Reacting to Todd In The Shadows WORST Hit Songs of 2023 List 

Todd particularly dislikes bland, uninteresting songs. Because to him, even the outrageously terrible and offensive have some content value. Hence why Last Night (and I'm Blue last year) have been his personal worst songs.

the funny thing about todd is that, the more mellow he is the more vicious he becomes, he's less brutal when he's screaming

Brad going through the stages of grief over "Vampire" is an excellent way to bring in the new year

the lyric Todd chose for the bumper is "this is why I don't leave the house", he's re-contextualizing it to be about bad pop songs.

In defense of putting "This Is Why" as the transition music, usually it's never on the list to begin with. ABCDEFU on last year's list was the only time that it's happened. Save Your Tears was the transition music for 2021's worst, and that's a pretty good song.

The bumper music is not there as a list placement. It is a song from the year with lyrics that relate to being bad or blowing the year off or whatever. One year, he put the worst list bumper music on the best list.

One thing I like about Todd’s lists is that I never know what to expect

What I love about Todd is that his "best" and "worst" lists are basically just his "favorite" and "least favorite". He has particular opinions and only speaks for himself. If you follow his vids or the Song vs Song podcast, you can accurately track and predict his opinions on the year-end lists.

The Vampire bit was so fucking good lmfao, I like to believe Brad was experiencing the Frank Reynolds "I Get It" moment in real time after 2+ years of tearing apart goofy pop punk bands in front of their devoted fans. Great thing about subbing to both these guys is that I get to enjoy Todd's lists twice. Can't wait for the best of 2023.

I know most people who are here watch Todd already, but he liked "This Is Why". He tends to pick good songs for the transition music.

Jason Aldean, creator of "Try That in a Small Town", is from Macon Georgia. That's literally the fourth largest city in the state. 150k people.

todd has said that the bumper music is just to set the tone, not bc he hates it (besides abcdefu)

fun fact: my spouse actually texted todd about that morgan wallen song before he'd heard it. and then they mutually hated it together for the rest of the year.

Todds cutaways are incredible. The Futurama clip and the Colbert picture alone were hilarious. Thats an aspect of making video essays that he has always nailed.

Probably one reason why Todd mellowed out was because of his Worst of 2013 video, where he dialed up the rage and bitterness to a very uncomfortable degree. Todd blames that video’s tone on the fact that he had lost his grandmother that year and he was still struggling to cope with it. Later on Todd acknowledged that the video’s incredibly depressing negativity made it hard to watch and he toned it down significantly for the following year’s worst list.

I rarely agree with Todd or even care much for his opinions, but a major thing I agree with him on is that mediocrity is worse than just straight up songs being bad. Mediocrity is the killer of inspiration and passion most of the time.

See i think one of the biggest differences between how you and todd view lists like this is that when you say "worst songs" you really mean the worst, but todd realizes even those songs have some ironic comedic value, theyre at least interesting in how bad they are, the songs todd truly hates and puts on these lists are often the most boring and unoriginal songs of the year

Todd finding a way to get a dig at “My Body” even though it was a deep cut from a flop album is why he the 🐐no 🧢

Todd in the Shadows near single-handedly expanded my taste in music, despite only reviewing pop music he paved the way for me to watch Fantano, William Maranci's mashups, and you so I'm so glad you like his videos too

4:18 Brad says he's a Todd fan, yet he doesn't acknowledge that Todd always uses one unrelated song for the Worst list transitions versus a hit mashup for the best list. I'd only deserve the nerd emoji if I remembered which Worst list transition song he put on a Best list for getting into it while he was editing the Worst list that year.

Brad going into the 5 stages of grief over Vampire is funny

Thing is, I watch Todd's reviews more for Todd than the music he's reviewing. I love listening to whatever insightful/petty/outrageous thing he has to say

Brad not understanding bumper music makes me cry

Todd's bumper music in the worst list isn't supposed to be like 'this is unofficially on this list', he's said that several times. It's meant to be a palate cleanser. For a while he was doing mashups specifically for that reason.

Pat Finnarty really getting attention after his Try That In A Small Town review. I do adore how he went “Oh being supportive of and knowing your neighbor is a small town thing? Alright I’ll go around my big town to see if they can relate”

Todd always ends his reviews of these songs with some of the rawest bars on the site

'gay heroin' is my favourite velvet underground song

27:56 thanks brad for making the worst sound I've ever heard in my life

Someone in the chat saying "Is this one of those Eurovision songs?" at Daylight... As a big Eurovision fan whose least favourite song of 2023 was Daylight, HOW DARE YOU? At least the boring ballads in Eurovision are sung by actual competent singers (like Switzerland last year), not by 20yos that sound like 70yo dinosaur rockers!

I can't see it ever happening, but a Pat Finnerty collab with Brad or Todd or the Hivemind boys would be a lot of fun

I love Todd's random ass country music sprinkled through his videos because it's what he actually listens to

I’m pretty sure Todd picks the transition music based on how funny/appropriate the lyrics for the clip are in the context of a worst list. These songs are “why I don’t leave the house”.

Love Todd, and I gotta say this list is probably one of his most on point ones in a while. Like every year I feel like he misses some obvious picks for either list, but not this time lol, all those awful ass country songs REALLY earned that ire this year so I'm glad he represented them. Only real pick I disagreed with was Vampire cus despite its very obvious issues I do at least like it.

i got to know more about music and the way popular culture functions through Todd's work more than through literally any other music channel lol

I feel like im crazy cus slime you out genuinely sounds unlistenable to me

"This is Why" was the bumper music to say "these songs are the reason I don't leave the house"

Oh, so Daylight is by someone else. I occasionally listen to pop radio and heard a song that I thought was a new Hozier single. I'd hear Daylight pretty often after that and just assumed that was a Hozier song. Now I feel better calling it bad.

pat finnerty reference in a brad taste in music reaction video to todd in the shadows? i came

“I feel like every year since the pandemic, I’ve said ‘Wow, this was a weird year for pop music.’ But, uh, wow, this was a weird goddamn year for music.” - Todd, 2023

29:23 is my favorite part of Todd's video. I just love how smooth the "f you" is.

'Try that here in this economy' is the crossover hit of the year already

I highly recommend watching Pat Finnerty’s breakdown of Try That In A Small Town. Dude absolutely wrecks that song to oblivion

That Pitbull lyric is not bad it is a fucking masterpiece

Todd has become such a good writer. "Shes the picture of the girl you got with the frame" is perfect

January is a great month cuz I get to watch Brad watch all the videos I watched a couple weeks ago

The song bumper for each segment isn’t supposed to a bad song, it’s supposed to reference how he feels. IE, songs this bad are “why he doesn’t leave the house.”

Pat Finnerty 🙌🏼 his “Try That in a Small Town” video was S-Tier content, along with his videos on “Beverly Hills” “Hey Soul Sister” and “Emo Girl”. The rest of his stuff is all consistently A-Tier.

42:36 Brad bears witness to Drake's best lyric since the lesbian me too bar

As probably the only bi trans female viewer of brad, I’d like to say that I think all his viewers are racial, not racist.

Todd and Diamond Axe Studios are pretty much my introduction to music criticism.

Wow, can't believe Brad agreed with number one being swans. Truly remarkable!😀

I think Todd is definitively the funniest of the internet music critics. Brad is also very funny tho

Remember when Todd was in the second Channel Awesome movie? That was pretty cool. Anyway if you pause at the right time to can see Brads soul leave is body at the beginning of the vampire segment lol

Todd actually likes Red Solo Cup. It made his honorable mentions that year with a, "This song is hilarious" comment. Also, at least once the bumper song for his worst list (I ain't f*** with you, I think) has made it onto his best list, so just because, "This Is Why" is here doesn't mean he doesn't like it. It's just that he found it expresses the sentiment towards the songs that are on the list.

Oliver Anthony saying “welfuhr” haunts me

Every time Brad drops, so do my pants. Keep up the good work, Steven!

All of those pitbull lines was amazing, its real gold among cringy lines, not on the level of flo rida's whistle but some where near

Im pretty sure Drake writes his lyrics A lot of them sound like something Drake would write.

Dude, that Pat Finnerty video rules, his entire channel is gold

>56:26 message in the chat: we need a michael gira country album. >there is one, it's called “How I Loved You” by The Angels of Light

I’m pretty sure he chooses the bumper snippet to have lyrics that relate to the worst list That’s why the clip is “This is why I never leave the house” cause he’s trying to tie it to the songs being so bad they’re why he never leaves the house not that that song is bad He tends to do that for the worst lists, at least imo

Todd's really funny to me because he's very much an old man when it comes to pop music but i can relate to him.

Only song I didn't agree with is Vampire. Sure it's not the best Olivia Rodrigo song but I think it elevates itself when performed live, especially the Tiny Desk version. Just doesn't hit that much on the studio version for some reason.

the bumper music is just supposed to be a generally negative or angry song…I Dont F With You by Big Sean was the bumper music and also on the best list one year

What Todd did to Brad with "vampire" is what he did to me with "Arcade" (and also with "vampire"): he took the things about it that KINDA bugged me and zeroed in on them so much it was kinda hard to ignore. I at least like "Arcade" still, even if I'd be happy not hearing it again for quite a while. "vampire" can take a powder, certainly compared to the rest of that album.

I love Todd list for how unpredictable and odd some of his worst and best songs can be. He goes my his favorites and least favorites and don't care if a ton of people love a song. He's not afraid to admit when his opinions change either.

Hey, that's not fair. The bumper for bad music lists doesn't have to be bad, it just has to somehow personify the vibe of the list. Sometimes that's by mirroring the musical trends that make the bad music bad, but mostly and it this case it's about how the list-maker feels about the musical trends that make the bad music bad. "This is why I don't leave the house" isn't even a subtle metaphor, he's just outright saying it. lol

Okay, so I like Olivia, but Vampire is probably her worst song. When Todd put it on the list, I couldn’t help but agree.

My dad is that one guy who genuinely enjoyed all the country songs on this list. He's the exact type of person that you're thinking, lol

He chose the This is Why I Don't Leave the House bc the chorus is literally saying 'this is why i don't leave the house' as in, these songs are why.

I watched todds video at a CeCe's pizza after a weekend at a amusement park

I get the feeling Brad didn’t see the point of language in highschool given how terrible he is at reading into the slightest bit of context

22:22 Lewis Capaldi is the Lil Xan of Sam Smiths.

I'm not surprised Calm Down is here, me were in a restaurant and that song was playing, my brother told me he was getting an headache due to the sound of that song

His bumper music is usually good music that fits the theme of "these songs suck". In this case, this bad music is why I don't leave the house.

i looked up "rich men north of richmond gay" and the first thing that comes up was the dax remix

I was expecting Last Night at either the #10 or #9 spot (useally the overplayed spots) didn't expect it to make it to #1.

Todd was having a blast making this video. The most hilarious video of his I’ve watched

8:15 "every fourth, word" based icarly reference

Memories by David Guetta and Kid Cudi is an amazing song and takes me back to the end of high school every time I hear it

Can’t wait for Todd to put out the best list too

Let’s go I’ve been waiting for this one

My bus driver plays the radio on the bus, and it was non-stop loops of search and rescue and all my life for the entirety of first semester

Bradley please listen to Mitski, she is art 🗣️ I recommend "Lush" or "Puberty 2"

Brad doing The Grapefruit Method cuaght me off guard xdd

I was sitting in a drive-thru waiting for my food, and of course right when they handed it to me 27:55 happened. So thanks Brad!

love you as always 🤞🏼

Actually brad when I watched Todd’s video it introduced me to not only that song but Paramore so…I think it was a good decision for him to put that song in

No way drake called Taylor Swift the n word💀 like do you not see how white she is

"anti hero is a 2 or 3/10 song" what

Dude i went on the exact same emotional journey when i saw olivia rodrigo was on the worst list- no way, okay..., wait a winute this guy might have a point

Watching this after the pop champagne stream is too surreal

does he have a brother named grood taste in music?

Todd Is a legend. Goated

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THISSSSSSSS

Shout out to Pat Finnerty!!

@BradTaste. Will you try a fudge round on camera?

to the chatter who said "guy who learned about slavery from genius annotations" you're the funniest person alive

David Guetta wasn't an influence on anyone in the french house scene apart from what to avoid. The red-headed step child of the family comparet to Daft Punk, Laurent Garnier and Dmitri from Paris when it came to credibility. Telling that he had to move to the US to find success.

Don’t call Todd cringe man cmon