Drake not appearing on the actual list but catching strays all the way through feels more appropriate and reflective of the year he had than putting him at No.1.
I do find Todd consistently entertaining, but that usually just results in smiling or a brief 'heh,' but that particular line actually had me burst out in laughter.
As someone who does live on a dirt road, yes there is nothing “rustic” or romantic about it, you just never have a clean car and hope someday it gets paved someday I don’t know why country music seems to like it so much
@MrOtistetrax The only justification they need for driving a huge ass truck is to tailgate sedans that are already going 20 miles over the speed limit but are still not going fast enough for them.
As someone who grew up on a paved road mostly surrounded by dirt roads (which I learned to drive on), THIS. The worst part is after a storm when you get the most massive potholes imaginable and you have to go through them or into the ditch because there's a truck hauling a cattle trailer oncoming. Pop your tire on random gravel. Todd's right -- these faux-country dudebros wouldn't know a dirt road if they fell onto one
I don't know what the consensus on Jimin's solo work is in K-pop circles, but it reminds me of when Todd was scared to put "Ice Cream" on his 2020 list out of fear of being dogpiled by the Blackpink stans, only for the stans to come out and say "Nah, you're right, this song isn't good."
As someone who used to be a huge BTS fan (nothing bad happened, the group got less active and I moved on), this is just evidence that BTS worked so well as a group because the different members had different talents. The rappers were the heart and soul of their output, and it shows in their solo work as well. Meanwhile, members like Jimin and Jungkook were considered to be the most talented singers, dancers, and the most conventionally attractive of the group, so their specialty was performance. It’s no big deal if you take dancing away from the rappers, that wasn’t their main focus anyway; but take away songwriting from the performers, and it shows.
I wouldn't trust kpop circles when it comes to BTS since they have always been ostracized, their good songs get basically the same reaction and level of hate
Idk about kpop circles in general, but as an army, I agree. And with what that other comment said too. I can't wait until they can all perform together again
Katy Perry's 'Woman's World' and Meghan Trainor's 'Mother' were both songs that were so unbelievably terrible that before I had finished my first listen, I was already looking forward to their inevitable appearance on the worst list, only for them to not even qualify as a 'hit' enough to make it.
"We get to see that, if mgk gets any more face tattoos, it officially counts as blackface." Todd, you *CAN'T* just throw a line like that out with no preparation. I almost had a heart attack.
14:15 Selfish is a worse version of Jealous by Nick Jonas. It worked for Nick because he was like 21 and dating around. JT is MARRIED with TWO children. It doesn’t hit that way.
Selfish also gave me REALLY serious Maroon 5 deja vu when I heard it and I hope I'm not the only one. A sure fire way to ensure it will definitely end up in the worst list (see also "Saloon 5").
Usually the white people who denigrate black culture and the white people who appropriate it are different people. Ben Shapiro is one of the very few people who has done both, and I think that's genuinely impressive
Nah... there's more crossover than you think. My friend circle from high school was half-filled with culture vultures like that (the wonders of being a weirdo misfit), and I'd say at LEAST 3/4ths of them have gone on to become MAGA shitheads.
I’ve noticed with these particular culture vultures they start out as envious of Black culture and their attitudes usually end up outright hateful (often as a result of being called out).
@@ashen_roses Alright I'm curious. Care to elaborate why Jelly Roll is frustrating? I don't have a strong opinion of the guy so I'm not primed to disagree with you here, it's just frustrating is such a specific word to use to describe a person that I genuinely want to hear your reasons why he's frustrating to you.
@gregvs.theworld451 Jelly Roll has made a few songs I really like, and when he's not doing that he's featuring in almost every bad country song in 2024 and being a bit of an edgelord
"I review a song based on how much comedy material I can wring out of it, but I put a song on the [worst] list because I never want to hear it again." Todd said this in his Worst of 2011 video, and I think it's important to remember this, as he didn't review very many of this year's songs.
Yeah I was thinking that same thing when this video popped up and realize i could only think of three review videos of current pop songs he did this year, and two of them were about the Kendrick vs Drake beef. Edit: so i just double checked and it turns out I was right on the money, because there WERE only three pop song reviews this year. Everything else was either “Trainwreckords” or “One Hit Wonders”
I kinda wish he would play with positive reviews more. I have complete faith that he can be funny without being miserable. That said, he can do what he wants.
@@johndutkiewicz9401WHAT??????? UR TELLING ME THESE VIDEOS ARENT OFF THE CUFF?? THE VIDEOS WHERE TODDS SCRIPT IS VISIBLE ON HIS MUSIC STAND IN EVERY VIDEO???????
As someone who really loves cars, I'm deeply disappointed in all the suggestive car songs this year. It's like somehow they couldn't even make cars OR banging interesting. What a shame.
I was recently out of restaurant when this video came up and it was just me in the waiter as the other side of the restaurant was not busy and we watched it together just had to troll it it was absolutely terrible.
Loving the 10+ year-long commitment of using fonts and typefaces on the Best/Worst Lists that were relevant in the world of music that year. Bumpin that 💅💅
I was today years old when I found out Ben Shapiro attempted to rap. God, I’m glad I didn’t have the energy to keep up with the zeitgeist in the slightest this year.
The fact that Ben “Wet Ass P-Word” Shapiro made a rap song while also stating at one point in his career that rap music isn’t real music is just showing his entire business model to me in one simple moment. Edit: Y’all keep saying “but he was joking!” If that is true, it wasn’t funny. Like at all.
A gamer can play Candy Crush to kill time without thinking it's a "real game". An anime fan can watch Naruto and think of it more as a "kid's show than true anime". There's nothing hypocritical about Ben making a joke rap song, despite not liking rap. There are many things to criticize the Daily Wire on, and this is not one of them.
When that god awful Kanye song started playing, my dog looked at me, got up, and left the room (which he never does when we have our evening cuddle time). When a fucking French Bulldog can’t stand your music, it’s bad.
@@prometheustv6558I really wish that were true, at least one of my 30-40 something coworkers wears a deadpool shirt thats says something like "sorry i offended you, but i dont care"
I had been thinking, "What could possibly be worse than Ben Shapiro's rap song," and then he played the Kanye song, and I was like, yeah. This is worse.
I remember Todd's term about the "I'm Back B*tch" single, the one that's not really about anything other than to show how great or awesome the artist in question is. And with that, I don't think I've seen an "I'm Back B*tch" single flop harder than Woman's World by Katy Perry.
She should have taken the hint when "Smile" didn't do that well. Also, she's 40 years old now - the retirement age of pop stars. Ask Justin Timberlake.
Personally, i like the reading of that marshmello song that there's a second guy just desperately trying not think about what's happening 3 feet behind him
Nah, more David Guetta. Just the guy that ALWAYS shows up. Todd doesn't seem to have an issue with Jelly Roll's songs on their own. Hell even the verses Jelly spits. It's just, dudes EVERYWHERE
I can't help but notice that much of this stuff hasn't been making it across the atlantic. Usually, Todd's list of America's worst will still infect British radio, but not this year. The nu-country stuff seems to be the only exception.
fascinating that country chart garbage gets radio play in Britain. as a brazilian I'm super thankful I only get to know this stuff through Todd videos making fun of them.
Numbers one and two on this list being hits were a sobering realization for me. The fact that those songs were driven to success is reflective of what a powerfully motivating force spite is as an emotion.
Todd laughing his ass off over Drake cowardly suing Spotify over Not like Us was my exact reaction too lol, great to see we can all relish in the insecurity of this big goofball
I really wish someone would point out the obvious lyrical contradiction in "Facts" At the start of the Chorus he says "I don't care if I offend you" and at the end of the chorus he says "I hope that I offend you" So which one is it Tom? Do you care or not?
jimin is a good singer, but it seems like he and his producers are incapable of giving him music that actually suits his voice. he's not a belter, but they want to act like he is and it's just grating.
Jimin's voice was best suited for when they delegated him to songs that required of him of what I can only call a "coquette-ish whisper". Boy is his voice cotton candy; saturate it to the extent of Who and it's too much. The mixing was actually horrid. Compare it to his earlier projects like Serendipity and you can hear the palpable difference.
@ 100000% agree they just can’t seem to find the right direction for him. I understand that he may want to try different stuff but his team needs to focus on his strengths
Knowing very little about him, it seems to me he'd do well to go a little more quiet but deliberate. Like not even necessarily slower but... Idk more of a soft kinda edge to it, if that makes sense?
That UFC fight at 5:15 was covered by a hilarious writer. "Normally when you hit The Running Man, it shows their crew is through and you're to legit to quit. In this case, it was used to show UFC judges that your opponent is a giant fucking pussy. But since the only people normally trained to fight people running away from them are cops and rapists, he didn't have much choice."
The fact that most of these songs were just boring, lame nothingburgers really shows just how lucrative this year was. It's truly insane how saturated this year was that it pushed out most of the really bad ones
LOL, Tom McDonald saying "I don't care if I offend you" - Yes you do. Trying to offend me is your entire personality. You can't feel validated unless you think you're "triggering" me.
I always wonder how even his fans don't get sick of him doing the exact same thing all the time. Like I know they're probably not the sharpest tools in the shed but still???
@@koelkastridder3388I mean kinda answered your own question there mate. I genuinely think people have difficulty internalising that, to be blunt, idiots are idiots. *You* would get tired of this real quick. But the kind of people he's grifting wouldn't.
I've only met one person irl who likes that chode, and unsurprisingly he was my old workplace's "that guy." He would rant about QAnon shit unprompted at anyone in earshot every single shift and got banned from the local auto shop for starting a fight with the employees.
For what it's worth, Jelly Roll does seem like a genuinely good person. I've seen videos of him interacting with fans, I've seen him talk to congress about the fentanyl crisis, I'm glad he's successful. But good god does he need to learn when to say no!
Jelly Roll is just like Snoop Dogg. They both seem like genuine people, they both seem like the type of person I would like to share a bowl or have a drink with. But man they are mercenaries that’ll collab with or advertise literally anything if the price is right.
@@jathbr4113 Considering how many songs Jelly Roll has about struggling with substance abuse, while I don't know how true to his life those songs are I'd probably be inclined not to want to do drugs or drink with him, but he does seem like a solid dude. I'd probably be down to hang out with him doing something non drug related.
I remember a quote I heard from Tiffany Haddish when she was at her peak overexposure endorsing and appearing EVERYWHERE. She said she worked so hard to finally break through and become a success, that when she finally did, she seemed almost afraid to say no to anything she was offered because she was afraid of the day when the offers stopped coming. I could see Jelly Roll in a similar situation. He doesn't know when the gravy train is gonna stop, so he's just gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
Which is also insane because she’s made country as far back as D.C. (Sail On cover), had other country adjacent tracks covered by acts (Irreplaceable with Sugarland, If I Were a Boy with Reba)
I've been a BTS fan for nearly a decade and I HATE 90% of their production post-world-fame. Every song has to be passed through 30 hands and smoothed into almost nothing. And the vocal processing SUCKS. They can sing!!! The autotune and doubling ruins their color and they sound like?? Idk. Robots. Synths. They need to just go back to their in-house team at BigHit and let Jimin release another Lie.
Omg yeah. I feel like my ears are wearing dirty glasses when I listen to their most recent albums. And they can sing, it's just the production that's bad
HARD AGREE. the hyyh series was sooooo fucking beautifully produced, especially pt. 2 🤧 the way they produce their albums now is like extremely corporate sounding....idk how to describe it....everything is so flat/empty (instrumentally, not necessarily emotionally lol)
I am the same case, their solo stuff especially sounds way too polished and soulless. I feel like only the rap line have put out something original and interesting (their stuff didn't trend in the USA as far as I know, I guess that explains why it was "allowed" to be original)
I don't think any of these songs entered the UK year-end top 100 and as a Brit, I couldn't be more grateful. You guys got some hot garbage charting over there.
You're telling me Facts wasn't just a Ben Shapiro AI meme that got viral, and is instead an actual attempt at music (or at least music-derived clout and money) from the man himself? I don't know how to feel right now...
I wouldn’t call it an actual attempt. That being said, it would have been way funnier if he avoided any political references and just delivered a normal verse
I normally like K-pop, the vocal production on that Jimin song sounds like my class's first attempt at pitch-correction. Literal first semester music production stuff.
It reminds me so much of a pastiche of early 2000s Max Martin bubblegum pop. Like, it sounds like a fictional song they would make up for a parody boy band in a work of fiction, like Du Jour from Josie and the Pussycats or Party Posse from The Simpsons (Yvan Eht Nioj...)
Marshmello took a $9mill in taxpayer money during the pandemic. A grant from a fund that was supposed to help keep small venues open during the worst of it. I've never heard any of his music before, but I officially hate him anyway.
@@HiGlowie Literally thought he was 'over' after EDM stopped charting in like 2013 or at the very least deffo after the Fortnite thing. Goes to show I'm even more out of touch with pop culture than I thought. But I guess some guys are just in business to make car commercial music 🤷🤷
@@nnhhkk867 i have such conflicting feelings about happier by him and bastille bc the lyrics are amazing and dan smith (the singer) has an amazing voice but god the fucking beat drop makes it unbearable
@@nnhhkk867If EDM doesn't chart anymore then why do most retail establishments in the midwest including the casino I currently work for insist upon playing it? Even EDM covers of 80s hits from 2020 that never charted?
As someone born and raised in Tennessee, I will never get tired of Todd absolutely ripping modern country music apart. People used to actually respect it. But these days, country has literally become the laughingstock of the music industry, now more than ever. Yes, I know there's still some really good country music there if you search deep enough....but holy shit, the bad ALWAYS outweighs the good.
@@prometheustv6558 because it panders to their target crowd like those shitty Christian movies. Quality is a nice bonus but absolutely not required and usually accidental.
@@larrymantic2635 Did that change the lyrics to be "All hail Lord Ronald"? Either way, I doubt it could be AS MUCH as a soul less cash grab reworking as "Chevrolet". "In my Merry Oldsmobile" has more automotive relevance then "Chevrolet" will ever have, and Oldsmobile is DEAD.
I love when a lot of songs I didn’t even knew existed are on these lists and songs I was aware of are on the Honorable Mentions… reminds me there’s a whole world of bad music out there that I’m happy I missed out on
11:54 Since when did country songs turn into Buzzfeed listicles (in three minute song form) about shit country boys like? It's made most of the genre unlistenable, and that includes the female singers, too.
@@Lyendith They exist, but you'll never see them anywhere near the charts. To make it big in country you've always needed to play by Nashville's rules and the current rule in Nashville is (ft. Jelly Roll).
J Cole drops his' diss' track Kendrick Lamar, turns towards him, eyes glowing JC: "...i'd like retract my previous remark, delete it, apologize and then never cross you again." KL: "...you know what, I'll let you just because I didn't have to ask you." JC: "Thanks man, sorry man."
the bts situation is sooo interesting to me cause they’re like the only kpop group that had less creative input as they became more successful. like those guys were really involved in their music and visuals and narrative in their early days and now half the group is just releasing generic shlock
I dont think thats the case. The people that had the most input still have the most input in their solowork (rm and suga (j-hope probably 3.)). The singers always had less input it feels like
Their singers were never all that involved. Their rappers were and you can see the difference in quality of music when you check out their rappers' music and the singers'. RM's latest album was considered in critical year end lists from what I can see. And hearing the album too, I can say that this is the member who has the main songwriting talent. j-hope is also a risk taker. Also if you check out BTS's song credits old or new you will see only RM consistently had creative inputs.
@@aprilsowerhonestly you’re right i guess the rapline really carried the narrative that the group was self producing. hopefully the vocalists start to find more distinct sounds for themselves as they continue their careers. i’d love to see less of a focus on the western charts from all of them tbh
I mean I can kinda see your perspective but also knowing more of the behind the scenes it’s not really completely right. For the rappers, they’ve been very very very much involved in their work and all have been so creative both sound wise and text wise. They’re also the ones who have been mainly involved in their writing throughout their career. For the singers, they’re really trying to find different sounds and vibes to see what they like as their hiatus was a part of them trying to find themselves apart from the group to be able to contribute to it more when they get back and busy. And two of the singers are dancers at heart especially and specifically one of them has had an open priority of just feel-y music you can just vibe to and specifically dance to, and another singer focused a lot on sound and vibes and had an amazing time in the project planning and music directing. Plus, they’ve also released a little more private stuff outside of their official albums which they’ve been very involved with. Idk, they’re kinda just chilling and finding stuff out. I get they’re professional musicians and public figures, but they’re also just some young guys trying to find their passion and taste in art again as well. But I really do see your perspective and why it would come across as that whether true or not. I’m not here to deny your own input! :]
9:53 lol rip from a 37 year old army. A lot of us are already old sbtw. Anyway, I didn’t love that Jimin track as much as others did actually and agree with a lot of your points. His naturally unique voice was not served well by the production but yes even without that his voice doesn’t suit everyone conventionally. Would be interested to hear what you thought of Jin’s new solo work. Some of it has an early 2000s pop feel I like but on running wild one of the singles I don’t think they used his high register to best effect.
Fellow army here(22 but there are a ton of armys who are older than my generation) and I agree. I def listened to it and sang along, but I'd be lying if I said I thought it was as good as his last title track
I enjoy country music, but the last six months at least I spent begging at work, on days we play country just trying to get them to switch to the 90's country station for a while. The top 40 this year had enough bad to make listening to the normal rotation almost unbearable. One song was just a bad sing-over of a classic, getting lost in a Chevrolet replacing the profound feeling of the joy that music gives us, Nope, get that sacred tune out of your garbage song. Ah, I see that made the list, thank you. Outside of work, I only listen to new music that I actually like. If it weren't for the way the radio picks like 30 songs and just repeats them every day for months at a time, the sucky ones wouldn't be so bad, but it does, and they are.
Just a little insight from someone who lives in Korea: the songs that chart here are totally different from the ones that chart overseas. For the most part. For context, Charlie Puth is the biggest superstar alive over here so take that for what it is. Anyway, Who was successful in a technical sense, but the general public cared a lot more about the Rosé/Bruno Mars collab, and kpop bands (as in with actual instruments n stuff) had the biggest year ever. My point being, you are not alone in your feelings about Who by Jimin. It didn’t catch on in its own country either.
Seeing how Who is still charting in top 50 Apple Music/Spotify, safe to say the army is way too obsessed with their overall success with the botted streams, but at least girl groups such as LE SSERAFIM/NewJeans had some relative success in the U.S atleast in the streaming area.
I live in India. Justin Bieber, One Direction and Charlie Puth are massive here too. I think the problem is that some of the most milquetoast western artists become huge in Asia and then become an inspiration for singers like BTS. To them Charlie Puth is an ideal popstar and that's the kind of success they seem to be chasing which is disappointing because it just proves that they are severely out of touch.
6:45 Re: Jimin/Who. I'm a BTS fan (aka ARMY). I pretty much agree with most of what you said here. I was disappointed in the overproduction and compression on Jimin’s voice. It didn't support the storytelling the same way that the effects on Like Crazy or Set Me Free did, both of which I loved. It was a great mindless summer bop though! The dance is the focal point and went viral in our community. The Jungkook Golden album (English, pop) or RMs amazing RPWP (Korean, rap) played more to the strengths of the respective members. I'm hopeful for some nice acoustic or rearrangement version of Who in their 2026 tour! Many ARMY understand that not every song is a hit for every listener, even ourselves. How blessed to love a band that is a collective of 7 distinct solo voices but can make great group music as well!
I very much agree, especially abt the compression on Jimin's voice (it makes the song sound so artificial). I personally do really like the song (as you said, great mindless summer bop) so I'm just really looking forward to the live version
yep I used to be a huge BTS fan in 2015/2016 and haven't kept up with them since then outside of occasional curiosity of what their new music sounds like, but I noticed that their voices started having these really strange effects/compression on English releases, but they can obviously sing so I'm not sure why?
@@clarissa1811I think it has something to do with digitally editing their pronunciation when they sing in English because I’ve noticed the same thing!! I really strongly believe it has something to do with that
I would consider myself ARMY (admittedly I'm too old to be rabid over people criticizing their music as long as they aren't being dicks about it), and Jimin's single is completely ruined by the autotune in my opinion. I maintain it could have been good, but I'm with you when you say the end results is gratting. From all the BTS solos, I would only really recommend RM even though it was probably the less successfull because the less "poppy".
"Facts" by Tommy & Benny Boy has one of the funniest lines of the year in it: "All my people download this, let's get a Billboard Number One." The song debuted at #16 and then immediately cratered.
Shows how old I am because 2016 was considered the first "bad" year for my generation with Trump winning the election, the Orlando shooting, terrorist attacks on Europe, the craziness with Syria, North Korea panic, and in weirder news, the death of Harambe and all that clown weirdness.
I’ve been trying to express this exact sentiment to people. The influence we will see from Charli XCX, Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick, Tyler, Schoolboy Q, list goes on.
Pop music SUCKED in 2016, at least the Year End Hot 100. You just look at some of the hits that year, and they are some of the absolute worst the decade has to offer. The real good of 2016 was the stuff that wasn’t on the charts.
my favorite todd bit is when he talks about how he's afraid of people getting on his ass for something (whether it be discussing queer topics or shittalking kpop), and then you look at the comments and all of the people he was afraid were gonna maul him are just going "yeah no he's right lol"
I think that Kane Brown is actually doing a reverse euphemism. He actually wants to literally take a long drive in his pickup, and he's using the metaphor of f'ing in the truckbed to express it!
12:20 Honestly one of the most annoying things about country music in the past 18 years if not since the heyday in the 90s, has been that every country song has to mention whiskey. Every one. Just say 🎵whisksaaaaay!!🎵 and the crowd forgets everything else you have said or you will say in the song or the rest of the set because "YEEEEEEEEE HEWWW WHISKAY! BEER! WOOOOOO!!"
Bet there's some talented singer songwriter out there who lost a promising career in country music because they drink rum and colas or something. Maybe a root beer during a football game.
@devlinburgess2463 🎵Well, I'm sittin' on mah front porch sippin' pino grigio, waitin' for some better days... And mah uncle brought some shochu, cognac amaretto but I wanted that cabernet🎵 that took me 4 minutes and a Google search
Honestly now I want a country singer to write/sing a parody country song a la Weird Al's truck driving song where it starts with the singer singing about the stereotypical manly country alcohol classics like beer and whiskey, but as the song goes on it describes the singer drinking increasingly softer and fruitier drinks, but the whole time it's sung with 100% seriousness and that bro country twang like "Hell yeah I'm drinking a sex on the beach like a REAL COUNTRY MAN!!!"
It's kind of like how rappers try to establish street cred by talking about how tough they are but with country music singers they do by telling everyone their alcoholics (and they drive a truck because cars and minivans are for wimps I guess).
just realized The Darkness could make the best hit songs of the year list this year... with the same song that was a hit 20 years ago, but still, i hope todd at least adresses it happening
Interesting fact: Ben Shapiro's cousin happens to be Mara Wilson. Yep, THAT Mara Wilson. To give an idea on what it's like for these two cousins: one has made several happy childhood memories through her roles in movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, and is currently a respected writer. The other one WISHES the low point in his career would've been starring in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, instead of rapping on a song with Tom f*cking MacDonald. For the record: Mara does not support, nor even get along with Ben.
Mara also did guest narration on Chuck Tingle’s “Pounded…by My Own Podcast” (as did several other cast members of “Welcome to Night Vale”), and she was quite funny in that episode. (Podcast title edited slightly to avoid being dinged by the RUclips censors.)
Imagine a Matilda remake with Ben instead of Mara. It would be the story of a tweedy twerp that talks fast and can't stop talking about how Trunchbull looks like a man and shouldn't be around children.
Todd 2024: "Katy Perry has nothing left in the tank. She should never make music again." Todd 2025: "And now here's Katy Perry at #1 bet hit single of 2025." Calling it.
Imagine if someone offered you an apple, and you think “y’know I don’t eat them a lot and it’s been a while since I had one, but I really like apples, like the fresh ones from the farmers market” so you decide to take it, and when you bite into it you realize it’s not an apple at all, it’s actually 100% crystallized high-fructose corn syrup spray painted red and molded into the shape of an apple, and the taste is sweet to the point of being nauseating, and you look at the person telling you that this is the same thing as an apple and you have to wonder how it’s possible that they could like this, let alone stomach it This is what liking country music is like
Todd... It's not even February. Is everything okay?
Cue the Jelly Roll interstitial clip
He’s fine, it’s the best list that comes in February
Not many bad songs
@@kovokkovariki "I've been drinking, or as I like to call it, time traveling." - Dave Attell
The end times must be near.
Drake not appearing on the actual list but catching strays all the way through feels more appropriate and reflective of the year he had than putting him at No.1.
No-one middle aged white suburban liberals love more than kendrick.
I guess the dishonorable mention was enough. Even Todd rightfully forgot Drake even dropped an EP as well.
He did?
@@mix3k818
@@mix3k818 And Wah Gwan Deliliah... don't forget that...
He probably will also continue to catch strays when the Best Of 2024 list drops and Todd gets to talk about Kendrick at some point.
19:10 can we just appreciate the fact that Jelly Roll's girlfriend used an academic research paper to explain her infertiltiy to him
😂 oh my God. She did!😂
"If Justin brought sexy back in 2006, and sent it away again in 2018, this is him salting the earth so that sexy may never grow again."
incredible.
Yeah that was a legendary line for sure
Todd always has these incredibly well written/said takedowns
I do find Todd consistently entertaining, but that usually just results in smiling or a brief 'heh,' but that particular line actually had me burst out in laughter.
It was MGK having so many face tattoos that anymore would be considered blackface for me.
That line was genius. Hilarious.
That BetterHelp to Nebula sponsor fakeout at the end nearly gave me a heart attack
not even the first time he used it too 😭 he got me a second time
I'm glad I'm not the only one who fell for it 😭
Thank god he isn't sponsoring that, It's sad watching smaller channels who don't have much choice sponsor them
Bro is a genius when it comes to small jokes
@@jimbabbbson7653 He can't keep getting away with this!
As someone who does live on a dirt road, yes there is nothing “rustic” or romantic about it, you just never have a clean car and hope someday it gets paved someday
I don’t know why country music seems to like it so much
It’s because it’s what allows them to “justify” driving a massive truck.
they like to romanticize isolation
@MrOtistetrax The only justification they need for driving a huge ass truck is to tailgate sedans that are already going 20 miles over the speed limit but are still not going fast enough for them.
As someone who grew up on a paved road mostly surrounded by dirt roads (which I learned to drive on), THIS.
The worst part is after a storm when you get the most massive potholes imaginable and you have to go through them or into the ditch because there's a truck hauling a cattle trailer oncoming. Pop your tire on random gravel.
Todd's right -- these faux-country dudebros wouldn't know a dirt road if they fell onto one
Much like a lot of things in the US, country music is for people who wants to pretend to be farmers
“Drake will not be appearing on this list”
Drake’s Publicist: *unravels Mission Accomplished Banner*
For now, at least...
"Drake is not a name you gon see on no Top Ten Worst list"
Drake's Publicist: "Finally" *Marks DAY 1 on the "Days without Drake getting dragged" sign*
@@stevencoffin328 oh, go ahead and flip that to zero before the video even ends.
The only accomplishment he had this year lol
Todd reviews music with all the rage of a mistreated substitute teacher, as he should.
Well he was a teacher at one point pre-RUclips so it makes sense 😂
this is so accurate, i will be thinking about it forever ty
This resonates with me as a sub
@@philliesphan334that’s what she said
Like kindergarten cop
I remember when Ben Shapiro blocked me because I told him that VR would never replace the TV when he was plugging VR changing the world. Good times.
Wow he straight up just blocked you instead of throwing ridiculous hypotheticals at you? Impressive
This is a very random statement or am I too early into the video for the context?
This is the man that calls other people snowflakes pulling that shit
Never is a long time. Regular 2d TV isn't going to last forever.
@@stonetic2515hey Ben
"Get ready for cowboy Lil Dicky everybody!"
Take that back take that back take that back take that back take that back take that back
On the other hand we really need the laughs
God please let toddstradamus strike here. let him be wrong about this...
Toddstradamus gonna hit so hard for 2025
Lil' Ole Dicky!
Since Toddstradamus is a thing, that's not gonna happen. In fact, the literal opposite will happen.
He's gonna try to become a Charli XCX clone.
“I’m going into hiding,” says dude who based his entire identity on being hidden.
(As far as we know)
Todd In The Hiding.
Todd's hiding in plain sight. Or sane plight.
Congratulations, you figured out the joke. gold star
Well, if nothing else, the man is on-brand.
Fun fact, when pop music is booming on the radio/charts/streaming, that usually an indicator that we’re about to head into tough times economically.
Well we KNOW we're going into a financial crisis, we even chose to do it this time
...yeah... unfortunately, that checks out...
Yeah, I actually remember some amazing songs being in the worst years for the economy.
I don't think you need to read the pop charts like tea leaves to predict this one, chief.
I thought we were in them already
I don't know what the consensus on Jimin's solo work is in K-pop circles, but it reminds me of when Todd was scared to put "Ice Cream" on his 2020 list out of fear of being dogpiled by the Blackpink stans, only for the stans to come out and say "Nah, you're right, this song isn't good."
as an old bts fan, i agree that jimin's song is not very good at all
Based on what I have seen, the reception to the song in the fandom is kinda mixed.
As someone who used to be a huge BTS fan (nothing bad happened, the group got less active and I moved on), this is just evidence that BTS worked so well as a group because the different members had different talents. The rappers were the heart and soul of their output, and it shows in their solo work as well. Meanwhile, members like Jimin and Jungkook were considered to be the most talented singers, dancers, and the most conventionally attractive of the group, so their specialty was performance. It’s no big deal if you take dancing away from the rappers, that wasn’t their main focus anyway; but take away songwriting from the performers, and it shows.
I wouldn't trust kpop circles when it comes to BTS since they have always been ostracized, their good songs get basically the same reaction and level of hate
Idk about kpop circles in general, but as an army, I agree. And with what that other comment said too. I can't wait until they can all perform together again
Katy Perry's 'Woman's World' and Meghan Trainor's 'Mother' were both songs that were so unbelievably terrible that before I had finished my first listen, I was already looking forward to their inevitable appearance on the worst list, only for them to not even qualify as a 'hit' enough to make it.
Nah. Mother was funny. Woman’s World just sucked.
literally forgot mother came out this year 💀
@@Elmo9001 thank goodness Lady GaGa’s Disease is a really solid track then!
mother was from last year anyway
Does anyone else get “Fight Song” vibes from “Woman’s World”?
8:35 even in a year where maroon 5 didn't release any music, they still make it somewhere on the worst list, god bless you Todd
"We get to see that, if mgk gets any more face tattoos, it officially counts as blackface."
Todd, you *CAN'T* just throw a line like that out with no preparation. I almost had a heart attack.
That line was glorious. I'm considering stealing it.
That was the LOL moment of the video for me. Incredible line.
"Lonely Road" sounds like someone who forgot the words at karaoke
Why is this so spot on 😂
Yeah the “hooks” I didn’t enjoy.. but i still enjoyed it because the beat and there voices are pretty good.. nothing offensive
💯🤣
It's like a less well made 'Red roses too.mp4'
"What would Ben do"? Sell houses to Aquaman, obviously.
14:15 Selfish is a worse version of Jealous by Nick Jonas. It worked for Nick because he was like 21 and dating around. JT is MARRIED with TWO children. It doesn’t hit that way.
Selfish also gave me REALLY serious Maroon 5 deja vu when I heard it and I hope I'm not the only one.
A sure fire way to ensure it will definitely end up in the worst list (see also "Saloon 5").
Not to mention: he may or may not be known for cheating on her.
What's your right to be possessive, man?
That's the song it immediately reminded me of LOL
to be fair, i never liked jealous either
Nick also had a song called "Selfish" I know because they played it at my work and I wanted to know if it was Justin's but if wasn't
This is probably the first year I've anticipated the Best list more than the Worst list
2 Sabrinas
1or 2 Chapeli Roan
2 Random Country
1 Kendrick
+ Random hits.
Looool me too
@@lucasgflushHKendrick deserves more than one, or at least an extra honorable mention; that Gnx album is just pure hunger.
@@lucasgflushH I bet there will be 1 Charli, probably not apple though (maybe sympathy is a knife or girl so confusing sometimes)
@@MsDarkAcademygirl so confusing because I remember him tweeting about it being eligible for the list or something like that
Usually the white people who denigrate black culture and the white people who appropriate it are different people. Ben Shapiro is one of the very few people who has done both, and I think that's genuinely impressive
Oh no, it's very often the same exact people. Trust me.
Nah... there's more crossover than you think. My friend circle from high school was half-filled with culture vultures like that (the wonders of being a weirdo misfit), and I'd say at LEAST 3/4ths of them have gone on to become MAGA shitheads.
I’ve noticed with these particular culture vultures they start out as envious of Black culture and their attitudes usually end up outright hateful (often as a result of being called out).
Doing both is more common than you think I feel like
Todd might as well have titled this "The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2024 (ft. Jelly Roll)"
Yep that's how I saw it!
It's the best thing Jelly Roll has featured on, except for that one time with little debbie. That was fire.
Jelly Roll is... frustrating
@@ashen_roses Alright I'm curious. Care to elaborate why Jelly Roll is frustrating? I don't have a strong opinion of the guy so I'm not primed to disagree with you here, it's just frustrating is such a specific word to use to describe a person that I genuinely want to hear your reasons why he's frustrating to you.
@gregvs.theworld451 Jelly Roll has made a few songs I really like, and when he's not doing that he's featuring in almost every bad country song in 2024 and being a bit of an edgelord
"With struggling mental health, I find myself in need of some better help. And when I need better help... I go to Nebula." XD gold
Not the first video he did it on, either.
@@crazyluigi6664 the obvious question is, will he go for the Ruke of Threes, let it run, or will this be the last gag?
If Marshmello wants to become S'more he has to meet Mr. Graham.
Dear Kane Brown im sorry that man is your producer.
marshmello and drake sounds like the formula for the most boring song the human mind can conceive
sorry i thought this was about lukas graham for a minute
@thatoneguy9582 Nah, we talkin' Aubrey.
Lukas Graham?
"I review a song based on how much comedy material I can wring out of it, but I put a song on the [worst] list because I never want to hear it again."
Todd said this in his Worst of 2011 video, and I think it's important to remember this, as he didn't review very many of this year's songs.
Yeah I was thinking that same thing when this video popped up and realize i could only think of three review videos of current pop songs he did this year, and two of them were about the Kendrick vs Drake beef.
Edit: so i just double checked and it turns out I was right on the money, because there WERE only three pop song reviews this year. Everything else was either “Trainwreckords” or “One Hit Wonders”
Unfortunately, the unintended consequence he ends up hearing it more after that.
I mean yeah but also there could be other explanations for the lack of reviews.
I kinda wish he would play with positive reviews more. I have complete faith that he can be funny without being miserable. That said, he can do what he wants.
@@la_arana_discotecaSome of my favorites from him are his more positive reviews and his yearly best of lists. Wish he’d do it more also!
I have never heard Todd laugh so hard as he did at Drake. That completely caught me off guard but also brought a smile to my face.
it was unhinged and i enjoyed it very much lol
that wasn't a real laugh
@@johndutkiewicz9401WHAT??????? UR TELLING ME THESE VIDEOS ARENT OFF THE CUFF?? THE VIDEOS WHERE TODDS SCRIPT IS VISIBLE ON HIS MUSIC STAND IN EVERY VIDEO???????
@@fauxrowsdower7610 nah but like some of these people actually believe there's actual emotion in some of these
@@johndutkiewicz9401oh I can assure you his exasperation is often real
As someone who really loves cars, I'm deeply disappointed in all the suggestive car songs this year. It's like somehow they couldn't even make cars OR banging interesting. What a shame.
Yeah, I feel like decent car-afficianado tracks fell off when Cake stopped putting out music.
@@aquila121 I mean, there's Billy Strings "Leadfoot" that scratches the itch. And hey, Qootsa still makes music.
17:09 congratulations Fallout 76, you’re no longer the worst thing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" has ever been a part of.
I was recently out of restaurant when this video came up and it was just me in the waiter as the other side of the restaurant was not busy and we watched it together just had to troll it it was absolutely terrible.
At least Fallout 76 got better over time.
At least Fallout 76 used a decent cover
@@WormyJester8 Yeah. Say what you will about the game, but that cover was excellent.
There's the second Kingsman movie as well
Loving the 10+ year-long commitment of using fonts and typefaces on the Best/Worst Lists that were relevant in the world of music that year. Bumpin that 💅💅
Who the f*ck are you? I’m a brat when I’m bumpin’ that
365 yeah I’m bumpin that
I was today years old when I found out Ben Shapiro attempted to rap. God, I’m glad I didn’t have the energy to keep up with the zeitgeist in the slightest this year.
The fact that Ben “Wet Ass P-Word” Shapiro made a rap song while also stating at one point in his career that rap music isn’t real music is just showing his entire business model to me in one simple moment.
Edit: Y’all keep saying “but he was joking!” If that is true, it wasn’t funny. Like at all.
Very true.
Shows he knows how to reach people and make money.
Peak "rules for thee, not for me" energy
A gamer can play Candy Crush to kill time without thinking it's a "real game". An anime fan can watch Naruto and think of it more as a "kid's show than true anime". There's nothing hypocritical about Ben making a joke rap song, despite not liking rap. There are many things to criticize the Daily Wire on, and this is not one of them.
not trying to defend him at all, but did you ever consider he was just taking the piss?
When that god awful Kanye song started playing, my dog looked at me, got up, and left the room (which he never does when we have our evening cuddle time). When a fucking French Bulldog can’t stand your music, it’s bad.
😂😂😂
Comment of the week!
I just cackled
If that's not a damning indictment, I don't know what is.
Big Boi of Outkast collects Frenchies, so it’s safe to say that they are drawn to good music and repelled by bad music
In addition to being a lazy interpolation of Drift Away, Chevrolet is also a lazy country remake of Teenage Dirtbag.
It reminded me of Teenage Dirtbag too. Teenage Dirtbag did it better though.
Huh, now I guess I'm never gonna unhear THAT connection. Thankfully Chevrolet will never stick it's such a nothing burger.
Country music in its David Guetta era
Look on the bright side: At least they are over Bro-Country...sort of...
I hate how on the nose that is
It's gonna be another rough ten years.
Shoutout to his family!
Remember Avicii? He's not back (RIP), and there are 10 people using his schtick
30:16 Wearing a hoodie that says, "I don't care if I offend you" is something a teenager who is trying to be edgy would wear.
"You might offend me if I thought about you."
Not even a teenager like someone in middle school
It annoys me that it annoys me, because I know that's the point, but, I mean - what a blatant lie. If you didn't care, you wouldn't need to tell me.
@@prometheustv6558I really wish that were true, at least one of my 30-40 something coworkers wears a deadpool shirt thats says something like "sorry i offended you, but i dont care"
yet the guy who made this video is offended by what he said...
8:30 ... Overproduced. That's the word I would use. And because it is overproduced, it comes off as soulless.
From rap to pop punk to country.
MGK reminds me of someone who constantly restarts their game to try out different story paths and alternate endings.
Don’t call me out like that
Hey at least chronic new game players don't make it everyone else's problem.
Reminds me of Kid Rock's transition from rap to nu metal to country. When is MGK gonna start his political career now?
He makes me think if Tinmothee Chalamet decided to cosplay as K-Fed instead of being a respected actor.
He's like the modern day Beck if Beck was bad at making music
Time for my once yearly interaction with pop music
Same here. I lost track of pop music after 2012 or so.
amen brother
That about sums up my interaction with pop...outside of going to Target, of course.
Your don't watch the best list?
About the same for me. I dont know what happened, but it's so awful. @ashkitt7719
I had been thinking, "What could possibly be worse than Ben Shapiro's rap song," and then he played the Kanye song, and I was like, yeah. This is worse.
Cannot wait to see the Drake percentage on this list.
Edit: DAMMIT
Edit 2: Thank you Mr. in the shadows
Me and you, bud 😩🤣🤣🤣
Spoiler:
The Heart Part 6 is a dishonorable mention.
Drake had hits this year?
cornball
@@nondescriptcat5620He did before the beef, yes.
I remember Todd's term about the "I'm Back B*tch" single, the one that's not really about anything other than to show how great or awesome the artist in question is. And with that, I don't think I've seen an "I'm Back B*tch" single flop harder than Woman's World by Katy Perry.
You need to still be a huge star to attempt an I'm Back Bitch single. Katy's last chance to make one of those was with Witness.
She should have taken the hint when "Smile" didn't do that well. Also, she's 40 years old now - the retirement age of pop stars. Ask Justin Timberlake.
You can't really have your super feminist single if Dr fucking Luke is credited as a producer.
"Women's World" was not an "I'm back, bitch" single. It was a "Can I please come back, sir?" single.
Making a song about female empowerment then working with a rapist to make it will do that. Also even aside from that the song blows lmao
Personally, i like the reading of that marshmello song that there's a second guy just desperately trying not think about what's happening 3 feet behind him
Damn….Jelly Roll is SPEEDRUNNING becoming Todd’s new Adam Levine
let's settle for speed-ambling.
Someone had to fill the Maroon 5 void
Nah, more David Guetta. Just the guy that ALWAYS shows up. Todd doesn't seem to have an issue with Jelly Roll's songs on their own. Hell even the verses Jelly spits. It's just, dudes EVERYWHERE
Someone's gotta be since nobody gives a fuck about Maroon 5 anymore.
@@TheEvilCheesecakespeed stumbling while gasping for oxygen
The year is never officially over until Todd releases his worst songs list
I can't help but notice that much of this stuff hasn't been making it across the atlantic. Usually, Todd's list of America's worst will still infect British radio, but not this year. The nu-country stuff seems to be the only exception.
fascinating that country chart garbage gets radio play in Britain. as a brazilian I'm super thankful I only get to know this stuff through Todd videos making fun of them.
as a certified brit what the hell do people here see in country. its like the most american genre to ever america why is it like half the radio
Todd releasing this so early. Mad
Personally, I think it's good to sue record labels and Spotify for PayPal related offenses. Probably the least cringe thing drake has ever done.
Usually January right?
**Insert ejaculation joke here**
@@anxofmyown late january at that
@@panelsofDOOM personally i think ur a bum
Numbers one and two on this list being hits were a sobering realization for me. The fact that those songs were driven to success is reflective of what a powerfully motivating force spite is as an emotion.
Sad upvote. These are truly dark times.
We're just getting started. Save what emotional energy you have, because we are going to be so sorely tested and drained
Case in point, 2016 and 2024's elections...
@@bthsr7113 I already burned through those reserves during the first Trump administration... I have no more emotional energy anymore.
Now the image of Lil Dicky wearing a cowboy hat is going to be stuck on my head. Thanks Todd
22:22 “If marshmallow crashes and the truck blows up, do we rename him s’more?” 😭 😂
Are Marshmello AND Kane Brown in the truck when that happens too? Scandalous.
top ten in the shadows
1. Todd
2. The Hat Man
3. The Hat Man (Todd's Version)
Which is higher: Todd or What We Do?
Todd is goated in the shadows. I don't think anyone's gonna top it.
@@Nonesuch03I don’t know I think the likes of Jackie Daytona could give him a run for his money.
Todd laughing his ass off over Drake cowardly suing Spotify over Not like Us was my exact reaction too lol, great to see we can all relish in the insecurity of this big goofball
I really wish someone would point out the obvious lyrical contradiction in "Facts"
At the start of the Chorus he says "I don't care if I offend you"
and at the end of the chorus he says "I hope that I offend you"
So which one is it Tom? Do you care or not?
People like that are never consistent; they just want attention.
No one pointed it out because no one cares, this song doesn’t deserve even this level of analysis
@ see thats fair. Maybe im just analytical but I picked it up on first listen. And that was first and only listen
jimin is a good singer, but it seems like he and his producers are incapable of giving him music that actually suits his voice. he's not a belter, but they want to act like he is and it's just grating.
this this this this this
it sometimes feels like its been the case for a while
Jimin's voice was best suited for when they delegated him to songs that required of him of what I can only call a "coquette-ish whisper". Boy is his voice cotton candy; saturate it to the extent of Who and it's too much. The mixing was actually horrid. Compare it to his earlier projects like Serendipity and you can hear the palpable difference.
@ 100000% agree they just can’t seem to find the right direction for him. I understand that he may want to try different stuff but his team needs to focus on his strengths
@@chuuchuutrain444 100% serendipity is beautiful and suits him perfectly, they need to go back to that
Knowing very little about him, it seems to me he'd do well to go a little more quiet but deliberate. Like not even necessarily slower but... Idk more of a soft kinda edge to it, if that makes sense?
That UFC fight at 5:15 was covered by a hilarious writer.
"Normally when you hit The Running Man, it shows their crew is through and you're to legit to quit. In this case, it was used to show UFC judges that your opponent is a giant fucking pussy. But since the only people normally trained to fight people running away from them are cops and rapists, he didn't have much choice."
What fight was that anyways? I wanna look it up.
Hmmm I can't remember reading this specifically but it smells a lot like Seanbaby.
@@anonymousperson898 It is definitely a Seanbaby paragraph but I have no idea which of his MMA articles it was.
watching todd spend years growing into a man that can openly show disdain for k-pop is inspiring. he's like a modern epic hero
Pretty sure there was a bit of the Golden Bough dedicated to this.
Only children are afraid of insulting kpop, because only children make threats to people who insult kpop.
The fact that most of these songs were just boring, lame nothingburgers really shows just how lucrative this year was. It's truly insane how saturated this year was that it pushed out most of the really bad ones
Americans when they don't like something: imagine if a burger had nothing in it
It finally happened. I’ve officially never heard a single song on this list. Only took, what, thirteen years?
LOL, Tom McDonald saying "I don't care if I offend you" - Yes you do. Trying to offend me is your entire personality. You can't feel validated unless you think you're "triggering" me.
I always wonder how even his fans don't get sick of him doing the exact same thing all the time. Like I know they're probably not the sharpest tools in the shed but still???
never forget that he tried to copystrike a youtuber twice for negatively reviewing his albums. not so “free speech” of him…
@@koelkastridder3388I mean kinda answered your own question there mate. I genuinely think people have difficulty internalising that, to be blunt, idiots are idiots. *You* would get tired of this real quick. But the kind of people he's grifting wouldn't.
I've only met one person irl who likes that chode, and unsurprisingly he was my old workplace's "that guy." He would rant about QAnon shit unprompted at anyone in earshot every single shift and got banned from the local auto shop for starting a fight with the employees.
wait u clocked
For what it's worth, Jelly Roll does seem like a genuinely good person. I've seen videos of him interacting with fans, I've seen him talk to congress about the fentanyl crisis, I'm glad he's successful. But good god does he need to learn when to say no!
Jelly Roll is just like Snoop Dogg. They both seem like genuine people, they both seem like the type of person I would like to share a bowl or have a drink with. But man they are mercenaries that’ll collab with or advertise literally anything if the price is right.
I was just about say that he was the Snoop Dogg of country!
@@jathbr4113 Considering how many songs Jelly Roll has about struggling with substance abuse, while I don't know how true to his life those songs are I'd probably be inclined not to want to do drugs or drink with him, but he does seem like a solid dude. I'd probably be down to hang out with him doing something non drug related.
@@gregvs.theworld451 Drinks don't gotta be alcoholic. You can go out for milkshakes or coffee or something. Point is the conversation anyway
I remember a quote I heard from Tiffany Haddish when she was at her peak overexposure endorsing and appearing EVERYWHERE. She said she worked so hard to finally break through and become a success, that when she finally did, she seemed almost afraid to say no to anything she was offered because she was afraid of the day when the offers stopped coming.
I could see Jelly Roll in a similar situation. He doesn't know when the gravy train is gonna stop, so he's just gonna ride it until the wheels fall off.
The way pop country music has been using trap beats and other hip hop influences for years then turns around and disrespects Beyonce 😭
Because it's ok for them to rip off them, but they can't turn around and do the same.
Which is also insane because she’s made country as far back as D.C. (Sail On cover), had other country adjacent tracks covered by acts (Irreplaceable with Sugarland, If I Were a Boy with Reba)
I've been a BTS fan for nearly a decade and I HATE 90% of their production post-world-fame. Every song has to be passed through 30 hands and smoothed into almost nothing. And the vocal processing SUCKS. They can sing!!! The autotune and doubling ruins their color and they sound like?? Idk. Robots. Synths. They need to just go back to their in-house team at BigHit and let Jimin release another Lie.
Omg yeah. I feel like my ears are wearing dirty glasses when I listen to their most recent albums. And they can sing, it's just the production that's bad
THIS!!!
HARD AGREE. the hyyh series was sooooo fucking beautifully produced, especially pt. 2 🤧 the way they produce their albums now is like extremely corporate sounding....idk how to describe it....everything is so flat/empty (instrumentally, not necessarily emotionally lol)
agreeee their new music makes me sad because of all the production stuff going on in it and whatnot. Could have been goooodd ):
I am the same case, their solo stuff especially sounds way too polished and soulless. I feel like only the rap line have put out something original and interesting (their stuff didn't trend in the USA as far as I know, I guess that explains why it was "allowed" to be original)
12:57 reminds me of that one Bo Burnham country song parody, where the girl keeps ending up being a scarecrow 😂
Naw man you don’t get it, she’s just a good girl, in a straw hat, with her arms out in a cornfield!
And the There I Ruined It parody of bro country
I was thinking of repeat stuff when he was talking about Who
@@sethh5106 oh no! You’re right 😆
@fortyfive-the-forve got a beer in my beer and a chevy in my truck
I don't think any of these songs entered the UK year-end top 100 and as a Brit, I couldn't be more grateful. You guys got some hot garbage charting over there.
For real thank god we don’t listen to country
You're telling me Facts wasn't just a Ben Shapiro AI meme that got viral, and is instead an actual attempt at music (or at least music-derived clout and money) from the man himself? I don't know how to feel right now...
Agreed. I'm genuinely having a hard time believing Ben appeared on that track in the flesh.
@@CityofButterfly The only time where using AI would be LESS embarrassing JFC.
Idk there's a chance his verse might have been AI
I wouldn’t call it an actual attempt. That being said, it would have been way funnier if he avoided any political references and just delivered a normal verse
“Salting the earth so that sexy may never grow again” made me laugh hard.
Todd, you nearly gave me a stroke with that sponsorship intro 38:22
I normally like K-pop, the vocal production on that Jimin song sounds like my class's first attempt at pitch-correction. Literal first semester music production stuff.
No but for real. I like K-Pop but when he started singing I started laughing my head off at how bad the mixing of his voice is.
Srsly, I don't know what they're doing to him, but it ain't good.
It reminds me so much of a pastiche of early 2000s Max Martin bubblegum pop. Like, it sounds like a fictional song they would make up for a parody boy band in a work of fiction, like Du Jour from Josie and the Pussycats or Party Posse from The Simpsons (Yvan Eht Nioj...)
I love Jimin but I guess I agree, the song should be re done and stripped down, maybe acoustic and have his normal voice
like whatre they doing to my man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marshmello took a $9mill in taxpayer money during the pandemic. A grant from a fund that was supposed to help keep small venues open during the worst of it. I've never heard any of his music before, but I officially hate him anyway.
Marshmallo couldn’t be more generic if he (his team) tried.
@@HiGlowie Literally thought he was 'over' after EDM stopped charting in like 2013 or at the very least deffo after the Fortnite thing. Goes to show I'm even more out of touch with pop culture than I thought. But I guess some guys are just in business to make car commercial music 🤷🤷
@@nnhhkk867 Marshmello for years was the only EDM representation on the charts. And this year he kind of was too lol.
@@nnhhkk867 i have such conflicting feelings about happier by him and bastille bc the lyrics are amazing and dan smith (the singer) has an amazing voice but god the fucking beat drop makes it unbearable
@@nnhhkk867If EDM doesn't chart anymore then why do most retail establishments in the midwest including the casino I currently work for insist upon playing it? Even EDM covers of 80s hits from 2020 that never charted?
I love listening to Todd rip apart songs I've never heard before
As someone born and raised in Tennessee, I will never get tired of Todd absolutely ripping modern country music apart. People used to actually respect it. But these days, country has literally become the laughingstock of the music industry, now more than ever.
Yes, I know there's still some really good country music there if you search deep enough....but holy shit, the bad ALWAYS outweighs the good.
Idk how it’s gotten so popular on the pop charts
Country music has become a fallback plan.
Country died with Hank III’s last good album in 2010
"good country" and "music that gets played on Nashville radio" is basically mutually exclusive aside from like Chris Stapleton
@@prometheustv6558 because it panders to their target crowd like those shitty Christian movies. Quality is a nice bonus but absolutely not required and usually accidental.
I cannot understate the dawning sheer horror I experienced when, upon hearing the last word of Chevrolet's hook, I realized what it was sampling.
I hadn't heard it before this list and share your horror. I love "Drift Away"!
I grew up with a damn McDonald’s Kids Bop cd that had the original song, so I just knew something was up.
@@larrymantic2635 Did that change the lyrics to be "All hail Lord Ronald"? Either way, I doubt it could be AS MUCH as a soul less cash grab reworking as "Chevrolet". "In my Merry Oldsmobile" has more automotive relevance then "Chevrolet" will ever have, and Oldsmobile is DEAD.
I love when a lot of songs I didn’t even knew existed are on these lists and songs I was aware of are on the Honorable Mentions… reminds me there’s a whole world of bad music out there that I’m happy I missed out on
11:54 Since when did country songs turn into Buzzfeed listicles (in three minute song form) about shit country boys like? It's made most of the genre unlistenable, and that includes the female singers, too.
Do female country singers even exist these days?
@@Lyendith They exist, but you'll never see them anywhere near the charts. To make it big in country you've always needed to play by Nashville's rules and the current rule in Nashville is (ft. Jelly Roll).
@@Lyendith I mean Lainey Wilson is pretty big right now...
Since... 2013??
@@lol88133there are a few women prominent in country but naming one answer like it solves misogyny won't work
HOLY FUCK MARSHMELLO IS STILL ALIVE?!??! WHAT
As far as we know, anyway. It could be anyone under that mask.
I thought he was happy making cooking tiktoks 😞
@@jbwarner8626"No luck catching them Marshmellos then?" "It's just the one, actually."
Dude, same reaction. What the hell??
I completely forgot he existed.
J Cole drops his' diss' track
Kendrick Lamar, turns towards him, eyes glowing
JC: "...i'd like retract my previous remark, delete it, apologize and then never cross you again."
KL: "...you know what, I'll let you just because I didn't have to ask you."
JC: "Thanks man, sorry man."
The Machine Gun Kelly blackface line is one of your best jokes, holy shit.
the bts situation is sooo interesting to me cause they’re like the only kpop group that had less creative input as they became more successful. like those guys were really involved in their music and visuals and narrative in their early days and now half the group is just releasing generic shlock
I dont think thats the case. The people that had the most input still have the most input in their solowork (rm and suga (j-hope probably 3.)). The singers always had less input it feels like
Their singers were never all that involved. Their rappers were and you can see the difference in quality of music when you check out their rappers' music and the singers'. RM's latest album was considered in critical year end lists from what I can see. And hearing the album too, I can say that this is the member who has the main songwriting talent. j-hope is also a risk taker. Also if you check out BTS's song credits old or new you will see only RM consistently had creative inputs.
@@aprilsowerhonestly you’re right i guess the rapline really carried the narrative that the group was self producing. hopefully the vocalists start to find more distinct sounds for themselves as they continue their careers. i’d love to see less of a focus on the western charts from all of them tbh
God your so right
I mean I can kinda see your perspective but also knowing more of the behind the scenes it’s not really completely right. For the rappers, they’ve been very very very much involved in their work and all have been so creative both sound wise and text wise. They’re also the ones who have been mainly involved in their writing throughout their career. For the singers, they’re really trying to find different sounds and vibes to see what they like as their hiatus was a part of them trying to find themselves apart from the group to be able to contribute to it more when they get back and busy. And two of the singers are dancers at heart especially and specifically one of them has had an open priority of just feel-y music you can just vibe to and specifically dance to, and another singer focused a lot on sound and vibes and had an amazing time in the project planning and music directing. Plus, they’ve also released a little more private stuff outside of their official albums which they’ve been very involved with. Idk, they’re kinda just chilling and finding stuff out. I get they’re professional musicians and public figures, but they’re also just some young guys trying to find their passion and taste in art again as well.
But I really do see your perspective and why it would come across as that whether true or not. I’m not here to deny your own input! :]
I have never in my life seen someone wear a hoodie wrong and I did not think it was possible, but god bless Ben somehow managed to pull it off
When I see the notification, I drop everything
Was watching another Todd video, and paused it to watch this one. I may have a problem...
It's a TitS video, so yeah. Drop em when you got em!
@ you’re so real for that
9:53 lol rip from a 37 year old army. A lot of us are already old sbtw. Anyway, I didn’t love that Jimin track as much as others did actually and agree with a lot of your points. His naturally unique voice was not served well by the production but yes even without that his voice doesn’t suit everyone conventionally. Would be interested to hear what you thought of Jin’s new solo work. Some of it has an early 2000s pop feel I like but on running wild one of the singles I don’t think they used his high register to best effect.
Took the words outta my mouth :]
Fellow army here(22 but there are a ton of armys who are older than my generation) and I agree. I def listened to it and sang along, but I'd be lying if I said I thought it was as good as his last title track
I enjoy country music, but the last six months at least I spent begging at work, on days we play country just trying to get them to switch to the 90's country station for a while. The top 40 this year had enough bad to make listening to the normal rotation almost unbearable.
One song was just a bad sing-over of a classic, getting lost in a Chevrolet replacing the profound feeling of the joy that music gives us, Nope, get that sacred tune out of your garbage song.
Ah, I see that made the list, thank you.
Outside of work, I only listen to new music that I actually like. If it weren't for the way the radio picks like 30 songs and just repeats them every day for months at a time, the sucky ones wouldn't be so bad, but it does, and they are.
Just a little insight from someone who lives in Korea: the songs that chart here are totally different from the ones that chart overseas. For the most part.
For context, Charlie Puth is the biggest superstar alive over here so take that for what it is.
Anyway, Who was successful in a technical sense, but the general public cared a lot more about the Rosé/Bruno Mars collab, and kpop bands (as in with actual instruments n stuff) had the biggest year ever.
My point being, you are not alone in your feelings about Who by Jimin. It didn’t catch on in its own country either.
So Korea has a "big in Japan" thing, except it's America?
@@GamesFromSpace I got the moon, I got the cheese
I got the whole damn nation on their knees -- Tom Waits, Big In Japan
Seeing how Who is still charting in top 50 Apple Music/Spotify, safe to say the army is way too obsessed with their overall success with the botted streams, but at least girl groups such as LE SSERAFIM/NewJeans had some relative success in the U.S atleast in the streaming area.
I live in India. Justin Bieber, One Direction and Charlie Puth are massive here too. I think the problem is that some of the most milquetoast western artists become huge in Asia and then become an inspiration for singers like BTS. To them Charlie Puth is an ideal popstar and that's the kind of success they seem to be chasing which is disappointing because it just proves that they are severely out of touch.
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6:45 Re: Jimin/Who. I'm a BTS fan (aka ARMY). I pretty much agree with most of what you said here. I was disappointed in the overproduction and compression on Jimin’s voice. It didn't support the storytelling the same way that the effects on Like Crazy or Set Me Free did, both of which I loved.
It was a great mindless summer bop though! The dance is the focal point and went viral in our community.
The Jungkook Golden album (English, pop) or RMs amazing RPWP (Korean, rap) played more to the strengths of the respective members. I'm hopeful for some nice acoustic or rearrangement version of Who in their 2026 tour!
Many ARMY understand that not every song is a hit for every listener, even ourselves. How blessed to love a band that is a collective of 7 distinct solo voices but can make great group music as well!
I very much agree, especially abt the compression on Jimin's voice (it makes the song sound so artificial). I personally do really like the song (as you said, great mindless summer bop) so I'm just really looking forward to the live version
I'm just happy he talked about it
yep I used to be a huge BTS fan in 2015/2016 and haven't kept up with them since then outside of occasional curiosity of what their new music sounds like, but I noticed that their voices started having these really strange effects/compression on English releases, but they can obviously sing so I'm not sure why?
@@clarissa1811 Probably to hide the accent.
@@clarissa1811I think it has something to do with digitally editing their pronunciation when they sing in English because I’ve noticed the same thing!! I really strongly believe it has something to do with that
I would consider myself ARMY (admittedly I'm too old to be rabid over people criticizing their music as long as they aren't being dicks about it), and Jimin's single is completely ruined by the autotune in my opinion. I maintain it could have been good, but I'm with you when you say the end results is gratting. From all the BTS solos, I would only really recommend RM even though it was probably the less successfull because the less "poppy".
"Facts" by Tommy & Benny Boy has one of the funniest lines of the year in it: "All my people download this, let's get a Billboard Number One."
The song debuted at #16 and then immediately cratered.
everyone, say “thank you megan”
well at least he got a number 1
I wish Todd treated Facts the same way you did.
Talking Tom And Ben News has officially hit their career low, at this point.
The best part was when his "You Missed" song was blocked from the Hot 100 because of his idol Eminem's album bomb that week.
thick of it sweep incoming
FROM THE SCREEN TO THE RING TO THE PEN TO THE KING.
Genuinely surprised he didn't even mention it. Imagine if it's on the best list
@@sofastuffing Ineligible.
Perhaps everyone realized “wait, this is straight obsidian.” And just threw it out
It's interesting that the way we experience music these days is so much diverse that I don't even know more than half of these people.
2024 was such a loaded year, 2024 is gonna be the 2016 for gen alpha kids
Exactly. 2024 will be remembered VERY fondly among Gen Alpha.
Shows how old I am because 2016 was considered the first "bad" year for my generation with Trump winning the election, the Orlando shooting, terrorist attacks on Europe, the craziness with Syria, North Korea panic, and in weirder news, the death of Harambe and all that clown weirdness.
I’ve been trying to express this exact sentiment to people. The influence we will see from Charli XCX, Doechii, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick, Tyler, Schoolboy Q, list goes on.
@@mickeyveach3612yeah as peak GZ 2016 is probably the worst year of my life, neck and neck with 2021
Pop music SUCKED in 2016, at least the Year End Hot 100. You just look at some of the hits that year, and they are some of the absolute worst the decade has to offer. The real good of 2016 was the stuff that wasn’t on the charts.
my favorite todd bit is when he talks about how he's afraid of people getting on his ass for something (whether it be discussing queer topics or shittalking kpop), and then you look at the comments and all of the people he was afraid were gonna maul him are just going "yeah no he's right lol"
The truly unhinged "fans" are still on twitter, the mood might be worse there.
CARNIVAL is worse than Try That In A Small Town, I will not be taking any questions.
I love when Todd interacts with his transition music, it’s like breaking the fourth wall
The abcdefu year when he said "I didn't tell you to stop" was hilarious
I think that Kane Brown is actually doing a reverse euphemism. He actually wants to literally take a long drive in his pickup, and he's using the metaphor of f'ing in the truckbed to express it!
Thank you for making the song much easier to listen to
Says that Jellyroll is overexposed yet plays Jellyroll between every listed song.
12:20 Honestly one of the most annoying things about country music in the past 18 years if not since the heyday in the 90s, has been that every country song has to mention whiskey. Every one. Just say 🎵whisksaaaaay!!🎵 and the crowd forgets everything else you have said or you will say in the song or the rest of the set because "YEEEEEEEEE HEWWW WHISKAY! BEER! WOOOOOO!!"
Bet there's some talented singer songwriter out there who lost a promising career in country music because they drink rum and colas or something. Maybe a root beer during a football game.
@devlinburgess2463 🎵Well, I'm sittin' on mah front porch sippin' pino grigio, waitin' for some better days... And mah uncle brought some shochu, cognac amaretto but I wanted that cabernet🎵 that took me 4 minutes and a Google search
Honestly now I want a country singer to write/sing a parody country song a la Weird Al's truck driving song where it starts with the singer singing about the stereotypical manly country alcohol classics like beer and whiskey, but as the song goes on it describes the singer drinking increasingly softer and fruitier drinks, but the whole time it's sung with 100% seriousness and that bro country twang like "Hell yeah I'm drinking a sex on the beach like a REAL COUNTRY MAN!!!"
@HandlebarOrionX Okay, maybe that came off as a little more judgemental than I intended. Sorry.🫣
It's kind of like how rappers try to establish street cred by talking about how tough they are but with country music singers they do by telling everyone their alcoholics (and they drive a truck because cars and minivans are for wimps I guess).
I used to work with a dude who wore Tom McDonald merch unironically. Just avoided that dude like the plague.
I mean I can't imagine wearing Truppfuhrer Tom Macdonaldetrich merch _ironically_ either.
just realized The Darkness could make the best hit songs of the year list this year... with the same song that was a hit 20 years ago, but still, i hope todd at least adresses it happening
You almost had me @38:32 ngl.
i gasped audibly
He really faked us out with that
Interesting fact: Ben Shapiro's cousin happens to be Mara Wilson. Yep, THAT Mara Wilson. To give an idea on what it's like for these two cousins: one has made several happy childhood memories through her roles in movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda, and is currently a respected writer. The other one WISHES the low point in his career would've been starring in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, instead of rapping on a song with Tom f*cking MacDonald.
For the record: Mara does not support, nor even get along with Ben.
Mara also did guest narration on Chuck Tingle’s “Pounded…by My Own Podcast” (as did several other cast members of “Welcome to Night Vale”), and she was quite funny in that episode. (Podcast title edited slightly to avoid being dinged by the RUclips censors.)
Because she's human.
You know you have messed up when your own family member won't claim or defend you, SMH.
Imagine a Matilda remake with Ben instead of Mara. It would be the story of a tweedy twerp that talks fast and can't stop talking about how Trunchbull looks like a man and shouldn't be around children.
This is something I'm shocked to only now hear, but perhaps that's best for Mara.
Todd 2024: "Katy Perry has nothing left in the tank. She should never make music again."
Todd 2025: "And now here's Katy Perry at #1 bet hit single of 2025."
Calling it.
I doubt it
Imagine if someone offered you an apple, and you think “y’know I don’t eat them a lot and it’s been a while since I had one, but I really like apples, like the fresh ones from the farmers market” so you decide to take it, and when you bite into it you realize it’s not an apple at all, it’s actually 100% crystallized high-fructose corn syrup spray painted red and molded into the shape of an apple, and the taste is sweet to the point of being nauseating, and you look at the person telling you that this is the same thing as an apple and you have to wonder how it’s possible that they could like this, let alone stomach it
This is what liking country music is like