Trivia / A Dose of Buckley

• Artist Disillusionment: Buckley announced a hiatus in July 2018, claiming via a video that creating videos had stopped being fun and turned into a job he didn't get paid for. He wouldn't start posting regularly again until starting his Patreon in January 2020, which has since let him turn making videos into his actual job, ironically enough.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Even though Buckley shows his work and often exaggerates for comedy, he does slip up on works he covers on occasion.
  • In his Worst Songs of 2014 video, he says the only way Paramore's 'Ain't it Fun" (particularly its message about living in the real world) could have made sense was if Hayley Williams was singing it to herself. As Williams stated in many interviews (and even confirmed in a reply tweet about the video), the song was about exactly that. Specifically, it's about how she felt insecure after the band moved from Nashville to L.A. and was telling herself to toughen up. However, Buckley later said in a Reddit post that this knowledge did not improve his opinion of the song, since he felt that Williams had been successful for too long to know anything about the real world. He also said in his Musical Autopsy of Nickelback's "Must Be Nice," which he considers to have a similar theme, that while Hayley Williams took the video in good humor, it seemed like a convenient excuse for a reply to a critique that harsh.
  • In his Musical Autopsy of "Bitch Better Have My Money," he says that Rihanna hasn't had a #1 hit since "Diamonds" in 2012. If he meant songs where she's the lead artist, he's right; however, she did technically have another #1 hit as a featured artist on Eminem's "The Monster." Also, he had mentioned in 2014 that Juicy J got credited with a #1 hit as the featured artist on Katy Perry's "Dark Horse".
  • In his Musical Autopsy of Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise (Remix)," he says the only previous notable rap/country collaboration up to that point was Nelly and Tim McGraw's "Over and Over." Shortly before the video was released, Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's "Accidental Racist" was making headlines (if not for the right reasons), and Jason Aldean's remix of "Dirt Road Anthem" with Ludacris had been a top 10 pop hit two years earlier.
  • In his Musical Autopsy of LMFAO, he misquotes a handful of the lyrics to "Sexy and I Know it," including "And like Bruce Leroy I got the glow," which he identifies as "They like Bruce Lee rock at the club."
  • He names Muse's "Psycho" as a dishonorable mention for his Worst of 2015 list based on a passage that isn't part of the song proper. It was an album interlude that was tacked on to some versions of the "Psycho" single, but it's still considered a separate track.
  • In "The Ten Worst Songs of 2017," Buckley misses a clear reference to The Phantom of the Opera in Taylor Swift's song "Ready For It," which included the simile "like a phantom holding you for ransom." He then goes on to joke about how ridiculous it would be if a ghost started sending people notes promising not to haunt them in exchange for money, despite this being exactly what the Phantom of the Opera does.
  • During the "Top Ten Worst Songs of 2010" he adds "Everything Trey Songz Released" as an honorable mention, meaning either the album (Passion, Pain & Pleasure) and singles he did drop that year; however, the artwork used to visually represent it is for "Trey Day", despite being released in 2007. (It's possible he used the Trey Day artwork as a visual representation or as it was one of the first images (or the first) of Songz he looked up, or that he literally meant all of his discography up to that point.)
• Creator Backlash:
  • While Buckley doesn't regret any video he has posted and staunchly refuses to apologize for any jokes he had made in the past, he feels that a lot of his earliest material wasn't his best, especially when compared to his later material.
  • Despite "Musical Autopsy" being his most popular segment outside of the "Worst Songs" series, Buckley states that it is his least favourite segment; listening to music is his least favourite hobby out of the "big three" of entertainment (i.e., movies, TV, and music), namely due to his job in the radio business, where he has to listen to shitty songs for 6 to 8 hours a day. Also, he often receives requests to do a "Musical Autopsy" about a song or artist the requestor hates.
  • Buckley often shows his frustration that his videos about music ("Musical Autopsies", The "Worst Songs" series, and main series rants about music) are his most popular videos, when music only covers less than a quarter of his channel's total content.
  • Buckley would later go on to make a series of videos on his Pateron called "Buckley vs Buckley", which in particular goes over an old video of his, in which his views on the subject has changed.
• Creator's Favorite: "Advice No One Asked For" is Buckley's favourite segment, due to it having his most cynical and darkest humour.
• Doing It for the Art: Buckley has cited this as one reason why he doesn't like taking requests. Before launching his Patreon, he did videos in his spare time as a hobby, and that it really irked him when people "...tell [him] to how spend [his] free time".
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: On July 26th, 2014, he stopped archiving his pre-YouTube videos on his website. Buckley claimed many of his early videos are now outdated and some of them weren't very good in his opinion. However, on December 12, 2018, Buckley released most of his early work on Bandcamp as a compilation album.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Buckley has some cases where his videos will be monetized by a third party (at best) or completely blocked by the same third party (at worst), despite falling under fair use and fair dealings laws as critique and commentary of a song:
  • Warner blocked his Musical Autopsy of The Black Keys' "Turn Blue"; however, Warner has since rescinded its claim.
  • The IFPI put a copyright claim on his Musical Autopsy of Rihanna's "Bitch Better Have My Money". Since then, Buckley has used his typical 5 second plug for his premium content to tell record labels to leave his videos alone.
  • After Universal blocked "The Ten Worst Songs of 2018" because of YouTube's broken Content ID system, Buckley went on hiatus. For a time, he said he didn't want to spend hours producing a video that could be arbitrarily taken down in just seconds by record labels. However, he subsequently released a new "Musical Autopsy", coinciding with the launch of his Patreon account in January 2020.
• Screwed by the Network: Buckley's 2015 April Fools' Day video, "Realtalk Rudy Presents Douchebags of the Internet", was taken down since YouTube flagged it "content designed to harass, bully or threaten", despite it being a Self-Deprecating Stylistic Suck parody of a diss video against himself.
• Write What You Know:
  • Many of Buckley's rants are based on his own personal experiences, and if he doesn't have knowledge or experience with a particular topic, he can't make it funny. For example, someone wanted him to talk about how it sucks to work in retail, and Buckley said that he never had a job in retail, so he can't relate to the topic.
  • Some of his videos deal with topics concerning his hometown of London, Ontario (e.g. London Transit Strike, an Apple Store opening in London, the London Rippers professional baseball team and their subsequent folding, etc.).

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