POP SONG REVIEW: "Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille

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  • Come on get happier? Can Marshmello and Bastille shake pop music out of its doldrums?
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  • @ub3r825
    @ub3r825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2233

    the drop in happier sounds like it’d be used in a spotify premium ad

    • @prismatica_official
      @prismatica_official 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      an_android Marshmello would be better off making music for ads. It’d be better than having somewhat good music ruined.

    • @couldntmixapotnoodle
      @couldntmixapotnoodle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Apple has probably already claimed it for the "new apple mac pro + 13"
      Now with no cooling system

    • @TylerGreeneNC
      @TylerGreeneNC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The quotations should be around drop

    • @nastylittlecritter
      @nastylittlecritter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m pretty sure it was

    • @linusdn2777
      @linusdn2777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wouldn't know what those sound like. I'm not some filthy peasant.

  • @Sangled
    @Sangled 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4389

    todd: you know what, i like this song and i’m sticking with that!
    me, seeing that there’s 7 minutes left in the video: *no you ain’t*

    • @m3rrys0ngstr3ss
      @m3rrys0ngstr3ss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      Yeah, I had that same reaction.

    • @cheesyncrackers9670
      @cheesyncrackers9670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      lol true (also love your art sangled!)

    • @weirdaljedifan2
      @weirdaljedifan2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Fancy seeing you here!

    • @125loopy
      @125loopy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I was listening to the video and not watching it so I didn't know there was more to the video. I was so disappointed. I kept saying "but it's so boring" in my head over and over.

    • @meamishere1166
      @meamishere1166 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Whatever makes you happier.

  • @SalvadorSalcido
    @SalvadorSalcido 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1640

    Are we not gonna talk about how Miranda Cosgrove is in the videos for both "Happy" and "Happier" or....?
    On that note, I say she fulfills the prophecy and releases a song called "Happiest."

    • @ffjreviews9029
      @ffjreviews9029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Oh yeah, that person from iCarly

    • @kieranstark7213
      @kieranstark7213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Fun fact: Miranda Corgrove is actually in a couple of videos of the same Pharrell Williams song.
      • Pharrell Williams - Happy
      • Despicable Me 2 (she played Margo Gru, even though one of the the problems with the Despicable Me franchise she’s too old to play a child character unless she puts on a younger-sounding voice for the character)

    • @kimifw58
      @kimifw58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's not a prophecy. That's a pattern. Or a payoff.

    • @ktownshutdown21
      @ktownshutdown21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kimifw58 But you know what it is? A joke.

    • @kimifw58
      @kimifw58 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ktownshutdown21 A joke requires thought and logic, so it's just as subject to criticism as anything else. Maybe if you stop seeing criticism as just mean things people say, you'd know how to write jokes too.

  • @SonofMrPeanut
    @SonofMrPeanut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2347

    "I'm kidding. I'll never be able to retire." - Todd, 2018
    The voice of our generation.

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The voice of our grandparents generation: the beatles, love the beatles. The voice of our parents generation: nirvana, love nirvana. The voice of our generation: post molone, lame. Can we please have a different voice?

    • @spencerjames9417
      @spencerjames9417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Spoken like a true millennial

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m gen Z you moron

    • @corruptedsave145
      @corruptedsave145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@spencerjames9417 Gen Z is sorry for that moron above.

    • @spencerjames9417
      @spencerjames9417 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@corruptedsave145 i wasnt replying to his comment you fucking bitch

  • @neversurrender6112
    @neversurrender6112 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2959

    "A song called sad... by a wife-beater... who is dead. That's what we deserve."

    • @takatotakasui8307
      @takatotakasui8307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      john lewis It is pretty fitting for 2018, somehow.

    • @lunatik383
      @lunatik383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @alexandra galici He didnt abuse her lmao. he was aquitted

    • @lyricbot8513
      @lyricbot8513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      @@lunatik383 no dipshit, he didn't get the chance the go to court to be acquitted.

    • @pagebeer1893
      @pagebeer1893 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@lyricbot8513 So why do instantly believe the woman then? Niggas so quick to demonize black people

    • @zeyfuller
      @zeyfuller 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Geo Globe It didn't go to court so he's just guilty. Okay.

  • @TCovenantUnbeliever
    @TCovenantUnbeliever 5 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    This is why the "I Took a Pill in Ibiza" remix works, because the drop is cold and sad just like the lyrics.

    • @douglassmithe9799
      @douglassmithe9799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Spot on

    • @alisonbarnes7888
      @alisonbarnes7888 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Link?

    • @WristFreeze97
      @WristFreeze97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Another example would be All Time Low

    • @ninjabluefyre3815
      @ninjabluefyre3815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I actually prefer the original, oddly.

    • @cobly6873
      @cobly6873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Still get chills from the drop 5 years later. Marshmello can learn a thing or two from Mike and Seeb

  • @ilznidiotic
    @ilznidiotic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    It's not you, Bastille, it's me.
    Wait. No it's not. It's Marshmello. Yeah, this is his fault.

  • @yoshimasterleader
    @yoshimasterleader 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1850

    Marshmello is fitting name for this artist. The music he makes is just like a marshmallow it's light soft and while it may be sweet it lacks substance.

    • @Slaggedfire
      @Slaggedfire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Marshmallows usually do some pretty good crossovers with chocolate.

    • @TR-ru7wl
      @TR-ru7wl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Alone is pretty good

    • @naiknaik8812
      @naiknaik8812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@TR-ru7wl after that its eh

    • @n3v3rg01ngback
      @n3v3rg01ngback 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      yoshimasterleader And I feel guilty after eating a whole bag.

    • @BayOfWulf
      @BayOfWulf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      And if I get too much of it I get sick

  • @cesarg.5750
    @cesarg.5750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +837

    I'm somehow more suprised I saw Miranda Cosgrove in 2018, than Bastille.

    • @gavincoria8651
      @gavincoria8651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Yeah I thought Michael Jackson died 10 years ago

    • @beatsbycossack
      @beatsbycossack 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I know right? I mean, what's next, a Jonas Brothers comeback?

    • @AikiraBeats
      @AikiraBeats 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same it took me a minute

    • @joebob2311productions
      @joebob2311productions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly i thought he would've pointed it out. I was just like meh its probably someone who looks like her

  • @vintagearisen
    @vintagearisen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1061

    Bastille are the kings of writing deceptively cheerful sounding songs that are actually really depressing

    • @Hola-tq4pg
      @Hola-tq4pg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Paramore Will disagree with you on that

    • @landonmiller9554
      @landonmiller9554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Hola-tq4pg *passion pit

    • @macadamianut824
      @macadamianut824 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Gorillaz wants to have a talk with you

    • @benkenobi_
      @benkenobi_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@macadamianut824 Bastille has been doing it since early 2014

    • @Agentohyeah
      @Agentohyeah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They been doing that since 2010

  • @dreaminginnoother
    @dreaminginnoother 5 ปีที่แล้ว +677

    Howard Stern was right when Marley and Me came out. He said it's a cheap trick to have the dog die at the end because you can't not cry. I almost wanted to cry just watching this video about a video.

    • @twelvehandshigh
      @twelvehandshigh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      dreaminginnoother I did cry so you’re doing better than me

    • @joshbouman1654
      @joshbouman1654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I almost cried at the Tim McGraw clip. I don't even like country!

    • @HeyLetsDoAThing
      @HeyLetsDoAThing 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Marley and Me wasn't a cheap trick. It was literally the full story of that family and how having Marley affected them. Without his death, it wouldn't have been nearly as meaningful or impactful. The movie would have just ended with "and they all lived happily ever after" somewhere in the middle of the story.
      Howard Stern is a hack.

    • @eilonwy0360
      @eilonwy0360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Well, as some already said, Marley's death wasn't just a cheap attempt to make the audience cry, it was a logical and emotional conclusion of his life story. The family got bigger, kids are growing up, but dogs' years are short and humans have to cope wuth a thought that nothing in nature is ever-lasting. Their happiness with Marley had to come to an eventual end. And you know, we don't just cry at his death because we feel poor for a dog just cause it's a dog. We cry because we as audience and movie characters had such a strong and believable connection to Marley. We saw how utterly genuine the owner's love for his dog and we're sad to see them separating.
      It's pretty much like with How to Train Your Dragon, with a dog.

    • @MintyBingus
      @MintyBingus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      dreaminginnoother i did cry... but im a crybabt and kinda drunk

  • @jetpantsjess
    @jetpantsjess 5 ปีที่แล้ว +890

    I went to a music festival and saw Marshmello. He was HORRIBLE. 45 mins late and he played a bunch of pop songs (not remixed or anything) in between his songs. Then kept turning down the music so that the crowd could sing along ASSUMING that everyone knew the words and it was SILENT. Terrible performer too. It was like he had a Spotify playlist and pressed shuffle. Even my friends (who were fans of his) were so disappointed and we left.
    Awesome video as per usual, Todd. Hoping to see this on the worst list...

    • @Flowtail
      @Flowtail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      r/thathappened
      (Edit: Or at least i would hope this story is an exaggeration..)

    • @markborishnikoff5485
      @markborishnikoff5485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I know people that are fans of Marshmello, but i don't know anything more.

    • @johnindigo5477
      @johnindigo5477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What festival

    • @mls669
      @mls669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      He's a douchebag too a friend asked him for an autograph, and he said "yeah I'm not doing that"

    • @hind__
      @hind__ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@Flowtail Nah he's kind of a diva over nothing its true lol

  • @izzy1221
    @izzy1221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +732

    Todd wants the party anthem back?
    *Assemble the Black Eyed Peas.*

    • @WristFreeze97
      @WristFreeze97 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Assemble LMFAO!

    • @RenaldyCalixte
      @RenaldyCalixte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Black Eyed Peas are the Avengers?

    • @UnorthodoxIndividual
      @UnorthodoxIndividual 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      And here we are in 2020 and The Black Eyed peas are in the top 30 right now.

    • @luckjes112
      @luckjes112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I blame you for their return.

    • @ffjreviews9029
      @ffjreviews9029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      They have returned in 2020,

  • @glennwelsh9784
    @glennwelsh9784 5 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    Being a masked EDM DJ seems like it could be a sweet gig. You make music people can dance to and you wear a mask that can be an instant marketing tool. And then you can take the mask off when you're not DJing and you can go about your life doing everyday shit like grocery shopping or going on vacation without being hounded by the media because no one knows what you actually look like. Also, nice Casey Kasem reference, Todd.

    • @whodatninja439
      @whodatninja439 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ehh, you can find what he looks like on google if you want.

    • @toyoezodus
      @toyoezodus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      That's actually why Daft Punk said they started wearing the robot costumes in the first place. Something about not liking the concept of a 'celebrity' in general.

    • @dre724
      @dre724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Good Grief is wayyy better than this soulless dribble

    • @MomoGobboYT
      @MomoGobboYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But it also makes your image a gimmick so quicker to fall out of relevance

    • @rct3isepic
      @rct3isepic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      As someone who was a masked DJ for a couple years, IT'S WAY HARDER THAN IT LOOKS. Coming up with the mask itself, performing in a hot sweaty face case for hours on end, and until you get big, people will ALWAYS know who your secret identity is...it has it's perks which you mentioned a few of them, but as a whole it's weird. The reason why I stopped was just because not having a huge TV head on the bus wasn't very economical and I couldn't dance in very well.

  • @germanvisitor2
    @germanvisitor2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    That dog didn't die. He just lost the will to respond to any stimuli due to hearing _Happier_ too often.

  • @colliwer
    @colliwer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +634

    Dan Bastille vs Sans Undertale

  • @monadoboy9670
    @monadoboy9670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +553

    I love how Panic at the disco only has one member yet he sounds more like a band than Maroon 5 and Imagine Dragons

    • @crazyluigi6664
      @crazyluigi6664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Irony...

    • @jakegibbard
      @jakegibbard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Same with Tame Impala

    • @emilyhogan4973
      @emilyhogan4973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Brandon Urie has a very powerful singing voice.

    • @IjeomaThePlantMama
      @IjeomaThePlantMama 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Brandon Urie is a national treasure

    • @zombieedrea
      @zombieedrea 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No lies were told

  • @tskxm
    @tskxm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    fingers crossed for DJ Pyramid Head in 2019

    • @Valanway
      @Valanway 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hope dental drills and grimy palm muting is a major part of DJ Pyramid Head's repertoire.

    • @Nersius
      @Nersius 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Probably going to jail for rape : X

    • @jeanclaudevanswag
      @jeanclaudevanswag 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nersius nah, for indecent exposure because he tried to have sex with a mannequin in a department store.

    • @gloryblackjack584
      @gloryblackjack584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i be that would work if hmthwy played like diaturbed and creepy edm traks. songs that sound like they are waterboarding a synthasiser.

  • @memorygongs1133
    @memorygongs1133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I forgot how depressing these 2017/18 reviews were. The landscape of popular music isn't exactly great at the moment, but as a casual observer of what's played on the radio there seems to be more variety and vigour than even a couple of years ago; I don't think pop music was ever in a worse state than when those lifeless non-drops were clogging up the airwaves

    • @msunflowers
      @msunflowers ปีที่แล้ว

      Quarantine + the advent of sites like tiktok seriously disarmed the pop charts, and despite the problems tiktokification brought, I consider that a net good. The latter half of the 10s was full of so much undanceable e*D*m.

  • @stellafagerstedt2256
    @stellafagerstedt2256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    I died at the "have you seen "the neighbourhood" missing for 13 years" 😂

    • @CardsNHorns04
      @CardsNHorns04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hey! They put out some good songs. “scary love” is a good song!

    • @worm3041
      @worm3041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They've had some pretty good music since then and their songs have had a lot of views so I'd have to disagree but it is kind of funny.

  • @ARTV-
    @ARTV- 5 ปีที่แล้ว +858

    Holy shit, you just pulled "Just To See You Smile" out of nowhere, my dad played that song all the time when I was a kid. I love it!

    • @LavenderRare
      @LavenderRare 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Aaaaa its ARTV!!!!!

    • @rachaelbeth3119
      @rachaelbeth3119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same only my mom played it

    • @jacobmartin7481
      @jacobmartin7481 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love that song, a staple of my childhood when I mainly listened to country music in the late-90's/early 2000's.

    • @yserareborn
      @yserareborn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      "And given the chance I'd lie again"
      That is a genius, gut-punch of a line. I do love that song.

    • @zdknightsky2852
      @zdknightsky2852 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Artv holy crap

  • @joelmole3157
    @joelmole3157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +468

    So this is the 'Blank Space' of this year. A song that Todd liked at first but then got sick of due to its bland musical accompaniment.

    • @witnessme4352
      @witnessme4352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      The difference is that "Blank Space" is actually a really good song.

    • @gavinfelker7630
      @gavinfelker7630 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      And in Blank Space, the instrumentation was just forgettable and bland, as opposed to happier, in which it actively works against the message of the song

    • @KevinContreras2013
      @KevinContreras2013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, but it’s not a bad instrumental.

    • @loekos
      @loekos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      i'm curious to see what marshmello's "Style" is gonna sound like

    • @GambeTama
      @GambeTama 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ loeko
      I'm thinking something along the lines of Avicci's "Wake Me Up"

  • @stephenmcginnis5488
    @stephenmcginnis5488 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    "It's not you, Bastille, it's me"
    Actually it sounds more like it's marshmallow

  • @LouisWritingSomethingCrazy
    @LouisWritingSomethingCrazy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +379

    Is it just me, or does all these EDM styled songs make you feel like you're standing in an elevator? The music itself has no emotion, but it feels like it's waiting for an emotion.

    • @RareTalent007
      @RareTalent007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You've only heard marshmallow, who is complete shit

    • @cassidy5748
      @cassidy5748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I suggest listening to Jai Paul and Daft Punk

    • @TheBrettAbides
      @TheBrettAbides 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I hate that this kind of music passes for EDM these days. Just sounds like something Max Martin shat out to me.

    • @jordan80673
      @jordan80673 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bro wtf elevator are the worst they move so much

    • @Real_Eggman
      @Real_Eggman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think NCS songs are really good.

  • @gregorybest6580
    @gregorybest6580 5 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    The fact that the second hit we gave Bastille was a Marshmello collab instead of Good Grief is just proof that we're undeserving of god's light.

    • @brennens8849
      @brennens8849 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Twin Pines TRUE. maybe we’ll get some hits from the upcoming album? not counting my chickens though.

    • @Emilytheawesome131
      @Emilytheawesome131 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yesss. I love good grief

    • @GambeTama
      @GambeTama 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I would have settled for "Cast Them Off" too, or "The Current, or "Warmth" ... you know what, I'm just gonna go listen to Wild World again.

    • @vintagearisen
      @vintagearisen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Honestly the fact that we haven't given Bastille any other hits since Pompeii is proof that we're undeserving. They roll out the best songs one after the other and America just ignores their brilliance.

    • @whitneymouse
      @whitneymouse 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Twin Pines Good Grief is BEAUTIFUL!

  • @grfrjiglstan
    @grfrjiglstan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Still, good to see Miranda Cosgrove getting work.

    • @rudiejazz
      @rudiejazz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MattheJ1 she’s such a meme now that I genuinely thought you were joking until I saw in the video

    • @David-hd4et
      @David-hd4et 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks to the memes now every time I see her all I see is Michael Jackson after surgery

    • @wmhfv992
      @wmhfv992 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The casting is absolutely terrible, none of the girls/women cast to be a single person look like they could be the same person lmao.

  • @DwarfElvishDiplomacy
    @DwarfElvishDiplomacy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    i honestly cant tell these songs apart anymore

    • @AikiraBeats
      @AikiraBeats 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      So true

    • @Dumb_Killjoy
      @Dumb_Killjoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me neither

    • @tinx713
      @tinx713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know right, mainstream music really sucks nowadays, now I have to go digging for my own music to enjoy.

    • @ffjreviews9029
      @ffjreviews9029 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      2016 basically killed music. It’s never been the same, unless you count the fact that horrible songs are famous off that cringey vine rip off.

  • @alexandertruuvert2037
    @alexandertruuvert2037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    As a massive Bastille fan I can say I was also disappointed by the song. I would definitely recommend the stripped version of the song which is just so much calmer and matches the theme of the song better.

    • @Foxbl00d_Gaming
      @Foxbl00d_Gaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yeah the stripped version was better

  • @jakem5916
    @jakem5916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    The "stripped" version actually removes the EDM elements and, at least in my opinion, gives it the much needed emotional punch the original lacked. Even the artwork for the single is more moody.

    • @MiloKuroshiro
      @MiloKuroshiro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nah. Still as Meh and weak... It still build up nothing for nothing.

    • @maxpowr90
      @maxpowr90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@MiloKuroshiro In Classical music, it's called "tidal flow": pieces that just go back and forth with little theme/motif development to make the piece interesting. Said pieces are usually in the dustbin, forgotten about and only get brought up if another famous composer wrote a piece like that. They're technically sound pieces but you likely won't be hearing them performed in concert halls unless some conductor wants to play said esoteric piece.

  • @kevinrooney3351
    @kevinrooney3351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    Watered-down pop-EDM is eating both pop and dance music alive, just like watered-down pop-disco did back in the '70s.

    • @NJGuy1973
      @NJGuy1973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You think "Happier" will be played at weddings forty years from now?

    • @kevinrooney3351
      @kevinrooney3351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@NJGuy1973 If people can play Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", The Police's "Every Breath You Take", and Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" at weddings, then they will definitely play "Happier".

    • @stephancalitz7113
      @stephancalitz7113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@kevinrooney3351 who the fuck plays closer at a wedding

    • @knowyourroleboulevard7119
      @knowyourroleboulevard7119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kevinrooney3351 who plays Lips of an Angel at weddings. Well who would want to. Who the f... hell wants to!!!!

    • @MQKWJXNDRBTVPL
      @MQKWJXNDRBTVPL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well... At least, this seems to be a comforting thought? The comparison makes one think this is not going to be something we will need to endure for the rest of our lifes, just yet another of the cycles of music and the industry.

  • @shonkywonkydonkey
    @shonkywonkydonkey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +726

    Ed Sheeran already released a song called 'Happier' this year. And it was about accepting that an ex is better off with someone else.
    Like holy shit how much more unoriginal can pop music get

    • @AngelGonzalez-bj6mo
      @AngelGonzalez-bj6mo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I prefer Bastille's Happier. Ed's bores me.

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      How about neither?
      I pick neither... and 80's music. >__>

    • @sonicjrjr14
      @sonicjrjr14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Rock and country aren't doing much better either.

    • @keizeradrianus703
      @keizeradrianus703 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@AngelGonzalez-bj6mo Atleast Ed's song makes you feel how you're supposed to feel

    • @Scanned
      @Scanned 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      It's not exactly a groundbreaking concept.

  • @elijahpaulin4292
    @elijahpaulin4292 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    "breakup dance"
    looks like a fortnite dance to me tbh

  • @dellayassine
    @dellayassine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +457

    "Better than Imagine Dragons" is not exactly saying much.

    • @bladefox-ik5iy
      @bladefox-ik5iy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Better than taking a bath in boiling kettle water

    • @kathleentatman330
      @kathleentatman330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Rebecca Black Friday is better than Imagine Dragons

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I like to pretend that Imagine Dragons stopped recording after Demons (which I was OK with) and that Radioactive was basically their career.

    • @broadstreet223
      @broadstreet223 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Are you joking? Listen to Night Visions.

    • @misanthraaa
      @misanthraaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It even takes less time to just say "not Yoko Ono" the normal way.

  • @gfuffhffjfrfhehfrnfj
    @gfuffhffjfrfhehfrnfj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    I'm also not a fan of the production. I think I would have liked the version with a regular Bastille production much better, because I think that they're great producers on their own. And what kind of bothers me is that Marshmello seems to be getting the most credit for that song even though he basically just remixed it.

    • @GambeTama
      @GambeTama 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      This song definitely comes off like Bastille provided the lyrics and Marshmellow handled the rest after.

    • @SJ-98
      @SJ-98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      BetaBran that’s exactly what happened. Marshmello said in an interview that Bastille sent him their version of the song and he liked it

    • @GambeTama
      @GambeTama 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      + NeonViking
      I do hope, we get to hear that one some day.

    • @SJ-98
      @SJ-98 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      BetaBran they released a “stripped” version of the song that might be the original or close to it!

    • @GambeTama
      @GambeTama 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      For those of you in this comment chain who still care, here's a stripped down version of the song:
      th-cam.com/video/QGtPHnCBH3w/w-d-xo.html

  • @bldwldr
    @bldwldr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +335

    it's not you or bastille, it's marshmello

  • @astroastroastro5741
    @astroastroastro5741 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    pop edm artists like marshmello do not excite me at all. its like the soccer mum of the music world

    • @leonlawson2196
      @leonlawson2196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      More like the degenerative brain disease of the music world

  • @CazTheGamerGuy
    @CazTheGamerGuy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    DJ Pyramid Head's career has been all downhill since "The Room" album.

    • @Valanway
      @Valanway 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      True, but there were those few hits in the "Shattered" and "Homecoming" albums.

    • @RukonTheCreator
      @RukonTheCreator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was so upset when his "Silent Hills" tour got cancelled...

    • @MrSilnev
      @MrSilnev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I remember when he did a collab with Korn for his 'Downpour' discography.

    • @ThatGuyfromBrazil
      @ThatGuyfromBrazil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That joke was good, but it also hurt...

  • @mitchnin10dofan
    @mitchnin10dofan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    Funny how today on the radio I listened to Happier by Marshmello and then I changed the station and it played Happy? by Mudvayne.

    • @MrChaotic4
      @MrChaotic4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try listening to Ed Sheeran's song of the same name.

    • @sadboipotato3382
      @sadboipotato3382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Does it make you happy?

    • @SyntheticFuture
      @SyntheticFuture 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hmm mudvayne. Much better =D

    • @primetime429
      @primetime429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man ur lucky you have a modern rock station

    • @ark4896
      @ark4896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      primetime429 where I live there's two modern rock stations that play mudvayne/hellyeah regularly

  • @christianfaux736
    @christianfaux736 5 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    Your comment on pop music today not "being anything" is remarkably on point.
    Out of curiosity I asked the kids in my youth group who they listen to on the radio and it was all over the place. All the way down from 60's rock to modern emo shit and literally everything in between. There was no consistency, and no one really listed any big pop stars.

    • @AikiraBeats
      @AikiraBeats 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Cause they really sound the same to the point where you forget who actually sings the song

    • @sweesbees
      @sweesbees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      look, i can easily imagine music for each decade that captures the zeitgeist, from the 50s to the 2000s. but for the 2010s i have nothing. i mean yeah, you could say genres like trap and edm could work, but neither of those feel like they completely capture the times. the 2010s was a big mess of, eventually, nothing.

    • @lefromage2001
      @lefromage2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lmao modern "emo" do be better than this garbage I would listen to My Chem or Palaye Royale over Maroon 5 any day
      rather listen to a meaningful song abt death than a substanceless song with nothing creative or interesting in it

    • @frogfireFantasy
      @frogfireFantasy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay.But If nobody's listening to these folks.... why are they big pop stars?

    • @backtoklondike
      @backtoklondike ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sweesbees Yeah and I don't imagine trap at least to last decades to come. I can imagine some of 2010 edm to have some staying power and to be played at old folks party in 40 years but even then, no one will remember who the creator was because they are long forgotten.

  • @DahliaLegacy
    @DahliaLegacy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    As someone who's still not over the loss of her dog... Yeah, like don't you ever pull that dead dog card. It will make me never want to listen to your song or see your movie. It's not cute, it's depressing and we have enough to be depressed about.

    • @DahliaLegacy
      @DahliaLegacy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      In case you aren't aware, I agree with Todd, this isn't against what he said, it's a doubling down on it.

    • @watchmewhipbruh1095
      @watchmewhipbruh1095 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      So no depressing scenes in movies??? Movies would be boring without emotional scenes.

    • @DahliaLegacy
      @DahliaLegacy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I can watch depressing scenes, just no dog deaths. T_T

    • @watchmewhipbruh1095
      @watchmewhipbruh1095 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@DahliaLegacy fair enough.

    • @Shadowtheheartbroken
      @Shadowtheheartbroken 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Im sorry.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 5 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    This review makes everyone happier.

  • @IsaacMayerCreativeWorks
    @IsaacMayerCreativeWorks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +554

    Wait - is this a review of a current pop song? Do those exist?

    • @SirAlanOD
      @SirAlanOD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      They came back to take revenge and reclaim their kingdom from stream services. Just like Simba in The Lion King. In movie theaters 2019.

    • @Saintnick90
      @Saintnick90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      2018 is the year pop music really feels like it became a niche genre. I listen to a local pop station, but I'm looking at a list of contenders for the year-end list, and I don't know half of them, even some of the number ones.

    • @Lexivor
      @Lexivor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Saintnick90 Isn't every genre a niche genre now?

    • @usernameof5
      @usernameof5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There's still a lot of really good pop music this year it's just an underground genre now and isn't on the hot 100. Artists like Kali Uchis, Robyn, Twenty One Pilots, Mariah Carey, Troye Sivan, and even Charlie Puth have made good and interesting pop albums this year that got no hot 100 traction even though they would've just a few years ago

    • @Saintnick90
      @Saintnick90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Lexivor True, but it seems like just a few short years ago that the songs at or near the top of the Hot 100 felt inescapable regardless of medium. Now, it seems like songs chart high based on streaming alone, and unless you're an avid listener of said genres, you can easily never hear them even if your sources are more traditional media like the radio. I'm not saying that's a good or a bad thing, but I'm just pointing out that the market has changed considerably in a few short years.
      Also, there have been decades where pop has felt more "pop." Before the '90s, if a song charted high, you could be guaranteed that everybody knew it. The '90s was certainly splintered among several different genres (For instance, there are a lot of alternative rock and country songs that are better remembered than some of the biggest hits of that time, even if they didn't chart very high. I guess you can blame the radio for playing songs that weren't released as physical singles for that), but it feels like the big hits of the '00s and early '10s were huge in the real world.

  • @gregdeandrea1450
    @gregdeandrea1450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I am not joking when I say now more than ever we need a return of Hair Metal. I think we all, collectively need that.

  • @abi5068
    @abi5068 5 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Honestly, I think the depression of mainstream pop is part of the reason Kpop has gotten more popular, a lot of their music is still happy and is full of superstars. This may be the reason for Ariana's extreme popularity as of late. Just a theory.

  • @sentientblender
    @sentientblender 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    I've never quite been able to pin down an opinion on Marshmello. I hang out in EDM-centric circles a lot of the time and he gets a lot of flack for being unoriginal, cheap, all the usual fare. And I guess that's true, he's not pushing any envelopes in the industry, but I really can't hate that sugary, positive aesthetic he gives off. I'm cool with some upbeat, major pop-electronic on my charts. He's cool by me, all things considered.

    • @mikerivera373
      @mikerivera373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That may be so, but FRIENDS is still a musical atrocity.

    • @TitaniaBird
      @TitaniaBird 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      TheBlenderman sugary, positive, and cheap fare? Picked a good stage name, at least.

    • @iamwontolla
      @iamwontolla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Weird that his breakout hit was about being sad and lonely. imo there's upbeat, and then there's electronic diabetes.

    • @gaffel2835
      @gaffel2835 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I really don't like his music it feels boring but I really like how he's not doing just music he is making gaming videos with famous TH-camrs, cooking videos and actually reading peoples comments in his video that is making me happier when I saw a heart from popular guy to comment by guy who nobody knows I like him as a person not as a music producer

    • @aR0ttenBANANA
      @aR0ttenBANANA 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      EDM has no type or artistic integrity except for Skrillex and Deadmau5 and those guys aren't the big thing anymore. There's so much good electro and techno music out there that isn't garbage but teh average idiuot doesnt care

  • @sundropcenter6758
    @sundropcenter6758 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Do I sense a “Thank U, Next” review in our future?

    • @littlelordfuckleroy3822
      @littlelordfuckleroy3822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      god I hope so, in my opinion Ariana's one of the only pop stars doing anything interesting

    • @Slayer1111111111able
      @Slayer1111111111able 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think he actually just promised two pop song reviews within 7 days of one another

    • @culwin
      @culwin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I hope so, it's one of the most boring songs I've heard in years.

    • @AngelGonzalez-bj6mo
      @AngelGonzalez-bj6mo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He almost never releases two reviews in a row, just in special ocasions just like LWYMMD. The problem is that he is time-limited because he only has a month to finish his worst list.

    • @seppoleonvervloet132
      @seppoleonvervloet132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AngelGonzalez-bj6mo he doesn't start until the year end releases and december is over so he has time

  • @RBRSC
    @RBRSC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    Yeah the pop end of EDM is kind of weird. You have a theoretically near infinite library of sounds to pull from, which should allow you to have dozens or hundreds of potential timbres to suit the emotion of a song.
    And its always a light clean flat sounding air synth, much in the vein Todd mentions of a hockey arena organ. Its the same problem that people criticize vocals on when they say "Autotune".A sound thats too cleaned up and artifically cut to evoke a sense of human fraility or energy.
    While I can't claim any expertise with producing electronic music, I'd have to imagine it can't be that strenously impossible to pepper in some little bits of distortions of slips a fraction of a step off the note.

    • @douglaspantz
      @douglaspantz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      at the end, you seem to be describing glitch hop…

    • @apatheticobserver5290
      @apatheticobserver5290 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@douglaspantz Thats a thing? What other forms of pop are there?

  • @MakeAcid
    @MakeAcid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    the part about the drop is so true
    drops used to be this moment of bliss even a production skills showcase and now they are so samey and boring at least on the mainstream

    • @extrahourinthepit
      @extrahourinthepit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Make Acid ?!
      Man I love your remix of Fireflies!

    • @littleprincess4615
      @littleprincess4615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I feel like there still are good drops, but all of the ones that get popular are just too weak. Like Todd said, they started getting sadder so now they’re boring. Going back to older songs with super intense drops, the drop is still fun but all the popular stuff is WEAK

    • @cassettegirl9928
      @cassettegirl9928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you think drops are bland in 2018, you saw nothing. Look in 2021 music…
      Tiesto - The Business
      Travis Scott and HVME - Goosebumps
      These drops are SO bland.

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +307

    The Casey Kasem reference was brilliant.

    • @bladefox-ik5iy
      @bladefox-ik5iy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hello Tigerstar. I see you’re back here again.

    • @SonofMrPeanut
      @SonofMrPeanut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Now I need to go put on "Shannon."

    • @RobertJRoman
      @RobertJRoman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm glad he didn't bother to come back to the reference or explain it. It was just a sort of Easter egg.

    • @Ryw316
      @Ryw316 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What happened to those pictures?!

    • @davidmonypeny5734
      @davidmonypeny5734 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      First thing I thought of, too.

  • @gimmefeedback
    @gimmefeedback 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    “What is this a breakup DANCE?”

    • @samuelesalvatico7259
      @samuelesalvatico7259 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's the "I'm dumping you dance" from the "break up" video

  • @katedate96
    @katedate96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I've already been traumatised by Marley and Me movie when I was a kid because at that time it was released my golden retriever was recently put down due to bone cancer and the advertisements in my country gave the assumption it was just a cute animal movie on a whacky adventure.
    The dying animal idea tends to be abused for a cheap tearjerker or attempt at gaining critical praise and is rarely done right. I rarely watch any animal related movies due to this unless its an accurate and unbiased documentary.

    • @megmoore8681
      @megmoore8681 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      There's a website called Does The Dog Die? which has content warnings for movies and stuff!

    • @extrahourinthepit
      @extrahourinthepit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the second bloody time I encounter a picture of Haruhi watching Todd In The Shadows, what the hell

  • @jasonguarnieri4127
    @jasonguarnieri4127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I look forward to your review of ‘Sadder’ four years from now.

  • @mrmustard98
    @mrmustard98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Can't wait for the think piece on "thank u, next"

  • @KikoKatsuya
    @KikoKatsuya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    What the hell happened to Dan Bastille's hair?

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Escaped and returned to its family only to find out that they moved on, thinking them dead?

    • @rabidraccoon73
      @rabidraccoon73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He cut it off in the quarter past midnight video

    • @elliewilliams9331
      @elliewilliams9331 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He shaved it in the quarter past midnight video. No idea why

  • @cookieskoon2028
    @cookieskoon2028 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    I like drops, but I admit they've gotten so overused and boring recently. Pop is so painfully overproduced and has been for a long time, but it somehow keeps getting worse.
    I put the blame partially on the lack of organic instruments. Even when you think you hear horns or piano or strings, it's still computer generated. There's nothing wrong with electric sound, but where are all the acoustics?
    Where are the guitar solos (or duets), the violins, the saxophones, drums, brass, woodwind, ANYTHING!?

    • @jayjaywon
      @jayjaywon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same. Organic instruments give the song so much life, especially when the song is vocal-oriented. To mix the vocals with a generated note just sounds and feels hollow with no substance.

    • @lefromage2001
      @lefromage2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's why I love the All-American Rejects
      their songs all have guitar that's actually there.
      Same with Black Veil Brides, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, even My Chemical Romance (Ik i have weird taste leave me alone)
      The Guitar and Drums and Piano is all played on actual real instruments and it makes it sound more meaningful and interesting as well as relatable lyrics about taboo topics (well less so fall out boy most of their earlier songs are abt getting laid lmao)

    • @santoriomaker69
      @santoriomaker69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Idk, you can still bring out a TON of emotion from electronically produced sounds. Marshmello decided to make the most hollow sounding drops I've ever heard used in his electronic music. Organic Instruments wouldn't do shit on Marshmello or any other pop producer that tries to create popular yet boring songs.

    • @cookieskoon2028
      @cookieskoon2028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@santoriomaker69 I think you missed something in my original post and became too focused in your response.

    • @santoriomaker69
      @santoriomaker69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@cookieskoon2028 Oh no no, I agree with a part of your sentiment here where pop became to get overproduced and overpolished. I was more on replying on one of the replies here because I want to voice out that electronically produced sounds can in fact, sound emotional and maybe even as organic as the real instruments if done right.

  • @thediscostu4127
    @thediscostu4127 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I never thought I'd get a Casey Kasem reference from Todd in the Shadows

    • @PapaVanTwee5
      @PapaVanTwee5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Man, I had to go through so many comments to finally see this one. I was beginning to believe I was the only one I got it. Ponderous, man! Ponderous!

    • @brantlarson421
      @brantlarson421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He drops the clip in his worst of 1976 songs list too

  • @MyssBlewm
    @MyssBlewm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Wow so I take it someone put a curse on Todd for putting the Chainsmokers' "Closer" number 1 on his Best of 2016 list.

  • @d3m3nt3dmous3
    @d3m3nt3dmous3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    This video inspired me to listen to Pompeii like 8 times

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kevin Trombly In 10 minutes?

    • @d3m3nt3dmous3
      @d3m3nt3dmous3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@dundee6402 I watched it on Patreon last night >.>
      I was mostly just excited to actually be the first commenter on a video and wanted to say something other than "furst harharhar" =P

    • @thotung34
      @thotung34 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

    • @WaffeHo
      @WaffeHo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And I still cannot listen to the drum part in Pompeii without visualizing Animal from the Muppets. Thanks TitS !

    • @TheLuci915
      @TheLuci915 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video caused me to cleanse my earholes with "The Way It Was" by The Killers because I... hate this song... so... much :(

  • @yukiamerica
    @yukiamerica 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I know he is not of the likes of many people here, but of the EDM Djs, I appreciate that at least Calvin Harris is still doing House danceable music. One Kiss doesn't have the classic EDM big drop, but at least it has a nice summer feeling that makes you dance walking.

    • @IntenslyStupid
      @IntenslyStupid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      He definitely has done some really interesting stuff this year and last, lots of funk to his productions.

    • @NYUMIR
      @NYUMIR ปีที่แล้ว

      I really wouldn’t call Marshmello an EDM Artist anymore, he’s more of an electro pop artist now

  • @ryankasch5561
    @ryankasch5561 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Definitely my least favorite Bastille song, but I still kinda like it. The music just doesn't work with the Bastille lyrics, but I wanted them to get another hit so bad I listened to it nonstop for 3 days

  • @madratthemighty
    @madratthemighty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    I agree that the mainstreaming of electronic music production in pop songs has resulted in some of the worst drops in existence.

    • @miahthorpatrick1013
      @miahthorpatrick1013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I legit can not stand that drop in chain-smokers "closer"

  • @Karmy.
    @Karmy. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    Wait what???
    Bastille is back??
    Holy shit it's been a while

    • @SarahSyna
      @SarahSyna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      If you like Bastille, go listen to Send Them Off! from their Wild World album. SO GOOD.

    • @komencanto
      @komencanto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Nah skulls off all this bad blood is better

    • @jk844100
      @jk844100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Bastille get a good amount of radio play here in the U.K.

    • @Saintnick90
      @Saintnick90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      If you listen to alternative radio, they never really left.

    • @TiggerIsMyCat
      @TiggerIsMyCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@SarahSyna Like literally when he mentioned good lyrics, the first thing that popped into my head was the "Desdemona, won't you liberate me..."etc second verse of that song! God, I listened to that whole album over and over for a month. Keeping up with Todd's Twitter I've been considering suggesting Snakes, but I think it might be TOO relatable

  • @Xarfax321
    @Xarfax321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Todd! I just realized something: We have brought back the 90s musically!
    In the late 80s, early 90s, Glamrock was the hot shit, music about partying and having a good time. Big arena shows with large rock anthems.
    And then came Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. And with that, the party was over.

    • @oscarnemo8084
      @oscarnemo8084 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Except today we have the internet, so not only do we have old music readily available and accessible, we also have indie artists, internet artists, and music from all over the world. I've been trying to figure out how to find the good stuff, what to search for. My starting point is probably Wulfpeck or Bill Wurtz for a nice combo of humor and music skill, but then there's Snarky Puppy as well. And years worth of vgm soundtracks and vgm remixes.
      But with the pop stuff? Yeah, you're right. And things are pretty bleak economically, culturally... grammatically... So it fits. Sadly.

    • @kimifw58
      @kimifw58 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, but just the worst parts of the '90s. Not the substance or attitude.

    • @kimifw58
      @kimifw58 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And dance music was still dance music.

    • @anoob6614
      @anoob6614 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glamrock was already gone by the mid 80's when post punk came, but there was hair metal

  • @ThePonderer
    @ThePonderer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I think Todd just articulated a HUGE problem I’ve had with recent pop and have been trying to put into words for a while.

  • @dellayassine
    @dellayassine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    'A song called "Sad." By a wife-beater. Who's dead.' 👌

    • @jkingisbeast
      @jkingisbeast 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I feel a worst hit of the year candidate is here

    • @riverstover6609
      @riverstover6609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's a shitty joke about an unproven charge its fuckin stupid and your dumb as a rock for laughing at a dead man smh

    • @slinky2237
      @slinky2237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@riverstover6609 it was proven u idiot xxx was a wife beater

    • @crazyluigi6664
      @crazyluigi6664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Apparently this year, we also deserved two shitty hit songs (one in the Top 3) by a rapping pedophilic rainbow man with 69 tattoos on his body and is about to face the idea of life in prison now.....
      Can we kill 2018 already?

    • @dellayassine
      @dellayassine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@riverstover6609 Well good sir, I have the basic ability to differentiate between 'Your' and 'You're.' So I'm probably not the dumb one over here.
      PS: Don't shake your head too much, you might add further damage to your brain. 👍

  • @lucasaugsten
    @lucasaugsten 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    He finally apologised for putting Closer as the top hit song from 201...6?

    • @jeevithrai7994
      @jeevithrai7994 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Salmonfaky except for that coldplay one,imo

    • @CloverLovesTT
      @CloverLovesTT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      todd’s a straight man, sometimes he has slip ups-such as liking this song. everybody makes mistakes.

  • @Lucy-kq4bs
    @Lucy-kq4bs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Somehow hearing two lines of that Tim Mcgraw song made me feel more emotion than any pop song I've heard today

  • @katbird2699
    @katbird2699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    My boyfriend broke up with me today for "my sake" and I thought I'd go to Todd for a distraction.
    Yeah.
    I might've picked to wrong video.

  • @darkyviews
    @darkyviews 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    I was actually expecting some kind of comparison between this one and Happier by Ed Sheeran which is about the same but actually sounds sad and has the stupider video

  • @dumbumbumbum8649
    @dumbumbumbum8649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    “I’m gonna have a thinkpiece for you by the end of the week.”
    So....tomorrow?

  • @henriquepacheco7473
    @henriquepacheco7473 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    SO this is why the world sucks so much these past few years, Toddstradamus predicted we'd be getting happier back in '18

  • @MopishfoolVids
    @MopishfoolVids 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “A song called Sad. By a wife beater. Who’s dead.”
    That part made me chuckle more than I should’ve.

  • @dahazelgen
    @dahazelgen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    One hit wonderland - Macerena

  • @Olodus
    @Olodus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    11:41 "Farting synthesizer-line" - is an amazing way of describing a lot of modern pop. Will start to use that :P

  • @sudevsen
    @sudevsen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    They actually made a video about killing the family pooch?
    This is a new low for creative bankruptcy in pop music.

  • @thecreeker1917
    @thecreeker1917 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Todd: This song called Happier
    In the Video: Dogs dies
    Todd: Wat

  • @jopersoniusker4268
    @jopersoniusker4268 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    5:53
    Oi, isn't that Miranda.... what was it? Cosgrove? From ICarly?

    • @Craftedz
      @Craftedz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      JoGeronimusKer of ebblepub yeah

  • @Crazelord91
    @Crazelord91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    I just... I just want another 4 chord pop song again...nothing melancholy... no mumbling... I'll stop complaining about them... please?

    • @KhayJayArt
      @KhayJayArt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      NO THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR COMPLAINING

    • @galacticpenguintv6752
      @galacticpenguintv6752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She's Kerosine by the Interruptors has the 4 chords.

    • @miniwy01wyatt70
      @miniwy01wyatt70 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just want real instruments and originality

    • @trinifernandez8870
      @trinifernandez8870 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May I sugest sweet but psyco?

    • @Crazelord91
      @Crazelord91 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@trinifernandez8870 It isn't bad. Not a huge hit though

  • @burningchaos1411
    @burningchaos1411 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I really like Bastille but I hate this song.

  • @ReitheOffbeatOtaku
    @ReitheOffbeatOtaku 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think the big problem with this song is that the lyrical dissonance doesn't feel intentional. It just suddenly turns into a hyper-upbeat party jam halfway through.

  • @fatcoyote2
    @fatcoyote2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Is that Miranda Cosgrove? Was that a Casey Kasem reference? Who is the Dark Man?

    • @baileyr7553
      @baileyr7553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yep. That's Miranda in the video.

    • @IaMaPh1991
      @IaMaPh1991 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Kasem reference made me smile so hard

    • @Broadwaychica
      @Broadwaychica 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@IaMaPh1991 It's especially ironic since years ago he made fun of a song about a dog dying and used that reference. This was before he had Amy. Talk about character development.

  • @Caldera01
    @Caldera01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    There is another reason why I don't fancy this song. We're given NO evidence that she actually would be happier if they split up. This is all assumptions by the guy. Couples argue and fight because they care and miscommunicate, there's still potential there and the guy here is just giving it all up on the base of an assumption. It's selfish and lazy.
    On the other hand, the country version Todd brought up, she LITERALLY brings up another guy she's happier with. Here the breakup makes a lotmore sense. We have concrete proof that she actually would be happier with the other guy.
    We also have Ed Sheerans song with the same name 'Happier' where we also literally see she's happier AFTER the breakup and the guy is also happier. Here as well the split is justified. Meanwhile in this Bastilles version, we have nothing but a lazy selfish asumption that she might be happier.

    • @carolinapena9041
      @carolinapena9041 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Caldera I get where you are going but I definitely like this perspective of you thinking you aren’t good enough, sometimes you feel like you should go because you believe you are not worthy of them, you believe you are dragging someone you love down with you, I think the song was okay , the lyrics where but as he said the music doesn’t go with it, in the bastille style I would have loved it

    • @Caldera01
      @Caldera01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@carolinapena9041 Talking from first person experience... this is more likely to just frustrate and break the heart of the girl, who propably still valued the relationship.
      What you describe is what I've lived through and is the major reason why I'm still alone now.

    • @bodybuild9768
      @bodybuild9768 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s the point of the song.

    • @vocalcalibration8033
      @vocalcalibration8033 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think that's kinda' what he was going for.

    • @vocalcalibration8033
      @vocalcalibration8033 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @meme-ology ‘ The topic isn't really the issue, any subject can be made interesting if written well. Musically however he is a very uninteresting musician.

  • @TheAdrift
    @TheAdrift 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    "This is one of the better drops I've heard this year" wow, I never thought I'd find myself pining for Skrillex.
    But seriously, thank you for articulating why I couldn't get hyped about that song! You were right, all the components are there (the breakdown-build-anthem formula is tried and true in electronic music, and the song has a breakdown, a build, and kind of a shitty anthem), but they don't work together in the slightest.

  • @YourCrazyOverlord
    @YourCrazyOverlord 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was trying to put my feelings towards this song into words for MONTHS, and then Todd does it perfectly in just 15 minutes. Thanks Todd!

  • @annasaringer3729
    @annasaringer3729 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    10:19 Is that a
    L O R D E R E F E R E N C E

  • @downwardspiral8501
    @downwardspiral8501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    GOD DAMMIT HE DIDN’T CRY WE HAVE TO KILL ANOTHER DOG

  • @SomeRPGFan
    @SomeRPGFan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I have to say that regardless of how Todd feels about the genre I'm starting to miss the days of techno and eurodance. At least you could actually *dance* to electronic dance music back then. How am I supposed to dance to something like this?!

  • @user-rm6ce2np5v
    @user-rm6ce2np5v 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Pls make a review of Ariana's "Thank you, next"

    • @spiderspartianProductions
      @spiderspartianProductions 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Short reveiw repetitive redundant garbage

    • @ducklordthegreat352
      @ducklordthegreat352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      spider spartian 2006 Productions I mean Todd loved it so I doubt he’d say tha

  • @SabrinaRina
    @SabrinaRina 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Yoyoyo, it's DJ Pyramid Head on the turn tables with that summertime dance hit... Pain & Suffering. 👍

    • @TitaniaBird
      @TitaniaBird 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sabrina Also appropriate for 2018.

  • @brainflash1
    @brainflash1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    You better have gone and given Amy Dog ALL the hugs and belly rubs after finishing this review, Todd!

  • @luanafernandesoliveira3291
    @luanafernandesoliveira3291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The part about Todd's antipathy towards drops reminds me of a video where Charlie Puth explains his process behind "Attention" and says he hates the beat drop so much that he made the song's chorus an "anti-drop" just out of pure spite

  • @Hells0Depths
    @Hells0Depths 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You make me see with my OWN TWO EYES the implication that a pupper gets put down and then you don't even soothe me with video of the Amydog??? MONSTER!!!
    Also, yeah, that weakass drop that is all the crazy is boring AF.

  • @aaronhurst4379
    @aaronhurst4379 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    That whole talk about the apparent devolution of drops just makes me miss Avicii :-(

    • @hithedragon7842
      @hithedragon7842 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same. I was thinking about it during that whole part of the video.

  • @TheKeeperofChaos
    @TheKeeperofChaos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Can we get a One Hit Wonderland on Dragostea Din Tei? Or is that too obscure?

    • @chdreturns
      @chdreturns 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TheKeeperofChaos Especially now that the OHWl restriction on artists who are big elsewhere has been lifted (and O-Zone were MASSIVE in Moldova, and Romania).

    • @gabriel77196
      @gabriel77196 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@poisony3k não mostra isso pra eles não po kkkkkjmhkkgkgjgkfjdb

    • @kris8695
      @kris8695 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a Romanian who grew up in the 2000s I would love this!!!

    • @zzcolby27
      @zzcolby27 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      i wonder if Dreamscape by 009 Sound System will be on OHW. It wasn't a Billboard hit, but it was a HUGE internet smash.

  • @igp.
    @igp. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Dan Bastille. I don't remember his last name" it's frickin Smith.

    • @sweesbees
      @sweesbees 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      in retrospect bastille is better

  • @cantshakeyoumel
    @cantshakeyoumel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I KNOW U thought I wouldn't catch that but THE LORDE reference from team. thank u. 10:19

  • @HerkulesHildrum
    @HerkulesHildrum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    This video can be summed up as: Marshmello is an awful pruducer with bad instincts, awful synth choises and bland melody progressions, and i fully agree.
    Todd and i shall be the mourning elderly blokes in the back saying that the "old edm" was better.

    • @ducklordthegreat352
      @ducklordthegreat352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      meme-ology ‘ Imagine Dragons songs are infinitely more bland and unoriginal than a lot of brag raps

  • @McMenemy5orSomething
    @McMenemy5orSomething 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    I just wanna say that I started binge watching your videos recently and I absolutely LOVE the content you put out.
    Keep it up, much love!

    • @akillen77
      @akillen77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Welcome he is hilarious imo

    • @Nightingale_time
      @Nightingale_time 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Welcome!!! 😊

    • @MyssBlewm
      @MyssBlewm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Welcome! Todd's videos are so good that I've rewatched his videos a lot. I usually end up binging on his One Hit Wonderlands or his Worst/Best Top 10s.

    • @TheProfessor529
      @TheProfessor529 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, I've been swimming through the backlog too.

  • @HardlySimpleFilmsFCX
    @HardlySimpleFilmsFCX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The simplicity in those drops are so damn painful. I get you can make a great song with simple ingredients but god damn the drop is literally three notes in a major scale. It doesn't go anywhere! It doesn't have meaning it's just *insert drop here* and it's lazy as fuck. I blame the Chainsmokers they made this shit popular

  • @ouijacorn
    @ouijacorn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Corny as this seems, this song made me cry the first time I heard it because it helped me get over a difficult breakup. So I have nothing bad to say about it. In my opinion, it's a whole lot better than "Closer", which I thought was unbearably precious (though that's how I feel about everything Halsey is involved with).
    That may be an unpopular opinion, but whether or not you agree with me, I think we can ALL jam to DJ Pyramid Head.

    • @joshuajames6481
      @joshuajames6481 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually liked Happier too
      Still do