I feel he did better than the Rae Sremmurd video, though he's still clearly out of his element.
The Rae Sremmurd video was just odd "The song is called Black Beatles... but they don't sound like the Beatles????" Todd they're comparing their popularity to the Beatles, this isn't rocket science
I finally heard Black Beatles on Sirius the other night and I was like "what's not to understand?"
Even when it seems like they're trying to be weird and confusing, modern rap songs still make some modicum of sense to me. I wonder why it doesn't click with Todd.
You know Todd complains about doing weird novelties from the 80s, but I feel like every time he chooses a legit song from the 90s, it turns out to have an uninteresting backstory because the reason the artist had one hit is because they were mostly boring
Watching some of random British Guy's other stuff.
You know, there's nothing that irks me more than a vitriolic review nowadays. If you think a game is crap, then that's on you, but talk about that and not the people you disagree with.
He even did it in his Bloodborne review which was supposed to be positive but still managed to have a bit of "if you don't have exactly the same opinions of Dark Souls 1 and 2 as I do even if you still like them, you don't understand how to play video games and actually you were probably wrong in thinking you had fun playing them."
I think a lot of that in his work is in response to the cultures surrounding these games, which can be really absolute and toxic, and is more about pointing out to them that alternate opinions on those games can be founded in sound reasoning and skewering their bad attitudes than demeaning people who came to those opinions independently.
Then again, I mostly watch his videos making fun of alt-right people, so what do I know?
I really like the message here regarding subjectivity and taste, and while he's done a bunch of videos touching on the subject, this might be his most concise and coherent.
His recent ones on how much he adores and relates to Kobayashi's Dragon Maid are also strongly reinforcing my desire to watch that series, because the more I actually hear about *why* this series works so well, the more I need to see it for myself. I'm especially intrigued by how it handles Tohru's interest in Kobayashi, and the way the show portrays adoptive parenting. It just seems really touching for such a goofy comedy series.
Oh, jeez, Mark from Spectrum Pulse laid into this one on one of his weekly Billboard chart shows months back and just the snippet he played was enough. I can only imagine what Todd will do to this one...
I just watched all of it and I really, really liked it. The best Todd episodes for me are when he's just super happy to be covering something - often times something I'm unfamiliar with - and it's just so straightforward and earnest and I want him to not stop.
To be fair, I feel like said song was more a response to the PMRC hearings and the moral hysteria surrounding sex and violence in music which surrounded it than to the sort of things which reactionaries decry as "political correctness gone mad" nowadays. Doesn't mean it's anything resembling a *good* response, though.
This will probably be after I release a mixtape in which I rap over a flip of the breakdown from Suffocation's "Liege of Inveracity" and at least one remixed Soft Machine track.
Yeah I was gonna edit it after I was done watching it with commentary about the oldness, but it's a pleasant reminder of how high his highs can be for me when he really enjoys something. Nice lil reminder.
So I'm watching this really old Todd video, and only now am I realising he has that West Virginia twang. I think I registered that he had an accent but could never place it, yet now it's clicked and I will never unhear it.
So I'm watching this really old Todd video, and only now am I realising he has that West Virginia twang. I think I registered that he had an accent but could never place it, yet now it's clicked and I will never unhear it.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Then again, I mostly watch his videos making fun of alt-right people, so what do I know?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I really like the message here regarding subjectivity and taste, and while he's done a bunch of videos touching on the subject, this might be his most concise and coherent.
"Politically Correct", on the other hand, is just a white cishet guy whining.
Something like Anthrax's "Startin' Up A Posse" is a better example of what you're talking about.
It is a bit of a curiosity, in any case. It's not even abrasive enough to be offensive; it's just whiny and vague.
Not a conventional entry for this thread but a very important one.