My old gym used to play this regularly on their intercom playlist. And every time I heard the "I'm so gangsta" line, I wanted to throw my weights at someone.
I think the fact that Todd reuploads don't have dates when they were originally posted gives them a bizarre quality, like you're uncovering a relic that has yet to be dated by archaeologists, and then he says "2010". Good lord he's been doing this for 12 years, what a legend
I’m glad a comment on this video from this year can still get 260+ likes (indicating that people are still watching this), this video is really one of his best
“These lyrics are so bad the words are actively trying to escape the song ... run! Run to where the bad man can’t abuse you!” And also “HEFTY BAG?!!” This review sure took out the trash am I right?
"Yeah, do that dance. Do that dance you do, that sexy dance you do to... Mr. Mister? Oh yeah, that's nice; I love the way your body moves to this droning, no tempo, butt-ugly song that never starts."
I haven't heard this song in years, last time I did it kept me up all night because a singing birthday card I had received in 2012 was running low on battery, it haunted me the whole night because I couldn't find it.
One review from Mother Jones states: "'Hey, Soul Sister' is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as 'soul food.' It makes the California Raisins look like the second coming of Sly and the Family Stone" Explains everything
One of my core memories is this song being used as a homophobic bullying tactic against me all through fifth grade. This girl at my school started a rumor that I was having sex with all the guys in our class (I did not know what sex was at the time and I only had a vague idea of what being gay was) and she also thought this song was gay because Train “sounded like a girl,” so she started using “mister-mister” as, like, a homegrown slur. It caught on at our school as shorthand for gay and for the act of gay sex, which I still had no concept of the mechanics of, and kids would tease me by saying I “did mister-mister” with someone. I’m almost 25 now, I’ve been openly gay for like a decade, and yet hearing this song still puts me in the very specific headspace of “oh god, oh no, everyone thinks I’m gay.”
9:22 "My god! That's like if you tried to make scrambled eggs and instead you caught syphilis. How does that level of failure even exist?" I lost it at this line.
Fun fact I learned after looking at the Train discography after seeing this episode: One of their albums is a song-by-song cover of Led Zeppelin II. No, they don't wuss out; if anything, they're TOO faithful. It's quite an amazing recreation, getting even the tiny details perfect. But that leaves open the question of who would actually listen to it more than once. Anyone who likes it would likely prefer the original. Still, it's impressive to listen to just that once, and no one would suspect it was by the same band that did "Hey Soul Sister" if they didn't already know.
I work for a chain of convenience stores in the midwest. We have music that plays over the intercom and the playlist is set by our corporate overlords. I think that all of Train's "hits" are on that playlist and I almost always hear at least 4 of them each shift. I loathe this shitty band so much, it's absolute torture.
I hear you! I worked at a big box retail chain and this awful song was on the intercom CONSTANTLY. There really is no shittier band, although Maroon 5 is getting awfully close. BTW, I grew up in the '80's and there was so much cool music out there all this fool can come up with is Mr. Mister!! Really? Newsflash, Mr. Mister was never ever cool!!!
This is the very first review video I ever saw. Because this song was everywhere and the lyrics were awful and I googled "HEY SOUL SISTER MAKES NO SENSE" out of desperation.
I blame Garfunkel & Oates. They made it cool for white people to play ukelele even though their intention was to be nerdy like Weird Al with his accordion.
I was about to say, “what about George Formby”, but then I remembered that his was a banjolele, not a ukulele. ...I can’t work out whether that’s better or worse, really. But possibly funnier?
Really straight-laced white chicks can sometimes pull it off. You know the kind, the 110 pound stacks of Nutra-Sweet with brunette bangs. She can play ukelele, usually at the youth center she volunteers at.
Rebecca Smith Damn it. We have no choice but to go back in time and destroy the very concept of radios so train never exists in the first place. It's the perfect plan... and the only way to get rid of train. Or, maybe we can just destroy all of the radios that keep playing this song, or just change the station. There has to be some way we can get rid of train's awful songs ma'am! Let's work together on this, as I despise train as well. Come on, ma'am. Let's go Office Space on their asses!
I actually don't hate "Drops of Jupiter" that much; it's the only Train song with actual emotion behind it, and decent instrumentation for that matter.
*Drops on Jupiter score* Instrumentals: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Vocals: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (it’s the best Pat Monahan vocals can be) Lyrics: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Music video: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *7/10 (Better than all other Train songs)* *Hey Soul Sister score* Instrumentals: ⭐️ (MY EARS!!!!) Vocals: (you know how Samantha Mumba is known for having vocals that are as smooth as Jay Sean’s? Well, Pat Monahan has vocals rougher than bumpy rocks!) Lyrics: (“SO GANGSTA, I’M SO THUG!” NO, *NO!!!!!!!* PUT DOWN THAT EGO RIGHT AWAY!!!!!!!) Music video: ⭐️ ⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (And I thought *Before He Cheats* was the least decent song of the 2000s!)
@A J Yeah, apparently she was dying while they were touring their first album, and he wrote the song a little while after she died. I feel a little bad about it because obviously he was grieving, and it is a really heartfelt song, but it just skews way too romantic for me to be comfortable.
This is my all time-favorite Todd episode and has been since it came out. The joke at 9:24 is something I've reworked and used in real life situations a few times lol. Man this song was horrible. It really wore you down having it on the charts for a whole year. This angry shredding of it really gave me satisfaction back then. Good times.
@@towlie337 It's been my favourite Todd line since I first heard it 13 years ago. This episode is full of great lines, he was truyl inspired when he wrote this one.
I was born in 98 and I was 11-12 when this song was big. I enjoyed it fair enough when I was a kid. Realizing this song sucked as I got older was like finding out the truth about Santa.
But that would mean she's having a baby with no known father... Or her kid's so sinless that cults miles around are worshiping it... I don't remember INXS or Mr. Mister being this bad at lyrics. Though Mr. Mister did have that one song that always showed up. Kyrie was its name oh. Maybe the dude sat down to right an INXS song but got a Mr. Mister song by accident...
@@RidleyJones I assumed this thread was alternatives to the obvious "Like a Virgin" reference. Because that's clearly why he wrote that. Madonna had a song called "Like a Virgin". That's it. The reason it doesn't make sense in the song is because Pat Monahan is bad at writing lyrics.
I'm reminded of a poetry project I had to do in high school in the early-mid 00's. Part of the assignment involved writing about our favorite piece of poetry and I think literally half my class chose "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. It was practically a meme. I liked the song too, back then, but my car-obsessed brain picked Jan & Dean's "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" for the hell of it.
Since when does a song lyric that includes godawful lines like "She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo, reminds me that there's room to grow" count as poetry? O tempora, o mores...😔
Someone should record a beautiful piece of shimmering post-progressive rock and call that “Drops of Jupiter” just so that title can have something more fitting (and better) attached to it.
Stop reminding me of better artists AND songs, Train! XD (Madonna - Like a Virgin, INXS - Need You Tonight, Aerosmith - I don't wanna miss a thing, Mr. Mister, etc...) Nah, I actually do like Train somewhat, but the artists Pat mentions in the song are just better imo, lol.
2018 and I still hear this on the radio. This song is trying so hard to be cute it makes me want to take hostages. I also worked in a store that had Drops of Jupiter on a loop tape so I already had PTSD from that.
What surprises me is when Pat Monahan Sings other people's songs (which I've heard him do like in studio appearances on the radio), he sounds good. I mean, really good. Train should stop writing their own crappy songs and just become a cover band.
Lip-stick-stain, on the front lobe of my left-side-brain! I knew I’d never forget you! If I could, than I would! I’d go where-ever you-would-go! And caaaaann you-feel the-loooovvve toniiiihgt!!! Nobody wants to see us together, but it don’t ‘matter no. ‘Cuase I got you! Country roads, take me home! To the plaaace, where I be-long!!!!!! I’m your biggest fan! I’ll fol-ow you until you love me! Papa- papa- papa-razi!! I can’t liiiiive!!! With or with out yoooou!!!!! Pictures of you! Pictures of me! All upon your wall, for the world to see! And she wiiiiiilll be loved! And she wiiiiiiiiilll be luhuhuhovvved!!!!!!!
When-I-find-my-self in times-of-trouble, Mama Mary comes-to-me!! No woman, no crieie!!! Yeah Mama, this surely is a dream! I-come from the land down-unda! Red white and blue! Funny things you do! America! America! Oh this is you! They-say-that Taylor was a good girl! Never complain, express-ideas that-were on-her-brain! I need love like I’ve never needed love before, ‘gonna make love to your baby! Take-on-me!!! (When I come around!) Take-me-on!!! (When I come around!) I’ll-be-gone!!! In a-day or-two!!!!!!
"Like a virgin, you're Madonna" Though that line doesn't make sense in modern perspective, the name "Madonna" was a word originally used to refer to The Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. So, it can make sense...though I doubt that's what Train was thinking of.
@@Giratina1999 What if you apply the Mr Brown, Reservoir Dogs interpretation of Like a Virgin.... in which he turns the main character of the song into a super slut (a fuck machine is the actual term used lol), who one day meets a guy with a huge dick and while she's getting fucked by this guy she's feeling something she hasn't felt in years.... pain.. this guy is reminding this fuck machine of what it was like the first time... he's making her feel... like a virgin! (Tarantino was a genius).
my god i hate this song this song annoyed me from the start the lyrics were so stupid yet everyone loved it and it was on all the radio channels that i was listening to and sadly i still hear it often enough this song is the symbol of everything wrong with pop at the time
I thought it was okay. I remember this song mainly because I had to learn the words to it when I took singing lessons. For a time, it was my go-to song by default.
Me and my friends saw Train live at a music festival back in their 'Droppings of Jupiter' days. They really did try very hard to sound like INXS and it was pathetic. Unfortunately for us, we were too elegantly wasted to move so we made up for it by loudly singing 'Mystify' until the next band came on. Good times.😅
This song will always remind me of the summer 2010. I was a mailman working in the countryside, so I drove around a lot in my car, delivering mail to peoples boxes. And this song was played A LOT.... Yeeey...
I was in the 4th grade at the time and me teacher would rotate between this song (I liked it the first hundred times before it became torture), Justin Bieber and Friday (that thing was big at the time). 😐🤢🤮
I recently heard this song when I was standing in line at the pharmacy. The lyrics are so ridiculous and silly I have to wonder how it got popular in the first place. P.S. The rubber ducky joke is one of my favorite jokes from this channel.
Is that really how the song starts? Bloody hell, that's fucking annoying. My excuse for not getting it: it's easy to selectively not understand when English isn't your first language.
There's actually a country version that was released once this had peaked on the pop charts that gives it an almost bluegrass vibe, it likely won't change anyone's mind on the song but I prefer it to the original
My old gym used to play this regularly on their intercom playlist. And every time I heard the "I'm so gangsta" line, I wanted to throw my weights at someone.
+dreamshade Like a true thug. Respect, Holmes. Keep it dirty.
I'm glad my weightlifting teacher in my senior year of high school never played this, else I WOULD have thrown a pair of dumbbells across the room.
Clint Howard Yeah. They should play hard rock or EDM or something else with energy.
dreamshade you gotta go to a different gym, man. Get some Rammstein or some Motörhead, something to get you hyped
dreamshade Same here
I think the fact that Todd reuploads don't have dates when they were originally posted gives them a bizarre quality, like you're uncovering a relic that has yet to be dated by archaeologists, and then he says "2010". Good lord he's been doing this for 12 years, what a legend
actually longer than that
13 actually
It’s crazy how much better as people and creators he and Lindsay turned out to be compared to Doug
I’m glad a comment on this video from this year can still get 260+ likes (indicating that people are still watching this), this video is really one of his best
@@lylecohen1638 the song is also one of the worst (if not THE worst)
The "So Gangsta, I'm so Thug" line is so cringe worthy that it ruins the song.
Yeah, never understood why that was included in the lyrics.
Ianna Matney wow, ruined the whole song for me...
Really?
*THAT'S* what killed the song for you!?
Ianna Matney I like the song otherwise
...tonight
I just realized the notes of the actual "Hey, Soul Sister" are the same as the first notes of the whistling part in "All Star", if in a different key.
THAT'S why it sounds familiar! That's been bugging me for years. Thank you.
I'm never going to be able to not hear it now
What the duck
...oh my god
Ack, you're right!
"its like you tried making scrambled eggs and caught syphilis!"
That's probably one the best things I've heard all day.
SaturnValleyGamer That's one of the best things todd has ever said. Plus it's my favorite part of the review.
SaturnValleyGamer it is an amazing quote
It wasn't until "How does that level of failure even exist?" that I lost it.
This is a classic todd quote and the next line totally sells it
It's still one of the best insults I've ever heard.
This episode is the most quotable thing todd's ever done
Chest hair! Chest hair everybody! When you’re thinking of chest hair, I certainly hope you’re thinking of Pat Monahan’s gross, sweaty chest rug! XD
“These lyrics are so bad the words are actively trying to escape the song ... run! Run to where the bad man can’t abuse you!” And also “HEFTY BAG?!!” This review sure took out the trash am I right?
“run! Run to where the bad man can’t abuse you!”
Hey fucking shit, I’m dying! XD
For some reason, "I will HUNT YOU DOWN and KILL YOU" is my favourite. a line so bad it made him homicidal xD
"Yeah, do that dance. Do that dance you do, that sexy dance you do to... Mr. Mister?
Oh yeah, that's nice; I love the way your body moves to this droning, no tempo, butt-ugly song that never starts."
…tonight.
...tonight
…tonight.
...TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
*OF COURSE!*
....WE ARE YOUNG!
It's unfair that Nickleback became the go-to bad band for hacks to joke about. Train deserves that scorn and abuse far more.
Nah. Both should be scorned.
Agreed. Nicklecrap is awful but Train is truly in another stratosphere of shitty music.
nickleback were bad for longer unbroken and the music was not there ether.
Making fun of Nickelback is overdone. But I will still occasionally look at this graph.
Chad Kroger also had that interview where he bragged about sadistically abusing roadies.
I haven't heard this song in years, last time I did it kept me up all night because a singing birthday card I had received in 2012 was running low on battery, it haunted me the whole night because I couldn't find it.
*_I don't want to miss a single thing you do tonight_*
i ' m s o g a n g s t a i ' m s o t h u g
“A story of perseverance that would be heartwarming if I didn’t have ears.” absolutely kills.
One review from Mother Jones states:
"'Hey, Soul Sister' is soul for people who refer to peanut butter and jelly as 'soul food.' It makes the California Raisins look like the second coming of Sly and the Family Stone"
Explains everything
One of my core memories is this song being used as a homophobic bullying tactic against me all through fifth grade. This girl at my school started a rumor that I was having sex with all the guys in our class (I did not know what sex was at the time and I only had a vague idea of what being gay was) and she also thought this song was gay because Train “sounded like a girl,” so she started using “mister-mister” as, like, a homegrown slur. It caught on at our school as shorthand for gay and for the act of gay sex, which I still had no concept of the mechanics of, and kids would tease me by saying I “did mister-mister” with someone. I’m almost 25 now, I’ve been openly gay for like a decade, and yet hearing this song still puts me in the very specific headspace of “oh god, oh no, everyone thinks I’m gay.”
so sorry you went through that ❤ glad you can laugh at it now ❤
Sooo long story short she called it 😂
I’m sorry to hear that man, it’s always rough when the haters get a head start
@@looiswiimz7230Yeah but she was still an asshole about it for no reason.
Jesus I'm sorry 🫂
9:22 "My god! That's like if you tried to make scrambled eggs and instead you caught syphilis. How does that level of failure even exist?"
I lost it at this line.
Nothing captures the cool, sexy and rebelious aura of INXS like mickey mouse playing a royalty free DIY tutorial melody on a ukelele.
Atleast it's not a female theater kid with Disney villain music
Fun fact I learned after looking at the Train discography after seeing this episode: One of their albums is a song-by-song cover of Led Zeppelin II. No, they don't wuss out; if anything, they're TOO faithful. It's quite an amazing recreation, getting even the tiny details perfect. But that leaves open the question of who would actually listen to it more than once. Anyone who likes it would likely prefer the original. Still, it's impressive to listen to just that once, and no one would suspect it was by the same band that did "Hey Soul Sister" if they didn't already know.
Weird how guys with that kind of attention to detail for classic heavy rock can make such shitty pandering pop.
No it's not worth listening to even once. Train is a shit band for shit people who are easily amused with shit music.
@@AnnoyingOrange420 Well, they wanna get paid.
I work for a chain of convenience stores in the midwest. We have music that plays over the intercom and the playlist is set by our corporate overlords. I think that all of Train's "hits" are on that playlist and I almost always hear at least 4 of them each shift. I loathe this shitty band so much, it's absolute torture.
I hear you! I worked at a big box retail chain and this awful song was on the intercom CONSTANTLY. There really is no shittier band, although Maroon 5 is getting awfully close. BTW, I grew up in the '80's and there was so much cool music out there all this fool can come up with is Mr. Mister!! Really? Newsflash, Mr. Mister was never ever cool!!!
Every damned shift I suffered through this cancer blaring over the store speakers
@@TheJollyMisanthrope I don't who wrote that song but the guy who wrote it might've been high. Come on! Drops of Jupiter?
poor Kaylee, a shotgun will make quick work of those speakers
“So gangsta I’m so thug” - Sounds like something a suburban white 50 year old mom would say from New Jersey! 😳
Pat Monahan is like the Tommy Wiseau of lyricists: he may think his meaningful, but everyone else thinks it's laughable garbage.
Oh hey girl. I'm so gangsta, I'm so thug.
Randygandalf95 oh hai soul sister
Larissa DeLair at least Tommy Wiseau's work is entertaining. Train just makes me miserable.
Yeah, I can't get into Tommy's work. The guy is kind of a douche.
@@maggied4056 you're tearing me apart Margaret
"so gangsta, I'm a thug." * kills stray dogs*
Wow that's weird, our profile pictures are so similar.
@@EllieMae99 holy fuck, yeah
I'm here because he mentions how he hadn't heard Mims in years, and he just did a One-Hit Wonderland on him.
Woah but actually
This is the very first review video I ever saw. Because this song was everywhere and the lyrics were awful and I googled "HEY SOUL SISTER MAKES NO SENSE" out of desperation.
Thus, the journey began :(
Train is actually worse at being gangsta and thug than they are at being INXS.
I never could hear the "Gansta thug" line until this video. And it is incredibly atrocious, I can't believe people let this happen
white person with ukelele is the new white guy with guitar
I blame Garfunkel & Oates. They made it cool for white people to play ukelele even though their intention was to be nerdy like Weird Al with his accordion.
I was about to say, “what about George Formby”, but then I remembered that his was a banjolele, not a ukulele.
...I can’t work out whether that’s better or worse, really. But possibly funnier?
Really straight-laced white chicks can sometimes pull it off. You know the kind, the 110 pound stacks of Nutra-Sweet with brunette bangs. She can play ukelele, usually at the youth center she volunteers at.
@@thegardenofeatin5965
r/suspiciouslyspecific?
Inlelendri George Formby was a legend. He can play whatever. Also, I’m guessing a reference that most people won’t get.
radios wont ever let this die. It plays on rotation daily.
Rebecca Smith Damn it. We have no choice but to go back in time and destroy the very concept of radios so train never exists in the first place. It's the perfect plan... and the only way to get rid of train. Or, maybe we can just destroy all of the radios that keep playing this song, or just change the station. There has to be some way we can get rid of train's awful songs ma'am! Let's work together on this, as I despise train as well. Come on, ma'am. Let's go Office Space on their asses!
I heard it on the radio just a week or two ago, RIP to all of the better bands who will never hear their music on the radio.
I actually don't hate "Drops of Jupiter" that much; it's the only Train song with actual emotion behind it, and decent instrumentation for that matter.
*Drops on Jupiter score*
Instrumentals: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Vocals: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (it’s the best Pat Monahan vocals can be)
Lyrics: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Music video: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
*7/10 (Better than all other Train songs)*
*Hey Soul Sister score*
Instrumentals: ⭐️ (MY EARS!!!!)
Vocals: (you know how Samantha Mumba is known for having vocals that are as smooth as Jay Sean’s? Well, Pat Monahan has vocals rougher than bumpy rocks!)
Lyrics: (“SO GANGSTA, I’M SO THUG!” NO, *NO!!!!!!!* PUT DOWN THAT EGO RIGHT AWAY!!!!!!!)
Music video: ⭐️
⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (And I thought *Before He Cheats* was the least decent song of the 2000s!)
It always just skizzes me out that it's apparently about his mom. I loved it so much before I knew :/
@A J Yeah, apparently she was dying while they were touring their first album, and he wrote the song a little while after she died. I feel a little bad about it because obviously he was grieving, and it is a really heartfelt song, but it just skews way too romantic for me to be comfortable.
@Aspyn *definitely
Said no one ever.
Untrimmed chest has made me want to die for almost a decade now.
Funny because the guys who shave their chests tend to be the biggest Douchenozzles.
This is my all time-favorite Todd episode and has been since it came out. The joke at 9:24 is something I've reworked and used in real life situations a few times lol. Man this song was horrible. It really wore you down having it on the charts for a whole year. This angry shredding of it really gave me satisfaction back then. Good times.
Dude, I've used the exact same joke irl as well. It applies way too often, I find.
That joke made me stop the video long enough to stop laughing! 😂😂😂 too perfect and fitting to Train's music
@@towlie337 It's been my favourite Todd line since I first heard it 13 years ago. This episode is full of great lines, he was truyl inspired when he wrote this one.
It feels weird realizing that a song he mentioned as just a 'pop hit that passed' is now old enough to be considered a one-hit wonder.
it's not though? they had tons of hits
@@dragontales1999 I am not talking about Train, who had hits before this and appeared in later episodes as well.
Ummm have you watched One Hit Wonderland lately?
Hasn't it been another 7 years since Train had a hit with Drive by? I kinda want them to have a comeback again just to get another review like this
I want a
"NOO. I-KILLED-YOU!"
Moment again😂
Train comes back for revenge against Todd
No
@@iliketrains3495 somehow that song was also awful.
@@iliketrains3495I remember also hearing that song "Call Me Sir" on the radio at some point...
I'm hot cuz I'm fly, you ain't cuz you not.
Lyrical genius right there...
BA BA BA beat it up like a drummer
this is why
this is why
this is why i'm hot hot
Doesn't matter. Still had sex.
9:09
Instructions not clear, got vocal chords replaced with helium
Petition for Todd to write and publish an official “Hack’s guide to song writing”
HACK-TASTIC! - reviews
I miss angry passionate Todd
Ava B I can't blame him, music has been so boring starting with 2013
I miss the old Kanye!
True, now he just seems tired these days... Which actually accurate reflects modern music so it kinda fits
@@TheKersey475 I wouldn't say "tired"; I'd say more "relieved for not being pressured to act just like Doug Walker".
@@FernieCanto Both, I think.
“………Tonigh-”
“Tonight!”
“OF COURSE!!!” 🤣
Makes me laugh so hard!!!
Wait a minute… “lipstick stains… on the front lobe of my left side brains.”
WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87?!?!
still laughing at "heart is beating right out of my *U N T R I M M E D* chest"
made funnier if you looked up pictures of Pat Monahan without a shirt.
"What's it matter!? I'm the guy from Train!"
I found and read this comment at the same time as Todd said that sentence xD
I consider this Todd’s greatest review.
*CHEST HAIR!!*
I agree Mr 96
Love your reviews
I was born in 98 and I was 11-12 when this song was big. I enjoyed it fair enough when I was a kid. Realizing this song sucked as I got older was like finding out the truth about Santa.
2001 baby here and I was 8-9 at the time. But still, in a way, it's nostalgic for me?
I use this song as my ringtone for people I need to answer right away just because of it's ability to activate my fight or flight so quickly
Madonna is another name to reference the Virgin Mary, which might be why he says she's a virgin. It's still an awful line.
But that would mean she's having a baby with no known father...
Or her kid's so sinless that cults miles around are worshiping it...
I don't remember INXS or Mr. Mister being this bad at lyrics. Though Mr. Mister did have that one song that always showed up. Kyrie was its name oh. Maybe the dude sat down to right an INXS song but got a Mr. Mister song by accident...
Ma donna is also just Italian for "My lady" - so I guess it could be kinda like "Like a virgin, you're my lady"?
Is the iconic, even career-defining Madonna song "Like a Virgin" just not well known anymore? What an odd thought
@@RidleyJones I assumed this thread was alternatives to the obvious "Like a Virgin" reference.
Because that's clearly why he wrote that. Madonna had a song called "Like a Virgin". That's it. The reason it doesn't make sense in the song is because Pat Monahan is bad at writing lyrics.
"In a story of perseverance that would be downright heartwarming if I didn't have ears" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard anyone say
This review plays in my head whenever the song comes on at work.
Wesley Foxx haha same. A lot of Todd lines play in my head when I hear various songs he’s reviewed.
I'm reminded of a poetry project I had to do in high school in the early-mid 00's. Part of the assignment involved writing about our favorite piece of poetry and I think literally half my class chose "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. It was practically a meme. I liked the song too, back then, but my car-obsessed brain picked Jan & Dean's "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" for the hell of it.
Since when does a song lyric that includes godawful lines like "She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo, reminds me that there's room to grow" count as poetry? O tempora, o mores...😔
"Everybody loves the 80s!"
Except every other country other than America!
and the LGBT
@@afterdinnercreations936and most 90s and 2000s and 2010s kids
The arts, entertainment, and pop culture of the 80s was great. Literally everything else was pretty horrendous.
"................tonight!"
That cracked me up.
A true classic. This review is one of my personal favorites.
My intro to Todd tbh!
still my fav review of his
I suddenly feel the urge to listen to Natalie Merchant. And INXS. And Madonna. Oh, and hell, Mr. Mister. Anything but this song.
"Kyrie" by Mr. Mister > anything Train ever did
"It's like you tried to make scrambled eggs and instead caught syphillis" is absolute peak writing
Many years later and this song still stinks. #stopthetrain
They've got long road ahead of them.
hey! a Pat finnerty fan!
...beato
Beato.
BEATO! glad I'm not the only stinker in here
Todd brining up This is Why I’m Hot then doing an episode on it 12 years later is my favourite continuity in these videos lol
this is one of my favorite reviews from him, i have watched it so many times now
Me, too. The righteous anger is hilarious and right on the money.
6 years later and this is still your best video.
Someone should record a beautiful piece of shimmering post-progressive rock and call that “Drops of Jupiter” just so that title can have something more fitting (and better) attached to it.
"That's like trying to make scrambled eggs but instead..you caught syphilis!!"
That is world class metaphor building. Outstanding.
“Droppings of Jupiter”... lmao. Always going to call it this from now on. Train has always been the warm skim milk of the radio
The thumbnail being one of those generic lyric video uploads is honestly so funny
I was just gonna comment about that lol, i almost scrolled past it in my recommended like “why is Hey Soul Sister being recommended to me?”
Stop reminding me of better artists AND songs, Train! XD
(Madonna - Like a Virgin, INXS - Need You Tonight, Aerosmith - I don't wanna miss a thing, Mr. Mister, etc...)
Nah, I actually do like Train somewhat, but the artists Pat mentions in the song are just better imo, lol.
Aerosmith?
@@anonymousinkproductions8624 "I don't wanna miss a single thing you do"...
As a casual observer who found the music hum-able (?) I never realised how stupid the lyrics were. You have enlightened me, good sir! \o
All of their lyrics are basically nonsense rhymes. "Meet Virginia"...."Drops of Jupiter".... they disguise it with catchy melodies, etc...
As a ukulele player we don’t claim this song and apologize for its creation
2018 and I still hear this on the radio. This song is trying so hard to be cute it makes me want to take hostages. I also worked in a store that had Drops of Jupiter on a loop tape so I already had PTSD from that.
Todd i love your videos man. I actually like this song but everything you said is so true
CHEST HAIR!!!
Who's watching this after watching Pat Finnerty's video? #stopthetrain
this song stinks.
What surprises me is when Pat Monahan Sings other people's songs (which I've heard him do like in studio appearances on the radio), he sounds good. I mean, really good. Train should stop writing their own crappy songs and just become a cover band.
Pat Finnerty did an episode of his What Makes This Song Stink? on Hey Soul Sister. And it's really good.
Pat Finnertys episode on this song is a hilarious masterpiece!
Lip-stick-stain, on the front lobe of my left-side-brain! I knew I’d never forget you!
If I could, than I would! I’d go where-ever you-would-go!
And caaaaann you-feel the-loooovvve toniiiihgt!!!
Nobody wants to see us together, but it don’t ‘matter no. ‘Cuase I got you!
Country roads, take me home! To the plaaace, where I be-long!!!!!!
I’m your biggest fan! I’ll fol-ow you until you love me! Papa- papa- papa-razi!!
I can’t liiiiive!!! With or with out yoooou!!!!!
Pictures of you! Pictures of me! All upon your wall, for the world to see!
And she wiiiiiilll be loved! And she wiiiiiiiiilll be luhuhuhovvved!!!!!!!
When-I-find-my-self in times-of-trouble, Mama Mary comes-to-me!!
No woman, no crieie!!! Yeah Mama, this surely is a dream!
I-come from the land down-unda!
Red white and blue! Funny things you do! America! America! Oh this is you!
They-say-that Taylor was a good girl! Never complain, express-ideas that-were on-her-brain!
I need love like I’ve never needed love before, ‘gonna make love to your baby!
Take-on-me!!! (When I come around!) Take-me-on!!! (When I come around!) I’ll-be-gone!!! In a-day or-two!!!!!!
okay todd needs to write 'the complete hack's guide to songwriting.' he'd make millions.
"Like a virgin, you're Madonna"
Though that line doesn't make sense in modern perspective, the name "Madonna" was a word originally used to refer to The Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. So, it can make sense...though I doubt that's what Train was thinking of.
Jackson DeStefano it does make sense in a modern sense though - Madonna sang Like A Virgin
Alex Moreno I highly doubt mary was a virgin
@@Bionicleforever w
@@Giratina1999 What if you apply the Mr Brown, Reservoir Dogs interpretation of Like a Virgin.... in which he turns the main character of the song into a super slut (a fuck machine is the actual term used lol), who one day meets a guy with a huge dick and while she's getting fucked by this guy she's feeling something she hasn't felt in years.... pain.. this guy is reminding this fuck machine of what it was like the first time... he's making her feel... like a virgin! (Tarantino was a genius).
2:15
Hey, I'm gonna go back to this day this review was made and tell Todd that the next President of the United States is gonna be...
Nah, too easy.
Fancy seeing you here. Great job on your new channel
6:02 The only appropriate theory is that she’s dancing to the kpop hit Mister Mister by Girl’s Generation
The line about blowing his mind makes me imagine her taking his brain out and blowing on it like a Nintendo cartridge
This is the first song where the lyric video actually makes the song worse because it makes you realize how none of the lyrics make sense.
As funny as your videos usually are, I don't think any are as gut-bustingly hilarious as this one. Salute!
This is probably Todd’s best, or at least the funniest episode. Start to finish full of iconic commentary
my god i hate this song this song annoyed me from the start the lyrics were so stupid yet everyone loved it and it was on all the radio channels that i was listening to and sadly i still hear it often enough this song is the symbol of everything wrong with pop at the time
this is one of his funniest episodes the pure rage at the insanity of the lyrics always gets me.
this used to be my favorite song when i was in elementary school.
I thought it was okay. I remember this song mainly because I had to learn the words to it when I took singing lessons. For a time, it was my go-to song by default.
The only positive, 20 seconds of INXS.
worry not todd, pat finnerty has launched the cause to stop the train once and for all
Me and my friends saw Train live at a music festival back in their 'Droppings of Jupiter' days. They really did try very hard to sound like INXS and it was pathetic. Unfortunately for us, we were too elegantly wasted to move so we made up for it by loudly singing 'Mystify' until the next band came on. Good times.😅
Perfect that this was recommended to me after Pat Finnerty's video. lol
This song will always remind me of the summer 2010. I was a mailman working in the countryside, so I drove around a lot in my car, delivering mail to peoples boxes.
And this song was played A LOT.... Yeeey...
I'm sorry...
And to add insult to injury, my girlfriend left me that summer. :D Oh well, I am still here, ain't i?
I was in the 4th grade at the time and me teacher would rotate between this song (I liked it the first hundred times before it became torture), Justin Bieber and Friday (that thing was big at the time). 😐🤢🤮
That piano version of hey soul sister sounds like a Nick Jr theme song.
I recently heard this song when I was standing in line at the pharmacy. The lyrics are so ridiculous and silly I have to wonder how it got popular in the first place.
P.S. The rubber ducky joke is one of my favorite jokes from this channel.
Is that really how the song starts? Bloody hell, that's fucking annoying. My excuse for not getting it: it's easy to selectively not understand when English isn't your first language.
Rewatching this in 2022 in conjunction with One Hit Wonderland finally reviewing This Is Why I'm Hot
There's actually a country version that was released once this had peaked on the pop charts that gives it an almost bluegrass vibe, it likely won't change anyone's mind on the song but I prefer it to the original
Drops of Jupitor & calling all angels= okay, tolerable. This song= complete shit. I definately need 2 listen to INXS greatest hits more.
the rubber ducky line just killed me. How did I miss this review omfg
5:11 The first time Todd has showed his hatred for WGWAG
Every time it cut back to Hey Soul Sister from INXS songs it was like a cruel kick to the nuts.
I liked this song for a while, but then I actually listened to it and thought it was too cheery. Not to mention the weird lyrics.
In case anyone reads this, It's now the year 2022 and I still hear this song on the radio once a shift at work. Please send help.
Who would’ve guessed TRAIN would have a multi-decade career.
A man that white and that straight should never use the phrase soul sister, its just not right
i'll hand in my music appreciator card, cuz this is a guilty pleasure song for me.
This diaper commercial of a song still plays twice a day on the radio at work.
Pat: I'm so gangssta
Todd: I WILL SMITE YOU LITTLE MAN!
Me: XD
10:08 Couldn't Pat Monahan say something different, like "Mess Up a Cave Floor"?