Todd In The Shadows

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Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

  • Yes

    Votes: 134 28.8%

  • No

    Votes: 73 15.7%

  • Todd is Lolcow Adjacent

    Votes: 259 55.6%
  • Total voters
    466
OrangeJuliusEvola said:
I would argue it's not the worst of the 70s. There's just so much terrible music from that decade to choose from. It is, however, the worst cover song ever made. It took Brel's "Le Moribond", one of the greatest modern songs in the French language, that somehow touches on every sort of emotion a dying man might feel and mixes it perfectly into a lyrical cocktail of bitter sardonic comedy and sincere heartfelt expression and Jacks somehow turned it into the most mawkish sentimental musical treacle possible.
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i really like this thing on kiwifarms now where people don't watch a video but comment in a way that is a pitch perfect summary of the video but unintentionally.
Boston Brand said:
Does he promote anyone other than Lindsay from Nebula?
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maggie mae fish and the black guy and a few other people. i haven't seen every video he's done but it seems like part of the contract but they're all friendly enough that the shilling doesn't feel like out of left field.
Tommy John Surgery said:
I can't be reminded of TI without remembering the fact that he checks his daughter's hymens, lmao.
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thats what he's talking about. did you ever have middle aged people having hit songs back in the 2000s? i keep finding old sketches where everyone is shittalking madonna for being in her 40s and still doing songs. it really tells you how bad the music industry has gotten that old fuckers can just dominate the charts.
 
Kether said:
i really like this thing on kiwifarms now where people don't watch a video but comment in a way that is a pitch perfect summary of the video but unintentionally.
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Sadly, I did watch that entire video solely because I'm a huge fan of Brel. Hence, I wasted a huge amount of time for very little of value. So I took everything of worth from that video and summarized it. Better than I he did, I would venture.

You're welcome.

I will return to not watching Todd's videos unless it somehow intersects with my musical interests, which is a rare occasion indeed.
 
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Lil Miku said:
A Taylor Swift movie would not be interesting. An Ariana Grande movie, on the other hand, would be very interesting.
Beyonce and Jay-Z, hell no, Jay-Z has connections to Epstein. Don't give him a movie.
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This reminds me that Ariana and Mac Miller were once an item and that just makes me sad knowing where each of them have ended up now :(
 
Random Internet Person said:
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Given that Moises is an explicitly ethical AI company (i.e. all learning data is gathered with explicit permission and paid for, all contributing vocalists and instrumentalists gathered in-house and paid by Moises, rules on how the generated output is created) it's good to see that Todd has taken the absolute luddite position and made himself even more irrelevant than he already is moving forward.
 
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his politics are influencing his answer, i think Tyler the creator is the obvious answer, from disturbed young man who embraces a troll audience which leads to him being banned from entire countries, to him musically changing but never changing his persona and mainstream music eventually accepting him. while Tyler got internet hype from yonkers, it took him 8 years later to have a top 20 hit. To go from Tyler's early music to him becoming mainstream enough to literally do a kid's movie soundtrack is insane.

Having said that, there are much better stories in the 2000s. I can almost guarantee an MCR biopic would be the highest grossing domestic musical biopic of all time. it's origins tie into fucking 9/11 what's more america than that. now that rap isn't the most dominant music on planet earth, and emo doesn't have the culture to hate on it, its really exploded in popularity among the youth.
 
Kether said:
i think Tyler the creator is the obvious answer
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He's not the only edgelord shitposter to hit mainstream in the 2010's. Filthy Frank became Joji and Doja Cat is still around (the edge was private but she's took the mask off now). Joji seems to have a more interesting story than Tyler really. As much as I wanna mention Earl Sweatshirt since he's from OF too, he's not mainstream anymore and has pretty much followed his own lane in underground hip-hop and been highly influential there instead.
 
Lil Miku said:
Why even bring Drake up? What does he have to do with Macklemore???
EDIT: Just watched the video and I can understand why he mentioned it but can he just stick to reciting facts and not inserting his stupid ass in? Nope.
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It's a shame. This could've been one of the better Trainwreckord episodes because I do agree with Todd here: Macklemore was simply a bleeding heart liberal who was corny in an out-of-touch dad who tries to relate to his kids kind of way. There's no grift here; he just wears his emotions (and influences as a rap nerd) on his (musical) sleeve.

Todd just had to start talking about the beef for the 1837389th time at the fucking intro instead of bringing it up during the proper time (the Grammy backlash).
 
Lil Miku said:
Why even bring Drake up? What does he have to do with Macklemore???
EDIT: Just watched the video and I can understand why he mentioned it but can he just stick to reciting facts and not inserting his stupid ass in? Nope.
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Of course not, he learned from Lindsay. Who he once again shills at the end of the video. Wonder how much that Nebula sponsorship gets him, likely not much, but he'll keep doing it on the off chance Lindsay sends him some drunk nudes like the good old days.

As for the video itself, not bad. Was never a Macklemore fan, Thrift Shop was one of those songs I never actively listened to but never turned off if it came on. It's interesting hearing Todd do an album he acknowledges did poorly but he himself liked, or at least liked a lot of songs on it, since usually he just trashes whatever he covers on Trainwreckords.
 
I disagree with his take that Macklemore's songs got so popular because he was white and therefore "safe". They just had strong hooks that stuck with you. They just have an energy to them that no black hip hop artists really bring to the table. I feel that if a black artist put out similar music they'd get tons of shit from the rap community for being "corny".

I also agree with Todd that Downtown is a banger. It doesn't say anything important, it's just a fun song.
 
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