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* PeripheryDemographic:[[invoked]] He admits to liking the OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
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* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[Music/JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
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* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[KanyeWest '[[Music/KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[Music/JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
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* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest and Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
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* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
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** He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
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** Also his reaction to [[Music/MaroonFive Adam Levine]] trying to be "[[EvilIsSexy sexy]] [[Franchise/TexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" in the video for "Animals".
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* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes MichaelJordan.
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* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes MichaelJordan.UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan.
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-->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
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** At the end of his Worst Hits of 1991 video, he delivers a point-blank "Fuck you, Bryan Adams, you censoring dick!" after discovering he'd used legal standovers to have his information removed from [=AllMusic=], an impartial reference publication.
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** Once Meghan Trainor sings "Dear future husband\Make time for me, don't leave me lonely\And no we'll never see your family more than mine", Todd's response is "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
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* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
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* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest and JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
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* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest and JayZ Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
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* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He calls out Hot Chelle Rae about calling a song called "Tonight Tonight" when Music/TheSmashingPumpkins have already done so.
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* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He calls out Hot Chelle Rae about calling a song called "Tonight Tonight" when Music/TheSmashingPumpkins have already done so.
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** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]] and [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
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** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]] and Me"]], [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]].Trouble"]] and [[Music/ArianaGrande "Break Free"]] (more for the lyric - "this is, the part where I say I don't wanna..."). Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
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-->'''Todd:''' [[FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
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* NothingButHits: Todd's criteria for including a song on his Best or Worst Hit Songs list is that the song in question must either be on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 for that year or peak in the Top 20 sometime during that year.
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** Also his reaction to [[Music/MaroonFive Adam Levine]] trying to be "[[EvilIsSexy sexy]] [[Franchise/TexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" in the video for "Animals".
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** SirMixALot's first album, which was released four years before "Baby Got Back," went platinum.
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** When choruses in party/love songs end with the word "tonight".
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** And right after that, most of the time the review ends with the last brief moment/lines of the music video of the song he's reviewing.
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* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] He considers Jessi J to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as [[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
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* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] He considers Jessi J Music/JessieJ to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as [[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
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* PoorMansSubstitute: [[InUniverse He]] considers Jessi J to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as enjoyable.
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* PoorMansSubstitute: [[InUniverse He]] [[invoked]] He considers Jessi J to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as enjoyable.[[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
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* PoorMansSubstitute: He considers Jessi J to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as enjoyable.
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*** This gets even funnier as of 2014, now that Jeremih has a third hit with "Don't Tell 'Em".
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** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
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** Discussed when reviewing Blue Swede, as while they had a second Top 10 hit with a cover of the Association's "Never My Love", they are ''still'' a one-hit wonder to him because the song had no lasting appeal and is remembered by almost no one. He compares it to Music/{{PSY}}'s "Gentleman" in that regard. Meanwhile, he maintains that this does not apply to less famous yet still remembered songs like Rick Astley's "Together Forever" and such.
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**"I haven't had to deal with this many girls on fire since I accidentally set the..."
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* PopCultureIsolation:[[invoked]] An apparent in-work example in his list of the 10 worst songs of 1976. He chooses "Convoy" by C. W. [=McCall=] in part because he doesn't understand how trucking was so popular as to inspire a hit song, and "Convoy" does nothing towards its case.
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** Also started a show to discuss this, One Hit Wonderland (first episode was Music/{{a-ha}}'s "Take on Me").
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* NameMcAdjective: He gave Chris Brown the nickname Captain [[DomesticAbuse McPunchesAGirl]] during his review of "I Can Transform Ya".
* {{Narm}}: [[{{In-Universe}} His reaction re-listening to]] Music/LinkinPark's "Crawling": "Just as hilarious as back then".
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He calls out Hot Chelle Rae about calling a song called "Tonight Tonight" when Music/TheSmashingPumpkins have already done so.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He thinks "Hoedown Throwdown" is a conglomerate of the worst elements of five genres at once.
* {{Nepotism}}: He blames it for the existence of Willow and Jaden Smith, Rockwell, LMFAO, and Hot Chelle Rae's careers.
** In an unstated example, when discussing LMFAO, he tries to draw an analogy between them, the Black Eyed Peas, and various hair metal bands before settling on LMFAO as Nelson. Nelson was also arguably a case of nepotism, being the twin sons of Ricky Nelson and by extension grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'Tonight...' and 'The Lazy Song' have permanently changed his image of Enrique Iglesias and Bruno Mars for the worse [[InUniverse in his eyes]]. [[invoked]]
** However, as of his Top Ten Best Songs of 2012, Bruno may have saved himself with "Locked Out of Heaven"and later again in "Top 10 Best Songs of 2013" with "Treasure".
** He mentions how Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is remembered not only for being a OneHitWonder, but the AnimeHair of the lead singer.
* NiceGuy: He's repeatedly mentioned that he can't actually ''hate'' Music/OneDirection because they seem to be genuinely nice people, even if their music doesn't always reflect it.
* NoPronunciationGuide: At a certain point, he starts asking how "Iyaz" is supposed to be pronounced.
** Gotye. Go-tiya? Got-Yee? Goat-yeh? Go-tee-yee? Goa-Tee? He finally pronounces it correctly (Go-Tee-Yay) at the end of his "We Are Young"/"Somebody That I Used To Know" double review.
** He stumbles through pronouncing "Canada" as "Can-Na-Duh". For laughs, of course.
* NonIndicativeName: One of the recurring themes of "One-Hit Wonderland" are that many so-called one-hit wonders technically aren't[[note]]using the standard definition of just one entry on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100[[/note]], which he will point out in discussing their later career:
** A-Ha: Their second-biggest hit, "The Sun Always Shines On TV", charted at #20 in the US and actually placed ''higher'' than "Take On Me" in several countries, including the UK.
** Men Without Hats: Also reached #20 with "Pop Goes the World", which Todd even comments is fairly well-remembered as far as "second singles by one-hit wonders" go. (It actually did better in their native Canada than "Safety Dance" did).
** Billy Ray Cyrus: Notes that, as a country artist, being a "one-hit wonder" on ''those'' charts is basically impossible - and, indeed, Cyrus charted many times throughout TheNineties. His duet with daughter Miley, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", is mentioned in passing as his first Top 10 (Country) hit in a decade, but Todd neglects to inform the viewers that it actually reached the Top 40 ''on the Pop charts'' - technically making Billy Ray Cyrus a one-hit wonder no longer.
** Eddie Murphy: Claims that Murphy scored a "near-hit" with the lead single off his second album, "Put Your Mouth On Me", which reached #27 on the charts (and therefore actually ''is'' a hit - though a minor one).
** The Weather Girls: "It's Raining Men", the so-called "hit", actually ''does not qualify'' as such, because it only reached #46 on the Pop charts (though it went to #1 on the Dance charts).
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls had not one, but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope two]]'' Top 40 hits outside of "I Ran (So Far Away)"; they were "Space Age Love Song" (peaked at #30) and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (peaked at #26).
** Mr. Big, like A Flock of Seagulls, also had two additional Top 40 hits: "Just Take My Heart", and a cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World".
** Many of the songs on his top 10 lists were actually released the previous year including his number one songs from 2009 ("Just Dance") and 2012 ("Take Care")
* NoodleIncident: "I am not having any bottles broken over anyone's head in this room. Not after the DL incident. I'll tell you about it sometime. *shudder* So much blood..." He would later explain it on Twitter, even later in "Grenade."
** Also, the "[[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]] Fiasco".
* NoodleImplements: Something more twisted than S&M, and involving a trombone.
** Also part of the Lupa Fiasco.
-->'''Lupa''': What am I supposed to do with all these ''geese''?!
* NotHyperbole: Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worst than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** The latter of which actually does turn out to be hyperbole, as 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)' ranks much higher on his "Worst Songs of 2011" list than 'The Lazy Song' does. He admits that 'The Lazy Song' grew on him, but he still feels the need to punch Bruno Mars in the face when he hears it.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Todd claims that people indeed discussed "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]"'s [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory deeper meaning]] back in the day.
** In "Break Up", after the line "Don't I make your earlobe freeze?" he puts a caption reading "Seriously, I didn't make that up."
** "... so I felt obligated to listen to their latest single, "Carry Out", which consists entirely of fast-food-related {{double entendre}}s. [{{beat}}] Seriously."
** Also, on the "[=BedRock=]" review, when he lists the members of Young Money.
--> Mack Maine... Jae Millz... Lil Chuckee... Lil' Twist... T Streets... and a bunch of other names that sound like I'm just making them up, though I swear to God I'm not.
** In the "Worst Songs Of 1987" video, he has to clarify that yes, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of his favourite songs of the 80s.
** Todd makes sure to point out he didn't add the ''BladesOfGlory'' clip in "Niggas in Paris" (just after Music/KanyeWest quoted the movie), it's in the actual video!
** In the OHW for Mr. Big's "To Be with You", he can barely believe that the long list of HairMetal bands he compiled are real.
* NotSoDifferent: He states in the review of the "Cruise" remix that, in the last ten years, mainstream CountryMusic has essentially become the "white" version of GlamRap in its lyrical themes, and has taken on a growing number of stylistic cues from hip-hop. He goes so far as to claim that the video for "Cruise" is essentially a rap video with white chicks.
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus for Pitbull's "Back In Time" provokes Todd to thinking this, though the way he says it makes it come off more like HoYay.
-->''My sweet baby? You're the one? What the living crap does this have to do with ''Film/MenInBlack''? Do Agent J and K fall in love in this movie? ...Not that I'm opposed to watching that.''
* NoTrueScotsman: As explained on his review of "#selfie", he's reluctant to review EDM songs because every time he tries Todd get a flood of complaints claiming said song isn't ''real'' EDM.
* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion near the end of the review, when the subtitles censor the word "Paris" instead of the usual, making it look like it might say "Niggas in Penis".]]
** Then in his Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2012 review, he ends a long string of "-izzle" words with "...ma nizzle! Am I allowed to say 'nizzle'?"
** He doesn't consider Rednex (a Swedish group) to have this for caricaturing Southerners.
* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest and JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
* OffScreenTeleportation: He displays this in the WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown review of ''[[TheAsylum Sunday School Musical]]''. (see also StealthHiBye)
-->'''Film Brain:''' Todd, I'm curious. How did you get in here?
-->'''Todd:''' I move in the space between spaces.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's even more shocked on Kimberly Perry being 28, but appearing 16 in If I Die Young.
* OnceAnEpisode: He starts every episode by playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
** His review of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song due to how insultingly simplistic its beat was.
** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
** He's also starting to sign off his reviews in the same way: "I'm Todd in the Shadows, and ________." The blank is either filled with "I'm out" or a joke - often a CallBack - related to the song. Like from his "Scream and Shout" video:
-->'''Todd:''' I'm Todd in the Shadows, saying "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!"
** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]] and [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
* OneHitWonder:[[invoked]]
** He mentions how Mike Posner and the Far East Movement still managed to get a second hit, and asks for Hot Chelle Rae to not reach this. Then he says that despite the failure of LMFAO's follow-up single, they managed to still get a second hit with an even worse song.
** While talking about "Put It Down On Me", he stated he was adding Jeremih to "...the growing list of one-hit wonders who technically have a second hit."
** Also started a show to discuss this, One Hit Wonderland (first episode was Music/{{a-ha}}'s "Take on Me").
* [[OriginsEpisode Origin Song]]: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry literally describes exactly how the band came into popularity in the first place. Some audience member really did shout "Play that funky music, white boy" during one of their gigs.
* OrphanedPunchline: '''"...WASHING MACHINE!"'''
* OrSoIHeard:
** In the ''FromJustinToKelly'' review:
-->'''Todd:''' Your average DisneyChannel sitcom gets raunchier than this. ({{Beat}}) Not that I watch those.
** Todd repeatedly states that most of the opinions he's formed for {{PSY}}'s "Gangnam Style" is based off of simply what he's read up on the internet.
-->''Or so I've read.''
** PlayedWith in the ''Mac And Devin Go To High School'' review. Rap Critic, who has previously announced that he's never smoked weed, seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about how it effects about what it does.
-->'''Rap Critic:''' Is this what's suppose to happen when you're high on weed? Ca-Cause that's not what happens. What happens is stuff becomes funnier and music slightly speeds up. Chemically, the effects of weed are kind of mundane.\\
'''Todd:''' Wait a minute, since when do you know so much about getting high?\\
'''Rap Critic:''' What are you, ''a cop?''
* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes MichaelJordan.
* OverlyLongGag: His comparison of Hot Chelle Rae's brand of partying to high school all-night grad parties.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He does this to "Best Song Ever" in "Top 10 Hit Songs of 2013"
--> And we danced all night to the ''6th best hit song of 2013''
* PanderingToTheBase: [[{{in-universe}} He questions about this]] in "Alejandro".
-->'''Todd:''' Ok. Even if you are one of Gaga's many gay fans, at what point do you feel pandered to? Like, when do you reach the point where even you have to look back and say: "Ok, this is getting kinda gay."
** Double subverted in his review of "Born This Way", when he wonders which heavily marginalized group's self esteem the song intends to boost.
-->'''Lady Gaga:''' Just put your paws up.
-->'''Todd:''' [[FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
** Also says "Mistletoe" is this, since it's "using Christmas as an excuse for kissing Bieber fantasies."
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Todd in the "Drive By" review when he hears the "my love for you went viral" line.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: He was [[HateDumb accused of homophobia]] when he said that "Born This Way" felt like pandering and racism when he asked "How am I supposed to tell [three members of Young Money] apart?" in reference to their respective styles.
* PeripheryDemographic:[[invoked]] He admits to liking the OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
* PetPeeveTrope: All in-universe.
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly if it's {{Beyonce}}-on-male.
** ClarkKenting: People's inability to recognize the obviousness that HannahMontana is Miley in a wig drives Todd up the wall. Todd even references Clark Kent and [[Film/{{Superman}} Christopher Reeve's performance of the character]].
** DomesticAbuse: He struggled to avoid making this the focal point of his review of "I Can Transform Ya."
** Songs that take place InDaClub.
** ChildPopstar:
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** LyricsVideoMismatch
** PainfulRhyme [[invoked]]
*** Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
** RhymingWithItself: Annoys him quite a bit.
** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
--->'''Todd:''' Hip hop! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop. Shouting. Ohhh.]]
** TheFourChordsOfPop
** LyricalShoehorn: [[{{In-universe}} With Train being the greatest offender.]]
* PersonAsVerb: In his review of "Feel This Moment" by Music/{{Pitbull}} featuring Music/ChristinaAguilera, He mentions how it's the same usual song as always, with Pitbull being Pitbull, and Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera-ing like she always does.
* PokemonSpeak: He doesn't like when singers say their own name in their songs. But he is particularly hard on Jason Derulo for this.
* ThePowerOfHate: Todd decided to take a different route when LMFAO told him to "STOP! HATIN'S BAD!" and look at the song from a more loving point of view. ''Not'' hating music almost erased him out of existence.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** A fairly enraged one in the beginning of the "Deuces" review, especially jarring because up to that point there had barely been any strong language in his videos at all.
** There was also this bit, though he wasn't in character at the time.
--->'''Todd:''' As soon as you turn that camera off, I'm beating the shit out of you.
** Something of a Tactical F Campaign throughout the "Tonight..." review.
** His response to anyone who might not like Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" is... guess it.
-->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
** In his Worst Hit Songs of 2004 list, he discusses how this can be done well ("Fuck You"), badly ("Tonight..."), or ''really'' badly (Eamon's "Fuck It").
** Todd introduces the "Worst of 2013" retrospect with "Good fucking riddance!! No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself."
* PreviouslyOn: Double-subverted:
-->'''Todd:''' Previously on Todd In The Shadows: YourMom! Hah! Also, on my show, this happened.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: FINISH. THE. RHYME!
** [[Music/ChrisBrown CAN'T...]] [[BrainBleach GET...]] [[ShowerOfAngst CLEAAAAAN!]]
** [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three words]]: Deep. Blue. Something.
* PungeonMaster: He points out in "The Safety Dance" that Men Without Hats should not be confused with the Australian pop band Men At Work (both of whom reached popularity at exactly the same time), but says that they both should have combined bands a few years later to become Men Without Work. He also says that shortly after releasing "The Safety Dance", Men Without Hats became Men Without Hits. He stops himself before he goes any further.
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* {{Narm}}: [[{{In-Universe}} His reaction re-listening to]] Music/LinkinPark's "Crawling": "Just as hilarious as back then".
* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He calls out Hot Chelle Rae about calling a song called "Tonight Tonight" when Music/TheSmashingPumpkins have already done so.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He thinks "Hoedown Throwdown" is a conglomerate of the worst elements of five genres at once.
* {{Nepotism}}: He blames it for the existence of Willow and Jaden Smith, Rockwell, LMFAO, and Hot Chelle Rae's careers.
** In an unstated example, when discussing LMFAO, he tries to draw an analogy between them, the Black Eyed Peas, and various hair metal bands before settling on LMFAO as Nelson. Nelson was also arguably a case of nepotism, being the twin sons of Ricky Nelson and by extension grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'Tonight...' and 'The Lazy Song' have permanently changed his image of Enrique Iglesias and Bruno Mars for the worse [[InUniverse in his eyes]]. [[invoked]]
** However, as of his Top Ten Best Songs of 2012, Bruno may have saved himself with "Locked Out of Heaven"and later again in "Top 10 Best Songs of 2013" with "Treasure".
** He mentions how Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is remembered not only for being a OneHitWonder, but the AnimeHair of the lead singer.
* NiceGuy: He's repeatedly mentioned that he can't actually ''hate'' Music/OneDirection because they seem to be genuinely nice people, even if their music doesn't always reflect it.
* NoPronunciationGuide: At a certain point, he starts asking how "Iyaz" is supposed to be pronounced.
** Gotye. Go-tiya? Got-Yee? Goat-yeh? Go-tee-yee? Goa-Tee? He finally pronounces it correctly (Go-Tee-Yay) at the end of his "We Are Young"/"Somebody That I Used To Know" double review.
** He stumbles through pronouncing "Canada" as "Can-Na-Duh". For laughs, of course.
* NonIndicativeName: One of the recurring themes of "One-Hit Wonderland" are that many so-called one-hit wonders technically aren't[[note]]using the standard definition of just one entry on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100[[/note]], which he will point out in discussing their later career:
** A-Ha: Their second-biggest hit, "The Sun Always Shines On TV", charted at #20 in the US and actually placed ''higher'' than "Take On Me" in several countries, including the UK.
** Men Without Hats: Also reached #20 with "Pop Goes the World", which Todd even comments is fairly well-remembered as far as "second singles by one-hit wonders" go. (It actually did better in their native Canada than "Safety Dance" did).
** Billy Ray Cyrus: Notes that, as a country artist, being a "one-hit wonder" on ''those'' charts is basically impossible - and, indeed, Cyrus charted many times throughout TheNineties. His duet with daughter Miley, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", is mentioned in passing as his first Top 10 (Country) hit in a decade, but Todd neglects to inform the viewers that it actually reached the Top 40 ''on the Pop charts'' - technically making Billy Ray Cyrus a one-hit wonder no longer.
** Eddie Murphy: Claims that Murphy scored a "near-hit" with the lead single off his second album, "Put Your Mouth On Me", which reached #27 on the charts (and therefore actually ''is'' a hit - though a minor one).
** The Weather Girls: "It's Raining Men", the so-called "hit", actually ''does not qualify'' as such, because it only reached #46 on the Pop charts (though it went to #1 on the Dance charts).
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls had not one, but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope two]]'' Top 40 hits outside of "I Ran (So Far Away)"; they were "Space Age Love Song" (peaked at #30) and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (peaked at #26).
** Mr. Big, like A Flock of Seagulls, also had two additional Top 40 hits: "Just Take My Heart", and a cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World".
** Many of the songs on his top 10 lists were actually released the previous year including his number one songs from 2009 ("Just Dance") and 2012 ("Take Care")
* NoodleIncident: "I am not having any bottles broken over anyone's head in this room. Not after the DL incident. I'll tell you about it sometime. *shudder* So much blood..." He would later explain it on Twitter, even later in "Grenade."
** Also, the "[[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]] Fiasco".
* NoodleImplements: Something more twisted than S&M, and involving a trombone.
** Also part of the Lupa Fiasco.
-->'''Lupa''': What am I supposed to do with all these ''geese''?!
* NotHyperbole: Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worst than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** The latter of which actually does turn out to be hyperbole, as 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)' ranks much higher on his "Worst Songs of 2011" list than 'The Lazy Song' does. He admits that 'The Lazy Song' grew on him, but he still feels the need to punch Bruno Mars in the face when he hears it.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Todd claims that people indeed discussed "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]"'s [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory deeper meaning]] back in the day.
** In "Break Up", after the line "Don't I make your earlobe freeze?" he puts a caption reading "Seriously, I didn't make that up."
** "... so I felt obligated to listen to their latest single, "Carry Out", which consists entirely of fast-food-related {{double entendre}}s. [{{beat}}] Seriously."
** Also, on the "[=BedRock=]" review, when he lists the members of Young Money.
--> Mack Maine... Jae Millz... Lil Chuckee... Lil' Twist... T Streets... and a bunch of other names that sound like I'm just making them up, though I swear to God I'm not.
** In the "Worst Songs Of 1987" video, he has to clarify that yes, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of his favourite songs of the 80s.
** Todd makes sure to point out he didn't add the ''BladesOfGlory'' clip in "Niggas in Paris" (just after Music/KanyeWest quoted the movie), it's in the actual video!
** In the OHW for Mr. Big's "To Be with You", he can barely believe that the long list of HairMetal bands he compiled are real.
* NotSoDifferent: He states in the review of the "Cruise" remix that, in the last ten years, mainstream CountryMusic has essentially become the "white" version of GlamRap in its lyrical themes, and has taken on a growing number of stylistic cues from hip-hop. He goes so far as to claim that the video for "Cruise" is essentially a rap video with white chicks.
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus for Pitbull's "Back In Time" provokes Todd to thinking this, though the way he says it makes it come off more like HoYay.
-->''My sweet baby? You're the one? What the living crap does this have to do with ''Film/MenInBlack''? Do Agent J and K fall in love in this movie? ...Not that I'm opposed to watching that.''
* NoTrueScotsman: As explained on his review of "#selfie", he's reluctant to review EDM songs because every time he tries Todd get a flood of complaints claiming said song isn't ''real'' EDM.
* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion near the end of the review, when the subtitles censor the word "Paris" instead of the usual, making it look like it might say "Niggas in Penis".]]
** Then in his Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2012 review, he ends a long string of "-izzle" words with "...ma nizzle! Am I allowed to say 'nizzle'?"
** He doesn't consider Rednex (a Swedish group) to have this for caricaturing Southerners.
* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that KanyeWest and JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
* OffScreenTeleportation: He displays this in the WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown review of ''[[TheAsylum Sunday School Musical]]''. (see also StealthHiBye)
-->'''Film Brain:''' Todd, I'm curious. How did you get in here?
-->'''Todd:''' I move in the space between spaces.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's even more shocked on Kimberly Perry being 28, but appearing 16 in If I Die Young.
* OnceAnEpisode: He starts every episode by playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
** His review of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song due to how insultingly simplistic its beat was.
** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
** He's also starting to sign off his reviews in the same way: "I'm Todd in the Shadows, and ________." The blank is either filled with "I'm out" or a joke - often a CallBack - related to the song. Like from his "Scream and Shout" video:
-->'''Todd:''' I'm Todd in the Shadows, saying "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!"
** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]] and [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
* OneHitWonder:[[invoked]]
** He mentions how Mike Posner and the Far East Movement still managed to get a second hit, and asks for Hot Chelle Rae to not reach this. Then he says that despite the failure of LMFAO's follow-up single, they managed to still get a second hit with an even worse song.
** While talking about "Put It Down On Me", he stated he was adding Jeremih to "...the growing list of one-hit wonders who technically have a second hit."
** Also started a show to discuss this, One Hit Wonderland (first episode was Music/{{a-ha}}'s "Take on Me").
* [[OriginsEpisode Origin Song]]: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry literally describes exactly how the band came into popularity in the first place. Some audience member really did shout "Play that funky music, white boy" during one of their gigs.
* OrphanedPunchline: '''"...WASHING MACHINE!"'''
* OrSoIHeard:
** In the ''FromJustinToKelly'' review:
-->'''Todd:''' Your average DisneyChannel sitcom gets raunchier than this. ({{Beat}}) Not that I watch those.
** Todd repeatedly states that most of the opinions he's formed for {{PSY}}'s "Gangnam Style" is based off of simply what he's read up on the internet.
-->''Or so I've read.''
** PlayedWith in the ''Mac And Devin Go To High School'' review. Rap Critic, who has previously announced that he's never smoked weed, seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about how it effects about what it does.
-->'''Rap Critic:''' Is this what's suppose to happen when you're high on weed? Ca-Cause that's not what happens. What happens is stuff becomes funnier and music slightly speeds up. Chemically, the effects of weed are kind of mundane.\\
'''Todd:''' Wait a minute, since when do you know so much about getting high?\\
'''Rap Critic:''' What are you, ''a cop?''
* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes MichaelJordan.
* OverlyLongGag: His comparison of Hot Chelle Rae's brand of partying to high school all-night grad parties.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He does this to "Best Song Ever" in "Top 10 Hit Songs of 2013"
--> And we danced all night to the ''6th best hit song of 2013''
* PanderingToTheBase: [[{{in-universe}} He questions about this]] in "Alejandro".
-->'''Todd:''' Ok. Even if you are one of Gaga's many gay fans, at what point do you feel pandered to? Like, when do you reach the point where even you have to look back and say: "Ok, this is getting kinda gay."
** Double subverted in his review of "Born This Way", when he wonders which heavily marginalized group's self esteem the song intends to boost.
-->'''Lady Gaga:''' Just put your paws up.
-->'''Todd:''' [[FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
** Also says "Mistletoe" is this, since it's "using Christmas as an excuse for kissing Bieber fantasies."
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Todd in the "Drive By" review when he hears the "my love for you went viral" line.
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: He was [[HateDumb accused of homophobia]] when he said that "Born This Way" felt like pandering and racism when he asked "How am I supposed to tell [three members of Young Money] apart?" in reference to their respective styles.
* PeripheryDemographic:[[invoked]] He admits to liking the OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
* PetPeeveTrope: All in-universe.
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly if it's {{Beyonce}}-on-male.
** ClarkKenting: People's inability to recognize the obviousness that HannahMontana is Miley in a wig drives Todd up the wall. Todd even references Clark Kent and [[Film/{{Superman}} Christopher Reeve's performance of the character]].
** DomesticAbuse: He struggled to avoid making this the focal point of his review of "I Can Transform Ya."
** Songs that take place InDaClub.
** ChildPopstar:
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** LyricsVideoMismatch
** PainfulRhyme [[invoked]]
*** Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
** RhymingWithItself: Annoys him quite a bit.
** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
--->'''Todd:''' Hip hop! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop. Shouting. Ohhh.]]
** TheFourChordsOfPop
** LyricalShoehorn: [[{{In-universe}} With Train being the greatest offender.]]
* PersonAsVerb: In his review of "Feel This Moment" by Music/{{Pitbull}} featuring Music/ChristinaAguilera, He mentions how it's the same usual song as always, with Pitbull being Pitbull, and Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera-ing like she always does.
* PokemonSpeak: He doesn't like when singers say their own name in their songs. But he is particularly hard on Jason Derulo for this.
* ThePowerOfHate: Todd decided to take a different route when LMFAO told him to "STOP! HATIN'S BAD!" and look at the song from a more loving point of view. ''Not'' hating music almost erased him out of existence.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** A fairly enraged one in the beginning of the "Deuces" review, especially jarring because up to that point there had barely been any strong language in his videos at all.
** There was also this bit, though he wasn't in character at the time.
--->'''Todd:''' As soon as you turn that camera off, I'm beating the shit out of you.
** Something of a Tactical F Campaign throughout the "Tonight..." review.
** His response to anyone who might not like Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" is... guess it.
-->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
** In his Worst Hit Songs of 2004 list, he discusses how this can be done well ("Fuck You"), badly ("Tonight..."), or ''really'' badly (Eamon's "Fuck It").
** Todd introduces the "Worst of 2013" retrospect with "Good fucking riddance!! No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself."
* PreviouslyOn: Double-subverted:
-->'''Todd:''' Previously on Todd In The Shadows: YourMom! Hah! Also, on my show, this happened.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: FINISH. THE. RHYME!
** [[Music/ChrisBrown CAN'T...]] [[BrainBleach GET...]] [[ShowerOfAngst CLEAAAAAN!]]
** [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three words]]: Deep. Blue. Something.
* PungeonMaster: He points out in "The Safety Dance" that Men Without Hats should not be confused with the Australian pop band Men At Work (both of whom reached popularity at exactly the same time), but says that they both should have combined bands a few years later to become Men Without Work. He also says that shortly after releasing "The Safety Dance", Men Without Hats became Men Without Hits. He stops himself before he goes any further.
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