Technically, she's not a one-hit wonder. She had Black Widow with Rita Ora and was a guest rapper on Ariana Grande's No Problem and T.I.'s No Mediocre. But nobody remembers Black Widow or No Mediocre, and people only remember No Problem for everything except Iggy Azalea.
“I hope (Charli) turns out to be the more famous person on this track” Ten years later, and recently came out with one of the most critically acclaimed synth-pop albums of all time haha
@@Lwhale.3797at least wait for time to pass before saying shit like that....can't be calling shit the best of all time when it hasn't even been a year, this is a hype poisoned statement 😭
Let's review what happened to the Class of 2014: Magic!: Never had another hit in America. Had some hits in Canada for the next two years, but even those dried up. Sam Smith: Still around, still had hits as recently as 2020. Disclosure: I remember "Magnets" with Lorde getting some airplay even if it was mostly on alternative stations. They've had other hits on the UK and US Dance charts. For a band that isn't really pop, I'd say they've done pretty well. Nico & Vinz: "In Your Arms" charted low on the Hot 100, and that's the last America ever heard from them. "That's How You Know" was a big hit in Norway and Australia, and that's the last the rest of the world ever heard from them. MKTO: Nothing since "Classic" has charted in America, and they haven't had any other charting singles since 2015. They haven't even put out another full-length album. Rixton: Two other charting singles in the UK and Ireland, nothing else anywhere else. Changed their name to Push Baby and haven't managed to chart since. DJ Snake: Had numerous Top 20 singles over the next two years, only one since 2016 ("Taki Taki".) Iggy Azalea: Had another top 10 hit later that year with "Black Widow" and two top 40 singles in the following year, but it's been diminishing returns ever since. Every attempt at a comeback has failed miserably, and her last studio album released last year went basically unnoticed. I know Todd is known for being bad at predictions, but he was absolutely right about most of them being gone by 2015.
I mean Ariana had a breakthrough year, but the only other Class of 2014 star (s) that had traction and anyone at least cares about it off the top of my head are Meghan Trainor and Sam Hunt. Wow, 2014 was not good.
Really everyone else like Echosmith or The Neighbourhood to name a few had their one big hit and fell through core audience traction nonsense. Bastille got their next hit in 2018-2019, but it's boring as tar and no one even knew they dropped an album this year. Tinashe is doing good things, while Bobby Shurmuda is out of jail, I guess. Also Aloe Blacc? Clean Bandit? Kid Ink?
I’m SO GLAD that Charli XCX is still successful and acclaimed today. She’s damn talented and deserves where she is. Glad Iggy Azalea isn’t anywhere near the charts now. (is she even still releasing stuff?)
She's obviously not "big" anymore but she still lurks in the shadows. Listen to her song from 2018 "Kream", which is either so bad it's good, or so bad it's bad, I can't quite tell which. 120 million views on UA-cam though suggests that she still has at least somewhat of a following.
alexandra galici. There is more to Australian rock then ACDC. I guess you know INXS but check out Powderfinger, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Dragon (technically New Zealand), Goanna, Ganggajang (Gang Gajang), Crowded House, Icehouse, Skyhooks, Siverchair, The Living End, Screaming Jets, The John Butter Trio, Redgum, and The Whitlams.
I think "phone call" means room service. Feels good being able to get whatever she wants coming to the room with the press of a button. Being waited on. That's what I got out of it, since she's already in a verse talking about hotels.
As someone who LOVES Clueless (hey, it’s underrated 90s satire), the recreation of the movie in that music video is actually really well done. But as a former stripper, if I ever hear “Fancay” again, it’ll be too soon.
@@andysee6996 the main character is vapid rich girl, it's like a likable nice version of a "mean girls" character, during the movie her personality flaws are criticized
Problem with Faith No More: Mike Patton is super weird (like piss in a clown shoe, drink it and throw into audience kind of weird, which he did at concert where they opened for Primus on New Year’s Eve) and I always felt he sounded bad live (like clearly studio magic is making his voice sound better than it is))
2024 Update: Charli XCX returned to the charts with a song featured on the Barbie soundtrack and continues to enjoy a massive cult following. Meanwhile, Iggy Azalea has basically disappeared from the public with each successive album release garnering less and less success and her public perception continuing to be pretty rough. Even a broken clock (Toddstrodamus) is right twice a day.
Looks like"Toddstradamus" strikes again. Iggy Azalea's career seems to be heading down hill fast, those insensitive things on twitter shooting her star down.
+Kevin Willey I don't think Twitter had anything to do with Iggy Azalea's career going downhill. (IIRC, some of those quotes were fake). I think Miss Azalea's current situation has to do with her music not being very good, to say the least.
todd. you rarely miss but the lyric "make the phone call, feels so good getting what i want" makes sense. it's just another way of saying "whatever i want is one phone call away". convoluted but it makes sense
After watching Clueless for the first time recently, I can definitely say that using that movie as the music video aesthetic for Fancy misses the point of the movie ENTIRELY. Especially having Charlie XCX as Tai. The whole movie, basically being a 90's updated version of Austen's Emma, was supposed to be about Cher learning how to be less snobby and not act like she can control stuff that doesn't fit her standard of how she views the world and this music video doesn't portray that at all.
23Starcatcher Exactly. The whole point is that everyone just sees her as a superficial,vapid dumb blonde,and while she can be pretty vain and materialistic,she’s actually very intelligent and compassionate underneath that.
I did wonder, when watching the video for the first time, if the director/creative team were deliberately taking the piss out of Iggy by explicitly putting her in the role of a vapid, clueless snob, whose values (for what is good, or 'fancy') are superficial and shallow.
Charli sells this song completely for me. I don't like it, mostly because most of it is rap and the production sucks, but if Charli's parts were indicative of the song as a whole I'd like it much much more. Plus, the production basically never changes, it's so stagnant. If the production would build, like add on top of the core beat and melody, it might turn out much better. But it's still brought down by Iggy's weak voice and lyrics. I'm not against rap I actually like a lot of rap, but Iggy is a huge stretch to call "rap" by any understanding that I have with the genre. Still, since she's a "rapper" she should do better to have lyrics that are actually impressive, but she doesn't. All I can really say about Iggy positively is that she's tall, and tall girls are cool. Other than that this is just a Charli XCX song with weak production and way too much of Iggy getting in the way. Still, the melodies of all of Charli's parts are so good that this song borders on being a guilty pleasure for me, and I'll probably always love her vocal tone. Pop music could use more singers with a distinct voice.
For some reason, most producers in modern mainstream hip hop thinks adding background goons yelling "hey, hey, hey..." gives the song energy and it just doesn't.
alexandra galici I agree with basically everything but that last part attractive black female sex rappers are super marketable wether there talented or not just look at Nikki
I know it's probably not that impressive to skilled musicians but Todd seems pretty good with a piano. Especially when keeping two melodies going like here.
@Information Action Ratio It's a character from a series of popular Russian children's books from 1966 named Cheburashka. (Back when it was still the Soviet Union.) The books have been adapted into children's movies, and at least one (maybe two) children's show. He's still very popular in his own country, earning him the nickname of "Soviet Mickey Mouse".
Charli’s songwriting is (or was at the time) largely instinctual, which is a nice way of saying that she didn’t really think twice about what lyrics she puts down. Obviously she has really fucking good instincts, but she tells a story about how she wrote the melody and lyrics to I Love It over a beat a producer sent her in about 20 minutes, and when people talked about how awesome it was for breakups, she had no idea what they were talking about. She just shouted things into a computer microphone. (She has “improved” since, though. Her song 3 AM actually has a story that builds throughout the song.)
Honestly, when I first heard this song I thought it was sarcastic. Like 'trash the hotel', 'get drunk on the minibar' 'make the phone call', etc. I thought this was a song about how people PERCEIVED famous/fancy people...have I misunderstood lyrics yet again? *sigh*
In regards to Iggy's blaccent despite being white and Australian, I have only one thing to say: in the words of everyone's other favorite teen girl movie, "She doesn't even go here!"
Coming back to this video after Brat Summer, boy am I glad that Charli was the one who stayed and not Iggy. I can't imagine the alternative timeline where we had an Iggy Summer instead
The best thing to come out of this song is Weird Al's parody 'Handy'. The best part is that his song somehow makes more sense and actually has a story!
Jeez, never have I seen an artist get so big then flame out so quickly like Iggy. Charli XCX at least has been able to maintain a cult following (thank you, gays) and consistently release music.
I guess that's just how the pop charts are but listening to him name a bunch of music acts that just... are not a thing anymore is deeply humorous to me
On the one hand, I can see how one would be annoyed by Iggy's rapping accent. On the other hand... have you heard Aussie-accented rapping (e.g. Hilltop Hoods)? I'm not sure if it's hilarious or jarring.
2014 was a great short lived time for music. Another staple/nostalgic year in music for me. But most of the folks you mentioned i haven’t heard from them since 2014
I just realized why I like SonReal. When Todd said "Hiphop isn't about getting it, it's about having it." That's what SonReal does, and that's why his music turns out so great.
Am I the only one who felt she wasn't rapping. I tend to think that implies good rhyming skills and cleaver lyrics. Her flow is good which has to be how she tricked those who don't care one way or another into thinking she's good. Man popular rap has become complete garbage.
+sugarfrosted She also had another song this year called "Team", which looks like a flop seeing as it peaked in the Top 50 but has since been on the bottom half of the Hot 100.
To quote Roger Taylor, Vanilla Ice is a "white rapper from florida with a funny haircut," who had the odacity to steal not not only Freddie Mercury's song , but also one that Ziggy Stardust himself collaborated on. I know this had nothing to do with the rest of the song, but i truely don't care.
And if Iggy Azalea wanted to bring back 1988, she'd put out songs that take on political meaning like "Straight Outta Compton" and "Don't Believe The Hype." Or she'd do artistic hip-hop like De La Soul or A Tribe Called Quest.
I know it's been years, but here's my response to "First things first I'm the realest": "Ahahahah! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder! AAAAAHAHAHAHAH!!"
Hey, at least bad songs from 5 years ago were trying to be FUN. Now everyone's just sort of....given into the despair, and the music is reflecting that.
+General Skunk (The Weirdo) From what I've heard, as long as he works with someone, he's pretty good. His work with Disclosure is pretty good. His problem is he wants to be a balladeer... and he's horrible when the beat slows down. Give him some dance music, and he works pretty well.
+General Skunk (The Weirdo) Well, he's kinda still around (I mean, he did have that James Bond theme last year which we won as Oscar for), but I think we need to wait for his next album to see if he can maintain the popularity that he had back in 2014.
And I'll be that other pedant who reminds you that all he said was "Charli XCX of 'I Don't Care' fame." Meaning he meant it as a reference to the song most everyone would know her from, not that she was the lead artist on that track.
For his analogy of why would you watch a movie where a team is the first seed expected to win out. Yeah a lot of peoples favorite football movie is Remember the Titans and that team went 13-0 posted 9 shutouts outscored their opponents 357-45 margin and bourtier recorded 142 tackles and 42 sacks (according to the real life season based on it.) They do this by focusing around the players since it was a black white team coming together in integration story, but it can still be done.
I was a college music critic in my school paper and I reviewed whatever new stuff that was sent to me: Craig David, Michelle Branch, Coldplay, and I can’t remember who else. My one successful, lasting call was Coldplay. And I’m so sick of Coldplay. Then my independent predictions on my own now-defunct blog in 2002 (when blogs were new!) was that Remy Shand and John Mayer were people to watch. I was right on one of them . . . for about 6 or 7 years. I’m no longer a music critic.
Finally, Todd using his bad predictions for good. So much for Iggy Azalea sticking around.
Stormy Kopa Good to hear. No more of this dumbass.
stream sally walker
Oh, we haven’t seen the end of Iggy Azalea yet. Mark my words
@@caitlinroseblaney226 OH NO SHE'S BACK!!! what do we do???
Well she back now and better than ever
We interrupt this "POP SONG REVIEW" to bring you "ONE HIT WONDERLAND".
Technically, she's not a one-hit wonder. She had Black Widow with Rita Ora and was a guest rapper on Ariana Grande's No Problem and T.I.'s No Mediocre. But nobody remembers Black Widow or No Mediocre, and people only remember No Problem for everything except Iggy Azalea.
Taylor French wasn’t she a feature on black widow though? That wouldn’t disqualify her for one but wonder status
@@phantom240 Black Widow is Iggy's song. It's on her The New Classic album along with Fancy.
@@taylorfrench6722 Ah. It's been a while and I also don't much pay attention to shitty pop/pop-rap.
Nice! So true.
I love that Charli went from being the best part in really bad pop songs to being one of the most creative and entertaining pop artists around
The brat profile picture really ties together this comment
“I hope (Charli) turns out to be the more famous person on this track”
Ten years later, and recently came out with one of the most critically acclaimed synth-pop albums of all time haha
@@Lwhale.3797at least wait for time to pass before saying shit like that....can't be calling shit the best of all time when it hasn't even been a year, this is a hype poisoned statement 😭
Literally the only fun part of this song was by her I am so thankful she made it big and Izzy tanked
Let's review what happened to the Class of 2014:
Magic!: Never had another hit in America. Had some hits in Canada for the next two years, but even those dried up.
Sam Smith: Still around, still had hits as recently as 2020.
Disclosure: I remember "Magnets" with Lorde getting some airplay even if it was mostly on alternative stations. They've had other hits on the UK and US Dance charts. For a band that isn't really pop, I'd say they've done pretty well.
Nico & Vinz: "In Your Arms" charted low on the Hot 100, and that's the last America ever heard from them. "That's How You Know" was a big hit in Norway and Australia, and that's the last the rest of the world ever heard from them.
MKTO: Nothing since "Classic" has charted in America, and they haven't had any other charting singles since 2015. They haven't even put out another full-length album.
Rixton: Two other charting singles in the UK and Ireland, nothing else anywhere else. Changed their name to Push Baby and haven't managed to chart since.
DJ Snake: Had numerous Top 20 singles over the next two years, only one since 2016 ("Taki Taki".)
Iggy Azalea: Had another top 10 hit later that year with "Black Widow" and two top 40 singles in the following year, but it's been diminishing returns ever since. Every attempt at a comeback has failed miserably, and her last studio album released last year went basically unnoticed.
I know Todd is known for being bad at predictions, but he was absolutely right about most of them being gone by 2015.
I mean Ariana had a breakthrough year, but the only other Class of 2014 star (s) that had traction and anyone at least cares about it off the top of my head are Meghan Trainor and Sam Hunt. Wow, 2014 was not good.
Really everyone else like Echosmith or The Neighbourhood to name a few had their one big hit and fell through core audience traction nonsense. Bastille got their next hit in 2018-2019, but it's boring as tar and no one even knew they dropped an album this year. Tinashe is doing good things, while Bobby Shurmuda is out of jail, I guess.
Also Aloe Blacc? Clean Bandit? Kid Ink?
For their genre, Disclosure are still a pretty huge deal
@@justezek8596 Nashe is doing her own thing and killing it tbh
@@taipeijoey101 yeah Energy did decently well
I’m SO GLAD that Charli XCX is still successful and acclaimed today. She’s damn talented and deserves where she is. Glad Iggy Azalea isn’t anywhere near the charts now. (is she even still releasing stuff?)
@Randomness YT I AM THE TABLE
She's being big just below the mainstream, I can't make a playlist for ebm without her showing up once or twice, even today
Charli also helped give Dorian Electria a boost in popularity, all the more reason to love her!
Facts bro. Facts. Love her!!! ❤️😃
This comment aged like fiiiine wine. I'm glad everyone is on the BRAT train now
Iggy Azalea wishes she was as fly as Iggy Koopa.
Or Ms. Piggy
Or Iggy Pop
Charli did end up being the more famous one :)
And the more talented.
and liked
@Mashup Banks not anymore lol. If charli and iggy both dropped an album tomorrow, people would be more hyped to listen to charli's
idk if charli is more famous but she sure as hell is more respected as a musician
@@familyguyfreemoviedownload8314 she’s beating iggy out in monthly Spotify listeners
'who the hell is sam smith' HAHAHA
He seems to think he's Tom Petty... XP
John Nichols actually you don’t know who they are
It's funny watching him talk about Iggy Azalea getting big in 2017
Of all those artists he mentioned, the only one who still has somewhat of a career these days is Sam Smith.
She's like an urban legend in 2018, almost 2019.
She's obviously not "big" anymore but she still lurks in the shadows. Listen to her song from 2018 "Kream", which is either so bad it's good, or so bad it's bad, I can't quite tell which. 120 million views on UA-cam though suggests that she still has at least somewhat of a following.
It funnier in 2019
Even weirder in 2020
As an Australian, I can say that we have practically disowned Iggy Azalea
Don't Cry Craft I heard that your hip hop scene is good shame this talentless bitch made hits
I think that Iggy needs to reinvent herself, learn to sing and come out with songs about being Australian and stuff.
alexandra galici. There is more to Australian rock then ACDC. I guess you know INXS but check out Powderfinger, Australian Crawl, Cold Chisel, Midnight Oil, Dragon (technically New Zealand), Goanna, Ganggajang (Gang Gajang), Crowded House, Icehouse, Skyhooks, Siverchair, The Living End, Screaming Jets, The John Butter Trio, Redgum, and The Whitlams.
At this point I think it's safe to say we as a society have disowned her.
@@AllisonMiller30 So basically, you want her to become a female 360? Or a one-woman Hilltop Hoods?
I think "phone call" means room service. Feels good being able to get whatever she wants coming to the room with the press of a button. Being waited on. That's what I got out of it, since she's already in a verse talking about hotels.
Isn't it a call to a drug dealer?
+corhydron111 yeah, that's how I took it. oooh edgy,
It’s for cocaine. She’s calling for cocaine
As someone who LOVES Clueless (hey, it’s underrated 90s satire), the recreation of the movie in that music video is actually really well done. But as a former stripper, if I ever hear “Fancay” again, it’ll be too soon.
Oof, must've been rough having to hear it that many times.
oh god, I can't think of a worse song to pretend to sound interested in every work night
I can’t imagine people using that song for strip clubs, AT ALL.
If anyone still swings by, charli xcx is now pretty big in the hyperpop scene and shows so much love for what she does ♡
And now had one of the biggest albums of the year.
It makes me wonder if Iggy/Charli actually understood the satirical elements of Clueless before they made the music video.
I doubt they even saw the movie. I think the director knew the '90s were retro, so he chose a '90s teen movie and dressed the video in that.
Should really be asking the director of the music video that, but yeah... The answer is still probably no.
I've heard that a lot of people don't understand that part of Clueless. But how would I know? I've never even seen Clueless.
@@andysee6996 the main character is vapid rich girl, it's like a likable nice version of a "mean girls" character, during the movie her personality flaws are criticized
Actually Iggy directed the video herself and was well aware of the irony. Funny how you all trashed her after this was such a big hit.
Comparing her to Vanilla Ice is unfair. At least Vanilla Ice's popularity extended into another calendar year.
And he still occasion releasing new music. His music always fun to listen 🙂👍
Todd said Iggy Azalea was a star in the making.
Well, I thought Faith No More was going to be the band of the '90s, so I'm not throwing stones.
Billboard Magazine said in 1982 "Madonna will be out of the music industry in six months".
Faith No More is fucking amazing nonetheless.
And Todd didn't think Nicki Minaj or Adele would catch on.
Problem with Faith No More: Mike Patton is super weird (like piss in a clown shoe, drink it and throw into audience kind of weird, which he did at concert where they opened for Primus on New Year’s Eve) and I always felt he sounded bad live (like clearly studio magic is making his voice sound better than it is))
For a long time, I thought it was "from hell into Tokyo" instead of "from L.A. To Tokyo":
Not a huge difference to be fair.
Sounds metal.
Same difference
Her flow is actually really good.
"My money on time. My flow echimagsbdhdhdhdhdkaoshal recline"
2024 Update: Charli XCX returned to the charts with a song featured on the Barbie soundtrack and continues to enjoy a massive cult following. Meanwhile, Iggy Azalea has basically disappeared from the public with each successive album release garnering less and less success and her public perception continuing to be pretty rough.
Even a broken clock (Toddstrodamus) is right twice a day.
I think you commented this before it was released, but also Brat has done very well commercially and critically (especially compared to Crash)
Todd got his wish. Charli XCX is still making classics and Iggy Azalea disappeared years ago
Looks like"Toddstradamus" strikes again. Iggy Azalea's career seems to be heading down hill fast, those insensitive things on twitter shooting her star down.
+Kevin Willey I don't think Twitter had anything to do with Iggy Azalea's career going downhill. (IIRC, some of those quotes were fake). I think Miss Azalea's current situation has to do with her music not being very good, to say the least.
If you think her tweets are bad, look up her "I'm a runaway slave master" freestyle...
todd. you rarely miss but the lyric "make the phone call, feels so good getting what i want" makes sense. it's just another way of saying "whatever i want is one phone call away". convoluted but it makes sense
The song sounds MILES better on the piano =^)
Plus Charli XCX is the only good thing about it
After watching Clueless for the first time recently, I can definitely say that using that movie as the music video aesthetic for Fancy misses the point of the movie ENTIRELY. Especially having Charlie XCX as Tai.
The whole movie, basically being a 90's updated version of Austen's Emma, was supposed to be about Cher learning how to be less snobby and not act like she can control stuff that doesn't fit her standard of how she views the world and this music video doesn't portray that at all.
She also is a virgin and values sex and thinks excessive drug use and drinking is trashy.
23Starcatcher Exactly. The whole point is that everyone just sees her as a superficial,vapid dumb blonde,and while she can be pretty vain and materialistic,she’s actually very intelligent and compassionate underneath that.
I did wonder, when watching the video for the first time, if the director/creative team were deliberately taking the piss out of Iggy by explicitly putting her in the role of a vapid, clueless snob, whose values (for what is good, or 'fancy') are superficial and shallow.
Here, in the year of Brat, Todd's wish has been fulfilled. Iggy is a distant memory and Charli is the most acclaimed artist in pop music.
Charli sells this song completely for me. I don't like it, mostly because most of it is rap and the production sucks, but if Charli's parts were indicative of the song as a whole I'd like it much much more. Plus, the production basically never changes, it's so stagnant. If the production would build, like add on top of the core beat and melody, it might turn out much better. But it's still brought down by Iggy's weak voice and lyrics.
I'm not against rap I actually like a lot of rap, but Iggy is a huge stretch to call "rap" by any understanding that I have with the genre. Still, since she's a "rapper" she should do better to have lyrics that are actually impressive, but she doesn't.
All I can really say about Iggy positively is that she's tall, and tall girls are cool. Other than that this is just a Charli XCX song with weak production and way too much of Iggy getting in the way.
Still, the melodies of all of Charli's parts are so good that this song borders on being a guilty pleasure for me, and I'll probably always love her vocal tone. Pop music could use more singers with a distinct voice.
+BassbaitGG what this song could really use is Zach Hill on drums.
+BassbaitGG Yeah, if you threw some high-end (guitars, synths, etc.) and stripped out all the Iggy Azalea bits, this could be a good song.
For some reason, most producers in modern mainstream hip hop thinks adding background goons yelling "hey, hey, hey..." gives the song energy and it just doesn't.
Adam Sherman this comment is about a year old so I'm hoping this remix exists by now cause that sounds fantastic
alexandra galici I agree with basically everything but that last part attractive black female sex rappers are super marketable wether there talented or not just look at Nikki
"I hope Charlie xcx turns out to be more famous than Iggy" one of his better predictions
drake grew up in one of the richest neighbourhoods in toronto i know someone who went to the same school he did (not at the same time).
From the hottest female rapper to the female, more racist Vanilla Ice.
I love Toddstradamus sometimes.
I know it's probably not that impressive to skilled musicians but Todd seems pretty good with a piano. Especially when keeping two melodies going like here.
The real tragedy of songs like this and Blurted Lines is that good bass lines are wasted.
This is why we listen to the Weird Al Yankovic version of these songs
"I'm so trashy. I'm a minstrel show."
sugarfrosted my accent is too fake for sure
Hahaha omg that's brilliant
“My accent’s so fake. I’m gonna bring back Jim Crow.”
@Information Action Ratio It's a character from a series of popular Russian children's books from 1966 named Cheburashka. (Back when it was still the Soviet Union.) The books have been adapted into children's movies, and at least one (maybe two) children's show. He's still very popular in his own country, earning him the nickname of "Soviet Mickey Mouse".
Jes Lightning lolwut?
All this time I kinda liked the chorus, and it turned out it was Charli XCX all along. * shrug *
weird als parody is a much better song
His parodies usually are.
I like Bart Bakers parody of it more
I was just about to say the same thing. Handy is way better than Fancy.
Brooklynn Hughes N O P E
piplup2009 i like ur pic, he is one of my more favorable pokemon
Charli’s songwriting is (or was at the time) largely instinctual, which is a nice way of saying that she didn’t really think twice about what lyrics she puts down. Obviously she has really fucking good instincts, but she tells a story about how she wrote the melody and lyrics to I Love It over a beat a producer sent her in about 20 minutes, and when people talked about how awesome it was for breakups, she had no idea what they were talking about. She just shouted things into a computer microphone.
(She has “improved” since, though. Her song 3 AM actually has a story that builds throughout the song.)
This video just makes me want to watch Clueless again.
Iggy Azalea pretty much disappearing overnight is probably one of the only true instances of justice in this world.
just for the record, we dont consider her australian. shes dead to us. stop saying shes aussie please it hurts
+Brandon Roberts trump? Who's that?
Keelan Barron it was a joke
@@QteaTheSwag Trump who? Don't know her.
we? the fuck you on bout she more aussie than that shooter in nz smh
@@sergf3624 doesn't mean we want either of them.
Honestly, when I first heard this song I thought it was sarcastic. Like 'trash the hotel', 'get drunk on the minibar' 'make the phone call', etc. I thought this was a song about how people PERCEIVED famous/fancy people...have I misunderstood lyrics yet again? *sigh*
I'm so glad Royals ended this kind of garbage
I prefer "Handy".
Saaammmeee
W
And then her career died.
Proof God does exist.
She actually thought she could follow up.
As IF!
Shes revied
A vip army-L that blinked once who’s ikonik
Nah, ain’t heard shit
RIP
well to quote q-tip "rap is not pop, if you call it that then just stop"
+Leonard Ford Pop has always been a garbage category anyway. I don't see why it wouldn't count as pop...
0:37 - the auto captions say "white people I've never even heard of." Seems appropriate
In regards to Iggy's blaccent despite being white and Australian, I have only one thing to say: in the words of everyone's other favorite teen girl movie, "She doesn't even go here!"
Coming back to this video after Brat Summer, boy am I glad that Charli was the one who stayed and not Iggy. I can't imagine the alternative timeline where we had an Iggy Summer instead
The best thing to come out of this song is Weird Al's parody 'Handy'. The best part is that his song somehow makes more sense and actually has a story!
She would have been more tolerable if she didn’t sound like she was trying to do a bad “black” impression
"but there is one newcomer i do expect to stick around"
Toddstradamus strikes again
Thank god
And now in 2020, its time to do a "One Hit Wonderland: Iggy Azealea - Fancy" episode
That's not exactly true cause Iggy Azalea also had Black Widow...
Jeez, never have I seen an artist get so big then flame out so quickly like Iggy. Charli XCX at least has been able to maintain a cult following (thank you, gays) and consistently release music.
Charli made that song a hit let’s be honest
Oh god the memories of this song being blasted on the school bus back then still haunt me to this day!
I always wished that she rapped in her native accent. I don’t think that it would have sounded so abrasive.
If I didn't watch Todd In The Shadows, I would've totally forgotten about Iggy Azalea. Honestly, Fancy is the only song I remember from her.
I guess that's just how the pop charts are but listening to him name a bunch of music acts that just... are not a thing anymore is deeply humorous to me
White Chicks is actually a really big movie in Brazil. It plays on TV almost all the time.
Literally 2014 was the year of the one hit wonders
Thats 2024
On the one hand, I can see how one would be annoyed by Iggy's rapping accent. On the other hand... have you heard Aussie-accented rapping (e.g. Hilltop Hoods)? I'm not sure if it's hilarious or jarring.
I know this comment is hilariously out of date, but I can't help mentioning The Funkoars. I think The Quickening is pretty great.
Aus rap is... an acquired taste.
It's defenders are serious, but nobody with half a brain cell would argue it'd sell well in the US.
Charlie Dawson it has the potential to though if British hip hop can make it reasonably big in America then Aussie hip hop could make waves
camwad 123 Wrong!
Becki Green no point being overly negative anything is possible
It's 2018 and surprisingly none of the groups he's mentioned are still around as far as I know
Thunderdemon FTW Lets keep it that way.
Sam Smith is a standout. They're still in the public eye and they recently had a pretty big hit in "Dancing With A Stanger." That's pretty good. 👍
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And she was
Look at where Charlie is now
Look at where iggy is
lol Charli went on to be really experimental and pretty ground breaking in the pop world
2014 was a great short lived time for music. Another staple/nostalgic year in music for me. But most of the folks you mentioned i haven’t heard from them since 2014
Years later, I wonder if “In My Defense” could be an episode of Trainwreckords in the future?
came back to watch this in 2019, oh how things have changed
I just realized why I like SonReal. When Todd said "Hiphop isn't about getting it, it's about having it." That's what SonReal does, and that's why his music turns out so great.
Am I the only one who felt she wasn't rapping. I tend to think that implies good rhyming skills and cleaver lyrics.
Her flow is good which has to be how she tricked those who don't care one way or another into thinking she's good. Man popular rap has become complete garbage.
The first time I heard this song I thought it was Gwen Stefani. She sings in that bizarre, pursed lips way Gwen does.
"But, there is one newcomer who I do expect to stick around." Oh boy, Toddstradamus just can't catch a break.
Todd nailed it about Charli XCX being the bigger name in the long run. She totally deserves it, too.
Another past “hit” in which Weird Al eclipses the original.
Lew Archer 1949 So, basically literally every one of his songs except when he made parodies of Michael Jackson’s songs.
@@ginamolina820 I mean, he made a version of Lorde's "Royals", which was a great song.
For the longest time I didn't know Word Crimes was based on that Robin Thicke song. Who even remembers blurred lines anymore?
@@JackedThor-so HEH HEH HEH
watching this video makes me excited for the best/worst lists of 2024
This is quite funny to watch now in late 2015...
+Sapphonouveau 2016 here. What has Iggy done since?
+Adam Sherman Faded into irrelevance after "Pretty Girls."
+sugarfrosted
She also had another song this year called "Team", which looks like a flop seeing as it peaked in the Top 50 but has since been on the bottom half of the Hot 100.
She's currently a judge on X-Factor Australia, where they call her a rap superstar a lot.
Sapphonouveau even funnier two years later.
Hey, we got Weird Al's "Handy" from this song, and that's still hilarious.
It's sad when the parody has less stupid lyrics than the original.
To quote Roger Taylor, Vanilla Ice is a "white rapper from florida with a funny haircut," who had the odacity to steal not not only Freddie Mercury's song , but also one that Ziggy Stardust himself collaborated on.
I know this had nothing to do with the rest of the song, but i truely don't care.
And if Iggy Azalea wanted to bring back 1988, she'd put out songs that take on political meaning like "Straight Outta Compton" and "Don't Believe The Hype." Or she'd do artistic hip-hop like De La Soul or A Tribe Called Quest.
Can we talk about how many songs around that time all had the exact same *CLAP* “HEY!” In the background? Because trust me, it’s more than you think!
You were correct with the bit abt Charlie outshining. Her pcm work is fun. The irony isn't lost there. Seems genuinely fun.
"respect and stuff"- Todd, a lyrical poet.
Now Sam Smith's really big and Iggy Azalea's flopped.
I know it's been years, but here's my response to "First things first I'm the realest":
"Ahahahah! Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder! AAAAAHAHAHAHAH!!"
I like how Charlie said "The phone call" like it was the most important phone call in history.
I really wished we lived we in different timeline where that prediction went true, kinda interesting in what music she would've make
generic trap beats and a blaccent
Giving lessons in lessons? The Tim Reid character on WKRP, now he gave a physics lesson like a badass.
crazy that his predictions about the billboard giants in 2014 disappearing were basically all true i barely even remember those people
Todd, will you revisit Charli XCX, post-SUCKER/Vroom Vroom/#1 Angel/Pop2 mixtapes?
At least Charlie XCX is still big
it sucks when bad songs are so bad they make you nostalgic for bad songs from the past.
Hey, at least bad songs from 5 years ago were trying to be FUN. Now everyone's just sort of....given into the despair, and the music is reflecting that.
Sadly, Sam Smith is still here...
+General Skunk (The Weirdo) From what I've heard, as long as he works with someone, he's pretty good. His work with Disclosure is pretty good. His problem is he wants to be a balladeer... and he's horrible when the beat slows down. Give him some dance music, and he works pretty well.
+General Skunk (The Weirdo)
Well, he's kinda still around (I mean, he did have that James Bond theme last year which we won as Oscar for), but I think we need to wait for his next album to see if he can maintain the popularity that he had back in 2014.
sadly? Are you crazy?
I mean at least he sounds different to everyone
ok furry
Watching this in 2019 is amusing. And I’m going to say Make the Phone call is the call for the drugs.
someday i hope youll review charli's newer work, its so much more interesting
I know this video is almost five years old but I’m just that kind of pedant - ‘I Don’t Care’ is by swedish duo Icona Pop, not Charlie XCX
And I'll be that other pedant who reminds you that all he said was "Charli XCX of 'I Don't Care' fame." Meaning he meant it as a reference to the song most everyone would know her from, not that she was the lead artist on that track.
@@whiplash779 true, fair enough
All her rhymes make me go "What in God's holy name are you blabbering about!?"
*Hears The Intro* "First Things First I'm A Craftsman (Craftsman) Remodelling Is My Only Passion!"
Does Todd like any songs he reviews? I’d love to see him get hyped for once.
It's "Brat summer" 2024 and Todd's wish that Charli XCX would outshine Iggy came true!
For his analogy of why would you watch a movie where a team is the first seed expected to win out. Yeah a lot of peoples favorite football movie is Remember the Titans and that team went 13-0 posted 9 shutouts outscored their opponents 357-45 margin and bourtier recorded 142 tackles and 42 sacks (according to the real life season based on it.) They do this by focusing around the players since it was a black white team coming together in integration story, but it can still be done.
to be fair, iggy pop is more attractive than iggy azalea
loputosu And he doesn’t even wear a shirt and he’s like 60 years old, right?
I was a college music critic in my school paper and I reviewed whatever new stuff that was sent to me: Craig David, Michelle Branch, Coldplay, and I can’t remember who else. My one successful, lasting call was Coldplay. And I’m so sick of Coldplay. Then my independent predictions on my own now-defunct blog in 2002 (when blogs were new!) was that Remy Shand and John Mayer were people to watch. I was right on one of them . . . for about 6 or 7 years.
I’m no longer a music critic.
I love Reba McEntire's Fancy
"White Chicks" is a great fucking movie. Todd you better stay in the shadows. Okay it's not great but how dare you diss "White Chicks" like that?
"White Chicks was amazing."