History ToddInTheShadows / QToS

-->'''Todd:''' Sorry. I-I do keep an actual record player down here for uh, for when I need that sound.

** As of the year-end list of 2019, Music/LilDicky is also this, even more so.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Todd's relationship with Music/Maroon5, who have managed to appear on every one of his Top Ten Worst Hit Songs lists for years on end.

** In his review of "Fifteen" by Taylor Swift, he tells a very sad story about how when he was fifteen, his girlfriend started acting strangely, before breaking up with him at the school dance. Then he reveals that [[spoiler:it didn't happen to him, it happened to Zach from ''Series/SavedByTheBell'']]. Subverted later on, as he mentions in the Blip intro to the review that [[spoiler:most of what he described ''did'' happen to him]].

** Subverted when reviewing Rihanna's S&M. He's aware the song is bad, but he still likes it... and notices this is basically sadomasochistic in itself!

* {{Squick}}:[[invoked]]His reaction to will.i.am comparing himself to a sperm bank in "Imma Be".

** During his Top 10 Songs of 2020, his recap of L'il Baby's "The Bigger Picture" escalated to the point that viewers speculated that his scream of anguish was unscripted.

** The Trainwreckords for Music/LizPhair's ''Funstyle'' has one line ("You're being a penis- colada, that is") that along with silence, has Todd tapping out.

* RepurposedPopSong: His review of "Thunder" by ''Music/ImagineDragons'' and "Feel It" by ''Portugal. The Man'' delves into the issue of these bands selling their music for commercials. Todd had no problem with them doing it, because if it means affording to pay the bills in this day and age, more power to them. What he finds fault with, is that both of these bands are UsefulNotes/IndieRock bands, and totally flips the {{Hipster}} archetype on its side when he wonders if all this new music from unknown bands are intentionally being created for commercial purposes in the first place.

* RageBreakingPoint: Happens in "Sexy and I Know It", after several minutes of Deep Lyrical Analysis. After going into depth about why he doesn't like the song -- comparing it to "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred, and how that song pulled off the same thing that "Sexy and I Know It" couldn't -- Todd drops all of the analysis and says that "[[ShapedLikeItself it sucks because it sucks]]".

** When reviewing early 90s rock bands on [=OHW=], Todd tends to find that the band's musical style was seen as the wave of the future, before cutting to Music/{{Nirvana}}'s [[Music/{{Nevermind}} "Smells Like Teens Spirit"]] to show how the overnight success of {{Grunge}} and alternative rock put a kibosh on that. Todd finds that trend so often that he'll {{lampshade|Hanging}} any subverted example, such as the [=OHW=] of "Pepper", noting that Music/ButtholeSurfers actually were ''helped'' by Nirvana's success because they were one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands.

* RenaissanceMan: Dieter Maier from Music/{{Yello}} is this - he's a singer, concept artist, millionaire industrialist, professional gambler and member of the Swiss golf team - and because of that, on their One Hit Wonderland episode, Todd is utterly fascinated by him. PlayedForLaughs, of course - at one point, Todd jokes that he half-expects to find out Maier runs an eccentric chocolate factory (a rib on the band's Swiss background) - and [[[JokeAndReceive cut to an interview]] where Maier discusses ''doing just that.'' Todd is floored.

** Todd didn't have much time for PostMalone before 2018, but has come to appreciate some of his work, especially "Circles".

* RunningGagged: Retires the "As far as you know" gag in the "This is America" review.
->"''I'm not black. In case that wasn't excruciatingly obvious from everything I've ever thought and said, no, I'm not black. I'm a shitload of other things, but no, black isn't one of them.''"

** Speaking of Closer, him responding to songs opening with a greeting.

* SixStudentClique: Name drops the TropeCodifier, Series/SavedByTheBell, in his ''Film/FromJustinToKelly'' review.

* RecycledInSpace: In the Worst Pop Songs of 2012 list, he calls [[TeenIdol Hunter Hayes]] "country Music/JustinBieber".

** Some of his credits music is a pun on the artist. Train: "Stop That Train"; Robin Thicke: "Thick as a Brick"; Ed Sheeran: the ''Series/MrEd'' theme; Magic!: "Magic"; The Weeknd: "Lonely Weekends"; Alessia Cara: "Cara Mia"; Marshmello: "A Marshmallow World"; Halsey: "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".