Todd In The Shadows Thread

So, how about that Cinemadonna, eh? Anyone know what movie he has next?

First of all, I'd appreciate not being talked down to, kthx.

Secondly, all I said was that we should have been over it by the time the song was a year old. How long do you think Thicke should have to bear the burden for a song with a few Unfortunate Implications? Two years? Three years? Ten years? Twenty years?

Because clearly performing a song that sounds a little rapey in certain contexts makes you worse than Hitler, right?

Enough on this subject.

Sorry, you ninja'd me so I didn't see your response before I posted. I'm willing to change gears.

Found it!

Well that's not a good sign.

Yeah, i saw that tweet and it's rarely a good sign of quality when something is so obscure there's no torrents of it.

This one seems like it'll be weird. I hadn't even heard of it.

I'm also surprised there isn't a torrent out there consisting of all of Madonna's filmography. I'd think for an act so big as her there would be.

Not always. I thought Birdz was a really good cartoon, but it doesn't have any torrents.

True, I still haven't found a fully functional torrent for Skunk Fu.

Wow, I didn't think anyone had actually cared about Skunk Fu I caught it on TV once or twice—I believe it was airing like right in the middle of the day—and it just seemed to me like a pale imitation of Kung Fu Panda and Yin Yang Yo.

Speaking of the latter, I don't think that show was really as good as I thought it was when it was initially airing.

I enjoyed it, but the only Torrent for it on the face of the internet stops when it hits 90%.

I found a few DVDs of Skunk Fu! at Big Lots. If there's one near you, scour their DVD racks and see if any are still left. Also managed to tape a few episodes in those last days before I got a DVR.

Also found at Big Lots over the years: Exo Squad, Father of the Pride (entire series!), The Secret Saturdays, Chop Socky Chooks. (Sure, those latter two get DVD releases and freaking The Life and Times of Juniper Lee doesn't?! What the hell, Cartoon Network?!?)

Back at the very end of the VHS era, I found a tape of The Brothers Flub at Big Lots. THAT is cartoon obscurity, my friends. (I've said it before: the fact that it didn't even have a Wikipedia article until 2008, and the fact that its IM Db page is a near-skeleton with only two very, very wrong names on it^note Guapo and Fraz did not share voice actors with Norbert and Daggett! are all the proof you need. And no one ever seems to remember it when it's brought up in conversation either. Was I literally its only fan?)

I actually liked Secret Saturdays XD.

Cinnemadonna: Bloodhounds of Broadway

Is this the first time he has done a Cold Open?

edited 7th Oct '14 1:35:28 AM by Gamebreaking

Song I currently most want to see Todd take on: "Cool Kids" by Echosmith.

This song is so pretty...but the lyrics are so pointless and inane. Two verses of "Here's a vaguely described misfit who wishes they could fit in," and a never-ending chorus of "I wish that I could be popular," and....nothing? No progression, no complexity, no....anything. I just get frustrated listening to it because I feel like it's missing a third verse that does something more with the setup, and the instrumentation is gorgeous to the point that I want it to be good.

Pretty? It's got such generic music in it.

Eh, I find it pleasant enough to hear, much nicer than most of what's on the radio right now. Generic, sure, but only in the sense that certain sound combinations get beaten into the ground due to sounding nice.

Eh. Generic I often feel is worse than bad.

Reviewing it would be a decent excuse for Todd to throw in the "Four Chords of Pop" running gag once more, that's for sure.

edited 20th Oct '14 6:31:11 PM by BurntMario

Ugh, I know, that song gets to me as well. Endlessly repeating one phrase over and over and over again is not a song =\

That's why "Single Ladies" gives me a migraine(that, and the extremely disorientating backing music)

That song is nothing compared to "Shut Up and Explode" the opening theme to Xam'd Lost Memories. The song's in English, good English actually, but it repeats the phrase "run away" for a solid 30 seconds and then does it again at the end of the song with the phrase "let it down". It's migraine-inducing.

Also literally the only thing that bothers me about the entire "My Head Is an Animal" album.

edited 22nd Oct '14 12:52:06 AM by Fawriel

New song review!

Why did he have to mention Crazy Frog and play a clip (sorry never liked the song played it on Teletoon when I was a kid and I couldn't find the mute button/change the channel fast enough) anyways so that's Anaconda okay.