ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "I Love College" by Asher Roth
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- Todd revisits a dumb frat rap from 2009 because it's his ten-year Toddiversary! But whatever happened to the great white hope of the 2009? (Support Todd on Patreon! / toddintheshadows )
Tbf "don't have sex if she's too gone" is exactly the kind of advice that the target of this song probably need to be reminded of
Brock Turner didn't follow this advice.
The tonal whiplash of "Don't pass out with ya shoes on, and don't have sex if she's too gone" is so good, partially because it was so unintended.
This is basically the theme song for those rich kids in those college admission scandals.
Aren’t you the guy who made the best of 2014 list with Cicabeot1
Do those kids even want to be in college? I assumed that it was the parents who wanted to look good by having their kids go to a first rate college.
100% Especially now
@@woodywyatt557 yup, he most certainly is.
@@gabingston3430 nice i love that video i thought i was the only person who hated say something that much
I never realized how tasteless and tone deaf it was for Asher Roth to sample “Say It Ain’t So” over a song that goes “chug chug chug chug”
Maybe it was supposed to be satire, which seems unlikely but at the same time he did start out as the "donate to charity" guy.
Jesus christ
He didn’t sample it though, did he? That’s a super common chord progression. Granted it used the same rhythm too, but that’s just as basic. Not to mention the second chord is a minor, as it is in almost every other major song that uses that progression
@@kevindube7096 the original version of the song directly samples the guitar line of Say It Ain't So
@@roddorfj 😂 oops I literally just got to that part as you responded. I’m impressed with your quickness dawgy
This song feels like a Lonely Island song if it didn't have jokes.
And if the vocal inspiration were Eminem instead of the Beastie Boys
the hook especially feels like a joke with no setup
“I just had sex!!! No, that’s it-I just had sex, nothing notable happened at all.”
It was indeed just a terrible, low-quality song and that was really all its failure was about. Not really the concept or anything else like that. It didn't even manage to be catchy like the "bad" songs you at least bother to hate. I can see what Scooter saw in him. He's actually a good guy with values and principles about his art, apparently. And if someone was going to fulfill Scooter's vision of writing frat rap in a straightforward, unironic way--no hint of novelty, no hint of tough-guy posturing--he was marketing wise the right vehicle. He's scrawny and funny looking and acts dorky with a sort of underdog vibe, like a hero of a college comedy. If you're going to be an upper middle class kid, especially back then, rapping in that straightforward and bare way about something like wasting your expensive education time partying, you'd better not be a cool, handsome jock from a similar background like Sammy Adams.
Anyway that shit never took off and the fratboy lifestyle has fallen seriously out of sympathy across the entire political spectrum. I thought "Lark in my go-kart" was actually the strongest of those songs. Stupid lyrics but at least the beat and flow were quite catchy.
“But whether it be Obama or Flo Rida...”
There’s a phrase I never thought I’d hear.
#brandnewsentence
"Two equally important men." - TITS
Bruh fuck Obama
Literally read it as he said it
This feels like the kind of sentence that would get sentence mixed. "Whether it be Obama or Flo Rida, or Flobama, or O Rida..."
Welp, this is officially the first One Hit Wonderland to be about a song that was charting while Todd was reviewing music. Talk about a gut punch of how long that's been...
Also wow, so Lil Dicky was managed by the same guy who managed 2009 Bieber and I Love College Asher Roth. My god, that makes far too much sense. No wonder Dicky is trash on his hit songs, because he actually showed skill on Professional Rapper.
@@UBvtuber Fuck Scooter Braun. He ruins shit for true music.
@@chdreturns He knows what he's doing. I mean I hate his shit songs and what he's helped turn the music industry into, but we might have never seen people like Lorde or the new rise of indie/alt rock like we are now.
He did Somebody That I Used To Know...
@@the1andonlyzack wasnt a one hit wonderland, just a song review
Pity we never got the followup single: I’m burdened by crippling student loan debt.
Happy decadeversary, Todd!
We did. In 2018. "Casanova" by Rayland Baxtler.
@@mariokarter13 Lucky you.
Twenty one pilots have spent their careers trying to fill that void
The Reality Remix.
I'm only in my first year and I already have debt I could never pay back :D
The follow up should've been "My dad stopped paying for college"
javis88h
He needs to do a one hit wonderland episode for Layla by Derek and the Dominos
Joey LaRose
Little wing is a jimi hendrix song
And if bell bottom blues is a hit then
New radicals isn’t a one hit wonder
Because someday we’ll know and a few other songs by them were also a hit
Look when I say derek and the dominos in a musical discussion they usually say.
Oh the layla band right?
Joey LaRose
They are notorious for that song alone
Bell bottom blues is great but most people know them only for Layla
Pawn Hearts Derek and the dominoes only have one album, but Eric Clapton and Duane allman have dozens of hits
StoneFish Music
By that logic the new radicals aren’t a one hit wonder
But todd still reviewed them
So let’s just review this because I want todd to play the piano
"I never went to college, don't even listen to Asher Roth." - Denzel Curry
"FAIRY GODPARENTS!" - Denzel Crocker
"Can I please get a little bit of knowledge / Somebody tell Roth that I don't love college!" - Chiddy Bang
The way college is in my country, I have a sub-standard relationship with it... I kinda miss school but at least I seemed to have more freedom to roam around the city.
Hey, you were on Yiay!
@@weekapaugphil fr
I was in law school when this came out, and it came on during a party at my house. A really drunk friend shouted "Objection!", I responded "Sustained!", and I skipped to the next song. This is the first time I've thought of Asher Roth since that day. (And good Lord, we were dorks.)
That's really funny, actually
😂😂😂
That's adorkable
Ok that's funny 😂 so how has life post-grad been?
@@BrandanTheBroker Quite good! I was in 100% remote private practice for nine years and travelled to ~30 countries. I met my wife in Israel in 2018 and now have three kids. I can't complain!
10 years huh.....you don't look like you've aged a day mate.
Silhouettes don't tend to age that quickly.
It's the makeup. He spends hours on it before every shoot.
You can't see him m8.
@@blackburn-ud9dm
Ya don't say
Its that jacket. It draws the eye so much he looks as young as day one.
Remember when Todd talked about Allmusic comparing Mike Posner to this guy? I feel old
Mike’s Music Reviews Your a TITS veteran.
But that first Mike Posner video finally came full circle.
I'm so glad Mike Posner is popular again, his past three albums have been amazing
Mike’s Music Reviews, if you’re feeling old, rewatch Todd in the Shadows: “7 Years” Review
@brandon roberts "I took a pill in Ibiza to show Aviici I was cool" is awkward now that Aviici passed away...
"College parties are open to anyone who has decent grades..."
Todd, what college parties did you go to?
Sounds like the ones not full of freshmen.
I think he meant more that if you get decent grades and don't mind student loans you can go to college and then college parties are everywhere
I'm guessing that was about people who aren't desperately cramming so they don't flunk out and waste all that money having more freedom and partying more?
Saintnick90 *college parties are for any girl who has decent grades. If you’re a guy and not in a frat good luck trying to get in a party.
@@mattschumacher4581 I mean you can't necessarily go to a frat party, but I don't see why you would want to. At least where I went to college there were always house parties you could go to that didn't have restrictions on getting in at all
"Asleep in the Bread Aisle" is such a random title, I'd bet money it was the result of one of those conversations where a weird phrase comes up and someone else immediately says "That's my new band name/album title." Except instead of everyone laughing it off, someone actually decided to use it.
I think it's intended to be a synonym for "I'm a white rapper" - boring white bread, y'get it?
@@FrothingFanboy That's funny, but have you never seen people give shitfaced drunks bread? It can be hilarious depending on how drunk they/you are but it's 'sposed to fill your stomach and sober you up a bit.
Pocket Fluff Productions I actually thought that album was pretty good. It had some dope songs and ashers a sharp rapper
It reminds me of how a lot of bands in Emo and pop-punk would have long song titles that had nothing to do with the lyrical content/songs themselves lol
To me it seems like it's saying he's sleepin on money aka bread
"don't rape?! How is this a pearl of wisdom we need?"
*Brock turner has entered the chat*
Better than encouraging rape. I figured that it was, in fact, good he said so.
Yes if some one said rape is bad don't do it to him then it won't of happened
Do The Warrior by Scandal
@Ozymandias Kang of Kangz wtf he was eye witnesses against him and dna evidence
@@marciaosullivan3200 yeah, he had eyewitnesses to him consensually hooking up with a drunk girl who had a boyfriend
“2009 was the year everything became a party.”
Ah, yes. By the next year, every single song that was played on the radio was about “the club”. For the next couple of years you just couldn’t get away from “the club”. I feel nostalgic about it now (mostly because of warm memories of listening to local radio for information about winter school closures) but it was annoying at the time.
So true. Lmfao and pitbull had hit after hit that year
It seemed like every song that came out in the late 2000s-early 2010s was about something club or party related.
2j1n Not really. Bit their was a lot. Its sucks now back then songs had energy.
God, I completely forgot about the In Da Club era of pop music. I remember bitching about how much the music my friends played on the radio sucked shit during long car rides, and I wanted to listen to stuff like Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine. What a horrible part of my existence.
@@jazzcritic3587 Songs nowadays are nothing but depression and sadness.
I agree with Todd, "I Love College" sounds like an R-rated movie that only got the rating because of one brief topless scene and a character says the f-word in passing. It sounds way too safe and obvious. The Beastie Boys' "You gotta fight for your right to party" sounds more like a college party song and that was suppose to be a parody of said parties.
I think if Asher stayed underground, honed his craft, found some talented people to work with and stayed far away from Scooter Baun, Asher Roth could have been the Post Malone of his day.
Anyway, Thank you for ten years for great music reviews Todd and here's to another 10!
Zack F Asher went underground after this tho. Thank goodness.
Post Malone really isn't a good comparison. He fell into rap by accident, looks down on it, and I think he went back to being a singer-songwriter.
Lmao if only u knew that’s exactly what Asher Roth did (minus the becoming as big as post Malone)
Like todd says he reminds me of mac miller. He was also from P.A so they could've made some good music together. They had similar beginnings but asher never honed his craft
Post Malone is hardly a rapper.Ya he raps but he’s pretty bad.He admitted that in several interviews.He’s more of a catchy hooks and song maker.Asher Roth is the complete opposite.Good rapper,but not very good song maker.Thats why he went underground after his big break and hasn’t been mainstream since.
"2009, when music was a lot dumber and easier to make fun of."
Todd, you do realize Baby Shark hit the Top 40 this year, right?
baaabyyy shark du du dadu dadu
it's "harlem shake" case. More of a dumb catchy novelty song ( this time for little kids) but nothing really worth to talk or mock
End the suffering
@@jaimedanielhernandezrios5398 Yeah, I know it's an outlier... I actually agree with his point, I was more just making a joke
@@jaimedanielhernandezrios5398 Like the irritating nae nae song from 2015.
"Don't have sex if she too gone" clearly enough people didn't learn this rule such as brock Turner and his dad
Yeah the "how to properly gauge how drunk the girl you're consensually making out with is while you're also drunk because that's your responsibility now for some reason" seminar at Columbia is actually just a fat lesbian screaming at men that they're bad so it's not really very informative on the topic at hand
@@joedonronimo7679 How does it feel knowing that fat lesbian has probably had more fulfilling hookups in a year than you've experienced in your entire life, Joe?
@@mfitzburger5137 They were all lesbian hookups so who cares?
His mom too😞
@@joedonronimo7679 i
what kinda logic is that. if you're sober enough to have sex, you're sober to realize that the other person is already passed out drunk. real life is not movies, you don't get drunk, black out and wake up in bed with random people
Asher Roth opened for Ludacris at my college the year this came out and ended up getting boo'd off the stage.
That's tragic. After all these years, he had to go back to college.
@@TheTwentySevenClub or a blessing. He wants to stay at college for the rest of his life.
Why did they boo him?
@@SegaGentleman it's been over 10 years so my memory is hazy on the specifics, but I remember that 1) no one was expecting a surprise opener from Asher Roth and didn't want to have to wait for Luda. This was the end of the night at a fairly small annual music festival at my school and some people had been waiting all day to see Ludacris. Roth was not on the bill for the event. 2) Roth kept kind of... Taunting us in the audience? He would like tease that he was gonna do I Love College, which was the only song anyone knew from him, but then play some random other song no one knew. I remember him doing that multiple times so by the time he actually played the song no one was looking forward to it anymore and just wanted him off so we could see Ludacris.
@@laurenmosley9532 LMAO
“Time to get some sleep.”
*New One Hit Wonderland/10 Year Anniversary*
“Never mind!”
Literally my wife and me right now
Same.time to break out the snacks!
Yep, both him & his former colleague Lindsay Ellis are my stop-everything-and-watch TH-camrs.
Todd: *Complains about feeling old in a bunch of videos over the past year*
Todd: *Makes a one hit wonderland about a rapper that most of their audience can remember getting big, making them feel like dried up mummies only still mobile out of their own stubbornness*
Well played Shadow-sir
what about us poor ole bastards that remember when most of his one hit wonderlands got big
Big oof on that one. Where has the time gone...
I don't remember this getting big, but I do remember "You Get What You Give" (or arguably even "What Is Love") getting big.
Who's old now?
@@digamejh I remember BOTH of those songs, and I was a teenager at the time... so both of us it seems. :(
2009 really wasn't that long ago... why does it feel like a different dimension?
Really? 2009 still feels kinda connected to the current era in my opinion.
Because it was 10 years ago. And the way the country has gone down the shitter doesn't help.
I mean, 2015 already feels like it was a decade ago.
Man, that was pretty long ago. Wow, when I first moved. I've come so far in four years. What?!? It's only been four years?! Time is WEEEIRD.
I blame Trump.
This song gave me a very unrealistic expectation of what college was going to be. In reality, it was the most stressful 4 years of my life, and I could not be happier to be done with that.
STEM?
You and me both
I still remember being a huge Channel Awesome fan (shut up, none of us knew the half of it back then) and finding out that they'd gotten A MUSIC REVIEWER!!! and just losing my shit with excitement. Thanks for giving us oldbies one of the very few positives we can take away from that clusterfuck, Todd. You're the good shit.
You should have also mentioned about the Great Recession’s impact on the party/club boom in pop music around the late 2000s/early 2010s in how most young people wanted to forget about all the financial troubles and party their lives away
I think another factor was the last great EDM bubble of the mid-00s when raves in US major cities were in a grey area of law so the people entering college and clubbing age in 2009-2010 spent their time in highschool at highly organized multistage all ages raves that lasted until 7am.
Let's not pretend young adults had any fucking clue what was going on in the financial sector or how it was going to impact them. It was just a delayed side-effect of the ecstasy boom
This song came out when I and most of my friends were about to finish college and had nowhere to go and no jobs ahead, so it was oddly bittersweet
Matthew Vaughan I think early on people were just not aware of how long the recession would drag on for. I mean really in some ways its impact stretched out over the course of the entire subsequent decade. People would have approached it optimistically at first, and then slowly got more disillusioned, and I think that that is reflected in the music.
@@matthewvaughan8192 Some of us had a great idea of what was happening. I was 17-18 and was an editor for my school newspaper where we wrote articles about what was going on. We also studied things relating to it in economics class and current events in our history classes. You're not giving enough credit to young adults.
I was under the impression that "Like a G6" was the lamest rap song ever to become a mainstream hit. Then, when I saw that you were doing this episode, I listened to this song for the first time.
Thank you, Todd. My mind has been expanded.
There's actually alot worse than "Like a G6"...
I mean, at least this song kinda knows how lame it is and just roles with it. Like a G6 is way worse because you know these guys really think this is the coolest shit ever
Sean is to Todd what I am to him...
Just commenting everything that pops up and have like 5 different comments
....how old are you....
God I remember way too many high school parties where girls thought getting drunk and dancing to that song was fun.
It was everywhere but the only redeeming quality was that same techno sound and drums that so many other hip hop songs had at the time. You couldn't dance to it because the beat was way too fast and the lyrics were awful, but it was somehow EVERYWHERE.
There should be some "honest" version of this song with verses like "I have to buy thousands of dollars of textbooks" and "The degree I'm working so hard for isn't going to help me find a job."
Huh, you'd expect CollegeHumour to have done that already.
All of that would have actually been about college. This is just "I'm in my early twenties and like going to parties".
I'm forced to take a bunch of classes that will be completely useless to me
BTW I'm a fan of your channel
I remember there were a bunch of them the Fall that the song came out. The line, "Time isn't wasted, when you're leveling your mage up" still makes me laugh.
Whenever I heard this song, all I could hear was Bender singing “I love stealin... I love takin stuff...”
'ROBOT HOUSE!!!'
This is a song high schoolers bumped and then grew out of by the time they actually hit college.
4:50 It's an Italian word, it's pronounced "mis-PAHCH-ee", rhymes with Versace.
😂😂😂😂😂
I was a freshman in college when this came out. Within hours, my dad called me and asked why I couldn't be more like Asher Roth.
WTF!?
@The Stammering Dunce He was not.
oh hi, has it actually been ten years since 2009? geez.
Jacob New I was a freshman in college 10 years ago, with hope and a bright future. It’s insane how much time has passed
@@queenemma5823 "I was old 10 years ago." - JK Simmons in The Accountant; also me
Wasn't that the great recession?
Yeah, I remember literally dancing to this as a freshman in college at a house party when this came out.
@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 just on the tail end of it, IIRC
“That party last night...” was actually the hook & I remember everybody singing and posting it online. Definitely catchier than “I love college & I love drinking”
100% agree. it's just a better, more quotable lyric
I think one of the reasons that party jams were so prevalent in 2009 and the following years was because most people were feeling the worst of the 2008 crash and they needed something to lift them up during those times.
Moral of the story is: Scooter Braun is a monster
Scooter Braun in 2009: Something wicked this way comes
I'll build a time machine, you get to work on that Terminator.
Petition to stop scooter?
Scooter Braun essentially started the rap for suburban white boys trend with this, and my distaste for that trend is why I became such an “angry white boy,” as Todd calls it, in middle school at around the same time
@@garystack9537 I mean you could argue that suburban white bois were always the largest buying demographic of Rap, considering they were the ones who made NWA's album go ×3 platinum back in '88. More often than not theres just less legitimacy to these rap artists nowadays and more reason to sell out and make a quick buck.
"Yeah, I might mess around and get my college degree, I bet my old man will be so proud of me, but sorry pops, you'll just have to wait."
-A Guy Todd Loves
Wow, a lot of comments hoping one of them sticks
West Chester’s own Asher Roth in Todd in the Shadows. The Lil Dicky before Lil Dicky. Never thought I would see the day.
Happy ten years, you man of eternal mystery.
Fun fact: Davidson College did a parody of I Love College about their dining hall. It's called I Love Commons and (briefly) features Steph Curry, who it turns out can't rap worth shit.
Damian Lilliard is a good rapper tho.
I actually like playing beer pong. That may be because I was too awkward to socialize at college parties so I spent my time mastering the pong.
CoconutBeauty It’s fun in small doses. Some people just take it too seriously and ruin it for everyone.
While they were mingling, you were practicing the pong.
While they were chatting, you were practicing the pong.
While they were banging, you were practicing the pong.
When they finally came to the table, you had mastered the pong.
@@ironbacon you are a menace to society 😂☝️👏😭
@@ironbacon"while you were out having the sex, I was in pinging the pong. And now you come to me for help?"
Here's to ten more years and a golden play button.
I hope Todd does “Top 10 Best/Worst Songs I’ve Ever Reviewed” for the anniversary. Or maybe that’ll just be the 2020 list for best/worst of the decade
A whole decade of Todd. And a whole decade of me. I made it through half the 2000s, and the whole 2010s!
You know, I'm 'gonna miss the 2010s. All the stuff that's gone on, even the bad stuff... just, so much. Will things ever be the same? They're already changing. I already miss the early 2010s, with the Minecrafts, and the Five Nights at Freddys, a more innocent time, a time when we never had to hear about Donald Trump. I hadn't even heard of the guy until 2015. Yeah, I guess it went downhill, but there's still been that 2010sness, I'm 'gonna miss the ethos of this decade. You know, it's always been 2010 this, or 2010 that. We've always been in the 2010s. For as long as I can remember, the year's always been 2-0-1-blank. It'll be so weird and different starting with a 2 as the third number. Weird. Guess we're riding into the unknown. The years, they go by, faster and faster, I'm losing them, time just slides by quick. And, and I'll never go back to those old years, when the 2010s are gone, I won't be able to see them again.
I miss our president. Not the fat idiot who thinks he's the president. The real president. The one who acted like a true leader, and not a fucking infant.
ULGROTHA don’t insult the 2010s’ honor! 2010s music may not be the best, but at least it wasn’t 80s music! And did you see 80s fashion? How DARE you compare the greatness of the 2010s to the shitfest that was the 1980s?!? And that isn’t even talking memes, the 80s didn’t have memes, there wasn’t even the internet. 2010s is when memes blew up! And TH-cam! Fucking TH-cam! No TH-cam in the crappy 80s! Minecraft! Fucking Minecraft! Truly the greatest video game of all time, don’t @ me! Any decade that had all that Minecraft stuff, clearly is worth something!
For the record I think “Break Up” is still the worst song he’s ever reviewed.
Asher Roth played my local club, my metal band opened for him he is a cool kid.
"Asleep in the Bread Aisle" is kind of a genius title.
At least he's not sleeping in the dairy aisle, or the soup aisle. The bread aisle is optimal for supermarket sleeping.
If it was punk or like. Nerdass 00s rock, ppl would find that sort of title good
I love how Todd could have drunk anything and said it was that disgusting beer hiding in the shadows, but he actually drank that shit. For the fans. That's dedication.
Happy 10 years, Todd!
Oops Asher Roth was trying to be Macklemore before he was a thing.
and their first breakout hit tells you everything you need to know about which one made it through.
That said I'm biased because Thrift Shop and Downtown are fucking bangers
Thank God we got Macklemore instead of (this version of) Asher Roth. I have no idea what the current public opinion on Macklemore is, but I like him. His music is fun, and he is charming and self-aware enough to pull off the sillyness.
yltraviole Agreed. He’s not bragging about drinking and getting a girl to strip while wishing he had taped it.
Actually Macklemore been around longer, he debuted in 2005, while Asher Roth started in 09
@@SecretConceit In fact, Macklemore has songs about his struggles with alcoholism.
Congrats on 10yrs! I'm 41, part of your crustier demographic, and I think you're a damn fine critic.
My teenaged niece & nephew don't listen to my opinions on music; they listen to your opinions & then come over to pick through my "physical media" music collection like "Todd talked about this one!!!" or "Wait, didn't Todd say this was a piece of shit basically? Aunt Laurie, Todd says this sucks, you should burn this".
Todd's word is gospel, and I'm very much okay with that. Someone has to help them on the road to developing their own taste in music, and I'm really friggin' glad it's you.
Here's to another ten more great years in the shadows :-)
Eh, seeing as Todd can't tell the difference between nu metal and post-grunge, complains when artists try new things, and says absolutely no good music came from the early 2000s, maybe you should suggest other music critics. I'm not saying Todd is terrible. He just makes glaring mistakes from time to time.
@@kimifw58 - They won't go anywhere near Robert Christgau or David Fricke (yet), and honestly, too many YT music critics are too far up their academic snob asses, all they really teach is pointless elitism. Yeah, Todd makes mistakes, but most YT'ers do (and hell, so did John Peel at his height), I like that Todd endeavors to be fair and tries hard to learn. Also, he hasn't disappeared up his own ass and he's fucking funny. I'm a fan.
At any rate, I'm very good with my kiddos being fans of Todd.
Also, there are few differences between nu-metal and post-grunge, and when you get to be my age, you'll happily realize, holy fuck, it doesn't actually matter at all :-)
Jokey-jokes aside, 10 years of this has been a wonderful gift to all of us and I'm glad you've found a comfortable niche to work with :D
'I love college' is the song you defend while you're in college and immediately dismiss liking it the moment you graduate...
There is something extremely sad and also perfectly apt for our cyberpunk dystopia that a song called "I love college" launched the man who would come to rule the music industry and dial up its abuse of artists to a new level.
Never thought I'd say this, but I now feel kinda sorry for the "I Love College" guy. Man that song grated on my nerves. But hearing snippets of his early stuff... it's easy to see what might have been.
H0lyMoley he kept writing and actually released a mixtape called Pabst and Jazz that wasn’t bad, he also released another album called Retrohash which is ehhhh but yeah you can tell he’s actually got some talent.
@@collinhiggins5689 Pabst and Jazz is pretty fuckin awesome. And I really enjoy a lot of his songs off his newer work
@@collinhiggins5689 it was more than "wasnt bad", that album is objectively an amazing hip hop mixtape. People are dumb though and looove keeping guys in a box 11 years after they made something. New Asher album comes out this april, its gon be goood his style couldnt be more different from his old frat shit
adam . I can’t wait, unfortunately I don’t really see him blowing up again anytime soon but I’m glad he’s still at it, I’ve come to really love that mixtape.
@@collinhiggins5689 oh ya i dont think he'll ever blow up like he did before ever again, he doesnt want to. But today people are more inclined to listen to independant artists. I think this new album will get his name back into the rotation of respectable indie artists. The new single is legit a good song, and i cant fucking wait to hear the Lil Yachty and Buddy features and how they work with Ashers new sound
Todd, for your tenth, I just want to say that you’ve introduced me to so many songs and changed the way I listen to and think about music. Thanks for what you do.
I went to West Chester with Asher Roth and I can tell you... those parties there were lame as hell!
David Aichele fun fact, he actually wrote this song after he went to a party at Penn State, not a WCU party.
@@garrus4016 sounds about right 😂
I go to West Chester right now, and lemme tell you, I'm just glad I can go to the bars instead
@@Quintaner yikes
Anyone remember the time when it was cool to hate on Justin Bieber and people thinking he was gonna fade away after a couple years or less?
It says a lot about how it being cool to hate on things is so transparently stupid. Don't hate on things. Have things you like and dislike but don't feel the need to trash another's like (unless it's fundamentally problematic, like, say, how anything Scooter Braun touches seems to devolve into a cesspool of sexism).
There was million Justin Bieber was gay jokes.
@@mariogamefreak1 and they were WAY more irritating than the sight of him ever was
It's still cool to hate on beiber...
I mean, Bieber's still giving us more reasons to hate him to this day.
"But Say it Ain't so is definitely a song you would hear a guy play on an acoustic guitar at a college party"
I was just reminiscing about this song! Every once in a while I get that chorus stuck in my head and have to sing the whole song out loud. Man, I really needed this video. I remember actually liking one of his follow up tracks and that one he did with Keri Hilson (looking back I think I did like Keri more though, she was definitely an artist that deserved better)
The problem with Keri Hilson is that she didn't have a personality or enough of a presence in her own songs. Her biggest hit was "Knock You Down", and she's overshadowed by Ne-Yo and Kanye West, two of the biggest names at the time.
She was a good "hook girl" for Timbaland and she had success writing for other artists, but she could never cultivate enough of an identity as an artist in her own right. It's a shame because she had some bangers and she had a pretty voice.
I remember the Rap Critic doing an episode about this song, back when it first came out. Damn, it's been a long decade.
This dude’s life story after the hit must be incredible because the legacy of the hit itself is, to my knowledge, basically zero
Todd celebrating his 10 years anniversary... This video turns 5 years old today.
Waiting on the episode that covers "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve. Criminally underrated band.
I'm just waiting on a new OHW episode altogether.
Todd's been here 10 years? 10 years ago I was a 24 year old fresh faced kid...And Todd still seems like a kid!
I was 22. Goddamn.
Shadows don't age
Well you know what they say, black don't crack.
Damn, these 10 years went by in a flash. Still think 2009 was not that long ago lol
same. there's a meme of homer drunkenly crashing into a trashcan when the poster says "hey, the nintendo ds came out 10 years ago" and that's how i feel. the passage of time is a motherfucker.
In the north sky, time flies fast to the morning.
@SuperKane5 Eh, I suppose it depends. I went from 20 to 30 this past decade. Imagine the difference between maybe just starting college (or in my case, rejecting my expensive college at the last minute and instead working) to being 30 and (hopefully), more established in your life. I really don't want to think of ten years though as being a long time.
I miss being 9
I Will Not Bow, This Is War, Bad Romance, and Uprising all came out ten years ago and my time in high school quickly followed. Music was so much better then.
Congratulations Todd! I wish I could say I’ve been following you since the beginning, but I’m only nineteen. But thanks to your videos, I feel like my appreciation for music has grown so much in such a short time. And if your podcasts are any indication, I think you still have a lot of love for music. Keep it up man, and here’s hoping your rocket just keeps going up!
Funny, there's another comment just below yours from someone saying they did discover Todd when they were nine.
I can't think of anything more un-hip hop than a song about how much you love the drinking and partying you are doing at college. It's the antithesis of everything rap has ever stood for. Congrats on 10 years Todd.
Wait why does his first follow up look like The Nutshack 🤔
Being able to afford to takeout once in a while...Todd you are literally living my dream
I've been watching TitS since I was 9 in 2009, and now I'm a sophomore in college...
Let me tell you, it's not what it's like in the song, lmao. I think I have more homework than time to breathe. But it still beats where I was in 2009. What an interesting ride... Thanks Todd!
I remember not being into Todd when he first showed up on the thatguywiththeglasses website, now he's the only one from that trash fire of a site I still watch
Love ya Todd!
Track down the expats. There's several that I think still do good work. But let ChannelAwesome and its brand and associates end, yes.
IMHO Todd found his niche and has done very well with it. I feel there has always been a place for reviewers like Todd, and am glad that he came along and fulfilled it. Unlike certain other TGWTG alumni, Todd never felt chained to that particular brand, and it was more of a stepping stone than the end of the road progress-wise.
I still watch Lindsay, too. And her channel has gotten huge in the past couple years.
There are a few Channel Awesome refugees I discovered only well after they left. Todd, Lindsay, Kyle.
A lot of the CA ex-pats are producing incredible work nowadays. Lindsay is a far bigger force on the internet now than she ever was then. Kyle's gotten more niche, Some Jerk's Movie Reviews are great, and Lindsay's been lifting up a lot of newer critics like Jenny Nicholson and Hbomberguy. All worth following up on!
I'm a big Mac Miller fan and I could see what you mean. I actually really liked Asher's pre "I Love College" work. He had chops and a good sense of humor. 2009 had a lot of underground rappers who signed major label deals and got they're soul sucked out.
For what it's worth, you're my favorite TH-camr. I discovered you after looking for vh1 one hit wonders footage and haven't stopped since. Thanks for all you do.
3:14 "'cuz we're about to celebrate ten years of TODD!" - THAT should be one of Todd's ringtones in Bojack Horseman
I’m glad he chose a 2009 song for his 10-year anniversary. 2009 was my first year listening to pop music, and it was the first year I covered in my Top 10 lists for 2000s CHILDHOOD POP. I remember hearing another song from him and Akon on the Madden 12 soundtrack. “I Love College” still sucks, though.
Ahh, Madden 12, the last good Madden.
Mr. 96 he kind of had to chose a 2009 song, any other year wouldn’t make sense, as he started in 2009, ten years ago.
I WILL BE THE LAST MAN STANDING
Stop reminding me 2009 was ten years ago, and stop reminding me I graduated college this year and have to be a real adult now!
(Lmao, and a happy ten years to you too, Todd, and to all the good ones to come)
Ah...and with that, I have finished. I have celebrated OHW's 10-year anniversary by watching every single episode, all 101 of them now, in chronological order of the songs' release date. It has been one heck of a wild ride, and thank you Mr. Nathanson, for helping to foster my interests in both music and history. Hope you continue to enjoy doing this for however much longer you do so.
in 7th grade me and my buddy were Facebook friends with Asher Roth.
Holy shit, I remember watching this channel as kid. It always lingered in the back of the mind but I never decided to go searching for it. Glad you popped up in my recommended
Happy 10 year anniversary Todd! I’ve only been watching for over 2 of those years but you’ve quickly have become my favorite music reviewer on TH-cam! Your musical knowledge and reviewing style has really influenced me in how I think about music! And your videos, especially One Hit Wonderland, have taught me a lot about music history and artists that I wouldn’t have known or thought about otherwise. Here’s to 10 more years of reviews!
Happy ten years! Caught this on Patreon this morning. It would be really cool if you did a Top 10 Best and Worst of the 2010s in 2020, counting down your 10 number ones from both your best lists and worst lists to see which are the ultimate hits:)
Adam Fitz if he does that, I predict Wiggle will be his #1 worst, and either Take Care or Uptown Funk will be his #1 best.
Happy 10 years Todd! Cheers to you and here's to another 10 more!
I'd be interested in a video covering the strange era of crunkcore and other scene kid musicians/bands like the Millionaires and Uffie.
I wish he would too 😌☝️ I was super involved in the scene lol. It was good times
Still waiting for I Try by Macy Gray. Probably the best one hit wonder artist imo
Macy Gray was Sony's fetch. I can't think of another one-hit wonder whose other songs got so much media exposure and yet never charted.
Every single white kid my sophomore year loved this song. I was too punk to like it but 10 years later........i still hate it. I've soften on pop music, i can appreciate mindless songs way more. But goddamn this song just brings back the most annoying memories.
Also jesus dude had some skills its a shame he didn't get bigger from a better song.
I feel the same way about a lot of music from this time, particularly these party and club jams. Hated them as an edgy teen, don't look back at them fondly today. Some things never change.
Why do Todd’s piano covers at the beginning always sound better than the actual songs?
Wert's Channel Echaide you like piano music.
Because Todd actually knows how to read and play music, maybe? He's just awesome that way 🙂
I wish he would releese full covers of one hit wonders
My first pic is I ran
Because songs are bad
Ten years my life has been better off for having Todd in it. Here's to 10 more.
Also he had a song "last man standing" with akon. So thats cool. Asher Roth realky did set up my generation for mac miller, mac demarco, jake miller, sammy adams etc.
Mac Demarco never was a rapper
There's a nice little allusion here to the role of "Moment" in an artist's rise. It's far more important than anybody else gives it credit for.
I hope he's so much happier as an artist now.
And likewise, I'm happy you're happy, Todd! Happy 10th, brother.
Congrats on 10 years, I joined a couple months ago. Your content is quality.
Never been this early. Happy 10 years Todd
He didn't eat apple sauce at all in this video, which is the only prior knowledge I had on Asher Roth.
At my high school homecoming, I requested that the DJ played this and he did. My friends and I sang along to every word. Low and behold, two days detention for me.
I’d never thought I wanted a OHW video on Asher Roth. I’ll take it.
I am so happy you're still making us laugh after all these years, and here's to hopefully another moderately drunk decade!
Scooter Braun was a nobody in 2009 and now he's the most powerful man in the music industry? Wtf how
Todd, i found you in 2011, and it is a testament to your content that you are one of the only creators i am still actively watching from that time. I still marathon your stuff when I need a pick me up and in general this channel is super important to me, and has been for LITERALLY my entire adult life. Congrats on ten years!
You deserve so much more!! I’ve been following you for four years now and it still baffles me that you haven’t reached 500K.... but if you’re truly happy where you are now then that’s awesome, and I’ll stick by the fact that you are one of the best TH-camrs out there, even though you’ll never read this....
Happy 10 Years- To The Next However Long TH-cam Lasts!!
I was a junior when this song came out, went from drinking at college parties to cocaine to meth and heroin. Seriously in a grander sense this song ruined my life... It's okay I got it together and became a social worker.
I just think you had an addictive personality. I wouldn't say some shitty song about college parties ruined your life.
Congrats on getting clean. 👏
I'm always really surprised how well these songs sound on piano.
Ten years!! Congrats! I don’t remember exactly how long I’ve been following you, somewhere between 5-7 years, but you are definitely the youtuber i have stuck with the longest. Lately I’m also enjoying your podcast. Happy to see you doing well todd, you deserve it so much!✌️
As a recent Toddnisseur I’m so glad you exist and are intending on hopefully giving us many more years of the best, most wryly insightful and funniest music content - nay, content full stop - on the entire internet. Thank you Todd, as soon as I have another penny to rub on the one I currently have I’m becoming a patron (and you should too, anyone reading this)