Todd: They were legit and they captured the hearts of millions. Clearly, EMF's brand of dance-inflected indie rock represented the future of alternative music in 1991.
[Clip of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" plays]
Todd: Nirvana killed a lot of careers, people.
[Clip of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" plays]
Todd: Nirvana killed a lot of careers, people.
— Todd in the Shadows, One-Hit Wonderland, "Unbelievable" by EMF
"Yes, everyone, it's time to return to my favorite running theme through my videos: "Nirvana Killed My Career". It's the hardest and most abrupt cultural shift in rock history, when the entire '80s got thrown out on its ass and everyone who seemed important instantly became yesterday's news."
— Todd in the Shadows, Trainwreckords: Mötley Crüe's "Generation Swine"
"Again, I go back to the end of the year before, when Taylor Swift tried to address her own public drama, and it was such a bloated disaster that it felt like she cratered the entire genre overnight, leading to this black hole of a year."
— Todd in the Shadows, The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2018, comparing "Thank U, Next" to "Look What You Made Me Do"
"This song is so bad that I think it killed the pop crossover single in hip-hop on its own."
— Todd in the Shadows, The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018, on "River" by Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran
"It says a lot that one of the most comprehensive pieces I can find on the game's development is a blog post
from a developer who wasn't involved yet felt forced to comment because his team's game bore some surface-level similarities to Ride to Hell. Think about how wild that is; Ride to Hell was so cataclysmically bad that it potentially threatened the sales of other unrelated games."
from a developer who wasn't involved yet felt forced to comment because his team's game bore some surface-level similarities to Ride to Hell. Think about how wild that is; Ride to Hell was so cataclysmically bad that it potentially threatened the sales of other unrelated games."— Hamish Black, Attempting to Make Sense of Ride to Hell, Five Years Later
"Hello, Dolly! pretty much not only destroyed the big Hollywood movie-musical, it fundamentally changed the types of films being made. It was such a huge bomb that it basically killed this sort of movie, which in large part is why you saw so few movie musicals up until that little boom in the early 2000s."
— Lindsay Ellis, "Joel Schumacher's Phantom Of The Opera: A Video Essay"
Green Lantern: And now some people are saying this movie is a sign that people are getting tired of all comic book movies.
Deadpool: Mm hmm. So, how do you feel about the idea that your movie may have not only killed your franchise, but the franchises of every superhero ever? And please phrase your answer in the form of uncontrollable sobbing from a man who has lost all faith in humanity.
Deadpool: Mm hmm. So, how do you feel about the idea that your movie may have not only killed your franchise, but the franchises of every superhero ever? And please phrase your answer in the form of uncontrollable sobbing from a man who has lost all faith in humanity.
