“Bruno, go bankrupt and die,” isn’t a prediction, it’s a request. Which Bruno didn’t listen to and instead spent the next 5 years making songs equal in quality to “Nothin’ On You”, if not better.
yeah but most people have forgotten that most songs from the early 2010s sucked so there’s insanely rose colored glasses on most people. this is true for most eras though so i can’t say much
"We regular internet morons are finding out we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways I envisions some dark days ahead for us"- Todd in the Shadows 2011, he predicted the future well lmao
@ULGROTHA I'd say dang unlucky. Being famous means iys easy for people to take you out of context and painy you as a horrible person. Cough cough Kotaku.
"We regular internet morons are finding out that we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways" -Todd, 2011 Well I guess Todd can make a correct prediction once in a while.
@@itzlucaaa6789 he got 2 more top 10 hits just in 2019. He made the record for the most amount of songs on the billboard hot 100 behind Drake and Elvis Presley. And by this time sold 100 million records. And is one of the top twelve most viewed english musicians on RUclips and has 15+Million subs on this platform.
16:09 I do not understand why "80s songs ruined by the Black Eyed Peas" has not become a meme yet. I keep returning to that part because that is comedy gold right there
I was thinking... but I have a soft spot for DirtyBit. Isn't it like a meme song or something? Then I realised my positive asaociations were from Todd's joke.
well, sort of! rhythm of the night is a 90s hit, todd feared that they are going to keep butchering more 80s songs but they're instead going against the 90s now (a decade todd probably likes the most). they recently butchered/sampled scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) on a song from their newest album elevation.
Never gonna give you up-up-up-DIRTY BIT Livin' on a prayer-prayer-prayer-DIRTY BIT Fight the power-power-power-DIRTY BIT Like a virgin-gin-gin-gin-gin-gin-DIRTY BIT Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings-strings-strings-DIRTY BIT
Considering how "Jar Of Hearts" makes you angry the same way Twilight makes you angry, it's no wonder Christina Perri was the perfect artist to do the theme song for the 5th Twilight movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2, which was played at my sister's wedding. (I'm from Australia, BTW, where Christina Perri has her biggest fanbase and success).
@@kieranstark7213 In every worst hit songs of each year list, Todd predicts the future. It's like he's wielding the Gazing Eye from Kingdom Hearts, but bad fortune happens thanks to his knowledge of modern pop music.
The only other songs I can think of that I prefer the clean versions of are Akon's "I Wanna Fuck You" and "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt of all songs. "I Wanna Fuck You" for much the same reasons as this song. And "You're Beautiful" because "fucking high" is just too harsh for a love song that sound like... that.
@@KahlessTheUnforgettable She's the pianist and singer for Evanescence who are well known by 2000's emo kids for songs like Bring Me to Life and My Immortal.
I was in 4th grade (the only type of people that could like LMFAO unironicaly) and I remember hating that song the first time I heard it and I was baffeled as to how the kids in my grade could like that song and well my opinion has not changed one of the worst hits of the decade so far.
jason mach I had a friend in my Sophomore year of high school who loved LMFAO. I'm still friends with him, but we tend to disagree about what are good pop songs.
It's one of those songs that uses the f word for no reason other than they can. It feels gratuitous, and I cuss like a sailor! "Tonight I'm Loving You", to me sounds better.
Look.. I prefer Paramore. At least their music had the decency to back it up with Hayley's kickass vocals and the boys' excellent instrumentation. "Decode" is the real gem of those whiny "Twilight"-esque tracks.
dude. i was about to make a snarky comment like "well i haven't heard from this kid in over 10 years meanwhile todd's still kicking it!" i didn't know that's because he DIED. good god thankfully i looked first.
As a zoomer it's very interesting to see what people from the previous generation thought about the music of what was our childhood years. For me, Party Rock Anthem was THE primary school disco song. I remember every year between years 3 and 6 of primary school in NZ, at every school dance everyone would go absolutely nuts every time that song came on. So its quite surreal to me how what an adult would've seen as just another mindless pop song at the time exists as a fond memory of simpler time in the minds of so many people. Even now that song's influence is still rife within zoomer culture i.e. ironic memes and that whole culture. So yeah, this is pretty much why I love Todd's old videos so much - an entirely new perspective on the songs of mine and so many others' childhoods.
Ik this comment is kind of old now but I’ve been doing the same exact thing! I’m a zoomer trying to see how many songs on these old lists I remember and how well they’ve aged since I last heard them. A lot of these songs might be stupid, but they’ve been the soundtrack to so many elementary/middle school parties that I can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic for them.
Exactly! I usually agree or am neutral with Todd’s opinions, but I LOVE The Lazy Song because of my age when it came out. I’m sure it’s gross and not funny to the adults of the time, but as a middle schooler it was funny!
I’ve been watching Todd since 2013 when i was 13! It’s funny that so many of these songs are so nostalgic to me now, that I even enjoy some songs off the worst list. This time period was the Minecraft, and Dubstep years. Miss it
23 now and I remember when that song was HUGE at my school. The "popular" kids all tried dressing the same as LMFAO and shuffled the whole year.... I never could shuffle right but I tried my best lol
I don’t hate nor love the song. But I respect others thoughts on it! That being said, I can agree that Todd and you can have different opinions of the song. So you have a nice day!
Tonight (I’m Fucking You) is one of those very very rare songs where the censored version is a huge improvement over the original. Like, there’s a decent number of artists who clearly put thought and effort into their PG version, like CeeLo Green’s “Forget You”, but the uncensored version of those usually go just as hard. Tonight becomes a much more listenable song when all he’s imposing is his love… and the syllables work better anyway.
i literally did not even know that Tonight (I’m Loving You) was a censored version of the real song. i thought that WAS the song. when he played the audio, i was like, “ohh i remember this song! tonight i’m lo- did he just say fuck”
I'd so hate to break up to y'all, but Norm of the North is now a fucking franchise going to be milked more in the early 2020s. And it was already so horrible as a standalone movie.
Oh, my gosh, I *heard* "Dirty Bit" in a store once and I remember being nearly livid over their use of "The Time of My Life"! Thank you, I wasn't the only one who *hated* this song, evidently. And your bit about '80s songs being ruined by the Black-Eyed Peas was hilarious. And I always knew "Sexy and I Know It" was worthless.
Awww... but I liked Jar of Hearts. But I suppose I like it in the same way I like frosting covered cookies with sprinkles. It tastes sweet, but I feel like shit afterwards and it goes straight to my thighs.
There's nothing wrong with liking something Todd doesn't. Heck, I like I Don't Care, and Todd put it at #5 on his worst songs of 2019. If you genuinely like the song, like it.
Makes sense that someone who made a song about a demon from the underworld that she uses to show how immature her songwriting is to talk about her boyfriend would be making a song on an immature romance.
+nic cage I'm not sure they even qualify as a One Hit Wonder in the broad sense, i.e. "They had more than one hit, but no one remembers any of them except one." Because I don't think anyone remembers ANY of Hot Chelle Rae's hits. I certainly haven't heard Tonight, Tonight on the radio recently, or anywhere else. Meanwhile, other recent Two Hit Wonders like LMFAO still get played.
I remember Tonight, Tonight as being a song no one ever stopped singing at school during its popularity. We all hated it, the staff hated it, but the girls who just couldn’t stop singing it would probably sell their souls to hear it again
"We regular Internet morons are finding out that we have power. And some of us are using that power in horrible ways. I envision some dark days ahead for us." - 2011 Todd in the Shadows, predicting musical.ly
God, listening to this in 2020 and hearing all the songs I hated with all my body that the radio gods had the mercy to keep off the air waves in the interim all over again was so painful, but hearing you dunk on them was so validating.
"We internet morons are realizing we have power. And some of us are using it in horrible ways". Screw the Simpsons, Todd actually predicted Trump's victory
Some of the lyrics are kind of funny in any unintentional kind of way: "You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" Huh? So because this guy broke your heart, you think he'll get sick because he was cold to you? That sounds like breakup song parody lyric
For once one of Todd's predictions came true and Chris Brown's music became more loathsome.Call me crazy but I see a disturbing yet catchy dance song sampling Every Breath You Take working.
i still cant get over the lyrics "youre gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" that is SO BAD why did we not drag that lyric left and right?? i was like 19 during this, i remember everyone took this song hella seriously and all my other Serious Music Major Friends actually loved it
Because the alternative was the likes of Pitbull and LMFAO and Taio Cruz, I assume? Actually Jar of Hearts is such a bizarre song to make the 2011 year-end, given what everything else sounded like (what with the trends being the club boom, rap music with hilariously mismatched pop hooks, and overly corny and wholesome country and adult alternative in the Taylor Swift/Sara Bareilles/Colbie Callait mold)…honestly the song feels less like a “fuck you” to some mystery douchebag (even though that is what the song is literally about), and more like a “fuck you” to everything else on the Hot 100…almost like why people started listening to grunge in 1991…
The sad thing is that My Humps actually has a decent and catchy beat/tune, especially for a BEP song. It's just the lyrics that obliterate it. It's like the label wanted them to put out the song but they didn't want to, so the BEP decided to try to sabotage their own song by putting all the humps and lumps in there. Even though I just made up this scenario, it is still easier for me to believe this than to accept that the BEP unironically wrote the lyrics to My Humps thinking it was good.
Listening to these worse lists in reverse order is an interesting thing. You hear Todd get progressively angrier and the music get progressively happier with a few outliers here and there.
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how good What the Hell sounds on the piano? I know he does that with every episode, but this is easily one of the best piano covers in the history of Todd In The Shadows.
He sure tries to undercut his presence at every turn; the past 3 singles (The original Don't Tell Em, Planes, and Oui) never got videos, and the biggest of the three builds its chorus from an interpolation. Even his recent features, like Somebody and Freak of the Week, are built around interpolations, and he's relegated firmly to chorus guy on those, so his voice is the only thing that can leave an impression.
"Birthday Sex" is literally "Dick in a Box" except you're supposed to take it seriously. "Hey girl. Guess what gift I got for you. DEEZ NUOTS. HA. HA HA. GOTTIM."
Birthday S€X, Down on Me, Don’t Tell Em, all are bad. Jeremih is probably worse than Jason Derulo in terms of an artist, because at least Jason Derulo had quite a few decent songs before Talk Dirty existed.
Selena Gomez's "Love You Like a Love Song" should've been on this list. "Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby It's like a Jeep that goes BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
I listened to that Hot Chelle Ray song about 60 times while working as a camp counselor in the summer of 2011 and I REALLY REALLY appreciated your roast of it.
Look At Me Now is the example of what is wrong with the current generation of hip hop. Chris Brown and Lil Wayne come in with lazy, poorly crafted bars that is the equivalent of a conversation with a homeless basehead with Busta coming in with the lyrical equivalent of "When I was your age, I used to have to walk 12 miles to school in the snow and then work 3 jobs everyday." God, if hip-hop ain't dead it's certainly in hospice care.
Fun fact: Enrique Iglesias' last name means churches like the ones you go to to pray to god. Kinda ironic that the guy with church in his name is singing about premarital sex
“We regular internet people are finding ways to make hit songs, I envision dark days ahead of us” Watch me watch me Juju on that Beat Juju on that juju on that Now do the Harlem Shake Hit the Quan Hit the Quan
With TikTok being the breeding grounds for all sorts of new teen talent, good god has that become true in a bigger way since Silento. Least we got Lil Nas X and Doja Cat out of it.
Bad Touch is one if my all time favorite songs. It's funny, but it's also joyous and very sex positive. And most of all it's honest to God good. I adore how unabashedly gross it is, but nothing in it shames the person they're doing all these acts with, it celebrates it. The song uses we, you and me, and constantly talks about what they do to each other and not just what he does to them, or what their partner does for them, it's clear that the sex is wild and gross but also that both parties are totally into it. The 'well do it doggie style so we can both watch xfiles' line is one if the best sex positive lines in a sex song ever. Hear me out. It acknowledges that men and women can enjoy sex just as a physical release, equally. This isn't a line about a man not really paying attention to his partner/phoning it in. They BOTH want to watch Xfiles. They are both seeking physical gratification, but they're not making love, and neither are bothered by it. He's not sneaking peeks at the episode, or his phone cause he'd really rather be doing something else. I imagine the conversation going like "Wanna do it? Eh, sure. Wait, I love this part! Me too!" *switches positions so they can both watch and just keep going at it* It's the most mundane sex in the song. It sounds like a normal relationship, not that they're not in love any more, but that it's one of those times where you're kind of doing it just to do it, but in the good way. They're clearly very comfortable with each other, and open about their needs. They're at a place where sex doesn't have to be romantic or magical. They can be gross AND boring, and they're happy. It could be about a long term relationship, or a really comfortable friends with benefits, or even just two people who are hooking up but really chill and open with each other. It doesn't really matter, because whatever story the song is telling it's a really emotionally healthy sexual relationship. And I'd argue very respectful, because the singer acknowledges that his partner experiences sex in much the same he does. He doesn't put her on a pedestal, he says she gross and raunchy and wants to watch Xfiles, and that's awesome and they find joy in it together.
That "respectful" song came from the same album as A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying. If Bloodhound Gang read this comment, they'd laugh their fucking asses off.
Ah, 2011. The year of Justin Bieber and LMFAO. A simpler time, when the only possible apocalypse everyone was talking about was the 2012 Mayan calendar "prediction." After 2021, I miss those days.
In response to Todd's cereal box comment about Tonight Tonight: I would sooner frame a cutout of Count Chocula than plenty of "professional" works of art I've seen.
PS I agree about the efforts in Bad Touch's lines. They all worked as funny sex analogies yet there had been put thought into them. It's one of my guilty pleasures because those instrumentals are pure gold, and the comedic value is appreciated from time to time.
I liked "I Need A Doctor". Never seen the Horror movie like video. That's a bit weird to see Dre floating in a vat. I didn't know Eminem and Skylar were paging Dr. Frankenstein. "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
All of them but Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, and the rappers (Who already had a huge career), and MAYBE the Black Eyed Pees (IDK about the Black Eyed Peas but they haven't gotten media attention in a while).. Hell, even by 2013 all of the other artists were irrelevant
MissMusicCritic It's also dreary and boring, and sounds like it should've been a part of the soundtrack to the twilight movies, I don't know which one, probably all of them. But the artist herself looks cute, I guess?
Oh shit, I confused the name AJR with AJJ for a moment and had a moment of total rage and disbelief that someone could think AJJ sounded remotely like Hot Chelle Rae lol
I love Todd's take downs. Calling a band's song "already chewed bubblegun" is a masterful use of the English language and why I keep coming back to listen to Todd to insult songs that I occasionally really enjoy (but also often dislike). His takedowns are wonderful.
Theory: Todd purposefully said "Bruno, go bankrupt and die" because he knows about his bad prediction powers and wanted bruno to make a good song
lol
Matheus Tran lol😂😂
I approve of this theory
NFSF1McLaren Same.
24k Magic is good. He went way too far. Like jeez.
''Nimoy, live long and prosper.''
''Bruno, go bankrupt and die.''
Back at it again with the wrong predictions I see Todd
Toddstradamus strikes again.
Nimoy was 83 when he died; he *did* live long, and he prospered. Todd wasn't wrong on that one.
“Bruno, go bankrupt and die,” isn’t a prediction, it’s a request. Which Bruno didn’t listen to and instead spent the next 5 years making songs equal in quality to “Nothin’ On You”, if not better.
Oh. oooohhhh. Okay, so the Bruno Mars part is funny. The Nimoy part, though...that got kinda dark.
bruno is still here in 2024 with blackpink korean member with an annoyingly awful indie pop style hit in ASIAN countries. (APT)
11 years later, I can happily say that most of these songs have been mercifully forgotten.
yeah but most people have forgotten that most songs from the early 2010s sucked so there’s insanely rose colored glasses on most people. this is true for most eras though so i can’t say much
And those that haven't have shot the moon to become so bad they're good.
Unfortunately that’s not the case if you work in retail
I'm happy about that! But you know which one CAME BACK, in the form of a stupid TikTok meme? ...Of course it was his #1 pick 🤦♂
@@fabh9674TOO REAL LMAO
"We regular internet morons are finding out we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways I envisions some dark days ahead for us"- Todd in the Shadows 2011, he predicted the future well lmao
With the implosion of Channel Awesome it's pretty on point.
Lol all this aged perfectly fuck...
The first time he ever predicted something right.
He also predicted a change was happening in pop in 2011 awh poor bby he didnt realize how right he was
@ULGROTHA I'd say dang unlucky. Being famous means iys easy for people to take you out of context and painy you as a horrible person. Cough cough Kotaku.
“I’m still not convinced Hot Chelle Rae aren’t the stars of some Nickelodeon sitcom about a band and its whacky adventures” sooo big time rush?
Christina Marie Oh please, BTR at least had some solid tunes and their bad songs were more memorably bad than that.
BTR is an amazing band and they all deserve the world.
JeremySherman327 they were my first loves and I’ll never forget all their bops
At least BTR's songs were actually enjoyable
JeremySherman327 big time rush had absolutely no redeeming qualities
"We regular internet morons are finding out that we have power and some of us are using that power in horrible ways" -Todd, 2011
Well I guess Todd can make a correct prediction once in a while.
Harlem Shake, Watch Me, Coco, Nasty Freestyle, Juju on the Beat, those retarded Hit or Miss and Renegade songs
broke clock is always right twice a day.
Hits even harder in 2020
Nooo om
@@IsaacIsaacIsaacsonHits even harder on the edge of 2025
If you think Chris Brown is awful, just look at him now.
Is Chris Brown even relevant now?
👌
@@itzlucaaa6789 Somehow still in 2019 yes.
@@itzlucaaa6789 he got 2 more top 10 hits just in 2019. He made the record for the most amount of songs on the billboard hot 100 behind Drake and Elvis Presley. And by this time sold 100 million records. And is one of the top twelve most viewed english musicians on RUclips and has 15+Million subs on this platform.
Well that’s fucking sad
16:09 I do not understand why "80s songs ruined by the Black Eyed Peas" has not become a meme yet. I keep returning to that part because that is comedy gold right there
I just dug through a bunch of videos to find that skit. Absolutely amazing
I was thinking... but I have a soft spot for DirtyBit. Isn't it like a meme song or something? Then I realised my positive asaociations were from Todd's joke.
Im shocked Todd didn't talk about how he accidentally predicted Black eyed peas sampling Rhythm of the night?
Wait, that's Black Eyed Peas? I thought it was the person who made that Goosebumps remix.
Wow! That is a BAD use of a sample. Good to know they've gotten less abrasively bad, but they aren't actually any better.
Maybe they somehow watched this video and thought it was a good idea.
well, sort of! rhythm of the night is a 90s hit, todd feared that they are going to keep butchering more 80s songs but they're instead going against the 90s now (a decade todd probably likes the most). they recently butchered/sampled scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop) on a song from their newest album elevation.
@@sirgemini5743 they infiltrated Scatland?
Shout, shout, let it all out. These are the things I can do without-without-without-without-with-with-with-with-wiwiwiwiwiwi-DIRTY BIT
I wear my sunglasses at night-night-night-ni-ni-ni- DIRTY BIT
Never gonna give you up-up-up-DIRTY BIT
Livin' on a prayer-prayer-prayer-DIRTY BIT
Fight the power-power-power-DIRTY BIT
Like a virgin-gin-gin-gin-gin-gin-DIRTY BIT
Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings-strings-strings-DIRTY BIT
GI JOE! A real Amre. Amre. Amre. Amre.- DIRTY BIT.
Take on me-me-me-me DIRTY BIT
Take me to funky town-town-town
DIRTY BIT
Cannot get over how Todd reverse-predicted Uptown Funk's popularity, Nimoy's death, Norm of the North AND RITMO in the SAME VIDEO.
Welp, that sucks-hard. Bless Leonard Nimoy dearly!
And Tik Tok
RITMO?
@@mix3k818 the Black Eyed Peas song
Enrique Iglesias would also have another hit with Bailando, but fortunately it wasn't terrible IMO.
when he said hot chelle ray was #1 i was like “aww but i loved that song when i was 11!” and then realized that’s probably the point
"Yes, I will put it down on you... Mr. Chipmunk."
The thing is, I think that was also the year that Alvin and the Chipmunks made a resurgence
Considering how "Jar Of Hearts" makes you angry the same way Twilight makes you angry, it's no wonder Christina Perri was the perfect artist to do the theme song for the 5th Twilight movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2, which was played at my sister's wedding. (I'm from Australia, BTW, where Christina Perri has her biggest fanbase and success).
Probably why he mentioned it. This video came out in 2015. That movie was in 2012.
Just found out this is a reupload. So nevermind. If he made his video before that movie released, then he's definitely called it 😅
it was bad he rembered it in the 2023 list
"This is a direct to DVD movie that somehow got released to theaters."
Norm of the North?
Very unfortunately, yes. Then again, this is the ultimate video of seeing the future.
I read this comment right at the moment he said it and got freaked the fuck out
@@kieranstark7213 In every worst hit songs of each year list, Todd predicts the future. It's like he's wielding the Gazing Eye from Kingdom Hearts, but bad fortune happens thanks to his knowledge of modern pop music.
On a more music-related note, he also predicted Uglydolls
Isn't it odd that number 2 was "Tonight" and number 1 was "Tonight Tonight".
+kenterminatedbygoogle No...it's a coincedence
Also funny how he said he liked "Tonight" and "Tonight Tonight" in that video.
lyrics
He was referring to "Tonight, Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins. Not sure on the other "Tonight," though.
That was Tonight from West Side Story.
Enrique's song actually sounds better on the clean version. I NEVER say that, but this song is an exeption. and a rare one at that.
I concur
Agreed! Didn't even know the real lyrics were "tonight I'm fucking you" until I saw this video.
The only other songs I can think of that I prefer the clean versions of are Akon's "I Wanna Fuck You" and "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt of all songs.
"I Wanna Fuck You" for much the same reasons as this song.
And "You're Beautiful" because "fucking high" is just too harsh for a love song that sound like... that.
Zayn's Pillow Talk sounds better in the clean version as well.
Christopher Alexander Same with Jealous by Nick Jonas.
The fact you chose Amy Lee as the example for "white girl with piano' got me legitimately angry for a moment. Well played Todd, well played
Who’s “Amy Lee?”
@@KahlessTheUnforgettable She's the pianist and singer for Evanescence who are well known by 2000's emo kids for songs like Bring Me to Life and My Immortal.
-A/N: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here-
@@xyldkefyi Oh, teeny bopper shit. Got it, thank you.
@@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754 Doesn’t seem like anyone knows who she is anymore honey. Sorry. Maybe she should get an OnlyFans?
when 'sexy and i know it' came out, the first time i heard it, i didn't hate it right away, but as i heard it more and more, the hate grew .
Same
I was in 4th grade (the only type of people that could like LMFAO unironicaly) and I remember hating that song the first time I heard it and I was baffeled as to how the kids in my grade could like that song and well my opinion has not changed one of the worst hits of the decade so far.
jason mach I had a friend in my Sophomore year of high school who loved LMFAO. I'm still friends with him, but we tend to disagree about what are good pop songs.
Really? Because I did hate it right away, and the more I heard it, not only did I hate it more, but I began to hate all of of LFMAO's other songs too.
I loved Sexy and I Know it...the first few times. It changed over time.
It's 2016 and I just learned it wasn't "Tonight I'm Loving You"
The radio used Tonight I'm Loving You but the original was the one Todd used.
When I found out (having heard the radio edit) my first thought was, "Around children, we prefer to call him the chicken-LOVER."
It's one of those songs that uses the f word for no reason other than they can. It feels gratuitous, and I cuss like a sailor! "Tonight I'm Loving You", to me sounds better.
If only it actually was.
It's 2019 and I just figured it out.
>sees jar of hearts
>6th grade flashbacks
same lol
Skyrim flashbacks
I think I was in like 3rd or 4th grade
Jar o' farts is a great song for sixth graders.
Look.. I prefer Paramore. At least their music had the decency to back it up with Hayley's kickass vocals and the boys' excellent instrumentation. "Decode" is the real gem of those whiny "Twilight"-esque tracks.
4:12 RIP to the lip Syncing kid who made #10 popular enough for this list.
Yeah i heard about that. Sad that health conditions cut his life so short.
Holy shit RIP
dude. i was about to make a snarky comment like "well i haven't heard from this kid in over 10 years meanwhile todd's still kicking it!" i didn't know that's because he DIED. good god thankfully i looked first.
As a zoomer it's very interesting to see what people from the previous generation thought about the music of what was our childhood years. For me, Party Rock Anthem was THE primary school disco song. I remember every year between years 3 and 6 of primary school in NZ, at every school dance everyone would go absolutely nuts every time that song came on. So its quite surreal to me how what an adult would've seen as just another mindless pop song at the time exists as a fond memory of simpler time in the minds of so many people. Even now that song's influence is still rife within zoomer culture i.e. ironic memes and that whole culture. So yeah, this is pretty much why I love Todd's old videos so much - an entirely new perspective on the songs of mine and so many others' childhoods.
Ik this comment is kind of old now but I’ve been doing the same exact thing! I’m a zoomer trying to see how many songs on these old lists I remember and how well they’ve aged since I last heard them.
A lot of these songs might be stupid, but they’ve been the soundtrack to so many elementary/middle school parties that I can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic for them.
Exactly! I usually agree or am neutral with Todd’s opinions, but I LOVE The Lazy Song because of my age when it came out. I’m sure it’s gross and not funny to the adults of the time, but as a middle schooler it was funny!
I’ve been watching Todd since 2013 when i was 13! It’s funny that so many of these songs are so nostalgic to me now, that I even enjoy some songs off the worst list. This time period was the Minecraft, and Dubstep years. Miss it
I'm from Aus and graduated high school in 2011 and there were sooooo many PRA dances at our school
23 now and I remember when that song was HUGE at my school. The "popular" kids all tried dressing the same as LMFAO and shuffled the whole year.... I never could shuffle right but I tried my best lol
To this day I never understood why they say “even the white kids” in Tonight Tonight.
An attempt at self-deprecation?
Maybe they’re members of the KKK
As if they weren’t whiter than bleach already
Some of those that work forces... are the same that write music.
@@jessenathan9346 what
Party rock anthem was *the* song in fourth grade. Our whole class loved it and I remember everyone dancing it to it.
That song is great
it really is great. todd gave it too much crap
I don’t hate nor love the song. But I respect others thoughts on it!
That being said, I can agree that Todd and you can have different opinions of the song. So you have a nice day!
When I was in fourth grade everyone was dancing to the Numa Numa song. Am I old?
Lukas Weber Nah everybody loves Numa Numa
Tonight (I’m Fucking You) is one of those very very rare songs where the censored version is a huge improvement over the original. Like, there’s a decent number of artists who clearly put thought and effort into their PG version, like CeeLo Green’s “Forget You”, but the uncensored version of those usually go just as hard. Tonight becomes a much more listenable song when all he’s imposing is his love… and the syllables work better anyway.
i literally did not even know that Tonight (I’m Loving You) was a censored version of the real song. i thought that WAS the song. when he played the audio, i was like, “ohh i remember this song! tonight i’m lo- did he just say fuck”
@@dumdumm3299same
As a pretty recent subscriber I am constantly impressed by is how consistent Todd's quality has been over the years
Same
Same lol, esp going down a rabbit hole of all these worst/best vids
"This is a direct-to-dvd movie that somehow got released to theaters!"
Heh.
Gladdie it's the Norm of the North of songs
I'd so hate to break up to y'all, but Norm of the North is now a fucking franchise going to be milked more in the early 2020s. And it was already so horrible as a standalone movie.
i can't like it. . .
Oh, my gosh, I *heard* "Dirty Bit" in a store once and I remember being nearly livid over their use of "The Time of My Life"! Thank you, I wasn't the only one who *hated* this song, evidently. And your bit about '80s songs being ruined by the Black-Eyed Peas was hilarious.
And I always knew "Sexy and I Know It" was worthless.
“hey Christina Perry, when this guy was collecting his jar of hearts, did he accidentally take your brain too?”
probably todds best line lmfao
its fun to see how he felt about bruno back in 2011 and how he feels about him and uptown funk.
Awww... but I liked Jar of Hearts.
But I suppose I like it in the same way I like frosting covered cookies with sprinkles. It tastes sweet, but I feel like shit afterwards and it goes straight to my thighs.
Same.
Tho, I never let Cristina Perri go straight into my thighs... But I wish she did...
There's nothing wrong with liking something Todd doesn't. Heck, I like I Don't Care, and Todd put it at #5 on his worst songs of 2019. If you genuinely like the song, like it.
@@thegreatandpowerfuldc5977 I also like Thunder by Imagine Dragons, and The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars.
I've liked a few songs on his worst list, and there are several he's put on his best lists that I cannot stand.
Seeing this becoming a decade old video and seeing Todd musical tastes change along is just... special
This was uploaded in 2015, though.
@@madizzle90it’s a reupload, he reuploaded all this old content after he left channelawesome
watching this in 2021 is p surreal ngl. Todd was mean spirited back in the day. He's mellowed a lot
Also Christina Peri sang for one of the Twilight movies. You actually got something right (kinda) Todd!
Except that song was actually pretty decent
...except I prefer "Decode" by Paramore. Absolutely correct on the term: "How did we get here?"
And that song was played at my sister's wedding.
Makes sense that someone who made a song about a demon from the underworld that she uses to show how immature her songwriting is to talk about her boyfriend would be making a song on an immature romance.
Kind of a match made in heaven there.
Why does that kid from #10 look like hes 45
C G he is in his mid 30s btw. he has some sort of groth disability, which results in his small size and weird looks. he is infact older than todd.
Tim Maximilian You mean the lip-syncing kid? He’s actually younger than Todd, and his name is Keenan Cahill.
@@timmaximilian9286 hes 24 and todd is 32 or 33
he was 16 or 17 at the time this video was made. Todd is at least ten years older.
I seriously thought it was that annoying kid from Jerry Maguire taking some stunted growth formula or something LOL!
How long till Hot Chelle Rae gets a One Hit Woderland episode?
Sadly, they actually had more than one hit.
Zachary Jones but could you name them without looking it up?
+nic cage I'm not sure they even qualify as a One Hit Wonder in the broad sense, i.e. "They had more than one hit, but no one remembers any of them except one." Because I don't think anyone remembers ANY of Hot Chelle Rae's hits. I certainly haven't heard Tonight, Tonight on the radio recently, or anywhere else. Meanwhile, other recent Two Hit Wonders like LMFAO still get played.
nic cage Actually, i can. I Like It Like That. Because it was actively kind of okay, unlike their first festering turd of a song.
@@PassTheMarmalade1957 cause LMFAO is at least gymicicky enough to be a 1 hit wonder. HCR is too generic on the other hand
DAT ASPECT RATIOOO
Dale Stevens I thought my phone was fucking it up
Filmed in ultrawide panavision!
I've heard of 21:9, but this is like 201:9.
this aspect ratio on top of the already-ludicrous aspect ratio of the pitbull music video is a goddamn sight to behold
I know
4:00-4:10 And thus were spoken the hallowed words that would later become known as the Prophecy of Toddstradamus.
Did Todd predict the power of Tik Tok. We’ll never know.
I remember Tonight, Tonight as being a song no one ever stopped singing at school during its popularity. We all hated it, the staff hated it, but the girls who just couldn’t stop singing it would probably sell their souls to hear it again
Tonight tonight is the worst because it's been 6 years and I still remember the song just by the start of the music video... Kill me
The only Tonight Tonight worth listening to is the one by Smashing Pumpkins
the body under the floor board must of been an Edger Poe reference
+spapbp Tell Tale Heart, right?
And here I thought "under the floorboards" was just where everyone hid their dead bodies. (Have I been doing it wrong all these years?)
No, most people prefer hiding them in their cleaning closets, at least that my best guess as to why everyone's house is a pigsty.
yeah it was
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"We regular Internet morons are finding out that we have power. And some of us are using that power in horrible ways. I envision some dark days ahead for us."
- 2011 Todd in the Shadows, predicting musical.ly
Vine and TikTok, oh wait those 2 are the same thing
RIP Leonard Nimoy.
Yes
No Christina grimmie.
God, listening to this in 2020 and hearing all the songs I hated with all my body that the radio gods had the mercy to keep off the air waves in the interim all over again was so painful, but hearing you dunk on them was so validating.
"We internet morons are realizing we have power. And some of us are using it in horrible ways". Screw the Simpsons, Todd actually predicted Trump's victory
ironeius Ironic, considering his track record with predicting everything else. 👻
@B N Braughton "Normies"
He literally said "I envision dark days ahead of us."
My god, that's some Metal Gear Solid 2 levels of shit. Except without the "I need scissors! 61!".
I love going back and watching Todd slowly become a Beyoncé fan.
We got him
sidenote: I'm still wondering what Kesha is doing to her bra in that in-between clip.
She takes it off and drops it in front of herself from head height.
I love Blow’s music video, at the beginning it says “no mythical creatures were harmed in the making of this video”
@@theserpent4495 But one Kesha certainly was.
🎶Oo, baby, do you know what that’s worth? Oo, heaven is a place on earth, earth, earth
DIRTY BIT
Favorite part of the video. Laughed so hard
Not gonna lie, Jar of Hearts is a guilty pleasure. It's fun to dramatically lip-sync to!
cuppajess same here
+cuppajess
True. But personally I prefer to get my ridiculously overdramatic angst-fests from Evanescence. XD
Some of the lyrics are kind of funny in any unintentional kind of way:
"You're going to catch a cold from the ice inside your soul"
Huh? So because this guy broke your heart, you think he'll get sick because he was cold to you? That sounds like breakup song parody lyric
+Thomasmemoryscentral
"You're gonna freeze to death
From the ice inside your chest."
There, song. I fixed your lyric.
cuppajess Exactly why I like it.
4:00
5 years later and that sentence couldn't be any more true.
kenterminatedbygoogle Vine, Memes, idiots online in general who don't have a ounce of a conscience, common sense, or moral compass, take your pick.
kenterminatedbygoogle was*
Welcome to TikTok, which is just a more cringey vine.
For once one of Todd's predictions came true and Chris Brown's music became more loathsome.Call me crazy but I see a disturbing yet catchy dance song sampling Every Breath You Take working.
+Alexander Johnson
yep!.....and i'm glad that they changed the lyrics so that it sounds less stalkery!
Ye I guess it worked to use it for a rap song, so a dance song might too…
i still cant get over the lyrics "youre gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul" that is SO BAD why did we not drag that lyric left and right?? i was like 19 during this, i remember everyone took this song hella seriously and all my other Serious Music Major Friends actually loved it
kat I can’t believe anyone out there actually liked Christina perri, jeez dude. Sorry. But, at least you’ve got friends.
hahahaha, i think if i brought up that song now they'd all have a cringe about liking this song back then but yeah it was really baffling at the tome
kat Yeah well, that’s good to know. Have a great day/night.
Because the alternative was the likes of Pitbull and LMFAO and Taio Cruz, I assume? Actually Jar of Hearts is such a bizarre song to make the 2011 year-end, given what everything else sounded like (what with the trends being the club boom, rap music with hilariously mismatched pop hooks, and overly corny and wholesome country and adult alternative in the Taylor Swift/Sara Bareilles/Colbie Callait mold)…honestly the song feels less like a “fuck you” to some mystery douchebag (even though that is what the song is literally about), and more like a “fuck you” to everything else on the Hot 100…almost like why people started listening to grunge in 1991…
Dirty Bit is bar far the Black Eyed Peas' worst song. Makes My Humps sound great by comparison.
They were good before Fergie joined
I actually prefer their Fergie-era music
My Humps was definitely their worst song. Waaay worse than Dirty Bit, Boom Boom Pow, and Imma Be
It's by far not bar far.
The sad thing is that My Humps actually has a decent and catchy beat/tune, especially for a BEP song. It's just the lyrics that obliterate it. It's like the label wanted them to put out the song but they didn't want to, so the BEP decided to try to sabotage their own song by putting all the humps and lumps in there.
Even though I just made up this scenario, it is still easier for me to believe this than to accept that the BEP unironically wrote the lyrics to My Humps thinking it was good.
Listening to these worse lists in reverse order is an interesting thing. You hear Todd get progressively angrier and the music get progressively happier with a few outliers here and there.
When you realize Todd predicted norm of the north
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how good What the Hell sounds on the piano? I know he does that with every episode, but this is easily one of the best piano covers in the history of Todd In The Shadows.
To think Jeremih actually has quite a few hits now.
He sure tries to undercut his presence at every turn; the past 3 singles (The original Don't Tell Em, Planes, and Oui) never got videos, and the biggest of the three builds its chorus from an interpolation. Even his recent features, like Somebody and Freak of the Week, are built around interpolations, and he's relegated firmly to chorus guy on those, so his voice is the only thing that can leave an impression.
"Birthday Sex" is literally "Dick in a Box" except you're supposed to take it seriously.
"Hey girl. Guess what gift I got for you. DEEZ NUOTS. HA. HA HA. GOTTIM."
Oui is a genuinely great song tho
Birthday S€X, Down on Me, Don’t Tell Em, all are bad. Jeremih is probably worse than Jason Derulo in terms of an artist, because at least Jason Derulo had quite a few decent songs before Talk Dirty existed.
Jeremih is only good for that vine.
Ke$ha is my guilty pleasure
Ghostwriter same tbh
Ghostwriter Same
Yes
Same take it off
Smokin'!
Selena Gomez's "Love You Like a Love Song" should've been on this list.
"Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby
Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby
Most Generic-Sounding Pop Song, Baby
It's like a Jeep that goes BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"
That was 2012
“This is music the same way the cover to a cereal box is art” LOL
This proves that this man's comedy and content is ageless...11 years later and this is still hilarious
I just can't hate jar of hearts I don't even know why at this point
I listened to that Hot Chelle Ray song about 60 times while working as a camp counselor in the summer of 2011 and I REALLY REALLY appreciated your roast of it.
Look At Me Now is the example of what is wrong with the current generation of hip hop. Chris Brown and Lil Wayne come in with lazy, poorly crafted bars that is the equivalent of a conversation with a homeless basehead with Busta coming in with the lyrical equivalent of "When I was your age, I used to have to walk 12 miles to school in the snow and then work 3 jobs everyday." God, if hip-hop ain't dead it's certainly in hospice care.
+Luke Boyer I'm not seeing the good in that. He hasn't been interesting for years
KidSnivy69 no you're thinking of snoop dogg
Luke Boyer No its Eminem, continuing to show your bad taste
i liked all of look at me now exept chris browns rap verse.
dig deeper, the underground has good hip hop for days
Fun fact: Enrique Iglesias' last name means churches like the ones you go to to pray to god. Kinda ironic that the guy with church in his name is singing about premarital sex
God*
What other kinds of churches are there?
What other kinds of churches are there? Well, Scientology.
His name is literally Henry Churches.
A Robin al bundys church?
Holy shit, Todd finaally got an avatar
Volvagia´s Blaze Our little Todd is finally growing up. (Sniffle) I'm so proud of him.
littleblueclovers
yup *sniff* he sure has
*Hugs you both*
It's ok, he'll come back to visit us with the kids.
*Sniffle*
*Wipes Tear*
I know its heavy, but we gotta let him grow up.... We did the best we could with him... *sniffle*
I've heard Sexy and I Know it about 300 times, but I don't know if I've actually ever heard it all the way through
Yeah i find its one of those like Harlem Shake where 30 secs gives you basically the whole song, and by the end youre kinda bored.
“We regular internet people are finding ways to make hit songs, I envision dark days ahead of us”
Watch me watch me
Juju on that Beat Juju on that juju on that
Now do the Harlem Shake
Hit the Quan Hit the Quan
With TikTok being the breeding grounds for all sorts of new teen talent, good god has that become true in a bigger way since Silento. Least we got Lil Nas X and Doja Cat out of it.
It's 2023 and we still don't have any signs of Detox dropping any time soon
Bad Touch is one if my all time favorite songs. It's funny, but it's also joyous and very sex positive. And most of all it's honest to God good. I adore how unabashedly gross it is, but nothing in it shames the person they're doing all these acts with, it celebrates it. The song uses we, you and me, and constantly talks about what they do to each other and not just what he does to them, or what their partner does for them, it's clear that the sex is wild and gross but also that both parties are totally into it. The 'well do it doggie style so we can both watch xfiles' line is one if the best sex positive lines in a sex song ever. Hear me out. It acknowledges that men and women can enjoy sex just as a physical release, equally. This isn't a line about a man not really paying attention to his partner/phoning it in. They BOTH want to watch Xfiles. They are both seeking physical gratification, but they're not making love, and neither are bothered by it. He's not sneaking peeks at the episode, or his phone cause he'd really rather be doing something else. I imagine the conversation going like "Wanna do it? Eh, sure. Wait, I love this part! Me too!" *switches positions so they can both watch and just keep going at it* It's the most mundane sex in the song. It sounds like a normal relationship, not that they're not in love any more, but that it's one of those times where you're kind of doing it just to do it, but in the good way. They're clearly very comfortable with each other, and open about their needs. They're at a place where sex doesn't have to be romantic or magical. They can be gross AND boring, and they're happy. It could be about a long term relationship, or a really comfortable friends with benefits, or even just two people who are hooking up but really chill and open with each other. It doesn't really matter, because whatever story the song is telling it's a really emotionally healthy sexual relationship. And I'd argue very respectful, because the singer acknowledges that his partner experiences sex in much the same he does. He doesn't put her on a pedestal, he says she gross and raunchy and wants to watch Xfiles, and that's awesome and they find joy in it together.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone 'get' the bad touch quite like this comment. It's so ashamedly unsexy and funny yet so true to life.
That "respectful" song came from the same album as A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying.
If Bloodhound Gang read this comment, they'd laugh their fucking asses off.
I am... not gonna read that.
You've got to be pretty smart to be as stupid as Bloodhound Gang.
A lot of other bands and artists making similar sex jams are just stupid.
This comment is surprisingly old considering its content
Ah, 2011. The year of Justin Bieber and LMFAO. A simpler time, when the only possible apocalypse everyone was talking about was the 2012 Mayan calendar "prediction."
After 2021, I miss those days.
In response to Todd's cereal box comment about Tonight Tonight:
I would sooner frame a cutout of Count Chocula than plenty of "professional" works of art I've seen.
Its 2019 and I'm just now finding out that the name of the song isn't "Tonight I'm Loving You". Dang, Enrique...you really screwed up.
when you say relationship, you really mean Stockholm syndrome
PS I agree about the efforts in Bad Touch's lines. They all worked as funny sex analogies yet there had been put thought into them. It's one of my guilty pleasures because those instrumentals are pure gold, and the comedic value is appreciated from time to time.
The guy from the beginning with 50 Cent just died. I thought he looked familiar then I remembered this video
"the already-been-chewed gum of pop music" might be the best thing I have ever heard
I liked "I Need A Doctor". Never seen the Horror movie like video. That's a bit weird to see Dre floating in a vat. I didn't know Eminem and Skylar were paging Dr. Frankenstein.
"Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard."
Yeah, it's a good song. Same with Lazy Song, there's nothing wrong with it, it just got overplayed.
I won't lie, there hasn't been anything as fun as LMFAO in the charts since. I was always down for just dudes having a good time.
Same!!
R.I.P. KEEVAN
Wow how many of these people didn't last five years?
All of them but Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, and the rappers (Who already had a huge career), and MAYBE the Black Eyed Pees (IDK about the Black Eyed Peas but they haven't gotten media attention in a while)..
Hell, even by 2013 all of the other artists were irrelevant
The Drowzee Fella no, not the Black Eyed Peas, but Fergie still is, since I know she had a hit last year... and it was awful.
Fragmented R When is fergie's music NOT awful, dude?
FirstFallSnow Enrique Iglesias has some Spanish hits in Latin America since 2011
Tonight Tonight became a TikTok staple
Rest in peace, Nimoy...
17:50 Todd hitting us with the Edgar Allan Poe references
I genuinely get surprised at number 1 every time. Not because I like the song but because I have completely forgotten it exists.
That lipsink kid is like the first musically and I blame him entirely for the abomination of musically and everything associated with it
Considering that became TikTok and that app now has the world in a stranglehold...you now have a lot more to blame him for.
5:43
"How did we know that this song could work?
We had a spy on the inside...that's right!
HERCULES MULLIGAN!"
It's forewent.
Jar Of Hearts is one of the most generic songs I've ever heard!
MissMusicCritic It's also dreary and boring, and sounds like it should've been a part of the soundtrack to the twilight movies, I don't know which one, probably all of them. But the artist herself looks cute, I guess?
I'm still hoping one day Todd does a Trainwreckords on The Beginning.
Glasses kid walked so Tik Tok could stumble
I feel like AJR is the Hot Chel Rae of 2020.
I'm pretty sure AJR has been around for about a decade. I first heard of them in 2013.
@@djspuddzz8116 Yeah, but it's November 2020 and they almost have a top 20 hit.
Oh shit, I confused the name AJR with AJJ for a moment and had a moment of total rage and disbelief that someone could think AJJ sounded remotely like Hot Chelle Rae lol
50 Cent really be coming out da closet to lipsync with a child.
I actually think you might like how Vanessa Carlton has evolved since breaking from her original record label.
TELL TALE HEART!!!!! Oh my gosh! That was the best poem I've read by him!! (17:50 freakout. It's a Edgar Allan Poe's Tell Tale Heart reference)
I freaked out
My Chemical Machine WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY
Berend de Liagre Bohl MY FATHER, TOOK ME INTO THE CITY, TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
HE SAID SOMEDAY, I"LL LEAVE YOU A PHANTOM, TO LEAD YOU IN THE SUMMER, TO JOIN THE BLACK PARADE...
Hearing all the best 80s songs playing only for The Black Eyed Peas to slowly sneak up and ruin them is like a goddamn horror movie
I love Todd's take downs. Calling a band's song "already chewed bubblegun" is a masterful use of the English language and why I keep coming back to listen to Todd to insult songs that I occasionally really enjoy (but also often dislike). His takedowns are wonderful.
Just a reminder that he's been "working his ass off" for almost a decade
I genuinely wish Look at Me Now was just Busta's song. Always have and always will.