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

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My first impressions:

1. I only know Macklemore from Kill All the Gays and the Faggots mentioning him once

2. 50 minute video for a shitty rap album Jesus Christ

3. I gave up ten minutes in after nine and a half minutes of 2010s gayfaglib drama and no analysis of the shitty music. I skipped to a random point and he was reading some shitty music blog's take on white privilege and connecting it to Trump winning the 2016 election.

Fun fact for anyone who watched the whole thing: this video runs 48:35 minutes long. By comparison, The Dark Side of the Moon runs 42:51 minutes long. In the time you spent listening to the one TGWTG personality who stands alone in not knowing what the inside of Lindsay Ellis' vagina feels like talk about libshit "discourse" and other irrelevant drama about some shitty rapper's shitty album from 10 years ago, you could've listened to the entirety of a slightly-above-average rock album that is still better than anything that the rap genre has ever put out and still have enough time to relisten to Kill All the Gays and the Faggots yet again.
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
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).
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You know what's funny? For all the talk of the beef and Drake bashing, Kendrick Lamar never really stayed on top of the music scene from what I've seen, that or what I thought would happen actually came to pass and all of his diss tracks (ESPECIALLY "Not Like Us) were doing an ungodly amount of heavy lifting when it came to Kendrick's popularity.

And Drake was just the moment's "cool thing to hate on the Internet".
Idiot Asshole said:
My first impressions:

1. I only know Macklemore from Kill All the Gays and the Faggots mentioning him once

2. 50 minute video for a shitty rap album Jesus Christ

3. I gave up ten minutes in after nine and a half minutes of 2010s gayfaglib drama and no analysis of the shitty music. I skipped to a random point and he was reading some shitty music blog's take on white privilege and connecting it to Trump winning the 2016 election.

Fun fact for anyone who watched the whole thing: this video runs 48:35 minutes long. By comparison, The Dark Side of the Moon runs 42:51 minutes long. In the time you spent listening to the one TGWTG personality who stands alone in not knowing what the inside of Lindsay Ellis' vagina feels like talk about libshit "discourse" and other irrelevant drama about some shitty rapper's shitty album from 10 years ago, you could've listened to the entirety of a slightly-above-average rock album that is still better than anything that the rap genre has ever put out and still have enough time to relisten to Kill All the Gays and the Faggots yet again.
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I always felt there was a reason Trainwreckords was the one aspect of Todd videos I actively don't watch. I guess this is another reason.
 
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Trainwreckords would be fascinating stuff, if only Tard could leave his midwit libshit political faggotry out of things.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
You know what's funny? For all the talk of the beef and Drake bashing, Kendrick Lamar never really stayed on top of the music scene from what I've seen, that or what I thought would happen would come to pass and all of his diss tracks (ESPECIALLY "Not Like Us) were doing an ungodly amount of heavy lifting when it came to Kendrick's popularity.
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Kendrick's voice is grating, like Bob Dylan or nails-on-a-chalkboard level annoying. Talented enough as a lyricist with good flow, but unpleasant to listen to.

The Kendrick/Drake kerfuffle of 2024 is the most boring of ruts. I hope Todd is cured of his DDS soon.
 
Tommy John Surgery said:
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).
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I suspect that the beef arouses him and he has a humiliation fetish (he definitely has a humiliation fetish, as shown by his still constant simping for Lindsey).
 
ToddleDoddle said:
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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He also talks about how after Macklemore fell off, there are now all these white rappers and they don’t care that they are white and rapping. But maybe that’s because they don’t want to go on in some spiel about cultural appropriation because they don’t care about who’s in the game like their predecessors did.
 
ZsaZsaBinks said:
He also talks about how after Macklemore fell off, there are now all these white rappers and they don’t care that they are white and rapping. But maybe that’s because they don’t want to go on in some spiel about cultural appropriation because they don’t care about who’s in the game like their predecessors did.
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Another layer of this is the fact that rap, hip hop, r&b, and other forms of "Black Music" are so mainstream now, you can make the argument that it's just "music". I don't think most people now don't know where these music genres originated from. They've been lectured on how "whipipo" stole from black musicians, cultural appropriation, and the like. And from the 70s onward, people of all races have grown up listening to that music and being influenced by it: Madonna, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Hozier, a lot of the K-Pop groups, etc. You could make the argument that it's now just "American Music", not specifically black or white.
 
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S@credC said:
Another layer of this is the fact that rap, hip hop, r&b, and other forms of "Black Music" are so mainstream now, you can make the argument that it's just "music". I don't think most people now don't know where these music genres originated from. They've been lectured on how "whipipo" stole from black musicians, cultural appropriation, and the like. And from the 70s onward, people of all races have grown up listening to that music and being influenced by it: Madonna, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Hozier, a lot of the K-Pop groups, etc. You could make the argument that it's now just "American Music", not specifically black or white.
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I think some people do talk about the origins (2023 had big “50 years of hip hop” events), but for the most part, folks don’t really make it about race or background, even in hip hop where “repping your city” is still kind of a big thing, though maybe not as much as the 90s and 2000s.

The only folks who bitch about things like “black music” are probably the Drake haters who make a big deal of him being a “poser”.
 
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I'm just gonna take a bet Toddy here didn't touch the ongoing scandal with his favorite lesbian pop act, ie Chappel Roan got outed as a pretend lesbian whose rich conservative family from Missouri bought her a music career.

Gonna need more than kabuki theater makeup to hide that one.
 
Boston Brand said:
I'm just gonna take a bet Toddy here didn't touch the ongoing scandal with his favorite lesbian pop act, ie Chappel Roan got outed as a pretend lesbian whose rich conservative family from Missouri bought her a music career.

Gonna need more than kabuki theater makeup to hide that one.
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The knowledge of Chappell (er, Kayleigh) dating a man and most of the songs off her debut album being about him has been known since 2024. Guess it's getting some traction again, huh?
 
Boston Brand said:
ongoing scandal with his favorite lesbian pop act
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Lil Miku said:
Guess it's getting some traction again, huh?
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Yeah, pretty sure the recent scandal was the security incident. It was pretty obvious that at least Coffee and Casual were about men.

It was only recently she switched from bi to lesbian because she's going through the "I hate men" step of female self-actualization.

Idk if she's much of a plant if we were to believe that her parents didn't really like her being gay and that her career already slammed shut once (means her agency didn't push her hard enough which by this logic means they weren't paid or paid thar much)
 
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Tommy John Surgery said:
Todd, you should charge Aubrey Graham rent at this point:
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Ah, Spectrum Pulse. While I like the guy a bit more than most YT music critics because he actually seems to listen back to artists/bands' catalogs before their new stuff, he's ditched giving number ratings to reviews, and he actually listens to country music (despite being Canadian), he can still be quite insufferable. Plus him making video essays out of albums can be too long-winded at best and corny snoozefests at worst, especially the "WHY I WILL NOT REVIEW X" shit. Just don't acknowledge Kanye unless he gets on your Billboard chart watch show, bozo.
 
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