History Funny / ToddInTheShadowsTrainwreckords2024

* When discussing her awkward and stilted stage presence compared to [[Music/ShaniaTwain Shania]] an even Celine, Todd throws up the title "Faith Hill having no stage presence for 1 minute" [[note]](it does not actually last for 1 minute, so probably just referencing the meme format)[[/note]].

* Throughout the video, Todd seems torn between whether to go after Faith for a transparently obviously terrible change in direction or tight-fisted, insular power-players that control country music and country radio for destroying Faith's career as part of an overall attempt to change country music into a rotten new direction Todd would spend the next twenty years groaning at. This culminates in the KirkSummation, where Todd admits he's at odds about who exactly bears the blame between his distaste for the country music establishment jerking the wheel in a reactionary new direction and an artist he freely admits he was never much of a fan of putting out a pretty bad album and then winding her career down seemingly for good because she [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge never got over audiences rejecting it]].

* Throughout the video, Todd seems torn between whether to go after Faith for a transparently obviously terrible change in direction or tight-fisted, insular power-players that control country music and country radio for destroying Faith's career as part of an overall attempt to change country music into a rotten new direction Todd would spend the next twenty years groaning at. This culminates in the KirkSummation, where Todd admits he's at odds about who exactly bears the blame between his distaste for the country music establishment jerking the wheel in a reactionary new direction and an artist he freely admits he was never much of a fan of putting out a pretty bad album and then winding her career down seemingly for good because she [[ThisIsGonnaBeHuge never got over audiences rejecting it]].

* In the introduction Todd sounds legitimately perplexed as to how Music/FaithHill's career took such a nosedive thanks to this album, even though the album went platinum and went to number one right out of the gate. Even the lead single (the only song from the album he showed a clip of up until this point) didn't seem like much of a departure from her previous work.

** Once Todd starts discussing the album proper, he leads off with "Free", and he isn't any less horrified by the intro to the song (but admits the rest of the song isn't as bad as Faith Hill's awkward "Yeah yeah yeah"). He also notes that Hill must have been particularly proud of this song, given how she not only made it the first song on the album, but performed it ''multiple times'' on national television.
--->'''Todd:''' If it were [[AlbumFiller buried in the album]], maybe you could write it off. But no, she definitely wants people to hear ''this'' song specifically. And to me, that's just an obvious sign that [[ThisIsGonnaSuck this whole album's gonna be a disaster.]]
* Todd acknowledges the biggest reason why country music changed in 2001 after a few years of female country stars dominating the market, and spends over a minute describing the horrible tragic moment that brought America out of its isolated optimistic state and the violent and awful imagery that its people were suddenly subjected to against all expectations otherwise. [[BaitAndSwitchComment He is, of course,]] talking about the Creator/MichaelBay film ''Film/PearlHarbor'', which featured a song by Faith Hill that Todd considered was clearly [[FollowTheLeader trying to emulate the success]] of Music/CelineDion's "My Heart Will Go On" for ''Film/Titanic1997''.
** Todd's brief, angry review of ''Pearl Harbor'' manages to be pretty funny.
--->'''Todd:''' Who the fuck let Michael Bay think that he could make a romance?! Jesus Christ, three full hours of this shit! Why would you do this, Michael Bay? ''Why would you do this to America?!''

* When going over the songwriters in the Adult Contemporary scene where Faith Hill drew from, one of those Todd brought up was Linda Perry (former frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes), and when going over her and playing the music video of "What's Up?" - a song that [[https://www.twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/342736501093842945 he has publicly mentioned]] he ''loathes'' - subtly replaced the chorus with that of the infamous [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]] meme version.
** The song "If You're Gonna Fly Away" is officially credited to Linda Perry and Alicia Moore. Todd mentions that Linda Perry did a lot of songwriting and producing for Music/{{Pink}}, and that Alicia Moore... well, ''is'' [[ActuallyIAmHim P!nk]].[[note]]Birth name: Alicia Beth Moore[[/note]] He then comments that at the time P!nk thought she couldn't handle a song "this mom-pop" and had to hand it over to someone else (though he then subtly notes "not ''yet'' at least -- check back in 10 years.")

* The short segment "Faith Hill having no stage presence for 1 minute" to show how awkward and stilted Faith Hill could be onstage.
* His profanity-laced paraphrase of Faith's manager wondering what they did to piss off country radio so badly.

* The KirkSummation, where Todd finds himself torn in who exactly bears the blame between his distaste for the tight-fisted, insular power-players that control country music and country radio, and the fact that an artist he freely admits he was never much of a fan of put out a pretty bad album and then [[ThisIsGoingToBeHuge never got over everyone rejecting it]].