I love how you can tell how much Todd likes a song by how intensely he plays it. You can tell he loves this song because he goes hard as hell on the piano at the start.
Martha Wash really made this song. Her voice was a mix of power, agility and stamina. She is one of the most underrated vocalists in the game who has been praised by everyone from Elton John to Whitney Houston. Her dance music of the 90s in particular her debut solo album is still killer and deserves far more acknowledgement.
I work for a nonprofit for seniors, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that older single black ladies LOVE this song, and it gets requested often at birthday parties, and the like.
I'm gonna be 100% honest here, I ADORE THIS SONG! It's just so silly and so much fun! How can you listen to this song and not be happy? It's pretty much impossible!
Fun fact: the lead singer of the Village People was in fact a straight man! He knew his audience and was comfortable in his own sexuality. I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only non-gay member of the group either.
I've heard the only 2 members of the Village People who weren't gay with the Cop (who you're referring to) and, hilariously... the Leather Man/Biker. Also "Sex Over The Phone" is the Village People's greatest song, don't @ me.
Hey, a catchy tune is a catchy tune. There are plenty of songs that I like, even though I can't identify with a single lyric, lol. Also, I'm a fan of things ridiculous, or surreal, and this song IS ridiculous.
Instead of repackaging them as Christmas songs, how about re-releasing one-hit wonders as songs for Hanukkah? Like "You Spin Me Round (Like a Dreidel)" by Dead or Alive, or "In-a-Hava-Nagila" by Iron Butterfly. And of course, "It's Raining Menorahs" by the Weather Girls :)
i want this song to be played in a movie about the 101 unit dropping on normadie, right when the parachute soldiers are dropping... that would be glorious
Zoe Mendez I realize that this is an old video but I’m surprised that Todd glossed over Martha Wash’s lawsuits. IIRC she sued Black Box AND C&C Music Factory because they refused to credit her on their hits. She even went on the Arsenio Hall show to prove she was the real singer on those songs. It was a pretty big deal at the time.
Oh man, the MOMENT he said that Martha Wash found success in the dance scene, I immediately heard "everybody dance now!" in my head. I thought she sounded familiar! Also, now I understand why I've always thought that "Everybody Everybody" was by C+C Music Factory.
My old band actually did this song as a jock jam once, and it actually sounded pretty awesome. Im tempted to get us back together for the sole intent of recording it.
Did you do it? When sports exists again, a jock jam of it getting played after a sack in football would be hilarious. Though, honestly, the original would be pretty hilarious played in that situation too.
@@nopenopenopenope4076 Sadly, I can't get in touch with any of them (read: I don't WANT to get in touch with most of them and the one I do want to get it touch with is MIA). Perhaps one day, I'll create a reasonable approximation thereof in GarageBand or something.
I saw Martha on Arsenio Hall and I remember the audience not seeming like they believed she was the voice of C&C Music Factory until she belted out the "Everybody Dance Now" on the couch a capella. I felt like that commercial where I'm being blasted by sound from my TV. (OK, I might have been the one who didn't believe she was the sound of C&C until I saw her; I imagine the audience knew more than me).
I had no idea Martha Wash was THE house voice of the early 90s. Absolutely incredible power, class act through and through. I love finding out how the artists behind one hit wonders just ended up using it as a springboard for amazing things.
There is a "Female Gaze," but it gets confused with being "Easy." Women want to choose their guy and having a big selection is kind of like sexual heaven. That's what the Weather Girls were singing about. You hear "It's Raining Men" at ladies who love ladies nights a lot too because it is really about being able to choose who you are taking home, and not having to settle for your third choice.
...its a song literally written by 2 men. It's a projection of the assumption of how women view the world, but it's in no way shape or form a reflection of the female gaze seeing as how it wasn't written by women. It's a male written song about a promiscuous woman, which is why Donna Summer got offended cause she was tired of being the sex lady. It's literally just an inversion of the male gaze with some women performers slapped on top. I love the song, don't get me wrong. But I connect it a lot more with PRIDE than feminism, other than being performed by some bad ass ladies, it's really not a women's song.
@@ruminationstation4200 - Men have EARS, and they CAN listen to women and use what they hear to influence their writing. Anyway, given how many gay men love "It's Raining Men," there is more than just heterosexuality going on.
@@HSMiyamoto Neither the person who replied to you nor Todd said it was about heterosexuality, more about the way men consume and aspire to sex compared to women (in general, you will find people feeling differently in both camps) which does explain why it would be very popular with gay men. But your argument about just having a selection and this being about choice more than about having a herd of human sex toys sounds valid to me as well. I just think the song sounds good, I never thought much about the lyrics (I mean... I'm asexual so either way the lyrics don't do much for me ^^) but it is very possible a lot of people interpret it the way you do.
@@mayaklast6334 - It's also important to note that "It's Raining Men!" also fits in the long history of gay men hiding their sexual desires by writing from a female perspective. Look at "Mad about the Boy" by Noel Coward, which even says that the boy "has a gay appeal." Here's an excerpt from the lyrics, which Coward wrote to keep his song from being censored under English law of the time. Lord knows I'm not a fool-girl I really shouldn't care Lord knows I'm not a school-girl In the flurry of her first affair Will it ever cloy This odd diversity of misery and joy I'm feeling quite insane and young again And all because I'm mad about the boy
Maybe they did it intentionally, to mimick one of those low budget news stations where the weather person wears green in front of a green screen without thinking?
@@otaking3582 oh... Huh... Yeah honestly there is way to much of that in that video for it not to be.... They even have her wearing blue in front of a blue screen. Great catch it makes it even more fun!
He's just reporting biological statistics which are based on average tendencies. I'm sure he's cognizant of the fact that women are sexual beings too, otherwise we wouldn't exist.
*YTR:* "Here's a video from 4 years ago, for some reason" *Me:* "It's finally no longer blocked in my country?! RUclips Reccomendations, you actually did something right for once!" *YTR:* "Uh... glad to hear that...?"
I remember a male friend sung this at Adam Lavigne levels of pitch and you could tell our teacher wanted to choke him out, hell he even put him in a time out
Instead of praising your friend's vocal pipes, your teacher punished him? Homophobic much? I mean at least just give the kid a warning that the song is maybe inappropriate for school (not because it's synonymous as a gay anthem but it has sexual subject matter). But if he nailed the notes, that deserves a pat on the back.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Sir comparing your notes to Adam Levine is a BAD thing. This ain't about the student being gay, it's about him being obnoxious.
When I played bass for my high school’s show choir combo, this was probably the only song I enjoyed thoroughly. Fun to play, fun to listen to. Also DAMN do they have vocal chords.
Okay so I paused the video when he played a sample of (Dear Santa) Bring Me A Man. Let me just say: This song is a certified BOP. Especially around the middle, during the vocal solos I just sat here in awe. This was fucking AMAZING. Camp at it's peak. I absolutely love this & will now put it in my yearly Christmas playlist next to Last Christmas. I do not think this song was done justice here. This song is absolutely not just a ripoff of It's Raining Men. Maybe in theme, but not in any other way. This song was absolutely amazing.
I wonder if Richard Simmons ever used the Weather Girls version of "Big Girls Don't Cry" in any of his exercise videos. If he didn't, well tragic waste is a strong expression but it IS the one that comes to mind.
nah they ran, won and did some victory laps on top of it. i don't think lizzo has one song that's as iconic or that will have the staying power of it's raining men. juice is already forgotten :/
When Todd was talking about the line "I'm about to get absolutely soaking wet" my mind was going to the sexual connotation of female arousal... but then he never touched on it. BTW, really just commenting to help Todd out against the algorithm.
@Ney Paula , I don't know, it's RUclips's algorithm. Most RUclips channels I follow ask for likes, comments, subscriptions, and clicking that bell to help out in what that algorithm does.
Before watching this video, I knew that Martha Wash was the voice from C+C Music Factory's big hit and that she'd been erased from the video. I did not realize that had happened in other songs, and I also didn't realize she was part of the Weather Girls, and now it's so obvious I don't know how I didn't pick it up immediately.
So because of the ass-backwards way my mind works, I realized the vocals for this fit near-perfectly with the Pokemon theme song. Now I'm trying desperately to find audio of just the vocals for this song so I can make a remix.
Oh my GOD, the Christmas version!! Instant addition to my holiday playlist, it's AMAZING. The observation that men tend to fantasize about women (plural) vs that women tend to fantasize about a man (singular) is really interesting. Like, the idea of multiple male partners is a more common fantasy for women than people think, but it's never been really been a "thing" culturally. I'd never noticed that!
The fact that more than one music video from the early 90's chose to have a thin, younger woman lip sync to Martha Wash's voice was absolutely deplorable. That woman is a national treasure on a level with our greatest soul singers. Had they done something like that to Aretha Franklin or Patti Labelle, those women would have gutted them like a fish.
A few years ago, my school show choir did this song, and some people were invited up on stage from different choirs in order to dance with them, and I wasn't one of them, but I just got so into the music that I had to get up and on the stage and dance too.
As a straight man both are prettt underrated. Most Gaga stuff isn't my cup of tea but she has chops and Joanne is an a masterpiece of a song and she was amazing in a star is a born.
I'm 90% sure this song is the reason I'm practically a faux queen. I adore it. Also, girls dont fantasize about the male gender mainly because we're socialized so differently. We're not taught to "practice" or "experiment" with boys. But, deep down, we can be just as perverted and horny as guys can be. So when a song like this comes out...it's like our animal instinct is suddenly set free. It also helps that it's a really catchy song.
i've found that some particularly odd men can't stand to think of women doing normal human things. it's kinda creepy in-person, but at turns funny and sad thinking back on it. seeing a blokey-bloke type comedian on tv going all ultra sensitive about catching a glimpse of leg shaving, like what seriously that bothers you? "we don't wanna know you have hair" is how he put it. grow up, you baby! or, this guy once told me "women don't fart, they parp" was all i could do not to laugh, but he was deadly serious. had to call it something else just to mentally process it, probably imagined it somehow smelling not as bad too. like holy shit, some of the mental acrobatics just to keep up this weird fiction of us being some kind of other species or something. ridiculous. wouldn't surprize me if guys jumping to the conclusion that women are incapable of overt lust comes from a similar place. like, that'd be too human or something. we're not people, we're porcelain angels, right? magical purity vessels from heaven, innocent and weak. gah! hate it. what a load of old bollocks. anyway, good to get that rant out of my system, lol. annoying is right. who the hell goes around assuming limits to sexuality anyway, like how does that make any sense? there aren't any limits. doesn't matter who it is, you can't tell before you've met them. there's no way. i've probably overstated this a bit. it's not often you see it being talked about.
@@Torthrodhel I know your comment is old but I'm currently bingeing Todd's videos and reading comments, lol. One thing I'd add here though in terms of women and sexuality is that yes, women can be the same as men but we also are the ones who get pregnant. The idea of having a child suddenly can kind of curtail the desire for wanting frequent partners, at least that's why I personally would rather have a "man" than "men", lol. Yes, it takes two to tango, but we all know the stories of guys leaving and maybe paying child support, which is paltry compared to the actual cost of raising a child. So that too can add to why women are brought up differently or may behave differently about sex.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley interesting perspective, one I sadly don't share, given an inability to become pregnant. Guess I'm not so connected sometimes. Explains it a little bit. Of course everyone takes it way too far, because almighty gender roles must be bowed to and all that nonsense. Nevertheless yeah that's a thought I hadn't considered, good point. Being in an open relationship probably makes me a bit different too and sometimes I do forget how infrequently that ends up suiting people. No worries on the year-later response btw, I do that all the time lol. Can't expect people not to in a format like this. It's good to binge. :)
@Peruvian Leftist Fella well yeah a lot of prejudices get very deliberately self-reinforced. People are like that because that's how they get the impression they're supposed to be, while at the same time, them being like that gets assumed "the natural way of things" because "look evidence" by people who don't think too far on it. Which with what everyone has to deal with in this needlessly overcomplicated life, you honestly can't sometimes blame people for.
As a senior in highschool, a friend and I preformed this song as a joke for my school's talent show, complete with backup dancers......We won. lmao Fun note: We changed the lyrics to "I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna let myself get, *super freakin' soaking wet* . Needless to say, it was hilarious.
I think growing up with a lot of House music led to me developing the love for electronic music that I maintain to this day. THANKS, MARTHA! Your booming vocals turned me on to the music of the future.
as a kid in school we got tasked with creating an album cover for classic songs, and 7 y.o me didn't quite realize Its Raining Men wasn't...literal. so my teacher breaking down laughing when i earnestly handed in a a4 sheet of stick men falling from the sky REALLY confused me lmao. now i can't listen to the song the same way
If you are interested in who the big-girl soul duo precursor to The Weather Girls were, you can check out the (also one-hit wonders) The Soul Sisters. Their biggest song was "I Can't Stand It" released on Sue Records in 1964. Many groups covered it because it was so good, such as Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood, Betty Everett & Jerry Butler, Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers, Genya Ravan, and more recently Holly Golightly. - Other excellent songs by the Soul sisters are I Won't Be Your Fool No More (my favorite); Some Soul Food, and a kick-ass version of Loop-De-Loop, also on Sue Records. For the Checker Records label they recorded Just How Much Can One Heart Take? under the name The Kolettes. The Soul Sisters were like Weather Girls, also had a growly low voice/wailing high voice combination going on, and they did it two decades earlier.
9:30 Mind you, this song, in its appeal to a mystical but largely unreligious being to "bring a man" to a singular woman and yet sang in unison by several, reminds me of another classic slightly silly number: Mr.Sandman
In the early 2000s my parents went to a weather girls show. Somehow my father and one of the friends they went with got the opportunity to dance on stage with them. He kept the newspaper article with the photo of him with the weather girls
I knew of the lawsuit and Martha being replaced in the videos thanks to something I saw on VH1. Either I Love The 90’s, Pop Up Video or their top 100 one-hit wonders list.
My first memory of this song was from a VHS copy of Hockey's Greatest Hits, which set a montage of brutal bodychecks to this song. It's far from the only reason why I fuckin love It's Raining Men, but it's definitely a big one.
For decades, I thought it was "it's raining, man!" And "For the first time in history, it's gonna start raining, man" like something out of the bible 😅 Never listened to the rest of the lyrics and today I am somewhat embarrassed to not only dance but even sing loudly to it on parties 😁
The irony of a statement like "Sylvester made the Village People look like Van Halen" is that David Lee Roth was wearing more spandex and almost as much makeup as Sylvester when performing.
ah 'Its Raining Men' the prequel to 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor'
Dan Grant *snatches glasses* dear God...
Plot twist: they're the same song from different viewpoints
i had to check if someone made this joke
Stop this
Delete this
I love how you can tell how much Todd likes a song by how intensely he plays it. You can tell he loves this song because he goes hard as hell on the piano at the start.
That's the only way to play it, raining down on the keys with those manly fingers
Unlike "Sexy And I Know It" where he refused to play!
People can tell so much nowadays...
I've never met anybody that doesn't like this song and honestly I don't want to.
Setto Amiz Monster
Most people hate this shitty song. If you're a man and like it you should be ashamed
@@atapjay3533 k
@@atapjay3533 This guy probably gets aroused when he looks at men and hates himself for it.
@@atapjay3533 And why's that? Fucking homophobe.
Martha Wash really made this song. Her voice was a mix of power, agility and stamina. She is one of the most underrated vocalists in the game who has been praised by everyone from Elton John to Whitney Houston. Her dance music of the 90s in particular her debut solo album is still killer and deserves far more acknowledgement.
She’s definitely one of the most notable voices in house music. Absolute powerhouse. Shame more people don’t remember Strike It Up
Her debut isn’t on vinyl… the anger this causes me knows no end!
This
What a voice, both of them. I dig them. A. Lot.
It’s a little hard to even call her a one hit wonder. I mean she made some monster hits even after this song.
I work for a nonprofit for seniors, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that older single black ladies LOVE this song, and it gets requested often at birthday parties, and the like.
I'm gonna be 100% honest here, I ADORE THIS SONG! It's just so silly and so much fun! How can you listen to this song and not be happy? It's pretty much impossible!
@@atapjay3533 Yes. And?
@@atapjay3533no u
While you mastered the cripple
I mastered the ripple
@@atapjay3533 you're the gay one here and that's OK
I love this song too. It's a funny thirst tune.
Saw her at Oklahoma City Pride a few years ago - she's still super-supportive of the LGBT community, and good on her.
Is she still two tons of fun?
@@danieldaniels7571 You bet your ass she is
"Oklahoma City Pride"?? That sounds interesting 😅
they have to be, they were the backing band of the out disco star Sylvester.
That makes since, she seems sweet. Also, singing with Sylvester, Zora and Martha probably became close friends with him.
Fun fact: the lead singer of the Village People was in fact a straight man! He knew his audience and was comfortable in his own sexuality. I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only non-gay member of the group either.
I've heard the only 2 members of the Village People who weren't gay with the Cop (who you're referring to) and, hilariously... the Leather Man/Biker.
Also "Sex Over The Phone" is the Village People's greatest song, don't @ me.
Stealing gay valor
@@ChuckFarsnah - being an ally so hard, you’re walking in lockstep with your friends
I read somewhere that up to 3 of the Village People were straight.
I don't think anyone can hate this song. I'm a lesbian and I can't help but love this song. The tune is just too great
It's all about those booming vocals and catchy hook!
I don't
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 you don't what?
Hey, a catchy tune is a catchy tune. There are plenty of songs that I like, even though I can't identify with a single lyric, lol. Also, I'm a fan of things ridiculous, or surreal, and this song IS ridiculous.
Yup. I'm a lesbian too, and this and Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! by ABBA are my jams.
Instead of repackaging them as Christmas songs, how about re-releasing one-hit wonders as songs for Hanukkah? Like "You Spin Me Round (Like a Dreidel)" by Dead or Alive, or "In-a-Hava-Nagila" by Iron Butterfly.
And of course, "It's Raining Menorahs" by the Weather Girls :)
+atomicdancer Israeli Men, Hallelujah!
+atomicdancer "(Matzo Ball) Soup Is In The Pot," "Me and Mrs. Schwartz," "Sabbath Time."
+Robogabriel "You're uncircumsizeable"
"Turning Hasidic."
Eve Of Chanukah
Am I the only one who thinks they're both really pretty? Like the singer with the higher pitched voice has like flawless skin holy crap lol
Yeah I kinda agree. Marth Wash is actually really pretty
Yea, I'd rain on their parade
Martha was legit hot
Peruvian Leftist I’m so glad Lizzo hit it big after returning to this video, lol
Totally agree. Martha Wash actually is beautiful.
i want this song to be played in a movie about the 101 unit dropping on normadie, right when the parachute soldiers are dropping... that would be glorious
Someone do a time travel show where the protag goes there and pulls out a damn boombox.
Somehow this sounds appealing.
Someone cut scenes from Band Of Brothers with this.
Shot from the perspective of the French rebels who helped them land.
I thought I was the only one who had the same thought
hold up hold up hold up. She sang in songs where in the video she is replaced by a skinny girl.
The audacity!
Multiple hits of House Music are sung by Martha Wasg and no one knows
Zoe Mendez I realize that this is an old video but I’m surprised that Todd glossed over Martha Wash’s lawsuits. IIRC she sued Black Box AND C&C Music Factory because they refused to credit her on their hits. She even went on the Arsenio Hall show to prove she was the real singer on those songs. It was a pretty big deal at the time.
@@ladydontekno Yes it was. i think because of this lawsuit you cannot use someone's voice unaccredited.
@@sampa2nyc Good
The "Destination Calabria" video rubbed me the wrong way for that reason, too.
Uh... no pun intended >_>
Oh man, the MOMENT he said that Martha Wash found success in the dance scene, I immediately heard "everybody dance now!" in my head. I thought she sounded familiar! Also, now I understand why I've always thought that "Everybody Everybody" was by C+C Music Factory.
Got Respect for Sylvester. Bro was a true rebel.
He really was. He and Patrick Cowley were a goddamn dynamite duo. The 1980s were very cruel to so many talented artists.
@@Dr.Quarex AIDS took them too soon. I can put on a sylvester mix and listen all day RIP
I have to wonder if Titus from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" was based on him.
My old band actually did this song as a jock jam once, and it actually sounded pretty awesome. Im tempted to get us back together for the sole intent of recording it.
Do it!
Eh why not, do it
Did you do it? When sports exists again, a jock jam of it getting played after a sack in football would be hilarious. Though, honestly, the original would be pretty hilarious played in that situation too.
You should lol
@@nopenopenopenope4076 Sadly, I can't get in touch with any of them (read: I don't WANT to get in touch with most of them and the one I do want to get it touch with is MIA). Perhaps one day, I'll create a reasonable approximation thereof in GarageBand or something.
It's Raining Men is everyone's favorite song for the four minutes it plays.
I don't think it could be put better
You gotta love the shear power of these ladies voices.
Jesus they both have crazy good voices
I'm disappointed that he didn't mention this being Homer Simpson's favourite song.
“It’s raining men?”
“Not no more it ain’t”
I saw Martha on Arsenio Hall and I remember the audience not seeming like they believed she was the voice of C&C Music Factory until she belted out the "Everybody Dance Now" on the couch a capella. I felt like that commercial where I'm being blasted by sound from my TV. (OK, I might have been the one who didn't believe she was the sound of C&C until I saw her; I imagine the audience knew more than me).
I do appreciate their dedication to totally selling the song. they do sing incredibly well.
...and that follow up is awesome
"God bless father christmas, he's a single woman too..."
"It's snowing men!! Hallelujah..."
Todd, you're killing me
Play that Christmas music elf boy. 😂
I had no idea Martha Wash was THE house voice of the early 90s. Absolutely incredible power, class act through and through. I love finding out how the artists behind one hit wonders just ended up using it as a springboard for amazing things.
Martha Wash is an underrated legend. She's known for many songs!
Martha Wash - the queen of house music.
So Todd finally gets this video unblocked and he doesn’t even make notice?
Oh is that what happened?
Finally.
Fun song. Don't overthink it, just enjoy. You'll live longer lol
There is a "Female Gaze," but it gets confused with being "Easy." Women want to choose their guy and having a big selection is kind of like sexual heaven. That's what the Weather Girls were singing about. You hear "It's Raining Men" at ladies who love ladies nights a lot too because it is really about being able to choose who you are taking home, and not having to settle for your third choice.
...its a song literally written by 2 men. It's a projection of the assumption of how women view the world, but it's in no way shape or form a reflection of the female gaze seeing as how it wasn't written by women. It's a male written song about a promiscuous woman, which is why Donna Summer got offended cause she was tired of being the sex lady. It's literally just an inversion of the male gaze with some women performers slapped on top.
I love the song, don't get me wrong. But I connect it a lot more with PRIDE than feminism, other than being performed by some bad ass ladies, it's really not a women's song.
@@ruminationstation4200 - Men have EARS, and they CAN listen to women and use what they hear to influence their writing. Anyway, given how many gay men love "It's Raining Men," there is more than just heterosexuality going on.
@@HSMiyamoto Neither the person who replied to you nor Todd said it was about heterosexuality, more about the way men consume and aspire to sex compared to women (in general, you will find people feeling differently in both camps) which does explain why it would be very popular with gay men. But your argument about just having a selection and this being about choice more than about having a herd of human sex toys sounds valid to me as well. I just think the song sounds good, I never thought much about the lyrics (I mean... I'm asexual so either way the lyrics don't do much for me ^^) but it is very possible a lot of people interpret it the way you do.
@@mayaklast6334 - It's also important to note that "It's Raining Men!" also fits in the long history of gay men hiding their sexual desires by writing from a female perspective. Look at "Mad about the Boy" by Noel Coward, which even says that the boy "has a gay appeal." Here's an excerpt from the lyrics, which Coward wrote to keep his song from being censored under English law of the time.
Lord knows I'm not a fool-girl
I really shouldn't care
Lord knows I'm not a school-girl
In the flurry of her first affair
Will it ever cloy
This odd diversity of misery and joy
I'm feeling quite insane and young again
And all because I'm mad about the boy
I love how they put that one guy with a green umbrella in front of the greenscreen. Plus the costumes. Like wow, planning. xD
Maybe they did it intentionally, to mimick one of those low budget news stations where the weather person wears green in front of a green screen without thinking?
@@otaking3582 oh... Huh... Yeah honestly there is way to much of that in that video for it not to be.... They even have her wearing blue in front of a blue screen.
Great catch it makes it even more fun!
I'm pretty sure that umbrella was blue
We stan Martha!!! Also, "God Bless Father Christmas, he's a single woman too" is a mood
This is the most 2010s comments ever.
I love when Todd tells us what we women fantasise about 😂 If only he knew the varied and depraved thoughts we really have
He's just reporting biological statistics which are based on average tendencies. I'm sure he's cognizant of the fact that women are sexual beings too, otherwise we wouldn't exist.
Mansplaining in action!
But he's not wrong.
@@ernestogasulla7763 Uh oh...we have a beta in the house.
@@MyspaceEmo
What biological statistics are you talking about?
Women don't fantasize about multiple men? Who studied that?
*YTR:* "Here's a video from 4 years ago, for some reason"
*Me:* "It's finally no longer blocked in my country?! RUclips Reccomendations, you actually did something right for once!"
*YTR:* "Uh... glad to hear that...?"
I remember a male friend sung this at Adam Lavigne levels of pitch and you could tell our teacher wanted to choke him out, hell he even put him in a time out
animesniper1 Adam Levine, ur thinking of Avril
Oh Levine
Sorry
Instead of praising your friend's vocal pipes, your teacher punished him? Homophobic much? I mean at least just give the kid a warning that the song is maybe inappropriate for school (not because it's synonymous as a gay anthem but it has sexual subject matter). But if he nailed the notes, that deserves a pat on the back.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley There's no indication that this was sung in a music class. If it disrupted a classroom, then yeah, he needs a time out.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Sir comparing your notes to Adam Levine is a BAD thing. This ain't about the student being gay, it's about him being obnoxious.
When I played bass for my high school’s show choir combo, this was probably the only song I enjoyed thoroughly. Fun to play, fun to listen to.
Also DAMN do they have vocal chords.
Okay so I paused the video when he played a sample of (Dear Santa) Bring Me A Man. Let me just say:
This song is a certified BOP. Especially around the middle, during the vocal solos I just sat here in awe. This was fucking AMAZING. Camp at it's peak. I absolutely love this & will now put it in my yearly Christmas playlist next to Last Christmas. I do not think this song was done justice here. This song is absolutely not just a ripoff of It's Raining Men. Maybe in theme, but not in any other way. This song was absolutely amazing.
You know, I'm a pretty straight white guy, and when this comes on, I absolutely feel the gay disco vibe.
I wonder if Richard Simmons ever used the Weather Girls version of "Big Girls Don't Cry" in any of his exercise videos. If he didn't, well tragic waste is a strong expression but it IS the one that comes to mind.
He did the Sweatin' to the Oldies thing, so I think he used the original. Sorry.
The Weather girls walked so Lizzo could run.
nah they ran, won and did some victory laps on top of it. i don't think lizzo has one song that's as iconic or that will have the staying power of it's raining men. juice is already forgotten :/
I love when the camera shakes from the pure energy this song requires when playing on piano
The last time it was raining men was when the stock market crashed in 1929!
Fuck this killed me
macsnafu ha ha so many orphans
😆
Hahahaaa... SO many orphans...
What about 2001?
When Todd was talking about the line "I'm about to get absolutely soaking wet" my mind was going to the sexual connotation of female arousal... but then he never touched on it.
BTW, really just commenting to help Todd out against the algorithm.
RPGaholic he did say “don’t think about that one too much”
It can be taken in more than one sexual way.
@Ney Paula , I don't know, it's RUclips's algorithm. Most RUclips channels I follow ask for likes, comments, subscriptions, and clicking that bell to help out in what that algorithm does.
@Pau Pau Engagement. Videos that gather lots of comments, likes, and other forms of engagement will be recommended more frequently by RUclips.
holy hell, she did some of the most epic dance track lines ever! hadn't known those were all one singer!
Before watching this video, I knew that Martha Wash was the voice from C+C Music Factory's big hit and that she'd been erased from the video. I did not realize that had happened in other songs, and I also didn't realize she was part of the Weather Girls, and now it's so obvious I don't know how I didn't pick it up immediately.
So because of the ass-backwards way my mind works, I realized the vocals for this fit near-perfectly with the Pokemon theme song. Now I'm trying desperately to find audio of just the vocals for this song so I can make a remix.
Ehhh, no. I don't hear it.
I do
Oh my GOD, the Christmas version!! Instant addition to my holiday playlist, it's AMAZING.
The observation that men tend to fantasize about women (plural) vs that women tend to fantasize about a man (singular) is really interesting. Like, the idea of multiple male partners is a more common fantasy for women than people think, but it's never been really been a "thing" culturally. I'd never noticed that!
I nearly choked on my apple when you mentioned "Simpson's Christmas Boogie".
It's back from the dead! Yes!
The fact that more than one music video from the early 90's chose to have a thin, younger woman lip sync to Martha Wash's voice was absolutely deplorable. That woman is a national treasure on a level with our greatest soul singers. Had they done something like that to Aretha Franklin or Patti Labelle, those women would have gutted them like a fish.
ITS BACK AT LAST!! HALLELUJAH!
Juan Ortiz AMEN
I'm in general a rock fan, but I think this song is wonderful. It's just so joyful. We need more joy in music.
It’s back! Hallelujah!
Todd: Women don't talk about men this way
Me: Let me introduce you to 90% of vtubers
A few years ago, my school show choir did this song, and some people were invited up on stage from different choirs in order to dance with them, and I wasn't one of them, but I just got so into the music that I had to get up and on the stage and dance too.
As a gay man- I love Martha way more than Gaga . Waaaaaayy more.
Martha is a gay icon
Martha has been a vocal ally for decades. It's a shame the gay community didnt support her music with the same vigour
Profile pic checks out 😂
oh this is a mood
As a straight man both are prettt underrated. Most Gaga stuff isn't my cup of tea but she has chops and Joanne is an a masterpiece of a song and she was amazing in a star is a born.
This episode of One Hit Wonderland is dedicated in memory of Tomen Baratheon.
That's just... actually funny, damn!
“It’s Raining Men” covered by Fall Out Boy
I'm 90% sure this song is the reason I'm practically a faux queen. I adore it.
Also, girls dont fantasize about the male gender mainly because we're socialized so differently. We're not taught to "practice" or "experiment" with boys. But, deep down, we can be just as perverted and horny as guys can be. So when a song like this comes out...it's like our animal instinct is suddenly set free.
It also helps that it's a really catchy song.
kurayamidesu catchy music = bringing out the most basic instincts of humanity i am 100% behind this theory
i've found that some particularly odd men can't stand to think of women doing normal human things. it's kinda creepy in-person, but at turns funny and sad thinking back on it. seeing a blokey-bloke type comedian on tv going all ultra sensitive about catching a glimpse of leg shaving, like what seriously that bothers you? "we don't wanna know you have hair" is how he put it. grow up, you baby! or, this guy once told me "women don't fart, they parp" was all i could do not to laugh, but he was deadly serious. had to call it something else just to mentally process it, probably imagined it somehow smelling not as bad too. like holy shit, some of the mental acrobatics just to keep up this weird fiction of us being some kind of other species or something. ridiculous.
wouldn't surprize me if guys jumping to the conclusion that women are incapable of overt lust comes from a similar place. like, that'd be too human or something. we're not people, we're porcelain angels, right? magical purity vessels from heaven, innocent and weak. gah! hate it. what a load of old bollocks.
anyway, good to get that rant out of my system, lol. annoying is right. who the hell goes around assuming limits to sexuality anyway, like how does that make any sense? there aren't any limits. doesn't matter who it is, you can't tell before you've met them. there's no way.
i've probably overstated this a bit. it's not often you see it being talked about.
@@Torthrodhel I know your comment is old but I'm currently bingeing Todd's videos and reading comments, lol. One thing I'd add here though in terms of women and sexuality is that yes, women can be the same as men but we also are the ones who get pregnant. The idea of having a child suddenly can kind of curtail the desire for wanting frequent partners, at least that's why I personally would rather have a "man" than "men", lol. Yes, it takes two to tango, but we all know the stories of guys leaving and maybe paying child support, which is paltry compared to the actual cost of raising a child. So that too can add to why women are brought up differently or may behave differently about sex.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley interesting perspective, one I sadly don't share, given an inability to become pregnant. Guess I'm not so connected sometimes. Explains it a little bit. Of course everyone takes it way too far, because almighty gender roles must be bowed to and all that nonsense. Nevertheless yeah that's a thought I hadn't considered, good point. Being in an open relationship probably makes me a bit different too and sometimes I do forget how infrequently that ends up suiting people.
No worries on the year-later response btw, I do that all the time lol. Can't expect people not to in a format like this. It's good to binge. :)
@Peruvian Leftist Fella well yeah a lot of prejudices get very deliberately self-reinforced. People are like that because that's how they get the impression they're supposed to be, while at the same time, them being like that gets assumed "the natural way of things" because "look evidence" by people who don't think too far on it. Which with what everyone has to deal with in this needlessly overcomplicated life, you honestly can't sometimes blame people for.
Even as a lesbian, this song is a total bop.
As a senior in highschool, a friend and I preformed this song as a joke for my school's talent show, complete with backup dancers......We won. lmao
Fun note: We changed the lyrics to "I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna let myself get, *super freakin' soaking wet* . Needless to say, it was hilarious.
Wait are you a dude? I hope so because your story is much more amusing if you are a guy.
Ryan Hanselman Yes, I am a guy. And so were all the backup dancers. It was quite the fun time.
Christ, all my life I thought they were singing "it's raining again"
I always think of this song when seeing Rene Magritte paintings
Got what he wished for with the Christmas Macarena.
*There is no possible way to hate both this song and these two women.*
Marsha Wash is a house music legend.
I think growing up with a lot of House music led to me developing the love for electronic music that I maintain to this day. THANKS, MARTHA! Your booming vocals turned me on to the music of the future.
I cannot believe this song didn't go mainstream top 40. If I hadn't been about 3 at the time I would've bought myself a copy.
"The big novelty of two women looking like that[...]" What about Aretha Franklin, though?
+QuintanaDS she didn't get to that size til the 90s
+Trump-chan "The Blues Brothers" is from the 80's and she was already big back then.
QuintanaDS no, she was maybe half their size in that movie
+Trump-chan Hm. Personally, I think you're overselling their size, or possibly underselling Aretha's, but eh, I'll grant you that.
That might have been a good point, if Aretha Franklin didn't get famous when she was skinny.
"whatta man" was also written by a man, Dave Crawford. So that argument kind of bites the dust. (But I believe everything else Todd says. :)
Salt wrote the lyrics to the 90s song Whatta Man, which sampled an older song called What a Man that Dave Crawford wrote in the 60s
as a kid in school we got tasked with creating an album cover for classic songs, and 7 y.o me didn't quite realize Its Raining Men wasn't...literal. so my teacher breaking down laughing when i earnestly handed in a a4 sheet of stick men falling from the sky REALLY confused me lmao. now i can't listen to the song the same way
I love Martha Walsh, Carry On has a great message
Your Christmas follow-ups provided the most laughs I've ever had watching you Todd. Hilarious.
They sang on Sylvester's hits!
And my Christmas-time playlist grows ever stronger...
If you are interested in who the big-girl soul duo precursor to The Weather Girls were, you can check out the (also one-hit wonders) The Soul Sisters. Their biggest song was "I Can't Stand It" released on Sue Records in 1964. Many groups covered it because it was so good, such as Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood, Betty Everett & Jerry Butler, Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers, Genya Ravan, and more recently Holly Golightly. - Other excellent songs by the Soul sisters are I Won't Be Your Fool No More (my favorite); Some Soul Food, and a kick-ass version of Loop-De-Loop, also on Sue Records. For the Checker Records label they recorded Just How Much Can One Heart Take? under the name The Kolettes. The Soul Sisters were like Weather Girls, also had a growly low voice/wailing high voice combination going on, and they did it two decades earlier.
The Raining Men singer did 'Everybody Dance'
'Raining Men' was written by the guy from Letterman?!
Mind completely blown
Was this video deleted? Because there is about a year long gap where there aren’t any comments and I literally just found this in my recommendations.
It wasn't deleted, it was just blocked in most countries because of RUclips's bs Content ID system
@@otaking3582 Thanks for clearing it up.
@@vectorequinox6202 Sure thing!
I KNEW this wasn't here last week. I had to watch a french fansubbed version, instead.
This song just makes everyone happy.
Being, well gay, I do enjoy this song. But mostly because of just how corny it is.
9:30 Mind you, this song, in its appeal to a mystical but largely unreligious being to "bring a man" to a singular woman and yet sang in unison by several, reminds me of another classic slightly silly number:
Mr.Sandman
In the early 2000s my parents went to a weather girls show. Somehow my father and one of the friends they went with got the opportunity to dance on stage with them. He kept the newspaper article with the photo of him with the weather girls
i can only dream of carrying myself with the confidence of a weather girl.
I knew of the lawsuit and Martha being replaced in the videos thanks to something I saw on VH1. Either I Love The 90’s, Pop Up Video or their top 100 one-hit wonders list.
My first memory of this song was from a VHS copy of Hockey's Greatest Hits, which set a montage of brutal bodychecks to this song. It's far from the only reason why I fuckin love It's Raining Men, but it's definitely a big one.
You just broke my mind with that fact about Black Box!
Discovered this song from one of my favorite hindi movies(forgot the name) and loved it since
Wait... So since the original partnership split there are always two Weather Girls, master and apprentice?
Perhaps someday I, myself, might aspire to Weather Girldom
@@Champiness i say you got it! Keep your vocals high and waist thicc!
@@leandrobranco1618 Being a thin, deep voiced, white boy, I can never aspire to Weather Girldom, no matter how much I may want to.
This is the story of an elf...
Who cried a river and drowned the whole shelf...
who lives in a blue world
This is my favorite song. If I could have it playing from the street lamps, I would.
Haha. I love this song! It has so much campiness/excitement in it :)
I actually liked the second song too >x
Putting out a call to all college radio DJs to rinse it out this December
When I hear this song, all I can think of is the Bundies and Peggy in "Married With Children".
This is maybe my favorite one hit wonder of all time. And it helps that the music video is hilarious.
The “Simpsons Christmas Boogie” always gets me by surprise and I really love ju
*watches this* 0:40-0:45 O///// O *wonders if I'm the only one who's ovaries exploded*
you mean Todd, right?
If so, omfg, yes.
+kurayamidesu I mean that I agree
kurayamidesu Heck yeah! someone agrees!
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Around this time Chip n Dale's became a popularly referenced thing. Also, Aretha was plus sized and she had hits. Music is weird.
Aretha had already gained her legend hood by the time she gained weight she came in the game as a skinny women
...do you mean *Chippendales*? 'Cause "Chip 'n Dale's" would be a very different place.
I have been watching your channel for 2 years how have I not seen this??!
It just got unblocked.
It's been in Content ID Limbo for a year or so.
I love whenever Todd responds to a song's greeting.
For decades, I thought it was "it's raining, man!" And "For the first time in history, it's gonna start raining, man" like something out of the bible 😅 Never listened to the rest of the lyrics and today I am somewhat embarrassed to not only dance but even sing loudly to it on parties 😁
90s dance music owes a debt to martha wash's vocals
Todd makes quality content, thank you!
The irony of a statement like "Sylvester made the Village People look like Van Halen" is that David Lee Roth was wearing more spandex and almost as much makeup as Sylvester when performing.