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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2019 Part 1

• Todd walks back on some of his comments on Panic! at the Disco and puts "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" on the list. He also walks back on his concerns about Brendon Urie becoming the new Adam Levine...mostly because Adam Levine himself (sadly) doesn't seem to be going anywhere like Todd had hoped.
• Todd revealing he used to work as a substitute teacher. It mostly consisted of him handing out worksheets and hoping none of the kids noticed he was hungover.
• The discussion of "A Lot" by 21 Savage gets pretty heavy... except when the song takes a swing at musicians who fake their online-streaming stats.
  Todd: Who's listening to those songs? A bot.
  • Noting how 21 Savage's featured verse on Post Malone's "Rockstar" made the latter sound like Billy Eichner in comparison.
• Todd shares a fond memory of driving a long seaside highway during the summer and listening to "Circles" by Post Malone... a memory which is completely false, since A. the song hadn't come out by the end of the summer, B. Todd lives in New York City, which has no long seaside highways, and C. Todd doesn't drive anywhere.

The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2019 Part 2

• You can just see all the reluctance Todd is feeling as he's about to reveal his #5 pick because it's about to open a floodgate he never wanted to tackle: "Boy With Luv" by BTS and the rise of K-pop.
  Todd: God, just mentioning them is going to get me written into a bunch of weird fanfics or something. And that is entirely valid if you want to do that and not something I'm criticizing in any way. [nervous laugh] All I can say is, I'm grateful I didn't have to put this on the Worst list^note Which is hilarious in hindsight, because the very next year, he did put a K-pop song—"Ice Cream" by BLACKPINK and Selena Gomez—on his "Worst of 2020" list, and the bulk of that segment was him talking about how scared he was that K-Pop fans were going to kill him.
  • Todd asks if any Western artists want to throw down the gauntlet against the rise of K-Pop. He then cuts to a clip of "Yummy" by Justin Bieber.
    Todd: ...I, for one, welcome our new Korean overlords! (gives thumbs up)
• Regarding "Never Really Over", Todd notes that his one gripe with Zedd is the ticking clock sound he keeps putting into his music.
  Todd: It's like John Woo with his goddamn doves. Like, I got it the first time. Not every shoot-out needs doves, not every quiet moment needs a ticking clock, just shout "Z-z-z-Zedd!" at the beginning of your songs like other producers do.
• Todd loves the hooks on Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" so much he even plays one of the licks on his piano, blending it seamlessly with the actual song.
  • Todd also loves Billie Eilish because she's the first teen pop star he's seen that embraces the fact that teenagers are sociopaths.

Justin Bieber - "Yummy"

• While breaking from his previous angry rumbling "BIIIIEBER" Running Gag, Todd does something possibly even harsher: He opens by genuinely asking "Do we need Justin Bieber?"
• Given how he looks in the video, Todd briefly refers to Bieber as "SNL star Pete Davidson".
• After stating that "Yummy" is already as disgusting a word as "Moist", Todd reels back when acknowledging that Bieber uses the word as a noun.
  Todd: Let me try something here. "Girl, you got the moist..." Euagh! Okay, gross adjectives are even worse as gross nouns! Confirmed!
  • He even considers Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy," noting that even they did not make this mistake.
    Todd: Unless you're a three year old telling your mom how much you like your Spaghetti-O's, the word "yummy" should not leave your mouth.
• Partway through the review, Todd comes to the conclusion that on a technical level, the song would probably be fine if it wasn't for the off-putting title and chorus... likening it to a perfectly well-written essay about how Robert E. Lee fought for the North.
  Todd: Except for being based off a blatantly stupid idea, it's fine! You'd still get an F, but change a couple of words, you're probably good!
• Saying that the song reminds him of the Mr. Creosote scene from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, then playing Yummy over one of the scenes of Mr. Creosote vomiting.
• Todd reacting in horror to the part in the music video where Bieber's chin get distorted.
  Todd: What was that? You about to turn into Large Marge? What is this video?!

Drake - "Toosie Slide"

• The fact that two months after the Trainwreckords on Summer in Paradise, Todd already considers Mike Love to be an "enemy of this show".
• Todd talking about TikTok trying to find the next Lil Nas X, aka the new up-and-coming viral star with a big hit. Apparently they found one, so Todd checked it out. It turns out to be...an already super famous Drake. His reaction?
  Todd: Fucking Drake! Fucking Drake, again!
• "Now I'm just making myself sad. I'm gonna right foot up left foot slide outta here."
• The credits song: "I don't want to dance / Dance with you baby no more"

6ix9ine & Nicki Minaj - "Trollz"

• Todd didn't bother to learn this song on the piano for his intro. It's not worth it.
• Todd mocks the fact that he's sponsored now by advertising Pop-Tarts near the beginning of the video (since Nicki is wearing pasties in the video reminiscent of two different types of Pop-Tarts) and superimposing the boxes over her breasts. He soon gets a text saying no one wants to be associated with 6ix9ine, all of his sponsorship deals have been cancelled, and he's not allowed to eat Pop-Tarts anymore.
• Todd discusses the fascination with evil clowns, even noting that America elected one as president. This was such an obvious joke that he added a laugh track.
  • Noting that the Insane Clown Posse was America's "evil clown" music for decades, but have since been reevaluated as talented artists and nice, genuine guys, Todd speculates that it created a vacuum for a new, genuinely reprehensible evil clown to fill, and Hernandez — "a medieval court jester that sells drugs" and "a minor character in The Warriors that's in a gang called the Skittles" — stepped into the spotlight.
• Todd comparing Tekashi's vocals to "Gilbert Gottfried having his legs broken." *accompanied by an appropriate picture of Gottfried shouting at the microphone*, presumably as a nod to the second part of his "Worst Hit Songs of 2019", in which he also cited Lewis Capaldi vocals as "a cross between Gottfried and to an angry Velociraptor", while discussing about Capaldi's ballad "Someone You Loved", which was sitting at #4 on the list.
• The Running Gag that it is next to impossible for 6ix9ine to claim he isn't who he is. At the end, Todd depicts a future Tekashi in witness protection for snitching as Henry Hill getting his newspaper, except that he's spotted within seconds and shot dead.
  Todd as 6ix9ine: "It wasn't me, your honour! It was some other living rainbow doll with a 69 face tattoo!"
• Another Trump comparison comes when Todd, seeing Tekashi escape any lasting repercussions yet again, references the infamous Jesse Farrar joke.
  Todd: I'd like to see Tekashi wriggle his way out of this jam!
  *Article saying "Tekashi Wriggles Way Out Of Jam Easily" appears*
  Todd: Ah. Well, never the less...
• Todd compares "Gooba", "a malevolent and unlistenable" Boastful Rap where Tekashi celebrates getting out of jail by pure luck and even brags about informing, to a wrestling heel cutting a promo, except without the catharsis of Stone Cold Steve Austin coming out to bend a chair over his head.
• Todd's favorite verse by Nicki is her feature on "Ass, Ass, Ass". He can't defend it but he doesn't care.
• Todd ends the video by asking if 2020 could get any worse, causing almost every comment hoping out loud that Toddstradamus doesn't strike again.
• The credits song: Eduard Khil's "I Am Very Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Back Home" (The Trololo song).

Powfu ft. Beabadoobee - "death bed (coffee for your head)"

• Todd actually makes a point in the middle of playing the song in the intro to glance at the caption containing the artists' names before cracking "Those aren't real names."
• Todd spends more than half of the video discussing Powfu's amateurish lyricism and flow. In response, Powfu himself left a comment, since deleted, simply stating "sorry."
• Todd saying that Powfu looks like a 13 year old Jason Mraz, in other words, just like Jason Mraz.
• Acknowledging that Powfu has such a weak flow... with comparisons to Rappin' Rodney and an Incredible Crash Dummies PSA.
  Todd: It's like something out of the mid-80s, when white people first heard rap music and were like, "Oh, you don't even have to sing? Anyone can do that!"
• The credits song: "The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup!" (the classic Folgers Coffee jingle).

Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion - "WAP"

• The intro just smashes right into it.
  Todd: I just knew that we are in a new era. There's just a smell in the air. The smell of...
  Megan Thee Stallion: Wet ass pussy, he bought a phone just for pictures of this wet ass pussy.
• Todd's claim that Ben Shapiro's poor attempt to stir controversy over this song was such a perfect example of the Streisand Effect that he's almost certain Ben was secretly part of the marketing team.
  "Ben Shapiro got paid for this, I swear to God."
  • Incredibly filthy lyrics aside, Todd wasn't even sure why Ben Shapiro was offended by the song in the first place since it celebrates heterosexual sex. "It's not even out of wedlock! Cardi is married!"
• Todd speculates that, although the song is incredibly filthy, his sponsors would probably be pushing him to do an ad for them if he asked.
  • A Call-Back to his "Trollz" review: WAP Tarts.
• The Imagine Spot of "WAP"'s rap over the music from the song "The Twist" needs to be heard to be believed, with the funniest part being that it works.
  • Also, managing to sync up the "Shame" chant from Game of Thrones perfectly with the beat.
• Calling Cardi topping the chart with a song about how she needs some good dick then immediately filing for divorce "an amazing power move".
• Thinking this song was such a hit during the pandemic because people are isolated and can't have sex. The biggest song of the year is also the horniest.
  Todd: Y'know, 'cause I was slaying it before the lockdown.
  Caption: You can't prove I wasn't!
  • There's also the fake banner ad demonstrating this situation:
    Hot Women in your area want to meet you! But they can't. What's even the point
• Todd saying that the song "washed past all its haters like a mighty flood" over the part of the music video where the doors to the mansion opened up.
• Todd points out that the song is so inherently filthy that the radio edit has to censor a ridiculous amount of it. He says the song is "so redacted, you'd think Cardi and Meg were rapping state secrets!"
• Todd saying he's so uncomfortable talking about such sexual music that he's just not going to and instead will film himself eating lunch, which he then does. His lunch is a pot of macaroni, which he dubbed a "Wonderful-Ass Pasta".
• The after-credits gag is Todd playing a clip of Ben Shapiro believing that Cardi was serious about needing a bucket and a mop to clean up because of how wet she is, and then asking if that's what he sounds like when he takes song lyrics seriously for the sake of a joke.
• The closing song: "What's New, Pussycat?"

Gabby Barrett - "I Hope"

• The fact the structure of the song means the singer imagines her ex's new girlfriend cheating on him in the first chorus, him forgiving her in the second verse, and then her cheating again in the second chorus makes Todd imagine an extended seven-verse version where this happens every single time.
  Todd: He doesn't learn very fast, that's all I'm saying.
• "Why are you wishing torment on this fictional character you invented?"
• Todd compares "I Hope" to listening to an angry, bitter friend rant and rant until it becomes too much and you have to back away. To illustrate this, he imagines himself as a barfly, and thus begins the most gloriously foul-mouthed segment Todd has ever given us:
  Todd: Thanks, bartender. I needed this. I had the shittiest day at work. I hope my boss gets hit by a fuckin' car.
  Bartender: Yep. Been there.
  Todd: No. I hope he gets hit by a fuckin' truck. I hope it smashes him right in his fuckin' turd little rat face.
  Bartender: I hear ya, buddy.
  Todd: Yeah, I hope it hits him face first, and then fuckin' rolls over him, and crushes every bone in his fuckin' body.
  Bartender: Yep. All right, I'm gonna go over here...
  Todd: No no no, hold on. After it rolls over that dickless little fuck, I hope it backs up back over him, then rolls over his fucking head, and then it finds his kids and does the same thing to them in front of him while he fuckin' watches.
  Bartender: ...K.
  Todd: And then-
  Bartender: Buddy, I'm gonna need my tip in advance.
• Todd jokingly refers to Charlie Puth as "Your friend and mine", accompanied by the captions "Worst New Artist of 2015. But pretty okay since then."

The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2020

• Justin Bieber was on the list so much he book-ended it, had two honorable mentions and starred in the video for the Drake song on the list:
  • #10: His attempt at being The Woobie on "Lonely" just reminds Todd of a Kids in the Hall skit where Dave Foley plays a man who only sounds sarcastic due to a medical condition and can't accurately convey how lonely he is.
    • Upon hearing Bieber croon "Lo-o-oo-o-oo-o-oo-only":
      Todd: Someone put that poor injured dolphin out of its misery.
    • Todd compares the very pretentious concept for the music video (the adult Bieber watches a child playing him on stage) to Rob Cantor's "Shia LaBeouf".
  • #5: Todd's reaction to seeing that Bieber starred in DJ Khaled ft. Drake's "POPSTAR" video.
    Todd: Oh, good. Bieber's involved. Just keeps getting better and better.
  • #1: Todd considering "Yummy" to be a bad omen for the rest of 2020:
    Todd: You... This is all your fault...
    • In fact, Todd was about to let the song slide, being a relic of pre-COVID-19 Pandemic 2020. He was even going to ignore all the complaints he received about the Grammys not nominating The Weeknd. But then he heard that "Yummy" was among the songs nominated for "Best Solo Pop Performance"...
      Todd: ...Burn the Grammys to the fucking ground.
• "Country music? I think you have a drinking problem."
  • "Listening to country music this year was like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin blasting you with the beer hose."
• Calling Trevor Daniel a "'Slim Shady' video extra."
• Hollaback Bone.
• In the leadup to "POPSTAR," Todd plays a clip from the video, where a reluctant Drake is bombarded with constant, obnoxious video messages from Khaled alternately begging and demanding he collaborate to put out a music video for the song.
  Drake: (in the video, uncomfortably sincere) I dunno what to say, it's every waking moment.
  Todd: Yeah, it's one of those "Is he joking?" kind of jokes.
• Todd goes into an interesting Shown Their Work description of siren jams, which is an important part of Polynesian culture. And unfortunately, one such jam was ripped off by Jason Derulo.
  • Todd notes that the original beat of the song sounds like the Losing Horns you hear on a game show. To demonstrate, he plays the song over a clip from Press Your Luck.
  • One of Todd's few compliments about Derulo is that he managed to not embarrass himself in the Cats movie.
  • Tying in with his fear of K-Pop stans, he calls the collaboration between Derulo and BTS on this song a "Truly terrifying display of power."
    Todd: If I wasn't scared of them before, I am now. They are mighty and unstoppable.
• Speaking of K-Pop, he was worried Blackpink fans would come after him for putting their single "Ice Cream" on the list, but fortunately their fans responded in the comments, "Don't worry, we don't really like that song either."
• Todd concedes that the Maroon 5 single he includes with the honorable mentions isn't that bad. But, y'know...tradition.
• In the montage of potential 2020 "warning signs" that heralded the bad times to come, Todd includes the Iowa caucus debacle, the death of Kobe Bryant, Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor for Joker (2019), and the notoriously reviled Baby Nut Super Bowl commercial.