Todd In The Shadows Thread

There's an upload on Yahoo (?) of it. Is this Todd's new channel or a reup?

https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/cinemadonna-dangerous-game-021944737.html

Watch Todd (YouTube/Not Maker)

In which he listens to a guy who is Silento but not silent and disapproves of lame dances. Including a particular one he has done before.

Somehow I don't think Silento will be a one-hit wonder. He'll somehow rip off Soulja Boy even more by having another song on the charts two years later that no one remembers (except for Todd, of course, who has it on one of his year-end worst lists).

I'm fairly confident that song will make it to the Top 10 Worst Hit Songs list this year. I'm sure it will be on mine.

Considering that he says the song is even worse than Soulja Boy, I wouldn't be surprised to see it atop the list.

Eh, I'd say Soulja Boy is still worse. This is just forgettable.

It's rare I find him cover a song I haven't heard before. Then again, I barely listen to pop radio, though I have seen this song pop up on Youtube.

And wow, this song's bad, in a way that usually doesn't show up in pop music. Sure, as a song/beat itself it doesn't sound bad (just mediocre as hell), but it's bad because Silento is literally building a career off other people's stuff. I mean, there's sampling and then there's listing the dances like a sleazier "Cha Cha Slide". That there's a special kind of shameless.

edited 28th Aug '15 7:15:01 AM by Watchtower

It's shameless, but if it works, all the power to him for capitalizing on the pop culture landscape having the memory of a brain-damaged goldfish.

This is why Vine should never have a hand in determining the charts. I can't stand that song.

Fair, but it's like watching Floyd Mayweather box, or running into a Dark Syde Phil video. Yeah, it's a totally legit way of working the system, but dammit if it doesn't piss me off.

You'd think people would've learned after Harlem Shake.

I hadn't heard of this song before the review, and after watching the review I'm feeling kind of depressed that something creatively and artistically bankrupt got so popular. This really feels like a new low in term of popular music. I'm also dumbfounded that a Soulja Boy ripoff became popular in 2015. I was in high school when Crank Dat made it big, so those I memories I don't particularly want to revisit.

Apparently this song got popular because of Vine, which at least helps me make sense of the song's success, because Vine is basically what would happen if you concentrated all of the inane parts of Youtube and cranked the inanity Up To Eleven. Vine is one of those things that makes grumble like an old man and go "kids these days" even though I'm only 23.

I doesn't help that I have strong Hype Aversion when it comes to viral hits. For example, I refused to watch Gangnam Style for a long time after it caught on, even though I ended up finding it kind of amusing. I just hate the herd mentality with regards to viral hits. I feel when something like that catches on everyone suddenly becomes like "OOOH SOMETIHNG SHINY MUST LOOK AT THE SHINY THING HEY EVERYONE LOOK IT'S SHINY!" and it annoys the shit out of me.

Well, on a lighter note, I always love it when Kali makes an appearance.

edited 28th Aug '15 8:04:49 PM by djbj

Believe me, I don't disagree. At the same time, if I had the opportunity to do something like that, I'd be tempted. I'd probably feel super gross if I actually did, but I might.

I'm really hoping he does this one.

I actually like "Marvin Gaye" more than anything either of the featuring artists have created on their own. Then again, that's not a particularly difficult goal to achieve.

I actually looked up the song just to see how it is.

It's a song about sex with the title line being "Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on."

I cannot stop laughing.

Let's William Shatner and...pause...dramatically.

No, no, you have to use an actual song title (or variation thereof) and artiste. So "Let's Michael Jackson and Beat It", "Let's Train and Drive-By", "Let's CeeLo Green and..."

...On second thought, let's not.

edited 30th Aug '15 9:10:07 PM by Pyrite

I approve of this post.

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So that would mean the correct phrase would be, "Let's William Shatner and rocket, man."

... I deserve everything coming to me.

In unfortunate defense of this song....

But let's pull that shit right back, because I'm looking at the lyrics and I'm trying to decide which is better: the chorus line "You got that healing that I want", or the verse "It's Kama Sutra show and tell".

Guys, help. Can't stop.

Well... uh... there's a line where Meghan Trainor compares herself to "a dog without a bone", which is painfully inappropriate on at least three levels.

edited 31st Aug '15 7:03:17 AM by Pyrite

*Listens to song sample on iTunes*

How is this a real song? This sounds like something an amateur musical comedy troupe might write. If someone like Jason Derulo sang this as a sleazy pick-up line it might make more sense, but with these two singers it sounds like a middle aged couple telling each other a really lame joke.

The song can't be taken seriously, but I can enjoy the theme of "some other singer described my feelings for you better than I ever could", and considering there are four Gaye songs referenced in the chorus...

Know any other songs that also do that? Only one that comes to mind for me is Jason Derulo's "Trumpets", which... isn't exactly a shining endorsement.

edited 31st Aug '15 4:18:56 PM by Pyrite

"Classic" by MKTO? That song actually references Marvin Gaye as well, in the pre-chorus: "Let's get it on like Marvin Gaye."

At least they didn't use his name as a verb.