Isn't any lame song worth it so the enigma that is Weird Al, can give us literally the best reasons to hear these songs? I mean; it's Weird Al, he could make an audio book about reading the entire dictionary and it would do well. The man can do no wrong. He always asks permission before parodying any song, and anything Weird Al touches is an instant classic, at least, in my opinion, anyways.
@@RazorFoxDVI'd definitely believe that theory as the truth. Plus, Weird Al is infinitely better than Gerardo could ever be, and plus, Gerardo was and always will be, a One-Hit-Wonder.
I hate UB40 for the same reason I hate Aaron Neville: at some point, the affectations in their voices make it sound like they're not even singing words.
That's just pure gold right there. Yeah, 1991 was just vapid, too say the least. I was listening to Anthrax, Metallica, and various metal and punk. The stuff on the charts and MTV just annoyed me to no end and didn't speak to me. Now 40-year-olds are looking back at C&C Music Factory and getting misty-eyed? Puhleeze.
If you're wondering why that Whitney Houston song sounds familiar, it's because it's the same tune as the X-Men cartoon theme song. You're all welcome.
@@justincoleman3805 Dude, this ain't the Bruno Mars who sang "Grenade" or "The Lazy Song" anymore. It's retro throwback, smooth as silk, Uptown Funk Bruno Mars.
The earliest that I think Todd in the Shadows could do a Top Ten Worst Hit Songs on is either 1950 or 1959. 1950 is the earliest Billboard Year-End Hot 100 chart on Wikipedia while 1959 was the first full year the Billboard weekly Hot 100 was used since Todd counts songs in the top 20 as automatic hits (the first Billboard Hot 100 was printed on August 4, 1958).
Of all Todd's picks across all his videos, this one I disagree with the most. I wasn't much familiar with it before, but it's a bit of a jam! Also, I'm not super into power-singing, so the snappier refrains means I enjoy WH more than usual.
I've watched this review 3 times and I still can't figure out exactly why TitS doesn't like that song. Especially that shit about her not being gangsta enough. What, for a L.A. Reid/Babyface dance-pop song? Huh?
Vanilla Ice is PROOF that just because an artist made music before the 2000s doesn't mean they're Legendary, or at least that doesn't mean they're...well... *Good*
Me too, but I totally agree with the choice. I felt the same way. He seems to feel rather strongly, by the length of the rant, but I can't say I disagree!
No lie: I was OBSESSED with that cartoon as a kid. The first time I heard this song on the radio, I fell in love with it precisely because it reminded me of my favorite show. I'm so glad to know it's not just me.
Todd should do a top ten worst covers list and a best covers. Some covers are better and more successful than the original, and then others nearly ruin the original.
There are a lot of great songs that I didn't know were covers, and then there are covers that are so obvious and terrible they ruin the songs forever. So yeah, I would like a list as well.
What's good and what ain't is absolutely subjective. This topic, for example - In my opinion Guns N' Rose's version of "Sympathy For The Devil" is better than the Stones' original, and the Jane's Addiction cover AB-so-LUTE-ly SUCKS.
M1Garandstudios I think some of these are in San Andreas, but i may be wrong. After all, CSR (The New Jack Swing Station) was my least favorite in the game.
According to Wikipedia, the Indian in the Village People actually was Native American. His name is Felipe Rose, mom was Puerto Rican and his dad was Lakaota Sioux.
Though you're right about it being an attempt to regain R&B cred, what made I'm Your Baby Tonight impressive was the fact that Whitney recorded the main vocal beginning to end in a single take. Considering the timing and the fast part in the middle, that took a bit of that raw power you mentioned.
That Whitney Houston song sounds perfectly fine to me. Off-brand for her, sure, but it didn't deserve to be considered worse than that proto-Kidz Bop garbage and Rico friggin' Suave...
Hi, me again, a year later. I was literally about to write this exact same comment when I saw I wrote this one. I cannot for the life of me understand why he considers that Whitney Houston song worse than Gerardo and Another Bad Creation. Playing against type with some mediocrity but still having a song that sounds that good? Worse than Another Bad Creation?! I don't understand where you're coming from Todd. At all.
@@vaelethun I mean, at least you know you're not wrong or inconsistent. While I'm not sure who the audience was supposed to be for "I'm your baby tonight", definitely not as drecky as Rico Suave or Iesha.
@@croweman6515 Forgot to respond to this (until the below response reminded me). Glad to know I'm not the only one. Assuming Todd doesn't go down for good in another five or so years, I'm expecting to do it again. :P
@@vaelethun Todd and I have very different tastes in music (I happen to like Peter Cetera, at times), but my feelings were genuinely hurt when I'm Your Baby Tonight popped up on this video. Granted, I was 8 at the time, but that was one of my favorite songs ever from the 90's. I sat around for hours to record it onto cassette so I could listen to it while riding my bike. I still love that song.
91 was like the 80s trying to hold very tight and not let go. but nirvana changed that, smells like teen spirit and the whole nevermind album started the real 90s.
I recall seeing a Vh1 special about one hit wonders from the 1990s. In it, they interviewed a middle-aged Gerardo and I distinctly remember him saying that he had a lot of explaining to do when his kids first saw the music video for "Rico Suave".
It's ok to acknowledge Whitney didn't always live up to her potential. I think we can same the thing about any troubled artist, and that previous adjective seems to travel with most interesting artists. That said, her song is probably the least bad on the list; just a bad fit for her talent. But the UB40 call-out has been long coming. The original was smooth, but the cover is jagged and painful.
An argument could be made that a good artist wasting their talent on an unsuitable song is more irritating than a bad artist just being bad, but I agree with you. You can sit through I'm Your Baby Tonight even if you don't care for it. I had to fast forward through most of the UB40 review: the song was so terrible I couldn't even sit through it while Todd was talking over it.
@RectPropagation thats exactly my issue with some of these worst of lists; well problem is maybe a bit strong. But say, the 2011 list, is mostly tolerable songs. Not great, but not hard to sit through. The 2023 list? Cant stand them! I think its just that for more recent lists todd actually has a whole year to listen to the music and therefore can pick out some truly awful music that in 15 years no one will remember at all. Or maybe 2011 Todd was just meaner? Idk
I graduated High School in 1991 so the music of that year has a special place in my heart. Plus it is one of the most unusual years in music as it marked the end of 80s pop & rock and the rise of Alternative Rock & Gangster Rap.
I was in 7th grade that year and it was the year I started getting into music, watching MTV, listening to the radio, so all these songs are permanently lodged in my brain (unfortunately). Thank goodness I discovered good music the next year.
Todd, just want to say thank you for your hard work and dedication. Most people would have given up with all the copyright strikes you've received. Appreciate all the effort my man.
I just noticed Todd’s New Jack prediction ended up kinda coming true with 24K Magic and That’s What I Like having shades of it, though the most obviously New Jack song on the album, Finesse, has yet to be a single.
Yeah, as soon as I heard the news, I freaked out, then freaked out even more when I saw that gorgeous In Living Colour 60 FPS tribute MV. It will be a dream come true if it actually tops the charts!
@@Eltrio2 ...Alright, not how I would've put it, but yeah, pretty funny reaction either way; have you considered becoming a standup comedian? But, the person's comment above mine is right. Grown adults wrote a song for little kids to perform, about seeing cute girls at the playground, honestly makes me want to vomit as well. Very, very, very, creepy and wrong, in pretty much every way. Also, that song (not ABC by the Jackson 5, but this one, about little kids singing about eating cereal on the monkey bars, obviously),is just annoying, and may as well be a Kidz Bop cover of "Poison", by Bell Biv Devoe, who were sadly, a One Hit Wonder, as a trio, despite having made one of the best songs ever. But seriously, kids shouldn't be covering the song "Poison".
Believe it or not, in the early days - pre Red, Red Wine - UB40 was actually a really good band, composing their own songs such as Food for Thought and reflecting the social fabric of Britain in the Thatcher years. Anything they did after about 1984 though was genuinely awful and true pastiche...the comments are spot on. And yet it was a winning formula because they had no 1 singles.
@@karnubawaxReally? That is a sort of a shame; but it's just UB40, they only ever really had 2-3 songs probably worth anyone's time by that point anyways. Even if they had no.1 singles, it didn't mean they were still a good band by that point in time. They had basically sold out, and decided to just do horrendous cover versions of classic songs from Al Green, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, and even The Temptations, and yet; like Todd said, he legitimately thought he could make better versions out of some of the best, and most classic songs of all time? He was very wrong there. UB40 were basically the 90s equivalent to Maroon 5 before Maroon 5 were Maroon 5. They were good at one point in time, but over time, they sold out, HARD, and began to suck... HARD. I mean, I did personally like UB40's cover of "Red, Red Wine"(didn't love it, but they could do waaay worse, like, for instance, their cover of "The Way You Do The Things You Do", comes to mind), but you could tell me that was an original song of theirs, and I'd honestly believe you, and not just a bad karaoke cover of the original, and I'd believe you.
He's probably going to hate me for saying this but I would love to see him do one of 99 I mean the whole year was full of nothing but one hit wonders from mambo 5 to the thong song.
@@Karmy. I kind of don't want that one included because its a guilt pleasure song for me like you're diving in the car, windows rolled up and you just start blasting it kind guilty pleasure.
The event that caused every musical trend of the century to come to a screeching halt in 1991? A baby got in a swimming pool and swam after a dollar bill. The rest is window dressing.
As interesting a Dog Police video would be, I don't think there's enough content on it to warrant a video. I read a comment on the music video on RU-vid that it was just an amateur submission for an MTV video contest
Todd, I think your opinion on I'm Your Baby Tonight is just one of those unpopular opinions that everybody has about something. It sounds really good to me.
Can I just take a moment to comment on the fact that this is one of those rare times when Todd actually made an accurate prediction? He predicted that New Jack Swing would eventually make a comeback, and as of this comment, Finesse by Bruno Mars is topping the charts. And it probably would have topped the charts more and sooner if not for the fact that everything else on 24K Magic was so amazing that Finesse got lost in the crowd. I'm honestly surprised that Todd hasn't really mentioned it all that much.
I owned the cassette single of Another Bad Creation's "Iesha". I was probably around the same age as them so at the time it seemed kinda cool that a bunch of kids my age had made a song. I was too young to know that there was probably a team of writers and producers behind it. Looking at it now, it's so obvious and fake, but at the time I thought it was a neat idea to put the kids in the studio and see what happened.
You know what's really funny is that New Jack Swing has made a small resurgence, just not where you'd expect it. Kpop, I'm not even joking....Kpop (some of it, the rest is mostly really heavily inspired by western pop and rap music)
Holy Christ...I am SO glad I was oblivious to the very existence of Another Bad Creation. But now those halcyon days are over...thanks a fucking bunch, Todd.
I just realized Bruno Mars made Iesha twice on his new album. Finesse is a new-jack swing song. "I got Alicia waiting, Iesha waiting, all the -eshas waitin' on me" - Calling All My Lovelies
I just googled Gerardo, He must have him mixed with a different guy because Gerardo was definitely latino, Unless he stumbled on to something Google didn't know.
I'm in my mid-forties. There were really only two bad eras of music in my lifetime. One was the early oughts. The other the late 80s. This was basically the last gasps of it.
Sometime in the late 80s, a coked out Hollywood producer came up with the idea for a movie that was "Like if the Karate Kid was about hip hop instead of Karate", but came down from his high and realized what a dumb idea that was before it could be made. And yet somehow, whether through force of belief or some form of dark magic, the antagonist of that movie, that rapping Johnny Lawrence, bled out into the real world and became Vanilla Ice...
Dear Todd. Your Top Ten lists are some of my favorite content that you make. Thank you so much for all the hard work you do! I know these lists are a ton of work, but I love seeing these lists from you. Thank you so much for this surprise on my otherwise panic inducing Monday.
I heard some story about Vanilla Ice saying “no I didn’t rip off Under Pressure, mine goes da-da-DA-da-da-da-da totally different” because Queen and David Bowie didn’t get credit or royalties for the sample. Play that Funky music was the one he got sued for though.
Ironic that you'd pick 1991 of all years to do a worst of list on, considering it's often regarded as one of the best years in music history, it's the year that gave us songs like: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nothing Else Matters, Under the Bridge, Enter Sandman, Jeremy, Losing My Religion, Come As You Are, The Show Must Go On, November Rain, Black or White, Even Flow among others
It's like doing a worst NBA players drafted in 1996 list for a basketball review channel. That year featured more than a dozen superstar players including Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson.
It might as well be, given how hard CN is trying to push Teen Titans Blow. And while, yes, you COULD argue that can make people curious about what the original was like, the new show has not done the franchise any favors.
Definitely can't. Everybody knows Weird Al is a billion times better than Gerardo could ever be, musically. There's a good reason why Gerardo was a One Hit Wonder, quit music entirely, and became a preacher, and even regretted making "Rico Suave" in the first place, probably because "Rico Suave" was one of the worst songs of all time, and I'm sure he also understands that he made a lot of dumb decisions when he was younger, and I think also explains that he had a lot of explaining to do to his kids when they first saw the "Rico Suave" video, and has turned back on being arrogant like he was during this song. And I'm sure that Gerardo even admits that Weird Al has the better song, because hey, it's Weird Al, he's untouchable. But I could be wrong. Not everyone in the world is a fan of Weird Al(I mean, I definitely am, of course). But while its nice to know that Gerardo has been doing something more important with his life, "Rico Suave" was still an awful song to listen to, with awful lyrics, that's undeniable. But, if it weren't for "Rico Suave"(awful as it was and still is), we wouldn't have gotten Weird Al's "Taco Grande" out of it, and think about how much worse things could've gotten, without it!
real talk i appreciate all the hard work and effort u put into these bc i love watching these when in a bad mood, ur funny as hell and it makes the day a little better
You're right about this period of UB40 but their early 'Signing Off' era demonstrated that they had potential. They're just one example of UK acts that emerged at the end of the seventies with a lot of creativity only to sell it down the river a few years later for chart appeal (see also: Level 42 / Simple Minds)
Hey Todd, just wanted to say that you make great fucking content. I am not particularly interested in pop music, but you somehow make it extremely funny and interesting. Keep up the good work!
There was a recent change in the algorithm that determines copyright stuff on RU-vid. A *LOT* of producers had a lot of their old videos suddenly get flagged or removed. Some to the point that their channels were deleted.
Tbh Whitney has such a beautiful voice that I could listen to her sing anything. I mean, I don't really buy into her music, but when I hear it I LOVE it, whatever it is.
Hearing Whitney Houston trying to sell herself as a sexy playgirl is like Richard Wright (from Pink Floyd) try to pass himself off as Rick Wakeman. The talent might be there, but the image isn't. That I'm Your Baby Tonight video still looks to me like Debbie Boone trying to pass herself off as Rizzo from Grease. OH WAIT
I know it takes a lot of working and editing and stuff Todd. But I love these videos! I'm sure everyone else does if they keep asking you for them. I appreciate that you're giving us a couple more videos like this. Thank you for all your hard work.
You're so right about UB40. Believe it or not, their 1st 2 albums were actually pretty good, and mostly consisted of their own songs instead of covers. They were to reggae what Hanson or Busted were to Heavy Metal
