Todd in the Shadows/Quotes
"Q:What's Your Favourite Song?" |
"Q:What are your top 5 albums?" |
- Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
- David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Prince - Purple Rain
- Electric Six - Fire
- Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American"
"Q:How long have you been playing the piano?" |
"Q:Are you planning to branch out of your videos and make your own music in the near future?" |
"Things I have done since joining Channel Awesome" |
"Q:What would you say your least favorite song from each decade you've been alive during is?" |
"Q:What are you're least favourite songs of all time?" |
"Q:When did you decide that pop music was your "genre" (to put it loosely) of sorts to follow? You said it yourself, for a guy your age it's certainly an odd choice to follow the likes of some of music's most loved and hated artists. I can respect it of course; I've got some strange interests myself But anyway, what got you into it?" |
"Now here's a question. Nickelback has long been put upon as the worst mainstream band in recent memory. How did they earn this reputation? Well, there are a lot of reasons, so I'll try to enumerate them: |
- They fucking suck. The most obvious and most important of the reasons is that they are simply a terrible band, and worse than most other bands. Their sheer lack of quality is undeniable and staggering. I have problems with all the other artists you listed, but to even suggest that John Mayer or Kanye West are somehow worse than Nickelback is insanity. Clinical insanity.
- Consistency. Not only do they suck, they ALWAYS suck, in exactly the same way every time. Barring their newest album (in which superproducer Mutt Lange did his best to polish a turd), none of their songs was measurably better or worse than their others.
- Sheer volume. I can honestly think of several worse bands than Nickelback (Hinder, Saving Abel), but none with their sustained popularity. Their popularity has something to do with the backlash, but it's not just people hating them for being popular. It's that their popularity has granted them the opportunity to repeatedly pollute the airwaves day after day after day. Their second major-label album had FIVE singles. The one after that, SEVEN. The newest album has EIGHT. EIGHT FUCKING SINGLES.
- Unsexiness. Nickelback are an ugly, ugly band. Ugly lyrically, ugly sonically, and most of all, ugly visually. The Traveling Wilburys look like the Backstreet Boys next to Nickelback. Chad Kroeger has one of the worst voices in rock and roll, and it's used almost exclusively for moan-y angsty crap about how he misses his girlfriend. It's much like Stanley the Troll in NC's newest review: hideously unattractive and disgustingly weak.
So to sum up: They're treated like the worst thing ever because they fucking deserve it. Fuck Nickelback".
—His opinion on Nickelback
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"Seriously, you have no idea how much I hate video editing. It is an awful, terrible process." |
"As far as I'm concerned, country music should be about one thing: Misery. Misery and drinking...[Need You Now] is what country music is supposed to be about: bitterness, missed connections, and pain, and utter hopelessness." |
"Mathew: Rendering the new episode from earlier whilst cleaning out. Man, I really should stop leaving my scripts everywhere." |
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