History ToddInTheShadows / TToV

This page covers tropes in ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''.

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* TakeAThirdOption:
** When he reviews "Suit and Tie" and "Thrift Shop" together and comparing the two songs on which is better, he ultimately decides that both songs are worth the radio play. Though he did later put "Suit and Tie" higher on his Best Hit Songs list, so he did ultimately choose that as his preferred song.
** In the Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2019, Todd starts by saying the female rapper of the year would be either Music/CardiB or {{Music/Lizzo}}. He then declares he's "voting third party" and names Music/MeganTheeStallion as the winner.
** The One Hit Wonderland episode on Music/OKGo's "Here It Goes Again" ends with this. Todd vocally has mixed feelings about the band's focus on weird, complex, grandiose music videos which come at the expense of focusing on them as, y'know, a ''band.'' Not to mention how he sees their run of music videos as the gradual commercialization of [=YouTube=]. However, these videos did keep the band in the public eye, which he can't begrudge them for. So when the OnceAnEpisode question comes up, asking Did They Deserve Better? Todd's answer isn't a yes or a no, exactly.
--->'''Todd:''' OK Go have carved out a unique place in entertainment and found a level of success that I think fits them.
* TakeThat:
** He implicitly compared ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' to Creator/JamesCameron spending 500 million dollars of CGI and seven years to making a film consisting of a man being hit in the nuts. He speculated that the latter might have been a superior movie.
** He says to a picture of Creator/TommyWiseau: "That guy is ''definitely'' a jerk."
** In his review of ''Series/HannahMontana: TheMovie'', he's watching a scene where Miley is fighting with Tyra Banks over a pair of shoes. We get this little line:
--->'''Todd:''' [[BaitAndSwitchComparison OK, I find this hard to believe that a seasoned, mature celebrity would lower herself to fighting publicly with a dumb, flash-in-the-pan starlet like Tyra Banks]]... BA-ZING!
** When discussing the overly long name of ''Series/HannahMontana Pop Tour Guitar Video Game''.
--->'''Todd:''' ... one of my favorite titles ever for a video game. Right up there with ''[[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Space Marine First Person Shooter Video Game]]'', ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 Nonsense Fantasy Role-Playing Video Game]]'' and of course ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Piece of Shit]]''.
** Also from the ''Pop Tour Guitar Video Game'' review:
--->'''Todd''': As far as the music goes, the Hannah Montana guitar game isn't that illogical—most of her music is fairly guitar-driven. I'll tell you what, this game rocks harder than a Music/{{Shinedown}} game would, at the very least.
** "But I tell you what. The Yankees fan in me can't help but appreciate this. What NYC, the Yankees, and Jay-Z have in common is the absolute knowledge that you are and always will be more important than anyone around you. And that's what this song is about, and that's something I can relate to every day." *'''EAT IT, [[FandomRivalry RED SOX!]]''' flashes on screen* [[invoked]]
** He makes a well-timed one at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in his "The Time (Dirty Bit)" review.
** In the start of "Black and Yellow":
---> '''Todd''': But even though I hated it, I get why ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' played at my local multiplex. And I get why ''Transmorphers'', while being of roughly the same quality, went straight to DVD.
** At the end of "Black and Yellow":
--->'''Wiz Khalifa:''' They say they scared of it, but the crows ain't.\\
'''Todd:''' You know who else wasn't scared? The Packers. '''BURN!'''
** Todd: "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Katy Perry does, because she's made of plastic. And she's a bag. '''BOOM!'''" [[note]]"[[IronicEchoCut Boom, boom, boom! (Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon!)"]][[/note]]
** He says that "Sexy Bitch" "sucks harder than the New Jersey Nets".
** In "The Time", he bashes the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKQvq36IzA elevator parties that occurred at MAGFest]] ("hearing a bunch of morons screaming about how they're having fun is not having fun!").
** During his review of Music/LadyGaga's "Born This Way," he criticizes the lyric, "God makes no mistakes," by observing that "God makes plenty of mistakes. This guy, for example" -- cut to a picture of a frat boy type with spiked and dyed blonde hair -- "was a mistake. And he was probably born that way. So I just don't see that as much of a defense."
** One against the Creator/BillEngvall Show, saying that even ''that'' was cooler than Mike Posner during "Cooler Than Me".
** Also from "Cooler Than Me", he says that the song sounds like the same four measures over and over again, "something I refer to as Music/{{Coldplay}} syndrome."
** During "Tonight, Tonight" by Hot Chelle Rae:
--->"Which brings me to my next point. Don't rip off Music/JimmyBuffett. That's what we have Music/KennyChesney for."
** Towards country music fans in his "If I Die Young" review: "I still check on [country music] now and again, but me and it lost touch right about the time I discovered ''everything else in the world!''"
** "And speaking of getting old really fast, let's talk about Music/TPain."
** He mentions that "Titanium"'s [[MusicVideoOvershadowing boy-with-powers-runs-for-his-life video]] isn't his cup of tea, but it's still better than ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
** He describes Wild Cherry's style as being "like Music/GrandFunkRailroad if they actually played funk (subtitle: And didn't suck.)."
** He concludes that [[Music/{{PSY}} "Gangnam Style"]] is like "Party Rock Anthem" except the lyrics don't matter.
--->"So basically, it is ''exactly'' like "Party Rock Anthem"!"
** In his Top Ten Worst Songs of 2004, Hoobastank's "The Reason" combined the ugly, sludgy music of a Music/{{Nickelback}} song with the vapid, happy lyrics of a Peter Cetera ballad.
** Regarding the hook of "Lighters" by Music/BrunoMars and Music/{{Eminem}}: "This sounds like something Music/{{Coldplay}} would refuse to release for being too boring."
** Regarding Creator/VH1 calling Train "the quintessential American band!"
--->"I don't think I have even heard Al-Qaeda say anything that anti-American!"
** Judging by his performance in "Holy Grail", Todd doesn't think that Music/JustinTimberlake makes for a good Music/BrunoMars. Then again, he doesn't think [[ShapedLikeItself Bruno Mars makes a good Bruno Mars]].
** Also in the review of "Holy Grail", while discussing one's attempt to find the titular object, he segues into ragging on the ending of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (where [[spoiler:the cops come in, arrest King Arthur, and end the movie on the spot]]).
** A fairly nasty one at Music/FallOutBoy's hiatus, when describing how "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)" was "just as irritating as all of [their] other really bad songs."
--->'''Patrick Stump:''' ''(singing the lyrics to "I Don't Care")'' I! Don't! Care what you think, as long as it's about me.\\
'''Todd:''' You don't care what I think, as long as it's about you? Well, little wonder that everyone stopped thinking about you right after this.
** In the One Hit Wonderland episode for Dexy's Midnight Runners, he says that "One of Those Things" sampling Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" is "a better use of 'Werewolves of London' than what Music/KidRock did" before cueing up "All Summer Long".
** He plays Pitbull (featuring Ke$ha)'s "Timber" in the intro to the "Worst of 2014" video.
** At the end of the "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 1991" video, Todd goes on a '''[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing]]''' rant over Bryan Adams's [[FrivolousLawsuit threatening to sue]] [=AllMusic=] unless they remove ''[[{{Unperson}} all information about him]]''. He concludes by telling him and ''Canada'' to [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck themselves]]... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and says that]] ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' was "a terrible movie".
** Todd ends up straight-up saying "Fuck you, Music/Maroon5! You suck!" ''[[RuleOfThree three times]]'' during the "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018" video; first when "Wait" is cited as a honorable mention, second when "Girls Like You" is revealed to be #1, and third at the end of the video.
** In his "Someone You Loved" review, he describes the song's lyrics as sounding like dialogue from ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
** In "The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2015 (Pt. 1)", Todd says that Music/SelenaGomez is trying to be a pop star "for the same reason that Jeb Bush is running for President: 'Ehh, what else am I gonna do?'"
** From "The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1976":
-->'''Todd:''' You think ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' is the worst product John Travolta has ever made? Well you're right, but "Let Her In" comes pretty close.
*** In the same segment, he also says that ''Film/{{Grease}}'' sucks.
** In his video on "Play That Funky Music", he calls the song more inspiring than "Ebony and Ivory", then admits that [[SuckinessIsPainful he also thinks getting tasered in the nostrils more inspiring than "Ebony and Ivory"]].
** In his review of "Trollz", Todd says that in recent years, [[MonsterClown "evil clowns"]] have become so popular in America that [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump one of them got elected President]].
** While discussing Music/KatyPerry's "Bon Appetit", he says that there's nothing sexy about her dressed as a roast turkey, unless you're Creator/ArmieHammer.
* TakeThatCritics: He doesn't care for this, as he explains in his video for "Applause". While a song written as a TakeThat against haters is fine, as haters are people who waste their time tearing down other people for no reason, critics are simply doing their jobs.
* TheTeamNormal: He was an example when still on TGWTG: minimal production values, no special effects, only one storyline involving a LoveTriangle, and the only character is Todd himself, who is just a pretty depressed guy in his bedroom talking about music without the elaborate technology or magical powers of his fellows.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: A recurring theme in the videos, Todd has made it clear that he prefers a less technically skilled performer who seems sincere and whose work has genuine emotion, to a smooth and slick but personality free singer.
* TeensAreMonsters: In his Top 10 Best Hits of 2019, Todd mentions that he used to be a substitute teacher, and part of why he loves Music/BillieEilish's "Bad Guy" is because it perfectly captures how sociopathic teenagers can be.
* TemptingFate:
** "Music/LadyGaga has genuinely used up her shock potential, I don't believe there's anything else she can do to shock -- [[NightmareFace AH! OH GOD! OH GOD!]]"
** From his "Telephone" review.
--->'''Todd:''' I sincerely hope Music/LadyGaga doesn't inspire any other artists [[FollowTheLeader to make weird, ugly videos with sub-par music in them]]. *Cue montage of Gaga-esque music videos by various artists*
** At least reviewing "Alejandro" will be a step down - Music/LadyGaga surely has to calm down a little after "Telephone" and "Bad Romance", right? (StunnedSilence follows.)
** "I swear to God, I will beat myself unconscious if ['Whatcha Say'] gets any worse..."
** "Now, "Imma Be" isn't the worst song that Music/TheBlackEyedPeas have made. I mean, the band that made "My Humps" isn't going to dig that hole any further." Well, then came [[FromBadToWorse "The Time (Dirty Bit)".]]
** After being baffled by Willow Smith referencing "[[{{Music/Devo}} Whip It]]"... cue [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo_2.0 Devo 2.0.]]
--->One crisis at a time, Todd...
** In the Best of 2010 review, he cuts his positive review for Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" short, since he'll lose all respect for himself if he has to praise her any more. Then he gets to the #2 slot...
** About halfway through reviewing "The Lazy Song" he states he can't hate Bruno Mars any more than he does now. Cut to Bruno laughing at his own joke.
** Used twice regarding [=Ke$ha's=] "Tik Tok". After looking at her previous work with Flo Rida, the spelling of her name, and the album art, he's certain he's not going to like the song. The chorus plays... and he actually enjoys it. Heartened by this, he starts the song from the beginning... and the verses lose him again.
** Subverted by "Lighters". As he reaches Eminem's verse, he goes in expecting a bland verse fitting his has-been nature that will do nothing to blow him away... and is proven correct.
** Thinking that he's being too harsh, Todd decides he could enjoy the Black Eyed Peas covering "Time of My Life" if he gives it a chance. His faith is not rewarded.
** In "Drive By", he comments that there can't possibly be anything in the song as bad as the Hefty bag line. But then comes the beginning of the second verse... "On the upside of a downward spiral / My love for you went viral". He has a hard time explaining even that. And what's more, come his top ten worst hit songs of 2012 video he comments that he finds "They don't like it, sue me / Mmmm the way you do me" worse than the Hefty bag line, too.
** In his "Top Ten Best Songs of 2012", he's not sure if "Young, Wild, and Free" is really based off a movie. His next review reveals that yes, it's a real direct to DVD movie so he ends up having to review it with the Rap Critic.
** In the Top 10 Worst Pop Songs of 2012 list, he lists Flo Rida's "Whistle" and decides to make one last definitive statement about him: ''nothing''. "This man is not worth expending thoughts on. The end." One video later, he puts a Flo Rida song on his Best of 2012 list, and is forced to explain why.
** At the end of "Dark Horse", he finally gives up on Music/KatyPerry, saying that he'll never listen to her music again.
--->'''Todd:''' You hear that Katy Perry? YOU. SUCK. What are you going to do about it? NOTHING. That's right. I'm Todd in the Shadows, and I'm-\\
''(gets struck by lightning)''\\
'''Todd:''' ... My opinion has not changed.\\
''(gets struck by lightning again)''
** In the "Body Like a Back Road" episode, he expresses hope that country music is finally moving out of "bro-country", only to be floored by the title of the song he's reviewing.
* TenMinuteRetirement: His first Website/ChannelAwesome exclusive. He quits from the strain from hearing Music/{{Kesha}}'s "Blah Blah Blah", only to return and give it a sound beating less than a minute later.
* ThatCameOutWrong: In his review of "7 Years", when explaining the metaphorical meaning of "White Guy with Acoustic Guitar", Todd asks "deep down, aren't we all white guys? That was stupid, forget I said that."
* TheissTitillationTheory: [[InUniverse Discussed]] in "Blurred Lines", with Todd saying the regular version is sexier than the uncensored one with the girls topless. After all, if the girls are scantily-clad, you can imagine them taking it off and that leading to sex, but if they're already naked and sex still isn't happening, something's probably going wrong.[[invoked]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:[[invoked]] Discussed a bit in his review of Music/{{Madonna}}'s ''The Next Best Thing''. The story about a straight woman and a gay man raising a kid together has potential, but all the characters act like selfish ass-hats.
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Todd says that "Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett is to Halloween what "Jingle Bells" is to Christmas, "Auld Lang Syne" is to New Years, and the sound of drunks puking on the sidewalk is to St. Patrick's Day.
* ThemedParty: When Todd was in college, he and his friends would throw "ironic" frat-themed parties where they wore khakis and polo shirts and listened to music they didn't like. Todd now realizes that by "ironic" they really meant "jealous".
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: He's offed himself five times already. One was in the middle of a review. He's even lampshaded this:
-->'''Todd:''' [O]nce again, it's time for me to kill myself.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In his Top 10 Worst Songs of 2012: "Scream & Shout" by Will-I-Am and Britney Spears.
-->''Now-now-rocking with: Will-I-Am and Britney, BITCH!''\\
'''Todd:''' ''[[FauxHorrific (gasp)]]'' She called me a bitch!
* ThisIsGonnaSuck:
** Said word for word after his first review at TGWTG.com was "Blah Blah Blah" by Ke$ha.
** In his "Series/HannahMontana: TheMovie" Review: "This is going to hurt a lot, isn't it?"
** During the One Hit Wonderland review of Jordan Knight's "Give It To You", when he finds out that Knight covered Music/{{Prince}}'s "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man": "Yeah, this is gonna suck. Let's get this over with."
* ThrowTheDogABone: His putting "I Cry" by Flo Rida on his Top 10 Best Songs of 2012 can be considered this after how tough Todd has been on him, especially "Whistle" which was on his worst list that same year. Likewise, {{Music/Pitbull}}'s "International Love" in his honorable mentions can be seen as this, although he deems that song enjoyable for similar reasons but held down by Chris Brown's disappointing chorus.
** With the 2014 list, there were two that can be considered this - one of which was [[Music/ArianaGrande Love Me Harder]], which while Todd discussed he felt bad about how he had talked smack on her late in 2014 and that that one was doing it for him. The other being [[Music/KatyPerry Birthday]], where he said he was willing to make do with Katy Perry at least on one special day because it did him for the same manner that her old tastelessness did.
** The 2015 list had quite a few, including two Taylor Swift tracks ("Wildest Dreams" and "Style", the latter at #1) after having her on two worst lists in a row, "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd, the DJ Mustard produced "I Don't Fuck with You", and "Cool for the Summer" by Demi Lovato. The honorable mentions had "What Do You Mean?" by Justin Bieber and "Time of Our Lives" by Pitbull and Ne-Yo.
* TimeTravel: Todd accuses Imagine Dragons of breaking the laws of physics by writing "Demons" and going back in time to put it on the original singles that were released before they released their first commercial album.
* ToiletHumor: Defied in the Music/ScatmanJohn One Hit Wonderland episode:
-->'''Todd:''' Yes, I know that 'scat' has picked up a second meaning. ''[picture of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a bowl of chocolate ice cream]]]'' I'm gonna need you all to be grown-ups on this one. I can't promise I won't make a couple cheap jokes, but if we giggle every time I say the word 'scat', we're not gonna get anywhere. Get it out of your system now.
* TooMuchInformation: His reaction to the line "I didn't leave you 'cause I was all through" in "Drive-By".
-->"Don't make me think of your O-face, dude"
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously:[[invoked]] Todd [[LampshadeHanging hangs several lampshades on this]].
** Music/JustinBieber in "Eenie Meenie".
--->'''Todd:''' Make us believe that you ''feel'', deep down in your ''soul''... that [[ArtisticLicenseLinguistics Shawty is a eenie meenie miney moe lovah]].
** Chris Brown in "I Can Transform Ya".
---> '''Todd:''' Poor Chris Brown... he's trying ''so hard'' to find the melody.
** In the Website/ChannelAwesome [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_634960&v=OzOaLvwrbvc#t=32s cover]] of "Music/{{Friday}}", Todd seems to be the only person who's even trying to sing well.
* ToughActToFollow: He states that the main reason Music/HouseOfPain became a OneHitWonder is that they were never going to top “Jump Around”
** Todd says that The Buoys' follow-up to "Timothy" didn't really matter, because they were never going to top a song about cannibalism. (Ironically, that song, "Give Up Your Guns" did become a big hit - in The Netherlands.)
* TriviallyObvious: During the "One Hit Wonderland" on Music/AlienAntFarm:
-->'''Todd:''' What else did they release?\\
''(clip of "Attitude" plays)''\\
'''Todd:''' Yep. That's a song, all right.
* TruckDriversGearChange:
** Pointed out in the OHW of "To Be With You" by ''Mr. Big''.
-->'''Todd:''' KEY CHANGE!
** Invoked Creator/BoBurnham's "Y'ALL DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS WANT A KEY CHANGE?" quote from Bo's ''Make Happy'' special to signify the key change in Music/SClub7's "Never Had A Dream Come True."
* TrueArtIsAngsty:[[invoked]] Totally [[AvertedTrope averted]]. He actually likes stupid pop music and his complaints stem from his dissatisfaction with ''bad'' stupid pop music. Lampshaded when he ranks "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" as one of his Worst Songs Of 1987.
-->'''Todd:''' What kind of critic am I? I'll tell you what kind: The kind that hates "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Genesis!
** On the other hand, he dislikes the "white guy with acoustic guitar" genre because it's mostly void of emotion.
** {{Discussed}} in one review: "Always a good idea, a dark album. Plenty of allegedly lightweight acts have achieved greater success when they made a darker album such as...?...and...(band name not found) I'm sure there's at least one."
** He argues that Music/AlienAntFarm didn't have any more hits beside their cover of "Smooth Criminal" because among all the [=Wangsty=] Nu Metal bands, they weren't whiny enough.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible:[[invoked]] At one point in "Break Up," he asks if it's an avant-garde piece that's gone over his head.
* TwerpSweating: ''Southside'' by Music/{{Lloyd}} and Music/{{Ashanti}} made Todd want to do this to Lloyd on Ashanti's behalf.
* TwoOutOfThreeAintBad: Subverted. On the second part of his "Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2014," he says he feels uncomfortable listing "#Selfie" as one of the worst hit songs of 2014 "because it was barely a hit, and also barely a song." The only part he thought fit was the 2014 part. Hence, the song only really qualifies for one of the three categories instead of two out of three.
* UncertainAudience:[[invoked]] Todd argued this about Creator/WillSmith's career when his last rap music album, ''Lost and Found'', came out. Smith had made doing clean and family-friendly rap music his brand, which clashed with the more mature-oriented movies he was making at the time, like ''Film/BadBoysII''. He also performed one of the album's singles, "Switch", both at a Creator/{{BET}} program and at a UsefulNotes/KidsChoiceAward show, making the song feel too broad.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:[[invoked]] Todd sees the ''entirety'' of A Flock of Seagulls--from their sound to their lyrics to their look and music videos--as this.
-->'''Todd:''' This was a band designed for [[TheEighties 1982 and '83]], and pretty much ''only'' '82 and '83. They could not survive outside of those fairly unique [years].
* UnfortunateImplications:[[invoked]]
** Todd points out that in "Tonight..." the chorus of the song "Tonight I'm fucking you" implies [[DateRape that the woman Enrique is talking to has no choice in the matter]].
*** He also considered RobinThicke's "Blurred Lines" on the same line, even comparing it line-by-line to the song [[Music/StoneTemplePilots "Sex Type Thing"]], which actually ''was'' about full-on rape.
** One line in Music/BrunoMars' "The Lazy Song"[[note]]-Turn the TV on, [[ADateWithRosiePalms throw my hand in my pants]][=/=]Nobody's gonna tell me I can't[[/note]] leads Todd to believe that Mars had been called out for masturbating in public.
** "E.T." by Katy Perry ft. Kanye West. Todd, in an attempt to forgo his LiteralMinded ways of song interpretation, notes that if one interprets the song as being about, say, a black guy, then Katy is singing about a ScaryBlackMan who threatens to abduct her. Todd then figures that metaphor can't apply, and that it must meant to be taken literally and be about an alien, because there's no way the song would be intended to have that kind of message. Then Kanye shows up and raps about abducting her, probing her and taking her against her will.
** If one sings "Like Tina did to Ike in the limo, it finally hit me" (as Kevin [=McCall=] in "Deuces"), he's sympathizing with Ike, of all people (and if the main singer had a domestic abuse history, it's even more unfortunate!).
** In his blip.tv intro to "3", Todd mentions how that review (and a few subsequent ones) make it seem like he's against sex.
** In his "Best of 2013" video, Todd points out that, while he liked the part, one should not let Music/RKelly do what he wants with one's body, in regards to Music/LadyGaga's "Do What U Want", considering his past child molestation charges.
** The "Bang Bang" review says that Jessie J is not convincing in the song since "she gives off an asexual vibe". He later jokes about her being an alien with unnatural reproduction. What he tried to say was that Jessie seemed inexperienced and unknowledgeable about sex, but several people politely pointed out that he made it seem like he was calling asexuals alien and unnatural.
* TheUnintelligible: Played with.
** While Billy Ray Cyrus's lyrics are understandable enough, Todd remarks how his singing style ranges somewhere between fake-Music/BruceSpringsteen and fake-Music/ElvisPresley with a bit of [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Trey]] [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice Parker]] thrown in for good measure.
** Todd doesn't understand any of Sean Paul's rapid-fire Jamaican patois, but he still considers him to be the best part of "Do You Remember" by a wide margin.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: [[invoked]]
** This is [[DefiedTrope the reason why he doesn't cover]] more recent artists on One-Hit Wonderland, as there's always a chance, no matter how remote, that they could make a comeback with a second hit and render the episode obsolete, citing Mike Posner's improbable comeback with "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" (a song that's ironically all about being a washed-up one-hit wonder, at that) as Exhibit A. His cutoff for a one-hit wonder that will likely ''stay'' a one-hit wonder is about ten years in the past, with Asher Roth's 2009 song "I Love College" (which he did an episode on in 2019) the most recent song to be featured on the show.
** He feels that "Music/VideoKilledTheRadioStar" by Music/TheBuggles defies this trope. It's a song that, by all means, ''should'' have been an exemplar of such, as it's not only indelibly tied to TheEighties and Creator/{{MTV}}'s formative years, it's also about the rise of {{music video}}s as the dominant commercial force in the popular music world. And yet, he felt it to still sound fresh, new, and futuristic even in 2017, at least partly because it's primarily fueled by {{nostalgia|Filter}} for the pre-MTV world that was entering its twilight at that time. Complaints about how music videos, and the resultant focus on image that they created, had killed 'real music' would remain relevant for decades after, and so "Video Killed the Radio Star" would always be an anthem.
** "Your Woman" by White Town is another song that he felt defied this trope. Despite it dating back to 1997, it felt like a modern BedroomPop song from the early 2020s, between both its actual sound and subject matter and how Jyoti Mishra recorded it as a OneManBand, such that he said it would fit right in if it were sung by an Music/OliviaRodrigo wannabe on [=TikTok=].
* TheUnpronounceable: He has trouble saying the names of everyone in Music/{{Aha}} who isn't Morten Harket.
** Likewise Gotye in the "We Are Young"/"Somebody That I Used to Know" review.
** Spends a good thirty seconds trying to pronounce [[https://youtu.be/MMptB0MXKYU?t=412 Iyaz]].
** Rae Sremmurd.
--->'''Rae Sremmurd:''' Say my fucking name, ho!\\
'''Todd:''' I can't!
* VerbalBackspace: He does one after describing the {{mondegreen}} of Hannah Montana's "I Got Nerve".
-->'''Todd:''' Heh. Nerf should use this song for their commercials. Nerf should not use this song for their commercials. I immediately take that back.
* VerbalTic: Like [[MemeticMutation many people]], Todd started using [[LikeIsLikeAComma Like As, Like, A Comma]] when discussing "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together."
* VerySpecialEpisode: His "review" of Chris Brown's "Turn Up The Music" proceeds to ''completely'' ignore the song's existence, in favor of a 15-minute TheReasonYouSuckSpeech directed at Chris Brown and his complete failure to learn anything from the Rihanna incident.
* VindicatedByHistory[[invoked]]:
** He's said that a lot of the songs he reviews because they're overplayed actually start to sound better after reviewing them, because after hearing it so many times to edit a review for it he suggests that he's built up a relationship with it of sorts.
** He even stated in his Best Hit Songs of 2011 video that he started to like "[[Music/NickiMinaj Super Bass]]" more after spending most of the year being slammed by it.
** Todd personally experienced a bit of this regarding "Disco Duck" by Music/RickDees. In 2011, he put it as #5 in his "Top 10 Worst Hit Songs Of 1976" video and spent the entire bit thrashing it as a lazy and unfunny novelty song. A decade later as he then reviewed the song on One Hit Wonderland, his opinion has notably softened -- Todd found that it's still not remotely funny, but it's otherwise fairly decent in terms of songwriting and catchiness, a reevaluation partially driven by a much broader shift in critical consensus surrounding disco and its place in history.
* VisualPun: In the "Club Can't Handle Me" review.
-->Now maybe it's just me, but if the club can't handle him right now my only conclusion is that they are using the wrong club. [Pulls one out of his jacket] Now, this is my club. It is an authentic replica of a war club used in battle by ancient Greek soldiers and, trust me, it ''can'' handle you right now.
** In his "The Hills" review, when he discusses The Weeknd's massive blow-up in success, he says that The Weeknd is on fire...as he literally is in the music video for "Can't Feel My Face."
* VocalDissonance: He finds it very hard to listen to Gerardo's nasally voice and picture him as a smooth Latino ladies man.
* VomitDiscretionShot: He couldn't quite hold his liquor in "Your Love Is My Drug".
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** This is [[DefiedTrope the reason why he doesn't cover]] more recent artists on One-Hit Wonderland, as there's always a chance, no matter how remote, that they could make a comeback with a second hit and render the episode obsolete, citing Mike Posner's improbable comeback with "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" (a song that's ironically all about being a washed-up one-hit wonder, at that) as Exhibit A. His cutoff for a one-hit wonder that will likely ''stay'' a one-hit wonder is about ten years in the past, with Asher Roth's 2009 song "I Love College" (which he did an episode on in 2009) the most song to be featured on the show.

* TheUnintelligible: Played with. While Billy Ray Cyrus's lyrics are understandable enough, but Todd remarks how his singing style ranges somewhere between fake-Music/BruceSpringsteen and fake-Music/ElvisPresley with a bit of [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Trey]] [[Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice Parker]] thrown in for good measure.

-->"Yes, I know that 'scat' has picked up a second meaning." (picture of a bowl of chocolate ice cream) "I'm gonna need you all to be grown-ups on this one. I can't promise I won't make a couple cheap jokes, but if we giggle every time I say the word 'scat', we're not gonna get anywhere. Get it out of your system now."

* TruckDriversGearChange: Pointed out in the OHW of "To Be With You" by ''Mr. Big''.

--->'''Patrick Stump:''' (Singing the lyrics to "I Don't Care") I! Don't! Care what you think, as long as it's about me.\\