In 2022 pop at last slowly emerged from its post-pandemic doldrums, but that didn’t mean everything about it was happy.
🚌 Go to https://curiositystream.com/toddintheshadows
Support Todd on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/toddintheshadows
source
Listen, Surface Pressure is a bop because I don't know if I want to be or kiss Luisa, not because it's a good song.
I really enjoy these lists it'd be sad to see them go, but if you don't enjoy making them I guess that is how it should be
Truth about you is basically Hotline Bling's successor as the "I was 100% the problem yet I am genuinely clueless about this in the most infuriating way possible"
Twinkel twinkel little bitch, cut me deep in the feels X'D
Adam Levine has become self-aware. He's now trolling Todd by not releasing anything this year.
Awesome number 1 choice, horrid song
As all the other YouTube best and worst lists come and go, I've been waiting for this one the most. I need to know what todd thinks
Shocked that there was no Lewis capaldi
I'm not sorry to say it, We Don't Talk About Bruno is also not a good song. It reeks of all the same LMM tropes that you mentioned with Pressure. I don't find the harmonies pleasant to listen to and the chorus is completely unsatisfying. The storytelling aspect is fun but overall it can't hold a candle to the top Disney tracks.
Meghan Trainor hit The Wall, HARD. Wait wait….a song called Victoria's Secret (which is connected with Epstein Island) is ripping off a Barney the Dinosaur song? Ohhhh lord….
My sister is named Victoria and ever since I've heard the JAX song, I remind her every day that she was "made up by a dude"
The yearly tradition
Victoria's Secret and Made you look are just the worst. I hate it when people try to push toxicly positive bullshit onto others. I'm all about body positivity. I don't own a scale because I am recovering from an eating disorder. I know I'm not skinny I know that I don't fit beauty standards. Can people stop reminding me of that? Because all these songs do is remind me that while I might like myself others don't. I think the clip from Euphoria captures it. Let us be. all most of us want is to stop being shamed for not reaching an ideal that doesn't exist outside of photoshop, Instagram filters. etc.
I stand by this to this the day the only good version of im blue is a dubstep remix. Because it just makes the catchy but ok beat into a song and that’s the only thing that could ever save that beat. And everyone that has copied blue has sucked ass. And the reason I only like the original is because of nostalgia
Todd made a Robbie Williams Reference, i never thought he would coz you need hits in the US??????? One day my Robbie Williams – Rudebox Trainwreckord request may happen
Hey Todd I really appreciate continuing the worst list, since I don’t follow pop music I often find my favourite songs from this list. But that being said I have to ask… where’s the best list Todd?? Huh?!? Where’s the best list?!?!? It’s 2023 and I still don’t know what is objectively the best songs of last year! Release the video TODD. DO IT NOW.
I’ve been out of touch with pop music for like 2 years now. I listen to covers of/actual video game OSTs, Mongolian throat singing, Bardcore and anime OSTs because I sincerely can’t relate to whatever pop music is on about anymore.
Thank you for confirming I made the right deicision.
Jax sounded exactly like a dollar store version of Billie Eilish. I hope you didn't miss that.
Can’t believe I didn’t see this posted. I ❤️ Todd in the Shadows
Can’t stand for this lin manuel slander!!
i like doja cat, but she's getting very close to becoming the new pitbull
We love salty Todd
Can't believe the redneck misogynist anthem "hijklmno p!ss on your clothes, throw your makeup in the road" didn't get an honorable mention 😅
I feel so liberated knowing all my least favorite songs of the year were in this list. I thought for a second that I was becoming too cynical. Nope, music just stunk this year. Thanks, Todd.
"Uptown Funk written by Buble" was brutal. Well done
So, random tidbit of information related to the bumper / #4 entry:
I'm from Spain, and I just learned that Gayle taped a performance of this song for TVE's New Year's Night (it's still New Year's Eve after midnight?) special. TVE is Spain's state-funded television network, and since English is not our native language, our policy with F-bombs on television is far more lax than in the US. So Gayle went with the 'Angrier' version (the one where she actually says what the F stands for at the start of the chorus), and apparently whoever had to make that call was perfectly fine with it airing.
No idea why anyone else would care, but I just felt like sharing it. Bendiciones y buenas noches for everyone.
'This is a beat that needs Akon or Flo Rida on it'
While that is staggeringly accurate, there's one name that comes to mind immediately that's all that is missing from I'm Good to make it PEAK late-2000s EDM pop banger.
Pitbull.
"ABCDEFU" sounds like some nonsense you would boredly fuck around typing in the middle or start of a paper on a word processor because you can't think of anything else to write and then delete it.
A candidate for this year has already popped up:
Girl in the Mirror – Bebe Rexha
That entire movie was shit…you could’ve put all of those songs on this list. It’s a shitty Coco.
Yeah as someone who hasn't really listened to barely any new music this year this list is going to be fun .
I have fun with this kind of video but you're definitely the kind of man I would avoid