Line #57 Creator/MarcMues


1	Moth Mues
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3	Host of Riffcoms and Riff Break, centered around riffing and reacting to sitcoms (or miscellaneous television media)
4	and commercial compilations, respectively. Previous series focused around wrestling and/or music videos include RAW Reactions, WWF Magazine Cover to Cover, First Impressions, and Rope Break. In 2014, they started the "Goin' Off" music-related podcast with WebVideo/TheRapCritic.
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6	Their Website/YouTube channels can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/user/riffcoms here]]
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8	They are also a former member of Website/{{RVT}}, previously Xtreme Network Online.
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11	!!This user provides examples of:
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13	* AccentuateTheNegative. They do this to such an extreme degree that in one of their own videos, "Top 10 Best Pop Singles of 2010", they didn't say a single positive thing about the song they chose for #2.
14	** Some choice excerpts from said video: "She sounds like a train wreck", "the song is pretty basic and stupid", and "can't tell jokes, she's boring, moody, and can't do anything right".
15	* AccidentalInnuendo: [[invoked]] Mues asks WebVideo/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.
16	* ActingForTwo: Sometimes the character "Marco", Mues in a [[MaskedLuchador Luchador mask]], appears.
17	* AlliterativeName: '''M'''oth '''M'''ues.
18	* AppealToObscurity: In the ''Music/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:
19	--> '''Rap Critic''': Who?
20	--> '''Mues''': Exactly.
21	* AuthorTract: Mues hates them, saying 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.
22	* TheCameo:
23	** [[Website/ChannelAwesome Bhargav]], {{Creator/Demoversi}}, WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows, [[WebVideo/WhatWeHadToWatch Il Neige]], and WebVideo/DiamandaHagan all have cameos in their first crossover with The Rap Critic.
24	** Creator/ApolloZHack has a cameo in the "J.R. Rotem SUCKS (and here’s why)" video. He gets defensive after Mues calls Rotem a "hack".
25	** To demonstrate how easy it is to rhyme Mues' name, [[WebVideo/TheRapCritic RapCritic]], 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.
26	* BlatantLies: Calls out G. Craig Lewis for this several times.
27	* {{Bowdlerise}}: Riffcoms was originally "Shitcoms" before having to make the channel advertiser friendly was a concern.
28	* CanineCompanion: Mues' dog Noodles sometimes joins in.
29	* CargoShip: [[invoked]] In their review of ''Take Care'' by Music/{{Drake}}, they insult their car quite extensively before apologizing profusely to it as if it were their girlfriend.
30	* CausticCritic. In their early reviews every song would be reviewed as jaw-droppingly awful and songs were never given even a cursory compliment. They've softened their approach recently, but are still one of the more caustic critics out there.
31	* {{Crossover}}: With WebVideo/TheRapCritic for "Raise Up" and ''Music/SouljaBoy: TheMovie''.
32	* DeadpanSnarker: Oh so much.
33	* EndOfAnEra: Mues' established style for a very long time was their mostly unscripted, on-the-fly rants that were more generalized around a specific artist and their recent music. Around mid-late 2010 they retired the 'SUCKS (and here's why)' format and moved onto more structured reviews of entire albums and although still snarky, has toned down the anger a bit. YMMV on whether this change was for the better.
34	** Even more, so the eventual rebranding of his channel. They kept doing Mues Reviews up through the mid 2010s until the views dried up, and it wasn't worth the effort. These days, they almost exclusively do Riffcoms (which is what they renamed the channel to) and their podcast with Rap Critic.
35	* EpicFail: On "Somebody That I Used To Know": "I can't hear [Gotye] over the acoustic guitar!"
36	* EpicRocking: Mues is not a fan, given their patience is already exhausted with songs that last 5 minutes. The sole exception seems to be their praise for Music/{{Metallica}}'s eighties albums.
37	* FollowTheLeader. They're 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]].
38	* HypocriticalHumor: After Music/{{Drake}} references his "Acura Days", Mues plays clips of several artists bashing their previous vehicles and criticizes them for doing so. Mues immediately insults their own vehicle, eviscerating it, which is made even more hypocritical as Drake didn't actually say anything negative about the car. Mues apologizes to the vehicle afterwards (see Cargo Ship).
39	** Although not intentional, they bash 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 themselves as a nerd and an asshole.
40	** In the same review, they talk 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.
41	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Almost all of the old, 'classic' Mues rants are extremely hard to find and possibly lost to time altogether. They deleted quite a few of them on their own due to their 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 their other early series like Cover To Cover (where they'd read old wrestling magazines) and Living With Geddy Lee. A few survived on Blip... until that site went down for good, anyways.
42	* LesserOfTwoEvils: Invoked in the eponymous video series where two horrible musicians are compared to each other.
43	* MisattributedSong: [[InUniverse In the Billboard Top 10 April 2012 review]], they mistook Wiz Khalifa's verse on "Payphone" for B.o.B..
44	* 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. Old episodes of Goin Off included the reading of the "n-word" while quoting lyrics, but was addressed in 2017 and has not been a problem since.
45	* RealSongThemeTune: "A Working Day" by Music/BenFolds and Nick Hornby from their collaborative album ''Lonely Avenue''
46	* RantComedy: Their hatred for bad music often leads to comedic screams.
47	* ShoutOut: Their review of "Mistletoe" by Music/JustinBieber in part resembles the news segments in Franchise/StarshipTroopers.
48	* SillyLoveSongs: Mues doesn't like them. At all. In their "Top 10 WORST Beatles Songs" video, most entries fit firmly within this genre (and written by TropeNamer Music/PaulMcCartney, of course).
49	* {{Smark}}
50	* TakeThat: They made videos directed against MoralGuardians who preach against the old and TheNewRockAndRoll. They're especially angered by the distortion of facts these people frequently employ.
51	** They also delivered a rant against the constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage in their home state of UsefulNotes/NorthCarolina.
52	* TheStinger: Many of their episodes have a short segment after the credits where they film their dog, Noodles.
53	* TopTenList: Has been known for some of these, including ''Top Ten [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] Songs'' and ''Top Ten Pop Songs of 2010''.
54	* VideoReviewShow
55	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: [[invoked]] Their ''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.
56	* 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.

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