History WMG / ToddInTheShadows

** Matter of fact, I'm thinking Todd will actually declare 2014 even worse than 2013. In his review of "#Selfie", he talked about how the charts were barely moving for a few months, and in one of his One Hit Wonderland episodes he talked about how ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy's'' soundtrack had basically became Album of the Year [[note]]For what it's worth, that was before a few select albums like ''[[Music/ArianaGrande My Everything]]'', ''[[Music/TaylorSwift 1989]]'' and Hozier's debut came along, though[[/note]].

* Music/KanyeWest: Todd [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1584740325654159360 quote retweeted]] a tweet from Pop Base about his streams, sales and airplay declining following comments he made which were viewed as anti-Semitic. In addition, his collaborations with ''Vogue'', CAA, Balenciaga, Gap and Adidas were also terminated, which ''Forbes'' reported his newly reduced worth to be $400 million, less than half of the money he had before the terminations. Similar to Music/TravisScott above though, it's too recent to tell if Kanye could make a genuine comeback.
* Wiley: While mainly a superstar in his native UK and a pioneer of UK grime, his reputation was also ruined for comments on social media viewed as anti-Semitic, which resulted in him being de-platformed from social media and A-List Management cutting ties with him.

* "U.O.E.N.O." by Rocko ft. Music/{{Future}} & '''Music/RickRoss''': Although this song will technically qualify for One Hit Wonderland from 2023 onwards, Todd might be more likely to cover it as a ''Trainwreckords'' spin-off considering the most infamous part didn't come from Rocko, but instead from Rick Ross's verse about drugging a girl and taking her home, which was seen as condoning DateRape. The controversy over this lyric caused Ross to be dismissed as a Reebok spokesperson, the cancellation of many concerts, and the line being censored on most formats.

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[[WMG: Todd will declare 2013 the worst year of his reviewing career.]]
During his 2013 reviews, he noted that several songs in Billboard's Top 100 in 2013 were middle-of-the-road, easy listening ballads or electronic dance music. Todd hates both genres for being boring and emotionless, respectively, which makes them hard to review, since Todd likes to talk about personalities and emotions.
* Definitely confirmed.
** From Todd's Twitter: "'Wrecking Ball' replaces 'Roar' as the number one song in the country. My god, this has been a shit year for pop."
** As he introduced his Worst of 2013: "'''[[PrecisionFStrike GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE!!]]''' No, seriously, 2013 can go screw itself. Just burn the yearbooks for this one." Also, he said he had difficulty finding 10 songs worth raging about.
*** He ends the Worst of 2013 video with "SCREW 2013."
** He starts his Best of 2013 video with a mental breakdown, with [[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Kyle]], [[WebVideo/PawDugan Paw]], and [[WebVideo/VampireReviews Elisa]] having to give him a pep talk to do the list.
** In November 2015, [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/669007392802213888 he stated that he may have been too hard on 2013]], then in July 2016 [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/753989846482448384 he said that in hindsight it wasn't that bad at all]].
* 2014 may not look much better for Todd. From Late January to April, the Top 10 remained more or less unchanged, and in August, he declares on Twitter that he may have to do more ''One Hit Wonderland'' and ''Cinemadonna'' episodes since he finds the Hot 100 at the moment to be "Dullsville".
** Matter of fact, I'm thinking Todd will actually declare 2014 even worse than 2013. In his review of "#Selfie", he talked about how the charts were barely moving for a few months, and in one of his One Hit Wonderland episodes he talked about how ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy's'' soundtrack had basically became Album of the Year [[note]]For what it's worth, that was before a few select albums like ''[[Music/ArianaGrande My Everything]]'', ''[[Music/TaylorSwift 1989]]'' and Hozier's debut came along, though[[/note]].
** I think it is unlikely that he will do so. In his Twitter, he recently stated how much he was surprised how dull the year-end list was, but in his reviews he had a lot of praise to how fun and upbeat many of the hits of the year were ("Talk Dirty", "Rude", "All About That Base", "Shake it Off" and "Bang Bang"), with only "Dark Horse", "Wiggle" and "Fancy" really getting the harsh treatment for sounding bad, as opposed to the boring charts and songs he reviewed in 2013. So, he will probably say it was better than 2013, but still worse than the previous years he has been reviewing.
** [[http://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/549260222033047552 Confirmed on his Twitter]]: "God, this was a bad year for pop music. Legitimately worse than last year."
*** Not only that, but he stated that in addition to the fact that he had roughly 15 hit songs tied for the penultimate slot of his worst list, it was going to be difficult for his best list to even get to ten.
* However, 2015 is already looking a lot better for Todd. Not only did he mention how exciting Uptown Funk being the first new #1 of the year was, but he said on Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/574137890827075584 he already had three contenders for the #1 spot of his best list]]. Seems there will be a good chance of him enjoying this one.
** ...or possibly not, considering that he was confused when "See You Again" dethroned "Uptown Funk" from the number-one spot, and then ''that'' song was replaced for a week by "Bad Blood," a song he despises. Beyond that, there seem to be more of songs he'd dislike than of songs he'd like, judging by the larger number of possible candidates for his worst list of 2015.
*** Not to mention in the "Thinking Out Loud" review, he talked about how he's discovering that pop music has been starting to get tasteful. At the same time, however, he might still at the very least call it better than 2014, which is probably the least he can ask for.
*** He said on Twitter that [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/626931069128978432 he may very well already have his #1 picks for both the Best and Worst set]].
*** The verdict on 2015 on his Twitter: "[[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/668990476259868673 I actually think it's a lot better than last year]]." Not only that, but as previously mentioned, he even admitted that he felt like he was too hard on 2013, but not 2014.
* 2016, on the other hand, is not looking to be quite as good yet. So far Todd has not seemed to be in great favor of a lot of the hits that have surfaced, and there are definitely more candidates for songs he'll dislike than songs he'll like. If that wasn't the case in 2015, it surely is here.
** [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/730254422043992064 Case in point...]]
** He lamented in the "7 Years" review that he doesn't 'get' a lot of pop music in 2016, and that most of the hit songs sound half-assed and are "barely even songs".
** He said on [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/753989190254231553 Twitter]] in response to a question that overall, this year blows while musically, it's the worst one in his lifetime. This basically eliminates any doubt about whether or not he hates 2016.
** Given "Closer", a song he liked but didn't exactly love, was his top song of 2016, there's a good chance he says so.
* 2017 looks like another lackluster year for Todd; as with 2016, there appear to be more songs he dislikes than songs he likes.

[[WMG: Todd will discover that Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine is really 3OH!3 after face transplants.]]
Both are incredibly annoying and meatheaded, so it'll make sense that they're the same people.
* alternatively, they could also be The Chainsmokers. It's a bro-ception! Or Twenty One Pilots, perhaps.

[[WMG: Is Todd actually getting bored of reviewing?]]
Because we're halfway through 2015 and Top Tens notwithstanding, he's only had three pop song reviews so far. Previous years have had him do around 14/15 a year, not counting One Hit Wonderland. If he keeps up this slow pace, he might not make that amount this time around.
* He's commented a few times that a major factor in a review is how much material he can work with. Given his opinion of pop music having a really boring phase the last couple of years, it may just be that he feels he has nothing new to add - the singers who usually get his attention, like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, are between albums at the moment, which has left the field open for a lot of future contenders for One Hit Wonderland, who he probably isn't bothering to be paying attention to because they won't be around long.
* Also, Todd's slower output is due to the shut down of Blip.tv. Several of Todd's newer videos are almost immediately blocked on [=YouTube=] due to Todd not yet being white-listed by Maker Studios to bypass Content ID checks, and the record labels are getting more aggressive with copyright claims on [=YouTube=], even though Todd's videos are completely within UsefulNotes/FairUse. Todd uses Vimeo as an alternative mirror, but Vimeo doesn't have the same strength as [=YouTube=].

[[WMG: Todd will review the animated movie ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'']]
Although ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' is still a very new movie it is full of pop songs, which makes it seems like the kind of thing Todd would review. Though he would probably not like the movie he will praise the part of the movie where Merianne sings "Stronger" because she sings it more forcefully than Kelly Clarkson does.

[[WMG: Todd will make a TakeThat to the Prince Estate for its adamant opposition to the use of the singer's music in commentary videos]]
Judging from Todd's highly negative reaction to Bryan Adams's threatening to sue [=AllMusic.com=] unless every bit of information about him was erased, he may make a TakeThat to the Prince Estate for similar reasons. If he wants to praise a Prince song, he might say something like "If I say his music is awesome, I can't even play snippets of it to back it up! What the hell is wrong with you?". If he wants to criticize a Prince song, he'll probably chew them out for not being able to accept criticism of their dear Prince. While Prince being dead might make him hold back, his putting Whitney Houston's "I'm Your Baby Tonight" on his Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1991 shows that he is willing to criticize the music of deceased artists.

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[[WMG: Todd is a young [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-096]].]]

* ''Anti-Hero'' by Taylor Swift: It's been three years now since he reviewed a Swift song, so surely he has something to say about her return to full-fledged pop music.

* "Unholy" by Sam Smith and Kim Petras: A song with a lot of potential discussion points: not only is it Sam Smith's biggest stateside hit in quite awhile, it's also the first time openly-transgender indie pop singer Kim Petras has appeared on a hit single. The track is also notable for its heavy influence from the growing hyper-pop movement.

* Music/RKelly: The '90s R&B superstar saw his career go down the drain due to rape accusations, especially after the documentary ''Surviving R. Kelly'' was released. His star power had fallen ''so hard'' that [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1209202652254523392 he topped Todd's list on the top 5 artists whose stock fell the most in 2019]], [[UpToEleven by a large margin]].

* [=DaBaby=]: Went under fire for making homophobic comments while performing at the Rolling Loud Festival in July 2021, which resulted in his scheduled appearances at Lollapalooza, the Governors Ball Music Festival, Parklife Festival, Day N Vegas, Austin City Limits Festival, Music Midtown and the iHeartRadio Music Festival being cancelled. [=BoohooMAN=] also terminated their collaboration with him, along with many radio stations pulling the single version of Music/DuaLipa's "Levitating", which he was the featured artist from their airwaves as a result and replaced it with the solo album version. He eventually [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1482136076189769730 topped]] Todd's list of artists whose stock fell the most in 2021.

* Music/TravisScott: The rapper's career took a major blow in November 2021 following a crowd crush at his performance at Astroworld Festival, which resulted in 10 deaths and many injuries. The backlash he received from the public, mainly targeted at his poor negligence, saw him lose several sponsorship roles and festival tour dates, and Todd listed him [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1482136076189769730 #7]] on his list of artists whose stock fell the most in 2021. However, similar to Music/MorganWallen, Todd [[https://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1482137017228009472 believes]] that Scott could make a genuine comeback.

* Music/CeeLoGreen: He was arrested on sexual battery charges, which, while awful, was hardly unique in the world of hip-hop. The bigger controversy happened when he tweeted that he can't be held liable because his victim was unconscious at the time.

* Music/TedNugent: His increasingly far-right political views made him anathema to most people to his left.

* "We Don't Talk About Bruno" by the Encanto cast: It's the first song from a Disney animated movie to reach #1 on the Hot 100 since [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} "A Whole New World"]] 29 years earlier. Surely this could make for an interesting episode, especially considering how much the prerequisites for chart success have changed in recent times.