Todd In The Shadows Thread

Personally, I Think a good candidate for One Hit Wonderland would be t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said.

I feel like tATu is very much a Hendrix Clause ala Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse actually fall under the Marley clause (together with Blur, Ramones and the aforementioned Bob Marley) since they didn't even manage a hit in the (Billboard) top 40

Bonus: Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" has actually charted higher than these four acts' highest-charting songs.

Eh, I don't know. I'm not sure if they were really influential or popular as musicians enough to really apply to Hendrix Clause. In the US at least, they definitely had several other hits in Europe.

Fair

In which Todd finds himself pretty out of his depth.

I dunno, I found the message of the single pretty easy to grasp. It's about contrasting the image white America wants to see of black people with the image of their actual reality. Wants to see the cheery dancing folks in TV and memes, ignores the actual violence and oppression. Glover's avatar dances oblivious to the cruelty around him, until it ends up coming for him too. That's basically it.

It kinda feels like Todd went out of his way to not read anything about the single in prep for his review. That's a valid choice since a metaphorical work should be capable of being understood on its own, but it might've helped if he had contrasted his opinion before and after reading about the song to dissect how it could've have communicated its meaning more effectively.

Maybe it's just the circles I hang out in, but most of the people I saw understood it pretty fast and from there had their own criticisms to make, such as that making gifs and memes of the video misses the point, or that Glover revels too much in "look at all these people die >:D", or also that it's not really saying anything new.

I interpreted the shootings more as a literal reference to all the shootings happening. Like, they're being shot because they're literally being shot, and them getting shot is the reality of America.

Not to nitpick, but there were several anti-Bush songs around the time of the Iraq war: Mosh by Eminem, Dear Mr President by Pink, Deify by Disturbed, Devour by Shinedown, Americon by Slayer, and probably several others I missed.

He probably means it was less of a cultural phenomenon than that surrounding Vietnam.

Also, uhh, none of those songs you mentioned are, well good

There was also Lily Allen's "Fuck You", notable for being an anti-Bush song made outside the U.S.

And another one hit wonderland right on top:

I love how this one was requested by an actual pastor. It must be BAD if even Christians think it sucks, right?

Nah, just a reupload.

I'm pretty sure that one's a reupload. I remember seeing it a while ago. And it wasn't too bad, certainly not as bad as most Christian music.

Edited by TommyFresh on Jul 16th 2018 at 4:30:12 AM

I agree, it seems like a pretty decent band.

It is a reupload.

Did everybody forget about Rock Against Bush?

Since he's had other artists on OHW who's biggest hit was a cover (Alien Ant Farm, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rick Derringer, and in a rare case of a cover of an instrumental, Meco) what other artists whose biggest hit was a cover could he do?

Lou Bega?

Edited by Bananaquit on Jul 22nd 2018 at 11:45:23 AM

Sinéad O'Connor. Probably a Hendrix Clause though.

I'd say the Hendrix Clause definitely applies to her, yeah.

PseudoEcho's Cover of Funkytown was mentioned in Todd's Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1987. I'm not sure if he feels the need to revisit it in more detail.

The Ataris maybe? Might be a Hendrix clause.