i watched something with clips of her character in victorious OH MY JEEBUS it's worth looking for. they made her character so derpa derp. the voice she uses alone is so over the top lmfao.
she's always got it in there, i'm dying nicki's the only reason i like this song, she's the only one who fits all around. did her and ariana feel bad for jessie j or what because the 2 of them could've made this an actual good song. nicki alone, but ariana can hang with that. i want to like jessie j so bad and i can't, go away
Yeah, they're trying to sell their sexiness which makes Nicki's intro so hilarious. She literally comes in with "you know what girls, let me show you how to do it." Like she was watching from the corner and thought someone had to do something
A sleepover of an ex-Nickelodeon starlet who licked doughnuts before she could say she hated a country (Ariana Grande), a woman with about a quarter-hundred alter egos (Nicki Minaj) and a woman who deserved better than Bang Bang and Ice Age 5 (Jessie J.).
I've said this forever about Ariana. she can sing her ass off, but her music doesn't show those skills off. when she's goofing off on SNL or the tonight show she's amazing. oddly enough, her albums, with music written for her and selected for her does her no favors. she has "moments" in almost every song, but otherwise it sounds like she was playing "chubby bunny" and forgot to spit out the marshmallows.
I kinda did. She definitely had a great singing voice. Same with Liz. She was just massively overshadowed in the show by Victoria. Funny enough that she's the one who is completely irrelevant right now.
I feel like this song has become the blueprint for the soundscape of many 3rd/4th gen K-pop girl groups: loud, hard-hitting and very, very self-impressed.
Really? Maybe for some but I think IVE, New Jeans and Le Sserafim aren’t similar to this at all. Kepler is quite loud/heavily produced but I think they could show off their vocals even more honestly.
@@thedrunkenelf i mean… those are the newest groups you could’ve pointed out. this song definitely works as the blueprint for a lot of 3rd gen girl group hits and earlier 4th gen groups
I'll be honest, the fact that this song isn't actually sexy at all is what makes it work for me. The wordplay and punchlines go with a big, bombastic background really well. It's basically "Sexy and I Know It" only from the woman's prospective, less focused on body image and more on attitude, and actually good because it doesn't sound like garbage and has punchlines that are actually halfway clever.
It's from the perspective of a home-wrecker and it celebrates sluttiness. There is nothing empowering for women at all -- the lyrics are basically saying "ditch your girlfriend because she won't do the crazy sex shit that I'm willing to do for you because I'm totally morally unrestrained". And a sexy song is allowed to sound sexy and still be from a woman's perspective (see: Venus by Shocking Blue). This song is obviously a copy, both in lyric and in melody, of Lady Marmelade. Whereas Lady Marmelade was discreet in its sexual references (seeing how it's an old song that was even performed on the freaking Beethoven movie, it's a given) and told a tale about one woman in particular who was a Creole prostitute, this song makes no pretense of shamelessness and it sounds like the singers are boasting about their ratchet hoe mentality. While the song's probably empowering to other ratchet hoes and nymphomaniacs out there, we would be living in a sad world indeed if all straight men would ditch hard-working, pretty or friendly girls in favor of hookers with a bad attitude and a drug problem. As for the punchlines -- where are they? There is no cleverness in this, it's faux-cleverness, like when a bad rapper tries to be hip with references but also can't be arsed to find anything to rhyme with "Link" so he pretends that Zelda's the protagonist of LoZ. This is Chris Brown's idea of cleverness.
Honestly same. On Just Dance some of the lines are censored and when I heard that I was like,,, what? Like, the lyrics are sexual, yeah, but the song just doesn't give off that sexual of a vibe.
She had 1 Top 10 hit before "Bang Bang," it was "Domino" which peaked at #6 in 2012. "Price Tag" sat in the Top 30 for a few weeks. The rest of her hits haven't been able to get into the Top 40.
Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson I’m probably the wrong person to say something but I don’t recall Jessie J having more than one or two hits. Domino I definitely remember but nothing else from her until Bang Bang.
Exactly. "Kitten so good, it's drippin on wood Come and take a ride in The Little Engine That Could" also "If we bangin, he's slangin Grab the mic cause I'm sangin" Double entendres up the wazoo...and about her wazoo!
"Nicki doesn't say a single sexual thing in this verse" had me thinking along the lines of umm... What about the very explicit "ride his cock like a Harley, then pull off in his Ferrari." line, Mr. Todd in the Shadows???
So, quick summary; 2014, year of Arianna 2015, year of Taylor 2016, year of Rihanna Do I need to start like a Chinese calendar thing here? Who did 2013 belong to? Also 2011 was probably Adele
I actually liked it for what it was, and fun dance beat with 3 women talking about being sexy in 3 different ways. Like, not all women are the same. It doesn't have much more of a message than that, but for what it is, it's fun.
no one of them is always belting, the other can belt but also just sings i don't LIKE katy perry but no. is it even belting? i feel like jessie j's just yelling at me
@@Ocelot80524 jessie j is like objectively one of the best singers nowadays i think, supposedly she does a lot of shit with her voice that's extremely difficult to do However, I actually like Katy and I do find her voice more pleasant to listen to usually but Jessie J is more talented
@@blank8518 I mean, you don't constantly obsess over sex right? Just imagine the times where you aren't thinking about sex, and then the continuation of that feeling is asexuality. Being asexual doesn't necessarily mean you don't partake in some sexual activity either, strictly speaking.
@@blank8518 It's pretty normal actually. We just don't look at people and think "wow, I'd have sex with him/her." I do, however, have a sex drive, as asexuality just means we don't experience sexual attraction.
I really like the vocals in this song. I like powerful voices. Then again, I'm a big fan of heavy metal and small portions of dubstep, so I guess you could say I like noise. You seem to have more of a refined taste, and I respect that.
Check out Beth Hart who is a mix of Bille Holiday, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne. She is also a good writer. She is more famous outside the U.S. For instance, her album Better Than Home was #25 in world sales the week of its release while not even cracking the top 60 in the U.S.
At the time this review came out, Todd's commentary on Demi Lovato was pretty accurate, although I personally liked her. Her latest album is fantastic though, so I wonder if he has changed his mind.
+girlysword She might have been a bit uninteresting back then but you can't deny her vocals on, say, Heart Attack for example. She was/is every bit as good a singer as Ariana Grande, if not slightly better
In retrospective this review is even more hilarious by how Todd complains about Ariana not being a bad girl and 5 years later she made 7 Rings which is a song when she is literally screaming "I'M A BAD BITCH Y'ALL I'M SAVAGE AS HELL, I'M NOT A NICKELODEON GIRL ANYMORE AND I DON'T NEED NOTHING MORE THAN MONEY"
Woah Woah Jessie J has a way better voice than Katy Perry, I dont know what songs of hers you've heard but when i first heard her on live, That vouce was undeniably better.
"Kitten so good It's dripping on wood Get a ride in the engine that could go" I love how Todd is like I can't understand what this verse is about but its deffffinitley not sex
For those of you who don't know, the character Grande played on Victorious was the "dumb girl" character. These days, I can't help but think that she is not as different from Cat Valentine as some people think. I'll leave it at that.
*Too Many Cooks joke plays* It's still funny just over a month from then. :D "Butts will never stop" Lol and apparently no they won't, I'd say more to Sir Mix-a-Lot though, (but that was a novelty song that was ridiculously fun). Stuff like Anaconda or "All About that Bass" support butts BUT those songs are annoying, especially the 2nd.
Thank god I'm not the only one that feels that Arianna sings like she's forcing herself. Her singing, especially her high notes, just doesn't sound effortless, even though that's what everyone praises her for.
I love the concept of this song both lyrically and musically (lyrically as in "let's just be loud and call it a song") I think the vocal melodies are pretty good but I think the production is a little too aired out. Like there need to be something more going on, maybe some brass section stuff? I don't know, the bassline is so simple it feels like nothing's going on at points. The real problem for me is something about the vocals. I swear there's autotune or something, if there isn't, then something about Jessie J's voice specifically sounds really weird. Maybe she's just too nasally or something. The song demonstrates that she's a good singer, but doesn't demonstrate that she's a *great* singer. Same with Ariana, a bit too nasally.
I know this is an old comment, but she is just not well known here in America. Like...if someone actually knows who she is, they probably haven't listened to her music.
I think Jessie J is a very talented singer. She has a huge vocal range and can really belt it out. However, I think she'd be better suited to a different genre. Put her with a rock or jazz band and she could do something amazing. But instead she seems to want to be a pop star, so she does the same pop songs written by the same pop artists, that's why she may appear to have no personality. It's not her, it's the teams or writers and producers that make her sound like everybody else. I've heard recordings of her just singing, no auto tune, no effects, just her singing into her webcam and it sounds ten times better than anything she's ever released.
Jessie J is an outstanding vocalist, but a pretentious artist. She's as fake as what she preached everyone else to be ever since Price Tag. I think she has given up on a pop career, now. Her latest album series is more soul than pop. Plus, she just won the Singer 2018 competition in China. Big bucks for her over there.
I disagree that Jessie J isn't sexy, but she is not an interesting artist in the slightest. She so desperately wants to be Katy Perry. Ariana is cute and has great vocals and Nicki is....Nicki. I guess I like the song because of the hook and the idea that the 3 most random artists in the entire world got together and did a song. Seriously. Never would have expected these three to collaborate.
Hardly random. They're all very well known and industry figure heads. It hardly Drake featuring They Might Be Giants and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
AHHH I love Jessie J. She is so heartfelt and sweet. Her song "Who You Are" and "Big White Room" melt me. Don't count her out just yet. Plus she has an amazing range and control of her voice. She can blow away a crowd like Whitney Houston if she wants.
It says a lot about the industry that the videos for Blurred Lines and Bang Bang, both songs about having sex but from male and female perspective respectively, both sexualise women.
If there's any pop song this reminds me of, it's Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man", which is a song I actually really like. There's subtle differences that makes that song while breaking this one, imo.
sometimes I don’t know why I watch these videos other than pure boredom and a new playlist, and then Todd drops a reference to MC Chris, AND plays a clip, and I’m cursing my former self for being a doubter. Bubblegum and taffy. Ha. Just ha. You’re the best, Todd.
I think I finally figured out why so many european big acts don't make it in US. US needs their acts to be neatly categorised, Europe likes their acts to strech out.
It's so nice to hear another person mention her tone being kinda..... not the best. Arianators are scarier to me than K-Poppies and no one seems to understand why I don't like her singing voice when she's so skilled? Like,,,,, THE TONE.
Just want to point out they follow up "i know you want it" with "I'll let you have it", so at least unlike blurred lines there is a direct implication of consent.
I used to enjoy this when I went to on walks because the beat made me want to strut around. But it's over-produced with bad vocals and bad singing. It's just a guilty pleasure for me.
Too many cooks? Too many cooks! But seriously, Jessie J is the one who wrote a ton of songs for most of the major female singers you cover. Miley Cyrus's first song after being Hannah Montana was one of hers.
"This is the part when I break fwee"
I will never not hear that.
+Shane Litton Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh...
Or "Gang Bang......"
Elmer will never be the same again
"Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting rabbits."
i watched something with clips of her character in victorious OH MY JEEBUS it's worth looking for. they made her character so derpa derp. the voice she uses alone is so over the top lmfao.
nicki: KITTEN SO GOOD IT'S DRIPPIN ON WOOD
todd: nicki doesn't even talk about sex on this song!!
I mean, he did say she was hard to understand.
Todd is too sweet to understand the metaphors
she's always got it in there, i'm dying
nicki's the only reason i like this song, she's the only one who fits all around. did her and ariana feel bad for jessie j or what because the 2 of them could've made this an actual good song. nicki alone, but ariana can hang with that. i want to like jessie j so bad and i can't, go away
iF We haNGiNg we bAngInG
He also said that she is good in this song be wise she is better when you can't understand what she says.
Yeah, they're trying to sell their sexiness which makes Nicki's intro so hilarious. She literally comes in with "you know what girls, let me show you how to do it." Like she was watching from the corner and thought someone had to do something
Nicki's rap sounded like she was having a manic moment the whole time. It was more worrying than anything.
"Have you graduated.....FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL?!" That made me laugh harder than it should
"Imagine if Ralph Wiggum was hot."
- Todd in the Shadows, July 25, 2015
Declan Corey that date is not right
@@jessenathan9346r/woooosh
Imagine?
@@HenryMcCraken4 this video is a reupload you nugget
@@evelyn509 chicken or kindergarten video game version?
This song SOUNDS like a girls sleepover.
As a girl who's had sleepovers before I can confirm
It’s definitely a pillow fight song
Honestly I kinda like it like that
YESSSSS this is why it WORKS
A sleepover of an ex-Nickelodeon starlet who licked doughnuts before she could say she hated a country (Ariana Grande), a woman with about a quarter-hundred alter egos (Nicki Minaj) and a woman who deserved better than Bang Bang and Ice Age 5 (Jessie J.).
I've said this forever about Ariana. she can sing her ass off, but her music doesn't show those skills off. when she's goofing off on SNL or the tonight show she's amazing. oddly enough, her albums, with music written for her and selected for her does her no favors. she has "moments" in almost every song, but otherwise it sounds like she was playing "chubby bunny" and forgot to spit out the marshmallows.
What a cringe comment
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 says the guy replying SEVEN YEARS LATER😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seeing Arianna on Victorious, I NEVER would have imagined her becoming THIS insanely big.
I kinda did. She definitely had a great singing voice. Same with Liz. She was just massively overshadowed in the show by Victoria. Funny enough that she's the one who is completely irrelevant right now.
Or obnoxious
@@r4venduskNot really
I feel like this song has become the blueprint for the soundscape of many 3rd/4th gen K-pop girl groups: loud, hard-hitting and very, very self-impressed.
Really? Maybe for some but I think IVE, New Jeans and Le Sserafim aren’t similar to this at all. Kepler is quite loud/heavily produced but I think they could show off their vocals even more honestly.
@@thedrunkenelf i mean… those are the newest groups you could’ve pointed out. this song definitely works as the blueprint for a lot of 3rd gen girl group hits and earlier 4th gen groups
Yeah, this was the Patient Zero of girl crush
@@xrrgr Can you give examples of which groups? The only girl group I can think of that even remotely resembles this style is BlackPink.
"I'm pretty sure Jessie J's species reproduces by laying eggs in their host's digestive system"
DED
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I'll be honest, the fact that this song isn't actually sexy at all is what makes it work for me. The wordplay and punchlines go with a big, bombastic background really well. It's basically "Sexy and I Know It" only from the woman's prospective, less focused on body image and more on attitude, and actually good because it doesn't sound like garbage and has punchlines that are actually halfway clever.
It's from the perspective of a home-wrecker and it celebrates sluttiness. There is nothing empowering for women at all -- the lyrics are basically saying "ditch your girlfriend because she won't do the crazy sex shit that I'm willing to do for you because I'm totally morally unrestrained".
And a sexy song is allowed to sound sexy and still be from a woman's perspective (see: Venus by Shocking Blue).
This song is obviously a copy, both in lyric and in melody, of Lady Marmelade. Whereas Lady Marmelade was discreet in its sexual references (seeing how it's an old song that was even performed on the freaking Beethoven movie, it's a given) and told a tale about one woman in particular who was a Creole prostitute, this song makes no pretense of shamelessness and it sounds like the singers are boasting about their ratchet hoe mentality.
While the song's probably empowering to other ratchet hoes and nymphomaniacs out there, we would be living in a sad world indeed if all straight men would ditch hard-working, pretty or friendly girls in favor of hookers with a bad attitude and a drug problem.
As for the punchlines -- where are they? There is no cleverness in this, it's faux-cleverness, like when a bad rapper tries to be hip with references but also can't be arsed to find anything to rhyme with "Link" so he pretends that Zelda's the protagonist of LoZ. This is Chris Brown's idea of cleverness.
I am so here for this comment! I didn't even know I felt this about the song. @Viddaric
Hey, runnin through these hoes like draino is timeless.
@@TheNickleChick That wasn't even from Sexy and I Know It! That was from Party Rock Anthem!
Honestly same. On Just Dance some of the lines are censored and when I heard that I was like,,, what? Like, the lyrics are sexual, yeah, but the song just doesn't give off that sexual of a vibe.
Was Jessie J not big in America? She was pretty well known in Australia even before Bang Bang. I remember Domino was everywhere
Her hits have skirted the bottom of the top 40 and are usually used for commercials
+CommanderFreddy they were pretty big in the uk
She had 1 Top 10 hit before "Bang Bang," it was "Domino" which peaked at #6 in 2012. "Price Tag" sat in the Top 30 for a few weeks. The rest of her hits haven't been able to get into the Top 40.
Friedrich Sarah E. Thompson I’m probably the wrong person to say something but I don’t recall Jessie J having more than one or two hits. Domino I definitely remember but nothing else from her until Bang Bang.
Nope.
Jessie J lays eggs in their host's digestive system? Where do you come up with this hilarious stuff?!
That one had me rolling,had to pause the video for a sec lol
ToasterRabbit :D
Holy shit, I've seen this review multiple times, how the hell did I miss that?? XD
he didn't make it up. Todd is currently pregnant with Jpoles.
If Jessie J laid eggs in my digestive system I would be so turned on
*Todd:* It doesn't help that Jessie J's songs are consistently awful
*Every PE teacher who uses Jessie J songs for the warm-up part of the lesson:*
"we can do this all night" hmmmm
I get the feeling he didn't look up the lyrics to Nicki's verse, because there are a lot of sexual references.
But you need to look at lyrics sheet to understand what she is saying.
+Slender Cat I think he meant the rapping itself, not the lyrics.
And reading isn't sexy. No one ever put down Herman Melvile and said I'm down to fuck
Exactly.
"Kitten so good, it's drippin on wood
Come and take a ride in The Little Engine That Could"
also
"If we bangin, he's slangin
Grab the mic cause I'm sangin"
Double entendres up the wazoo...and about her wazoo!
"Nicki doesn't say a single sexual thing in this verse" had me thinking along the lines of umm... What about the very explicit "ride his cock like a Harley, then pull off in his Ferrari." line, Mr. Todd in the Shadows???
So, quick summary;
2014, year of Arianna
2015, year of Taylor
2016, year of Rihanna
Do I need to start like a Chinese calendar thing here? Who did 2013 belong to? Also 2011 was probably Adele
2009 was definitely the year of Beyonce, I'd say 2010 was the year of Kesha or Katy Perry
Dalejr88rox 2010 was Katy's definitely not Kesha
I keep forgetting Kesha debuted in 2009, not 2010. You're definitely right
Not sure if you're just counting women, but based on the number of hits, I'll say:
2016: Beiber
2015: The Weeknd
2014: Ariana
Rihanna has had a big presence in every year since 2006. It's kind of crazy how overexposed she is.
Hey Todd.......the "Too Many Cooks" joke is still funny almost a year later XD
I laughed hard at that one.
What about now
hi names lael yep still makes me chuckle
Still funny
honestly, it's still funny three years later.
I actually liked it for what it was, and fun dance beat with 3 women talking about being sexy in 3 different ways. Like, not all women are the same. It doesn't have much more of a message than that, but for what it is, it's fun.
I mean, Jessie J has an infinitely better voice than Katy.
Luccas yea but katy has enough songwriters and producers behind her to negate that advantage
You take that back
no
one of them is always belting, the other can belt but also just sings
i don't LIKE katy perry but no.
is it even belting? i feel like jessie j's just yelling at me
@@Ocelot80524 jessie j is like objectively one of the best singers nowadays i think, supposedly she does a lot of shit with her voice that's extremely difficult to do
However, I actually like Katy and I do find her voice more pleasant to listen to usually but Jessie J is more talented
And Nicki and even Ariana
Speaking as an actual asexual person, yeah, I'm not convinced that Ariana Grande or Jessie J know what they're talking about either.
Jane Dough what is it like being asexual I’m not trying to be rude I’m just curious
@@blank8518 I mean, you don't constantly obsess over sex right? Just imagine the times where you aren't thinking about sex, and then the continuation of that feeling is asexuality.
Being asexual doesn't necessarily mean you don't partake in some sexual activity either, strictly speaking.
@@joshrawlins9085 I am not asexual, but that description is amazing, dude.
In my case I don’t give two fucks about sex
@@blank8518 It's pretty normal actually. We just don't look at people and think "wow, I'd have sex with him/her." I do, however, have a sex drive, as asexuality just means we don't experience sexual attraction.
I really like the vocals in this song. I like powerful voices. Then again, I'm a big fan of heavy metal and small portions of dubstep, so I guess you could say I like noise. You seem to have more of a refined taste, and I respect that.
eating raw faces is my least favorite thing to do. That's what I'm saying. His opinion on this song is different from mine.
Check out Beth Hart who is a mix of Bille Holiday, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne. She is also a good writer. She is more famous outside the U.S. For instance, her album Better Than Home was #25 in world sales the week of its release while not even cracking the top 60 in the U.S.
Jessie James and meowth
Team Rocket blast off with the speed of light!
SURRENDER NOW OR PREPARE TO FIGHT!~
You mean Smarf, right?
Jessie Rocket as Jessie J.
Nicki Minaj as James Rocket
Ariana Grande as Meowth
Todd in 2014: "There is nothing interesting about Demi Lovato"
Todd in 2015: *names a Demi Lovato song as the second best song of the year*
Watching this now with Todd talking about how Ariana can’t sing about sex kills me now because of the irony 💀
"Dis iis da pawt win eye bwake fweeee!!" I cannot unhear this. 3:19
At the time this review came out, Todd's commentary on Demi Lovato was pretty accurate, although I personally liked her. Her latest album is fantastic though, so I wonder if he has changed his mind.
+girlysword His answer in his Top 10 Best Hits Songs of 2016.
Spoiler : A total change of heart.
+girlysword She might have been a bit uninteresting back then but you can't deny her vocals on, say, Heart Attack for example. She was/is every bit as good a singer as Ariana Grande, if not slightly better
Other then cool for the summer the album was pretty shit.
She's back to boring though.
And then she OD'd XD
In retrospective this review is even more hilarious by how Todd complains about Ariana not being a bad girl and 5 years later she made 7 Rings which is a song when she is literally screaming "I'M A BAD BITCH Y'ALL I'M SAVAGE AS HELL, I'M NOT A NICKELODEON GIRL ANYMORE AND I DON'T NEED NOTHING MORE THAN MONEY"
Woah Woah Jessie J has a way better voice than Katy Perry, I dont know what songs of hers you've heard but when i first heard her on live, That vouce was undeniably better.
He cares about singles and image (aka pop), not vocals.
This is still true.
Why didn’t Jessie J keep in pop.
@@doubleh333lix because she sucks
"Kitten so good
It's dripping on wood
Get a ride in the engine that could go"
I love how Todd is like I can't understand what this verse is about but its deffffinitley not sex
For those of you who don't know, the character Grande played on Victorious was the "dumb girl" character. These days, I can't help but think that she is not as different from Cat Valentine as some people think. I'll leave it at that.
Knight Wing Don’t you mean the hot Ralph Wiggum character?
cat was the SWEET kind of ditz
ariana comes off as far more arrogant and pretentious
less rose nylund and more ted baxter
Here in 2021 and the Too Many Cooks joke still works. Made me chuckle.
for the record, i laughed out loud at the too many cooks joke 4 and a half years later
"Too many cooks" still killed me in 2019 lmao
Even Ariana doesn’t enjoy the way she sang in the My Everything era
Honestly, I like Nicki. Yeah, her music has her ups and downs, but her music's pretty good for the most part. Also, she slayed her role on SU ;0
*Too Many Cooks joke plays* It's still funny just over a month from then. :D
"Butts will never stop" Lol and apparently no they won't, I'd say more to Sir Mix-a-Lot though, (but that was a novelty song that was ridiculously fun). Stuff like Anaconda or "All About that Bass" support butts BUT those songs are annoying, especially the 2nd.
+Heavenlyhounds96
Two months later, still funny!
+Geahk Burchill And another two months later from that.
Another 2!!!!
Thank god I'm not the only one that feels that Arianna sings like she's forcing herself. Her singing, especially her high notes, just doesn't sound effortless, even though that's what everyone praises her for.
No more annoyingly long names yeah you know absolutely nothing about vocal science lmao.
It's 2018 and the Too Many Cooks joke was still funny (at least to me)
2019 and I still laughed.
I love the concept of this song both lyrically and musically (lyrically as in "let's just be loud and call it a song")
I think the vocal melodies are pretty good but I think the production is a little too aired out. Like there need to be something more going on, maybe some brass section stuff? I don't know, the bassline is so simple it feels like nothing's going on at points.
The real problem for me is something about the vocals. I swear there's autotune or something, if there isn't, then something about Jessie J's voice specifically sounds really weird. Maybe she's just too nasally or something. The song demonstrates that she's a good singer, but doesn't demonstrate that she's a *great* singer. Same with Ariana, a bit too nasally.
B-b-b-british viewer here and I actually love J-j-j-j-jessie J! Just one of those things that doesn't translate across the pond maybe?
Kat Tea Are you the celeb threads guy?
I know this is an old comment, but she is just not well known here in America. Like...if someone actually knows who she is, they probably haven't listened to her music.
Justin Y. a rare justin y comment that doesnt have any likes
@@ilexdiapason
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Hilariously when she appeared in the live version of grease, many people thought she was Pink. They had no idea who she was
"2014 was a banner year for Ariana Grande"
Oh, honey, as of 2019, you had no idea what was coming
right??? it's so funny hearing his initial thoughts on ariana knowing in hindsight she'd become like his favorite artist of 2018
@@faro8784 7 rings. Yeah, but at least she had more
I think Jessie J is a very talented singer. She has a huge vocal range and can really belt it out. However, I think she'd be better suited to a different genre. Put her with a rock or jazz band and she could do something amazing. But instead she seems to want to be a pop star, so she does the same pop songs written by the same pop artists, that's why she may appear to have no personality. It's not her, it's the teams or writers and producers that make her sound like everybody else. I've heard recordings of her just singing, no auto tune, no effects, just her singing into her webcam and it sounds ten times better than anything she's ever released.
Jessie J is an outstanding vocalist, but a pretentious artist. She's as fake as what she preached everyone else to be ever since Price Tag. I think she has given up on a pop career, now. Her latest album series is more soul than pop. Plus, she just won the Singer 2018 competition in China. Big bucks for her over there.
I wonder how he feels about the phrase "bang bang" now that Green Day has a kickass Punk song by that name with that in its chorus.
That song is sexier than this one.
Too Many Cooks is a timeless reference, good work.
Update from 2021, I still laughed at the Too Many Cooks joke
Thank you for providing lyrics on screen, I physically couldn’t tell what the heck Arianna was saying back there.
bang bang is an iconic celebration of female fun & collaboration of women just being happy & dancing together. its incredible & i stand by that lol
I disagree that Jessie J isn't sexy, but she is not an interesting artist in the slightest. She so desperately wants to be Katy Perry. Ariana is cute and has great vocals and Nicki is....Nicki.
I guess I like the song because of the hook and the idea that the 3 most random artists in the entire world got together and did a song. Seriously. Never would have expected these three to collaborate.
Hardly random. They're all very well known and industry figure heads. It hardly Drake featuring They Might Be Giants and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Jessie J wanted to be a successor to Natasha Bedingfield.
"One of these days.... BANG! Straight to the moon!" - Jackie Gleason
given how loud the song is, and Jessie J powerful, rock-esque vocals, maybe they should listened to "Fire Woman" by the Cult and built off that.
8:01 "Ariana Grande singing about her sexual prowess... it's just cute."
_laughs in "Positions", "pov", "34+35", "Side to Side"..._
All of those are straight outta 13 year old had her first kiss moments
AHHH I love Jessie J. She is so heartfelt and sweet. Her song "Who You Are" and "Big White Room" melt me. Don't count her out just yet. Plus she has an amazing range and control of her voice. She can blow away a crowd like Whitney Houston if she wants.
And now it’s a car commercial.
What’s that song with a line about cadillacs?
Bang Bang?
Great! Lear’s use it!”
"When did pop music turn into Six Degrees Of Ariana Grande?"
I died.
Here's my theory about who the girls are singing to/about. They are both trying to win a guy off Nikki.
Kicking himself now because Ariana Grande has two songs in his top three songs of 2018
Right 😂😂
It says a lot about the industry that the videos for Blurred Lines and Bang Bang, both songs about having sex but from male and female perspective respectively, both sexualise women.
It's almost 2020 and the too many cooks joke was still funny
I still love this song when I'm in the mood for it. It just blasts
If there's any pop song this reminds me of, it's Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man", which is a song I actually really like. There's subtle differences that makes that song while breaking this one, imo.
Over 2 years later, and the “Too Many Cooks” joke is still funny.
if Nicki was given the beat and they said to just run with it i honestly think she coulda done the whome song pretty well
It’s 4 years later and the Too Many Cooks song is still funny and still relevant.
"She's a very beautiful little girl"
Todd In the Shadows
It's funny how Jessie J is discount Katy Perry but she can sing circles around 90% of pop stars
I accidently thought this was Green Day but I'm still going to watch
I've heard the "too many cooks reference" 6 years after the video was published and still foubd it funny xD
sometimes I don’t know why I watch these videos other than pure boredom and a new playlist, and then Todd drops a reference to MC Chris, AND plays a clip, and I’m cursing my former self for being a doubter. Bubblegum and taffy. Ha. Just ha. You’re the best, Todd.
13 weeks in joke still funny
she kept slurring her words in hairspray as well, so annoying. and jessie j only really sounded good in grease live. and one song of hers, thunder
Link Larkin (Zac Efron) Omigod girl, who even slurs her own words like a stereotypical Nickelodeon girl?!
Sad thing is that there is an old song by Nancy Sinatra of the same name and it's really good.
yeah I felt the same. and look up 'bang bang' by kaleo its a cover of sinatra's.
we can add green day to that list now too.
Beth Hart made a semi-remake called Baby Shot Me Down where her lover metaphorically shot her down and then she literally shoots him down.
2019 and Too Many Cooks still made me cry-laugh. Well done.
Jason DeRulo's motto: Butts Will Never Stop.
I think I finally figured out why so many european big acts don't make it in US. US needs their acts to be neatly categorised, Europe likes their acts to strech out.
It's so nice to hear another person mention her tone being kinda..... not the best. Arianators are scarier to me than K-Poppies and no one seems to understand why I don't like her singing voice when she's so skilled? Like,,,,, THE TONE.
Just want to point out they follow up "i know you want it" with "I'll let you have it", so at least unlike blurred lines there is a direct implication of consent.
Okay so I'm binge-watching all of your videos, and the part with TOO MANY COOKS here had me in literal tears
I used to enjoy this when I went to on walks because the beat made me want to strut around. But it's over-produced with bad vocals and bad singing. It's just a guilty pleasure for me.
It's been about 6 years now, I can confirm the "Too Many Cooks" joke is still, in fact, funny
"I'm lost on my bike, wanna come drag me into the woods?" made me spit out my juice box
I like the cadence of "Wait! A minute let me take, you, there!" Not so keen on the rest of if, but I like that part.
8:55 four years later ariana would become a literal love goddess
Here at the end of 2020, the Too Many Cooks joke is still funny.
"The faster she goes, the better she is" - Todd in the Shadows
I'm a little surprised that the ending song wasn't Rammstein's "Feuer Frei".
BANG BANG! FEUER FREI!
Love Rammstein
I lost it when you started that too many cooks reference
Every time I hear this song, I can't help but think how much it needs an electric guitar on the hook.
i've spent the last week binging todd's catalogue and this one is a gem... elmer fudd had me in stitches!
18 months later. Too Many Cooks joke is miraculously still funny.
its still funny
Yes the tone of her voice...nailed it. I here this too much. Makes me recoil. Like nails on a chalk boared
1:39 makes sense actually. She was supposed to be a hot character bc Dan Schneider is a very creepy man 🥴
I remember liking Bang Bang at the time it came out because it was played a lot at mixers at my summer camp and it had a fun beat to dance to
i never thought that they were actually fighting each other in the song.. interesting outlook!
I almost died at the 'too many cooks' reference. Yes Todd, it will be funny until the end of time
Jessie J - she made Price Tag and shaved her hair. Oh and was a classmate of Adele when she went to a college. Look it up, I'm not lying.
The first time my dad heard this on the radio he couldn't stop saying "Cadillac booty" every chance he could.
Ha and Demi ended up being top end of his best songs in 2015 😄
Dude, Nicki's verse is crazy sexual.
Kitten so good it's drippin on wood.....?
haha little funny considering 2020 and WAP
Too many cooks? Too many cooks!
But seriously, Jessie J is the one who wrote a ton of songs for most of the major female singers you cover. Miley Cyrus's first song after being Hannah Montana was one of hers.
Dec. 26th 2021 here; too many cooks jokes are still funny when done well, and this is an example of that.