Todd In The Shadows

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Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

  • Yes

    Votes: 134 28.7%

  • No

    Votes: 74 15.8%

  • Todd is Lolcow Adjacent

    Votes: 259 55.5%
  • Total voters
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Ninon42 said:
I believe he was referring to his experience of listening to the album, not his own life.
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I certainly hope it was about the album. It’d probably be the less embarrassing of the two options.
 
I'm betting on Todd's Halloween episode this year being about "The Dead Dance'" by Lady Gaga. It's the most obvious choice.
 
New Halloween Trainwreckords! Maybe he'll even remember to charge for it this time.
 
Been watching Todd for a while, his vids were probably the thing that got me thinking about music outside of something that played in the car on the radio. Besides his soyllenial takes (which to be fair are ubiquitous with the CA and old yt types) his vids are quite solid, I really liked his be here now review I hate that album so fucking much
 
This guy cares about lyrics way too fucking much. They're probably the least important aspect of 90% of music, but it's 90% of what he talks about when discussing a song.
 
An Account said:
This guy cares about lyrics way too fucking much. They're probably the least important aspect of 90% of music, but it's 90% of what he talks about when discussing a song.
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Really? I thought lyrics were the whole point of what makes the song have meaning. The only issue I’ve heard in regards to Todd and lyrics is that he has a habit of taking them to literally (although there’s the chance that the whole thing about taking lyrics literally is just him doing a bit).
 
An Account said:
This guy cares about lyrics way too fucking much. They're probably the least important aspect of 90% of music, but it's 90% of what he talks about when discussing a song.
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Retarded take.

If a song is not an instrumental, lyrics are 50% or more of the point of the song.

That said, Tard in the Shithouse is indeed a mong who takes every lyric literally and tries to shoehorn politics into apolitical songs constantly.
 
Random Internet Person said:
Again, I have to wonder if taking things literally is part of the joke. But the politics thing has no excuse.
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I don't think he's joking with it, I think he is on the spectrum and seriously can't comprehend allegory in lyrics, in addition to having the typical woke leftie inability to understand that depiction does not always equal endorsement.
 
So can somebody give me a good TL;DW of his new John Fogerty video? I used to enjoy Todd's content in circa 2018-2020 when his politics didn't bleed too much into his videos. I've completely written him off since then when he went full retard and had to make every video political -- like in his One Hit Wonderland review of Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" in which he warns people not to follow her on Twitter because she didn't vote for Hillary. Hell, I've even tried to revisit some of his older stuff from the 2010's, and even rewatching them now I realized how much of a total faggot he was and how his opinions were invalid.

For example, something that makes me legit MATI: in his video about Bobby Boris Pickett's Monster Mash, he says the early 1960's were a dark time for music because Elvis was in the Army and the British Invasion hadn't started yet -- and to illustrate this he cherry-picks a few corny novelty songs from that time period. Meanwhile he completely ignores the Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Chubby Checker, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Dean, Dion, Ray Charles, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s all being prominent influential artists of the time, with songs that are considered oldies staples. For someone as woke as he is, you'd think he'd point out that the pre-Beatles music scene in the USA during the early 60's was fertile grounds for iconic black musicians and Motown.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
For example, something that makes me legit MATI: in his video about Bobby Boris Pickett's Monster Mash, he says the early 1960's were a dark time for music because Elvis was in the Army and the British Invasion hadn't started yet -- and to illustrate this he cherry-picks a few corny novelty songs from that time period. Meanwhile he completely ignores the Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Chubby Checker, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Dean, Dion, Ray Charles, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s all being prominent influential artists of the time, with songs that are considered oldies staples. For someone as woke as he is, you'd think he'd point out that the pre-Beatles music scene in the USA during the early 60's was fertile grounds for iconic black musicians and Motown.
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And to think this guy is seen as somewhat of an authority on Top 40 pop and what charts on Billboard, if not one of THE top guys on YouTube when it comes to talking about music.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
Retarded take.

If a song is not an instrumental, lyrics are 50% or more of the point of the song.

That said, Tard in the Shithouse is indeed a mong who takes every lyric literally and tries to shoehorn politics into apolitical songs constantly.
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I don't agree, I think you're conflating lyrics with vocals, how many pop songs are there in which the lyrics undercut the tone of the melody. Every Breath You Take is a beloved song remembered as being romantic but the lyrics are about an obsessive stalker, but nobody picked up on that because the lyrics were secondary to the melody of the song.

Given that CCR's biggest hit has one of the most famous misheard lyrics of all time I'm inclined to agree lyrics are less important but vocals are very important.
 
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fremenchips said:
Do you think it's the lyrics or the vocals? Given that CCR's biggest hit has one of the most famous misheard lyrics of all time I'm inclined to agree lyrics are less important but vocals are very important.
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Both are important, sometimes delivery means more than the words, or enhances the words. One great example of dual meanings due to delivery that I love is Nothingness by Living Colour. The closing line of "Nothing lasts forever" is delivered in a way that conveys a different meaning of the phrase, implying that a void is eternal, rather than the usual meaning of everything eventually going away.
 
Michael Jacks0n said:
So can somebody give me a good TL;DW of his new John Fogerty video? I used to enjoy Todd's content in circa 2018-2020 when his politics didn't bleed too much into his videos. I've completely written him off since then when he went full retard and had to make every video political -- like in his One Hit Wonderland review of Meredith Brooks' "Bitch" in which he warns people not to follow her on Twitter because she didn't vote for Hillary. Hell, I've even tried to revisit some of his older stuff from the 2010's, and even rewatching them now I realized how much of a total faggot he was and how his opinions were invalid.

For example, something that makes me legit MATI: in his video about Bobby Boris Pickett's Monster Mash, he says the early 1960's were a dark time for music because Elvis was in the Army and the British Invasion hadn't started yet -- and to illustrate this he cherry-picks a few corny novelty songs from that time period. Meanwhile he completely ignores the Beach Boys, Smokey Robinson, Chubby Checker, Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimmy Dean, Dion, Ray Charles, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s all being prominent influential artists of the time, with songs that are considered oldies staples. For someone as woke as he is, you'd think he'd point out that the pre-Beatles music scene in the USA during the early 60's was fertile grounds for iconic black musicians and Motown.
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You're going to really hate his take on mid-1980s politics and music (and that video in turn), then. Only spoilering because video just came out yesterday

Todd is confused why there are political commentary songs on the album because, according to him, nothing big or serious happened in the US/West in 1985. Being constantly afraid of getting nuked by the Soviets due to tense relations "doesn't count." Therefore, the 80s didn't need political songs because the decade was so boring compared to the 70s or 90s. The comments are full of people dunking on him by name dropping events.

He's also confused about the couple paranormal themed songs on the album, despite that Creedence had a political satire involving UFOs ("It Came Out of the Sky"), and Fogerty’s unreleased Hoodoo album (which he mentions in passing). He thinks the album was attempting to capitalize on Thriller because of them and when the album came out.

tl;dr: Todd is as bitter and cranky as John Fogerty himself, which makes it hard to enjoy the few actually decent or funny moments in/about the album because it coats everything. It's also co-written by the same guy that's also worked on the last few Trainwreckords.
 
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