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[[caption-width-right:350: [[Radio/TheShadow Who knows what evil lurks]] in the heart of the Billboard Top 100? [[TheFaceless The Shadow]] knows.]]
->''"I don't make these videos because I hate pop music, I do it because I LOVE pop music."''

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.]]

Todd has four different shows:
* ''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.
* ''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]]
* ''Trainwreckords'': analyzing CreatorKiller albums that removed well-known, successful artists from the popular spotlight.[[invoked]]
* ''Cinemadonna'': a review series of the entire filmography of Music/{{Madonna}} (now completed).

He also has a podcast ''Podcast/SongVsSong'' which compares big hits from pop history.

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.

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.]]

All tropes regarding Todd himself go to the [[Characters/ToddInTheShadows character sheet]].
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!!Works covered on Todd's docu-review shows:
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[[folder:''One Hit Wonderland'']]
* 2012
** Music/{{AHa}} - "Take On Me" (1986)
** Music/SirMixALot - "Baby Got Back" (1992)
** Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974)
** Music/DexysMidnightRunners - "Come On Eileen" (1982)
** Gerardo - "Rico Suave" (1990)
** Music/BillyRayCyrus - "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992)
** Music/MenWithoutHats - "Safety Dance" (1982)
** Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music" (1976)
** Bobby "Boris" Pickett - "Monster Mash" (1962)
** Music/{{Chumbawamba}} - "Tubthumping" (1997)
** Elmo & Patsy - "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" (1979)
* 2013
** Creator/EddieMurphy - "Party All the Time" (1985)
** Semisonic - "Closing Time" (1998)
** Billy Paul - "Me & Mrs. Jones" (1972)
** The Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men" (1982)
** Music/{{Rednex}} - "Cotton-Eye Joe" (1994)
** EMF - "Unbelievable" (1990)
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls - "I Ran (So Far Away)" (1982)
** Music/TheProclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (1988)
** Music/MrBig - "To Be With You" (1991)
** Music/{{Iron Butterfly|Band}} - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968)
** Baha Men - "Who Let the Dogs Out" (2000)
** Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" (1984)
** Music/AlienAntFarm - [[Music/MichaelJackson "Smooth Criminal"]] (2001)
** Debby Boone - "You Light Up My Life" (1977)
** Music/DeadOrAlive - "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (1984)
* 2014
** Marc Cohn - "Walking in Memphis" (1991)
** Music/{{OMC}} - "How Bizarre" (1995)
** The Floaters - "Float On" (1977)
** [[Music/TheFugees Pras]] - "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" (1998)
** Nine Days - "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" (2000)
** Deee-Lite - "Groove Is in the Heart" (1990)
** Music/BizMarkie - "Music/JustAFriend" (1989)
** Snow - "Informer" (1992)
** Blue Swede - "Hooked on a Feeling" (1974)
** Michael Sembello - "Maniac" (1983)
** Shawn Mullins - "Lullaby" (1998)
* 2015
** Music/{{Cameo}} - "Word Up!" (1986)
** Music/Eiffel65 - "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (1998)
** John Parr - "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" (1985)
** Music/{{Hanson}} - [="MMMBop"=] (1997)
** The Vapors - "Turning Japanese" (1980)
** Crazy Town - "Butterfly" (1999)
** Meco - [[Film/ANewHope "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band"]] (1977)
* 2016
** Toni Basil - "Mickey" (1982)
** Barry [=McGuire=] - "Eve of Destruction" (1965)
** Music/{{Chamillionaire}} - "Ridin'" (2005)
** Music/TheDarkness - "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" (2003)
** Living in a Box - "Living in a Box" (1987)
** Donna Lewis - "I Love You Always Forever" (1996)
** Music/{{Divinyls}} - "I Touch Myself" (1990)
** Music/WallOfVoodoo - "Mexican Radio" (1982)
** Coven - "One Tin Soldier" (1971)
** Music/JarsOfClay - "Flood" (1995)
** Music/MidnightOil - "Beds Are Burning" (1987)
* 2017
** Music/{{Falco}} - "Rock Me Amadeus" (1985)
** Music/TheBuggles - "Music/VideoKilledTheRadioStar" (1979)
** Adina Howard - "Freak Like Me" (1995)
** SR-71 - "Right Now" (2000)
** Mungo Jerry - "In the Summertime" (1970)
** [=D4L=] - "Laffy Taffy" (2005)
** [[Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock Jordan Knight]] - "Give It to You" (1999)
** Music/RightSaidFred - "I'm Too Sexy" (1991)
** [[Music/ArthurBrown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]] - "Fire" (1968)
** Rick Derringer - "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" (1973)
* 2018
** Kyper - "Tic-Tac-Toe" (1990)
** Haddaway - "What Is Love" (1993)
** Music/ButtholeSurfers - "Pepper" (1996)
** Music/ScatmanJohn - "Scatman (Ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)" (1994)
** Music/EverythingButTheGirl - "Missing" (1994)
** Music/TheCardigans - "Lovefool" (1996)
** Music/ThomasDolby - "She Blinded Me With Science" (1982)
** Music/LoreenaMcKennitt - "The Mummers' Dance" (1997)
** Music/TheCalling - "Wherever You Will Go" (2001)
** Music/SClub7 - "Never Had a Dream Come True" (2000)
* 2019
** Music/HarveyDanger - "Flagpole Sitta" (1997)
** Music/OKGo - "Here It Goes Again" (2005)
** Music/HouseOfPain - "Jump Around" (1992)
** Paper Lace - "The Night Chicago Died" (1974)
** Music/NewRadicals - "You Get What You Give" (1998)
** Van [=McCoy=] - "The Hustle" (1975)
** Asher Roth - "I Love College" (2009)
* 2020
** Young MC - "Bust a Move" (1989)
** Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown" (1979)
** Music/{{Yello}} - "Oh Yeah" (1985)
** Corona - "The Rhythm of the Night" (1993)
** Jimmy Ray - "Are You Jimmy Ray" (1997)
** Modern English - "I Melt With You" (1982)
** The Buoys - "Timothy" (1970)
** Music/TheWaitresses - "I Know What Boys Like" (1980)
* 2021
** Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)" (1993)
** Mark Morrison - "Return of the Mack" (1996)
** [[Music/RickDees Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots]] - "Disco Duck" (1976)
** Meredith Brooks - "Bitch" (1997)
** Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus - "Face Down" (2006)
** Lou Bega - "Mambo No. 5" (1999)
** Evan and Jaron - "Crazy for This Girl" (2000)
* 2022
** Edison Lighthouse - "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (1970)
** Music/BobbyMcFerrin - "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (1988)
** Mims - "This Is Why I'm Hot" (2007)
** Los del Río - "Macarena" (1993)
** White Town - "Your Woman" (1997)
* 2023
** Autograph - "Turn Up the Radio" (1984)
** Music/{{Nena}} - "99 Luftballons" (1983)
** Skee-Lo - "I Wish" (1995)
** Music/{{Aqua}} - "Barbie Girl" (1997)
** Music/{{Mike Oldfield}} - "Tubular Bells" (1973)
* 2024
** Music/{{Frankie Goes to Hollywood}} - "Relax" (1984)
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[[folder:''Cinemadonna'']]
* ''Film/DesperatelySeekingSusan'' (1985)
* ''Film/ShanghaiSurprise'' (1986)
* ''Film/ACertainSacrifice'' (1985)
* ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' (1987)
* ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'' (1989)
* ''Film/DickTracy'' (1990)
* ''Madonna: Truth or Dare'' (1991)
* ''Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn'' (1992)
* ''Film/BodyOfEvidence'' (1993)
* ''Dangerous Game'' (1993)
* ''Music/{{Evita}}'' (1996)
* ''The Next Best Thing'' (2000)
* ''Film/SweptAway'' (2002)
* ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' (2002) and other cameos
* ''Filth and Wisdom'' (2008)
* ''[[Film/WE2011 W.E.]]'' (2011)
* ''I'm Going to Tell You a Secret'' (2005)
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[[folder:''Trainwreckords'']]
* 2017
** Music/{{Jewel}} - ''0304'' (2003)
** Music/{{Styx}} - ''Music/KilroyWasHere'' (1983)
* 2018
** Music/MCHammer - ''The Funky Headhunter'' (1994)
** Music/{{Oasis}} - ''Music/BeHereNow'' (1997)
** Music/VanHalen - ''Van Halen III'' (1998)
** Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival - ''Music/MardiGras'' (1972)
** Music/BillyIdol - ''Cyberpunk'' (1993)
* 2019
** Music/LaurynHill - ''MTV Unplugged 2.0'' (2002)
** Music/{{Madonna}} - ''Music/AmericanLife'' (2003)
** Music/RobinThicke - ''Paula'' (2014)
** Music/TheClash - ''Music/CutTheCrap'' (1985)
** Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish - ''Fairweather Johnson'' (1996)
* 2020
** Music/TheBeachBoys - ''Music/SummerInParadise'' (1992)
** Arrested Development - ''Zingalamaduni'' (1994)
** [[Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand Gregg Allman]] & Music/{{Cher}} [[note]]Credited to “Allman & Woman”[[/note]] - ''Music/TwoTheHardWay'' (1977)
** Music/LizPhair - ''Funstyle'' (2010)
* 2021
** Music/{{Metallica}} - ''Music/StAnger'' (2003)
** Music/TheHumanLeague - ''Crash'' (1986)
** Music/SpinDoctors - ''Turn It Upside Down'' (1994)
** Music/{{Carpenters}} - ''Passage'' (1977)
** 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]]
* 2022
** Music/KatyPerry - ''Witness'' (2017)
** Creator/WillSmith - ''Lost and Found'' (2005)
** Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung - ''American Dream'' (1988)
** Music/MotleyCrue - ''Generation Swine'' (1997)
* 2023
** Music/RunDMC - ''Crown Royal'' (2001)
** Music/RingoStarr - ''Ringo the 4th'' (1977)
** Music/{{Nickelback}} - ''No Fixed Address'' (2014)
* 2024
** Music/FaithHill - ''Cry'' (2002)
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!!Tropes used by Todd in the Shadows in his reviews:
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* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesAToC A to C]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesDToF D to F]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesGToI G to I]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesJToM J to M]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesNToP N to P]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesQToS Q to S]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesTToV T to V]]
* [[ToddInTheShadows/TropesWToZ W to Z]]
[[/index]]
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