Todd In The Shadows Thread

"We are Never Ever Getting Back Together" made me want to beat my head into the dashboard and it's getting stuck in my head again just typing the title(and this coming from someone that considers quite a few of her songs like "Fearless" and "Sparks" guilty pleasures)

So, here's another thing from Todd's previous reviews that kinda baffles me.

He apparently likes Bruno Mars when he's trying to be other artists/not trying to do his own thing, and identified "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Treasure" as evidence of those arguments.

Now, I understand "Locked Out of Heaven" (Bruno explicitly identified it as a The Police homage), but then Todd said that "Treasure" is also evidence of not trying to do his own thing.

Which got me thinking: is doing a Genre Throwback not a valid way of making your own identity? I would certainly think it is, since your chosen genre is your chosen genre, no matter what decade you're trying to do.

Well, if all you're doing is what other artists did in the past, you're just staying in a comfortable shadow and not really defining yourself on your own merits.

Also, "Treasure" is just one song out of a variety of pastiches. It's not an attempt to make it "his genre" or anythng.

So Todd on Twitter has a new favorite So Bad, It's Good song. He's been posting it quite a lot.

And as a Christian, all this makes me do is weep. Who says only girls are the ones who cry?

edited 20th Sep '14 1:42:36 AM by Tuckerscreator

If you told me this would supposed to be a parody of pop country I'd believe you. Theologically, this song does seem to prove the existence of Satan.

I heard that song on Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40 and thought it was pretty terrible.

That's probably why so few females are having hits in country radio anymore. They're all girls, so rarely women. There's no maturity to their work. That's why I like Kacey Musgraves — she's unafraid to be truly "mature" with her stuff in the right ways.

What the fuck did I just listen to? That's not even So Bad, It's Good, it's just stupid.

That... was the most joyously sexist thing I've ever heard.

I haven't heard much of her work, but I do know she co-wrote Mama's Broken Heart, one of my favorite hit songs of last year.

edited 20th Sep '14 6:42:13 PM by TyeDyeWildebeest

10 bucks says Todd will either find an excuse to review it (it wasn't exactly a big hit, so I dunno what excuse is possible), or he'll include it on his Worst of 2014.

Now where am I going to get ten deer...

Maybe it'll get a dishonorable mention?

So I got to further horrify Todd and Lindsay with news about the Power Rangers movie

#2410: "Merry Go Round" was Kacey's big hit. Todd said he loved "Follow Your Arrow" when she sang it at this year's Grammys.

New review: "All About That Bass."

Y'know, I don't always agree with Todd on everything about a song, but this is one instance where I agree 100% with everything he said, to the point where I don't think there's much I can add, aside from that the very sound of this song irritates me. I think maybe I rank this and "Shake it Off" about the same on the irritation meter for me.

Although I have to say, I never noticed until the end of the review that this song actually has electric guitar in it, and it's actually playing cleanly without distortion. This seems like the first pop song in literally decades to have that.

Huh, yeah, this song's been inescapable for the last few weeks and Todd pretty much summed up my problem with it. Aside from the botched message, though, I quite like the chipper bounciness.

I have to wonder, does ANYBODY find the old "Men like a bit more of an armful!" line to be empowering? I can't say I do, and it's hardly a revolutionary thing to say anymore.

Todd... You have reviewed a song about hair before. And it was terrible.

It's been a long while since that hair song. What was it again? (And it probably was the joke)

Probably "Whip My Hair."

As for this song? I'm not a huge fan of the lyrics (thank God I'm not the only one to notice the "skinny bitches" line), but the music itself is good.

Yeah, I meant "Whip My Hair", but I didn't think there was a joke in that last part of the review until he reached Jason Derulo.

...And by which I mean that the joke is Jason Derulo, but whatever.

I seem to recall another song that's all about that hair. It may have had a title along the lines of "hair", and have been from a show with a title along the lines of "hair"...

Lady Gaga has a song called "Hair", but it's more of a "rebellious teenager" song than anything.

The title song from the musical immediately comes to mind.

Yeah, that's what Falcon Pain was talking about above.