Todd In The Shadows

Is Todd In The Shadows a lolcow?

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Oats12345 said:
Exactly many bands have done that. My dad who is a fan of the Kinks would tell you. the different styles of music they have done.

So like I said Todd's complaint makes no since for me here
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I know how this goes. Did your dad also complain how guys like Paul and The Beatles take airplay and mainstream attention away from the likes of The Kinks, Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead?

Just as artists change music tunes, there's complaints that some artists are too popular while others aren't popular enough.

Johnny Eastwood cash said:
I'm a fan of Staind and Aaron Lewis so let's just say I didn't really agree with this video
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Johnny Eastwood cash said:
He definitely doesn't like his political veiws which is not surprising but Todd also complains that Aaron Lewis is trying really hard to sound country

I don't really think that's the point of his music he just making the music he is passenate about which just so happens to be conurty now
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Todd's #1 Worst Hit Song of 2021!


 
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Random Internet Person said:
I know how this goes. Did your dad also complain how guys like Paul and The Beatles take airplay and mainstream attention away from the likes of The Kinks, Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead?

Just as artists change music tunes, there's complaints that some artists are too popular while others aren't popular enough.
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No my dad loves all those bands equally the Kinks and the Beatles share the same spot on his favorite music bands. As in the #1 spot.
He loves all those bands you just listed.

He knows all their trivia too.

This wasn't even my point.
 
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Wow he dislikes that song way more then I thought
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You have no idea.

Todd: [beat] Aaron Lewis keeps it real.



Todd (VO): The guy from Staind's decade long attempt to go country keeps hitting odd notes, for a lot of reasons.

Todd: But a big one is that country music is mostly fiction.

Clips of live performances (and music video, in the case of the Carrie Underwood song) of the songs Todd mentions
Todd (VO): Johnny Cash never really shot a man in Reno, Merle Haggard isn't an Okie from Muskogee, Garth never showed up in boots to a black tie affair, and Carrie Underwood never smashed her boyfriend's car. [clip of Aaron Lewis - "Country Boy"] Only a select few, like Aaron's idol Hank Jr. will ever write their own real life story.

Todd: But that is what you get from Aaron Lewis.

Todd (VO): He can only give you his actual thoughts feelings, opinions and experiences.

Todd: That might well be a positive thing if Aaron Lewis' thoughts and opinions were worth anything

Video for "Am I the Only One"
Aaron Lewis: Am I the only one willing to bleed?
Todd (VO): In many ways, 2021 was a year like no other. Especially for Aaron Lewis, who had his biggest solo hit in two decades.

Aaron: Am I the only one not brainwashed?
It was a massive chode anthem about how everyone who doesn't think like Aaron Lewis is brainwashed, even Bruce Springsteen.

Aaron: Am I the only one who quits singing along
Every time they play a Springsteen song
Todd (VO): This despite the fact that Aaron Lewis cannot help but keep it real and admits that he sits around all day screaming at his television.

Aaron: Screaming "What the fuck!" at my TV
Clip of Aaron Lewis live performance
Todd: In many other ways though, it was the exact same year for Aaron Lewis, because he spent it the same way he spent every other year. [video of Aaron Lewis storming off stage] Being a loud idiot who embarasses himself in public, pissing off everyone around him and complaining about the state of country music. Even though he's a Johnny Come Lately who's country songs sound uniformly like shit.

Video for "Am I the Only One"
Todd (VO): Since I reviewed that song, Lewis has also put out a video for it which helps clarify a few things.

Todd: The thing that pissed me off the most about it was him crying over confederate statues. The people who tried to destroy America.

Aaron: Another statue coming down in a town near you
Todd (VO): Now, I got some comments trying to tell me that he must have meant the couple of non-confederate statues that came down for various reasons. But Lewis helpfully shows us an actual confederate statue in the video. Which, again, he's not even southern.

Todd: I'm allowed to have opinions on this, not you, you clam chowder eating Mass-hole. You don't even go here!

Todd (VO): I also had some people disagree with my interpretation of this line:

Aaron: And worries 'bout his kids
As they try to undo all the things he did
Todd: I thought he was talking about himself, some people think he was talking about President Trump.

Todd (VO): The video is not conclusive on that, but I don't think even Aaron Lewis thinks Trump is so great that he gets an unreferenced pronoun like he's Jesus.

Todd: But, I have consistently gone broke overestimating people, so who knows.

Aaron: The only one willing to fight
Todd (VO): Now, this is a list of hit songs and this was not really a hit. It only placed as high as it did because of a fluke in chart tabulation that over-weights physical sales. But even if the hit part is questionable, boy does it deserve to be at the top of this list of worst hits.

Todd: Are its politics shit? Yes. Does it sound like shit? God yes, Aaron Lewis sings like a cow giving birth.

Aaron: If you don't like it, there's the frickin' door
Todd: But also, I think this, more than anything, sums up why 2021 was so disappointing.

Todd (VO): After 2020, I was hoping to live in less miserable times. Like, maybe after the election and once we all had vaccines, all the insanity was going to turn down. And Aaron Lewis wants you to know that no, the insanity will continue

Todd: Like, this is a year where I had to hear multiple songs called [clip of Loza Alexander's...] "Let's Go Brandon". And a whole bunch of other miserable conservative songs. But the important thing to note is that they were all better than Aaron Lewis.

Clip of Bryson Gray ft. Tyson Jame and Chandler Crump - "Let's Go Brandon"
Todd (VO): Like yes, those "Let's Go Brandon" songs pissed me off, but that's what they were trying to do, so I can only get so angry about that. [clip of Slowhand & Van - "This Has Gotta Stop"] I also had to hear Eric Clapton and Van Morrison's anti-lockdown shit. But that one was so laid back, it was almost cute.

Clip of Kid Rock ft. Monster Truck - "Don't Tell Me How To Live"
Kid Rock: Snowflakes, here's a newsflash
Even Kid Rock in his anti-millenial record this year.

Kid Rock: Like Springsteen, I'm the motherfuckin' boss
Todd: Even he knew to put some respect on Bruce Springsteen's name.

Video for "Am I the Only One"
Aaron: I'm not the only one
Todd (VO): Like, let's be clear. If Aaron Lewis expressed the exact opposite sentiments he does on this song...

Todd: ...this would still probably be the worst song I heard all year.

Todd (VO): But I do have one sympathetic ear I can extend. If being Aaron Lewis means you can't enjoy Springsteen anymore.

Todd: Boy, that sure explains why he's such a miserable asshole.

Clip of Bruce Springsteen live performance
Todd (VO): Imagine a world where you couldn't listen to "Born to Run", and all you had [back to "Am I the Only One"] was this. Good God.
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Coal Miner's Daughter, Todd - fuck you.

Also most country fans, like wrestling fans, understand those pieces which are true and not. If you hang out with them for very long and a playlist is going, it will become a trivia contest of them pointing out which "really happened" and which were just catchy. We are talking fans that will stop on PBS when it's doing a focus episode on a section of country or a star.
 
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Well okay then

Honestly not bad! A decent song, relatively obscure artist and he didn't shit it up with politisperging too much. Going to explore more of White Town's back catalogue now, and if Todd is going to cover more British of Indian heritage 90s pop-electronica acts for OHW, perhaps he'll eventually get to Brimful of Asha by Cornershop (though this OHW was a reward request for someone on Twitter so probably not). Minor side note, you can also tell the ad read is an old repeat because of the length of Todd's hair, which is shorter now. Such is life in profile and silhouette.
 
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Never heard about this song or guy in my entire life. It must have been one of those hits that got big exclusively in the anglosphere.
 
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Ninon42 said:
Well okay then

Honestly not bad! A decent song, relatively obscure artist and he didn't shit it up with politisperging too much. Going to explore more of White Town's back catalogue now, and if Todd is going to cover more British of Indian heritage 90s pop-electronica acts for OHW, perhaps he'll eventually get to Brimful of Asha by Cornershop (though this OHW was a reward request for someone on Twitter so probably not). Minor side note, you can also tell the ad read is an old repeat because of the length of Todd's hair, which is shorter now. Such is life in profile and silhouette.
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Off topic but God I love cornershop, born for the 7th time is phenomenal.
Raging Capybara said:
Never heard about this song or guy in my entire life. It must have been one of those hits that got big exclusively in the anglosphere.
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Me neither, but the song is one of those ones you hear and think "oh shit it's that one" (for me anyway)
 
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Well okay then

Honestly not bad! A decent song, relatively obscure artist and he didn't shit it up with politisperging too much. Going to explore more of White Town's back catalogue now, and if Todd is going to cover more British of Indian heritage 90s pop-electronica acts for OHW, perhaps he'll eventually get to Brimful of Asha by Cornershop (though this OHW was a reward request for someone on Twitter so probably not). Minor side note, you can also tell the ad read is an old repeat because of the length of Todd's hair, which is shorter now. Such is life in profile and silhouette.
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I was super excited about this one and I'm glad that he didn't talk too much about the "trans read" on it.
Also Ninon42 glad I'm not the only one who has an eye for hair length.
 
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Todd taking a principled stand. He's on Instagram too btw.
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This bravery received the appropriate response.
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And from yesterday...Todd, cuckbro...did you really want to use a pic of Elon as Wario? Like anything associated with JewWario is maaaaybe bad optics?
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Ninon42 said:
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Sounds like he's appropriating Lindsay's Twitter misadventures as his own tbh. Or the old Gamergate drama traumatized him almost a decade after the fact. Mostly, he's weak-willed and easily swayed by FOMO.
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Oh I guess I shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that he was leaving because of elon. I think he is mostly likely appropriating like you said "Lindsay's Twitter misadventures". I never heard anyone who was traumatized by event years after it happened
 
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Lil Miku said:
He's really adamant about leaving, isn't he?
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I doubt he'll leave before the year end top 10 videos come out. He might be at 500k subs on YouTube but posting alerts about new videos on Twitter had a wider immediate reach than Patreon or the other SM sites, especially if they aren't as algorithmically friendly. Todd likes being friends with creatives, C-listers in the entertainment media world like old Gawker and Cracked writers as well as the Nebula crowd. They are mad at Twitter so he is mad at Twitter because he is more than anything, a follower. He followed Lindsay to Chez Apocalypse and later to Los Angeles (Glendale, really). He followed the CTC group away from Channel Awesome despite having no negative experiences himself. The only time he got in trouble on Twitter was a suspension for copyright over those damned running javelina videos he was obsessed with for like a month. He knows middle age is staring him in the face and he could be cancelled by his audience at a moments notice for saying the wrong thing. Lindsay has her husband and kid and has moved off YT to Nebula; what does he have? Amydog and a middling Patreon for California living?
 
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Todd came up on my Twitter feed, and the most interesting thing I found was some stuff about Song vs Song. Here’s what that has been up to.

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Listen to this episode from Who Cares About the Rock Hall? on Spotify. Hosts of the Song vs. Song podcast Todd Nathanson (Todd in the Shadows) & Lina Morgan join the show to discuss this year's inductees and whether they need the Hall more than the Hall needs them. This show is part of Pantheon...
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Listen to this episode from Song vs Song on Spotify. It's time to swing from something suspended on a chain! In 2013, former Disney star Miley Cyrus busted through the wall with a giant ball of emotion, but then the not-yet-scandal-ridden Sia swung in a year later with her own lung-busting...
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