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Dream_Huntress Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#301: Apr 26th 2012 at 7:29:23 PM

[up]We kinda got a glance of that when Todd threatened Stick Boy for showing interest in Lupa.

I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#302: Apr 26th 2012 at 9:50:09 PM

[up]That's not the same thing at all.

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Dream_Huntress Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#303: Apr 26th 2012 at 10:13:28 PM

Really? I thought the main idea was Todd losing his shit due jealousy, and he kinda threatened to kill Stick Boy with his pure hatred. Then again it was 30 seconds gag, so maybe an extended version could work diffrently.

I can't have you close, so I become a ghost and I watch you, I watch you.
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#304: Apr 26th 2012 at 10:29:15 PM

Right, but he was already automatically gonna be jealous of any man who went near Lupa, no matter how many dimensions he had tongue

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Free Devil's Lobbyist from the green room Since: Jul, 2010
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#305: Apr 29th 2012 at 3:51:17 PM

Oh my god, Becky

The loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you're never going to see again
0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#306: Apr 29th 2012 at 8:31:27 PM

I was waiting for it and waiting for it and... right at the end, JoCo's cover! [lol]

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OdieEsty Why would I write that? Since: Mar, 2012
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#307: Apr 29th 2012 at 11:47:27 PM

I gotta say, I'm really enjoying these new Todd reviews. I'll be honest, his old style was starting to get a little stale for me. It was still funny sure but it felt like he was getting into a rut. I love this new series and the fact his normal reviews have become a more documentary style series.

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FalconPain Since: Feb, 2015
#308: Apr 30th 2012 at 7:13:04 AM

Back in the day, Todd reviewed a song by Willow Smith entitled "Whip My Hair". During the review, he says that although it actually does follow a verse-chorus structure, he could have sworn the first time he heard it that the entire song was nothing but over three minutes of "I whip my hair back and forth".

Why do I bring this up now? Because between several of Todd's more recent reviews, including the latest, and Nostalgia Chick's review of "What Women Want", I keep hearing clips of a song by Big Sean that I have yet to hear in any other media.

They really do make it sound like it's just a guy saying "Ass ass ass ass" for over three minutes.

(Wow, I expected a bit more coverage of Mix-A-Lot's version of "Jump On It".)

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#311: Apr 30th 2012 at 12:29:17 PM

NO. I have heard that song enough. I've been hearing it since before people even started making fun of it, since the people at my college seemed to love it so much when it first came out, and I'm sick of it.

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PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
moronvonfiddle from OS-TRAY-LIYA, MATE! Since: Jul, 2011
#313: May 8th 2012 at 2:30:56 AM

"Oh, so NOW you wanna do a review with me?!" [lol] Linkara really has to learn to stop holding grudges.

"Of all the arguments I've ever had to make in my life, trying to rationalise eating an igloo is my favourite."
JethroQWalrustitty Since: Jan, 2001
#314: May 8th 2012 at 2:43:52 AM

"Because long distance relationships never work"

edited 8th May '12 2:44:23 AM by JethroQWalrustitty

OdieEsty Why would I write that? Since: Mar, 2012
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#315: May 8th 2012 at 3:40:30 AM

man at the exact time this posted I had to analyze a katy perry song for my English class. The whole thing sounded like a Todd review. Which is weird because he specifically didn't review that song because he couldn't come up with any jokes for it.

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FalconPain Since: Feb, 2015
#316: May 8th 2012 at 6:00:12 AM

Well, that's two out of three previous failed attempts down. Next time, Body Of Evidence! (Ugh.)

Medigo Since: Dec, 1969
#317: May 8th 2012 at 6:14:22 AM

so does he like Gotye or not? I cant sleep easy until I know!

Dream_Huntress Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
#318: May 8th 2012 at 7:19:19 AM

[up] Well, at least these kids like the song:

Granted, they still don't get the real meaning of the lyrics, but one heartbreaking day they will.

Also, does anybody else thinks there are parts of the song where Gotye sounds like Sting?

edited 8th May '12 7:22:10 AM by Dream_Huntress

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phoenixdaughterAM Since: Jan, 2010
#319: May 8th 2012 at 8:02:09 AM

Hmm. Yeah it really is funny how Gotyle and fun. are topping the charts.

Ohahahahaha. Long-Distance Relationship gag. Why do I find that doubly hilarious now?

So this makes two Kelly Clarkson (current, kinda) reviews in recent history. Hmm...

edited 8th May '12 8:02:25 AM by phoenixdaughterAM

FalconPain Since: Feb, 2015
#320: May 8th 2012 at 9:01:58 AM

I'm starting to think that the most likely way to cover the works of Gotye and fun and such is to tackle a subject he's touched upon before and undoubtedly has a large amount of bile for, given his top ten list from last year.

Indie songs that have become popular because they were featured on Glee.

kkslider555 Since: Dec, 1969
#321: May 8th 2012 at 11:58:07 AM

I've honestly listened to some of .fun and Gotye's music recently. They are both pretty inconsistent, that much I can say. And both of those big hits have choruses that either work perfectly, or are painfully annoying. I go with the former personally.

also Todd summed up my thoughts pretty well, who are these people? I mean, I am glad that my decision to actually listen to popular music again was a good idea after all.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#322: May 10th 2012 at 5:04:50 AM

Wait, "We Are Young" was on Glee? I knew "Somebody That I Used to Know" was (and let's be honest, that song would vacuum have*

never even made it onto the charts if not for that), but I never knew "We Are Young" was. It seemed like more of a typical radio song though, and I really wasn't too surprised by that song's success (the shadowy origins of the band aside). It's catchy, and people (myself included) love catchy things that aren't diseases.

EDIT: Wikipedia on "Somebody" says that Gotye is some Aussie who wrote and recorded the song in his parents' barn, that it's the number one song of all time in the Netherlands, and this interesting tidbit:

In the United States, the song became a crossover hit peaking at number one on both the Rock Songs, Alternative Songs, and Hot Dance Club Songs charts—the first song to top all three charts simultaneously—while also having charted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Pretty impressive I'd s—HOT DANCE CLUB SONGS?!??

edited 10th May '12 5:13:04 AM by 0dd1

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Medigo Since: Dec, 1969
#323: May 10th 2012 at 6:00:57 AM

being dutch, I can attest to the songs popularity

PippingFool Eclipse the Moon from A Floridian Prison Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
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#324: May 10th 2012 at 6:04:51 AM

That was my reaction too Odd1.

This song has been on airplay here since 2011. It's the kind of song that is strangely popular with Australian Pop radio. (I swore that when I first heard the song in 2011, that I heard it sometime between 03-05 when World Beat and Indie was at it's peak here. I was shocked to learn this was an 11 song) And I found it to be insanely catchy. Everything about the song resonates at the right mode to pull of my :D triggers that I haven't felt since I listened to "Straight Lines" by Silverchair. Then again, I am a sucker for this kind of music (As the only person in the world who likes Viva La Vida by Coldplay.)

I'm having to learn to pay the price
Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#325: May 11th 2012 at 9:59:53 PM

Odd, either American pop radio is set up so that every popular song is suitable for the dance floor, or the "hot dance club songs" are based on mainstream D Js that do remixes of what's on the radio. Both explanations are the only reasons I can come up with to explain how it's possible for a group of girls I know to grind to Taylor Swift (also, the recent overpopularity of grinding in my area is making me regret my rejection of Jersey Shore-style fistpumping).


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