Todd In The Shadows Thread

And to think they let her do the closing theme for a One Piece movie.

For those who don't know the significance of that, imagine if, say, Gackt was tapped to write and perform the theme to Avengers 2, and was included the American dub.

Ugh...

Also I guess I have to say after watching the video that I actually liked Shake it Off. It was... fun.

Actually, a lot of Japanese productions have songs by random English speaking singers. Susan Boyle did the theme for Welcome To The Space Show, Steven Tyler from Aerosmith did the credits theme for the 2010 Space Battleship Yamato movie, and a lot of other movies and shows have something similar.

edited 16th Sep '14 6:48:30 PM by Zendervai

Let's not forget Andrew WK's revisit of the original Mobile Suit Gundams Soundtrack.

hehehehe... Can you remember which video Todd opened with that intro XD

edited 16th Sep '14 7:06:44 PM by FrozenWolf2

His Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2011 List! One of the first videos that helped expose me to Todd's work in the first place.

edited 16th Sep '14 7:35:38 PM by BurntMario

This one. And wow, I never ever got what the hell he was playing until now.

edited 16th Sep '14 7:29:08 PM by ZeroPotential

I see what you did there.

Yeah, I had to look up the transcript to find out what song he was playing. "What the Hell" wasn't that big of a hit back in 2011. At least, it never came on the radio for me.

edited 16th Sep '14 7:34:26 PM by BurntMario

And of all people Sarah Brightman did the ending theme for the 10th Pokemon movie.

I dunno, I heard it a lot on the radio at the time.

Wow. Certainly a step up from M2M with the first movie (with their song "Don't Say You Love Me" randomly being shoehorned in and forced to tie in with the movie; I even used to have a poster advertising the single that had artwork from the movie's official soundtrack on it, with these two random Norwegian girls in front of all those Pokeymanz).

Andrew WK is such a dork and I love him.

My sister found a copy of that M2M song on a CD single at Walgreens and insisted that we buy it because she was big on Pokémon. That song is still on her iPod 15 years later. And I still think M2M sound like chipmunks.

Honestly, I actually have always liked the song, to the point that I went out and bought their whole discography (of two whole albums!!) a couple years ago. I think they were pretty good for what they were, innocent bubblegum teen pop. Better than Taylor Swift at least.

2014 is shaping up to be an even worse year than 2013 for music. At least 2013 had a disco revival of all things (I loved 2013 for that reason alone, in fact). 2014 is getting nothing.

Today Todd weighed in on #gamergate

didn't weird al have a song in a pokemon movie?

Yes.

So, Carrie Underwood has evolved quite a bit(doing fairly serious and kinda dark stuff like Blown Away) and Taylor is just kinda doing the same thing.

Yes, "Shake it Off" is very clearly more dark and serious than her previous work. She's deevolving.

Also, Todd's Gamergate article pretty much sums up my feelings on the movement.

Y'know, it's gotta be rough making your name on down-to-earth teen music and then having an adulthood so consumed with your own fame that you don't have anything else down-to-earth to write about.

I myself have found myself writing about college when doing fiction, because to me college is still a recent experience full of fun and excitement. I don't think it'll really be an issue if I KEEP writing about college, but I am also not visibly getting older while doing so. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, is pretty much stuck - her material of poignant songs about being a teenager is probably used up, so she's left with the experiences of a young celebrity to draw from.

I've had a hard time allying with either side of Gamergate, because it seemed like both sides were determined to misrepresent each other as much as possible. Whose word to do I take on the other guys all being horrible bigots? So I'm glad Todd's article addresses that there indeed followers of Gamebate who feel sincere about the game journalism ethics, though thus allying forces themselves with the worse prejudiced members.

edited 18th Sep '14 10:43:15 PM by Tuckerscreator

As someone who doesn't define myself by the fact that I enjoy gaming, I just have a hard time taking the whole furor seriously beyond its more regrettable aspects. Not to mention how gaming journalism is hardly unique in its corruption. Check out mainstream music journalism and look at all the kissing up (to put it nicely) and incest (to put it slightly less nicely) there. Hell, look at major news sources in general and see how many issues there are.

edited 18th Sep '14 11:34:21 PM by Odd1

Yeah, it's kinda... yeah. I agree.

But I would rather keep this thread more directly on-topic. Which is to say that we should all be praying that Lorde does not stray down that terrible path. (Aside: I finally bothered to check her out, and the video for "Tennis Courts" is truly hypnotic.)

I can see his points, I don't agree with him that it should be thrown under the bus and let die because I think some good points are being made but I see where he's coming from.

I need to get caught up on his videos.

Then again, Lorde is a more interesting artist than Taylor has ever been.