History Creator / MarcMues

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and WebVideo/DiamandaHagan all have cameos in their first crossover with The Rap Critic.

* OldShame: The original rant videos that put them on the map, very much so. They've mentioned multiple times how they were adamant on removing them because they hated who they were during that era. This would also include a change in overall tone, shifting away from "angry ranter" to more light hearted riffing and reacting content with a more sensitive approach to language

* {{Jerkass}}: According to their own title card, which reads "Nerd. Asshole. Mues Productions"

* LongRunner: ''Raw Reactions'' is this for WebOriginal standards with over 100 episodes and counting.

* OldShame: The original rant videos that put them on the map, very much so. They've mentioned multiple times how they were adamant on removing them because they hated who they were during that era.

-->Nerd. Asshole. MUES Productions.

An [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. They also cover episodes of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in their "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014, they started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

They have their own website [[http://muesproductions.com/ here]]. Their Website/YouTube channels can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/muesproductions here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/lookatmues here]].

They are also a former member of Website/{{RVT}}.

* AlliterativeName: '''M'''arc '''M'''ues.

* NWordPrivileges: Taking a stand against self-censorship, Mues, who is white, says the n-word when they quote song lyrics containing it.

A [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. They also cover episodes of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in their "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014, they started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

Marc Mues is an [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. They also covers episodes of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in their "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014, they started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

Marc Mues is an [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. He also covers episodes of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in his "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014, he started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

He has his own website [[http://muesproductions.com/ here]]. His Website/YouTube channels can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/muesproductions here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/lookatmues here]]. His alternate Blip TV account (due to more relaxed copyright policies) can be seen [[http://mues.blip.tv/ here]].

He is also a former member of Website/{{RVT}}.

* AccentuateTheNegative. He does this to such an extreme degree that in one of his own videos, "Top 10 Best Pop Singles of 2010", he didn't say a single positive thing about the song he chose for #2.

* AuthorTract: Mues hates them. He thinks they insult the intelligence of the audience and use dishonest, manipulative tactics, like the "Why Must We Eat the Animals" song, which tries to promote veganism by showing us cute little animals in the video.

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and WebVideo/DiamandaHagan all have cameos in his first crossover with The Rap Critic.

* CargoShip: [[invoked]] In his review of ''Take Care'' by Music/{{Drake}}, he insults his car quite extensively before apologizing profusely to it as if it were his girlfriend.
* CausticCritic. In his early reviews every song would be reviewed as jaw-droppingly awful and songs were never given even a cursory compliment. He's softened his approach recently, but is still one of the more caustic critics out there.

* EndOfAnEra: Mues' established style for a very long time was his mostly unscripted, on-the-fly rants that were more generalized around a specific artist and their recent music. Around mid-late 2010 he retired the 'SUCKS (and here's why)' format and moved onto more structured reviews of entire albums and although still snarky, he toned down the anger a bit. YMMV on whether this change was for the better.
** Even more, so the eventual rebranding of his channel. He kept doing Mues Reviews up through the mid 2010s until the views dried up, and it wasn't worth the effort. These days, he almost exclusively does Riffcoms (which is what he renamed his channel to) and his podcast with Rap Critic.

* EpicRocking: Mues is not a fan, his patience is already exhausted with songs that last 5 minutes. The sole exception seems to be his praise for Music/{{Metallica}}'s eighties albums.
* FollowTheLeader. He's often accused of being a more negative clone of WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows due to having the same subject matter (pop songs) and similar presentations, even though [[OlderThanTheyThink Mues started a year and half before Todd did]].
* HypocriticalHumor: After Music/{{Drake}} references his "Acura Days", Mues plays clips of several artists bashing their previous vehicles and criticizes them for doing so. He immediately insults his own vehicle, eviscerating it, it's made even more hypocritical as Drake didn't actually say anything negative about the car. Mues apologizes to the vehicle afterwards (see Cargo Ship).
** Although not intentional, he bashes Music/{{Eminem}}[[invoked]] and Royce Da 5'9's album Hell: The Sequel for them advertising themselves as Bad and Evil saying they really aren't. The humor comes when you realize that Mues advertises himself as a nerd and an asshole.
** In the same review, he talks about Royce's talent yet bashes Eminem, saying that fast rapping doesn't equal good rapping. Once again, the humor comes when you realize that Royce raps faster than Eminem throughout the album.
* {{Jerkass}}: According to his own title card, which reads "Nerd. Asshole. Mues Productions"
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Almost all of the old, 'classic' Mues rants are extremely hard to find and possibly lost to time altogether. He deleted quite a few of them himself due to his dissatisfaction with them in retrospect, but a good number of them were also forcibly removed, since the music was reviewing was copyrighted. Same deal for his other early series like Cover To Cover (where he'd read old wrestling magazines) and Living With Geddy Lee. A few survived on Blip... until that site went down for good, anyways.

* MisattributedSong: [[InUniverse In the Billboard Top 10 April 2012 review]], he mistook Wiz Khalifa's verse on "Payphone" for B.o.B..
* NWordPrivileges: Taking a stand against self-censorship, Mues, who is white, says the n-word when he quotes song lyrics containing it.
* OldShame: The original rant videos that put him on the map, very much so. He's mentioned multiple times how he was adamant on removing them because he hated who he was during that era.

* RantComedy: His hatred for bad music often leads to comedic screams.
* ShoutOut: His review of "Mistletoe" by Music/JustinBieber in part resembles the news segments in Franchise/StarshipTroopers.
* SillyLoveSongs: He doesn't like them. At all. In his "Top 10 WORST Beatles Songs" video, most of them were firmly within this genre (and written by TropeNamer Music/PaulMcCartney, of course).

* TakeThat: He made videos directed against MoralGuardians who preach against the old and TheNewRockAndRoll. He is especially angered by the distortion of facts these people frequently employ.
** He also delivered a rant against the constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage in his home state of UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina.
* TheStinger: Many of his episodes have a short segment after the credits where he films his dog, Noodles.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[invoked]] His ''Top 10 Inappropriate Music/KidzBop Songs'' is about songs which for various reasons really shouldn't be covered by kids, like Music/BritneySpears' "Toxic" which uses the love as drug metaphor.

Marc Mues is an [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. He also covers episodes of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in his "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014 he started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

** To demonstrate how easy it is to rhyme Mues' name, Rap Critic, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, {{Creator/Demoversi}}, Creator/CinWicked, Doc Pepper, [[{{Website/Botchamania}} Maffew]], Creator/JewWario and [[WebVideo/TheBunnyPerspective Phil Buni]] all offer rhymes in the ''Worst 6 Pop Songs of 2011'' video.

* CausticCritic. In his early reviews every song would be reviewed as jaw droppingly awful and songs were never given even a cursory compliment. He's softened his approach recently, but is still one of the more caustic critics out there.
* {{Crossover}}: With The Rap Critic for "Raise Up" and ''Music/SouljaBoy: TheMovie''.

** Even more, so the eventual rebranding of his channel. He kept doing Mues Reviews up through the mid 2010s until the views dried up and it wasn't worth the effort. These days, he almost exclusively does Riffcoms (which is what he renamed his channel to) and his podcast with Rap Critic.

* HypocriticalHumor: After Drake references his "Acura Days", Mues plays clips of several artists bashing their previous vehicles and criticizes them for doing so. He immediately insults his own vehicle, eviscerating it, it's made even more hypocritical as Drake didn't actually say anything negative about the car. Mues apologizes to the vehicle afterwards (see Cargo Ship).
** Although not intentionnal , he bashes Eminem[[invoked]] and Royce Da 5'9's album Hell: The Sequel for them advertising themselves as Bad and Evil saying they really aren't.The humour comes when you realize that Mues advertises himself as a nerd and an asshole.
** In the same review , he talks about Royce's talent yet bashes Eminem saying that fast rapping doesn't equal good rapping. Once again the humour comes when you realize that Royce raps faster then Eminem throughout the album.

** He also delivered a rant against the constitutional amendment prohibiting same sex marriage in his home state of North Carolina.

* TopTenList: Has been known for some of these, including Top Ten Beatles songs and Top Ten pop songs of 2010.

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Mues points out in the "Why Must We Eat the Animals" review that many insects die in the process of farming vegetables, but that doesn't apparently bother the makers of the song as they show only cute animals in the video.

NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* MisattributedSong: [[{{In-universe}} In the Billboard Top 10 April 2012 review]], he mistook Wiz Khalifa's verse on "Payphone" for B.o.B..

* AppealToObscurity: In the ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie'' crossover with Rap Critic: Soulja Boy boasts about the number of his fans on Website/MySpace. Mues remarks that Music/TilaTequila had even more fans. Then:

* {{Crossover}}: With The Rap Critic for "Raise Up" and ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie''.

* AppealToObscurity: In the ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie'' crossover with Rap Critic: Soulja Boy boasts about the number of his fans on MySpace. Mues remarks that Music/TilaTequila had even more fans. Then:

He is also a former member of {{Reviewtopia}}.

** To demonstrate how easy it is to rhyme Mues' name, Rap Critic, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, {{Creator/Demoversi}}, Creator/CinWicked, Doc Pepper, [[{{Website/Botchamania}} Maffew]], Creator/JewWario and [[TheBunnyPerspective Phil Buni]] all offer rhymes in the ''Worst 6 Pop Songs of 2011'' video.

Marc Mues is an [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. He also covers episodes of ''WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in his "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014 he started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and WebVideo/DiamandaHagan all have cameos in his first crossover with The Rap Critic.

* FollowTheLeader. He's often accused of being a more negative clone of ToddInTheShadows due to having the same subject matter (pop songs) and similar presentations, even though [[OlderThanTheyThink Mues started a year and half before Todd did]].

* SillyLoveSongs: He doesn't like them. At all. In his "Top 10 WORST Beatles Songs" video, most of them were firmly within this genre (and written by TropeNamer PaulMcCartney, of course).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[invoked]] His ''Top 10 Inappropriate Music/KidzBop Songs'' is about songs which for various reasons really shouldn't be covered by kids, like BritneySpears' ''Toxic'' which uses the love as drug metaphor.

* AccidentalInnuendo: [[invoked]] Mues asks DiamandaHagan in the "Raise Up" review to take her shirt off (for the signature move of the song), which naturally doesn't go over well.

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and DiamandaHagan all have cameos in his first crossover with The Rap Critic.

* RealSongThemeTune: "A Working Day" by Music/BenFolds and [[HighFidelity Nick]] [[AboutABoy Hornby]] from their collaborative album ''Lonely Avenue''

* StraightEdge: He routinely gets annoyed at songs assuming he drinks and parties.

* AppealToObscurity: In the ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie'' crossover with Rap Critic: Soulja Boy boasts about the number of his fans on MySpace. Mues remarks that TilaTequila had even more fans. Then:

** To demonstrate how easy it is to rhyme Mues' name, Rap Critic, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, {{Creator/Demoversi}}, Creator/CinWicked, Doc Pepper, [[{{Website/Botchamania}} Maffew]], JewWario and [[TheBunnyPerspective Phil Buni]] all offer rhymes in the ''Worst 6 Pop Songs of 2011'' video.

* CargoShip: [[invoked]] In his review of ''Take Care'' by {{Drake}}, he insults his car quite extensively before apologizing profusely to it as if it were his girlfriend.

Marc Mues is an [[CausticCritic Internet ranter]] and {{Smark}} who frequently rants about the music industry, celebrities, and other stuff. He also covers episodes of ''WWERaw'', titled "RAW Reactions". Mues also looks through old WWF Magazines in his "Cover to Cover" video series. In 2014 he started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with TheRapCritic.

* AppealToObscurity: In the ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie'' crossover with RapCritic: Soulja Boy boasts about the number of his fans on MySpace. Mues remarks that TilaTequila had even more fans. Then:

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and DiamandaHagan all have cameos in his first crossover with TheRapCritic.

** To demonstrate how easy it is to rhyme Mues' name, RapCritic, ToddInTheShadows, {{Creator/Demoversi}}, Creator/CinWicked, Doc Pepper, [[{{Website/Botchamania}} Maffew]], JewWario and [[TheBunnyPerspective Phil Buni]] all offer rhymes in the ''Worst 6 Pop Songs of 2011'' video.

* {{Crossover}}: With TheRapCritic for "Raise Up" and ''SouljaBoy: TheMovie''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[invoked]] His ''Top 10 Inappropriate KidzBop Songs'' is about songs which for various reasons really shouldn't be covered by kids, like BritneySpears' ''Toxic'' which uses the love as drug metaphor.

* FollowTheLeader. He's often accused of being a more negative clone of ToddInTheShadows due to having the same subject matter (pop songs) and similar presentations.