Todd in the Shadows stopped the story right when it got interesting. In 2007, the New Kids on the Block had a reunion tour that would turn out to be one of the most consequential events in pop culture history. To record their reunion album, the Kids got superproducer RedOne. For the musical number "I'm a Big Girl Now" they needed a female vocalist, so they got a local friend of producer RedOne, a New York art school student named Lady Gaga, mainly known at the time for the burlesque art deco show, the Lady Gaga Revue. They loved her vocals so much they used it on the track, and asked Lady Gaga to tour with them as their opening act. And now you know the rest of the story.
TRUE FACT: The song sounds so much like a Timbaland beat that it fooled Missy Elliot; she called Tim asking why he hid that beat away from her. Timbaland basically pleaded with her saying he didn't produce the song.
Haha, this song does sound like it's from him so much. I just looked up Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" which I just found out is also a Timbaland beat because this song has parts that sound so much like it.
Hell, Black turtleneck and blazer is still kinda sexy in a weird way. However, Knight's turtleneck looks like the kinda sweater your grandmother gives you, only for you to "forget" every time you see her in the future.
"I hate slow covers of Dancing On my Own" YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I have waged a one man war with my friends on this point. "It's pretty clear you're not fucking dancing on your own, because no one could dance to this goddamn dirge you're playing!"
Jon O'Guin Thank you! That's what I've been arguing too. The slow ballad piano tune doesn't fit the lyrics at all. Yeah, they are about heartbreak, but that doesn't automatically make it fitting for a ballad. Especially when it's obvious the song is about someone trying to remain happy and upbeat (or at least give off the impression), despite how they actually feel. Wailing over a sad ballad tune not only defeats that meaning, but also makes it sound a bit nonsensical and rather boring. I honestly find most ballad covers of non-ballad songs boring AF and very uninspired. Like Todd mentioned in this video; it comes off as a lame attempt at being deep.
90% of the time that an upbeat song is covered as a slow, emotional song, it tends to come off as boring, pretentious and melodramatic to me. I think the problem stems from the fact that most of them rely too much on boring pop-ballad cliches (overly emphasizing the lyrics, instrumentation that's stripped of the original's notable qualities, dragging out every line for no reason etc.). This means the cover is left in this awkward position where it doesn't have the fun of the original but is also too unnecessarily intense to come off as genuinely emotional but rather "Look how much more expressive my vocals are compared to the original! Aren't I such a good singer?" instead. Too often it sounds like the shitty covers you'd hear at those talent shows on tv. But there are still plenty of good slow, emotional covers of upbeat songs as well. They're just rare.
it's been about 2 years, but i am still, STILL goddamn PISSED about this utter moron on the yt comments section for robyn's original version that said, and let me emulate the mastery of english displayed: "the slow cover so better becoz he sing from heart, but whore only sing for money" such disrespect for artistry. such blindness to have no appreciation for genuine feeling, trading it in for schmaltz, for melodrama, for emotion borne of artifice, meant to manipulate, not express - it bespeaks such shallowness of character a lady like robyn's been insulted like that for her own artistry by a baboon on the internet. i hate this planet
X : DC Didn't the guy who made the ballad cover of DOMO (can't remember his name atm) first perform it in some talentshow, I think maybe Britain's Got Talent or something along those lines?? Considering how ballads and other forms of overtly expressive singing are a somewhat very formulaic staple on TV talentshows (combined with the fact it's a cover too), it's kinda hilariously sad how, whoever wrote that comment, thinks Robyn's original version of the song is somehow the more blatantly commercialised and possessing the least amount of emotional depth of the two. Edit: I just searched up the song here on YT, to see what the name of the guy who sings on the slow ballad cover was, and I noticed how Robyn's video, which has been uploaded for 7 years, only has 15 mil views. While the cover, which has been up for little more than 2 years, has more than 200 mil views:S Fuck this world.
Keep in mind: Prince must've heard the cover since he was still around in the music biz. Knowing how he critiqued pop music of the time I'm sure he didn't approve of that cover.
Prince was super-protective of his music, so I naturally wonder how Jordan Knight was able to get away with covering one of his songs. Todd didn't mention it in his Trainwreckords episode on Arrested Development, but Prince didn't appreciate AD sampling his voice for "Tennessee" without his permission, which originated from "Alphabet Street". And Prince personally rang Speech up on the telephone to inform him that if he and his group were going to sample his voice, then it was going to cost them a lot of money.
@@DocXango Sure, if you work it out with the label there's not much the artist can do (because generally the label owns the music, not the artist), but the artist can absolutely tell the label not to sign off on that deal and then they absolutely can sue you if you still do that song.
Prince had so much trouble with his record label, I wouldn't be surprised if them giving permission for covers like this were part of his problem with them.
@@nikeneon3188true but I don’t think their last album it’s worth one it’s not bad I mean it’s decent but I feel like it wasn’t a train wreck I could be wrong
Todd: "Making it drippy and sad MISSES THE POINT" Me: Wow, this is exactly how I feel about slow covers of Dancing On My O- Todd: "And for the record, I hate slow covers of Dancing On My Own too" O_O
Omg thank you for saying the truth about dancing on my own covers. She's dancing on her own... but she's still in a club she's not going to be doing a fucking ballet to a club song, the point is it's a fast song
It makes perfect sense from a guy's point of view.. Even the originally switches gender nouns between verses, and says at one point "I am not the guy you taking home.." Though that might because she's lesbian or something.
Okay, now i need a collab album of just Nsync or backstreet singing over classic Panic! Songs. I want to hear Justin timberlake sing that High heels line from don't threaten me with a good time.
This was my SONG in middle school. Had no idea what he was saying, I just loved the beat. And his turtleneck. Listened to it again last year, gagged after he said "Taste you there". And cackled when he squeaked on the high note at the very end. Why did they keep that in the final cut?!?! I blame a jealous Baby Robin Thicke.
Love hearing that! They never forgot who they were & never became arrogant when they were the biggest thing on Earth! I opened for Jordan once & it was awesome! I messed up my career but I am coming back. Not sure why I went into that lol still awesome to hear that!!
That's truly awesome to hear! They were my very first crushes, my first favourite artists.... And it's really lovely to hear that after all this time they're still humble, hardworking, and devoted to their fans!
@@mellowyellow6572 I'd believe it. I worked at an amusement park that had a limited, 80-ish song playlist that wasn't even on shuffle. You could set your watch to when Phil Collins' cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" came on.
I once did drag to this song. Longest fucking 4 minutes and 31 seconds of my G-d damn life. You can only thrust and grind so much before you run out of steam. I lost the chance to date this woman because of this song. Bad memories man, bad memories. But let's watch.
The whole "It's just a persona" act is so like Tommy Wiseau The moment people laugh at you or your film, its suddenly a "dark comedy" instead of a "serious drama" like you were saying before. It's the perfect shield of any criticism.
Glad you were able to mention that crap "Dancing On My Own" cover. It sucks that the original never became popular over here, but the dread-filled version got at least some recognition. Stupid teens trying to look "DEEP".
I do remember the original (in the UK), but only vaguely - to be fair I think Robyn was a relatively little-known artist at the time. Let's be real though, the original is monster hit material, while the cover is "Spotify piano cover artist accidentally gets radio play". Similarly there was a SUPER weird slow cover of "You're The One That I Want" a year or two beforehand.
The only people in the US (and Canada) who know about Robyn are gay men, fans of eurivision, and people who pay really close attention to pop music. Robyn is alas kind of unknown.
@@analogbunny Unknown to the general public but definitely considered an icon and an influence within the industry though (Body Talk pretty much helped shape the electro/synthpop sound that ended up dominating pop music in the last decade). She's the kind of artist who is your favourite pop artist's favourite artist.
@@Khenfu_Cake That's probably a better description of Kate Bush or Matmos, but I do know what you mean. That said, here in Canada they say that only professional studio musicians, Europeans, and The Gays know about Robyn. Same for Eurovision.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Some people are artists, they care about every note. Some people are singers, they sing somebody else's music. With the right management, a singer can be great. My friends who were serious about their R&B, myself included, loved this song because it was a strange edgy fuck anthem that you could dance to. He never followed it up and it subsequently became "what happened to Jordan Knight? I loved Give It To You." It was like his pop career was resuscitated and then subsequently smothered with a pillow.
His follow-up single didn't chart, and his album didn't sell well. He was working on a follow-up album that was to be released in 2001, but his label Interscope shelved the album, and dropped him. I think they thought that they could use him to capitalize on teen pop (hence how he was marketed), but the issue was that he was too old, and the y2k teens don't care about NKOTB. It also didn't help that he was a ghost for most of the 90s, and didn't establish himself on his own. He could have taken more action A LOT earlier, in order to have a solid solo career.
Jordan Knight is Vision from the Avengers movies. And Jordan's management from his record label is Thanos. Give it to you is the mind stone. Wanda Maximoff is the dedicated fangirl. 😉
He don't built successful solo career just because he became a cover artist. If you instead of buying songs from songwriters/write own songs do the cover versions of old songs - your singing career is doomed.
The new TRL has ABSOLUTELY *NO* VIDEOS! In fact, as of 2019, I don't even think they show the reboot anymore. Even when MTV tries to play music nowadays, it's pretty much a lie.
I honestly hope Prince Be got to understand how actually ahead of their time with the Ambient hip hop/Atmospheric r&b thing before he passed. People dogged on em for decades but i know more "Ambient trap" / "Psychedelic hip hop" styled artists out right now than ever before.
Oddly, I actually remember this song. I actually liked the chorus and (to an extent) the dancing in the video. But yeah, this sound was definitely of it's time. And I wouldn't be shocked if other boy banders that went solo took notes from this.
They were huge in the 90's. Most people tried to pull it off and couldn't, but when you CAN pull it off, it's worth it. It's like how a sweater is just a sweater until it's worn by Chris Evans.
Darrin Henson’s choreography to Give It To You is so hard but I remember it thanks to the VHS 📼 I got as a kid. He worked with Britney Spears, NSYNC, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jackson, Prince and many others.
I wouldn’t call Father of All Motherfuckers just yet, we need to see the next one’s sales. Although it’s interesting as a troll record they made to get out of their contract which I think there’s a lot of evidence for.
What the hell were the stylists on this music video thinking? He looks like a Dad embarrassing his kids at a flash mob. When Justin Timberlake started his solo career, his people had the good sense to put him in slick suits and all black outfits. Not a chunky polo neck and cream coloured slacks.
You have to take into consider what trends and styles were popular at different times. For 1999, Jordan looked nice! Hell -- he is STILL gorgeous! And no- Justin Timberlake's team absolutely did NOT dress JT in "slick suits" for his solo debut. You're thinking of the Futuresex/Lovesounds era, well into his solo career when he had plenty of say as to how he was styled. For "Like I Love You", his opening single from his actual solo debut Justified, it was fingerless gloves, fedoras, and lots of "urban" inspired looks. 🤷
Here's a fun anecdote about me and Nick Carter: I was one of maybe four people who bought his first solo album (I still have it, it's okay. It's very Bryan Adams-y). It was back when I still though rock music was for adults and pop was for kids, so to me he was making "real" music. Flash forward one year and I watch the premiere of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" on MTV and my first thought was "Is he seriously still doing pop? Well, HIS career is over! He's not doing adult music, like Nick Carter." This is why I don't gamble. XD
I love "Give it to You." The first time I heard it was live in 2015-ish when I saw Nick & Knight on tour. The recorded version sounds dated compared to the new version he's doing live, but it works really well on the album; the full album is wildly cohesive pop, and the odd circus samples make sense in context since so many tracks utilize really weird samples.
12:39 Todd, could I commission you to record a video specifically to my husband stating this fact? I want to stab my ears with handfuls of cotton swabs whenever he plays it.
Todd has to review This little song its called All Around the World He'll be so annoyed about its melody its the one that goes la la la la la Please review it!!
DeeJayObi they were definitely one hit wonders in the US, at least according to Wikipedia. Todd's covered artists that had hits outside the US but were OHW here.
It's got a relatively theatrical twist, which Panic! is known for. Also, carnival music is derived from cabaret music (something Panic! used extensively in their early work). The whispery vocals sound a bit like Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, but that's about it.
15:02 surprised Todd didn't catch that this was actually a cover/reference to Set Adrift on Memory Bliss by PM Dawn...which was covered by the Backstreet Boys, too.
That prince cover kills me because I could never take the place of your man is also my favorite prince song and it’s so painful seeing him butcher that fabulous song
I was 10 in 1999 and have a younger sister who listened to all the teen pop stars, had all the boy/girl band albums and Now! compilations, and blasted them all day, mercilessly. Needless to say, I feel like I heard everything from Pussycat Dolls to 98 degrees to even 3LW, full albums countless times... I don't remember this song at all.
Y'know, when that circus music from the beginning of the video started up, I legit thought "Is This Earthbound?" It sounds exactly like a lost track from the Super Nintendo Earthbound soundtrack. What the hell.
That wasn't even a Top 40 hit, just a Modern Rock radio song that got a lot of play. If you weren't familiar with the Bosstones or that ska-revival of the mid-90s, you don't know that song. I'd watch the episode, but it wasn't a big hit. The Bosstones would be the only ska band of the mid-90s to qualify as a one-hit wonder.
Holy crap... All these years I only thought of "Tonight" as being vaguely Beatles-esque, I never made the ELO connection, but you're so right! Step by Step and the Remix Album are the only NKOTB releases I still revisit from time to time. I remember once when I was testing the CD drive in a computer I discovered that I still had my CD of Hangin' Tough, and decided to play it kind of as a joke... I didn't even get two minutes in before I had to stop, it was just bleh.
This is legit one of my favorite songs of all time and I'm not afraid to admit it. But also, please talk about Joey McIntyre's solo career! I wasn't a fan of Stay The Same, but I Love You Came Too Late was my jam when it was on TRL.
As far as I can tell from a couple of old fansites I found, he had a follow up album (again with Robin Thicke and with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis producing about half the songs) that was completed in 2001 but never came out, maybe because he changed record labels before they had a chance to release it. So the business side of things definitely played into him losing all momentum after 1999. I also think he might have been holding back his own career on some level because he wanted to be a solo artist but he didn't want to deal with the New Kids-style hysteria again.
Most of these boy bands and their producers lack the courage to mature organically in their music like The Beatles did. "Tonight" was probably the closest they and Maurice Starr came to some sort of organic growth since it was a heartfelt tribute to their fans that unfortunately doesn't do much beyond the triumphant "Tonight...Tonight" chorus, even with the ELO-esque production. And then, once they're old and missing their old fame, they reunite and despite selling out venues, all they can really do musically is to relive their youths.
I think he was dropped by Interscope due to disappointing album sales, and the follow up single (Prince cover) flopping. They probably realized that he wasn't going to make them a profit while making his follow-up.
Ahh New Kids, that takes me back. Well back to my childhood where I was making fun of all the people who liked them. Aaand then our class was forced to sing one of their songs as part of a farewell presentation for a retiring teacher. On the other hand, I kind of owe Backstreet Boys and Nsync somewhat of an apology. But yeah, late 80's. Kind of a dark time to be a 10 year old boy.
As a tween I was absolutely New Kids #1 fan (like a billion other girls my age). I wasn't even aware Jordan had a solo career. I was vaguely aware Joey was doing stuff (Joey was always my fave). In 2014 I watched Band of Brothers (and became obsessed and a sudden WWII historian - that's a whole other story). Anyway, for a while I couldn't get over the fact that Carwood Lipton - a real, actual vet - was being played by second favourite New Kid. I got over it eventually, his acting chops in BoB were superb (EVERYONE'S acting chops in BoB was superb).
I thought this was awesome at the time and it was very far from being my usual thing, as a 17 year old British schoolboy - I thought NKOTB were a joke. I still think it's a banger.
I saw Jordan Knight at the Starland Ballroom when I was, like, six, as an opener to Aaron Carter. Lots of middle-aged women excitedly shouting about how they recognized the song he was going to play next. Didn't know he had any non-New Kids hits!
Goo Goo Dolls have a SHOCKINGLY fun cover of Never Take The Place Of Your Man, but that's because they let their friend Lance Diamond do the vocals and he fucking KILLS it.
Todd in the Shadows stopped the story right when it got interesting. In 2007, the New Kids on the Block had a reunion tour that would turn out to be one of the most consequential events in pop culture history. To record their reunion album, the Kids got superproducer RedOne. For the musical number "I'm a Big Girl Now" they needed a female vocalist, so they got a local friend of producer RedOne, a New York art school student named Lady Gaga, mainly known at the time for the burlesque art deco show, the Lady Gaga Revue. They loved her vocals so much they used it on the track, and asked Lady Gaga to tour with them as their opening act. And now you know the rest of the story.
Bad music begets bad music.
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 nah gaga is goated u trippin
@@BreadSlicer666 Anesthetic music only serves cooperate interests.
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 all music serves corporate interests. So does every other product and piece of media. Welcome to capitalism
@@BreadSlicer666 not as directly as anaesthetic music.
TRUE FACT: The song sounds so much like a Timbaland beat that it fooled Missy Elliot; she called Tim asking why he hid that beat away from her. Timbaland basically pleaded with her saying he didn't produce the song.
I can't stop laughing while I'm reading this
I thought the same when it came out...lol
Shows the impact he had on the industry at the time
Haha, this song does sound like it's from him so much. I just looked up Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" which I just found out is also a Timbaland beat because this song has parts that sound so much like it.
@0000 it is more rnb then whatelse
I can't believe he's doing a sexy song in a fuckin turtleneck.
erich margulis Do you know the late nineties or early two thousands? I'm half sure that was officially like a thing
SwordLily Oh, it was. And it makes me wish for death.
Hell, Black turtleneck and blazer is still kinda sexy in a weird way. However, Knight's turtleneck looks like the kinda sweater your grandmother gives you, only for you to "forget" every time you see her in the future.
he looks like Mike Matei
Bout to turn some ladies on them fuggin cheeks ache for his state fair nostalgia circuit @$$ to transform their sweat hers into #squirtlenexxx😊
"Many people are happy, Many people are sad" Excellent song writing.
Drake some 28 years later: 👀
"I hate slow covers of Dancing On my Own"
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I have waged a one man war with my friends on this point. "It's pretty clear you're not fucking dancing on your own, because no one could dance to this goddamn dirge you're playing!"
Jon O'Guin Thank you! That's what I've been arguing too. The slow ballad piano tune doesn't fit the lyrics at all. Yeah, they are about heartbreak, but that doesn't automatically make it fitting for a ballad. Especially when it's obvious the song is about someone trying to remain happy and upbeat (or at least give off the impression), despite how they actually feel. Wailing over a sad ballad tune not only defeats that meaning, but also makes it sound a bit nonsensical and rather boring.
I honestly find most ballad covers of non-ballad songs boring AF and very uninspired.
Like Todd mentioned in this video; it comes off as a lame attempt at being deep.
It's 2017, pop is mostly slow dirges.
It's time for a slow piano led ballad cover of *Dance The Night Away* by *The Mavericks*
90% of the time that an upbeat song is covered as a slow, emotional song, it tends to come off as boring, pretentious and melodramatic to me. I think the problem stems from the fact that most of them rely too much on boring pop-ballad cliches (overly emphasizing the lyrics, instrumentation that's stripped of the original's notable qualities, dragging out every line for no reason etc.). This means the cover is left in this awkward position where it doesn't have the fun of the original but is also too unnecessarily intense to come off as genuinely emotional but rather "Look how much more expressive my vocals are compared to the original! Aren't I such a good singer?" instead. Too often it sounds like the shitty covers you'd hear at those talent shows on tv. But there are still plenty of good slow, emotional covers of upbeat songs as well. They're just rare.
it's been about 2 years, but i am still, STILL goddamn PISSED about this utter moron on the yt comments section for robyn's original version that said, and let me emulate the mastery of english displayed:
"the slow cover so better becoz he sing from heart, but whore only sing for money"
such disrespect for artistry. such blindness to have no appreciation for genuine feeling, trading it in for schmaltz, for melodrama, for emotion borne of artifice, meant to manipulate, not express - it bespeaks such shallowness of character
a lady like robyn's been insulted like that for her own artistry by a baboon on the internet. i hate this planet
X : DC Didn't the guy who made the ballad cover of DOMO (can't remember his name atm) first perform it in some talentshow, I think maybe Britain's Got Talent or something along those lines??
Considering how ballads and other forms of overtly expressive singing are a somewhat very formulaic staple on TV talentshows (combined with the fact it's a cover too), it's kinda hilariously sad how, whoever wrote that comment, thinks Robyn's original version of the song is somehow the more blatantly commercialised and possessing the least amount of emotional depth of the two.
Edit: I just searched up the song here on YT, to see what the name of the guy who sings on the slow ballad cover was, and I noticed how Robyn's video, which has been uploaded for 7 years, only has 15 mil views.
While the cover, which has been up for little more than 2 years, has more than 200 mil views:S
Fuck this world.
"Nick & Knight"
That's beautiful.
snukastyle if Nick was hitting on him it'd be nick @ knight
Yeah, to their credit, that’s a fantastic name.
Keep in mind: Prince must've heard the cover since he was still around in the music biz. Knowing how he critiqued pop music of the time I'm sure he didn't approve of that cover.
yeah probably
Prince was super-protective of his music, so I naturally wonder how Jordan Knight was able to get away with covering one of his songs. Todd didn't mention it in his Trainwreckords episode on Arrested Development, but Prince didn't appreciate AD sampling his voice for "Tennessee" without his permission, which originated from "Alphabet Street". And Prince personally rang Speech up on the telephone to inform him that if he and his group were going to sample his voice, then it was going to cost them a lot of money.
@@DocXango Sure, if you work it out with the label there's not much the artist can do (because generally the label owns the music, not the artist), but the artist can absolutely tell the label not to sign off on that deal and then they absolutely can sue you if you still do that song.
Prince had so much trouble with his record label, I wouldn't be surprised if them giving permission for covers like this were part of his problem with them.
Crazy to think this song had production ties to 2 future train Wreckords episodes
Which ones
@@Patrick-qj5ff the Robin Thicke Paula episode and the Human League Crash episode
Really hope for NKOTB own episode
@@nikeneon3188true but I don’t think their last album it’s worth one it’s not bad I mean it’s decent but I feel like it wasn’t a train wreck I could be wrong
I don't think Jordan Knight has enough chest hair to cover Prince.
That could mean one of many things.
@@averagebritishguy7082 lololololololololol
NOBODY has enough chest hair to cover prince. no matter how hairy the chest is its never enough
I swear, the song he did with Donnie Wahlberg sounds EXACTLY like a Lonely Island song.
*plays slow and romantically*..........I got that diaper money.......yeah girl, I got that diaper money...........
It sounds like The Style Boyz.
@@isetmfriendsofire Thanks for nothing, Andy Samberg! XD
I GOT DAT DIAPER MONEY DODE!
Todd: "Making it drippy and sad MISSES THE POINT"
Me: Wow, this is exactly how I feel about slow covers of Dancing On My O-
Todd: "And for the record, I hate slow covers of Dancing On My Own too"
O_O
As much love as I have for Lorde, this is how I feel about her cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World lol
To be fair, Dancing on my Own is not that bad. I love Callum Scott.
@@christopherwilliams9418 I guess that makes the NSP cover the superior version
@@hudde814 Comparatively, I'd say. I like the original the best of the three, but the NSP version is alright.
@@christopherwilliams9418 Oh yeah for sure, nothing can beat the original, but for me, NSP is a close 2nd
Omg thank you for saying the truth about dancing on my own covers. She's dancing on her own... but she's still in a club she's not going to be doing a fucking ballet to a club song, the point is it's a fast song
Also, it makes no sense from guy's point of view...
It makes perfect sense from a guy's point of view.. Even the originally switches gender nouns between verses, and says at one point "I am not the guy you taking home.." Though that might because she's lesbian or something.
I have to admit..."I'm in the corner / watching you kiss her" scans and rolls off the tongue a lot better than "kiss him."
@@UtamagUta There are bisexual and pansexual folks, so it absolutely makes sense.
@@Carewolf No it doesn’t. It’s just her accent. Robyn is Swedish. And no, she’s not a lesbian.
This sounds like what would happen if NSYNC tried to write a Panic at the Disco song
I'm not the only one who thought that!
That is the most perfect analogy to make of this song EVER 🤣!
Okay, now i need a collab album of just Nsync or backstreet singing over classic Panic! Songs. I want to hear Justin timberlake sing that High heels line from don't threaten me with a good time.
This comment should have more likes than it does😂
this...might explain why i enjoy it so much lmao
How Todd feels about that Prince cover is basically how I feel about any overly pensive Nirvana cover with soft, clean vocals.
Jordan said he wanted the song to sound like Timbaland meets "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite," hence the random circus music.
Thats... actually really ambitious lmao
That's kinda sick honestly
I was about to say that The Beatles did a circus song
I agree so much with the "slowing it down doesn't make it better" comment, those covers are just...drips.
Jordan sounds like he was the Zayn of the group. If he'd done an original song instead of a cover maybe he'd have career
He is.
Would that make Donnie and Marky Mark Harry Styles?
Zayn wasn't the front man or best singer in One Direction.
@@TheSongwritingCat Zayn wasn't the front man, but he was certainly the best singer in One Direction.
@@Scanned Which still makes him mediocre at best lol, that group was NEVER about how good they were at singing.
This was my SONG in middle school. Had no idea what he was saying, I just loved the beat. And his turtleneck. Listened to it again last year, gagged after he said "Taste you there". And cackled when he squeaked on the high note at the very end. Why did they keep that in the final cut?!?! I blame a jealous Baby Robin Thicke.
I worked a week with NKOTB when they started their current tour. Honestly some of the hardest working, most motivated artists I've seen.
Love hearing that! They never forgot who they were & never became arrogant when they were the biggest thing on Earth! I opened for Jordan once & it was awesome! I messed up my career but I am coming back. Not sure why I went into that lol still awesome to hear that!!
That's truly awesome to hear! They were my very first crushes, my first favourite artists.... And it's really lovely to hear that after all this time they're still humble, hardworking, and devoted to their fans!
That version of Dancing on my Own plays in my store every day at 6:45 like clockwork and it is physical agony every time it does
Wait your store uses the same playlist every day???
@@mellowyellow6572 I'd believe it. I worked at an amusement park that had a limited, 80-ish song playlist that wasn't even on shuffle. You could set your watch to when Phil Collins' cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" came on.
I once did drag to this song. Longest fucking 4 minutes and 31 seconds of my G-d damn life. You can only thrust and grind so much before you run out of steam. I lost the chance to date this woman because of this song. Bad memories man, bad memories. But let's watch.
So many questions
So so many questions
Spill the tea sis!!
Drag as a man? Are u a lesbian
@@lotus_dream TH-cam didn't tell me I had replies. Ask away.
"The song doesn't have anything to do with circuses"
Maybe the writers were big fans of "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!"
The whole "It's just a persona" act is so like Tommy Wiseau
The moment people laugh at you or your film, its suddenly a "dark comedy" instead of a "serious drama" like you were saying before.
It's the perfect shield of any criticism.
OH SHIT it's a Jam + Lewis production? No wonder the beat sounds phenomenal!
Glad you were able to mention that crap "Dancing On My Own" cover. It sucks that the original never became popular over here, but the dread-filled version got at least some recognition. Stupid teens trying to look "DEEP".
It didn't? I remember when I worked at Party City they had a crappy cover of it on one of the compilation albums they'd play constantly
I do remember the original (in the UK), but only vaguely - to be fair I think Robyn was a relatively little-known artist at the time. Let's be real though, the original is monster hit material, while the cover is "Spotify piano cover artist accidentally gets radio play". Similarly there was a SUPER weird slow cover of "You're The One That I Want" a year or two beforehand.
The only people in the US (and Canada) who know about Robyn are gay men, fans of eurivision, and people who pay really close attention to pop music. Robyn is alas kind of unknown.
@@analogbunny Unknown to the general public but definitely considered an icon and an influence within the industry though (Body Talk pretty much helped shape the electro/synthpop sound that ended up dominating pop music in the last decade).
She's the kind of artist who is your favourite pop artist's favourite artist.
@@Khenfu_Cake That's probably a better description of Kate Bush or Matmos, but I do know what you mean. That said, here in Canada they say that only professional studio musicians, Europeans, and The Gays know about Robyn. Same for Eurovision.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Some people are artists, they care about every note. Some people are singers, they sing somebody else's music. With the right management, a singer can be great. My friends who were serious about their R&B, myself included, loved this song because it was a strange edgy fuck anthem that you could dance to. He never followed it up and it subsequently became "what happened to Jordan Knight? I loved Give It To You."
It was like his pop career was resuscitated and then subsequently smothered with a pillow.
His follow-up single didn't chart, and his album didn't sell well. He was working on a follow-up album that was to be released in 2001, but his label Interscope shelved the album, and dropped him. I think they thought that they could use him to capitalize on teen pop (hence how he was marketed), but the issue was that he was too old, and the y2k teens don't care about NKOTB. It also didn't help that he was a ghost for most of the 90s, and didn't establish himself on his own. He could have taken more action A LOT earlier, in order to have a solid solo career.
Jordan Knight is Vision from the Avengers movies. And Jordan's management from his record label is Thanos. Give it to you is the mind stone. Wanda Maximoff is the dedicated fangirl. 😉
@@RenaldyCalixte reddit moment
He don't built successful solo career just because he became a cover artist. If you instead of buying songs from songwriters/write own songs do the cover versions of old songs - your singing career is doomed.
The new TRL has ABSOLUTELY *NO* VIDEOS! In fact, as of 2019, I don't even think they show the reboot anymore. Even when MTV tries to play music nowadays, it's pretty much a lie.
*This is one of Todd's most polished, mature, and insightful review videos to date.*
That "Dust in the Wind" sample is aggressively offensive.
Ah yes, glad to see somebody loving on "I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man." Top five Prince song for me.
@Tyler Hackner It's my favourite Prince album. "Dirty Mind" is a very close second.
Best song I've ever heard from him
I was thinking of the Whitetown song at first
I gotta say, even though I’m normally not for this kinda pop music, this song fucking rules. that beat just FUCKIN GOES
What else about the best makes this song rules?
I guess he should have become an actor like Donnie. It happened with Will Smith and Donnie's lil brother Mark.
Would love it when he gets to "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia
One good thing about this episode: I finally learned about one of Prince's best songs.
Sorry to hear about your grandmother man.
15:01 Those lyrics are ripped straight from "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by PM Dawn.
The second time on OHW where a performer ripped-off P.M. Dawn, the first being Geraldo.
I honestly hope Prince Be got to understand how actually ahead of their time with the Ambient hip hop/Atmospheric r&b thing before he passed.
People dogged on em for decades but i know more "Ambient trap" / "Psychedelic hip hop" styled artists out right now than ever before.
@@basedsouljah Real shit tho. PM Dawn almost never get their just dues anymore. Even if today's rappers aren't aware of it, they owe a lot to PM Dawn
I had the cassette single of this when I was a teenager. I listened to it over and over. I wanted Jordan Knight to give it to me.
Lmfao. 😂
I grew up with TRL.
No seriously, my sister used to tune in everytime it aired.
I don't know, I don't believe you...
Adrian Harper I always managed to butt-dial MTV as a child, so I'd find myself watching TRL on certain days.
I was never into boy bands all that much, really. I'm more of a nu metal kind of girl.
all I know about TRL is an Eminem lyric
Oh look it's Kotori
Oddly, I actually remember this song. I actually liked the chorus and (to an extent) the dancing in the video.
But yeah, this sound was definitely of it's time. And I wouldn't be shocked if other boy banders that went solo took notes from this.
that weird turtleneck is killing me. wtf is he wearing. honestly.
frickshamer I'm surprised Todd didn't notice
He's not circumcised
It was the 90s, so yeah.
They were huge in the 90's. Most people tried to pull it off and couldn't, but when you CAN pull it off, it's worth it. It's like how a sweater is just a sweater until it's worn by Chris Evans.
I'll be honest, I'm really not repulsed by his outfit at all, lookin decently fly
Also, looking back, that falsetto that he did at the very end of the song was weird, awkward, and off pitch. 0_o
Hearing Knight's follow up, I'm stunned he didn't cover Mad World..would have been just as "good" as the Gary Jules' version.
Cover of a cover? Haven’t seen that a lot.
He sampled Dust In The Wind? Dude, that's awesome. XD And yeah, I'm probably never gonna listen to it again either, but...yeah. lol
"Look what you made me Do" Todd. You know you want to
insertusernamehere51 I think he will and I can't wait for another angry Todd review.
he'll wait until January when he does his top 10 worst and best of 2017
He will! The song only came out three days ago. Give him time.
(Also, his grandmother just died, so... yeah.)
We all need someone who can explain us why this song sucks, because we love it,and its a pain!
Larry Childers Nah. Todd reviewed the song nearly two months ago.
There's only one "give it" song in my heart.
GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY, GIVE IT AWAY NOW!
Hells yeah!
Also KC and the Sunshine Band "Give It Up"
New Kids On The Block's 1993 album would make a great Trainwrecords video.
Darrin Henson’s choreography to Give It To You is so hard but I remember it thanks to the VHS 📼 I got as a kid.
He worked with Britney Spears, NSYNC, Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jackson, Prince and many others.
Listen to NSYNC’s song “digital get down” and tell me that wouldn’t need a kids bop edit!
Yeah. But they would never release those lyrics on a single. That’s the point.
6:01 I love it when I see Green Day on here. Though, probably wouldn't get an episode unless the Trilogy count for Trainwreckords.
*"Father of all..." has enter the chat*
I wouldn’t call Father of All Motherfuckers just yet, we need to see the next one’s sales. Although it’s interesting as a troll record they made to get out of their contract which I think there’s a lot of evidence for.
@@thrownstair that would make a lot of sense
When I heard the sample of Dust in the Wind by Kansas, I couldn't raise my middle finger faster or firmer.
Honestly, NKOTB are actually pretty damn great to see live even now.
Yes! You are totally correct on the Robyn covers!
This is actually a guilty pleasure of mine. I think the embarrassment of it all makes me want to listen to it once a year or so out of the blue.
Aw shit, footage of Prince? Prepare to have this video fucked to oblivion; copyright bots will eat you alive...
There's no stopping the wrath of The Artist Formerly Known As Alive.
Inconsequential I initially thought that was why he had a dramatic pause
Inconsequential Try audio snippets of Jimi Hendrix. His family will come after you with a bunch of lawsuits at their arsenal.
Or anything from Fox. Nintendo will come and cease and desist you faster than you'll find out how nonsensical it is.
I’m so happy to learn that Todd and I have the same favorite Prince song.
What the hell were the stylists on this music video thinking? He looks like a Dad embarrassing his kids at a flash mob. When Justin Timberlake started his solo career, his people had the good sense to put him in slick suits and all black outfits. Not a chunky polo neck and cream coloured slacks.
Um, no. With Justin's first album, they had him styled total "B Boy/Hip Hop." Watch his video for first & best single, "Like I Love You."
1999. Urban chic.
That was the in-style at the time. I was there, can confirm.
You have to take into consider what trends and styles were popular at different times. For 1999, Jordan looked nice! Hell -- he is STILL gorgeous!
And no- Justin Timberlake's team absolutely did NOT dress JT in "slick suits" for his solo debut. You're thinking of the Futuresex/Lovesounds era, well into his solo career when he had plenty of say as to how he was styled. For "Like I Love You", his opening single from his actual solo debut Justified, it was fingerless gloves, fedoras, and lots of "urban" inspired looks. 🤷
@@JennaLeigh ugh, they really tried hard to push that "Justin loves black girls" trope on us, didnt they? Blegh🤮
See, I remember this as a banger. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
4:17 Insert joke about the NKotB Christmas Comic that Linkara reviewed years ago
"Anyone can make you sweat, but I...can keep you wet." That's the skeeviest, sexiest thing I've ever heard.
1999 was the comeback year for many has-beens. You forgot Tom Jones with "sex bomb" as well
What Robin Thicke just did is the literal definition of Irony.
Here's a fun anecdote about me and Nick Carter: I was one of maybe four people who bought his first solo album (I still have it, it's okay. It's very Bryan Adams-y). It was back when I still though rock music was for adults and pop was for kids, so to me he was making "real" music.
Flash forward one year and I watch the premiere of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River" on MTV and my first thought was "Is he seriously still doing pop? Well, HIS career is over! He's not doing adult music, like Nick Carter."
This is why I don't gamble. XD
Do "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" by Information Society
I used to dig this song. Loved the choreo in the video.
I love "Give it to You." The first time I heard it was live in 2015-ish when I saw Nick & Knight on tour. The recorded version sounds dated compared to the new version he's doing live, but it works really well on the album; the full album is wildly cohesive pop, and the odd circus samples make sense in context since so many tracks utilize really weird samples.
There was a lot more Prince in this video than I first expected. I approve. Not of the cover, though.
12:39 Todd, could I commission you to record a video specifically to my husband stating this fact? I want to stab my ears with handfuls of cotton swabs whenever he plays it.
Oh my god, did he make that re-mix album with a Casio keyboard?
I actually love that album, but then again i heard it before i heard the originals
Todd has to review
This little song its called
All Around the World
He'll be so annoyed
about its melody
its the one that goes la la la la la
Please review it!!
ElectroChart Top 25 goddammit I sang your comment to the tune of that song
Nah, they were not 1HW. At least not in Europe. But I'd like Todd to take on them, even though they're my guilty pleasure.
DeeJayObi they were definitely one hit wonders in the US, at least according to Wikipedia. Todd's covered artists that had hits outside the US but were OHW here.
Ha! Joke's on you; I don't even know what the song sounds like so I can't read your comment to the tune of it!
You would like Todd's most recent Trainwreckords.
I so appreciate the comment on Dancing On My Own - totally agree!
The hit honestly sounds like proto Panic! At the Disco
RighteousViking how? No, seriously, i never listened too much from them
Guillermo de Baskerville Just like the carnival music vibe of it
RighteousViking one of my favourite songs that uses it too is Melanie Martínez's Carousel
It's got a relatively theatrical twist, which Panic! is known for. Also, carnival music is derived from cabaret music (something Panic! used extensively in their early work). The whispery vocals sound a bit like Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, but that's about it.
the second when I heard the into in the Big Hit section of the video I couldn't think of anything else but PaTD
15:03 Did... did they do a cover of "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"? I'm genuinely impressed, in a "oh god this is terrible" way.
...HOLY SHIT, THEY DID! 2ND TIME THAT SONG GOT MENTIONED ON ONE HIT WONDERLAND!
15:02 surprised Todd didn't catch that this was actually a cover/reference to Set Adrift on Memory Bliss by PM Dawn...which was covered by the Backstreet Boys, too.
6:30 presenting 98 Degrees: Nick Lachey, the two guys who look like Nick Lachey, and the guy who doesn't look like Nick Lachey.
That prince cover kills me because I could never take the place of your man is also my favorite prince song and it’s so painful seeing him butcher that fabulous song
God, slow versions of Dancing on My Own are awful.
Oh lord, the turtleneck. I used to like that.
Spacehog -- "In the Meantime" (You said you love hooks... that song has more hooks than your dad's old tackle-box).
I come back to this video for highlights montage alone. So well edited and curated lol
That Nick&Knight song sounds like something you'd hear at Khol's
"God, I miss Prince."
You and everyone else.
I was 10 in 1999 and have a younger sister who listened to all the teen pop stars, had all the boy/girl band albums and Now! compilations, and blasted them all day, mercilessly. Needless to say, I feel like I heard everything from Pussycat Dolls to 98 degrees to even 3LW, full albums countless times...
I don't remember this song at all.
Y'know, when that circus music from the beginning of the video started up, I legit thought "Is This Earthbound?" It sounds exactly like a lost track from the Super Nintendo Earthbound soundtrack. What the hell.
I'm assuming we're getting a pop song review of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" very soon?
"The Two Of Us" by NSync is basically a better version of this song.
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish. Make it happen please.
PLEASE.
That wasn't even a Top 40 hit, just a Modern Rock radio song that got a lot of play. If you weren't familiar with the Bosstones or that ska-revival of the mid-90s, you don't know that song. I'd watch the episode, but it wasn't a big hit.
The Bosstones would be the only ska band of the mid-90s to qualify as a one-hit wonder.
MTV is actually putting music in their channel? IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!
Well, looks like hell has frozen over.
GravediggerJones201 if you can say what is "music " today as music..
GravediggerJones201 as we know it?
Holy crap... All these years I only thought of "Tonight" as being vaguely Beatles-esque, I never made the ELO connection, but you're so right! Step by Step and the Remix Album are the only NKOTB releases I still revisit from time to time. I remember once when I was testing the CD drive in a computer I discovered that I still had my CD of Hangin' Tough, and decided to play it kind of as a joke... I didn't even get two minutes in before I had to stop, it was just bleh.
This is legit one of my favorite songs of all time and I'm not afraid to admit it. But also, please talk about Joey McIntyre's solo career! I wasn't a fan of Stay The Same, but I Love You Came Too Late was my jam when it was on TRL.
As far as I can tell from a couple of old fansites I found, he had a follow up album (again with Robin Thicke and with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis producing about half the songs) that was completed in 2001 but never came out, maybe because he changed record labels before they had a chance to release it. So the business side of things definitely played into him losing all momentum after 1999. I also think he might have been holding back his own career on some level because he wanted to be a solo artist but he didn't want to deal with the New Kids-style hysteria again.
Most of these boy bands and their producers lack the courage to mature organically in their music like The Beatles did. "Tonight" was probably the closest they and Maurice Starr came to some sort of organic growth since it was a heartfelt tribute to their fans that unfortunately doesn't do much beyond the triumphant "Tonight...Tonight" chorus, even with the ELO-esque production. And then, once they're old and missing their old fame, they reunite and despite selling out venues, all they can really do musically is to relive their youths.
I think he was dropped by Interscope due to disappointing album sales, and the follow up single (Prince cover) flopping. They probably realized that he wasn't going to make them a profit while making his follow-up.
I agree so much with you on slow covers of dancing on your own!
Ahh New Kids, that takes me back. Well back to my childhood where I was making fun of all the people who liked them. Aaand then our class was forced to sing one of their songs as part of a farewell presentation for a retiring teacher.
On the other hand, I kind of owe Backstreet Boys and Nsync somewhat of an apology. But yeah, late 80's. Kind of a dark time to be a 10 year old boy.
I saw Jordan performing live as an opening act for NSync in 2000.
As a tween I was absolutely New Kids #1 fan (like a billion other girls my age). I wasn't even aware Jordan had a solo career. I was vaguely aware Joey was doing stuff (Joey was always my fave). In 2014 I watched Band of Brothers (and became obsessed and a sudden WWII historian - that's a whole other story). Anyway, for a while I couldn't get over the fact that Carwood Lipton - a real, actual vet - was being played by second favourite New Kid. I got over it eventually, his acting chops in BoB were superb (EVERYONE'S acting chops in BoB was superb).
I thought this was awesome at the time and it was very far from being my usual thing, as a 17 year old British schoolboy - I thought NKOTB were a joke. I still think it's a banger.
I saw Jordan Knight at the Starland Ballroom when I was, like, six, as an opener to Aaron Carter. Lots of middle-aged women excitedly shouting about how they recognized the song he was going to play next. Didn't know he had any non-New Kids hits!
B*Witched was a One Hit Wonder, weren't they? And Five?
EDIT: Does LFO count? I'd love for a video on "Summertime Girls"
WheeledJustice I think B*Witched only had a couple of hits in the UK. Not sure if they ever charted in the US.
Five (sorry, 5ive) had a couple hits around the world, so, don't think they count. B*Witched (fuck these names) count though.
LFO are two hit wonders. I would love a video on them too, but given how strict Todd is on this stuff, I doubt it will ever happen.
Goo Goo Dolls have a SHOCKINGLY fun cover of Never Take The Place Of Your Man, but that's because they let their friend Lance Diamond do the vocals and he fucking KILLS it.
I LOVE this song! Always have, always will.
15:00
This is the second OHW where a musician in their later career either rips off or samples Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Just take that as you will