Urgg I hate that song. Especially because the first time I heard it I thought "Oh wow what does it say, Im gonna listen to the lyrics" and it says nothing. Its just bland and unoriginal peter pan lyrics. There is no different angle or clever metaphor. He def got it right that the other song was the good peter pan song.
Todd is like that teacher who knows which students will cause trouble when paired up in a group project so he tells Drake and Future they’re not allowed to work together
"lost boy" reminds me of those slowed-down trailer themes that think doing an acoustic cover of a children's song automatically make it deep and profound. i think ruth b was going for a nostalgic 'childhood lost - i need to escape reality', or even a 'Wish We Could Turn Back Time to the Good Old Days' vibe, but the song doesn't understand how to convey that without drowning in cliches and detached dullness.
I feel the same. Todd is just being unnecessarily mean about this one. I also have heard that ruth b had a pretty rough childhood, so maybe it's just her way to escape from the cruel reality, a lost boy nobody loved try to find his own neverland. What's to be mocked? I don't get all these judgement.
Glad you realized that about Peter Pan too. Basically the entire point of the original book is that never growing up and staying in eternal adolescance may sound good at first, but is actually a really shitty way to live.
Wanna explain that to me further? I'm genuinely curious and highly doubt Todd will ever bring up Peter Pan. It's actually the main reason I disliked the country song, thinking everything she's saying is actually making a GOOD case for the guy.
I was kind of hoping it would be a metaphor for drug addiction, with pixie dust being heroin or something and peter pan being her dealer/pimp, but that would have been a good song.
Maybe but I don't think he did, I read the book this year. "There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they would not be frightened." Gratned these are only stories that mister Darling has heard but i do think they hold value. Now while peter seems to have some concept of death he lacks the full understanding as he the emotional maturity of well a child and he forgets very easily as he is such as a child (in fact he forgot about hook after hook committed suicide but always remembered wendy). What you are referring to is that he "thinned them out". (Though you might also be thinking of the 'killing adults' thing but that needs a lot more context to understand) This is a vague statement that could easily mean that he abandoned them in the wood, made them leave never land and go back or kill them like you suggested. I was clearly left up for interpretation. If I remember correctly the lost boys used trees to get into their secret hide out but when the boys would no longer fit he would thin them out (this lead to a joke about how the fat lost boy thing out his tree instead). Which I interpreted as peter making them smaller potently horrifying or making no sense but this is a book where the narrator had an argument with Mrs. Darling, Mrs. Darling had a box holding a secret kiss and the narrator tossed a dice in order to decide how to tell the story. In other words, this book is big on whimsy and nonsense. It's possible that peter did straight up kill the lost boys but honestly I find that a boring interpretation as neverland is a child's playland dark and thrilling not a merely a paradise or merely full of silliness and laughter ( it is abit of all three). It is intense where children fly rather than walk and they kill the pirates that are as horrible as can be. While possible for peter to kill his friends it doesn't quite work with his mo of killing villains and most kids don't want their friends permanently gone rather they want the abblity to have their friends come and go when they( in this case peter) want so I think it's more likely that he kicked them out then forgot they existed. This in turn opens interesting stories about former lost boys living out in the real world which I find far more interesting. Especially since lost boys already die in the fights with the pirates. What's more peter pan is portrayed with both positives and negatives. Barry loves to show peter pan in a positive light but doesn't shy away from the tragedy and the negatives of the character. For example, he has the positives of a child as he is adventures and fun loving but also selfish and bratty and due to his short memory is incapable of deciding if he truly wants to be a kid forever or if he wants to grow up. This is something Barry did with Wendy to and even hook and tinker bell too much lesser extents. Barry portrayed peter pan as a complex figure and his never growing up as both good (endless adventure) and bad(unable to fully understand things like death). Sorry for the long post but over-simplifying children's story books bugs me ;) Also feel free to tell me i'm wrong if I forgot something.
Toxicghosts22 4) Make dance song's for bonus points. 5) And last but not least, also make sure you have a gullible general public that will be stupid enough to buy it.
It’s been 4 years, and yet Todd’s rant about Wikipedia not having a page for the Juju On The Beat guys while having a page about boob mountains has lived in my head rent free
What I don't get is how overpraised "Lost Boy" is. Seriously, looking at the comments on the video, people seem to think it is "a song with REAL talent and meaning" and how it "brings up feelings" and such. I just really don't understand it.
Maybe they're associating it with drugs like with most other fairy tails. "Peter" is the dealer, "Tinker bell" is the main provider of "pixie dust" (read: blow), the "Lost Boys" and "Wendy Darling" are their customers, and "Captain Hook" is the Po-Po. I don't think I should mention the whole "flying" thing...
A G there's somber indie songs and then there's dull uninspired songs sung by teenage singers like they're bored out of their mind. The later is "Lost Boy"
1. If it's popular we call it "nude", not "beige". Though admittedly "nude" is a slightly too exciting word for this song. 2. I like the colour beige/nude. 3. The above is probably related to why I actually like the song quite well. It's very harmless, a little melancholic - and very neutralising when the road rage creeps up so I usually appreciated it when the song came on the radio.
sure the 2016 being a brutal year aged poorly, but you know what else aged poorly? Todd thinking Vine dying would save him from shitty songs with segmented viral dance trends 💀💀💀
What's funny about Vine is that back then when it was super popular and still around I remember when everybody absolutely hated Vine, and now people are nostalgic for Vine.
@@metroidotherm6170 Yeah, I’ve found a lot of lesser known artists from that app that genuinely make good music. There’s a few bad ones, but the good songs I hear do cancel the bad ones out
@@corrieobsession6672 That still doesn't really change the quality of the song. Yes, you can write sad songs, but there's a way to do it. Have small lyrical notes so you can understand what the song is actually about. The song isn't really depressing or happy. It's nothing. You can potray that idea in a way, but it has to be done in certain ways (good writing).
It's either that or a song from an off Broadway musical, and the girl playing the lead hurt her voice, and the opening show is in a week so she's marking it. ....actually that's exactly what it sounds like....
@@salma.elsaid Are we sure that's NOT what it is? I agree with Todd, this sounds like a dull-as-shit self insert fanfic. If it's supposed to be a tribute song, it's being done WRONG. There's a right way to do a tribute song,(as another commenter has said),and there's a wrong way to do it. Ruth B's song, is the WRONG way to do it. Plus, her name makes her sound generic as hell. Also, if this is a tribute song, it doesn't automatically mean the song will be any good. But, I like your interpretation of this dull-as-shit song, dude/lady.
To me, the worst song on this list is Peter Pan. The way that the "artist" sings about the story just sounds so bored and detached that it becomes insulting to fans of the original story, as well every good adaptation of the story. I just...ugh.
Lulu Calliope To be fair, I think Lost Boy is supposed to be a metaphor for suicide, seeing the sad tone and quietness. It still sucks, but I got a soft spot for P Pan.
Rainman Slim doesn't change the fact that people still like it I mean the original little mermaid involved a really down beat ending but that doesn't make me hate the story of the little mermaid besides the authors wife actually said that she didn't think he was attracted to anyone woman man or child
The appeal of Lost Boy is that the somber tone tricks the young listener into thinking that it's more mature and there's a deeper meaning to it. Despite the fact that, even if there is a deeper meaning to it, that deeper meaning would be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of the Peter Pan story: you don't actually want to be a Lost Boy. The fact that Peter Pan and the Lost Boys never grew up is supposed to be a bad thing
Like Todd in the Shadows, A Dose of Buckley and the rest of us said, "Oh hell, this isn't a metaphor. This is a fanfic! It's a self-insert fanfic! Gawd, no wonder it's so serious! >:(". XD
The first time I watched this video, I hadn't heard that Lost Boys song and was thinking: "Surely, this song isn't as terrible as it sounds." Then I heard it playing in an ice-cream parlor and I felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body. The second time I heard it, I felt overcome by terror because my subconscious keeps insisting that there's some creepy hidden meaning.
I find your review very amusing because if I had to describe the sort of person who would like that song, I'd start by guessing they say things like "i felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body".
OH GOD, I hate that song Lost Boy! I hear it so damn often at work and it grinds my gears so hard I wonder how they're not all wheels by now. So droning and pointless...
To be fair, it peaked at number 24, so it wasn't a massive hit or anything. But it just stayed in the top 50 for most of its run, so it got into the Year End Hot 100 by a hair.
Secret Steve little thing called illusion of choice. Artists are treated like brands and they try to brand them with a certain image depending on the market to their voice. If a star such as Lorde hit it big they try to tap into that and so on and so forth. Even bands so far back as the 50s were all trying to be the Platters or whatever trio/quintet group that was out there. That is until rock hit the scene and everyone is all just trying to compete for a more vast audience. Music isnt just a list. Its a spectrum, and it changes alongside society the way i see it.
Because they don't put any effort into their singing. They just care about making themselves look hot and shaking their boobs and ass at people to make them forget that the singing's crappy. Take Ariana Grande. She just wants all men to be so turned on by her shaking her tits in their faces that they'll ignore the fact that she's a horrible singer.
A G you can have somber and slow songs that are way more well written than lost boy. Lost boy is very generic, and produced to appeal to the masses. There's a difference between somber and boring/poorly written. Also I don't agree that boring generic songs are popular amongst the indie fans. If you want to listen to a band that does slow songs that aren't generic af or boring and are actually well written check out the indie bands grizzly bear or alt j.
i like 21p as much as the next person, but im also studying norweigan and that ø in their stylized name and now in every middle-schoolers instagram bio drives me crazy…
Faith Chitwood oh my God every fucking twenty one pilots fan on God's green earth does it while they're just typing. so say they want to say their Nona is a good cook, they'd type "my Nøna is such a gøød cøøk. stay alive -/" I love twenty one pilots but HOLY FUCK
I don't even know who they are, but I am Norwegian and whenever I see someone use Ø like that it annoys me. Unless they really DO pronounce their name Twenty UHN-E pil-UH-tes.
@@YouCanCallMeXoe No, it definitely isn't. People in the comments say she made the song for her dead brother who died and loved Peter Pan. While I'm sorry to hear that, it doesn't mean the song itself is automatically good. The song is still boring as shit.
No. There's a song Ed Sheeran made with some other woman that appeared on one of Todd's worst list. That is the most boring song. Lost Boys is bad, but at least it has a basic rhythm. The Ed Sheeran song is milk on white bread levels of bland.
@@jeremyusreevu237 You mean the song, "Perfect", with Beyonce, right? Yeah, I disagree. While I despise beyonce, it's only her version with Ed Sheeran that sucks. Ed by himself on the song isn't too bad. A bit corny, and had a bunch of romantic cliches, but the song itself isn't too bad. But like Todd said, that version forces you to imagine Beyonce and Ed Sheeran as a couple, which makes me want to puke(I added that last part in myself, because, blegh!) As hot as beyonce is, her music makes her seem very, very annoying. And Ruth B's awful Peter Pan song is STILL the most boring song, and worst Peter Pan related anything ever made or witnessed by humanity, 'nuff said.
Andy Johnson In mainstream it's not that far off. Though overall it's far from the truth. Non mainstream hip hop is the best it's ever been, the amount of innovation and creativity going on in hip hop is incredible right now.
THANK YOU for mentioning Lost Boy (I know it's well into 2017 and I'm quite late to the party here but oops I'm just now seeing this). It was inoffensive, but boy did it literally sound like something I would write for my eighth grade English project and was so musically unoriginal that it made me cringe every time and I could never sit through it.
I think the appeal of Daya is the fact that she, like Lorde when she made it big, was 17 when she had her first hit. "Woooow, she's so young and is able to sing even though she's so young! Can you believe a teenager can do something as well as an adult? Amazing, give her a record deal!"
Sparkyisheretoparty Lorde had amazing self-awareness and insight and none of the pretentiousness. It bashes some of the artifice of culture/materialism but doesn't pretend that they're awesome either.
Surprised you didn't bring up that Lost Boy started its life as a Vine video. It was just soooooooo good, that she turned it into a whole song. Lucky us.
Advent3546 Actually not for music though. Besides the deaths and mainstream music they're actually a ton of amazing albums that came out this year in rock, metal and hip hop. Those are really the only genres I listened to so I can't speak much on the other. Apparently country had a great year but I'm not a fan of the genre.
Ruth B's song got big because: 1. Most people don't think about lyrics as much as they should. 2. People assume slow and piano means deep. 3. The girl is really cute. Not even like hot, but cute. Like a child growing up. I look at her and think she could be my daughter - and I'm whiter than a yeti lol
2 Things about "Bad Things" 1. That name "MachineGunKelly" reminds me of GunvsGun. 2. My mom absolutely HATES that song, and she kinda liked Fight Song. Yeah. 😕
I would love a great song about Peter Pan. I fucking love that story...and it speaks a lot about the universal fear of getting older and letting go (but how doing so eventually allows you to experience more of life ). But yeah that song sucks and it's disappointing.
It makes me happy that a year later after Todd pondered/worried if Lorde didnt have longevity he put one of her follow up songs as his #1 best of the year.
I despised that Lost Boys song the very second I heard it! It sounds like one of those songs that tries one of those songs that tries to be edgy by taking a children's tale and making it dark and gritty! If I want to listen to a dark and gritty song, I'd lesson to Nine Inch Nails and they have more grace!
I really did think 2016 was the worst fucking year of my life and then 2020 snatched me up by my fucking ponytail and brutally slammed me into the ground repeatedly and mercilessly.
What I find funny is Juju On That Beat is also known as the TZ Anthem when it should be the Vine goodbye anthem. The camera spinoff they tried in early 2017 thankfully died off faster
2016 Todd: music this year was the worst! 2017 Todd beams in: no dude, drone rap takes over. It's not even funny. 2018 Todd beams in while on fire, and clothes ripped: *Run.*
10. so being a wannabe Lorde is a trend now? where do they do this at? 9. you see kids, this is how Migos was born. 8. Beautiful sista; Dreadful Song 7. Hate. This. Song. totally ripped off the Beatles 6. These Dance Songs.......God These Dance songs! 😫😣😣😣😣
10. Hey, uh Daya? NOONE thinks that you want that. In fact the idea that you'd imply that woman just want to look good for men is kind of offensive. No, not kind of, it IS offensive. 9. I can't understand what their saying. And I'm sick of mumble rapping. 8. I actually think this song is really pretty. 7. I thought this song was decent. 6. Ugh, ANOTHER ONE? I thought I hated the Chacha slide.I was wrong. This is pain.
whenever people make jokes like "I can't believe we all called 2016 the worst year ever because a bunch of celebrities died," I always think back to your line at 0:57 : "A year in which we kept losing our best and brightest and empowering our stupidest and worst." That alone perfectly sums up the dread that I still feel when looking back on this year, and even though what was to come was a lot worse, make no mistake ---- It was still that bad
Man this list is vastly different from buckley's. Love it, I don't listen to pop but love hearing people tear into them. ALSO PETER PAN'S WORLD IS MORE FUCKING DANGEROUS THAN PEOPLE SEEM TO REALIZE!!
"where will we be without our tragically misused samples?" man we're all laughing about todd thinking vine dying would save him from bad songs but rehearing this line is especially funny after rewatching the 2022 worst of list
These lists will never not be funny. Always great jokes. But I gotta say my favorite is coming back and hearing Todd talk about how bad/dismal the year was. Hello from 2020. Yes, it got worse.
Hey, here's a story for ya - 2016 was my last year of intermediate school (NZ equivalent of middle school) and at the end of the year we had our leavers' dinner. Everyone had to perform something that night (it was a small school, there were about 40 of us in our year) and as expected most people not part of a group performed a song - lots of white guys with acoustic guitars and white chicks with pianos. One such white girl with a piano performed 'Lost Boy'. At the time I assumed that it was an original song that she wrote simply because of how basic it was - I thought "oh cool, an original song and not another cover of some stupid pop song". Fast forward a few years and I watch this video. I remember thinking "wait, Lost Boy was like, an actual song? That girl didn't write it herself? Jeeesus"
Predictions for his Worst of 2017 list: 1: Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do 2: Logic feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid - 1 800 273 8255 3: Lil Pump - Gucci Gang 4: Kodak Black - Tunnel Vision 5: Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 6: The Chainsmokers - Paris 7: Sam Hunt - Body Like a Backroad 8: Post Malone feat. Quavo - Congratulations 9: Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Life 10: Imagine Dragons - Thunder
Didn't like the song but I feel like Todd didn't need to RIP MGK calling him generic. MGK is a pretty good rapper. Just pop songs are not his strength....and he is not good in this song....
Generally whenever I hear a duet of the woman singing the chorus, and the guy rapping the verses, I just groan because the songs end up being dragged down by the guy. My best example is I Hate U I love U. Besides the U part making me wanna punch my screen, the chorus is actually good. At least I like it. Then Mr Whothefuckcares comes in and rhymes shit with shit.... 4 times. Thats basically the story with those types of songs all year, and it's kinda sad to me.
One of the reasons why 2016 is one of the absolute worst years of music is Jacob Sartorius. Sure, none of his songs were hits, but he did take absolutely awful music to a brand new level of low.
I actually like MGK #estallday #lacethefuckup but I just couldn't care for Bad Things mostly because it's just a mediocre song about MGK's BDSM fetish. My real problem with MGK is why the hell do they promote *that* mediocre trash over better MGK songs like "Gone" (which is a much better version of Eminem's "Mockingbird"), "Invincible", "A Little More Love" (a much better suicide prevention song than Logic's mediocre 1-800 bullshit), "Go For Broke", "Hollywood Whore", "Glass House", and etc and etc? That is straight-up bullshit!
If you're ever running out of ideas for videos this year and need something that'll rack up a buncha views, you should do a Top 10 Worst Of list for either 2006 or 2007, both years where probably most of your fans first got into listening to the radio (such as myself), but also 2 years where some of the worst songs of the entire decade came out. These were also 2 of my favorite years for Top 40 radio music, there were a lot of excellent songs on the radio as well, but Christ was the bad stuff REALLY bad. So yeah, just an idea for ya!
When I hear you break down the chord progression, noting the use of the 7th and so forth, I'm reminded of what a solid foundation of musical knowledge you bring to this operation. It makes a huge difference in terms of the utility and entertainment value of your reviews.
I was in middle school when “Lost Boy” came out, we had three different girls sing it in our school talent show. Not together, three separate acts.
The same thing happened at my school but with the cup song lmfao
Three seperate acts of the same fucking song?
Screw being "talented", this is an Uncreative show.
Urgg I hate that song. Especially because the first time I heard it I thought "Oh wow what does it say, Im gonna listen to the lyrics" and it says nothing. Its just bland and unoriginal peter pan lyrics. There is no different angle or clever metaphor. He def got it right that the other song was the good peter pan song.
same here man. except it was 4 freaking years in a row.
this happened at my elementary school but with 7 years. at least one person played it on piano instead of singing tho so it wasn't utterly atrocious
Todd is like that teacher who knows which students will cause trouble when paired up in a group project so he tells Drake and Future they’re not allowed to work together
Yup
Yet they somehow end up working together
Now i kinda wanna see one of those speculative au blogs about the youtubers i like
They just made a song lmao
He was a sub
"lost boy" reminds me of those slowed-down trailer themes that think doing an acoustic cover of a children's song automatically make it deep and profound. i think ruth b was going for a nostalgic 'childhood lost - i need to escape reality', or even a 'Wish We Could Turn Back Time to the Good Old Days' vibe, but the song doesn't understand how to convey that without drowning in cliches and detached dullness.
I like both songs.
Honestly slowed down kids songs sound more dramatic than "lost boy"
Or if she actually made clear it was a metaphor or something.
I feel the same. Todd is just being unnecessarily mean about this one. I also have heard that ruth b had a pretty rough childhood, so maybe it's just her way to escape from the cruel reality, a lost boy nobody loved try to find his own neverland. What's to be mocked? I don't get all these judgement.
Apparently it's about her brother who died in childhood so I think it actually fits with the vibe and intention
Could be wrong though
Glad you realized that about Peter Pan too. Basically the entire point of the original book is that never growing up and staying in eternal adolescance may sound good at first, but is actually a really shitty way to live.
Wanna explain that to me further? I'm genuinely curious and highly doubt Todd will ever bring up Peter Pan. It's actually the main reason I disliked the country song, thinking everything she's saying is actually making a GOOD case for the guy.
Rae Angel book written about this exact thing.
bu Brom called "child thief"
+EaglesRugby
After that song, I'm gonna go reread Peter And The Starcatchers. You know- a much, much better ascended fanfic of Peter Pan than that.
I was kind of hoping it would be a metaphor for drug addiction, with pixie dust being heroin or something and peter pan being her dealer/pimp, but that would have been a good song.
Maybe but I don't think he did, I read the book this year. "There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they would not be frightened." Gratned these are only stories that mister Darling has heard but i do think they hold value. Now while peter seems to have some concept of death he lacks the full understanding as he the emotional maturity of well a child and he forgets very easily as he is such as a child (in fact he forgot about hook after hook committed suicide but always remembered wendy).
What you are referring to is that he "thinned them out". (Though you might also be thinking of the 'killing adults' thing but that needs a lot more context to understand) This is a vague statement that could easily mean that he abandoned them in the wood, made them leave never land and go back or kill them like you suggested. I was clearly left up for interpretation. If I remember correctly the lost boys used trees to get into their secret hide out but when the boys would no longer fit he would thin them out (this lead to a joke about how the fat lost boy thing out his tree instead). Which I interpreted as peter making them smaller potently horrifying or making no sense but this is a book where the narrator had an argument with Mrs. Darling, Mrs. Darling had a box holding a secret kiss and the narrator tossed a dice in order to decide how to tell the story. In other words, this book is big on whimsy and nonsense. It's possible that peter did straight up kill the lost boys but honestly I find that a boring interpretation as neverland is a child's playland dark and thrilling not a merely a paradise or merely full of silliness and laughter ( it is abit of all three). It is intense where children fly rather than walk and they kill the pirates that are as horrible as can be. While possible for peter to kill his friends it doesn't quite work with his mo of killing villains and most kids don't want their friends permanently gone rather they want the abblity to have their friends come and go when they( in this case peter) want so I think it's more likely that he kicked them out then forgot they existed. This in turn opens interesting stories about former lost boys living out in the real world which I find far more interesting. Especially since lost boys already die in the fights with the pirates.
What's more peter pan is portrayed with both positives and negatives. Barry loves to show peter pan in a positive light but doesn't shy away from the tragedy and the negatives of the character. For example, he has the positives of a child as he is adventures and fun loving but also selfish and bratty and due to his short memory is incapable of deciding if he truly wants to be a kid forever or if he wants to grow up. This is something Barry did with Wendy to and even hook and tinker bell too much lesser extents. Barry portrayed peter pan as a complex figure and his never growing up as both good (endless adventure) and bad(unable to fully understand things like death).
Sorry for the long post but over-simplifying children's story books bugs me ;)
Also feel free to tell me i'm wrong if I forgot something.
How to make a 2016 song:
1) sound bored or dead
2) use trap beats
3) rinse, repeat
Toxicghosts22 (make sure you sound asleep/bored)
Toxicghosts22
4) Make dance song's for bonus points.
5) And last but not least, also make sure you have a gullible general public that will be stupid enough to buy it.
mm mm cam 47619 6) tryna look like a black person
Toxicghosts22 yep.
Brayan Argandona Florentino lol
It’s been 4 years, and yet Todd’s rant about Wikipedia not having a page for the Juju On The Beat guys while having a page about boob mountains has lived in my head rent free
They now have one
@@robk7266 And?
@@robk7266 And it's one paragraph long, two thirds of which is about the song rather than them as people.
@@EndParenthesis I like to believe whoever wrote that article did so after watching this video
@@robk7266 You're definitely right. It was created the same day this video came out.
I also hated “Ju Ju on that beat” buuut I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think “you ugly, you yo daddy’s son” is objectively hilarious
Someone tell this guy what 'objectively' means.
@@cangrejopendejo4909 he knows what it means and he’s using it correctly, stay mad.
^ Someone tell this guy what 'objectively' means.
@@cangrejopendejo4909 cry about it
They were clearly just trying to have fun, zay honestly seems like a pretty chill dude from what I’ve seen
What I don't get is how overpraised "Lost Boy" is. Seriously, looking at the comments on the video, people seem to think it is "a song with REAL talent and meaning" and how it "brings up feelings" and such. I just really don't understand it.
Maybe they're associating it with drugs like with most other fairy tails. "Peter" is the dealer, "Tinker bell" is the main provider of "pixie dust" (read: blow), the "Lost Boys" and "Wendy Darling" are their customers, and "Captain Hook" is the Po-Po. I don't think I should mention the whole "flying" thing...
CN what I'm Saiyan? if that's really the intention of the song, she sure made getting high sounds really boring
zaito k To quote Todd: "Never before has there been such a downer song about taking uppers."
A G there's somber indie songs and then there's dull uninspired songs sung by teenage singers like they're bored out of their mind. The later is "Lost Boy"
TheFanficFanPony It's dumb and whimpery but at least it's semi-competently performed...
Someone should’ve warned him about TikTok if he didn’t like vine that much
“IMMA TAKE MY HORSE TO THE OLD TOWN ROAD”
Amazing how quick vine became the new ask Jeeves or Myspace
@@nifralo2752 in fairness, it died because of twitter not because of lack of popularity
Someone should've warned him about 2020 being the worst year 👀
@@dreamer1-7 was just thinking that! His into would fit these year a lot too
Lost Boy is the laziest song I've ever heard. Lazy lyrics, lazy piano playing, lazy singing. It's the musical equivalent of the colour beige.
Lady Marmalade Hey! That's an insult to the colour beige. The baku would like to disagree.
1. If it's popular we call it "nude", not "beige". Though admittedly "nude" is a slightly too exciting word for this song.
2. I like the colour beige/nude.
3. The above is probably related to why I actually like the song quite well. It's very harmless, a little melancholic - and very neutralising when the road rage creeps up so I usually appreciated it when the song came on the radio.
so what you're saying is that is passive?
I love that analogy holy crap
Thank god someone agrees with me
sure the 2016 being a brutal year aged poorly, but you know what else aged poorly? Todd thinking Vine dying would save him from shitty songs with segmented viral dance trends 💀💀💀
What's funny about Vine is that back then when it was super popular and still around I remember when everybody absolutely hated Vine, and now people are nostalgic for Vine.
Oh yeah TikTok exists
vine was still worse
Too be fair, even though I'm not a huge TikTok fan, it still did more good than vine ever did.
@@metroidotherm6170 Yeah, I’ve found a lot of lesser known artists from that app that genuinely make good music. There’s a few bad ones, but the good songs I hear do cancel the bad ones out
lost boy sound like the kinda song what you make as you go while warming up playing piano
even the lyrics melody have that almost monotone delivery
MakeAcid Lost boy was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan
@@corrieobsession6672 That still doesn't really change the quality of the song. Yes, you can write sad songs, but there's a way to do it. Have small lyrical notes so you can understand what the song is actually about. The song isn't really depressing or happy. It's nothing. You can potray that idea in a way, but it has to be done in certain ways (good writing).
@@corrieobsession6672 You HAVE to reveal those themes for anyone to understand what the song is about. What is your source for this info anyway?
It's either that or a song from an off Broadway musical, and the girl playing the lead hurt her voice, and the opening show is in a week so she's marking it.
....actually that's exactly what it sounds like....
@@salma.elsaid Are we sure that's NOT what it is? I agree with Todd, this sounds like a dull-as-shit self insert fanfic. If it's supposed to be a tribute song, it's being done WRONG. There's a right way to do a tribute song,(as another commenter has said),and there's a wrong way to do it. Ruth B's song, is the WRONG way to do it. Plus, her name makes her sound generic as hell. Also, if this is a tribute song, it doesn't automatically mean the song will be any good. But, I like your interpretation of this dull-as-shit song, dude/lady.
To me, the worst song on this list is Peter Pan. The way that the "artist" sings about the story just sounds so bored and detached that it becomes insulting to fans of the original story, as well every good adaptation of the story. I just...ugh.
Lulu Calliope To be fair, I think Lost Boy is supposed to be a metaphor for suicide, seeing the sad tone and quietness. It still sucks, but I got a soft spot for P Pan.
Dude the original was a written and published pedo fantasy.
Rainman Slim doesn't change the fact that people still like it I mean the original little mermaid involved a really down beat ending but that doesn't make me hate the story of the little mermaid besides the authors wife actually said that she didn't think he was attracted to anyone woman man or child
I thought that song was good, but that's because it was different.
Agreed
The appeal of Lost Boy is that the somber tone tricks the young listener into thinking that it's more mature and there's a deeper meaning to it. Despite the fact that, even if there is a deeper meaning to it, that deeper meaning would be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of the Peter Pan story: you don't actually want to be a Lost Boy. The fact that Peter Pan and the Lost Boys never grew up is supposed to be a bad thing
Todd: how was YOUR 2016?! He he he he hehhhhh :-(
2020: *licking lips* *rubbing hands behind tree*
2021: does that fake humping move behind 2020
Lost Boy is so dull how the hell did it get so popular?
SinPunisher remixes
Looking at the video, people seem to think it's some sort of musical masterpeice... Somehow.
i would've never heard of it if it wasn't for this video
The song is so safe that it could be played on radio without ever having to fear that someone will be offended by it's lyrics
SinPunisher marketed to edgy teens
Ruth B looks as bored with herself and her song as I am.
Facts
Skye Gray Ruth b sung for her dead brother that passed away
🤣😂🤣
Like Todd in the Shadows, A Dose of Buckley and the rest of us said, "Oh hell, this isn't a metaphor. This is a fanfic! It's a self-insert fanfic! Gawd, no wonder it's so serious! >:(". XD
Corrie obsession Doesn’t make it exciting or good
The first time I watched this video, I hadn't heard that Lost Boys song and was thinking: "Surely, this song isn't as terrible as it sounds." Then I heard it playing in an ice-cream parlor and I felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body. The second time I heard it, I felt overcome by terror because my subconscious keeps insisting that there's some creepy hidden meaning.
I find your review very amusing because if I had to describe the sort of person who would like that song, I'd start by guessing they say things like "i felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body".
@@TheEvilCheesecake Aw, did you write it or something? Why are you so fuckin salty?
@@ouijacorn I'm just letting you know that you talk exactly like a vapid teenage tumbler girl, is all.
@@TheEvilCheesecake Has anyone told you that acting like a bitch online isn't a replacement for a personality?
@@ouijacorn I'm glad we can both learn from your personal history of experience.
OH GOD, I hate that song Lost Boy! I hear it so damn often at work and it grinds my gears so hard I wonder how they're not all wheels by now. So droning and pointless...
papersamurai00 Luckily it's not popular where I live so I never heard it before this video
papersamurai00 It really salts my apple
papersamurai00 Lost boy was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan
@@corrieobsession6672 She should have sung it at his funeral, and never again
@@randmiller88 oh yeah i agree , that song is so boring
The One Hit Wonderland joke with Juju On That Beat made me laugh really hard.
I knew I couldn't have been the only one who felt that.
EmperorTigerstar ya
Same here. "They were fetuses".
Hey Buddy, nice to see you here.
EmperorTigerstar love your videos
Todd perfectly summed up my first reaction to lost boy."What the hell is this?"
It’s awful
I cringed so hard at the Peter Pan song. Holy shit, how did that thing even become a hit?
At my work that song was playing on the radio almost every other hour
fucking same. retail cashier myself. I am super-excited any time I come in to work and our overhead speakers don't work.
To be fair, it peaked at number 24, so it wasn't a massive hit or anything. But it just stayed in the top 50 for most of its run, so it got into the Year End Hot 100 by a hair.
All things considered, I heard a cover that actually sounded like it was alive. It was actually bearable
Mpmqbi I actually liked it, not going to lie
I hate all the artists who just play piano and sing softly. It's so boring, dull, and horrible. I've heard it so many times, and I hate it.
It's fine if they actually have anything interesting to say, but it's usually cliche melodrama
Joe Woods I've only heard cliche melodrama. It's even worse when it's a person singing softly on a guitar.
DarkHero Gamer what about two people singing on piano and guitar
Gd CK12345 I think those are fine, as long as they aren't sing too softly.
Smooth Leprechaun They are exempt.
People in 2016: This is the worst year in history.
2020: *Hold my Corona*
Also people like to reminisce about Summer '16 as a great summer where great music came out when in reality people hated that year back then
Right? Oh my sweet baby J.
And it can still get worse.
2020 is super great
I hate this meme so much
I thought you were putting Sucker for Pain on the list, until I realized how appropriate it was to listening to 2016 pop.
Damn shame. I'd have included it in the list because good _god_ is it miserable to listen to.
Juju on the beat was just a poor mans' cha cha silde.
Oh come on. It's not *that* good.
A poor mans’ cha cha slide is 1000x better than Juju on that beat
Omar Dagod this is a caveman’s cha cha slide
Juju on that Beat is better than Watch Me though.
At least Cha Cha Slide is actually catchy, if slight over-popularized!
Juju on that Beat just made 2016 one of the worst years of music!
"2016 was a particularly brutal year"
*Laughs from 2020*
I say 2016 is like Mortal Kombat to 2020’s God of War and Doom amalgamation
Laughs in January 6 2021 as a US citizen but actually crying and thinking that the next 14 days will be real bad and slow
@@pumpkinisconfused5079 Well you weren’t wrong
ikr like in this vid he threw shade at Halsey only to be fine with her music in his 2020 hits video oh how time has passed
Laughs from 2021
Ruth B.'s "Lost Boy": now THAT is a girl just sitting still and looking pretty lol
Such a terrible song
@@cappingbeara3212 well, it is on the list for a reason lol
@@MetalSandman999 no wayreally
:o as a Ruth b fan I think it’s an amazing song but if you hear it for about 10 times it’s awful.
@@ameliatownsend5966 …wait has she actually released -better- new music?
'This isn't a song, it's Cliff Notes!'
And that is why I love Todd in the Shadows.
"But every song is like-"
"-YOU GET OFF ON YOUR NINE-TO-FIVE DREAM OF PICKET FENCES AND TROPHY WIVES"
I think those two songs would mash up well
@@gutsFunnyman don’t do that to our girl lorde
that actually transitions well lol
Why do all the female singers in the past couple years sound exactly the same?
Secret Steve they're clones. Well, they might as well be
Secret Steve little thing called illusion of choice. Artists are treated like brands and they try to brand them with a certain image depending on the market to their voice. If a star such as Lorde hit it big they try to tap into that and so on and so forth. Even bands so far back as the 50s were all trying to be the Platters or whatever trio/quintet group that was out there. That is until rock hit the scene and everyone is all just trying to compete for a more vast audience. Music isnt just a list. Its a spectrum, and it changes alongside society the way i see it.
Because they do and people don't like diversity in singing styles anymore.
Because they don't put any effort into their singing. They just care about making themselves look hot and shaking their boobs and ass at people to make them forget that the singing's crappy. Take Ariana Grande. She just wants all men to be so turned on by her shaking her tits in their faces that they'll ignore the fact that she's a horrible singer.
Xehanort10 I like how you chose one of the good singers from our generation..
Who else is watching this ASAP before it gets taken down?
Andrei Zedlav yo.
yep
Andrei Zedlav too real for TH-cam fair use policy.
hello again Star. xD
that said, ignore him. he'll go away if you don't feed him.
Of course! You can't just miss a Todd video! That's the only rule of the channel.
It’s fun watching people call 2016 the worst year ever and think “the worst year so far.”
I'm from the future and we think the same thing about you
Calling 2016 the worst year in history is laughable nowadays. There is published material taking shots at 2016.
God I hate that Peter Pan song it makes me angry it just bugs me to no end lol Dull boring with cringy lyrics.
GoBuckeyes554 listen to Kelsea Ballerini Peter Pan song, 1000x better
A G I personally didn't like the lyrics... I usually don't listen to them but HOLY CRAP I CANT IGNORE IT IT'S SO STUPID
A G you can have somber and slow songs that are way more well written than lost boy. Lost boy is very generic, and produced to appeal to the masses. There's a difference between somber and boring/poorly written. Also I don't agree that boring generic songs are popular amongst the indie fans. If you want to listen to a band that does slow songs that aren't generic af or boring and are actually well written check out the indie bands grizzly bear or alt j.
GoBuckeyes554 LOST BOY was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan
@@corrieobsession6672 Still doesn't make it good!
i like 21p as much as the next person, but im also studying norweigan and that ø in their stylized name and now in every middle-schoolers instagram bio drives me crazy…
Faith Chitwood oh my God every fucking twenty one pilots fan on God's green earth does it while they're just typing. so say they want to say their Nona is a good cook, they'd type "my Nøna is such a gøød cøøk. stay alive -/" I love twenty one pilots but HOLY FUCK
erin h YEAH IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL
I don't even know who they are, but I am Norwegian and whenever I see someone use Ø like that it annoys me. Unless they really DO pronounce their name Twenty UHN-E pil-UH-tes.
:)
Same. In some cases it wørks. In others it døesn't.
Ruth B has made the most boring song in human history
Yup. She also singlehandedly made the worst Peter Pan related piece of media ever!
@@shawnfields2757 AND THAT'S NOT AN EASY FEAT!
@@YouCanCallMeXoe No, it definitely isn't. People in the comments say she made the song for her dead brother who died and loved Peter Pan. While I'm sorry to hear that, it doesn't mean the song itself is automatically good. The song is still boring as shit.
No. There's a song Ed Sheeran made with some other woman that appeared on one of Todd's worst list. That is the most boring song. Lost Boys is bad, but at least it has a basic rhythm. The Ed Sheeran song is milk on white bread levels of bland.
@@jeremyusreevu237 You mean the song, "Perfect", with Beyonce, right? Yeah, I disagree. While I despise beyonce, it's only her version with Ed Sheeran that sucks. Ed by himself on the song isn't too bad. A bit corny, and had a bunch of romantic cliches, but the song itself isn't too bad. But like Todd said, that version forces you to imagine Beyonce and Ed Sheeran as a couple, which makes me want to puke(I added that last part in myself, because, blegh!) As hot as beyonce is, her music makes her seem very, very annoying. And Ruth B's awful Peter Pan song is STILL the most boring song, and worst Peter Pan related anything ever made or witnessed by humanity, 'nuff said.
"Lost Boy" has been sung by someone at my talent show for 4 straight years. None of them have won.
Tell them “suck it” for me
Future sounds like what my very white Mom thinks all rappers sound like.
Brian Webber Honestly, nowadays, your mom isn't too far off.
youraverageevilpoet
That's quite false but okay
Andy Johnson In mainstream it's not that far off. Though overall it's far from the truth. Non mainstream hip hop is the best it's ever been, the amount of innovation and creativity going on in hip hop is incredible right now.
cause they all do
TheUltimateNavigator 1 Havnt done your research then
I really hate Camila's voice. It's so grating on my ears.
facts
"Before the hit... They were fetuses" made me choke on my spit XD
#8 - OH THANK GOD. I thought I was the only one who hated that simpering nonsense!
m3rrys0ngstr3ss Sounds like a way to build up sadness in a sub par Peter Pan movie.
I love lost boy but I can agree with the points 😢😂
m3rrys0ngstr3ss I hate it... but I hate Jumpman way more. Even though that girl sounds about as excited as Drake and Future do😆
m3rrys0ngstr3ss it was a snore feast
A song has never physically hurt me till I first heard that
THANK YOU for mentioning Lost Boy (I know it's well into 2017 and I'm quite late to the party here but oops I'm just now seeing this). It was inoffensive, but boy did it literally sound like something I would write for my eighth grade English project and was so musically unoriginal that it made me cringe every time and I could never sit through it.
I think the appeal of Daya is the fact that she, like Lorde when she made it big, was 17 when she had her first hit. "Woooow, she's so young and is able to sing even though she's so young! Can you believe a teenager can do something as well as an adult? Amazing, give her a record deal!"
Sparkyisheretoparty I love how you assume any pop singer can actually sing.
Sparkyisheretoparty lorde >>>>>> any of her wannabes
Sparkyisheretoparty Lorde had amazing self-awareness and insight and none of the pretentiousness. It bashes some of the artifice of culture/materialism but doesn't pretend that they're awesome either.
The difference is that Lorde's lyrics were great, and she wrote the songs
Listen to Lorde's new album _Melodrama_ and tell me again that she sounds bored.
I'm convinced Sucker For Pain was made for this video.
2016: I'm the worst year
2020: I'm about to end this man's whole career
It is at perfect numer of likes so im not gonna drop one but... nice
@@pyporzpomyka7785 thank you
2020 is actually a good year for music... or at least a good year for good music
Toad got a prediction right about the kids who made juju on that beat would only have that song
LMAO
"Machine Gun Kelly" that name is trying WAY TOO HARD
Cyber Kirby Thats a name of a real gangster from the Prohibition Era.
Jay Romeo Yeah but MGK is not a gangsta rapper at all or remotely threatening.
He is a really good rapper
he's trash
He had one good track called Wild Boy and fizzled out.
Damn it Todd I was just about to go to bed
SteelersFan 101 Its 9.14 am here lol
xD
Pittsburgh? Same! And also just about to go to bed.... Gotta see it before it's flagged. :P
For real, got work in like 5 hours but when dad uploads im willing to sacrifice my only source of income
SteelersFan 101 same here bro
Todd being happy about Vine shutting down is so beautifully poetic in the age of Tick Tock
Surprised you didn't bring up that Lost Boy started its life as a Vine video. It was just soooooooo good, that she turned it into a whole song. Lucky us.
Lol I love the ironic usage of the slashed o's that Twenty One Pilots use
They're ø's and they're pronounced differently than o, it's so stupid when people use it to make text look edgy
smartsport I-/ :)
Yes
Not even one whole year yet and most of these artists/songs are completely irrelevant. 2016 was a shit year.
Well MGK stuck around....... only to do himself in by Dissing Eminem and causing "KillShot" too be created that pretty much did what the title was
@@Sonichero151 I come from the future and now MGK diss Slipknot, can't wait to see which music genre he's going to find refugee next.
Wait Vine didn't actually shut down?
Smeagol Sandwich still run just can't make an account
Smeagol Sandwich no, its just being rebranded to Vine Camera. existing vines and the website'll stay, but any new vines'll be put onto twitter instead
Finley Michaels if you don't update the app, it's fine.
Fitting music Todd. 2016 really was a Sucker for Pain.
Advent3546 Actually not for music though. Besides the deaths and mainstream music they're actually a ton of amazing albums that came out this year in rock, metal and hip hop. Those are really the only genres I listened to so I can't speak much on the other. Apparently country had a great year but I'm not a fan of the genre.
Ruth B's song got big because:
1. Most people don't think about lyrics as much as they should.
2. People assume slow and piano means deep.
3. The girl is really cute. Not even like hot, but cute. Like a child growing up. I look at her and think she could be my daughter - and I'm whiter than a yeti lol
"People assume slow and piano means deep"
That explains another, slightly more recent, song's popularity
@@slamwall9057 which one which one??!?
@@soumyasingh7736 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII think it's obvious which song IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm referring to
@@slamwall9057 I don't get it. I don't listen to much music
@@sperinthalakkat9831 well then it's better that you don't know
ITS HERE!!! Let's see how far down 7 years is...
TAKING OOONNNNN
(laughs mischievously)
Honestly, I found worst songs this year than #1 myself.
I actually really like 7 Years.
I'm guessing 4
The jøke about the Ø's from Twenty Øne Piløts is fantastic and I løve it!
Three years later but yøu missed twø.
hi i'm emily yeah ❤️
Stop using that letter as an O
@@linusdn2777 nø
@@pepe9022 Cancerkid
2 Things about "Bad Things"
1. That name "MachineGunKelly" reminds me of GunvsGun.
2. My mom absolutely HATES that song, and she kinda liked Fight Song. Yeah. 😕
I still like Alessia Cara's "Here." Shame she hasn't done any good since.
Here was phenomenal! Funny enough the most authentically original young voice coming through in a pop song since Royals!
1-800 was amazing and she was in it. What did you think of that one?
I do love Stay as well. Her other stuff I'd call mediocre at worst.
Hearing that song made me go look up Portishead's "Glory Box" which uses the same orchestral sample.
Here was her best song. I remember being excited for her next song and being disappointed
Todd: *talking about vine making shitty songs get popular*
Tiktok: Hold my beer
I would love a great song about Peter Pan. I fucking love that story...and it speaks a lot about the universal fear of getting older and letting go (but how doing so eventually allows you to experience more of life ).
But yeah that song sucks and it's disappointing.
It makes me happy that a year later after Todd pondered/worried if Lorde didnt have longevity he put one of her follow up songs as his #1 best of the year.
Dangit, Todd. I was *just* about to go to bed.
Claire Sameeeee
Claire same
+
welp...you ain't now. thankfully I missed the notification so I got my sleep.
I despised that Lost Boys song the very second I heard it! It sounds like one of those songs that tries one of those songs that tries to be edgy by taking a children's tale and making it dark and gritty! If I want to listen to a dark and gritty song, I'd lesson to Nine Inch Nails and they have more grace!
Watching this before it gets taken down. Hype~
spiritmint same
TITS is just too hot for TH-cam.
spiritmint Hopefully it wasn't demonetized by the time I started watching it.
I got through all of 2016 without hearing ANY of these songs.
aliccolo sure
aliccolo I know right :)
And thank God for that.
Me too. I don't feel so alone
You also? Good. Lucky you, seems to me.
I really did think 2016 was the worst fucking year of my life
and then 2020 snatched me up by my fucking ponytail and brutally slammed me into the ground repeatedly and mercilessly.
If you didn't spend so much time living on the internet then you would have a better time
@@TheEvilCheesecake there was a pandemic during 2020 and you couldn't go outside, like what the fuck else would she have done
@@cookiemocher388 both of you could have grown a hobby or interest
@@TheEvilCheesecake says a person on the fucking internet
@@itookallthenames I don't live here, I just come here to laugh at the people who do, and then I leave.
It’s funny that almost all the songs on the list were remade by kids bop and even from how bad these songs are kids bop can just make it get
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If ever there was an expression to sum up Vine, "You ugly. You yo'r daddy son," seems to be competent.
What I find funny is Juju On That Beat is also known as the TZ Anthem when it should be the Vine goodbye anthem. The camera spinoff they tried in early 2017 thankfully died off faster
Nymphonomicon I just want to punch those kids so bad ugh
Just wanted to put that out there
I feel so sorry that you had to sit through so much garbage.
2016 has not been a good year for pop music, that's for sure.
+Matthew Cool Not at all.
2016 Todd: music this year was the worst!
2017 Todd beams in: no dude, drone rap takes over. It's not even funny.
2018 Todd beams in while on fire, and clothes ripped: *Run.*
2016 was the worst year, 2017 was an awful year, 2018 was also an awful year
@@ffjreviews9029 About that...
👁
2017 pretty much opened the flood gates for rap
2021 Todd appears without one arm, madly whispering: *yummy yum that yummy yum*
10. so being a wannabe Lorde is a trend now? where do they do this at?
9. you see kids, this is how Migos was born.
8. Beautiful sista; Dreadful Song
7. Hate. This. Song. totally ripped off the Beatles
6. These Dance Songs.......God These Dance songs! 😫😣😣😣😣
10. Hey, uh Daya? NOONE thinks that you want that. In fact the idea that you'd imply that woman just want to look good for men is kind of offensive. No, not kind of, it IS offensive.
9. I can't understand what their saying. And I'm sick of mumble rapping.
8. I actually think this song is really pretty.
7. I thought this song was decent.
6. Ugh, ANOTHER ONE? I thought I hated the Chacha slide.I was wrong. This is pain.
It’s actually Fastball
Sheridan Mann your opinion on 8 makes me want to die
7 reo Speedwagon rip off 6 fastball
Sheridan Mann you have the blandest taste I’ve ever seen
whenever people make jokes like "I can't believe we all called 2016 the worst year ever because a bunch of celebrities died," I always think back to your line at 0:57 : "A year in which we kept losing our best and brightest and empowering our stupidest and worst."
That alone perfectly sums up the dread that I still feel when looking back on this year, and even though what was to come was a lot worse, make no mistake ---- It was still that bad
Man this list is vastly different from buckley's. Love it, I don't listen to pop but love hearing people tear into them.
ALSO PETER PAN'S WORLD IS MORE FUCKING DANGEROUS THAN PEOPLE SEEM TO REALIZE!!
SPEEDWAGOOOOOOONNNNN
Speedwagon best waifu
The Nuka-Cola Man DIIIIOOOOOOOOO
+Pwntagonist No, nah nah nah nah, Tequila Joseph is best waifu
"where will we be without our tragically misused samples?"
man we're all laughing about todd thinking vine dying would save him from bad songs but rehearing this line is especially funny after rewatching the 2022 worst of list
These lists will never not be funny. Always great jokes. But I gotta say my favorite is coming back and hearing Todd talk about how bad/dismal the year was. Hello from 2020. Yes, it got worse.
Man, these One-Hit Wonderland episodes have gotten so short...
Hey, here's a story for ya - 2016 was my last year of intermediate school (NZ equivalent of middle school) and at the end of the year we had our leavers' dinner. Everyone had to perform something that night (it was a small school, there were about 40 of us in our year) and as expected most people not part of a group performed a song - lots of white guys with acoustic guitars and white chicks with pianos. One such white girl with a piano performed 'Lost Boy'. At the time I assumed that it was an original song that she wrote simply because of how basic it was - I thought "oh cool, an original song and not another cover of some stupid pop song".
Fast forward a few years and I watch this video. I remember thinking "wait, Lost Boy was like, an actual song? That girl didn't write it herself? Jeeesus"
Lost Boy should have been first. That song was written solely for edgy middle schoolers to cover it while playing the same three chords on piano
Lost boy is genuinely one of the most bizarre and confusing songs I have never heard
Exactly. It may be the most boring song of all time.
When you actually use ø in your language so it just looks stupid
:)
*laughs in stressed out*
/st͡ʃɹɛst œʊʔ/
@@colltonrighem What?
JockeyHunter IPA
"2016 is the worst year" *laughter that slowly fasdes into crying*
Predictions for his Worst of 2017 list:
1: Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
2: Logic feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid - 1 800 273 8255
3: Lil Pump - Gucci Gang
4: Kodak Black - Tunnel Vision
5: Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
6: The Chainsmokers - Paris
7: Sam Hunt - Body Like a Backroad
8: Post Malone feat. Quavo - Congratulations
9: Lil Uzi Vert - XO Tour Life
10: Imagine Dragons - Thunder
Bosh Force One you predicted most of them
You got 5/10
Peri Flores that’s very true
You actually almost did it
Thunder and Congratulations are so catchy though its hard for me to see them on a worst pop song list
Bad Things was no where near high enough, that song is so next level bad I legitimately thought it was a joke the first time I heard it.
TreClaire I kinda like it😆
Ann Nee same.
Didn't like the song but I feel like Todd didn't need to RIP MGK calling him generic. MGK is a pretty good rapper. Just pop songs are not his strength....and he is not good in this song....
Hey, Master of Puppets is sexy. You've never Metallica and chilled?
Generally whenever I hear a duet of the woman singing the chorus, and the guy rapping the verses, I just groan because the songs end up being dragged down by the guy. My best example is I Hate U I love U. Besides the U part making me wanna punch my screen, the chorus is actually good. At least I like it. Then Mr Whothefuckcares comes in and rhymes shit with shit.... 4 times. Thats basically the story with those types of songs all year, and it's kinda sad to me.
that's how i feel with airplanes and love the way you lie and ANY SONG WITH PITBULL IN IT
Like "You and I", I despise that song
Well, that song did make it to #2 on the list
"Was it really the worst year ever? ...Yes. Yes, it was."
2017: Hold my beer
actually 2017 was really good comparing
2016 was way worse
@@b0ssboi762 nah
What about 2001 September
One of the reasons why 2016 is one of the absolute worst years of music is Jacob Sartorius. Sure, none of his songs were hits, but he did take absolutely awful music to a brand new level of low.
Future is like what would happen if Boomhauer became a rapper. Except not funny.
"Man, y'know, they all comin' fast, they ain't gettin' no sleep, man".
So dudes with southern accents cant make music then huh
th-cam.com/video/2DYB_dPILzc/w-d-xo.html
This is seriously the fifth Worst List to use "Sucker for Pain" as the transition song
It fits the year. Seriously, I noticed ACriticNamedKevin use it, and I was surprised to see this here too.
Great minds think alike.
Lol "to the point they called my dad ugly" I almost pissed myself laughing at this
Essa _xox Well, me and my dad are pretty ugly, so they’re not wrong there, everything else, however, completely wrong.
"What is this?"
"It's depression that's what it is."
Looking back at Machine Gun Kelly in this video to his career now, it’s safe to say that the only good thing he’s ever done is Megan Fox.
I remembered liking Bad Things, looking back I realize it was really only the chorus. MGK's verses were 'turrible'
I actually like MGK #estallday #lacethefuckup but I just couldn't care for Bad Things mostly because it's just a mediocre song about MGK's BDSM fetish. My real problem with MGK is why the hell do they promote *that* mediocre trash over better MGK songs like "Gone" (which is a much better version of Eminem's "Mockingbird"), "Invincible", "A Little More Love" (a much better suicide prevention song than Logic's mediocre 1-800 bullshit), "Go For Broke", "Hollywood Whore", "Glass House", and etc and etc? That is straight-up bullshit!
BURN!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Aaaand he failed that too lmao
"If there was ever a good year to be a mediocre white man, it was 2016"
-Todd in the Shadows
people back then: 2016 IS THE WORST!
people in 2020: well shit
I personally Loved this year Music Was Catcy, Sports was at it's peak, and the world just Seemed more positive
Might I just mention here that I have a deep and abiding love of the "NOT A RHYME" button?
Yeah, but when the Not A Rhyme alarm starts to dis-avow itself, it was a really bad year.
“I can’t think of a song where future was memorable”
~just over a year later~
*Ladidadida...*
If you're ever running out of ideas for videos this year and need something that'll rack up a buncha views, you should do a Top 10 Worst Of list for either 2006 or 2007, both years where probably most of your fans first got into listening to the radio (such as myself), but also 2 years where some of the worst songs of the entire decade came out. These were also 2 of my favorite years for Top 40 radio music, there were a lot of excellent songs on the radio as well, but Christ was the bad stuff REALLY bad. So yeah, just an idea for ya!
"This was a particularly brutal year"
*Laughs in 2020*
Lost Boy makes me feel dirty. What was played here sounds like a story told from the view of a child abduction victim.
Hmmm. I can hear it now too, and my skin is crawling a bit.
When I hear you break down the chord progression, noting the use of the 7th and so forth, I'm reminded of what a solid foundation of musical knowledge you bring to this operation. It makes a huge difference in terms of the utility and entertainment value of your reviews.
Hit'm High's also one of the dopest contemporarily modernized raps dropped by LL Cool J. Does very well with the post golden era beat.