insane night.
Thank you, Todd. I didn't really care for "Right Now" when it came out, forgot about it entirely, and now I honestly love it. For some reason, it sounds way better to my 32 year old ears than to my 16 year old ears.
@@gwitch I am definitely weird. And I’m not single, but I’m definitely curious about why you seem to think being single is something to insult someone over.
