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This page covers tropes in ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''.
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* NameMcAdjective: He gave Chris Brown the nickname Captain [[DomesticAbuse McPunchesAGirl]] during his review of "I Can Transform Ya".
* {{Narm}}:[[invoked]]
** His reaction re-listening to Music/LinkinPark's "Crawling": "Just as hilarious as back then".
** His reaction to [[Music/MaroonFive Adam Levine]] trying to be "[[EvilIsSexy sexy]] [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" in the video for "Animals".
* NarmCharm:[[invoked]] Most of the "Scatman" episode of One Hit Wonderland has him referring to Music/ScatmanJohn's work as cheesy, but sincere enough to be enjoyable.
* {{Nepotism}}: He blames it for the existence of Willow and Jaden Smith, Rockwell, LMFAO, and Hot Chelle Rae's careers.
** In an unstated example, when discussing LMFAO, he tries to draw an analogy between them, the Black Eyed Peas, and various hair metal bands before settling on LMFAO as Nelson. Nelson was also arguably a case of nepotism, being the twin sons of Ricky Nelson and by extension grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet.
** In "Best of 2015," he reminds viewers that Elle King is the daughter of Rob Schneider.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'Tonight...' and 'The Lazy Song' have permanently changed his image of Enrique Iglesias and Bruno Mars for the worse [[InUniverse in his eyes]]. [[invoked]]
** However, as of his Top Ten Best Songs of 2012, Bruno may have saved himself with "Locked Out of Heaven"and later again in "Top 10 Best Songs of 2013" with "Treasure".
** He mentions how Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is remembered not only for being a OneHitWonder, but the AnimeHair of the lead singer.
* NiceGuy: He's repeatedly mentioned that he can't actually ''hate'' Music/OneDirection because they seem to be genuinely nice people, even if their music doesn't always reflect it.
* NonIndicativeName: One of the recurring themes of ''One-Hit Wonderland'' is that many so-called one-hit wonders technically aren't, using the definition of a one-hit wonder as "a band or artist with only one song that ever made the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100". Todd will point this out when discussing the later careers of the bands and/or artists,
** A-Ha[[note]]#1 with "Take on Me" in 1985[[/note]]: Their second-biggest hit, "The Sun Always Shines On TV", charted at #20 in the US and actually placed ''higher'' than "Take On Me" in several countries, including the UK.
** Men Without Hats[[note]]#3 with "The Safety Dance" in 1982[[/note]]: Also reached #20 with "Pop Goes the World", which Todd even comments is fairly well-remembered as far as "second singles by one-hit wonders" go. (It actually did better in their native Canada than "Safety Dance" did).
** Music/BillyRayCyrus[[note]]#4 with "Achy Breaky Heart" in 1992[[/note]]: Notes that, as a country artist, being a "one-hit wonder" on ''those'' charts is basically impossible - and, indeed, Cyrus charted many times throughout TheNineties. His duet with daughter Miley, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", is mentioned in passing as his first Top 10 (Country) hit in a decade, but Todd neglects to inform the viewers that it actually reached the Top 40 ''on the Pop charts'' - technically making Billy Ray Cyrus a one-hit wonder no longer. (Nor was he, or anyone else, expecting Cyrus to have a #1 hit in 2019 with his guest verse on "[[Music/LilNasX Old Town Road]]".)
** Creator/EddieMurphy[[note]]#2 with the "Party All the Time" in 1985[[/note]]: Claims that Murphy scored a "near-hit" with the lead single off his second album, "Put Your Mouth On Me", which reached #27 on the charts (and therefore actually ''is'' a hit - though a minor one).
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls[[note]]#9 with "I Ran (So Far Away)" in 1982[[/note]] had not one, but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope two]]'' Top 40 hits outside of "I Ran (So Far Away)"; they were "Space Age Love Song" (peaked at #30) and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (peaked at #26).
** Mr. Big[[note]]#1 with "To Be With You" in 1992[[/note]], like A Flock of Seagulls, also had two additional Top 40 hits: "Just Take My Heart", and a cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World".
** Discussed when reviewing Blue Swede[[note]]#1 with "Hooked on a Feeling" in 1974[[/note]], as while they had a second Top 10 hit with a cover of the Association's "Never My Love", they are ''still'' a one-hit wonder to him because the song had no lasting appeal and is remembered by almost no one. He compares it to Music/{{PSY}}'s "Gentleman" in that regard. Meanwhile, he maintains that this does not apply to less famous yet still remembered songs like Rick Astley's "Together Forever" and such.
** Music/SirMixALot[[note]]#1 with "Baby Got Back" in 1992[[/note]]'s first album, which was released four years before "Baby Got Back," went platinum.
** Falco[[note]]#1 with "Rock Me Amadeus" in 1985[[/note]]'s "Vienna Calling" reached #18 on the Hot 100.
** In some cases, it's the opposite, with the one-hit wonder song not even charting in the top 40, which technically means that they weren't hit songs.
*** "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls only reached #46 (though it went to #1 on the Dance charts).
*** Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" peaked at #58 in America, but is still well-remembered as a one-hit wonder.
*** "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" only got to #87 on the Hot 100 in 1997, long after its initial release in 1979.
* NonSerialMovie: His opinion on Music/TheMonkees' ''Film/{{Head}}''.
* NoodleIncident: "I am not having any bottles broken over anyone's head in this room. Not after the DL incident. I'll tell you about it sometime. *shudder* So much blood..." He would later explain it on Twitter, even later in "Grenade."
** Also, the "[[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]] Fiasco".
** "I haven't had to deal with this many girls on fire since I accidentally set the..."
* NoodleImplements: Something more twisted than S&M, and involving a trombone.
** Also part of the Lupa Fiasco.
--->'''Lupa''': What am I supposed to do with all these ''geese''?!
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When putting [[Music/DemiLovato "Cool for the Summer"]] at #2 on his lists of the best songs of 2015, he didn't even realize at first that it was a song about a lesbian fling, such was the effect that its raw power had on him. Upon examining the lyrics...
-->'''Todd:''' ...''whoosh''. I'd have never noticed! If it is, it's certainly better than [[Music/LittleBigTown "Girl Crush"]].
* NotHyperbole
** Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worse than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** The latter of which actually does turn out to be hyperbole, as 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)' ranks much higher on his "Worst Songs of 2011" list than 'The Lazy Song' does. He admits that 'The Lazy Song' grew on him, but he still feels the need to punch Bruno Mars in the face when he hears it.
** ''[[Music/{{Carpenters}} Passage]]'' has a calypso cover, "just like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''!" Todd then reveals it is in fact the ''exact'' same song ([[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"]]) that Homer and Marge covered in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]].
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Todd claims that people indeed discussed "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]"'s [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory deeper meaning]] back in the day.
** In "Break Up", after the line "Don't I make your earlobe freeze?" he puts a caption reading "Seriously, I didn't make that up."
** "... so I felt obligated to listen to their latest single, "Carry Out", which consists entirely of fast-food-related {{double entendre}}s. [{{beat}}] Seriously."
** Also, on the "[=BedRock=]" review, when he lists the members of Young Money.
--->Mack Maine... Jae Millz... Lil Chuckee... Lil' Twist... T Streets... and a bunch of other names that sound like I'm just making them up, though I swear to God I'm not.
** In the "Worst Songs Of 1987" video, he has to clarify that yes, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of his favourite songs of the 80s.
** Todd makes sure to point out he didn't add the ''Film/BladesOfGlory'' clip in "Niggas in Paris" (just after Music/KanyeWest quoted the movie), it's in the actual video!
** In the OHW for Mr. Big's "To Be with You", he can barely believe that the long list of HairMetal bands he compiled are real.
** In another OHW, this time for "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer, Todd emphasizes this when he says that Rick Derringer produced Music/WeirdAlYankovic's albums in the 1980s, and to further prove that he isn't lying, he includes [[WordofGod a clip of Al himself]] talking about Rick Derringer.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He states in the review of the "Cruise" remix that, in the last ten years, mainstream CountryMusic has essentially become the "white" version of GlamRap in its lyrical themes, and has taken on a growing number of stylistic cues from hip-hop. He goes so far as to claim that the video for "Cruise" is essentially a rap video with white chicks.
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus for Pitbull's "Back In Time" provokes Todd to thinking this, though the way he says it makes it come off more like HoYay.
-->''My sweet baby? You're the one? What the living crap does this have to do with ''Film/MenInBlack''? Do Agent J and K fall in love in this movie? ...Not that I'm opposed to watching that.''
* NothingButHits: Todd's criteria for including a song on his Best or Worst Hit Songs list is that the song in question must either be on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 for that year or peak in the Top 20 sometime during that year.
* NoTrueScotsman: As explained on his review of "#selfie", he's reluctant to review EDM songs because every time he tries Todd get a flood of complaints claiming said song isn't ''real'' EDM.
* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[Music/KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[Music/JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion near the end of the review, when the subtitles censor the word "Paris" instead of the usual, making it look like it might say "Niggas in Penis".]]
** Then in his Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2012 review, he ends a long string of "-izzle" words with "...ma nizzle! Am I allowed to say 'nizzle'?"
** He doesn't consider Rednex (a Swedish group) to have this for caricaturing Southerners.
* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
* OffScreenTeleportation: He displays this in the WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown review of ''[[Creator/TheAsylum Sunday School Musical]]''. (see also StealthHiBye)
-->'''Film Brain:''' Todd, I'm curious. How did you get in here?\\
'''Todd:''' I move in the space between spaces.
* OldSchoolIntroductoryRap: Todd uses this in his ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode covering the 90s hit "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team. Specifically, after playing some clips from their attempted followup, "U Go Girl", Todd offers his own impression to make fun of Tag Team's middling skills as rappers:
-->'''Todd:''' We're Tag Team and we're here to say / we support black women in a major way!
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's even more shocked on Kimberly Perry being 28, but appearing 16 in If I Die Young.
** His main problem with Music/ArianaGrande[='s=] attempts at a "sexy" image is that she looks like a 9-year-old wearing make-up.
* OnceAnEpisode:
** Every Pop Song Review and ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode starts with him playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
*** His review of Music/LadyGaga's "Alejandro" has him instead play Music/AceOfBase's "The Sign", due to the former sampling the latter.
*** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
*** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
*** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Float On" starts with him playing the Music/ModestMouse song, only to reveal that it was an AprilFoolsDay prank and that he's instead reviewing the song of the same name by The Floaters.
*** Before playing the piano intro, his review of Music/JohnLegend's "All of Me" starts with a clip of his Grammy vlog earlier that year, where he comments that he didn't even know John Legend had released a song that year, before cutting back to present-time Todd, angry that a song that he dismissed as "not mattering" is now one of the biggest hits of the year.
*** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, which was requested by one of his Patreon supporters, starts as a review of Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful", but changes a minute in when Todd receives a message by the user changing his request, which Todd is more than happy to oblige with considering his dislike of the latter song.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's "[[Music/{{Yes}} Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" sample instead of "Tic Tac Toe" itself.
*** His review of "death bed (coffee for your head)" by Powfu ft. Beabadoobee has him comment "Those aren't real names" when the captions display the title and artists.
*** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" review has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he just made something up because he couldn't remember how the song went.
** He's also starting to sign off his reviews in the same way: "I'm Todd in the Shadows, and ________." The blank is either filled with "I'm out" or a joke - often a CallBack - related to the song. Like from his "Scream and Shout" video:
--->'''Todd:''' I'm Todd in the Shadows, saying "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!"
** And right after that, most of the time the review ends with the last brief moment/lines of the music video of the song he's reviewing.
** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance"]]), shares the same name as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]], [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]], [[Music/ArianaGrande "Break Free"]] (more for the lyric - "this is, the part where I say I don't wanna..."), and [[Music/{{Halsey}} "You Should Be Sad"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
*** This ended up affecting the best list at least once: In the "Best of 2014" list, he mentions using [[Music/BigSean "I Don't Fuck With You"]] as a bumper song in the worst of that year...and it grew on him enough to put it at #7 on the best list.
* OneHitWonder: The point of One-Hit Wonderland, obviously. Occasionally discussed outside of it: [[invoked]]
** He mentions how Mike Posner and the Far East Movement still managed to get a second hit, and asks for Hot Chelle Rae to not reach this. Then he says that despite the failure of LMFAO's follow-up single, they managed to still get a second hit with an even worse song.
** While talking about "Put It Down On Me", he stated he was adding Jeremih to "...the growing list of one-hit wonders who technically have a second hit."
*** This gets even funnier as of 2014, now that Jeremih has a third hit with "Don't Tell 'Em".
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Todd commends Lukas Graham for using actual instruments in an age of increasingly electronic and synthesized music, as well as having lyrics about something other than clubbing and/or sex - and then immediately tears into their biggest hit, "7 Years", [[spoiler:which would also be his #1 worst song of 2016]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During his review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", Todd is so disgusted with the song that he refuses to do his obligatory piano cover to start off the video. He does briefly play a section of the track later on, if only to show how mindless and repetitive the main riff is.
* OriginsEpisode: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry literally describes exactly how the band came into popularity in the first place. Some audience member really did shout "Play that funky music, white boy" during one of their gigs.
* OrphanedPunchline: '''"...WASHING MACHINE!"'''
* OrSoIHeard:
** In the ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' review:
--->'''Todd:''' Your average Creator/DisneyChannel sitcom gets raunchier than this. ({{Beat}}) Not that I watch those.
** Todd repeatedly states that most of the opinions he's formed for PSY's "Gangnam Style" is based off of simply what he's read up on the internet.
--->''Or so I've read.''
** PlayedWith in the ''Mac And Devin Go To High School'' review. Rap Critic, who has previously announced that he's never smoked weed, seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about its effects and what it does to people.
--->'''Rap Critic:''' Is this what's suppose to happen when you're high on weed? Ca-Cause that's not what happens. What happens is stuff becomes funnier and music slightly speeds up. Chemically, the effects of weed are kind of mundane.\\
'''Todd:''' Wait a minute, since when do you know so much about getting high?\\
'''Rap Critic:''' What are you, ''a cop?''
** Naturally comes up a lot in the Trainwreckords retrospective for ''[[ChurchOfHappyology Mission Earth]]'', as any and all allegations or more critical statements [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope have to be soft-pedaled with additions like "people have said"]].
--->"I AM, of course. not saying that!" ''[Nervous chuckle]'' "We are gonna... tread ''very'' carefully here."
* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan.
* OverlyLongGag: His comparison of Hot Chelle Rae's brand of partying to high school all-night grad parties.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He does this to "Best Song Ever" in "Top 10 Hit Songs of 2013"
--> And we danced all night to the ''6th best hit song of 2013''
* PanderingToTheBase: [[invoked]]He questions about this in "Alejandro".
-->'''Todd:''' Ok. Even if you are one of Gaga's many gay fans, at what point do you feel pandered to? Like, when do you reach the point where even you have to look back and say: "Ok, this is getting kinda gay."
** Double subverted in his review of "Born This Way", when he wonders which heavily marginalized group's self esteem the song intends to boost.
--->'''Lady Gaga:''' Just put your paws up.\\
'''Todd:''' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
** Also says "Mistletoe" is this, since it's "using Christmas as an excuse for kissing Bieber fantasies."
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Todd in the "Drive By" review when he hears the "my love for you went viral" line.
* PokemonSpeak:
** He doesn't like when singers say their own name in their songs. But he is particularly hard on Jason Derulo for this.
** Once Todd figures out that along with "7 Years" showing Lukas Graham is [[SmallNameBigEgo a huge egomaniac]] and both his releases are {{Self Titled Album}}s, he says he's surprised the lyrics aren't "Lukas, Lukas Graham, Lukas Graham..."
* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] He considers Music/JessieJ to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as [[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
* PopCultureIsolation: [[invoked]] An apparent in-work example in his list of the 10 worst songs of 1976. He chooses "Convoy" by C. W. [=McCall=] in part because he doesn't understand how trucking was so popular as to inspire a hit song, and "Convoy" does nothing towards its case.
* PeripheryDemographic: [[invoked]] He admits to liking the Music/OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
* PersonAsVerb: In his review of "Feel This Moment" by Music/{{Pitbull}} featuring Music/ChristinaAguilera, He mentions how it's the same usual song as always, with Pitbull being Pitbull, and Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera-ing like she always does.
** Also deconstructed when reviewing "Marvin Gaye" by Music/CharliePuth and Music/MeghanTrainor:
--->'''Todd:''' If this was any other song, the fact that they decided to use Music/MarvinGaye's name as a verb would be the stupidest thing about it. "Let's Music/PinkFloyd and [[Music/TheWall put another brick in the wall]]."
* PetPeeveTrope:
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly if it's Music/{{Beyonce}}-on-male, but Todd in general doesn't like the idea that women are "allowed" to get away with abusing their male partners.
** ClarkKenting: People's inability to recognize the obvious fact that Series/HannahMontana is Miley in a wig drives Todd up the wall. Todd even references Clark Kent and [[Film/{{Superman}} Christopher Reeve's performance of the character]].
** DomesticAbuse: He struggled to avoid making this the focal point of his review of "I Can Transform Ya", although he doesn't let what Chris Brown did to Rihanna ever pass by without commenting on it.
** Songs that take place InDaClub. Todd feels that there's very little variations to these kinds of songs, and that a song has to be ''very'' good in order for him to let this side. He does like ironic club songs that spin the scene into something empty or depressing, however.
** ChildPopstar: Not only does Todd consider such pop stars in general to be not very good, he feels like the music industry is consistently abusing young talent.
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** LyricsVideoMismatch: He'll not only point it out, but it will be the focus of a good part of his reviews if the music video is especially egregious with not matching the lyrics.
** PainfulRhyme: [[invoked]] Forms the basis of his RunningGag: "Finish the Rhyme!" Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
** RhymingWithItself: Annoys him quite a bit, as he considers it lazy.
** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Not the case for Music/ScatmanJohn, however, whose rapid jazz scatting elicits respect from Todd. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
--->'''Todd:''' Hip hop! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop. Shouting. Ohhh.]]
** TheFourChordsOfPop: While the chords are popular for a reason, he considers such chords to be creatively bankrupt.
** LyricalShoehorn: [[{{Inuniverse}} With Train being the greatest offender.]]
** When choruses in party/love songs end with the word "tonight".
** MusicIsPolitics:[[invoked]] In the ''Trainwreckords'' episodes on Music/LizPhair's ''Funstyle'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'', Todd mentions that he loathes [[WriterRevolt anti-music-industry rants from successful artists]], considering it the bottom of the barrel in terms of creativity.
* ThePowerOfHate: Todd decided to take a different route when LMFAO told him to "STOP! HATIN'S BAD!" and look at the song from a more loving point of view. ''Not'' hating music almost erased him out of existence.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** A fairly enraged one in the "Deuces" review, especially jarring because up to that point there had barely been any strong language in his videos at all. When Chris Brown says a particularly triggering line for Todd, Todd is silent for a moment before screaming "go fuck yourself, Chris Brown!"
** There was also this bit, though he wasn't in character at the time.
--->'''Todd:''' As soon as you turn that camera off, I'm beating the shit out of you.
** Something of a Tactical F Campaign throughout the "Tonight..." review.
** His response to anyone who might not like Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" is... guess it.
--->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
** In his Worst Hit Songs of 2004 list, he discusses how this can be done well ("Fuck You"), badly ("Tonight..."), or ''really'' badly (Eamon's "Fuck It").
** Todd introduces the "Worst of 2013" retrospect with "Good fucking riddance!! No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself."
** During his Music/SClub7 episode of "One Hit Wonderland", while discussing their TV show, he delivers one to the band themselves after they diss Music/{{Hanson}} by saying "fuck you! Hanson got really good in their later years!"
** Once Meghan Trainor sings "Dear future husband\Make time for me, don't leave me lonely\And no we'll never see your family more than mine", Todd's response is "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
** At the end of his Worst Hits of 1991 video, he delivers a point-blank "Fuck you, Bryan Adams, you censoring dick!" after discovering he'd used legal standovers to have his information removed from [=AllMusic=], an impartial reference publication.
* PretenderDiss: Todd's opinion of Bebe Rexha is that while she is genuinely determined to become a star and wants it very badly, she "has only ever been a clip art stock photo of a pop star, a shallow facsimile of the real thing with no fanbase, identity or memorable songs".
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: This dissonance comes up fairly often when Todd discusses white musicians trying and failing to posture in ways more associated with Black music or culture.
** Todd notes that Pat Monahan is way too white (and also not young enough) to get away with singing "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug" in "Hey, Soul Sister".
** This dissonance is a big factor in his first discussion of Music/IggyAzalea with his review of "Fancy", due to Iggy being a white woman who was getting noticed in the rap space...while also affecting a manner of speech in her rapping meant to invoke Black people, which gained her a lot of prominent criticism.
** {{Music/Madonna}}'s "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, with Todd bringing up the genuinely angry "Impostor" parody version from ''Series/InLivingColor'' and expressing doubt about a lyric where Snow claims his voice has convinced people he's Jamaican.
** Todd's review of Music/ArianaGrande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, invoking the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical ''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India do to ''you''?
** The Trainwreckords episode on ''Music/TheHumanLeague'''s ''Crash'' discusses some instances where the very white British band, as a result of having different writing and production for the album, found themselves performing some AAVE slang in their songs which they were not only incapable of selling, but also, in interviews, proved they didn't even ''understand'', even in cases where the words' meaning would be immediately understood through context. Todd does not let them off the hook for the song "Swang" in particular.
* PreviouslyOn: Double-subverted:
-->'''Todd:''' Previously on Todd In The Shadows: YourMom! Hah! Also, on my show, this happened.
* {{Pun}}: Both {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Todd in his work and pointed out in the awful lyrics of "Carry Out", which are mostly food {{Double Entendre}}s linked together in lyrical form.
-->'''Todd:''' I'd like to dip ''my'' [=McNuggets=] in your special sauce!
** "Fittingly enough, a song called 'Whistle' totally blows!"
*** Which is still more tasteful than the DoubleEntendre that the song itself is based on.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: FINISH. THE. RHYME!
** [[Music/ChrisBrown CAN'T...]] [[BrainBleach GET...]] [[ShowerOfAngst CLEAAAAAN!]]
** [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three words]]: Deep. Blue. Something.
* PungeonMaster: He points out in "The Safety Dance" that Men Without Hats should not be confused with the Australian pop band Men At Work (both of whom reached popularity at exactly the same time), but says that they both should have combined bands a few years later to become Men Without Work. He also says that shortly after releasing "The Safety Dance", Men Without Hats became Men Without Hits. He stops himself before he goes any further.
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* NameMcAdjective: He gave Chris Brown the nickname Captain [[DomesticAbuse McPunchesAGirl]] during his review of "I Can Transform Ya".
* {{Narm}}:[[invoked]]
** His reaction re-listening to Music/LinkinPark's "Crawling": "Just as hilarious as back then".
** His reaction to [[Music/MaroonFive Adam Levine]] trying to be "[[EvilIsSexy sexy]] [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" in the video for "Animals".
* NarmCharm:[[invoked]] Most of the "Scatman" episode of One Hit Wonderland has him referring to Music/ScatmanJohn's work as cheesy, but sincere enough to be enjoyable.
* {{Nepotism}}: He blames it for the existence of Willow and Jaden Smith, Rockwell, LMFAO, and Hot Chelle Rae's careers.
** In an unstated example, when discussing LMFAO, he tries to draw an analogy between them, the Black Eyed Peas, and various hair metal bands before settling on LMFAO as Nelson. Nelson was also arguably a case of nepotism, being the twin sons of Ricky Nelson and by extension grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet.
** In "Best of 2015," he reminds viewers that Elle King is the daughter of Rob Schneider.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'Tonight...' and 'The Lazy Song' have permanently changed his image of Enrique Iglesias and Bruno Mars for the worse [[InUniverse in his eyes]]. [[invoked]]
** However, as of his Top Ten Best Songs of 2012, Bruno may have saved himself with "Locked Out of Heaven"and later again in "Top 10 Best Songs of 2013" with "Treasure".
** He mentions how Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is remembered not only for being a OneHitWonder, but the AnimeHair of the lead singer.
* NiceGuy: He's repeatedly mentioned that he can't actually ''hate'' Music/OneDirection because they seem to be genuinely nice people, even if their music doesn't always reflect it.
* NonIndicativeName: One of the recurring themes of ''One-Hit Wonderland'' is that many so-called one-hit wonders technically aren't, using the definition of a one-hit wonder as "a band or artist with only one song that ever made the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100". Todd will point this out when discussing the later careers of the bands and/or artists,
** A-Ha[[note]]#1 with "Take on Me" in 1985[[/note]]: Their second-biggest hit, "The Sun Always Shines On TV", charted at #20 in the US and actually placed ''higher'' than "Take On Me" in several countries, including the UK.
** Men Without Hats[[note]]#3 with "The Safety Dance" in 1982[[/note]]: Also reached #20 with "Pop Goes the World", which Todd even comments is fairly well-remembered as far as "second singles by one-hit wonders" go. (It actually did better in their native Canada than "Safety Dance" did).
** Music/BillyRayCyrus[[note]]#4 with "Achy Breaky Heart" in 1992[[/note]]: Notes that, as a country artist, being a "one-hit wonder" on ''those'' charts is basically impossible - and, indeed, Cyrus charted many times throughout TheNineties. His duet with daughter Miley, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", is mentioned in passing as his first Top 10 (Country) hit in a decade, but Todd neglects to inform the viewers that it actually reached the Top 40 ''on the Pop charts'' - technically making Billy Ray Cyrus a one-hit wonder no longer. (Nor was he, or anyone else, expecting Cyrus to have a #1 hit in 2019 with his guest verse on "[[Music/LilNasX Old Town Road]]".)
** Creator/EddieMurphy[[note]]#2 with the "Party All the Time" in 1985[[/note]]: Claims that Murphy scored a "near-hit" with the lead single off his second album, "Put Your Mouth On Me", which reached #27 on the charts (and therefore actually ''is'' a hit - though a minor one).
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls[[note]]#9 with "I Ran (So Far Away)" in 1982[[/note]] had not one, but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope two]]'' Top 40 hits outside of "I Ran (So Far Away)"; they were "Space Age Love Song" (peaked at #30) and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (peaked at #26).
** Mr. Big[[note]]#1 with "To Be With You" in 1992[[/note]], like A Flock of Seagulls, also had two additional Top 40 hits: "Just Take My Heart", and a cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World".
** Discussed when reviewing Blue Swede[[note]]#1 with "Hooked on a Feeling" in 1974[[/note]], as while they had a second Top 10 hit with a cover of the Association's "Never My Love", they are ''still'' a one-hit wonder to him because the song had no lasting appeal and is remembered by almost no one. He compares it to Music/{{PSY}}'s "Gentleman" in that regard. Meanwhile, he maintains that this does not apply to less famous yet still remembered songs like Rick Astley's "Together Forever" and such.
** Music/SirMixALot[[note]]#1 with "Baby Got Back" in 1992[[/note]]'s first album, which was released four years before "Baby Got Back," went platinum.
** Falco[[note]]#1 with "Rock Me Amadeus" in 1985[[/note]]'s "Vienna Calling" reached #18 on the Hot 100.
** In some cases, it's the opposite, with the one-hit wonder song not even charting in the top 40, which technically means that they weren't hit songs.
*** "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls only reached #46 (though it went to #1 on the Dance charts).
*** Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" peaked at #58 in America, but is still well-remembered as a one-hit wonder.
*** "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" only got to #87 on the Hot 100 in 1997, long after its initial release in 1979.
* NonSerialMovie: His opinion on Music/TheMonkees' ''Film/{{Head}}''.
* NoodleIncident: "I am not having any bottles broken over anyone's head in this room. Not after the DL incident. I'll tell you about it sometime. *shudder* So much blood..." He would later explain it on Twitter, even later in "Grenade."
** Also, the "[[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]] Fiasco".
** "I haven't had to deal with this many girls on fire since I accidentally set the..."
* NoodleImplements: Something more twisted than S&M, and involving a trombone.
** Also part of the Lupa Fiasco.
--->'''Lupa''': What am I supposed to do with all these ''geese''?!
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When putting [[Music/DemiLovato "Cool for the Summer"]] at #2 on his lists of the best songs of 2015, he didn't even realize at first that it was a song about a lesbian fling, such was the effect that its raw power had on him. Upon examining the lyrics...
-->'''Todd:''' ...''whoosh''. I'd have never noticed! If it is, it's certainly better than [[Music/LittleBigTown "Girl Crush"]].
* NotHyperbole
** Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worse than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** The latter of which actually does turn out to be hyperbole, as 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)' ranks much higher on his "Worst Songs of 2011" list than 'The Lazy Song' does. He admits that 'The Lazy Song' grew on him, but he still feels the need to punch Bruno Mars in the face when he hears it.
** ''[[Music/{{Carpenters}} Passage]]'' has a calypso cover, "just like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''!" Todd then reveals it is in fact the ''exact'' same song ([[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"]]) that Homer and Marge covered in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]].
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Todd claims that people indeed discussed "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]"'s [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory deeper meaning]] back in the day.
** In "Break Up", after the line "Don't I make your earlobe freeze?" he puts a caption reading "Seriously, I didn't make that up."
** "... so I felt obligated to listen to their latest single, "Carry Out", which consists entirely of fast-food-related {{double entendre}}s. [{{beat}}] Seriously."
** Also, on the "[=BedRock=]" review, when he lists the members of Young Money.
--->Mack Maine... Jae Millz... Lil Chuckee... Lil' Twist... T Streets... and a bunch of other names that sound like I'm just making them up, though I swear to God I'm not.
** In the "Worst Songs Of 1987" video, he has to clarify that yes, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of his favourite songs of the 80s.
** Todd makes sure to point out he didn't add the ''Film/BladesOfGlory'' clip in "Niggas in Paris" (just after Music/KanyeWest quoted the movie), it's in the actual video!
** In the OHW for Mr. Big's "To Be with You", he can barely believe that the long list of HairMetal bands he compiled are real.
** In another OHW, this time for "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer, Todd emphasizes this when he says that Rick Derringer produced Music/WeirdAlYankovic's albums in the 1980s, and to further prove that he isn't lying, he includes [[WordofGod a clip of Al himself]] talking about Rick Derringer.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He states in the review of the "Cruise" remix that, in the last ten years, mainstream CountryMusic has essentially become the "white" version of GlamRap in its lyrical themes, and has taken on a growing number of stylistic cues from hip-hop. He goes so far as to claim that the video for "Cruise" is essentially a rap video with white chicks.
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus for Pitbull's "Back In Time" provokes Todd to thinking this, though the way he says it makes it come off more like HoYay.
-->''My sweet baby? You're the one? What the living crap does this have to do with ''Film/MenInBlack''? Do Agent J and K fall in love in this movie? ...Not that I'm opposed to watching that.''
* NothingButHits: Todd's criteria for including a song on his Best or Worst Hit Songs list is that the song in question must either be on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 for that year or peak in the Top 20 sometime during that year.
* NoTrueScotsman: As explained on his review of "#selfie", he's reluctant to review EDM songs because every time he tries Todd get a flood of complaints claiming said song isn't ''real'' EDM.
* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[Music/KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[Music/JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion near the end of the review, when the subtitles censor the word "Paris" instead of the usual, making it look like it might say "Niggas in Penis".]]
** Then in his Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2012 review, he ends a long string of "-izzle" words with "...ma nizzle! Am I allowed to say 'nizzle'?"
** He doesn't consider Rednex (a Swedish group) to have this for caricaturing Southerners.
* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
* OffScreenTeleportation: He displays this in the WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown review of ''[[Creator/TheAsylum Sunday School Musical]]''. (see also StealthHiBye)
-->'''Film Brain:''' Todd, I'm curious. How did you get in here?\\
'''Todd:''' I move in the space between spaces.
* OldSchoolIntroductoryRap: Todd uses this in his ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode covering the 90s hit "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team. Specifically, after playing some clips from their attempted followup, "U Go Girl", Todd offers his own impression to make fun of Tag Team's middling skills as rappers:
-->'''Todd:''' We're Tag Team and we're here to say / we support black women in a major way!
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's even more shocked on Kimberly Perry being 28, but appearing 16 in If I Die Young.
** His main problem with Music/ArianaGrande[='s=] attempts at a "sexy" image is that she looks like a 9-year-old wearing make-up.
* OnceAnEpisode:
** Every Pop Song Review and ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode starts with him playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
*** His review of Music/LadyGaga's "Alejandro" has him instead play Music/AceOfBase's "The Sign", due to the former sampling the latter.
*** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
*** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
*** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Float On" starts with him playing the Music/ModestMouse song, only to reveal that it was an AprilFoolsDay prank and that he's instead reviewing the song of the same name by The Floaters.
*** Before playing the piano intro, his review of Music/JohnLegend's "All of Me" starts with a clip of his Grammy vlog earlier that year, where he comments that he didn't even know John Legend had released a song that year, before cutting back to present-time Todd, angry that a song that he dismissed as "not mattering" is now one of the biggest hits of the year.
*** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, which was requested by one of his Patreon supporters, starts as a review of Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful", but changes a minute in when Todd receives a message by the user changing his request, which Todd is more than happy to oblige with considering his dislike of the latter song.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's "[[Music/{{Yes}} Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" sample instead of "Tic Tac Toe" itself.
*** His review of "death bed (coffee for your head)" by Powfu ft. Beabadoobee has him comment "Those aren't real names" when the captions display the title and artists.
*** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" review has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he just made something up because he couldn't remember how the song went.
** He's also starting to sign off his reviews in the same way: "I'm Todd in the Shadows, and ________." The blank is either filled with "I'm out" or a joke - often a CallBack - related to the song. Like from his "Scream and Shout" video:
--->'''Todd:''' I'm Todd in the Shadows, saying "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!"
** And right after that, most of the time the review ends with the last brief moment/lines of the music video of the song he's reviewing.
** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance"]]), shares the same name as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]], [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]], [[Music/ArianaGrande "Break Free"]] (more for the lyric - "this is, the part where I say I don't wanna..."), and [[Music/{{Halsey}} "You Should Be Sad"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
*** This ended up affecting the best list at least once: In the "Best of 2014" list, he mentions using [[Music/BigSean "I Don't Fuck With You"]] as a bumper song in the worst of that year...and it grew on him enough to put it at #7 on the best list.
* OneHitWonder: The point of One-Hit Wonderland, obviously. Occasionally discussed outside of it: [[invoked]]
** He mentions how Mike Posner and the Far East Movement still managed to get a second hit, and asks for Hot Chelle Rae to not reach this. Then he says that despite the failure of LMFAO's follow-up single, they managed to still get a second hit with an even worse song.
** While talking about "Put It Down On Me", he stated he was adding Jeremih to "...the growing list of one-hit wonders who technically have a second hit."
*** This gets even funnier as of 2014, now that Jeremih has a third hit with "Don't Tell 'Em".
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Todd commends Lukas Graham for using actual instruments in an age of increasingly electronic and synthesized music, as well as having lyrics about something other than clubbing and/or sex - and then immediately tears into their biggest hit, "7 Years", [[spoiler:which would also be his #1 worst song of 2016]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During his review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", Todd is so disgusted with the song that he refuses to do his obligatory piano cover to start off the video. He does briefly play a section of the track later on, if only to show how mindless and repetitive the main riff is.
* OriginsEpisode: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry literally describes exactly how the band came into popularity in the first place. Some audience member really did shout "Play that funky music, white boy" during one of their gigs.
* OrphanedPunchline: '''"...WASHING MACHINE!"'''
* OrSoIHeard:
** In the ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' review:
--->'''Todd:''' Your average Creator/DisneyChannel sitcom gets raunchier than this. ({{Beat}}) Not that I watch those.
** Todd repeatedly states that most of the opinions he's formed for PSY's "Gangnam Style" is based off of simply what he's read up on the internet.
--->''Or so I've read.''
** PlayedWith in the ''Mac And Devin Go To High School'' review. Rap Critic, who has previously announced that he's never smoked weed, seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about its effects and what it does to people.
--->'''Rap Critic:''' Is this what's suppose to happen when you're high on weed? Ca-Cause that's not what happens. What happens is stuff becomes funnier and music slightly speeds up. Chemically, the effects of weed are kind of mundane.\\
'''Todd:''' Wait a minute, since when do you know so much about getting high?\\
'''Rap Critic:''' What are you, ''a cop?''
** Naturally comes up a lot in the Trainwreckords retrospective for ''[[ChurchOfHappyology Mission Earth]]'', as any and all allegations or more critical statements [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope have to be soft-pedaled with additions like "people have said"]].
--->"I AM, of course. not saying that!" ''[Nervous chuckle]'' "We are gonna... tread ''very'' carefully here."
* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan.
* OverlyLongGag: His comparison of Hot Chelle Rae's brand of partying to high school all-night grad parties.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He does this to "Best Song Ever" in "Top 10 Hit Songs of 2013"
--> And we danced all night to the ''6th best hit song of 2013''
* PanderingToTheBase: [[invoked]]He questions about this in "Alejandro".
-->'''Todd:''' Ok. Even if you are one of Gaga's many gay fans, at what point do you feel pandered to? Like, when do you reach the point where even you have to look back and say: "Ok, this is getting kinda gay."
** Double subverted in his review of "Born This Way", when he wonders which heavily marginalized group's self esteem the song intends to boost.
--->'''Lady Gaga:''' Just put your paws up.\\
'''Todd:''' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
** Also says "Mistletoe" is this, since it's "using Christmas as an excuse for kissing Bieber fantasies."
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Todd in the "Drive By" review when he hears the "my love for you went viral" line.
* PokemonSpeak:
** He doesn't like when singers say their own name in their songs. But he is particularly hard on Jason Derulo for this.
** Once Todd figures out that along with "7 Years" showing Lukas Graham is [[SmallNameBigEgo a huge egomaniac]] and both his releases are {{Self Titled Album}}s, he says he's surprised the lyrics aren't "Lukas, Lukas Graham, Lukas Graham..."
* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] He considers Music/JessieJ to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as [[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
* PopCultureIsolation: [[invoked]] An apparent in-work example in his list of the 10 worst songs of 1976. He chooses "Convoy" by C. W. [=McCall=] in part because he doesn't understand how trucking was so popular as to inspire a hit song, and "Convoy" does nothing towards its case.
* PeripheryDemographic: [[invoked]] He admits to liking the Music/OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
* PersonAsVerb: In his review of "Feel This Moment" by Music/{{Pitbull}} featuring Music/ChristinaAguilera, He mentions how it's the same usual song as always, with Pitbull being Pitbull, and Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera-ing like she always does.
** Also deconstructed when reviewing "Marvin Gaye" by Music/CharliePuth and Music/MeghanTrainor:
--->'''Todd:''' If this was any other song, the fact that they decided to use Music/MarvinGaye's name as a verb would be the stupidest thing about it. "Let's Music/PinkFloyd and [[Music/TheWall put another brick in the wall]]."
* PetPeeveTrope:
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly if it's Music/{{Beyonce}}-on-male, but Todd in general doesn't like the idea that women are "allowed" to get away with abusing their male partners.
** ClarkKenting: People's inability to recognize the obvious fact that Series/HannahMontana is Miley in a wig drives Todd up the wall. Todd even references Clark Kent and [[Film/{{Superman}} Christopher Reeve's performance of the character]].
** DomesticAbuse: He struggled to avoid making this the focal point of his review of "I Can Transform Ya", although he doesn't let what Chris Brown did to Rihanna ever pass by without commenting on it.
** Songs that take place InDaClub. Todd feels that there's very little variations to these kinds of songs, and that a song has to be ''very'' good in order for him to let this side. He does like ironic club songs that spin the scene into something empty or depressing, however.
** ChildPopstar: Not only does Todd consider such pop stars in general to be not very good, he feels like the music industry is consistently abusing young talent.
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** LyricsVideoMismatch: He'll not only point it out, but it will be the focus of a good part of his reviews if the music video is especially egregious with not matching the lyrics.
** PainfulRhyme: [[invoked]] Forms the basis of his RunningGag: "Finish the Rhyme!" Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
** RhymingWithItself: Annoys him quite a bit, as he considers it lazy.
** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Not the case for Music/ScatmanJohn, however, whose rapid jazz scatting elicits respect from Todd. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
--->'''Todd:''' Hip hop! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop. Shouting. Ohhh.]]
** TheFourChordsOfPop: While the chords are popular for a reason, he considers such chords to be creatively bankrupt.
** LyricalShoehorn: [[{{Inuniverse}} With Train being the greatest offender.]]
** When choruses in party/love songs end with the word "tonight".
** MusicIsPolitics:[[invoked]] In the ''Trainwreckords'' episodes on Music/LizPhair's ''Funstyle'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'', Todd mentions that he loathes [[WriterRevolt anti-music-industry rants from successful artists]], considering it the bottom of the barrel in terms of creativity.
* ThePowerOfHate: Todd decided to take a different route when LMFAO told him to "STOP! HATIN'S BAD!" and look at the song from a more loving point of view. ''Not'' hating music almost erased him out of existence.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** A fairly enraged one in the "Deuces" review, especially jarring because up to that point there had barely been any strong language in his videos at all. When Chris Brown says a particularly triggering line for Todd, Todd is silent for a moment before screaming "go fuck yourself, Chris Brown!"
** There was also this bit, though he wasn't in character at the time.
--->'''Todd:''' As soon as you turn that camera off, I'm beating the shit out of you.
** Something of a Tactical F Campaign throughout the "Tonight..." review.
** His response to anyone who might not like Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" is... guess it.
--->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
** In his Worst Hit Songs of 2004 list, he discusses how this can be done well ("Fuck You"), badly ("Tonight..."), or ''really'' badly (Eamon's "Fuck It").
** Todd introduces the "Worst of 2013" retrospect with "Good fucking riddance!! No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself."
** During his Music/SClub7 episode of "One Hit Wonderland", while discussing their TV show, he delivers one to the band themselves after they diss Music/{{Hanson}} by saying "fuck you! Hanson got really good in their later years!"
** Once Meghan Trainor sings "Dear future husband\Make time for me, don't leave me lonely\And no we'll never see your family more than mine", Todd's response is "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
** At the end of his Worst Hits of 1991 video, he delivers a point-blank "Fuck you, Bryan Adams, you censoring dick!" after discovering he'd used legal standovers to have his information removed from [=AllMusic=], an impartial reference publication.
* PretenderDiss: Todd's opinion of Bebe Rexha is that while she is genuinely determined to become a star and wants it very badly, she "has only ever been a clip art stock photo of a pop star, a shallow facsimile of the real thing with no fanbase, identity or memorable songs".
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: This dissonance comes up fairly often when Todd discusses white musicians trying and failing to posture in ways more associated with Black music or culture.
** Todd notes that Pat Monahan is way too white (and also not young enough) to get away with singing "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug" in "Hey, Soul Sister".
** This dissonance is a big factor in his first discussion of Music/IggyAzalea with his review of "Fancy", due to Iggy being a white woman who was getting noticed in the rap space...while also affecting a manner of speech in her rapping meant to invoke Black people, which gained her a lot of prominent criticism.
** {{Music/Madonna}}'s "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, with Todd bringing up the genuinely angry "Impostor" parody version from ''Series/InLivingColor'' and expressing doubt about a lyric where Snow claims his voice has convinced people he's Jamaican.
** Todd's review of Music/ArianaGrande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, invoking the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical ''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India do to ''you''?
** The Trainwreckords episode on ''Music/TheHumanLeague'''s ''Crash'' discusses some instances where the very white British band, as a result of having different writing and production for the album, found themselves performing some AAVE slang in their songs which they were not only incapable of selling, but also, in interviews, proved they didn't even ''understand'', even in cases where the words' meaning would be immediately understood through context. Todd does not let them off the hook for the song "Swang" in particular.
* PreviouslyOn: Double-subverted:
-->'''Todd:''' Previously on Todd In The Shadows: YourMom! Hah! Also, on my show, this happened.
* {{Pun}}: Both {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Todd in his work and pointed out in the awful lyrics of "Carry Out", which are mostly food {{Double Entendre}}s linked together in lyrical form.
-->'''Todd:''' I'd like to dip ''my'' [=McNuggets=] in your special sauce!
** "Fittingly enough, a song called 'Whistle' totally blows!"
*** Which is still more tasteful than the DoubleEntendre that the song itself is based on.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: FINISH. THE. RHYME!
** [[Music/ChrisBrown CAN'T...]] [[BrainBleach GET...]] [[ShowerOfAngst CLEAAAAAN!]]
** [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three words]]: Deep. Blue. Something.
* PungeonMaster: He points out in "The Safety Dance" that Men Without Hats should not be confused with the Australian pop band Men At Work (both of whom reached popularity at exactly the same time), but says that they both should have combined bands a few years later to become Men Without Work. He also says that shortly after releasing "The Safety Dance", Men Without Hats became Men Without Hits. He stops himself before he goes any further.
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to:
[[ToddInTheShadows/AToC Tropes A To C]] | [[ToddInTheShadows/DToF Tropes D to F]] | [[ToddInTheShadows/GToI Tropes G to I]] | [[ToddInTheShadows/JToM Tropes J to M]] | '''Tropes N to P''' | [[ToddInTheShadows/QToS Tropes Q to S]] | [[ToddInTheShadows/TToV Tropes T to V]] | [[ToddInTheShadows/WToZ Tropes W to Z]]
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* NameMcAdjective: He gave Chris Brown the nickname Captain [[DomesticAbuse McPunchesAGirl]] during his review of "I Can Transform Ya".
* {{Narm}}:[[invoked]]
** His reaction re-listening to Music/LinkinPark's "Crawling": "Just as hilarious as back then".
** His reaction to [[Music/MaroonFive Adam Levine]] trying to be "[[EvilIsSexy sexy]] [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" in the video for "Animals".
* NarmCharm:[[invoked]] Most of the "Scatman" episode of One Hit Wonderland has him referring to Music/ScatmanJohn's work as cheesy, but sincere enough to be enjoyable.
* {{Nepotism}}: He blames it for the existence of Willow and Jaden Smith, Rockwell, LMFAO, and Hot Chelle Rae's careers.
** In an unstated example, when discussing LMFAO, he tries to draw an analogy between them, the Black Eyed Peas, and various hair metal bands before settling on LMFAO as Nelson. Nelson was also arguably a case of nepotism, being the twin sons of Ricky Nelson and by extension grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet.
** In "Best of 2015," he reminds viewers that Elle King is the daughter of Rob Schneider.
* NeverLiveItDown: 'Tonight...' and 'The Lazy Song' have permanently changed his image of Enrique Iglesias and Bruno Mars for the worse [[InUniverse in his eyes]]. [[invoked]]
** However, as of his Top Ten Best Songs of 2012, Bruno may have saved himself with "Locked Out of Heaven"and later again in "Top 10 Best Songs of 2013" with "Treasure".
** He mentions how Music/AFlockOfSeagulls is remembered not only for being a OneHitWonder, but the AnimeHair of the lead singer.
* NiceGuy: He's repeatedly mentioned that he can't actually ''hate'' Music/OneDirection because they seem to be genuinely nice people, even if their music doesn't always reflect it.
* NonIndicativeName: One of the recurring themes of ''One-Hit Wonderland'' is that many so-called one-hit wonders technically aren't, using the definition of a one-hit wonder as "a band or artist with only one song that ever made the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100". Todd will point this out when discussing the later careers of the bands and/or artists,
** A-Ha[[note]]#1 with "Take on Me" in 1985[[/note]]: Their second-biggest hit, "The Sun Always Shines On TV", charted at #20 in the US and actually placed ''higher'' than "Take On Me" in several countries, including the UK.
** Men Without Hats[[note]]#3 with "The Safety Dance" in 1982[[/note]]: Also reached #20 with "Pop Goes the World", which Todd even comments is fairly well-remembered as far as "second singles by one-hit wonders" go. (It actually did better in their native Canada than "Safety Dance" did).
** Music/BillyRayCyrus[[note]]#4 with "Achy Breaky Heart" in 1992[[/note]]: Notes that, as a country artist, being a "one-hit wonder" on ''those'' charts is basically impossible - and, indeed, Cyrus charted many times throughout TheNineties. His duet with daughter Miley, "Ready, Set, Don't Go", is mentioned in passing as his first Top 10 (Country) hit in a decade, but Todd neglects to inform the viewers that it actually reached the Top 40 ''on the Pop charts'' - technically making Billy Ray Cyrus a one-hit wonder no longer. (Nor was he, or anyone else, expecting Cyrus to have a #1 hit in 2019 with his guest verse on "[[Music/LilNasX Old Town Road]]".)
** Creator/EddieMurphy[[note]]#2 with the "Party All the Time" in 1985[[/note]]: Claims that Murphy scored a "near-hit" with the lead single off his second album, "Put Your Mouth On Me", which reached #27 on the charts (and therefore actually ''is'' a hit - though a minor one).
** Music/AFlockOfSeagulls[[note]]#9 with "I Ran (So Far Away)" in 1982[[/note]] had not one, but ''[[ExaggeratedTrope two]]'' Top 40 hits outside of "I Ran (So Far Away)"; they were "Space Age Love Song" (peaked at #30) and "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" (peaked at #26).
** Mr. Big[[note]]#1 with "To Be With You" in 1992[[/note]], like A Flock of Seagulls, also had two additional Top 40 hits: "Just Take My Heart", and a cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World".
** Discussed when reviewing Blue Swede[[note]]#1 with "Hooked on a Feeling" in 1974[[/note]], as while they had a second Top 10 hit with a cover of the Association's "Never My Love", they are ''still'' a one-hit wonder to him because the song had no lasting appeal and is remembered by almost no one. He compares it to Music/{{PSY}}'s "Gentleman" in that regard. Meanwhile, he maintains that this does not apply to less famous yet still remembered songs like Rick Astley's "Together Forever" and such.
** Music/SirMixALot[[note]]#1 with "Baby Got Back" in 1992[[/note]]'s first album, which was released four years before "Baby Got Back," went platinum.
** Falco[[note]]#1 with "Rock Me Amadeus" in 1985[[/note]]'s "Vienna Calling" reached #18 on the Hot 100.
** In some cases, it's the opposite, with the one-hit wonder song not even charting in the top 40, which technically means that they weren't hit songs.
*** "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls only reached #46 (though it went to #1 on the Dance charts).
*** Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" peaked at #58 in America, but is still well-remembered as a one-hit wonder.
*** "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" only got to #87 on the Hot 100 in 1997, long after its initial release in 1979.
* NonSerialMovie: His opinion on Music/TheMonkees' ''Film/{{Head}}''.
* NoodleIncident: "I am not having any bottles broken over anyone's head in this room. Not after the DL incident. I'll tell you about it sometime. *shudder* So much blood..." He would later explain it on Twitter, even later in "Grenade."
** Also, the "[[WebVideo/ObscurusLupa Lupa]] Fiasco".
** "I haven't had to deal with this many girls on fire since I accidentally set the..."
* NoodleImplements: Something more twisted than S&M, and involving a trombone.
** Also part of the Lupa Fiasco.
--->'''Lupa''': What am I supposed to do with all these ''geese''?!
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: When putting [[Music/DemiLovato "Cool for the Summer"]] at #2 on his lists of the best songs of 2015, he didn't even realize at first that it was a song about a lesbian fling, such was the effect that its raw power had on him. Upon examining the lyrics...
-->'''Todd:''' ...''whoosh''. I'd have never noticed! If it is, it's certainly better than [[Music/LittleBigTown "Girl Crush"]].
* NotHyperbole
** Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worse than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** The latter of which actually does turn out to be hyperbole, as 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)' ranks much higher on his "Worst Songs of 2011" list than 'The Lazy Song' does. He admits that 'The Lazy Song' grew on him, but he still feels the need to punch Bruno Mars in the face when he hears it.
** ''[[Music/{{Carpenters}} Passage]]'' has a calypso cover, "just like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''!" Todd then reveals it is in fact the ''exact'' same song ([[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"]]) that Homer and Marge covered in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]].
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
** Todd claims that people indeed discussed "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]"'s [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory deeper meaning]] back in the day.
** In "Break Up", after the line "Don't I make your earlobe freeze?" he puts a caption reading "Seriously, I didn't make that up."
** "... so I felt obligated to listen to their latest single, "Carry Out", which consists entirely of fast-food-related {{double entendre}}s. [{{beat}}] Seriously."
** Also, on the "[=BedRock=]" review, when he lists the members of Young Money.
--->Mack Maine... Jae Millz... Lil Chuckee... Lil' Twist... T Streets... and a bunch of other names that sound like I'm just making them up, though I swear to God I'm not.
** In the "Worst Songs Of 1987" video, he has to clarify that yes, Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of his favourite songs of the 80s.
** Todd makes sure to point out he didn't add the ''Film/BladesOfGlory'' clip in "Niggas in Paris" (just after Music/KanyeWest quoted the movie), it's in the actual video!
** In the OHW for Mr. Big's "To Be with You", he can barely believe that the long list of HairMetal bands he compiled are real.
** In another OHW, this time for "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer, Todd emphasizes this when he says that Rick Derringer produced Music/WeirdAlYankovic's albums in the 1980s, and to further prove that he isn't lying, he includes [[WordofGod a clip of Al himself]] talking about Rick Derringer.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He states in the review of the "Cruise" remix that, in the last ten years, mainstream CountryMusic has essentially become the "white" version of GlamRap in its lyrical themes, and has taken on a growing number of stylistic cues from hip-hop. He goes so far as to claim that the video for "Cruise" is essentially a rap video with white chicks.
* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat: The chorus for Pitbull's "Back In Time" provokes Todd to thinking this, though the way he says it makes it come off more like HoYay.
-->''My sweet baby? You're the one? What the living crap does this have to do with ''Film/MenInBlack''? Do Agent J and K fall in love in this movie? ...Not that I'm opposed to watching that.''
* NothingButHits: Todd's criteria for including a song on his Best or Worst Hit Songs list is that the song in question must either be on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 for that year or peak in the Top 20 sometime during that year.
* NoTrueScotsman: As explained on his review of "#selfie", he's reluctant to review EDM songs because every time he tries Todd get a flood of complaints claiming said song isn't ''real'' EDM.
* NWordPrivileges: Todd doesn't have them, and as such has to rely on the subtitles when he has to mention '[[Music/KanyeWest Niggas in]] [[Music/JayZ Paris]]' by name. And even those are censored.
** [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion near the end of the review, when the subtitles censor the word "Paris" instead of the usual, making it look like it might say "Niggas in Penis".]]
** Then in his Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2012 review, he ends a long string of "-izzle" words with "...ma nizzle! Am I allowed to say 'nizzle'?"
** He doesn't consider Rednex (a Swedish group) to have this for caricaturing Southerners.
* OddFriendship: In the "Niggas in Paris" review, he discusses how weird it is that Music/KanyeWest and Music/JayZ are friends and collaborate on music, considering their contrasting personalities.
* OffScreenTeleportation: He displays this in the WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown review of ''[[Creator/TheAsylum Sunday School Musical]]''. (see also StealthHiBye)
-->'''Film Brain:''' Todd, I'm curious. How did you get in here?\\
'''Todd:''' I move in the space between spaces.
* OldSchoolIntroductoryRap: Todd uses this in his ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode covering the 90s hit "Whoomp! There It Is" by Tag Team. Specifically, after playing some clips from their attempted followup, "U Go Girl", Todd offers his own impression to make fun of Tag Team's middling skills as rappers:
-->'''Todd:''' We're Tag Team and we're here to say / we support black women in a major way!
* OlderThanTheyLook:
** He's shocked that Carly Rae Jepsen is 26, and how she is "an adult [that] successfully sound[s] like an eighth grader trying to sound like a grown-up".
** He's even more shocked on Kimberly Perry being 28, but appearing 16 in If I Die Young.
** His main problem with Music/ArianaGrande[='s=] attempts at a "sexy" image is that she looks like a 9-year-old wearing make-up.
* OnceAnEpisode:
** Every Pop Song Review and ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode starts with him playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
*** His review of Music/LadyGaga's "Alejandro" has him instead play Music/AceOfBase's "The Sign", due to the former sampling the latter.
*** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
*** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
*** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Float On" starts with him playing the Music/ModestMouse song, only to reveal that it was an AprilFoolsDay prank and that he's instead reviewing the song of the same name by The Floaters.
*** Before playing the piano intro, his review of Music/JohnLegend's "All of Me" starts with a clip of his Grammy vlog earlier that year, where he comments that he didn't even know John Legend had released a song that year, before cutting back to present-time Todd, angry that a song that he dismissed as "not mattering" is now one of the biggest hits of the year.
*** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, which was requested by one of his Patreon supporters, starts as a review of Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful", but changes a minute in when Todd receives a message by the user changing his request, which Todd is more than happy to oblige with considering his dislike of the latter song.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's "[[Music/{{Yes}} Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" sample instead of "Tic Tac Toe" itself.
*** His review of "death bed (coffee for your head)" by Powfu ft. Beabadoobee has him comment "Those aren't real names" when the captions display the title and artists.
*** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" review has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he just made something up because he couldn't remember how the song went.
** He's also starting to sign off his reviews in the same way: "I'm Todd in the Shadows, and ________." The blank is either filled with "I'm out" or a joke - often a CallBack - related to the song. Like from his "Scream and Shout" video:
--->'''Todd:''' I'm Todd in the Shadows, saying "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!"
** And right after that, most of the time the review ends with the last brief moment/lines of the music video of the song he's reviewing.
** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance"]]), shares the same name as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
** Every worst-of list of a year uses a song clip from that year for the countdown that is not on his list, yet has a suitably derogatory title. Examples to date include [[Music/PussycatDolls "I Hate This Part"]], [[Music/MichaelJackson "Bad"]], [[Music/CeeLoGreen "Fuck You"]], [[Music/{{Wings}} "Silly Love Songs"]], [[Music/{{Kesha}} "Blow"]], [[Series/AmericanIdol "Sorry 2004"]], [[Music/{{Pink}} "Blow Me"]], [[Music/TaylorSwift "I Knew You Were Trouble"]], [[Music/ArianaGrande "Break Free"]] (more for the lyric - "this is, the part where I say I don't wanna..."), and [[Music/{{Halsey}} "You Should Be Sad"]]. Best-of lists use DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" mash-up for that year, or a suitable substitute. He was forced to change this for the 2013 lists due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers copyright rules]], though; he had to hastily reedit the worst-of list to swap in a generic tune for "I Knew You Were Trouble", while the best-of list used a one-second sample of [[Music/BrunoMars "Treasure"]] that was deemed acceptable.
*** This ended up affecting the best list at least once: In the "Best of 2014" list, he mentions using [[Music/BigSean "I Don't Fuck With You"]] as a bumper song in the worst of that year...and it grew on him enough to put it at #7 on the best list.
* OneHitWonder: The point of One-Hit Wonderland, obviously. Occasionally discussed outside of it: [[invoked]]
** He mentions how Mike Posner and the Far East Movement still managed to get a second hit, and asks for Hot Chelle Rae to not reach this. Then he says that despite the failure of LMFAO's follow-up single, they managed to still get a second hit with an even worse song.
** While talking about "Put It Down On Me", he stated he was adding Jeremih to "...the growing list of one-hit wonders who technically have a second hit."
*** This gets even funnier as of 2014, now that Jeremih has a third hit with "Don't Tell 'Em".
* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: Todd commends Lukas Graham for using actual instruments in an age of increasingly electronic and synthesized music, as well as having lyrics about something other than clubbing and/or sex - and then immediately tears into their biggest hit, "7 Years", [[spoiler:which would also be his #1 worst song of 2016]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During his review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", Todd is so disgusted with the song that he refuses to do his obligatory piano cover to start off the video. He does briefly play a section of the track later on, if only to show how mindless and repetitive the main riff is.
* OriginsEpisode: "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry literally describes exactly how the band came into popularity in the first place. Some audience member really did shout "Play that funky music, white boy" during one of their gigs.
* OrphanedPunchline: '''"...WASHING MACHINE!"'''
* OrSoIHeard:
** In the ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' review:
--->'''Todd:''' Your average Creator/DisneyChannel sitcom gets raunchier than this. ({{Beat}}) Not that I watch those.
** Todd repeatedly states that most of the opinions he's formed for PSY's "Gangnam Style" is based off of simply what he's read up on the internet.
--->''Or so I've read.''
** PlayedWith in the ''Mac And Devin Go To High School'' review. Rap Critic, who has previously announced that he's never smoked weed, seems to be incredibly knowledgeable about its effects and what it does to people.
--->'''Rap Critic:''' Is this what's suppose to happen when you're high on weed? Ca-Cause that's not what happens. What happens is stuff becomes funnier and music slightly speeds up. Chemically, the effects of weed are kind of mundane.\\
'''Todd:''' Wait a minute, since when do you know so much about getting high?\\
'''Rap Critic:''' What are you, ''a cop?''
** Naturally comes up a lot in the Trainwreckords retrospective for ''[[ChurchOfHappyology Mission Earth]]'', as any and all allegations or more critical statements [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope have to be soft-pedaled with additions like "people have said"]].
--->"I AM, of course. not saying that!" ''[Nervous chuckle]'' "We are gonna... tread ''very'' carefully here."
* OutOfTheGhetto: [[invoked]] In his review of "Turn Down For What", he stated that he thinks Music/DaftPunk transcends the EDM genre, which he otherwise has little time for. However, he had a hard time explaining precisely ''why'' without, in his words, sounding like the racist white kid in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' trying to explain why he likes UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan.
* OverlyLongGag: His comparison of Hot Chelle Rae's brand of partying to high school all-night grad parties.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: He does this to "Best Song Ever" in "Top 10 Hit Songs of 2013"
--> And we danced all night to the ''6th best hit song of 2013''
* PanderingToTheBase: [[invoked]]He questions about this in "Alejandro".
-->'''Todd:''' Ok. Even if you are one of Gaga's many gay fans, at what point do you feel pandered to? Like, when do you reach the point where even you have to look back and say: "Ok, this is getting kinda gay."
** Double subverted in his review of "Born This Way", when he wonders which heavily marginalized group's self esteem the song intends to boost.
--->'''Lady Gaga:''' Just put your paws up.\\
'''Todd:''' [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]]. Also I guess gay people.
** Also says "Mistletoe" is this, since it's "using Christmas as an excuse for kissing Bieber fantasies."
* PeopleFallOffChairs: Todd in the "Drive By" review when he hears the "my love for you went viral" line.
* PokemonSpeak:
** He doesn't like when singers say their own name in their songs. But he is particularly hard on Jason Derulo for this.
** Once Todd figures out that along with "7 Years" showing Lukas Graham is [[SmallNameBigEgo a huge egomaniac]] and both his releases are {{Self Titled Album}}s, he says he's surprised the lyrics aren't "Lukas, Lukas Graham, Lukas Graham..."
* PoorMansSubstitute: [[invoked]] He considers Music/JessieJ to be the poor man's substitute to Music/KatyPerry, just as flexible (and fake) in personality and her stage persona but not as [[GuiltyPleasure enjoyable]].
* PopCultureIsolation: [[invoked]] An apparent in-work example in his list of the 10 worst songs of 1976. He chooses "Convoy" by C. W. [=McCall=] in part because he doesn't understand how trucking was so popular as to inspire a hit song, and "Convoy" does nothing towards its case.
* PeripheryDemographic: [[invoked]] He admits to liking the Music/OneDirection song "Best Song Ever" even if it has some bad moments.
* PersonAsVerb: In his review of "Feel This Moment" by Music/{{Pitbull}} featuring Music/ChristinaAguilera, He mentions how it's the same usual song as always, with Pitbull being Pitbull, and Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera-ing like she always does.
** Also deconstructed when reviewing "Marvin Gaye" by Music/CharliePuth and Music/MeghanTrainor:
--->'''Todd:''' If this was any other song, the fact that they decided to use Music/MarvinGaye's name as a verb would be the stupidest thing about it. "Let's Music/PinkFloyd and [[Music/TheWall put another brick in the wall]]."
* PetPeeveTrope:
** DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Particularly if it's Music/{{Beyonce}}-on-male, but Todd in general doesn't like the idea that women are "allowed" to get away with abusing their male partners.
** ClarkKenting: People's inability to recognize the obvious fact that Series/HannahMontana is Miley in a wig drives Todd up the wall. Todd even references Clark Kent and [[Film/{{Superman}} Christopher Reeve's performance of the character]].
** DomesticAbuse: He struggled to avoid making this the focal point of his review of "I Can Transform Ya", although he doesn't let what Chris Brown did to Rihanna ever pass by without commenting on it.
** Songs that take place InDaClub. Todd feels that there's very little variations to these kinds of songs, and that a song has to be ''very'' good in order for him to let this side. He does like ironic club songs that spin the scene into something empty or depressing, however.
** ChildPopstar: Not only does Todd consider such pop stars in general to be not very good, he feels like the music industry is consistently abusing young talent.
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** LyricsVideoMismatch: He'll not only point it out, but it will be the focus of a good part of his reviews if the music video is especially egregious with not matching the lyrics.
** PainfulRhyme: [[invoked]] Forms the basis of his RunningGag: "Finish the Rhyme!" Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
** RhymingWithItself: Annoys him quite a bit, as he considers it lazy.
** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Not the case for Music/ScatmanJohn, however, whose rapid jazz scatting elicits respect from Todd. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
--->'''Todd:''' Hip hop! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Stop. Shouting. Ohhh.]]
** TheFourChordsOfPop: While the chords are popular for a reason, he considers such chords to be creatively bankrupt.
** LyricalShoehorn: [[{{Inuniverse}} With Train being the greatest offender.]]
** When choruses in party/love songs end with the word "tonight".
** MusicIsPolitics:[[invoked]] In the ''Trainwreckords'' episodes on Music/LizPhair's ''Funstyle'' and Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''St. Anger'', Todd mentions that he loathes [[WriterRevolt anti-music-industry rants from successful artists]], considering it the bottom of the barrel in terms of creativity.
* ThePowerOfHate: Todd decided to take a different route when LMFAO told him to "STOP! HATIN'S BAD!" and look at the song from a more loving point of view. ''Not'' hating music almost erased him out of existence.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** A fairly enraged one in the "Deuces" review, especially jarring because up to that point there had barely been any strong language in his videos at all. When Chris Brown says a particularly triggering line for Todd, Todd is silent for a moment before screaming "go fuck yourself, Chris Brown!"
** There was also this bit, though he wasn't in character at the time.
--->'''Todd:''' As soon as you turn that camera off, I'm beating the shit out of you.
** Something of a Tactical F Campaign throughout the "Tonight..." review.
** His response to anyone who might not like Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" is... guess it.
--->'''Todd:''' [[{{Subversion}} I disagree with your opinion.]] [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Also fuck you]].]]
** In his Worst Hit Songs of 2004 list, he discusses how this can be done well ("Fuck You"), badly ("Tonight..."), or ''really'' badly (Eamon's "Fuck It").
** Todd introduces the "Worst of 2013" retrospect with "Good fucking riddance!! No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself."
** During his Music/SClub7 episode of "One Hit Wonderland", while discussing their TV show, he delivers one to the band themselves after they diss Music/{{Hanson}} by saying "fuck you! Hanson got really good in their later years!"
** Once Meghan Trainor sings "Dear future husband\Make time for me, don't leave me lonely\And no we'll never see your family more than mine", Todd's response is "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
** At the end of his Worst Hits of 1991 video, he delivers a point-blank "Fuck you, Bryan Adams, you censoring dick!" after discovering he'd used legal standovers to have his information removed from [=AllMusic=], an impartial reference publication.
* PretenderDiss: Todd's opinion of Bebe Rexha is that while she is genuinely determined to become a star and wants it very badly, she "has only ever been a clip art stock photo of a pop star, a shallow facsimile of the real thing with no fanbase, identity or memorable songs".
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: This dissonance comes up fairly often when Todd discusses white musicians trying and failing to posture in ways more associated with Black music or culture.
** Todd notes that Pat Monahan is way too white (and also not young enough) to get away with singing "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug" in "Hey, Soul Sister".
** This dissonance is a big factor in his first discussion of Music/IggyAzalea with his review of "Fancy", due to Iggy being a white woman who was getting noticed in the rap space...while also affecting a manner of speech in her rapping meant to invoke Black people, which gained her a lot of prominent criticism.
** {{Music/Madonna}}'s "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, with Todd bringing up the genuinely angry "Impostor" parody version from ''Series/InLivingColor'' and expressing doubt about a lyric where Snow claims his voice has convinced people he's Jamaican.
** Todd's review of Music/ArianaGrande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, invoking the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical ''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India do to ''you''?
** The Trainwreckords episode on ''Music/TheHumanLeague'''s ''Crash'' discusses some instances where the very white British band, as a result of having different writing and production for the album, found themselves performing some AAVE slang in their songs which they were not only incapable of selling, but also, in interviews, proved they didn't even ''understand'', even in cases where the words' meaning would be immediately understood through context. Todd does not let them off the hook for the song "Swang" in particular.
* PreviouslyOn: Double-subverted:
-->'''Todd:''' Previously on Todd In The Shadows: YourMom! Hah! Also, on my show, this happened.
* {{Pun}}: Both {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Todd in his work and pointed out in the awful lyrics of "Carry Out", which are mostly food {{Double Entendre}}s linked together in lyrical form.
-->'''Todd:''' I'd like to dip ''my'' [=McNuggets=] in your special sauce!
** "Fittingly enough, a song called 'Whistle' totally blows!"
*** Which is still more tasteful than the DoubleEntendre that the song itself is based on.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: FINISH. THE. RHYME!
** [[Music/ChrisBrown CAN'T...]] [[BrainBleach GET...]] [[ShowerOfAngst CLEAAAAAN!]]
** [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Three words]]: Deep. Blue. Something.
* PungeonMaster: He points out in "The Safety Dance" that Men Without Hats should not be confused with the Australian pop band Men At Work (both of whom reached popularity at exactly the same time), but says that they both should have combined bands a few years later to become Men Without Work. He also says that shortly after releasing "The Safety Dance", Men Without Hats became Men Without Hits. He stops himself before he goes any further.
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* OnceAnEpisode: He starts every episode by playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
** His review of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's [[Music/{{Yes}} Owner Of A Lonely Heart]] sample instead of TabletopGame/TicTacToe itself.
** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he was just pressing random keys.
** His review of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's [[Music/{{Yes}} Owner Of A Lonely Heart]] sample instead of TabletopGame/TicTacToe itself.
** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he was just pressing random keys.
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* OnceAnEpisode: He starts every OnceAnEpisode:
** Every Pop Song Review and ''One Hit Wonderland'' episodeby starts with him playing the song he's about to discuss on his piano. Subverted occasionally:
** *** His review of Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he plays the song's intro, then stops in order to shout the song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by KyperMusic/LadyGaga's "Alejandro" has Todd him instead play Music/AceOfBase's "The Sign", due to the song's [[Music/{{Yes}} Owner Of A Lonely Heart]] sample instead of TabletopGame/TicTacToe itself.
**former sampling the latter.
*** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
*** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair," *** His One Hit Wonderland episode on Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping", where he has to listen to plays the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off song's intro, then stops in order to shout the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
**song's famous "''I GET KNOCKED DOWN!''"
*** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
** *** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Float On" starts with him playing the Music/ModestMouse song, only to reveal that it was an AprilFoolsDay prank and that he's instead reviewing the song of the same name by The Floaters.
*** Before playing the piano intro, his review of Music/JohnLegend's "All of Me" starts with a clip of his Grammy vlog earlier that year, where he comments that he didn't even know John Legend had released a song that year, before cutting back to present-time Todd, angry that a song that he dismissed as "not mattering" is now one of the biggest hits of the year.
*** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
** *** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, which was requested by one of his Patreon supporters, starts as a review of Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful", but changes a minute in when Todd receives a message by the user changing his request, which Todd is more than happy to oblige with considering his dislike of the latter song.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's "[[Music/{{Yes}} Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" sample instead of "Tic Tac Toe" itself.
*** His review of "death bed (coffee for your head)" by Powfu ft. Beabadoobee has him comment "Those aren't real names" when the captions display the title and artists.
*** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" review has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that hewas just pressing random keys.made something up because he couldn't remember how the song went.
** Every Pop Song Review and ''One Hit Wonderland'' episode
** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper
**
*** For Willow Smith's "Whip My Hair" he has to listen to the song clip twice first--and [[MediumAwareness stave off the title text]] with "No, no, I got this."
*** His review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" saw him flat-out refusing to play the song. The captions start off by displaying the name of the song and artists as usual, but instead of "A pop song review", the next caption is "Play the song, Todd." to which Todd responds "NO!"
**
*** For his recap of the best songs of 2013, he tries to play Music/{{Rihanna}}'s verse from "The Monster" by Music/{{Eminem}}, but breaks down and just starts banging on random piano keys due to how bad a year for pop music he felt 2013 was. Then he [[INeedAFreakingDrink pours himself some bourbon]].
*** Before playing the piano intro, his review of Music/JohnLegend's "All of Me" starts with a clip of his Grammy vlog earlier that year, where he comments that he didn't even know John Legend had released a song that year, before cutting back to present-time Todd, angry that a song that he dismissed as "not mattering" is now one of the biggest hits of the year.
*** His "#selfie" review begins with him sighing heavily, pushing a button for a pre-made beat on his keyboard, and playing the song's hook very off-beat, with just one finger. By contrast, his review of "Turn Down For What"--a song he enjoys that could be played in a similar way--has him actually playing a more complete piano version.
*** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's "[[Music/{{Yes}} Owner of a Lonely Heart]]" sample instead of "Tic Tac Toe" itself.
*** His review of "death bed (coffee for your head)" by Powfu ft. Beabadoobee has him comment "Those aren't real names" when the captions display the title and artists.
*** His "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Break My Soul]] Vs. [[Music/{{Drake}} Falling Back]]" review has him seemingly play the latter normally, only to reveal later on in the video that he
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* {{Pun}}: Both {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Todd in his work and pointed out in the awful lyrics of "Carry Out", which are mostly food {{Double Entendre}}s linked together in lyrical form.
-->'''Todd:''' I'd like to dip ''my'' [=McNuggets=] in your special sauce!
** "Fittingly enough, a song called 'Whistle' totally blows!"
*** Which is still more tasteful than the DoubleEntendre that the song itself is based on.
-->'''Todd:''' I'd like to dip ''my'' [=McNuggets=] in your special sauce!
** "Fittingly enough, a song called 'Whistle' totally blows!"
*** Which is still more tasteful than the DoubleEntendre that the song itself is based on.
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** His One Hit Wonderland episode on "Tic Tac Toe" by Kyper has Todd instead play the song's [[Music/{{Yes}} Owner Of A Lonely Heart]] sample instead of Tic Tac Toe TabletopGame/TicTacToe itself.
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* PretenderDiss: Todd's opinion of Bebe Rexha is that while she is genuinely determined to become a star and wants it very badly, she "has only ever been a clip art stock photo of a pop star, a shallow facsimile of the real thing with no fanbase, identity or memorable songs".
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* NoPronunciationGuide: Several examples:
** At a certain point, he starts asking how "Iyaz" is supposed to be pronounced.
** Gotye. Go-tiya? Got-Yee? Goat-yeh? Go-tee-yee? Goa-Tee? He finally pronounces it correctly (Go-Tee-Yay) at the end of his "We Are Young"/"Somebody That I Used To Know" double review.
** He stumbles through pronouncing "Canada" as "Can-Na-Duh". For laughs, of course.
** He mispronounces "Keith Follesé" in the "Tonight Tonight" review (it's "foh-luh-SAY", for the record).
** At a certain point, he starts asking how "Iyaz" is supposed to be pronounced.
** Gotye. Go-tiya? Got-Yee? Goat-yeh? Go-tee-yee? Goa-Tee? He finally pronounces it correctly (Go-Tee-Yay) at the end of his "We Are Young"/"Somebody That I Used To Know" double review.
** He stumbles through pronouncing "Canada" as "Can-Na-Duh". For laughs, of course.
** He mispronounces "Keith Follesé" in the "Tonight Tonight" review (it's "foh-luh-SAY", for the record).
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance"]]), [[NamesTheSame shares the same name]] as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance"]]), [[NamesTheSame shares the same name]] name as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
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* NamesTheSame:[[invoked]] He calls out Hot Chelle Rae about calling a song "Tonight Tonight" when Music/TheSmashingPumpkins have already done so.
** Similarly, during the Music/{{Jewel}} episode, he calls out Jewel for writing a song called "2 Become 1", saying, "[[Music/SpiceGirls that title has been claimed]]".
** Similarly, during the Music/{{Jewel}} episode, he calls out Jewel for writing a song called "2 Become 1", saying, "[[Music/SpiceGirls that title has been claimed]]".
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed. Examples: "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s "I Can't Dance", while Music/JustinBieber's "Sorry" ends with [=OneRepublic=] informing us that it's too late to apologise.
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed. Examples: reviewed (i.e. "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s [[Music/WeCantDance "I Can't Dance", while Music/JustinBieber's "Sorry" Dance"]]), [[NamesTheSame shares the same name]] as the song (i.e. Music/TheChainsmokers' "Closer" gets Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Closer"]]), or a song that relates to the name of the artist (i.e. "Without Me" by Music/{{Halsey}} ends with [=OneRepublic=] informing us that it's too late to apologise.[[Music/{{Ram}} "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"]] by Music/PaulMcCartney).
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** ChildPopstar: Not only does Todd consider such pop stars in general to be [[SturgeonsLaw not very good]], he feels like the music industry is consistently abusing young talent.
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** ChildPopstar: Not only does Todd consider such pop stars in general to be [[SturgeonsLaw not very good]], good, he feels like the music industry is consistently abusing young talent.
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** PainfulRhyme: Forms the basis of his RunningGag: "Finish the Rhyme!"
*** Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
*** Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
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** PainfulRhyme: [[invoked]] Forms the basis of his RunningGag: "Finish the Rhyme!"
***Rhyme!" Notably, he used one of these to highlight the DateRape [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines". When he came across the lyric "what rhymes with 'hug me'?", he pointed out that "fuck me", the obvious answer in a song like this, didn't rhyme... but "drug me" ''did''.
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* NotChristianRock: His rule of thumb, given the many "Christian" punk bands he's listened to that often avoided putting explicit religious themes in their music, is that an album must have 50% "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal certifiable Christ content]]" before he'll call it ChristianRock. In his ''One-Hit Wonderland'' episode on "Face Down", he argued that Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus were this trope in their early career to the point where it seemed like they were doing the reverse of what many such bands did: instead of luring in secular kids with what sounds like PopPunk only to hit them with a sermon, they (especially on their sophomore album ''Lonely Road'') were luring in Christian kids with song titles like "You Better Pray" only for it to turn out to be a song about kicking their asses. (As he notes, however, they did become a more straightforwardly Christian band on their later albums once they went independent.)
-->'''Todd:''' If this is Christian music, give me that old-time religion!
-->'''Todd:''' If this is Christian music, give me that old-time religion!
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed. Examples: "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis}}'s "I Can't Dance", while Music/JustinBieber's "Sorry" ends with [=OneRepublic=] informing us that it's too late to apologise.
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** At the end of episodes, he plays a snippet from some song that contrasts ironically with the one he reviewed. Examples: "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", which is about dancing, gets Music/{{Genesis}}'s Music/{{Genesis|Band}}'s "I Can't Dance", while Music/JustinBieber's "Sorry" ends with [=OneRepublic=] informing us that it's too late to apologise.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During his review of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", Todd is so disgusted with the song that he refuses to do his obligatory piano cover to start off the video. He does briefly play a section of the track later on, if only to show how mindless and repetitive the main riff is.
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** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India ever do to ''you'', Liz?
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India ever do to ''you'', Liz?
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** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' stereotypical ''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd Indiaever do to ''you'', Liz?''you''?
** The Trainwreckords episode on ''Music/TheHumanLeague'''s ''Crash'' discusses some instances where the very white British band, as a result of having different writing and production for the album, found themselves performing some AAVE slang in their songs which they were not only incapable of selling, but also, in interviews, proved they didn't even ''understand'', even in cases where the words' meaning would be immediately understood through context. Todd does not let them off the hook for the song "Swang" in particular.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India
** The Trainwreckords episode on ''Music/TheHumanLeague'''s ''Crash'' discusses some instances where the very white British band, as a result of having different writing and production for the album, found themselves performing some AAVE slang in their songs which they were not only incapable of selling, but also, in interviews, proved they didn't even ''understand'', even in cases where the words' meaning would be immediately understood through context. Todd does not let them off the hook for the song "Swang" in particular.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: He thinks "Hoedown Throwdown" is a conglomerate of the worst elements of five genres at once.
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** Songs that take place InDaClub. Todd feels that there's very little variations to these kinds of songs, and that a song has to be ''very'' good in order for him to let this side.
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** Songs that take place InDaClub. Todd feels that there's very little variations to these kinds of songs, and that a song has to be ''very'' good in order for him to let this side. He does like ironic club songs that spin the scene into something empty or depressing, however.
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** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
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** {{Scatting}}: Any excessive parts of inane singing. Not the case for Music/ScatmanJohn, however, whose rapid jazz scatting elicits respect from Todd. Also, background vocals singing "HEY!" or "OH!".
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** Madonna's "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, and highlights the dubious claim Snow makes that people think he's Jamaican when they hear him.
** Todd's review of Ariana Grande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, and highlights the dubious claim Snow makes that people think he's Jamaican when they hear him.
** Todd's review of Ariana Grande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
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** Madonna's This dissonance is a big factor in his first discussion of Music/IggyAzalea with his review of "Fancy", due to Iggy being a white woman who was getting noticed in the rap space...while also affecting a manner of speech in her rapping meant to invoke Black people, which gained her a lot of prominent criticism.
** {{Music/Madonna}}'s "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, with Todd bringing up the genuinely angry "Impostor" parody version from ''Series/InLivingColor'' andhighlights the dubious claim expressing doubt about a lyric where Snow makes that claims his voice has convinced people think he's Jamaican when they hear him.
Jamaican.
** Todd's review ofAriana Grande's Music/ArianaGrande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, invoking the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into isstereotypical''Indian'' stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
** {{Music/Madonna}}'s "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, with Todd bringing up the genuinely angry "Impostor" parody version from ''Series/InLivingColor'' and
** Todd's review of
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is
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** [[Music/{{Carpenters}} "Passage"]] has a calypso cover, "just like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''!" Todd then reveals it is in fact the ''exact'' same song ([[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"]]) that Homer and Marge covered in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]].
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** [[Music/{{Carpenters}} "Passage"]] ''[[Music/{{Carpenters}} Passage]]'' has a calypso cover, "just like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''!" Todd then reveals it is in fact the ''exact'' same song ([[Creator/HarryBelafonte "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)"]]) that Homer and Marge covered in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII "Treehouse of Horror II"]].
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* NotHyperbole: Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song. Worst than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
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* NotHyperbole: NotHyperbole
** Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song.Worst Worse than 'Imma Be'. Worst than 'My Humps'" and "'The Lazy Song' is so far my least favorite song of 2011, a year that includes a song called 'Tonight (I'm Fucking You)'".
** Whenever he makes a statement like "'The Time' is the worst Black Eyed Peas song.
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* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: This dissonance comes up fairly often when Todd discusses white musicians trying and failing to posture in ways more associated with Black music or culture.
** Todd notes that Pat Monahan is way too white (and also not young enough) to get away with singing "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug" in "Hey, Soul Sister".
** Madonna's "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, and highlights the dubious claim Snow makes that people think he's Jamaican when they hear him.
** Todd's review of Ariana Grande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India ever do to ''you'', Liz?
** Todd notes that Pat Monahan is way too white (and also not young enough) to get away with singing "I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug" in "Hey, Soul Sister".
** Madonna's "American Life" rap brings up some of this dissonance due to how poorly she sells it, as well as how completely out-of-touch the subject matter (her wealthy white lifestyle) makes it.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Snow's "Informer" discusses the controversy of a white Canadian rapper becoming famous for reggae, and highlights the dubious claim Snow makes that people think he's Jamaican when they hear him.
** Todd's review of Ariana Grande's "7 rings" focuses on the controversy the song encountered for appropriating Black aesthetics, including lines about hair extensions, the culture of boasting about wealth, and even the music video setting, which were criticized as inauthentic coming from a white singer who hasn't faced the oppression these aesthetics arose from.
** Liz Phair is criticized a little for it in the Trainwreckords episode on ''Funstyle'', but while Liz has cringeworthy raps, what she most often dips into is stereotypical''Indian'' culture, which also confuses Todd and make him uncomfortable.
-->'''Todd:''' What'd India ever do to ''you'', Liz?
