I think Teenage Dream has actually aged really, really well. Like, one of my favorite songs of the last decade unironiclaly. California Girls not so much.
Ironically though to date I don't see anyone caring about Teenage dream, in comparison to California Girls which I still see occasionally mentioned nowadays
California Gurls is a product of 2010 but yet for me it's a timewarp whenever I hear it. Like it takes me back to better days....Teenage Dream is pretty good aswell but honestly between the two I prefer California Gurls.
So weird watching this now. Neon Trees had a second hit in "Everybody Talks", B.o.B. is a flat-earth conspiracy theorist, Bruno Mars went from appearing on Todd's Best list to appearing in his Worst List and back again, and Drake has become increasingly boring.
Todd to *Neon Trees*: "Probably never see them again." *Two years later*, "Everybody Talks" peaks at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, higher than "Animal," which peaked at No. 15.
I looked up Everybody Talks because I could not remember what that song was. And when I actually heard it, I thought to myself, "Oh yeah, that one commercial song that played in 2012..."
I saw the title and thought "wow 2010 seems so long ago, but honestly not that long. I don't have to worry about feeling old just yet!" then Todd brought out the flip phone
+Cahillicus I thought he was going to either be big or at least good. Seriously, how many other rappers do you know who can make songs like Magic AND run with Tech N9ne? Then he started talking about how the Earth was flat and... kind of lost his spark.
It’s weird listening to these best of and worst of lists from 2009 up until last year’s and hearing the songs slowly get more depressing with more minor key songs than major key songs. It’s also interesting seeing how his opinions gradually changing on different artists throughout the years.
It's another situation where the awful things a person did doesn't mean they never did anything good. I call it the Chris Benoit effect. It's not about forgetting the good as punishment for the bad, or forgetting the bad and just trying to focus on the positive. Its about taking the fullness of the person into account. There was a book called Speaker for the Dead, it was a sequel to Ender's Game. In it, the title character does exactly this: give eulogies for people that encompass and distill their whole life down to its essence, good AND bad. This is what we should all strive to do. People are just that: people.
Astrithor I mean yeah Chris Benoit was a fantastic wrestler and probably one of the smartest in that field, but his murder until he is proven guilty or not (most likely guilty) will always haunt his legacy
@@Astrithor Interestingly enough, the author of those books (Orson Scott Card) falls into that same category. He wrote some great science fiction and contributed to the art but HOO BOY is he an unrepentant homophobe.
Things in this video that aged like milk over the past 8 years: Being excited to be part of Channel Awesome Todd thinking that people were "too offended" for Fuck You to be a hit People liking B.o.B Kanye and Drake working together Todd disliking NY "I know [Neon Trees are] not ever gonna have another hit." praising Dr. Luke and complaining about Kesha Taylor Swift's "giggly adolescence"
I think being ashamed to like pop music is pretty dated too. In the late 00s/early 10s there was this attitude that you're a vapid, shitty normie if you like pop but that kind of thinking has largely been ridiculed and gone away, somewhat but not exclusively because pop music has gotten more serious.
Being ashamed to like Katy Perry's music not only because it's pop but because he doesn't like Katy Perry as a person, also complimenting Dr Luke, I mean it's definitely one of his best produced songs but especially in tangent with insulting Katy Perry it's like he's giving all the credit for the song being good to Dr Luke and that's just not fair.
Todd expressing a bit of shame for unapologetically thinking Rihanna is hot is hilarious to me. She’s Rihanna. Everything about her is sexy. There’s no need to apologize for stating the obvious.
When Todd was talking about the Bruno Mars song and paused I honestly didn't know what joke he was going to use. When he looked up with that excited expression I laughed and said "oh no. He's gonna try to use those lines on Lupa." Haha it's amazing how much expression you can get from only a silhouetted figure
It's funny how in his newer reviews he always talks like Bruno Mars had always been terrible until his retro funk revival phase, but even back then he was praising Bruno.
it’s funny how he says that showing his top ten list of pop songs is embarrassing but tbh that’s why i find his criticisms interesting. anyone can just write off pop music as crap and shit on mainstream music but i hate those kinds of critcs. i like todd bc i know his criticisms come from a love of pop music and music in general. imagine a stereotypical jock frat douche made a channel critiquing scifi movies. no one wants to watch that bc his criticisms don’t come from research or passion, he’s just making fun of something he doesn’t really understand. anyway end of rant.
I just get flashbacks to four year old me riding in my mom’s car, playing on my Kindle, innocently interpreting the lyrics to these pop songs. Good times…
I still keep coming back to Todd's super-serious analysis to "DJ Got Us Falling in Love." And the song itself is a nostalga rush of my senior year of school. GEZUS THOSE WERE SOME TIMES.
Todd, you hit the nail on the head here. In the era of burgeoning bro-country, teen country starlets and tracks about dancing, we needed a real country song about what country was supposed to be about in the first place: PAIN. REGRET. LONELINESS. HURT. So I'm so happy to see Lady Antebellum top your list. This song never fails to make me cry. It's so bitter, pained, and the way the smooth female alto blends so seamlessly with that raw, jagged tenor never fails to make the tears well up. Plus. that three-note piano motif at the beginning sets up the melancholic melody perfectly.
Absolutely! 100% my thoughts as well! I've also been listening to a lot of Johnny Cash - Hurt (and yes before anyone points it out, I'm well aware it's a cover, I just prefer the Cash version) But because of how it's made, it just stranslates so damn well into a country song.
Yeah, I agree that "Need you Now"' is a great song, especially if you ever had an former lover call you late at night and ask you to come over right now.
This one is very interesting to revisit now that Todd has written a love letter to Katy Perry in his Trainwreckords for Witness, and in it, said "can you imagine being embarrassed of liking Teenage Dream?" in reference to this video
This video is such an amazing time capsule... And the comment section shows that clearly I'm not the only one who thinks about it since it's all everyone comments. B.o.B., Lupa, Doc Luke, the Katy hate, TGWTG/Channel Awesome, the CRT Monitor on the corner, THE FKN FLIP PHONE, country being "cute boys and girls" and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
That awkward moment when he mentions Dr. Luke during the Teenage Dream section and I'm like "Hey, I know that name! Not for the reason Dr. Luke would want me to (#FreedomForKesha) but at least I recognize his name. No publicity is bad publicity?"
watching this in 2021 I have a major sense of nostalgia. that was at the peak of my outgoing time. I went to clubs several times am month and heard all these songs. including several trips to vegas. I had a lot of fun that year and the next.
This music brings back my college days. I would go into McDonald's pull out my books to study and these songs would be playing over the radio. Better days.
You know I've watched Todd for years and often just binge watch his videos trying to find an episode I barely remember which is difficult and for some reason this video just doesn't ring any bells. I've watched all the other yearly best and worst videos so many times including 2010's worst and yet I think I may have avoided this video all this time, I'm amazed.
10.B.o.B - Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo) 9.Drake - Find Your Love 8.Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind 7.Rihanna - Rude Boy 6.Neon Trees - Animal 5.Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 4.Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love ft. Pitbull 3.B.o.B - Nothin' On You 2.Katy Perry - California Gurls ft. Snoop Dogg 1.Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Man, I forgot that B.o.B. was actually a fun, enjoyable rapper. The conspiracy BS completely overshadowed it. And yeah, California Gurls is a banger, I'll admit it. Although I mostly like it because Neil Cicierega sampled it so brilliantly.
"New Yorker's are kinda up their own asses about being from New York." Clearly you have not dealt with many Texans. As someone born and raised in Texas, I would definitely say that no one takes as much ridiculously pointless pride in where they are from than Texans. They are very proud of their slang, country music, grease-coated cuisine, non-ranchers who pretend to be ranchers (My mom refers to them as Coca-Cola Cowboys), and otherwise being really convinced that they are somehow the best damn people in the USA. And as a native, I will never understand.
+Carl Cruton no problem. :) I don't just live in Texas: I live in a small town in Texas. The majority of the inhabitants of this town with only two restaurants open at night don't even have two brain cells to rub together.
+GreaterSeraph I recently moved to a small town in texas too because my parents sold the house we grew up in. It's been a rough adjustment. I miss my cold illinois weather.
+GreaterSeraph Really, I've never found many that were that obnoxious. Though I do live in Houston, not a small town so I guess it's not as concentrated. Really, you get those kinds of overly proud people no matter which state or even certain countries. Hell, my cousins in Indiana find it so damn enchanting, I sometimes wish I lived ther myself. Probably wouldn't be as humid for one thing!
I'd never expect for Todd to pick "Need You Now" as the #1 song on this list, but I believe it; it just was such a massive crossover smash that won countless awards (CMA Single of the Year, Song and Record of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards), and spent 5 weeks at #1 at country radio, as well as #2 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Top 40 and AC charts. I actually prefer the pop version, as the production and instrumentation are a lot better, as well as a stronger and more emotional guitar solo after the second chorus.
Welcome to a strange world, where Drake was a new and interesting thing, country music still had women in it, Todd didn’t yet hate pre-Uptown Funk Bruno Mars, Dr. Luke was still considered respectable and this show had subplots. Man, how time flies.
My opinion of the song "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry: I enjoy the production (the saving grace of Katy's 2008 album) and the vocals, but I've never been a fan of the whole "girl kissing another girl and liking it" part of the song. But it's at least interesting, something that Girl Crush by Little Big Town will never have. Edit: The song's grown on me and I can see both sides on whether folks like the song or not and why. I don't mind the lyrics in the song any more.
@@megamage911 I'll admit I've grown to liking this song more and, when it comes to the lyrics, Katy's done worse? Katy, why are you telling a guy to hang himself on Ur So Gay? No...just no...
Revisiting this in an attempt to recall the lighthearted exuberance of my college years, was instead slapped in the face by how b.o.b. used to be an alright dude but I now live here in the future.
Going back through these always hits some nostalgia for me, and this video especially awakens some memories of my favorite songs from back in the day. Some of the takes have not aged well, but the music is still interesting.
Being happy about joining TGWTG, praising Dr. Luke, putting two B.o.B. songs on the list... Nearly a decade after the fact, Todd probably looks back on this video in disgust.
Of all the things that stuck out to me about watching this video, it was me really savoring the hindsight of knowing that Neon Trees did, in fact, get a second hit. And you know what? It was just as good as that one! The world may have occasionally been shit in the 2010s, but on some occasions it was also surprisingly benevolent.
I fricking love how chill this video is. Some of the songs here I remember and love, too. Also, this oddly feels like a newer list, because of the no.1 pick and Todd's known undying appreciation towards country music about miserable drinking. And the chill tone. Which is interesting
The fact that this is the first time I've seen his 2010 list and it's the only best of song list where I actually like every song he lists just shocks me.
It's interesting to see how Todd's changed over the years. One change I like a lot is that he's come to respect pop as a genre more (a move which reflects the general surge of "poptimism" among music critics during the 2010s). This older video is still entertaining, but the total distaste for pop doesn't feel great, and I much prefer the more recent Todd, who can unabashedly praise well-made pop music without any kind of apology or backhanded compliment.
It's fun seeing Todd reviewing Katy Perry, it's like he's reviewing his on-and-off girlfriend
*Astrid Parungao* No wonder he likes Hot n Cold
He just let that bitch back in his life
Astrid Parungao he wishes she was his on and off
A TitS review of Lindsay Ellis sounds like it would be a delightfully entertaining trainwreck
He’s is such delightful agony!!
Man, take a drink every time Todd mentions a person or organization that we later learned was absolutely monstrous.
Bro 😂
add Jay-Z i guess
remember when people were excited about joining Channel Awesome?
*sob*
Zoinks Scoob
And finding out all the rumors
I never knew Todd was part of that shit site. Glad I didn't, too, it would have pushed me away
Having a cameo from LordKat also didn't help this video age well.
I think Teenage Dream has actually aged really, really well. Like, one of my favorite songs of the last decade unironiclaly. California Girls not so much.
Ironically though to date I don't see anyone caring about Teenage dream, in comparison to California Girls which I still see occasionally mentioned nowadays
It really has. Last Friday Night too. The latter may be my favorite #1 single of the 2010s
California Gurls is a product of 2010 but yet for me it's a timewarp whenever I hear it. Like it takes me back to better days....Teenage Dream is pretty good aswell but honestly between the two I prefer California Gurls.
@@burnstjamp Both are Classic Hits of Early 10s
I'm the opposite, teenage dream sounds boring to me, california girls is such a fricken jam
So weird watching this now. Neon Trees had a second hit in "Everybody Talks", B.o.B. is a flat-earth conspiracy theorist, Bruno Mars went from appearing on Todd's Best list to appearing in his Worst List and back again, and Drake has become increasingly boring.
Yup.
Agreed on all counts except for Drake. I've always thought he was boring.
Todd shits all over people who live in New York in this video. Now he lives there.
mattigus So he can relate to Empire State of Mind more than ever.
Christie Beck don't forget about the shit that went down with dr.luke and kesha
WAIT TODD DID IT. Correct prediction that Teenage Dream continued to endure years later as one of the best songs of the decade. Love it.
It's weird watching a video praising Dr. Luke and complaining about Kesha.
And him saying he is thrilled by being part of TGWTG
No one knew stuff back then
Oooooh, yeah...he did do that, didnt he? ...ouch.
Demented MK r/agedlikemilk
Dude, shut up.
UNCOMFORTABLE REVELATIONS ABOUT DR LUKE AND CHANNEL AWESOME INTENSIFY
Holy. Fuckig. Shit.
It was a simpler time back then lmao
@@progrockdude2691 it all feels so long ago..
Almost ten years later, Teenage Dream is still THAT song. Just pop perfection.
My dad hates most things he calls “pop fluff” and even he likes Teenage Dream.
Todd to *Neon Trees*: "Probably never see them again."
*Two years later*, "Everybody Talks" peaks at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, higher than "Animal," which peaked at No. 15.
Todd-stradamus strikes again.
+kcdawg13 Someone should make a compilation of all the wrong predictions that Todd in the Shadows has made about musical artists.
Wasn't there that "Sleeping with a friend" song from a couple years ago? Not sure if it was a huge hit, but I definitely heard it on the radio.
It got some airplay on Pop radio, but it only managed to reach #51 on the Billboard Hot 100.
I looked up Everybody Talks because I could not remember what that song was. And when I actually heard it, I thought to myself, "Oh yeah, that one commercial song that played in 2012..."
Oh God, BOB, what happened to you, man? You were so promising in 2010. Where'd the magic go?
+Adam Sherman off the edge of the world
God damn it.
You could say his career "Flatlined".
I'll show myself the door.
+jkingisbeast hehe
Oh well. At least we have Nothin' on You remixed with California Love in DJ Hero 2.
It shouldn't work! It shouldn't go together! But it does!
I saw the title and thought "wow 2010 seems so long ago, but honestly not that long. I don't have to worry about feeling old just yet!"
then Todd brought out the flip phone
To be fair 2016 was like 3 years long and every year after that just kept getting longer. 2020’s about 20 years so far and we’re only halfway through.
@@trucetruce335 can confirm, I’ve been in 2021 for about a week and I feel like I’ve aged 20 years
The 2020’s just feel like 2020 parts 1-3
Can confirm. We're now at part four @@jmurray1110
6 years later, and B.O.B. has gone insane.
+Cahillicus I thought he was going to either be big or at least good. Seriously, how many other rappers do you know who can make songs like Magic AND run with Tech N9ne? Then he started talking about how the Earth was flat and... kind of lost his spark.
That happened in 2012.
*****
"Money lawng."
- Tauheed Epps, I'm Different
Such a shame, his album during this time was actually really good.
Almost as much time has passed between now and this comment than 2010 and this comment being written.
6 years later he's still crazy
10 years later, I’m looking back at those club songs thinking about the refreshing lack of existential dread back in 2010.
We really didn't know how good we had it
It’s weird listening to these best of and worst of lists from 2009 up until last year’s and hearing the songs slowly get more depressing with more minor key songs than major key songs. It’s also interesting seeing how his opinions gradually changing on different artists throughout the years.
"Mega producer Dr. Luke"
Ooooh boy, does that sound different in 2018, especialyl after the "best of 2017" video
And the channel awesome part
It's another situation where the awful things a person did doesn't mean they never did anything good. I call it the Chris Benoit effect. It's not about forgetting the good as punishment for the bad, or forgetting the bad and just trying to focus on the positive. Its about taking the fullness of the person into account.
There was a book called Speaker for the Dead, it was a sequel to Ender's Game. In it, the title character does exactly this: give eulogies for people that encompass and distill their whole life down to its essence, good AND bad. This is what we should all strive to do. People are just that: people.
Astrithor I mean yeah Chris Benoit was a fantastic wrestler and probably one of the smartest in that field, but his murder until he is proven guilty or not (most likely guilty) will always haunt his legacy
@@Astrithor Interestingly enough, the author of those books (Orson Scott Card) falls into that same category. He wrote some great science fiction and contributed to the art but HOO BOY is he an unrepentant homophobe.
It's a good thing BOB has the Magic in him, because he sure doesn't have the science down.
PFFT
xDDDD
Oh no, what did he do?
Two words: conspiracy theorist
(Flat Earth, moon landing, 9/11, illuminati, etc.)
Of course you can't hate on "California Gurls"! It has Snoop Dogg commanding an army of gummy bears.
Snoop Dogg must be doing something right! I don't see myself commanding any bears!
Things in this video that aged like milk over the past 8 years:
Being excited to be part of Channel Awesome
Todd thinking that people were "too offended" for Fuck You to be a hit
People liking B.o.B
Kanye and Drake working together
Todd disliking NY
"I know [Neon Trees are] not ever gonna have another hit."
praising Dr. Luke and complaining about Kesha
Taylor Swift's "giggly adolescence"
I think being ashamed to like pop music is pretty dated too. In the late 00s/early 10s there was this attitude that you're a vapid, shitty normie if you like pop but that kind of thinking has largely been ridiculed and gone away, somewhat but not exclusively because pop music has gotten more serious.
Lady Antebellum's name.
@@kfcnyancat Not entirely, same with rap music. People think it sucks
Being ashamed to like Katy Perry's music not only because it's pop but because he doesn't like Katy Perry as a person, also complimenting Dr Luke, I mean it's definitely one of his best produced songs but especially in tangent with insulting Katy Perry it's like he's giving all the credit for the song being good to Dr Luke and that's just not fair.
@Dandyman (Splatoon 2 Hundered) #changethechannel happened
Todd expressing a bit of shame for unapologetically thinking Rihanna is hot is hilarious to me.
She’s Rihanna. Everything about her is sexy. There’s no need to apologize for stating the obvious.
todd putting this song at #7 makes me want a One Hit Wonderland on Propane Nightmares by Pendulum
she ain't gonna sleep with you bro
@@TheEvilCheesecake duh
@@TheEvilCheesecake No shit
I would be happy if i died and was reincarnated as her bicycle seat
oh god that's a flip phone
When Todd was talking about the Bruno Mars song and paused I honestly didn't know what joke he was going to use. When he looked up with that excited expression I laughed and said "oh no. He's gonna try to use those lines on Lupa." Haha it's amazing how much expression you can get from only a silhouetted figure
+Millie Sophia He's an astounding actor, even in silhouette. That monologue at the end makes me tear up.
It would be funny to see Phelous make a parody of Todd doing that given that Phelous and Lupa are dating and how deadpan Phelous would make it sound.
Nearly a decade later.... And yup. Teenage Dream is the only song on this list I still listen to. It truly stood the test of time.
I agree that country should be about misery. Jolene is one of my favorite songs ever, and I rarely listen to any country music.
This is such a time capsule of a video it's insane.
Absolutely
All of Todd’s videos are but that’s part of why they’re so great and rewatchable, it’s like a history of popular culture from 2009 onwards
It's funny how in his newer reviews he always talks like Bruno Mars had always been terrible until his retro funk revival phase, but even back then he was praising Bruno.
@Kid Poker bruno mars has always been a retro singer, he means before he started making pastiches of old genres.
it’s funny how he says that showing his top ten list of pop songs is embarrassing but tbh that’s why i find his criticisms interesting. anyone can just write off pop music as crap and shit on mainstream music but i hate those kinds of critcs. i like todd bc i know his criticisms come from a love of pop music and music in general. imagine a stereotypical jock frat douche made a channel critiquing scifi movies. no one wants to watch that bc his criticisms don’t come from research or passion, he’s just making fun of something he doesn’t really understand. anyway end of rant.
but pop music IS shit you dumbass
@@06hatter lol why are u watching a video about pop music then?
Todd is adorable in this one. I miss his fawning over Lupa.
I think they did all they could have done with that running gag.
what flap with Doug?
funkpunkandroll so is todd
Another chapter in the grimy history of that website
these songs were popular when I was in third and fourth grade, makes me really nostalgic.
Same here
...Fuck, I’m old. I’m Todd’s age.
I just get flashbacks to four year old me riding in my mom’s car, playing on my Kindle, innocently interpreting the lyrics to these pop songs. Good times…
Same bro
I was 15 and just started to become aware of music that was popular. Man how times have changed.
I still keep coming back to Todd's super-serious analysis to "DJ Got Us Falling in Love." And the song itself is a nostalga rush of my senior year of school. GEZUS THOSE WERE SOME TIMES.
I wish he still did that bit.
It sounds like a monologue from American psycho about a cheesy 80s song
Todd, you hit the nail on the head here. In the era of burgeoning bro-country, teen country starlets and tracks about dancing, we needed a real country song about what country was supposed to be about in the first place: PAIN. REGRET. LONELINESS. HURT. So I'm so happy to see Lady Antebellum top your list. This song never fails to make me cry. It's so bitter, pained, and the way the smooth female alto blends so seamlessly with that raw, jagged tenor never fails to make the tears well up. Plus. that three-note piano motif at the beginning sets up the melancholic melody perfectly.
Absolutely! 100% my thoughts as well! I've also been listening to a lot of Johnny Cash - Hurt (and yes before anyone points it out, I'm well aware it's a cover, I just prefer the Cash version) But because of how it's made, it just stranslates so damn well into a country song.
Yeah, I agree that "Need you Now"' is a great song, especially if you ever had an former lover call you late at night and ask you to come over right now.
This one is very interesting to revisit now that Todd has written a love letter to Katy Perry in his Trainwreckords for Witness, and in it, said "can you imagine being embarrassed of liking Teenage Dream?" in reference to this video
This video is such an amazing time capsule... And the comment section shows that clearly I'm not the only one who thinks about it since it's all everyone comments. B.o.B., Lupa, Doc Luke, the Katy hate, TGWTG/Channel Awesome, the CRT Monitor on the corner, THE FKN FLIP PHONE, country being "cute boys and girls" and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch.
I love Todd's prophetic takes. They are my very favorite.
That awkward moment when he mentions Dr. Luke during the Teenage Dream section and I'm like "Hey, I know that name! Not for the reason Dr. Luke would want me to (#FreedomForKesha) but at least I recognize his name. No publicity is bad publicity?"
I know Todd is usually late on year end reviews but reviewing 2010 FIVE whole years later is a power move
Yeah I know right, it’s not like it’s a reupload or anything
@@ffjreviews9029 r/woooosh
The line "I feel like Drake isn't living up to his potential" made me bust out laughing with a 2024 context xD
I feel like you and I are the only ones who love Rude Boy. The difference is I like it purely because of how fun it is and how good it sounds.
I love Rude Boy!
Ugh listening to the lists from 2009-2012 make me long for the return of club and party anthems. Everything is so down beat and depressing now.
Well it's accurate to the years I guess
He sounds so young! Not that he sounds old now.
watching this in 2021 I have a major sense of nostalgia. that was at the peak of my outgoing time. I went to clubs several times am month and heard all these songs. including several trips to vegas. I had a lot of fun that year and the next.
This music brings back my college days. I would go into McDonald's pull out my books to study and these songs would be playing over the radio. Better days.
You know I've watched Todd for years and often just binge watch his videos trying to find an episode I barely remember which is difficult and for some reason this video just doesn't ring any bells. I've watched all the other yearly best and worst videos so many times including 2010's worst and yet I think I may have avoided this video all this time, I'm amazed.
Bugsy McCoy the best of 2009 is my favorite video
Ikr
very relatable! i have had this exact experience with this channel & other ones before.
Glad to see Todd liked 'Find Your Love' as much as I did back then.
No wonder Todd loves pop, he had to listen to country for 10 years
Ah New York, the Concrete Jungle Wet Dream Tomato
When internet videos are old enough to make you feel...old...Jesus 2010 was a long time ago.
I revisit this video sometimes to hear Todd praise Nothin' On You because I still love this song.
“Square root of 69 is 8 something”
This video is amazing in 2019. B.o.B., Channel Awesome, Dr. Luke. Hoo Boy.
I just watched your best of list of 2018, got really depressed and decided to watch this one to cheer me up. Love Todd through the ages
It’s so weird and a little sad hearing Todd talk about joining TGWTG only to walk away from the site so many years later
10.B.o.B - Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo)
9.Drake - Find Your Love
8.Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind
7.Rihanna - Rude Boy
6.Neon Trees - Animal
5.Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
4.Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love ft. Pitbull
3.B.o.B - Nothin' On You
2.Katy Perry - California Gurls ft. Snoop Dogg
1.Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
Strange that Fuck You wasn't as big of a hit. If I remember right, it was much bigger in Canada (though they did change the lyrics to Forget You).
it was more of a hit in 2011
It made the 2011 list because Glee covered it
Which sucks that it couldn't get that big on it's own merits.
such a shame , too. awesome song, imo.
yeah i remember it being really big
Todd calling from a flip phone really was the only thing this nostalgia trip was missing
People didn't have iPhones in 2010?
@@yangasidziya3245 I'm sure the guy was broke, and is still probably quite broke
Twelve years later (!!!), I still listen to Rude Boy, Fuck You! and Nothin on You. Fabulous
Man, I forgot that B.o.B. was actually a fun, enjoyable rapper. The conspiracy BS completely overshadowed it. And yeah, California Gurls is a banger, I'll admit it. Although I mostly like it because Neil Cicierega sampled it so brilliantly.
You could make a drinking game out of all the things that haven't aged well in this video (heck, even the name of the #1 band...)
Oh yeah Antebellum, and then they changed it to simply lady A
"New Yorker's are kinda up their own asses about being from New York."
Clearly you have not dealt with many Texans. As someone born and raised in Texas, I would definitely say that no one takes as much ridiculously pointless pride in where they are from than Texans.
They are very proud of their slang, country music, grease-coated cuisine, non-ranchers who pretend to be ranchers (My mom refers to them as Coca-Cola Cowboys), and otherwise being really convinced that they are somehow the best damn people in the USA.
And as a native, I will never understand.
+Carl Cruton no problem. :)
I don't just live in Texas: I live in a small town in Texas.
The majority of the inhabitants of this town with only two restaurants open at night don't even have two brain cells to rub together.
+GreaterSeraph I recently moved to a small town in texas too because my parents sold the house we grew up in. It's been a rough adjustment. I miss my cold illinois weather.
+GreaterSeraph Really, I've never found many that were that obnoxious. Though I do live in Houston, not a small town so I guess it's not as concentrated. Really, you get those kinds of overly proud people no matter which state or even certain countries. Hell, my cousins in Indiana find it so damn enchanting, I sometimes wish I lived ther myself. Probably wouldn't be as humid for one thing!
I'm from Maryland and all I see is crabs with the Maryland flag over it and old bay everything it's just eck
Which part of Texas are you from?
Love coming back to these every year, think Todd was right about Teenage Dream, still considered a seminal pop song
I'd never expect for Todd to pick "Need You Now" as the #1 song on this list, but I believe it; it just was such a massive crossover smash that won countless awards (CMA Single of the Year, Song and Record of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards), and spent 5 weeks at #1 at country radio, as well as #2 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Top 40 and AC charts. I actually prefer the pop version, as the production and instrumentation are a lot better, as well as a stronger and more emotional guitar solo after the second chorus.
That piano version of dynamite just hits everytime. It should’ve been on the list
More time has passed between 2015 and 2021 than 2015 and 2010. It's obvious but the last half of the decade really went off the rails
More than learning about Todd's love of country music, it was seeing that flip phone at the end that surprised me most of all.
Man, Todd really can be a legitimate actor at points. Whenever he tries to pull off sadness, I immediately believe him 😃
Welcome to a strange world, where Drake was a new and interesting thing, country music still had women in it, Todd didn’t yet hate pre-Uptown Funk Bruno Mars, Dr. Luke was still considered respectable and this show had subplots. Man, how time flies.
Todd saying he likes California Gurls like it's a bad thing
My opinion of the song "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry:
I enjoy the production (the saving grace of Katy's 2008 album) and the vocals, but I've never been a fan of the whole "girl kissing another girl and liking it" part of the song. But it's at least interesting, something that Girl Crush by Little Big Town will never have.
Edit: The song's grown on me and I can see both sides on whether folks like the song or not and why. I don't mind the lyrics in the song any more.
At least Katy Perry's song wasn't a shitty bait-and-switch about jealousy, so yeah, I completely agree with you.
@@megamage911 I'll admit I've grown to liking this song more and, when it comes to the lyrics, Katy's done worse? Katy, why are you telling a guy to hang himself on Ur So Gay? No...just no...
@@jesusrox4u Yeah exactly haha xD
@@megamage911 Yep, I wonder how the foot tasted in Katy Perry's mouth after such a "genius" decision.
Who would ever call them selves “Little Big Town”
the pop sound of 2010 was a little samey with the club dance songs, but it was perfect if you were graduating high school that year.
Revisiting this in an attempt to recall the lighthearted exuberance of my college years, was instead slapped in the face by how b.o.b. used to be an alright dude but I now live here in the future.
Going back through these always hits some nostalgia for me, and this video especially awakens some memories of my favorite songs from back in the day.
Some of the takes have not aged well, but the music is still interesting.
Being happy about joining TGWTG, praising Dr. Luke, putting two B.o.B. songs on the list... Nearly a decade after the fact, Todd probably looks back on this video in disgust.
@@elliotstannard5621 didn't ask
pfp is based
Watching this in 2021 is an experience
Of all the things that stuck out to me about watching this video, it was me really savoring the hindsight of knowing that Neon Trees did, in fact, get a second hit. And you know what? It was just as good as that one! The world may have occasionally been shit in the 2010s, but on some occasions it was also surprisingly benevolent.
I wonder who Todd axe murdered after giving that American Psycho analysis of Usher?
oh Todd, you are the BIGGEST nerd of them all~
And she appeared on 2011,2014 and 2017...wow
Even haters love her songs
“Find your love is a rarity, a rap song without any rapping in it” Oh how things changed throughout the 2010s
I like seeing Todd act like a stereotypical dude every now and then, such as when he picks songs like #7.
The fucking Ke$ha reference at the end of the Usher song killed me!
I fricking love how chill this video is. Some of the songs here I remember and love, too.
Also, this oddly feels like a newer list, because of the no.1 pick and Todd's known undying appreciation towards country music about miserable drinking. And the chill tone. Which is interesting
Every time I listen to “Need You Now “ it sucks my soul out of my body like like boba through a silly straw. It’s just so damn sad.
Same, but for a different set of reasons.
The fact that this is the first time I've seen his 2010 list and it's the only best of song list where I actually like every song he lists just shocks me.
It's interesting to see how Todd's changed over the years. One change I like a lot is that he's come to respect pop as a genre more (a move which reflects the general surge of "poptimism" among music critics during the 2010s). This older video is still entertaining, but the total distaste for pop doesn't feel great, and I much prefer the more recent Todd, who can unabashedly praise well-made pop music without any kind of apology or backhanded compliment.
Teenage Dream hits me in the feels. And very few of her songs really do
Came here after watching your newest video because 2010 had music that was actually fun and upbeat.
It's the way he says "whiskey" that defines everything positive about this song.......
RIP Todd praising Dr Luke. Oof
Somehow I always forget that Need You Now is nr. 1 on this list... and each time it makes me tear up >.
FLATLINE
FLATLINE
AIN'T NO SUPERIOR BLOODLINE
King of the Void No stop
Just jumped here from the 2021 worst and holy crap. He’s so much the same yet so different.
14:15 not yet twenty years but Nostradamus strikes again! (I like it too)
7:00 CONCRETE JUNGLE WET DREAM TOMATOOOOOO
Oh my God, i forgot i was is in 4th and 5th grade when these songs came out. I turn 20 in December 2019 and Jesus. I'm old.
"oh i kinda miss Teenage Dream"
*Todd references Dr Luke produced it*
"oop nevermind"
Dear Todd! I’m on a binge during this QT.. love you man 😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
" I like your beard" I ugly snorted and it kind of hurt. Thank you Todd.
7:03 I've become a wet dream tomato!
Concrete jungle wet dream tomatooooooo
thanks for forever altering the way i'll hear this 8 year old song
this is hilarious to come back to 14 years later
I legit binged 11 years of these. Time well spent! Lol