yeah but most people have forgotten that most songs from the early 2010s sucked so there’s insanely rose colored glasses on most people. this is true for most eras though so i can’t say much
“Bruno, go bankrupt and die,” isn’t a prediction, it’s a request. Which Bruno didn’t listen to and instead spent the next 5 years making songs equal in quality to “Nothin’ On You”, if not better.
"We regular internet morons are finding out we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways I envisions some dark days ahead for us"- Todd in the Shadows 2011, he predicted the future well lmao
@ULGROTHA I'd say dang unlucky. Being famous means iys easy for people to take you out of context and painy you as a horrible person. Cough cough Kotaku.
@@itzlucaaa6789 he got 2 more top 10 hits just in 2019. He made the record for the most amount of songs on the billboard hot 100 behind Drake and Elvis Presley. And by this time sold 100 million records. And is one of the top twelve most viewed english musicians on RU-vid and has 15+Million subs on this platform.
"We regular internet morons are finding out that we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways" -Todd, 2011 Well I guess Todd can make a correct prediction once in a while.
16:09 I do not understand why "80s songs ruined by the Black Eyed Peas" has not become a meme yet. I keep returning to that part because that is comedy gold right there
I was thinking... but I have a soft spot for DirtyBit. Isn't it like a meme song or something? Then I realised my positive asaociations were from Todd's joke.
well, sort of! rhythm of the night is a 90s hit, todd feared that they are going to keep butchering more 80s songs but they're instead going against the 90s now (a decade todd probably likes the most). they recently butchered/sampled scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) on a song from their newest album elevation.
Never gonna give you up-up-up-DIRTY BIT Livin' on a prayer-prayer-prayer-DIRTY BIT Fight the power-power-power-DIRTY BIT Like a virgin-gin-gin-gin-gin-gin-DIRTY BIT Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings-strings-strings-DIRTY BIT
The only other songs I can think of that I prefer the clean versions of are Akon's "I Wanna Fuck You" and "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt of all songs. "I Wanna Fuck You" for much the same reasons as this song. And "You're Beautiful" because "fucking high" is just too harsh for a love song that sound like... that.
Considering how "Jar Of Hearts" makes you angry the same way Twilight makes you angry, it's no wonder Christina Perri was the perfect artist to do the theme song for the 5th Twilight movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2, which was played at my sister's wedding. (I'm from Australia, BTW, where Christina Perri has her biggest fanbase and success).
It's one of those songs that uses the f word for no reason other than they can. It feels gratuitous, and I cuss like a sailor! "Tonight I'm Loving You", to me sounds better.
@@kieranstark7213 In every worst hit songs of each year list, Todd predicts the future. It's like he's wielding the Gazing Eye from Kingdom Hearts, but bad fortune happens thanks to his knowledge of modern pop music.
@@KahlessTheUnforgettable She's the pianist and singer for Evanescence who are well known by 2000's emo kids for songs like Bring Me to Life and My Immortal.
I was in 4th grade (the only type of people that could like LMFAO unironicaly) and I remember hating that song the first time I heard it and I was baffeled as to how the kids in my grade could like that song and well my opinion has not changed one of the worst hits of the decade so far.
jason mach I had a friend in my Sophomore year of high school who loved LMFAO. I'm still friends with him, but we tend to disagree about what are good pop songs.
I don’t hate nor love the song. But I respect others thoughts on it! That being said, I can agree that Todd and you can have different opinions of the song. So you have a nice day!
As a zoomer it's very interesting to see what people from the previous generation thought about the music of what was our childhood years. For me, Party Rock Anthem was THE primary school disco song. I remember every year between years 3 and 6 of primary school in NZ, at every school dance everyone would go absolutely nuts every time that song came on. So its quite surreal to me how what an adult would've seen as just another mindless pop song at the time exists as a fond memory of simpler time in the minds of so many people. Even now that song's influence is still rife within zoomer culture i.e. ironic memes and that whole culture. So yeah, this is pretty much why I love Todd's old videos so much - an entirely new perspective on the songs of mine and so many others' childhoods.
Ik this comment is kind of old now but I’ve been doing the same exact thing! I’m a zoomer trying to see how many songs on these old lists I remember and how well they’ve aged since I last heard them. A lot of these songs might be stupid, but they’ve been the soundtrack to so many elementary/middle school parties that I can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic for them.
Exactly! I usually agree or am neutral with Todd’s opinions, but I LOVE The Lazy Song because of my age when it came out. I’m sure it’s gross and not funny to the adults of the time, but as a middle schooler it was funny!
I’ve been watching Todd since 2013 when i was 13! It’s funny that so many of these songs are so nostalgic to me now, that I even enjoy some songs off the worst list. This time period was the Minecraft, and Dubstep years. Miss it
23 now and I remember when that song was HUGE at my school. The "popular" kids all tried dressing the same as LMFAO and shuffled the whole year.... I never could shuffle right but I tried my best lol
Tonight (I’m Fucking You) is one of those very very rare songs where the censored version is a huge improvement over the original. Like, there’s a decent number of artists who clearly put thought and effort into their PG version, like CeeLo Green’s “Forget You”, but the uncensored version of those usually go just as hard. Tonight becomes a much more listenable song when all he’s imposing is his love… and the syllables work better anyway.
i literally did not even know that Tonight (I’m Loving You) was a censored version of the real song. i thought that WAS the song. when he played the audio, i was like, “ohh i remember this song! tonight i’m lo- did he just say fuck”
Look.. I prefer Paramore. At least their music had the decency to back it up with Hayley's kickass vocals and the boys' excellent instrumentation. "Decode" is the real gem of those whiny "Twilight"-esque tracks.
Makes sense that someone who made a song about a demon from the underworld that she uses to show how immature her songwriting is to talk about her boyfriend would be making a song on an immature romance.
I'd so hate to break up to y'all, but Norm of the North is now a fucking franchise going to be milked more in the early 2020s. And it was already so horrible as a standalone movie.
Awww... but I liked Jar of Hearts. But I suppose I like it in the same way I like frosting covered cookies with sprinkles. It tastes sweet, but I feel like shit afterwards and it goes straight to my thighs.
There's nothing wrong with liking something Todd doesn't. Heck, I like I Don't Care, and Todd put it at #5 on his worst songs of 2019. If you genuinely like the song, like it.
I remember Tonight, Tonight as being a song no one ever stopped singing at school during its popularity. We all hated it, the staff hated it, but the girls who just couldn’t stop singing it would probably sell their souls to hear it again
Oh, my gosh, I *heard* "Dirty Bit" in a store once and I remember being nearly livid over their use of "The Time of My Life"! Thank you, I wasn't the only one who *hated* this song, evidently. And your bit about '80s songs being ruined by the Black-Eyed Peas was hilarious. And I always knew "Sexy and I Know It" was worthless.
+nic cage I'm not sure they even qualify as a One Hit Wonder in the broad sense, i.e. "They had more than one hit, but no one remembers any of them except one." Because I don't think anyone remembers ANY of Hot Chelle Rae's hits. I certainly haven't heard Tonight, Tonight on the radio recently, or anywhere else. Meanwhile, other recent Two Hit Wonders like LMFAO still get played.
Some of the lyrics are kind of funny in any unintentional kind of way: "You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" Huh? So because this guy broke your heart, you think he'll get sick because he was cold to you? That sounds like breakup song parody lyric
"We regular Internet morons are finding out that we have power. And some of us are using that power in horrible ways. I envision some dark days ahead for us." - 2011 Todd in the Shadows, predicting musical.ly
God, listening to this in 2020 and hearing all the songs I hated with all my body that the radio gods had the mercy to keep off the air waves in the interim all over again was so painful, but hearing you dunk on them was so validating.
"We internet morons are realizing we have power. And some of us are using it in horrible ways". Screw the Simpsons, Todd actually predicted Trump's victory
i still cant get over the lyrics "youre gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" that is SO BAD why did we not drag that lyric left and right?? i was like 19 during this, i remember everyone took this song hella seriously and all my other Serious Music Major Friends actually loved it
He sure tries to undercut his presence at every turn; the past 3 singles (The original Don't Tell Em, Planes, and Oui) never got videos, and the biggest of the three builds its chorus from an interpolation. Even his recent features, like Somebody and Freak of the Week, are built around interpolations, and he's relegated firmly to chorus guy on those, so his voice is the only thing that can leave an impression.
"Birthday Sex" is literally "Dick in a Box" except you're supposed to take it seriously. "Hey girl. Guess what gift I got for you. DEEZ NUOTS. HA. HA HA. GOTTIM."
Birthday S€X, Down on Me, Don’t Tell Em, all are bad. Jeremih is probably worse than Jason Derulo in terms of an artist, because at least Jason Derulo had quite a few decent songs before Talk Dirty existed.
The sad thing is that My Humps actually has a decent and catchy beat/tune, especially for a BEP song. It's just the lyrics that obliterate it. It's like the label wanted them to put out the song but they didn't want to, so the BEP decided to try to sabotage their own song by putting all the humps and lumps in there. Even though I just made up this scenario, it is still easier for me to believe this than to accept that the BEP unironically wrote the lyrics to My Humps thinking it was good.
For once one of Todd's predictions came true and Chris Brown's music became more loathsome.Call me crazy but I see a disturbing yet catchy dance song sampling Every Breath You Take working.
Listening to these worse lists in reverse order is an interesting thing. You hear Todd get progressively angrier and the music get progressively happier with a few outliers here and there.
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how good What the Hell sounds on the piano? I know he does that with every episode, but this is easily one of the best piano covers in the history of Todd In The Shadows.
Selena Gomez's "Love You Like a Love Song" should've been on this list. "Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby It's like a Jeep that goes BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
Look At Me Now is the example of what is wrong with the current generation of hip hop. Chris Brown and Lil Wayne come in with lazy, poorly crafted bars that is the equivalent of a conversation with a homeless basehead with Busta coming in with the lyrical equivalent of "When I was your age, I used to have to walk 12 miles to school in the snow and then work 3 jobs everyday." God, if hip-hop ain't dead it's certainly in hospice care.
Fun fact: Enrique Iglesias' last name means churches like the ones you go to to pray to god. Kinda ironic that the guy with church in his name is singing about premarital sex
I listened to that Hot Chelle Ray song about 60 times while working as a camp counselor in the summer of 2011 and I REALLY REALLY appreciated your roast of it.
Ah, 2011. The year of Justin Bieber and LMFAO. A simpler time, when the only possible apocalypse everyone was talking about was the 2012 Mayan calendar "prediction." After 2021, I miss those days.
“We regular internet people are finding ways to make hit songs, I envision dark days ahead of us” Watch me watch me Juju on that Beat Juju on that juju on that Now do the Harlem Shake Hit the Quan Hit the Quan
With TikTok being the breeding grounds for all sorts of new teen talent, good god has that become true in a bigger way since Silento. Least we got Lil Nas X and Doja Cat out of it.
PS I agree about the efforts in Bad Touch's lines. They all worked as funny sex analogies yet there had been put thought into them. It's one of my guilty pleasures because those instrumentals are pure gold, and the comedic value is appreciated from time to time.
All of them but Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, and the rappers (Who already had a huge career), and MAYBE the Black Eyed Pees (IDK about the Black Eyed Peas but they haven't gotten media attention in a while).. Hell, even by 2013 all of the other artists were irrelevant
Bad Touch is one if my all time favorite songs. It's funny, but it's also joyous and very sex positive. And most of all it's honest to God good. I adore how unabashedly gross it is, but nothing in it shames the person they're doing all these acts with, it celebrates it. The song uses we, you and me, and constantly talks about what they do to each other and not just what he does to them, or what their partner does for them, it's clear that the sex is wild and gross but also that both parties are totally into it. The 'well do it doggie style so we can both watch xfiles' line is one if the best sex positive lines in a sex song ever. Hear me out. It acknowledges that men and women can enjoy sex just as a physical release, equally. This isn't a line about a man not really paying attention to his partner/phoning it in. They BOTH want to watch Xfiles. They are both seeking physical gratification, but they're not making love, and neither are bothered by it. He's not sneaking peeks at the episode, or his phone cause he'd really rather be doing something else. I imagine the conversation going like "Wanna do it? Eh, sure. Wait, I love this part! Me too!" *switches positions so they can both watch and just keep going at it* It's the most mundane sex in the song. It sounds like a normal relationship, not that they're not in love any more, but that it's one of those times where you're kind of doing it just to do it, but in the good way. They're clearly very comfortable with each other, and open about their needs. They're at a place where sex doesn't have to be romantic or magical. They can be gross AND boring, and they're happy. It could be about a long term relationship, or a really comfortable friends with benefits, or even just two people who are hooking up but really chill and open with each other. It doesn't really matter, because whatever story the song is telling it's a really emotionally healthy sexual relationship. And I'd argue very respectful, because the singer acknowledges that his partner experiences sex in much the same he does. He doesn't put her on a pedestal, he says she gross and raunchy and wants to watch Xfiles, and that's awesome and they find joy in it together.
That "respectful" song came from the same album as A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying. If Bloodhound Gang read this comment, they'd laugh their fucking asses off.
I liked "I Need A Doctor". Never seen the Horror movie like video. That's a bit weird to see Dre floating in a vat. I didn't know Eminem and Skylar were paging Dr. Frankenstein. "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
In response to Todd's cereal box comment about Tonight Tonight: I would sooner frame a cutout of Count Chocula than plenty of "professional" works of art I've seen.
Oh shit, I confused the name AJR with AJJ for a moment and had a moment of total rage and disbelief that someone could think AJJ sounded remotely like Hot Chelle Rae lol
I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but the irony of the "Down on Me" entry is that Todd's popularity has FAR eclipsed that of the lip-syncing kid, whom I never gave a single thought to again until hearing that he died fairly recently.
MissMusicCritic It's also dreary and boring, and sounds like it should've been a part of the soundtrack to the twilight movies, I don't know which one, probably all of them. But the artist herself looks cute, I guess?
