Todd In The Shadows Thread

That Bait-and-Switch between the film Pearl Harbor and 9/11 was glorious.

Todd is a master of that, and that was easily his best yet

The crack about the potato salad was gold.

I wish I hadn’t been spoiled the Pearl Harbor joke in advance, but that buildup man.

…Pardon my French, but what did happen to the Dixie Chicks that he mentions several times?

> Pardon my French, but what did happen to the Dixie Chicks that he mentions several times?

They got cancelled hard because they dared to criticize the bush administration post 911 least thats what I THINK he's referring to,its the first thing that came to mind when someone mentions the dixie chicks

Edited by Ultimatum on Mar 27th 2024 at 4:46:16 PM

They basically got "cancelled" by the country music industry for daring to be critical of George W. Bush and some aspects of America post 9-11. In general, they're less.. conservative in political matters then country music and fans tend to tolerate.

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Edited by diddyknux on Mar 27th 2024 at 11:43:29 AM

Well that sucks. They never had a comeback after things calmed down?

Edited by Lyendith on Mar 27th 2024 at 8:20:47 PM

I'm pretty sure Todd covered them in one of his videos. IIRC they had a huge hit song about the aftermath. I've no idea if the country crowd have forgiven them. They make the most conservative metalheads look like chamomile tea by comparison.

Todd mentions it in the American Life episode when he speculates that the reason Madonna canceled the original music video for the title track was because she was afraid of getting a similar backlash.

Edited by DeadlyAssassin on Mar 28th 2024 at 11:37:21 AM

Which is rather inconsistent given that she didn't have an issue in pushing the limits before, and this time is likely out of wanting to keep the profits from tie-in media. Namely, the title track of James Bond's Die Another Day.

A Thumbnail for Todd's Hilarious In Hindsight page?

Over 80 correct predictions by Todd, in chronological order!

Edited by Smasher on Apr 7th 2024 at 4:15:08 AM

You know, in the 70s there were lots of TV theme songs that hit that might be OHW candidates: Happy Days, The Rockford Files, S.W.A.T., Making Our Dreams Come True (Laverne and Shirley theme), Makin It, etc.

Todd is reconsidering a Blur episode of One Hit Wonderland thanks to their set at Coachella being so poorly received.

Edited by Smasher on Apr 16th 2024 at 4:00:37 AM

So considering doing it or not doing it?

Doing it.

Yeah, I'd imagine that previously Blur was firmly under the Hendrix Clause.

I actually discovered Blur BEFORE the big hit, as the video for Parklife was on Beavis and Butthead (albiet a negative take on it, but I still thought the song was catchy enough).

Oh it's catchy, but that and "Country House" I've seen referred to as like finding The Neatles through "Yellow Submarine" and I like the comparison.

New Pop Song Review up on Patreon, surprisingly it's an album cut. Specifically, Beyonce's cover of Jolene.

Edited by Smasher on Apr 19th 2024 at 5:36:51 AM

So, what do you guys if Todd will ever review a song done by a Vtuber?

I think that would require a VTuber to get onto the Top 40 first.

Given how everyone outside of that space views vtubers he probably wouldn't like it by default.

Yeah, he'd probably give the usual "anyone who likes V Tubers is a basement-dwelling neckbeard" spiel.

Todd's pretty caustic.

Edited by MisterTambourineMan on Apr 21st 2024 at 1:18:37 PM

True, but he's also pretty open to the idea of lowering the bar to entry to popular success. He's been in support of Vine and later Tik Tok in theory because it allows relatively scrappy underdogs to get exposure that labels would never allow normally^note In practice... well, let's just say it's demonstrated that it shows that you don't necessarily need to be genuinely talented or for a song to be good for more than 10 seconds to go viral on Tik Tok.

a Vtuber actually releasing something decent that gets picked up by the populace would be the kind of story Todd would be in support of, I'm just... not sure if it's something that would likely happen.

Did Todd review something from a Kpop group before? I vaguely remember him talking about Kpop at at least one point, but I don't remember the context. Maybe it wasn't a review, but an entry on a worst songs list?