Todd: 'I can imagine them just dropping all their tea cups' Me, stood in my kitchen waiting for my tea to brew: 'god I'm SICK of all these british stereotypes'
Snow is still a one-hit-wonder. If a musician's second hit happens decades later and is built around a sample of their first hit, they are still a one-hit-wonder.
@@randomuploaderguy were any of those songs hits though? Having great songs doesn't mean someone isn't a one hit wonder. If the average person only knows one of their songs they're one hit wonders. Terrence gave a better example with "Girl I've been hurt" with it charting well. There's lots of people who are often called "one hit wonders" and have lots of great songs. Chamilionare for example has plenty of amazing songs throughout his discography. Specially with his mixtapes. Doesn't mean he's not only known by the general public for ridin dirty.
@@jonnyOysters Plus at least, like Todd mentioned, Morrison had 5 hits off his debut in the UK, while Billy Ray hasn't had a single song chart under his name except Achy Breaky Heart.
I never even knew till a few months ago that return of the mack was a British song. I was kinda gobsmacked by that. It sounds so American. But yeah just watch the video once and it's obvious he's driving round London or some UK town anyway. So I'll add that to the list of great British songs. But yeah. I don't think anybody knew at the time that the fella was British too. I was around back then. Nobody ever brought it up. We all thought he was American. So we certainly didn't try to make a new genre out of it. It fits neatly into the genre "R&B" so it doesn't need a new genre. Mind you, "R&B" these days does seem to end up meaning "pop when sung by black people" rather than an actual genre anymore, so I dunno. Like come on, the rolling stones were an R&B band, and they're so divorced from modern R&B that it's crazy to call it the same genre
So apparently the way to get Todd to make a review in under a week is to have G-Eazy and Chris Brown sample a beloved song from his childhood... good to know.
Fun fact... My best friends father in law (Manchester folk) was in the same prison cell with Mark Morrison in the 90s before Return of the Mac was recorded and blew up... He said to my mates father in law inside "I'm going to record a song that's beloved by people all over the world for years to come." He did just that.
They had other hits before such as "We've got it going on" or "Get down" or "I'll never break your heart" or "Quit playing games with my heart" or "Anywhere for you". I remember "Get down" being a huge hit in 1996. I received their single "Anywhere for you" on my birthday in 1996. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" wasn't a hit before 1998.
I was about 8 when that song was big, and the 'We're Back!' angle always confused me too. Back from where? Were you ever gone? Isn't this like your first big song?
Stephanie Wozny they were big in Europe and Asia, their first US album is actually a mixture of their second album (that's where backstreet's back come from) and their international hits from the first album thrown in
I once had a colleague who got stabbed by Mark Morrison in a night club. Nothing proven, of course, but you can imagine how he feels about that song...
1997 was actually huge year for British acts in America...OK Computer, The Fat of the Land and Urban Hymns all sold 10 million copies globally, a good chunk of those in America. Even Blur's biggest US hit was released then. But for R&B and Hiphop you're right, labels did not want to push that overseas. At the time it probably felt like selling burgers to McDonalds.
I was momentarily taken aback by that Bohemian Rhapsody cover (Hilarious, I don't understand why it exists), so I did a bit of digging. Turns out it was for a shitty '90s movie called High School High starring Jon Lovitz, and also the song was produced by Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins and '00s rock and pop producer Eric Valentine. I'm honestly not sure I believe the things I'm reading on the internet right now. Amazing.
As a British teen in the 90s I was shocked by that, I'd never seen/heard of it before and I'm glad at least some of the blame can be laid outside of the UK. Don't get me wrong, we are responsible for some god awful music, but I'm pretty sure we all knew at the time that Peter Andre was more pop than proper r&b too!
except not really, technically the singer (Murray head) had another top 20 hit in 1969 and it is difficult to call something written by members of ABBA a one hit wonder.
G-Easy and Chris Brown, two men who were exposed as toxic assholes, whose exes drastically outshine them, falling onto the champion of break-up songs by a one-hit wonder is pretty poetic tbh
@@mokaza40 I can't really say if it's equal or not but there in the same lane. Both have been convicted of assult and drug possession. Both have been described as abusive by there exs. Both have been known to be jerks and serial cheaters. The only reason I would say G easy isn't as bad is because I think he's done it less than Chris Brown so there isn't as much proof of him getting into stuff but that might just be because he hasn't been as big or around as long.
I actually thought he was going to use "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" as an example of the Brits not getting rap, but obviously that's patently false because "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" is a goddamn classic.
Some potential 2010s one-hit-wonders that Todd could talk about in the 2020's (provided none of them pull a Mike Posner): Nico and Vinz - Am I Wrong OMI - Cheerleader Vance Joy - Riptide Lumineers - Ho Hey Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know The last one in particular would be interesting given that Todd actually reviewed this song when it was popular, it would be interesting to see what he thinks of Gotye in retrospect.
Oh man, I have a feeling he's gonna dunk on The Lumineers. That band was the epitome of formulaic millennial indie folk that the Mumford and Sons initially built on.
But unless you're pronouncing it "lestuh" or better yet "leggeh", you're not from the east Midlands! Gotta love accents, (and find them exceedingly strange at the same time!)
Todd saying most of the girls have the cool breakup songs made me realize why Mexico is so upbeat, most of our breakup anthems are meant for parties where some people are trying to get over their exes, so we have things from both sexes like: "You're not even that hot" "I must've been crazy if I ever said I loved you" "Let whoever wants you beg you cause I ain't gonna do it" and the unforgettable "2 legged rat" just to name a few lol
To me, I'll always associate this song with _Saint's Row III_ - just cruising down the highway in summer... in the middle of the road in the wrong direction... on a motorbike shaped like a tiger.
I knew this song from before but I remember that too...so awesome. Can I feel nostalgic for something I only played a year ago? I wish i could play it the first time again. If you search around youtube, there's a video of Aha's take on me with ALL the voices singing along to it from saints row 2. It sounds like a demented road trip, and is amazing. How many times did you crash your bike on stationary objects?
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OHW request before video is removed: Walk the Dinosaur by “Was Not Was” mostly because I want to see your take on the post-apocalyptic hellscape theory
I remember this being a hit. The important detail is that 1997 internet was there but it was not today's internet. There was no "SoundCloud" someone exiled to wherever could just upload and promote new stuff. Even Napster was still about a year away. This situation today, MM would have a lot more options.
But he would also be competing against 10 other artists with a similar style, and his music would just be 'rented' along with everything else in the Spotify age. Return of the Mack has legendary status because it stood out back then. It's much harder to stand out now without a giant marketing machine behind you.
It's about goddamn time Todd covered some more new jack swing music on here. That genre is filled with one hit wonders, and it's one of my all time faves.
I love when, as a South American, Todd does one of these I have nver heard or he does a song and says we never really heard this in America and we’re like ‘that song was so big here’
This is one of those songs that I've only ever heard in the background, but I've heard it all my life. It's like Todd just started playing the sound of cicadas or rain falling on the roof and then said "yeah, that was the top hit of the 90's."
Any song mentioning “Mack” seems to be popular Mack The Knife Return of the Mack Can’t Hold Us with the line “Return of the Mack” WAP “I want you to park that Big Mac truck right in this little garage”
And multiple McDonald's ads when the restaurants reopened after Covid lockdowns. Example from New Zealand (my home country): th-cam.com/video/SRAn_c1F6Io/w-d-xo.html
To give credit where credit is due, Brits are really good at Trip-Hop. Tricky's "Maxinquaye" came out in 1995, and is great. Includes a great cover of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos".
Exactly; not to mention the Bristol scene of the early 1990s, which spawned Massive Attack. UK hiphop isn't "lesser" than US hiphop, it's just different and has different influences (just like how UK rock is different to US rock).
@@jaydee4697 I agree. Both Tricky and Massive Attack were recommended to me in the Spotify Taste-Breakers playlist from a couple of years ago, and I now play both on heavy rotation.
@@jaydee4697 He does eventually say as much, at least about grime becoming its own unique phenomenon. He also says as much about trip-hop directly in the OHW for "Missing" by Everything But the Girl.
I had a party at my house about 6 years ago and put this on repeat after we had all had some drinks. I started at sub audible volumes and kept slowly increasing the volume through the rest of the night. No one noticed until days later when they all kept complaining about return of the mack being stuck in their heads. I like to think I did them all a favor.
I very recently became aware of Byker Grove because someone on twitter mentioned that Noddy kissing Gary was the first gay kiss they'd ever seen on TV. And apparently it's where Ant and Dec got their start. Grim.
I'm probably the only person requesting this song for a "One Hit Wonder" episode, but please, PLEASE, consider doing "Black Betty" by "Ram Jam"! The song is actually good, and they are a true one hit wonder. Not to mention the fun racial overtones!
Unfortunately he’s said that he attempted a “Black Betty” episode but ran afoul of the frequent OHW problem that there’s not enough available footage of the band performing
I feel your pain. Apple Retail ruined a few perfectly good songs for me, which I felt was a bigger crime than annoying me with repeating the bad ones. Not like they had an excuse for rotating like 30 songs and changing them something like every 6 months. The iTunes Music Store did exist, Apple. Jeez
How can you hear that song and not quit immediately after the first 30 secs? You might have to come back and beg for your job the next day, but it would be so hard to hear that song and want to continue working, lol
I’m still waiting for Todd to do “The Rain” by Oran “Juice” Jones. That is a One Hit Wonder that is very dear to me....considering the fact that I’m childhood friends with his youngest son.
@@matttheshadowman2790 'Missing' by EBTG only became a hit after being remixed by Todd Terry. And that's been covered on this channel as a one-hit wonder. So Brimful of Asha should also qualify.
OHW: Mercy by Duffy This one may be hard to talk about but it's still an interesting story as to why a one hit wonder dropped off the face of the earth
Except, as a Brit, Duffy wasn't a one hit wonder, not in the UK anyway. She had at least 1 other hit song (Warwick Avenue) and a hit album and then some awful personal issues derailed her career for a long time.
The song is really catchy, but it’s never really struck a chord with me. But I gotta respect the angle of it being about about getting back his stride following his Gf leaving because she believed his career would never take off; and not only is this song a huge hit, it stuck with people for decades
I think the biggest legacy of Mark Morrison on UK music is his sing rap style and his music video aesthetic is kind of what a lot of UK RnB became in the early 2000's. I'm certain Craig David was a fan
Respect to you big man, I know it isn't difficult but putting in just a little bit of effort when researching British hip hop culture and grime, just makes me respect you more. And I'm Australian! But, as a member of the Commonwealth, I salute you.
Yeah I'm Australian, before connecting the title "Return of the Mack' to this song which I'd heard but had no idea was called "Return of the Mack", I imagined that Return of the Mack was some kind of Mack the Knife reference. And then I assumed it must be a nickname for Mark.
I'm American and have pretty much only ever heard the term in the context of "Miggity-miggity-miggity mack daddy, kriss kross", so I also appreciated the explanation.
Welcome back to One Hit Wonderland, the only show brave enough to ask: if Return of the Mack is so great, why isn't there a Return of the Return of the Mack?
I swear to God my local radio DJ must be a fan of Todd. I never once heard this song until this episode, and after this episode came out I hear it everywhere. Not to mention the same radio station plays tons of other tracks that have appeared on one hit wonderland
You, my friend, experienced (a year ago) the Baader-Meinhof effect. You may well have experienced it before in your life without realizing it, and after you look it up (yes, it's a double A), you may well hear about it very frequently.
Yeah but since when is Usher not doing the cheating? I mean don't you have to have a meaningful relationship on from you the cheaters POV to be burned? I don't even know how you'd cheat on Usher before he does you...invite another man in the middle of sex?
I've said this many times on many videos. British artists have done wonderful things with hip-hop beats, British artists have done wonderful things with the spoken word. However, until the last few years, British artists rapping over hip-hop style beats just hasn't worked. Even then, the new artists have something that is distinctly unAmerican. I can't hear an American rapping over a Young T & Bugsey beat. People forget that rapping existed in Britain for as long as it existed in the US, the difference is that in the UK it came from the Jamaican community and was pretty much only in the Jamaican community. It was called "toasting" and you'd toast over dub, dancehall and later ragga. If you slipped into a bit of a melody, it was called "singjaying". So Double Trouble and the Rebel MC's "Street Tuff" was toasting over a house song that sampled a reggae bassline. Later MCs were rapping over jungle, again influenced by reggae (nothing beats a jungle song with a reggae break), then some MCs moved onto a slowed-down breakbeat style that came to be known as speed garage and then UK garage then the youngers moved onto grime. Honestly, and I know some people will think I am nuts, but I find a lot of trap and mumble rap to be highly unimaginative. I haven't heard a new, young American MC who can hold a candle to Aitch for instance. The only American rap album that has blown me away recently was the new Busta Rhymes album.
@@michaelfarrow5817 This is not true. Look up TY, Blak Twang, Sway, Roots Manuva, Skinnyman, Mysdiggi, Jehst, Doc Brown, Lowkey, Tony D, Klashnekof, Rodney P, Lil Simz, Akala, Loyle Carner, Hawk House, Dave and so many more who have done quality hip hop through the 90s until now. Then you will realise all your typed here isn’t true. There’s a whole UK hip hop scene that you missed out with your comment and not all UK Hip Hop artists are Jamaican or made music for the Jamaican community. This is simply not true.
UK hip hop, or grime? Because grime really is its own thing, and the only UK rap artists that some Americans (around my age, twentysomethings and zoomers) easily are Slick Rick, MF Doom, and Scarlxrd.
This is one of the greatest R&B songs ever, up there with Next - Too Close, this whole album was fkn pure brilliance, the problem was Return Of The Mack was so huge, it really could never be matched, how do you write a bigger song then that? my favorite song on the disc was Trippin.
Ginuwine Differences: Excuse me why are you not mentioning me in a discussion of greatest R&B songs ever? Backstreet No Diggity: What about me? I'm also one of the greatest R&B songs ever!
Tyson Fury had this as his entrance music when he came back after nearly 2 years out. Everyone knows what the message of this song is. It's a fucking banger. Its there to tell everyone that you're fucking BACK! It's on the same level as Back in Black by AC DC. An absolute classic.
The way I see things, if you're considered "featuring" on a track, it doesn't count as yours. If Billy Ray had actually co-written/performed Old Town Road with Lil Nas, it would be legitimate to credit it as his. Not that I am not forever grateful to Billy Ray for putting OTR over the top, but in my eyes, he's still a one-hit wonder.
I'd say it depends on what you're doing on said track, the G-Eazy thing is basically just a very late and lame Return of the Mack remix but Billy Ray Cyrus is doing more than recycling the Achy Breaky Heart chorus on Old Town Road.
and before anyone says anything, yes i know (and am madly in love with) the song keep on movin’, but i feel as though in the american landscape of pop culture, “back to life” is more widely remembered
Would you ever consider doing One Night In Bangkok? I know it would be an unconventional episode since it originates from a musical and not a band but it would be amazing to hear your thoughts on it and it’s strange origins.
I love the song, and Chess is fun, but in no way is it a OHW. Murray Head charted at 14 with "Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar. And, if you're going by the creative folks on the project, you're talking about the two Bs from ABBA (clearly not OHWs) and Tim Rice (who at the very least has that JSC hit, without thinking too deeply about the rest of his catalog). Hm. Might be an interesting show idea for someone to discuss musical theater songs which became charting hits.
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Retuuuurn of the Todd
(Heyyy)
ONCE AGAIN
O. My. Gawd!
Wow didn’t expect you to watch Todd
Big fan!!!
A coworker of mine would sing this anytime someone brought in a Macbook for repairs. I cannot detach this song from "broken Apple Macintosh" now.
@Pete Harrison I didn't need that.
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@@chamele0nday Okay. That made me laugh.
😂
Okay, I'm dying laughing at imagining that 😂. Your coworker sounded like they'd make a work day more enjoyable.
Todd: 'I can imagine them just dropping all their tea cups'
Me, stood in my kitchen waiting for my tea to brew: 'god I'm SICK of all these british stereotypes'
Me, sipping my tea: damn right Beth
Me an American about to boil water for my tea using a rice cooker because I don't have a kettle: boy I'm jealous of those guys 😭
Sad, innit bruv?
@@dinomoviesnstuff Yeah blud it's bollocks fam
This is like how I can't get mad at jokes about Americans liking cheeseburgers because I really like cheeseburgers.
Snow is still a one-hit-wonder.
If a musician's second hit happens decades later and is built around a sample of their first hit, they are still a one-hit-wonder.
Right even Billy Ray Cyrus.... Up Town Road was already a hit before he was involved in the remix. It wasn't his hit to begin with.
"Girl I've Been Hurt" was Snow's follow-up to "Informer", and peaked at #19. That's more than most one-hit wonders ever accomplish.
@@randomuploaderguy were any of those songs hits though? Having great songs doesn't mean someone isn't a one hit wonder. If the average person only knows one of their songs they're one hit wonders.
Terrence gave a better example with "Girl I've been hurt" with it charting well. There's lots of people who are often called "one hit wonders" and have lots of great songs.
Chamilionare for example has plenty of amazing songs throughout his discography. Specially with his mixtapes. Doesn't mean he's not only known by the general public for ridin dirty.
@@randomuploaderguy *good* songs?
@@jonnyOysters Plus at least, like Todd mentioned, Morrison had 5 hits off his debut in the UK, while Billy Ray hasn't had a single song chart under his name except Achy Breaky Heart.
Todd has such a crush on Mark Morrison and it's honestly so cute. I'm here for it.
No, us Brits do not and never did call NJS “swing beat”. Just that one lady did, that one time.
Lmaoooo right
I've only ever heard swingbeat being used as an alternate name for NJS in somewhat obscure American new jack swing songs with rapping.
I never even knew till a few months ago that return of the mack was a British song. I was kinda gobsmacked by that. It sounds so American. But yeah just watch the video once and it's obvious he's driving round London or some UK town anyway. So I'll add that to the list of great British songs. But yeah. I don't think anybody knew at the time that the fella was British too. I was around back then. Nobody ever brought it up. We all thought he was American. So we certainly didn't try to make a new genre out of it. It fits neatly into the genre "R&B" so it doesn't need a new genre. Mind you, "R&B" these days does seem to end up meaning "pop when sung by black people" rather than an actual genre anymore, so I dunno. Like come on, the rolling stones were an R&B band, and they're so divorced from modern R&B that it's crazy to call it the same genre
Yep. We are not original enough to come up with new terms.
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"Everyone, especially corny white people, loves Return of the Mack." Damn you didn't have to call me out like that bro.
ikr todd.
Haha you look hella corny omg
Hahahahahahahahha you’re white
Lot of corny black people like it too....
ngl was doing the "corny white girl" dance by myself when the song was playing during the video. ... it's a good beat, ok?
So apparently the way to get Todd to make a review in under a week is to have G-Eazy and Chris Brown sample a beloved song from his childhood... good to know.
“I know what I have to do... but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it”
You know what to do, Sean; start funding awful G-Eazy/Chris Brown singles to increase Todd's production
@@WaaveLvl0 hm
Ruin Todd's childhood, noted
@Pete Harrison Go fuck yourself.
"He was such a Mack, there was three of him." Abso fkn lutely.
If you can't come out stonger than when you left, come out threefold.
Fun fact... My best friends father in law (Manchester folk) was in the same prison cell with Mark Morrison in the 90s before Return of the Mac was recorded and blew up... He said to my mates father in law inside "I'm going to record a song that's beloved by people all over the world for years to come."
He did just that.
“Farther in law” lolz. Twice! Cool story
@@trashyraccoon2615 Oh no😱 its the grammar police! 😉
I could have lived happily ever after without that Bohemian Rapsody cover.
You mean you never wanted to hear what Queen would sound like if they were a shitty coffee house band?
The only Queen cover that matters is that BR cover with The Muppets
Guess I'll happily be the lone minority who actually wants to listen to this cover and more from The Braids.
Yeah, that cover piqued my interest a little.
Same, but I've also heard Shatner's Rhapsody cover.
That was PAIN and a crime against music.
Reminds me of how Backstreet Boys debut was 'Backstreet's Back' even though they had never released an album in the American market before then
It's still a textbook example of an "I'm back bitch" single though.
They had other hits before such as "We've got it going on" or "Get down" or "I'll never break your heart" or "Quit playing games with my heart" or "Anywhere for you".
I remember "Get down" being a huge hit in 1996. I received their single "Anywhere for you" on my birthday in 1996. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" wasn't a hit before 1998.
I was about 8 when that song was big, and the 'We're Back!' angle always confused me too. Back from where? Were you ever gone? Isn't this like your first big song?
@@stephaniewozny3852: I believe their first big song was "We've got it going on".
Stephanie Wozny they were big in Europe and Asia, their first US album is actually a mixture of their second album (that's where backstreet's back come from) and their international hits from the first album thrown in
That R&B Bohemian Rhapsody dealt psychic damage to me.
Frankly he's considered a one hit wonder here in the UK too. Nobody remembers his other songs even if they made the top 10 at the time.
That impression of 90's drums was so dead-on it's crazy.
yeah its called the james brown beat. Look up James Browns Funky Drummer. it was literally the most reused beat in the early 80s and 90s
I'd still count Billy Ray and the like as One Hit Wonders because they are piggy-backing off others to return and not releasing their *own* hits
Me too.
The Alex Band rule.............
Snow, maybe. But Billy Ray is an equal partner in Old Town Road. He genuinely brings the song together and makes it feel complete.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep Good point.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep I have to agree, he genuinely is one of the best parts of that song.
I once had a colleague who got stabbed by Mark Morrison in a night club. Nothing proven, of course, but you can imagine how he feels about that song...
Mack the knife
Return of the shank
@@csurname Perfect.
@@csurname You can shut down TH-cam now. This is the greatest comment ever.
@@csurname ha
You mean Jason Derulo's cover of the classic "I'm Han Solo"
😂😂😂😂😂
*insert shocked Jontron here*
Go hawks
@@michaelcurtis7590 Spain without the s
I’m just now realizing how much Mark Morrison sounded like Cameo.
@Esther Sparrow Cameo had multiple hits, just not POP hits. Various R&B hits.
Word up to the return of the mack
Mark Morrison is like Cameo but cool.
1997 was actually huge year for British acts in America...OK Computer, The Fat of the Land and Urban Hymns all sold 10 million copies globally, a good chunk of those in America. Even Blur's biggest US hit was released then. But for R&B and Hiphop you're right, labels did not want to push that overseas. At the time it probably felt like selling burgers to McDonalds.
I'd say the closest thing to good British R&B from then is actually Massive Attack's early stuff
@@YamiFlyZX Right? I was surpised Massive Attack weren't mentioned in this video, even if they're not strictly considered "R&B"
Fat of the Land RULES
Be here now also became oasis's highest charting album in the us in 97 too
It was truly a golden age for brit acts
Didn't think I was gonna make it through that 8-second "Bohemian Rhapsody" cover clip. Some things need to stay buried.
More for me then!!
Yeah, that one was a doozy
Still better than the cover of Princes of the Universe used in Highlander the Source.
That was BLASPHEMY!
As Tom Breihan said, "I hope he runs, and I hope he wins. I want to hear “Return Of The Mayor.”"
How the hell does this man have the singing voice of Akon while still being cooler than the Fonz in a meat locker?
Great description 👍
Akon’s a fucking chad tho
He sounds like larry blackmon from cameo
@Pete Harrison Thanks I needed a good laugh 🤣
I swear, I’m going to need to update my list of phrases to use more often to have a subsection just dedicated to out of context quotes from you.
I was momentarily taken aback by that Bohemian Rhapsody cover (Hilarious, I don't understand why it exists), so I did a bit of digging. Turns out it was for a shitty '90s movie called High School High starring Jon Lovitz, and also the song was produced by Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins and '00s rock and pop producer Eric Valentine. I'm honestly not sure I believe the things I'm reading on the internet right now. Amazing.
I can't believe Third Eye Blind was involved in it.
As a British teen in the 90s I was shocked by that, I'd never seen/heard of it before and I'm glad at least some of the blame can be laid outside of the UK.
Don't get me wrong, we are responsible for some god awful music, but I'm pretty sure we all knew at the time that Peter Andre was more pop than proper r&b too!
And it was directed by the guy who played Ellis in "Die Hard!" 🤯
Please do a One Hit Wonderland of "One Night In Bangkok". The story behind it is fascinating, and most people don't even know that history.
Anything for more Swedish rep
I get my kicks above the wasteline sunshine
except not really, technically the singer (Murray head) had another top 20 hit in 1969 and it is difficult to call something written by members of ABBA a one hit wonder.
I know him so well was a hit too
This review's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
G-Easy and Chris Brown, two men who were exposed as toxic assholes, whose exes drastically outshine them, falling onto the champion of break-up songs by a one-hit wonder is pretty poetic tbh
What's up with G-easy. I know of Chris Brown but Is he equally as bad?
@@mokaza40 I can't really say if it's equal or not but there in the same lane. Both have been convicted of assult and drug possession. Both have been described as abusive by there exs. Both have been known to be jerks and serial cheaters. The only reason I would say G easy isn't as bad is because I think he's done it less than Chris Brown so there isn't as much proof of him getting into stuff but that might just be because he hasn't been as big or around as long.
@@mikeyvesperlick6982 Lol you're a POS
@@mikeyvesperlick6982 ..... so anyway, chris brown is a toxic ass person xox
@@jamarsh09 G-Easy was vanilla toxic boyfriend, as far as i know
Did you just blame us for Peter Andre? He was Australia's fault thank you very much.
Eh, you both have the Queen on your money, so close enough.
we def adopted him as one of our own though, even for an aussie he has huge essex energy
He was born in Lewisham, and only moved to Australia when he was 9. So we're all complicit
MysTeriouSSS GiiiiirrrrRRLLLll
We acquired him when he hooked up with Jordan.
I’m surprised we hadn’t seen Ant & Dec in a Todd video sooner
I wish I never had.
Why-aye let’s get ready to rumble, pet
Honestly, I am too.
I actually thought he was going to use "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" as an example of the Brits not getting rap, but obviously that's patently false because "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" is a goddamn classic.
....PJ & Duncan
Some potential 2010s one-hit-wonders that Todd could talk about in the 2020's (provided none of them pull a Mike Posner):
Nico and Vinz - Am I Wrong
OMI - Cheerleader
Vance Joy - Riptide
Lumineers - Ho Hey
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
The last one in particular would be interesting given that Todd actually reviewed this song when it was popular, it would be interesting to see what he thinks of Gotye in retrospect.
Oh man, I have a feeling he's gonna dunk on The Lumineers. That band was the epitome of formulaic millennial indie folk that the Mumford and Sons initially built on.
@@theobuniel9643 Wasn't Ophelia also a minor hit? I still hear that song pretty often.
I remember when I first heard Icona Pop's "I Love It", I knew it'd be a one-hit wonder
God, "Am I Wrong" had one-hit wonder written all over it. It even felt like the artists' name fell out of your head 2 seconds after reading it.
@@SRMkay Omg yes, can't believe I forgot that one. Only good thing that song did was launch Charli XCX's career.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate Todd for being the only American ever to correctly pronounce Leicester
There's about eleven thousand people in a town in Massachusetts that would be mildly amused by this.
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@@hiimemilyisnt it pronounced "Lye-Chester" MA?
@@brunolondinese5857 Nope.
But unless you're pronouncing it "lestuh" or better yet "leggeh", you're not from the east Midlands! Gotta love accents, (and find them exceedingly strange at the same time!)
answer to your question about break up songs for the boys: probably Cee Lo's "Fuck You" is also up there
How did I forget about that song? Such a fun listen.
Fuck You is a lot more vulnerable tho, it doesn't really fit as a "I Didn't Need You Anyway" song
Also, "U Don't Have To Call" by Usher.
Also reminds me of his take on Charlie Puth's Attention.
@@PHSDM104 i was just reminiscing about how good Usher was in the early to mid 2000s
Todd saying most of the girls have the cool breakup songs made me realize why Mexico is so upbeat, most of our breakup anthems are meant for parties where some people are trying to get over their exes, so we have things from both sexes like:
"You're not even that hot"
"I must've been crazy if I ever said I loved you"
"Let whoever wants you beg you cause I ain't gonna do it"
and the unforgettable "2 legged rat" just to name a few lol
TWO LEGGED RAT AHAHA
I'm keeping that one thanks Mexico
Ah yes, Paquita la del barrio
Link please I'm too lazy
I've been to too many parties where I hear all of these. Viva México!
Puro pinche Ingrata homie
Silly Todd mackelmore was a 2 hit wonder
Wrong on that too. Macklemore got a good amount of hits on him
@@antwanscott97 does downtown even count
@@spindabrian69 Yes
ceiling can't hold us was a solid hit tbh
Thrift Shop, Can’t Hold Us, Downtown, Good Old Days, Same Love
I am a Brit that was growing up around the time. Bloody hell, seeing young Ant and Dec is a trip.
Todd: talks about British rap
Also Todd: shows a clip of Ant and Dec
And yet no appearance of Let's Get Ready to Rhumble
Fucking outrage
Watch us wreck the mic
And also no mention of John Barnes's quite magnificent MC'ing.
To me, I'll always associate this song with _Saint's Row III_ - just cruising down the highway in summer... in the middle of the road in the wrong direction... on a motorbike shaped like a tiger.
I knew this song from before but I remember that too...so awesome. Can I feel nostalgic for something I only played a year ago? I wish i could play it the first time again.
If you search around youtube, there's a video of Aha's take on me with ALL the voices singing along to it from saints row 2. It sounds like a demented road trip, and is amazing.
How many times did you crash your bike on stationary objects?
Good times
@@Avrysatos | This?: th-cam.com/video/y9BoIEY4xA4/w-d-xo.html | Someone also did 'What I Got' from 'The Third': th-cam.com/video/RSc7yehDx9I/w-d-xo.html
Wearing nothing but a silver chain and watch...
@@professordetective807 thanks!!!!
OHW request before video is removed: Walk the Dinosaur by “Was Not Was” mostly because I want to see your take on the post-apocalyptic hellscape theory
Just want to see clips from the Super Mario Bros movie in a OHW video
Was Not Was actually had another semi-big single that same year. "Spy in the House of Love" went up to number 16 on the Hot 100.
Todd would need a few hours to cover Don Was' career.
@@bat4280 It's the Chumbawumba episode 2.0!
He did the post-apocalyptic song once already with "I Melt With You" by Modern English.
There is something absolutely contagious about this song, it's impossible to not get hype
That opening vocal run from Mark just sends me every time
I remember this being a hit. The important detail is that 1997 internet was there but it was not today's internet. There was no "SoundCloud" someone exiled to wherever could just upload and promote new stuff. Even Napster was still about a year away. This situation today, MM would have a lot more options.
The ability to self publish now gives artists a bit more leeway than the demands of recording companies. I think it's a great thing for music.
But he would also be competing against 10 other artists with a similar style, and his music would just be 'rented' along with everything else in the Spotify age. Return of the Mack has legendary status because it stood out back then. It's much harder to stand out now without a giant marketing machine behind you.
It's about goddamn time Todd covered some more new jack swing music on here. That genre is filled with one hit wonders, and it's one of my all time faves.
If he did it'd be Boys II Men only...he ain't touch anything hard.
As a black British person, I have never heard the term 'swing beat' and I refuse to claim it.
It's a pretty lazy term isn't it? That's like naming house music "four on the floor".
Swing beat AKA New Jack Swing
As a white British person, we don't know her. 'swing beat' is olympic level cringe.
@@iconocastlive What
There are no such thing as black brits
I love when, as a South American, Todd does one of these I have nver heard or he does a song and says we never really heard this in America and we’re like ‘that song was so big here’
yesss
All the timeee lmao
This was a good video
I see you Croc
Okay! I see you, Croc
Why you no verified?
OMG ITS CROC. Why aren't u verified? Your videos get me through for real
I woulda never expected to see you here bro
This is one of those songs that I've only ever heard in the background, but I've heard it all my life. It's like Todd just started playing the sound of cicadas or rain falling on the roof and then said "yeah, that was the top hit of the 90's."
One of the world's Eternal Bangers getting a One Hit Wonderland.
Now we hope he'll do a Flavor In Ya Ear one.
RIP Craig Mack
I think this is the first time I've ever heard an American correctly pronounce Leicester. Props
I think a lot of people learned how to pronounce it in 2016 lol
I learned it from Fire Emblem
He watches football, that probably helps
I only know it because I've heard Clarkson, May, and Hammond pronounce it.
Sadly I know how to pronounce it correctly from watching serial killer documentaries and TH-cam channels that discusses really fucked up murders lol
When I was a kid, I got this mixed up with 'Mack the Knife', and thought it was a bigger cultural moment than it actually was.
I remember that song, Oddly enough, that's Bobby Darin's only song to make it to #1 on the charts.
Any song mentioning “Mack” seems to be popular
Mack The Knife
Return of the Mack
Can’t Hold Us with the line “Return of the Mack”
WAP “I want you to park that Big Mac truck right in this little garage”
I cant describe how POWERFUL this song makes me feel when I hear it.
Liz Phair just released a song by herself. It's not a hit but she's back Todd
Return of the Phair
And it’s so very shit
Return of the Phair ~
Why is it so very shit? ~
(Please reply in Verse)
Coz it's shit
Coz it's shit shit shiiiiit
Woooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, come on,
Liz Phair.
So, another One Hit Wonderland where the song was featured in a modern ad campaign. BRING BACK THE MAC N’ CHEETOS?
It was also in multiple target back to school ads and a few target Christmas ads
*Vietnam flashbacks*
Lol
i saw it in a google ad
And multiple McDonald's ads when the restaurants reopened after Covid lockdowns. Example from New Zealand (my home country): th-cam.com/video/SRAn_c1F6Io/w-d-xo.html
Wow, you managed to find a clip of the UK's beloved Ant and Dec while they still appear to be in puberty!
Didn't they have that whole Byker Grove tv show thing where one of them got blinded with a paint ball? Recently found out about it on Twitter
@@infamoussphere7228 Trigger warning for anyone in their late 30s or early 40s...
You are a genuinely gifted music journalist Todd. And what a banger.
I love "Return of the Mack"! Whenever I'm driving through the city at night and that song comes on the radio, I feel so badass!
I've loved this song for over 20 years and had absolutely no idea Mark Morrison was British.
I thought he was Jamaican.
To give credit where credit is due, Brits are really good at Trip-Hop. Tricky's "Maxinquaye" came out in 1995, and is great. Includes a great cover of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos".
Exactly; not to mention the Bristol scene of the early 1990s, which spawned Massive Attack. UK hiphop isn't "lesser" than US hiphop, it's just different and has different influences (just like how UK rock is different to US rock).
@@jaydee4697 I agree. Both Tricky and Massive Attack were recommended to me in the Spotify Taste-Breakers playlist from a couple of years ago, and I now play both on heavy rotation.
@@baronsledjoys1363 Nice.
@@jaydee4697 He does eventually say as much, at least about grime becoming its own unique phenomenon. He also says as much about trip-hop directly in the OHW for "Missing" by Everything But the Girl.
Trip hop is amazing. I'm sad that it eventually got played out by the early 2000's.
I had a party at my house about 6 years ago and put this on repeat after we had all had some drinks. I started at sub audible volumes and kept slowly increasing the volume through the rest of the night.
No one noticed until days later when they all kept complaining about return of the mack being stuck in their heads. I like to think I did them all a favor.
Jesus christ 90's Ant and Dec is something i dont ever need to see again.
I very recently became aware of Byker Grove because someone on twitter mentioned that Noddy kissing Gary was the first gay kiss they'd ever seen on TV. And apparently it's where Ant and Dec got their start. Grim.
@@infamoussphere7228 i know i said i never need to see 90s ant and dec again but im looking up this byker grove thing immediately.
I'm probably the only person requesting this song for a "One Hit Wonder" episode, but please, PLEASE, consider doing "Black Betty" by "Ram Jam"! The song is actually good, and they are a true one hit wonder. Not to mention the fun racial overtones!
Ooh black berry ramalamaala
Unfortunately he’s said that he attempted a “Black Betty” episode but ran afoul of the frequent OHW problem that there’s not enough available footage of the band performing
ohh black betty~ bramble jam, rambutans, pam ballam, panda lamp!
It isn't good. It's actually steaming hot garbage
@@GUNUFofficial because people think it's good, i don't see how this is a gotcha
Even though it’s not that widespread in the US, Grime music is pretty nice and has its own unique sound.
This was part of the playlist before the last Bruno Mars concert I attended. Every lady in the stadium jumped up, screamed, and danced up a storm :-)
This song gets played in the Target I work at pretty frequently.
I feel your pain. Apple Retail ruined a few perfectly good songs for me, which I felt was a bigger crime than annoying me with repeating the bad ones. Not like they had an excuse for rotating like 30 songs and changing them something like every 6 months. The iTunes Music Store did exist, Apple. Jeez
not related but i hear "how bizarre" by omc at my walmart all the time
How can you hear that song and not quit immediately after the first 30 secs? You might have to come back and beg for your job the next day, but it would be so hard to hear that song and want to continue working, lol
@@harysrodriguez9608 SAME
Walmart literally has the one hit wonderland of retail radio
Can’t wait for that new hit single featuring the Rico Suave guy.
😂
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/Ga-N4wdOqC0/w-d-xo.html
He did.
I’m still waiting for Todd to do “The Rain” by Oran “Juice” Jones. That is a One Hit Wonder that is very dear to me....considering the fact that I’m childhood friends with his youngest son.
Cant forget Your Love by The Outfield! Another 1986 one hit wonder
Leicester actually has another one hit wonder with the classic "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop.
"Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow" great song, really underrated musicians too.
Yes but that song only got big thanks to someone who wasn’t a one hit wonder, Fatboy Slim
@@matttheshadowman2790 'Missing' by EBTG only became a hit after being remixed by Todd Terry. And that's been covered on this channel as a one-hit wonder. So Brimful of Asha should also qualify.
I think the Kasabian were from there too.
That's a great music video.
OHW: Mercy by Duffy
This one may be hard to talk about but it's still an interesting story as to why a one hit wonder dropped off the face of the earth
That song randomly comes to my memory from time to time; I'd love to hear a video on it too!
I think tATu also falls under a similar umbrella, considering the rumours of what went down behind the scenes. Todd needs to cover that too.
Whenever I'm explaining 12 bar blues and I need a more recent example, the chorus of Mercy is my go-to.
Except, as a Brit, Duffy wasn't a one hit wonder, not in the UK anyway. She had at least 1 other hit song (Warwick Avenue) and a hit album and then some awful personal issues derailed her career for a long time.
Also it was sampled a couple years later for a JPop or KPop song and I think that's so weird haha
The song is really catchy, but it’s never really struck a chord with me. But I gotta respect the angle of it being about about getting back his stride following his Gf leaving because she believed his career would never take off; and not only is this song a huge hit, it stuck with people for decades
two videos in a week?? don’t tease us todd we all know it’s gonna be another 2 months before the next one 😔
I think the biggest legacy of Mark Morrison on UK music is his sing rap style and his music video aesthetic is kind of what a lot of UK RnB became in the early 2000's. I'm certain Craig David was a fan
Respect to you big man, I know it isn't difficult but putting in just a little bit of effort when researching British hip hop culture and grime, just makes me respect you more. And I'm Australian! But, as a member of the Commonwealth, I salute you.
Wow him and Mariah really made genius of love into sum classics
I'm one of those unfortunate British people who appreciate that 'Mack' explanation, here I was thinking it was some sort of nickname for Mark.
Yeah I'm Australian, before connecting the title "Return of the Mack' to this song which I'd heard but had no idea was called "Return of the Mack", I imagined that Return of the Mack was some kind of Mack the Knife reference. And then I assumed it must be a nickname for Mark.
I'm American and have pretty much only ever heard the term in the context of "Miggity-miggity-miggity mack daddy, kriss kross", so I also appreciated the explanation.
I assumed his name was Mac and he was referring to himself in the third person.
Yep, me too.
I thought maybe he had a gun lol
12:25 love the videos Todd but I'm having to adjust the volume constantly because the music is way louder than your dialogue x.x
Welcome back to One Hit Wonderland, the only show brave enough to ask: if Return of the Mack is so great, why isn't there a Return of the Return of the Mack?
I was at a concert one time where he played 4 different versions of this song live. It was brutal
In a good way or a bad way
@@maxcomas Brutal typically isn't a positive descriptor outside of metal music
Somehow, despite him popping up with enough frequency to be considered an official co-host, I'm always caught off guard by Todd's Seal shout-outs.
in a zoom right now todd and the urge to get stoned and watch this is physically killing me. it's the return of the mack. oh my god.
on a side note i personally predict this will be the video todd blows up off
3:28 I like how todd likes to remind us hes a football fan
He says he is but he doesn’t know who Kevin Campbell is 😂😂
@@AJARyan-yn2uv In Todd's defence, I only really know who Kevin Campbell is because of his son Tyrese, who plays for Stoke.
@@davidparsons97 And I remember him because he was a good Arsenal player.
This song is so striking in its simplicity.
I swear to God my local radio DJ must be a fan of Todd. I never once heard this song until this episode, and after this episode came out I hear it everywhere. Not to mention the same radio station plays tons of other tracks that have appeared on one hit wonderland
I once was listening to a local radio station, and they almost verbatim stole a joke Todd made in a then-recent pop song review
To be fair, the one hit wonder tracks are some of the most popular songs of all time
You, my friend, experienced (a year ago) the Baader-Meinhof effect. You may well have experienced it before in your life without realizing it, and after you look it up (yes, it's a double A), you may well hear about it very frequently.
"U Don't Have To Call" by Usher is a great "dude stepping out" song too.
And stutter by Joe, super underrated
Easily one of the best Neptunes r&b tracks from around that time.
Yeah but since when is Usher not doing the cheating? I mean don't you have to have a meaningful relationship on from you the cheaters POV to be burned? I don't even know how you'd cheat on Usher before he does you...invite another man in the middle of sex?
@@michellesmith9442 ooooh, great song! And you are so right, it's crazy underrated!
Speaking of songs that share the same energy, "I don't fuck with you" by big Sean comes to mind.
That is such a good break up song! I jammed with that, but I like the censored version just a little more because it’s more fun to listen to.
The difference being, that song is terrible.
@@chaddevlin8545 I got a million things I'd rather fucking do...then to be arguing about this song's quality with you
@@samuelstensgaard4828 yet you took the time to insert yourself into this conversation. Keep shooting for the stars bud!
@@chaddevlin8545
The joke
Your head
I keep forgetting how Genius of Love is everywhere
7:43 - That beat was actually aped by Tom Tom Club from Zapp and Roger's "More Bounce to the Ounce"
The Orlando Magic used to have a player named Shelvin Mack, and I always remember how they would play this when he came off the bench. Good times
I liked Shelvin Mack. He was a good bench player that helped the team in a smaller role.
Funny seeing very young Ant and Dec and Chris Evans on a Todd in the Shadows video lol
Todd's knowledge of UK hip-hop has caught up to 2015
The todd way never truly caught up
He'll discover Little Simz in a few years, that'll be mad.
I've said this many times on many videos. British artists have done wonderful things with hip-hop beats, British artists have done wonderful things with the spoken word. However, until the last few years, British artists rapping over hip-hop style beats just hasn't worked. Even then, the new artists have something that is distinctly unAmerican. I can't hear an American rapping over a Young T & Bugsey beat.
People forget that rapping existed in Britain for as long as it existed in the US, the difference is that in the UK it came from the Jamaican community and was pretty much only in the Jamaican community. It was called "toasting" and you'd toast over dub, dancehall and later ragga. If you slipped into a bit of a melody, it was called "singjaying". So Double Trouble and the Rebel MC's "Street Tuff" was toasting over a house song that sampled a reggae bassline.
Later MCs were rapping over jungle, again influenced by reggae (nothing beats a jungle song with a reggae break), then some MCs moved onto a slowed-down breakbeat style that came to be known as speed garage and then UK garage then the youngers moved onto grime.
Honestly, and I know some people will think I am nuts, but I find a lot of trap and mumble rap to be highly unimaginative. I haven't heard a new, young American MC who can hold a candle to Aitch for instance. The only American rap album that has blown me away recently was the new Busta Rhymes album.
@@michaelfarrow5817 This is not true. Look up TY, Blak Twang, Sway, Roots Manuva, Skinnyman, Mysdiggi, Jehst, Doc Brown, Lowkey, Tony D, Klashnekof, Rodney P, Lil Simz, Akala, Loyle Carner, Hawk House, Dave and so many more who have done quality hip hop through the 90s until now. Then you will realise all your typed here isn’t true.
There’s a whole UK hip hop scene that you missed out with your comment and not all UK Hip Hop artists are Jamaican or made music for the Jamaican community. This is simply not true.
UK hip hop, or grime? Because grime really is its own thing, and the only UK rap artists that some Americans (around my age, twentysomethings and zoomers) easily are Slick Rick, MF Doom, and Scarlxrd.
This was also the official song for the Andrew Yang campaign in one of the weirdest but oddly coolest footnotes of the 2020 election.
There's a man who knows how to have fun with the opportunity to run for president.
*Good god, please tell me they changed the lyrics to "Return of the Yang "k."*
Never in my entire life did I think i’d see Ant & Dec and Peter Andre referenced in a Todd in the Shadows vid but here we bloody are i suppose
This is one of the greatest R&B songs ever, up there with Next - Too Close, this whole album was fkn pure brilliance, the problem was Return Of The Mack was so huge, it really could never be matched, how do you write a bigger song then that? my favorite song on the disc was Trippin.
Ginuwine Differences: Excuse me why are you not mentioning me in a discussion of greatest R&B songs ever?
Backstreet No Diggity: What about me? I'm also one of the greatest R&B songs ever!
Another breakup song that doesn't sound like a breakup song: I'm Still Standing by Elton John
While it was a breakup song when it was made, I see that song WAY more now as a song about his successful fight with his drug addictions.
@@Ironman1o1 Heck, Rocketman reinterpreted the tune as such!
That song is fantastic.
that's a good one.
I thought it was "I'mma get off the coke just for you" song. Although, he was like addicted for another eight years after the fact.
Tyson Fury had this as his entrance music when he came back after nearly 2 years out. Everyone knows what the message of this song is. It's a fucking banger. Its there to tell everyone that you're fucking BACK! It's on the same level as Back in Black by AC DC. An absolute classic.
The way I see things, if you're considered "featuring" on a track, it doesn't count as yours. If Billy Ray had actually co-written/performed Old Town Road with Lil Nas, it would be legitimate to credit it as his. Not that I am not forever grateful to Billy Ray for putting OTR over the top, but in my eyes, he's still a one-hit wonder.
I'd say it depends on what you're doing on said track, the G-Eazy thing is basically just a very late and lame Return of the Mack remix but Billy Ray Cyrus is doing more than recycling the Achy Breaky Heart chorus on Old Town Road.
if todd did a one hit wonderland video on “back to life” by soul ii soul after this, that would be really nice loool
and before anyone says anything, yes i know (and am madly in love with) the song keep on movin’, but i feel as though in the american landscape of pop culture, “back to life” is more widely remembered
I work at a grocery store that plays this song pretty regularly, and honestly. I do like this song.
Is he also not credited with “Return of the Cheetos”?
Would you ever consider doing One Night In Bangkok? I know it would be an unconventional episode since it originates from a musical and not a band but it would be amazing to hear your thoughts on it and it’s strange origins.
I remember when that popped up on what was at the time termed "modern rock" radio. It was weird, and I liked it. I want to know more.
I love the song, and Chess is fun, but in no way is it a OHW. Murray Head charted at 14 with "Superstar" from Jesus Christ Superstar. And, if you're going by the creative folks on the project, you're talking about the two Bs from ABBA (clearly not OHWs) and Tim Rice (who at the very least has that JSC hit, without thinking too deeply about the rest of his catalog).
Hm. Might be an interesting show idea for someone to discuss musical theater songs which became charting hits.
I thought he already did that?
He has actually mentioned Chess already, because the lead singer of Blue Swede sang The Arbiter. I remember him being very confused.
@@cmbeadle2228 Yeah, that’s what prompted me to look up if he’d but that’s not the same as a One Hit Wonderland on the song
As an Everton fan your inclusion of Liverpool’s Anfield Rap made me lol big time
His singing voice was more similar to the lead vocal on Cameo’s WORD UP
Great, time to have this song stuck in my head for the next two years.
I can't believe Todd forgot to mention Mark's Code Lyoko tie-in Remix: "Return To The Past."