| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toddshadows.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[Radio/TheShadow Who knows what evil lurks]] in the heart of the Billboard Top 100? [[TheFaceless The Shadow]] knows.]] |
| 3 | ->''"I don't make these videos because I hate pop music, I do it because I LOVE pop music."'' |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Todd Nathanson (born 3 June 1984) is a Website/YouTube-based reviewer who focuses on snarking on pop music of the past and present. Combines legitimate complaints with humorous observations and [[ShoutOut/ToddInTheShadows Shout Outs]]. Also, [[TheFaceless he always obscures his face in his videos.]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Todd has four different shows: |
| 8 | * ''Todd's Pop Song Reviews'': {{review}}s of modern pop songs, talking about how bad (and sometimes good) they are, which makes him ask how they even became popular in the first place. He also releases a pair of videos where he lists the worst and best hit songs of the current year at the end of each year. |
| 9 | * ''One Hit Wonderland'': self-described in each episode as "a look at bands and artists [[OneHitWonder known for only one song]]". In each episode, Todd goes over the early careers of the hitmaker, reviews their one hit song, details the failed follow-ups, and analyzes whether their talents and/or charisma meant they deserved better.[[invoked]] |
| 10 | * ''Trainwreckords'': analyzing CreatorKiller albums that removed well-known, successful artists from the popular spotlight.[[invoked]] |
| 11 | * ''Cinemadonna'': a review series of the entire filmography of Music/{{Madonna}} (now completed). |
| 12 | |
| 13 | He also has a podcast ''Podcast/SongVsSong'' which compares big hits from pop history. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | A former member of Website/ChannelAwesome, he left the site in early 2018. Once a frequent "SpecialGuest" on WebVideo/PushingUpRoses' "LetsPlay Shorties". Todd also regularly appeared on Roses' Let's Plays of {{Edutainment}} PC games from the early '90s. He also had frequent cameo roles and co-writing credits on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's early videos. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | His videos can be found on his [=YouTube=] account [[https://www.youtube.com/user/carlos10009 here.]] His Website/{{Twitter}} account can be found [[http://twitter.com/ShadowTodd here.]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | All tropes regarding Todd himself go to the [[Characters/ToddInTheShadows character sheet]]. |
| 20 | ---- |
| 21 | !!Works covered on Todd's docu-review shows: |
| 22 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 23 | [[folder:''One Hit Wonderland'']] |
| 24 | * 2012 |
| 25 | ** Music/{{AHa}} - "Take On Me" (1986) |
| 26 | ** Music/SirMixALot - "Baby Got Back" (1992) |
| 27 | ** Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) |
| 28 | ** Music/DexysMidnightRunners - "Come On Eileen" (1982) |
| 29 | ** Gerardo - "Rico Suave" (1990) |
| 30 | ** Music/BillyRayCyrus - "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992) |
| 31 | ** Music/MenWithoutHats - "Safety Dance" (1982) |
| 32 | ** Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music" (1976) |
| 33 | ** Bobby "Boris" Pickett - "Monster Mash" (1962) |
| 34 | ** Music/{{Chumbawamba}} - "Tubthumping" (1997) |
| 35 | ** Elmo & Patsy - "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" (1979) |
| 36 | * 2013 |
| 37 | ** Creator/EddieMurphy - "Party All the Time" (1985) |
| 38 | ** Semisonic - "Closing Time" (1998) |
| 39 | ** Billy Paul - "Me & Mrs. Jones" (1972) |
| 40 | ** The Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men" (1982) |
| 41 | ** Music/{{Rednex}} - "Cotton-Eye Joe" (1994) |
| 42 | ** EMF - "Unbelievable" (1990) |
| 43 | ** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls - "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982) |
| 44 | ** Music/TheProclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (1988) |
| 45 | ** Music/MrBig - "To Be With You" (1991) |
| 46 | ** Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}} - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968) |
| 47 | ** Baha Men - "Who Let the Dogs Out" (2000) |
| 48 | ** Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" (1984) |
| 49 | ** Music/AlienAntFarm - [[Music/MichaelJackson "Smooth Criminal"]] (2001) |
| 50 | ** Debby Boone - "You Light Up My Life" (1977) |
| 51 | ** Music/DeadOrAlive - "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (1984) |
| 52 | * 2014 |
| 53 | ** Marc Cohn - "Walking in Memphis" (1991) |
| 54 | ** Music/{{OMC}} - "How Bizarre" (1995) |
| 55 | ** The Floaters - "Float On" (1977) |
| 56 | ** [[Music/TheFugees Pras]] - "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" (1998) |
| 57 | ** Nine Days - "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" (2000) |
| 58 | ** Deee-Lite - "Groove Is in the Heart" (1990) |
| 59 | ** Music/BizMarkie - "Music/JustAFriend" (1989) |
| 60 | ** Snow - "Informer" (1992) |
| 61 | ** Blue Swede - "Hooked on a Feeling" (1974) |
| 62 | ** Michael Sembello - "Maniac" (1983) |
| 63 | ** Shawn Mullins - "Lullaby" (1998) |
| 64 | * 2015 |
| 65 | ** Music/{{Cameo}} - "Word Up!" (1986) |
| 66 | ** Music/Eiffel65 - "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (1998) |
| 67 | ** John Parr - "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" (1985) |
| 68 | ** Music/{{Hanson}} - [="MMMBop"=] (1997) |
| 69 | ** The Vapors - "Turning Japanese" (1980) |
| 70 | ** Crazy Town - "Butterfly" (1999) |
| 71 | ** Meco - [[Film/ANewHope "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band"]] (1977) |
| 72 | * 2016 |
| 73 | ** Toni Basil - "Mickey" (1982) |
| 74 | ** Barry [=McGuire=] - "Eve of Destruction" (1965) |
| 75 | ** Music/{{Chamillionaire}} - "Ridin'" (2005) |
| 76 | ** Music/TheDarkness - "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" (2003) |
| 77 | ** Living in a Box - "Living in a Box" (1987) |
| 78 | ** Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" (1996) |
| 79 | ** Music/{{Divinyls}} - "I Touch Myself" (1990) |
| 80 | ** Music/WallOfVoodoo - "Mexican Radio" (1982) |
| 81 | ** Coven - "One Tin Soldier" (1971) |
| 82 | ** Music/JarsOfClay - "Flood" (1995) |
| 83 | ** Music/MidnightOil - "Beds Are Burning" (1987) |
| 84 | * 2017 |
| 85 | ** Music/{{Falco}} - "Rock Me Amadeus" (1985) |
| 86 | ** Music/TheBuggles - "Music/VideoKilledTheRadioStar" (1979) |
| 87 | ** Adina Howard - "Freak Like Me" (1995) |
| 88 | ** SR-71 - "Right Now" (2000) |
| 89 | ** Mungo Jerry - "In the Summertime" (1970) |
| 90 | ** [=D4L=] - "Laffy Taffy" (2005) |
| 91 | ** [[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock Jordan Knight]] - "Give It to You" (1999) |
| 92 | ** Music/RightSaidFred - "I'm Too Sexy" (1991) |
| 93 | ** [[Music/ArthurBrown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]] - "Fire" (1968) |
| 94 | ** Rick Derringer - "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" (1973) |
| 95 | * 2018 |
| 96 | ** Kyper - "Tic-Tac-Toe" (1990) |
| 97 | ** Haddaway - "What Is Love" (1993) |
| 98 | ** Music/ButtholeSurfers - "Pepper" (1996) |
| 99 | ** Music/ScatmanJohn - "Scatman (Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)" (1994) |
| 100 | ** Music/EverythingButTheGirl - "Missing" (1994) |
| 101 | ** Music/TheCardigans - "Lovefool" (1996) |
| 102 | ** Music/ThomasDolby - "She Blinded Me With Science" (1982) |
| 103 | ** Music/LoreenaMcKennitt - "The Mummers' Dance" (1997) |
| 104 | ** Music/TheCalling - "Wherever You Will Go" (2001) |
| 105 | ** Music/SClub7 - "Never Had a Dream Come True" (2000) |
| 106 | * 2019 |
| 107 | ** Music/HarveyDanger - "Flagpole Sitta" (1997) |
| 108 | ** Music/OKGo - "Here It Goes Again" (2005) |
| 109 | ** Music/HouseOfPain - "Jump Around" (1992) |
| 110 | ** Paper Lace - "The Night Chicago Died" (1974) |
| 111 | ** Music/NewRadicals - "You Get What You Give" (1998) |
| 112 | ** Van [=McCoy=] - "The Hustle" (1975) |
| 113 | ** Asher Roth - "I Love College" (2009) |
| 114 | * 2020 |
| 115 | ** Young MC - "Bust a Move" (1989) |
| 116 | ** Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown" (1979) |
| 117 | ** Music/{{Yello}} - "Oh Yeah" (1985) |
| 118 | ** Corona - "The Rhythm of the Night" (1993) |
| 119 | ** Jimmy Ray - "Are You Jimmy Ray" (1997) |
| 120 | ** Modern English - "I Melt With You" (1982) |
| 121 | ** The Buoys - "Timothy" (1970) |
| 122 | ** Music/TheWaitresses - "I Know What Boys Like" (1980) |
| 123 | * 2021 |
| 124 | ** Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)" (1993) |
| 125 | ** Mark Morrison - "Return of the Mack" (1996) |
| 126 | ** [[Music/RickDees Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots]] - "Disco Duck" (1976) |
| 127 | ** Meredith Brooks - "Bitch" (1997) |
| 128 | ** Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus - "Face Down" (2006) |
| 129 | ** Lou Bega - "Mambo No. 5" (1999) |
| 130 | ** Evan and Jaron - "Crazy for This Girl" (2000) |
| 131 | * 2022 |
| 132 | ** Edison Lighthouse - "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (1970) |
| 133 | ** Music/BobbyMcFerrin - "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (1988) |
| 134 | ** Mims - "This Is Why I'm Hot" (2007) |
| 135 | ** Los del Río - "Macarena" (1993) |
| 136 | ** White Town - "Your Woman" (1997) |
| 137 | * 2023 |
| 138 | ** Autograph - "Turn Up the Radio" (1984) |
| 139 | ** Music/{{Nena}} - "99 Luftballons" (1983) |
| 140 | ** Skee-Lo - "I Wish" (1995) |
| 141 | ** Music/{{Aqua}} - "Barbie Girl" (1997) |
| 142 | ** Music/{{Mike Oldfield}} - "Tubular Bells" (1973) |
| 143 | * 2024 |
| 144 | ** Music/{{Frankie Goes to Hollywood}} - "Relax" (1984) |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:''Cinemadonna'']] |
| 148 | * ''Film/DesperatelySeekingSusan'' (1985) |
| 149 | * ''Film/ShanghaiSurprise'' (1986) |
| 150 | * ''Film/ACertainSacrifice'' (1985) |
| 151 | * ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' (1987) |
| 152 | * ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1989) |
| 153 | * ''Film/DickTracy'' (1990) |
| 154 | * ''Madonna: Truth or Dare'' (1991) |
| 155 | * ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'' (1992) |
| 156 | * ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' (1993) |
| 157 | * ''Dangerous Game'' (1993) |
| 158 | * ''Music/{{Evita}}'' (1996) |
| 159 | * ''The Next Best Thing'' (2000) |
| 160 | * ''Film/SweptAway'' (2002) |
| 161 | * ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' (2002) and other cameos |
| 162 | * ''Filth and Wisdom'' (2008) |
| 163 | * ''[[Film/WE2011 W.E.]]'' (2011) |
| 164 | * ''I'm Going to Tell You a Secret'' (2005) |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:''Trainwreckords'']] |
| 168 | * 2017 |
| 169 | ** Music/{{Jewel}} - ''0304'' (2003) |
| 170 | ** Music/{{Styx}} - ''Music/KilroyWasHere'' (1983) |
| 171 | * 2018 |
| 172 | ** Music/MCHammer - ''The Funky Headhunter'' (1994) |
| 173 | ** Music/{{Oasis}} - ''Music/BeHereNow'' (1997) |
| 174 | ** Music/VanHalen - ''Van Halen III'' (1998) |
| 175 | ** Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival - ''Music/MardiGras'' (1972) |
| 176 | ** Music/BillyIdol - ''Cyberpunk'' (1993) |
| 177 | * 2019 |
| 178 | ** Music/LaurynHill - ''MTV Unplugged 2.0'' (2002) |
| 179 | ** Music/{{Madonna}} - ''Music/AmericanLife'' (2003) |
| 180 | ** Music/RobinThicke - ''Paula'' (2014) |
| 181 | ** Music/TheClash - ''Music/CutTheCrap'' (1985) |
| 182 | ** Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish - ''Fairweather Johnson'' (1996) |
| 183 | * 2020 |
| 184 | ** Music/TheBeachBoys - ''Music/SummerInParadise'' (1992) |
| 185 | ** Arrested Development - ''Zingalamaduni'' (1994) |
| 186 | ** [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Gregg Allman]] & Music/{{Cher}} [[note]]Credited to “Allman & Woman”[[/note]] - ''Music/TwoTheHardWay'' (1977) |
| 187 | ** Music/LizPhair - ''Funstyle'' (2010) |
| 188 | * 2021 |
| 189 | ** Music/{{Metallica}} - ''Music/StAnger'' (2003) |
| 190 | ** Music/TheHumanLeague - ''Crash'' (1986) |
| 191 | ** Music/SpinDoctors - ''Turn It Upside Down'' (1994) |
| 192 | ** Music/{{Carpenters}} - ''Passage'' (1977) |
| 193 | ** Edgar Winter & Creator/LRonHubbard - ''Literature/MissionEarth'' (1986/1989)[[note]]The official year of release is 1986, but as Todd notes, press coverage of its release began three years later.[[/note]] |
| 194 | * 2022 |
| 195 | ** Music/KatyPerry - ''Witness'' (2017) |
| 196 | ** Creator/WillSmith - ''Lost and Found'' (2005) |
| 197 | ** Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung - ''American Dream'' (1988) |
| 198 | ** Music/MotleyCrue - ''Generation Swine'' (1997) |
| 199 | * 2023 |
| 200 | ** Music/RunDMC - ''Crown Royal'' (2001) |
| 201 | ** Music/RingoStarr - ''Ringo the 4th'' (1977) |
| 202 | ** Music/{{Nickelback}} - ''No Fixed Address'' (2014) |
| 203 | * 2024 |
| 204 | ** Music/FaithHill - ''Cry'' (2002) |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | ---- |
| 207 | !!Tropes used by Todd in the Shadows in his reviews: |
| 208 | [[index]] |
| 209 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesAToC A to C]] |
| 210 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesDToF D to F]] |
| 211 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesGToI G to I]] |
| 212 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesJToM J to M]] |
| 213 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesNToP N to P]] |
| 214 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesQToS Q to S]] |
| 215 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesTToV T to V]] |
| 216 | * [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesWToZ W to Z]] |
| 217 | [[/index]] |
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