History WebVideo / SpectrumPulse

* AsTheGoodBookSays: He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ0BoB3fMxA got biblical]] in his review of Music/KanyeWest's ''Jesus Is King'', which consisted entirely of him reading passages from [[Literature/TheBible the Gospels]][[labelnote:Specifically...]]Matthew 21:12-13 (the Cleansing of the Temple), Luke 18:18-30 (Jesus and the rich young man), and John 8:2-11 (Jesus and the woman taken in adultery).[[/labelnote]] of Jesus denouncing greed, judgmental attitudes, and people who exploit religion for their own personal gain. The unstated implication was that Kanye's turn towards [[ChristianRock Christian hip-hop]] and GospelMusic was a self-serving and {{hypocrit|e}}ical one from a man who didn't seem to actually be [[HeelFaithTurn owning up to all his terrible behavior]], but was instead continuing to indulge in it and was now HidingBehindReligion to justify it.

* TheCameo: Mark appears in Part 2 of WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent's ''Worst Hit Songs of 2009'' video as well as the ''[[Music/{{Creed}} Weathered]]'', ''[[Music/LinkinPark A Thousand Suns]]'', ''[[Music/SimplePlan Still Not Getting Any...]]'', ''[[Music/TheoryOfADeadman Scars and Souvenirs]]'' and ''Music/{{Trapt}}'' episodes of ''[[WebVideo/RockedReviews Regretting the Past]]''.

* NoIndoorVoice: When he's especially angry, it's a cross between this and SuddenlyShouting.
* NWordPrivileges: Considering his rap reviews, has stated on Twitter he won't say the word if he feels it isn't necessary. When songs with the N-word in the title appear on Billboard Breakdown, he says "N-word" in its place.

* PersonaNonGrata: After learning about the controversy regarding Sia Furler's film ''Music'', Mark [[https://twitter.com/SpectrumPulse/status/1353037873159745537 tweeted]] that he will no longer cover anything related to her music on the channel again, due to being utterly disgusted with what he learned.

* OlderAndWiser: When covering ''Music/{{Fearless}} [[TheNotRemix (Taylor's Version)]]'', he thought that the song "Fifteen", a song about getting swept up in love when one is too young to know any better, benefited from Music/TaylorSwift's more grown-up perspective, and that she sold it a lot better than she did originally when she was herself still a teenager and couldn't really convey the kind of wisdom she was going for. [[SubvertedTrope On the other hand,]] he thought that "You Belong With Me", a NotLikeOtherGirls song that he already didn't really like back when Taylor was 18, sounded even more immature and catty when sung by a 31-year-old woman.

** If you read his reviews on his blog pre-YouTube, you can notice how his writing has evolved over the years. He was generally harsher back then, and also swore a whole lot more often, plus he didn't even say his name as Mark when talking about himself.

* FanNickname: [[invoked]] Not exactly a "fan", but he often refers to [=6ix9ine=] as "[=SoundCloud=] waifu" after the streaming platform he emerged from. Also he calls Tom MacDonald Tommy Boy.

* FanNickname: [[invoked]] Not exactly a "fan", but he often refers to [=6ix9ine=] as "[=SoundCloud=] waifu" after the streaming platform he emerged from.

* TheCameo: Mark appears in Part 2 of WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent's ''Worst Hit Songs of 2009'' video as well as the ''[[Music/{{Creed}} Weathered]]'', ''[[Music/LinkinPark A Thousand Suns]]'', ''[[Music/SimplePlan Still Not Getting Any...]]'', ''[[Music/TheoryOfADeadman Scars and Souvenirs]]'' and ''[[Music/{{Trapt}} Trapt]]'' episodes of ''[[WebVideo/RockedReviews Regretting the Past]]''.

* TheCameo: Mark appears in Part 2 of WebVideo/TheDoubleAgent's ''Worst Hit Songs of 2009'' video as well as the ''Weathered'', ''A Thousand Suns'', and ''Still Not Getting Any...'' episodes of WebVideo/RockedReviews' series ''Regretting the Past''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: His review of "We Beefin?" as well as his episode of On The Pulse done entireley in ASMR.

* BigWhy: His reaction to Beyoncé's "7/11" in the ''Worst Hit Songs of 2015'' video as well as [[https://youtu.be/GcWzBmNLAPA?t=1213 a Kanye West lyric from Billboard Breakdown.]]

-->'''Mark:''' I'm the kind of nerd who has hundreds of fantasy and sci-fi novels, can quote Creator/MontyPython and ''Franchise/StarWars'' verbatim, used to be a Dungeon Master when playing ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', occasionally still goes to ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' tournaments, has a physics degree, and has Aragorn's longsword [[CoolSword Andúril]] from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' mounted on his wall.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: His review of "We Beefin?" as well as his episode of On The Pulse done intireley in ASMR.

* UnreliableNarrator: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcziICLQJwo 10,000 Subscriber Q&A episode]], Mark claims to be a secret Pokémon trainer that found a wild Voltorb in a power plant and adopted him. Voltorb then explains the REAL story: [[spoiler: Mark simply bought him from a friend of an ex-girlfriend who made and sold plush Pokémon on Etsy.]]

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* BigWhy: His reaction to Beyoncé's "7/11" in the ''Worst Hit Songs of 2015'' video as well as [[https://youtu.be/GcWzBmNLAPA?t=1213 a Kanye West lyric from Billboard Breakdown.]]

-->'''Mark:''' I'm the kind of nerd who has hundreds of fantasy and sci-fi novels, can quote Creator/MontyPython and ''Franchise/StarWars'' verbatim, used to be a Dungeon Master when playing ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', occasionally still goes to ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' tournaments, has a physics degree, and has Aragorn's longsword [[CoolSword Andúril]] from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' mounted on his wall.

* UnreliableNarrator: In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcziICLQJwo 10,000 Subscriber Q&A episode]], Mark claims to be a secret Pokémon trainer that found a wild Voltorb in a power plant and adopted him. Voltorb then explains the REAL story: [[spoiler: Mark simply bought him from a friend of an ex-girlfriend who made and sold plush Pokémon on Etsy.]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: His review of "We Beefin?" as well as his episode of On The Pulse done intireley in ASMR.

* NowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: His review of "We Beefin?" as well as his episode of On The Pulse done intireley in ASMR.

** The end of his review of Southside by Music/SamHunt features a lengthy one of this

** His reviews of David Bowie's ''Blackstar'' and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' ''Skeleton Tree'', both having an uncharacteristically downtrodden and mournful tone; Mark himself has gone on the record as saying he nearly teared up in the process of filming both reviews. The former was shot mere days after the death of David Bowie, and the latter was [[spoiler:the second and to date one of only three albums he's awarded a perfect 10/10 score.]]

** In his "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2012" video, he list the genre 'Birthday Cake (Remix)' by Rihanna ft. Chris Brown as "electro-pop/migraine"

* ''The Trailing Edge'': A monthly catch-up series giving short reviews to albums that didn't get enough votes on his Patreon schedule, similar to WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop's YUNO reviews. As of 2020, the series has been cancelled.

He is also a published author, his first full-length novel ''To Kill A Dragon'' is available online [[http://morningrainpublishing.com/project/to-kill-a-dragon/ here]].

** Early Music/PostMalone, so much so when he covered him in a episode of Billboard Breakdown, he put up a ''[[ContentWarnings trigger warning]]''. However, according to him, Post has improved as an artist and Mark now just considers him average.

* NWordPrivileges: Considering his rap reviews, has stated on Twitter he won't say the word if he feels it isn't necessary. When one song with the N-word in the title appeared on Billboard Breakdown, he said "N-word" in its place.

** Album bombs, when artists (especially in the aforementioned nu-crunk genre) exploit the ''Billboard'' Hot 100's rules for streaming to hit the charts with the force of a thousand bricks, displacing other songs and often sapping their momentum so that most if not all of the album's songs, including the {{filler}} (even interludes and sketches in some extreme cases), can chart. It doesn't help that he suspects many of these album bombs are driven more by [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney payola]] with the major streaming services than anything. In 2018, he [[TheLastStraw got fed up]] and instituted a new rule on ''Billboard Breakdown'' for discussing album bombs: if eight or more songs chart off an album in one week, he will only discuss his best and worst of the week and any songs that landed in the top 40.

* BigWhat: His reaction to a Gucci Mane lyric on [[https://youtu.be/3knLLnN0MG0?t=13m another Billboard Breakdown]].

** Music/SamHunt, as seen in his reviews of "Take Your Time" from the Worst Hit Songs of 2015 list and "Make You Miss Me", "Drinkin' Too Much", and "Body Like a Back Road" from Billboard Breakdown.