POP SONG REVIEW: "Rude" by MAGIC!

[@Htds9]

Apparently, he wrote the song about someone being rude to him and then changed it to a song about romance. Which would explain why the song is mainly focused on his annoyance towards the father and the girl just sounds like an afterthought.

[@kevinwillems8720]

Honestly would've much preferred that one.

[@JRock424]

Future one hit wonderland.

[@gregorsamsa9264]

Todd tends not to waste his time with people whose 1 hit is swiftly forgotten by those who don't watch Todd in the Shadows.

[@swagmund_freud6669]

They have other hits. But I live in Canada so.

[@David-hd4et]

IskenThink do you mean actual hit songs and not just another song? There’s a difference

[@user-rx2ur5el9p]

nope, you guessed wrong on that, actually. I know 'cause I'm speaking from the future.

[@zaianavel]

You got it right!

[@elizabethedwards1682]

The hilarious bit is that his best suit is a trench coat and a Hawaiian shirt.

[@subotaur5019]

Yeah, if that's his BEST suit, and that's what he considers to be passable as a suit, the dad is definitely right for refusing his blessing

[@uglyaniimals]

LMAOOOO I NEVER NOTICED THIS AND NOW IM DYING 😭😭

[@KoiPuff]

As for the Dad being "rude", they are Canadian. Just saying out right no is the height of rudeness! The father didn't even say sorry!

[@thunderwolf2005]

lol, as a Canadian, I really hate how right you are. I tip my hat.

[@Ashethetics]

He did say “tough luck my friend” though. Which is close.

[@Mr__Joe]

Canadian Idiot by Weird Al proves this

[@atlasking6110]

You mean "soor-ee."

[@tegantalks9612]

I’m Canadian and my dad hates this song. He thinks the guy in it is rude for marrying the daughter anyways.

[@Saintnick90]

I sympathize with the dad. I wouldn't want my daughter marrying a guy who wrote songs for Chris Brown and Justin Bieber.

[@negative6442]

I wouldn't want my daughter marrying a guy who wrote such a bad, whiney song, forget about songs for those two douchebags

[@representationmetaphorique]

I probably would've liked this song if it went in the way of "lovers'-rock-gay-old-fashioned-proposal" direction

[@hugo07260]

FACTS

[@emailing]

"don't you know i'm human too" would probably hit harder if it was about gay old fashioned marriage and not some nameless girl LOL

[@Cdr2002]

@@emailingagreed

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

Didn't know that Kylo Ren had a band

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

And a reggae one at that

[@lydiavalentino]

And the award for Best Comment of the Century goes to...

[@bossman8805]

Real Deal Kyogre not this guy.

[@tonywords6713]

Phoenix Pyrope i thought he looked like max landis, infamously dickish. adam driver at least seems like a good person and has enough humility to make films w jim jarmusch after the star wars hype

[@katiek2615]

Phoenix Pyrope i was just about to comment that 😂

[@ainhoaaparicio3729]

He's in love with the Dad and he threatens to marry the daughter if the young guy doesn't get his way with the Dad. :)

[@micaeck]

ainhoa aparicio I suddenly love this song now because of you.

[@unicorncurry317]

The ultimate plot twist!

[@Opossum_queen]

Todd, I'm sorry to break it to you. But you're now obligated to make another episode of this song, as a One Hit Wonderland.

[@losercast3570]

@Airewolfe1989 then please, what other major singles have been put out on the radio since then cuz they pretty much are for most people

[@nananou1687]

@@losercast3570 Red dress

[@legallybland227]

@Airewolfe1989 They were most definitely the “only big in their home country” flavor of one-hit-wonder. Outside of Canada they literally have only one top 40 hit. As big as it was, the international fame did not last.

[@pyrotechnic96]

​@@legallybland227not to mention they legally have to play Canadian acts on the radio so chances are any domestic success he has was subsidized by the government.

[@1Kitty19]

My friends and I were talking about this, and we noticed that there's no indication that the girl actually likes this guy back. He never says anything about how he loves her or she loves him or how he can make her happy. He spends the whole time complaining about the rejection. Sounds a bit to me like the dad wasn't saying "you can't marry my daughter, you bum" and more "stay away from my daughter, she doesn't like you, you creepy asshole".

[@arthurfisher1857]

The singer does actually say the she's in love with him. You actually hear that lyric in this video

[@esobelisk3110]

@@arthurfisher1857 this is a hilariously old comment to be correcting

[@arthurfisher1857]

@@esobelisk3110 they're the best kind! This guys been going through life the last five years... Graduating college, getting married, welcoming his first child. All while proudly proclaiming MAGIC! Never indicated the girl in their song loved him back. Then BOOM! Some douche, out of no where, destroys his whole world view!

[@somalion298]

What has always frustrated me with this song was their decision to go for "rude" instead of "cruel". From the song writer's perspective, the father's refusal of his gesture is cruel, it's denying two people's happiness.

[@alexanderguerrero347]

I mean it didn’t matter to him. He said he would marry her anyway. After all he wants it but he doesn’t need it. It’s just rude to him not cruel.

[@jinxed7915]

It's not cruel, he's just saying no, and saying no to a request that was just a formality to begin with.

[@AugustRx]

@@jinxed7915that sentence would make sense if it was rude but no

[@cli260]

Dame, that's awesome. I never thought about it and using "cruel" would make way more sense. Which makes this song even greater in my eyes!

[@gabe_s_videos]

FYI, "cod" is a catch-all term in England for "phony."

[@michaelkppguitar9761]

Learned that one when listening to "Anesthetize" by Porcupine Tree and wondering what a fish has to do with philosophy

[@thequeenofswords7230]

Okay, so the narrative in this song confused me too until I came to the revelation that we're all mishearing the lyric 'cause I need to know.' You see, the father isn't old fashion the way you're thinking. He's REALLY old fashion, as in there is a dowry involved which, I mean really, that's the only reason anyone would be that caught up in the father's opinion in the first place. No one ever actually needed that, it's just a tradition that stems from needing the father's approval in order to get the dowry which was often livestock. "Can I have your daughter, for the rest of my life? Say yes. Say yes. 'cause I need the goat." And that's why he keeps arguing the point with him. It's not like, 'well, I'm going to marry her anyway so that's that'. He's saying, 'Look, we're just going to get married anyway but we're really going to have a hard time of it if you don't lay down the damn goat.'

[@ellaartenstein853]

Ok that suddenly makes everything better

[@witchflowers6942]

id keep coming back too. let me have that goat.

[@AugustRx]

At that point I dont even want the wife . Just give me the dad edit- goat^

[@weathermangohanssj4]

You know how Todd, takes lyrics literally I do that with this song and it turns into a great scifi story where the singer is a halfbreed alien and there human too and actually means they will run away to another galaxy.

[@weathermangohanssj4]

well considering his main issue with this song is it's "plot" and taking the song literally makes a more interesting plot, yes.

[@Thebes342]

...What other way could this song be taken? This song is extremely literal by lyrics alone, and the music video doesn't help that at all.

[@blissfulinsomniac5711]

That is so creative!

[@Mewobiba]

7 years later and you can do a one hit wonderland about this track. Magic! is one of those rare "hit #1 once and has never charted since" cases.

[@rileytrawick18]

Pretty rare for him to do OHW episodes on songs that recent because they could always make a comeback, but I haven't heard jack shit about MAGIC! since this song. Definitely would love to see a OHW episode on these guys!

[@uglyaniimals]

@@rileytrawick18iirc they had a song crack the top 50 of alt radio earlier this year which. even with radio historically desperate is way more attention then i ever thought they'd get at this point (that said there's no way they have another actual hit and i'd love to see a ohw on these guys)

[@Vanessa.P]

MAGIC! always remind of Vaughn's band in Community. I can always see them playing this song alongside Gettin' Rid of Britta or Pierce You Are a B.

[@IsiahTomas]

Except that people like Vaughn.

[@robbesworkshop]

@@IsiahTomas and they know who he is

[@callerunknown]

Oh my god you're right

[@ChookaaFindlebean]

Damn, I remember when this song was *everywhere*. It became a big in joke with my high school friends, like anything that mildly inconvenienced us, we'd bust out this song.

[@sampalmer6757]

And then after this music video Kylo began to take his frustrations out on his friends at the academy

[@adrianespinel7758]

Todd in the Shadows Episode Idea: "A Day in the Life with Todd", an episode where Todd goes about his boring and kind of pathetic routine outside of KZbin with lots adorable moments involving Amydog thrown in there for good measure.

[@Dalejr88rox]

When did Danny Sexbang become a reggae singer?

[@KoalaTulip47]

Ninja Brian was already making bloopy reggae jams, it was inevitable.

[@Dalejr88rox]

***** Can you please play the actual metal song? The one we've worked on for 6 and a half years

[@loganrenfrow2544]

+Dalejr88rox BACK WHEN SATAN RULED!!!

[@iwanttodiekillmedaddypleas5639]

+Logan Renfrow GOD DAMMIT

[@ronburgendy179]

When you think of the perfect comment but then it's already the top comment

[@janerecluse4344]

Every goddamn time I see that clip of the video, I'm mad all over again that he's not actually proposing to the dad.

[@PlumZaplook]

The lead singer looks like the poor man's Dan Avidan

[@grooveechainsaw]

I was thinking an Adrian Brody wannabe ... but who would want to be Adrian Brody ?

[@gregorsamsa9264]

If you drained away the humor, the quirky topics, the personality...

[@riabouchinska]

grooveechainsaw I know I would!

[@gaiusoctavius6107]

In hindsight…

[@kathycoleman4648]

Exactly! If he doesn't understand "No means no" here, what makes anyone think he'd get that anywhere else? Run, girlie. Run!

[@PrincessNinja007]

+Antichrist2000 But that's the way it's always supposed to go, as per every love story ever. The father never thinks the love interest is good enough for his darling princess, so they have to run away to Vegas and elope.

[@CorinneStephens]

I heard this song on the radio the other day. Seriously. In the year of our lord, 2018, I heard this song for the first time in nearly 3 years. On the fucking RADIO. This year's summer music is so drab and un-summery that we literally have to go back and dig up the shitty summer songs from previous years. We aren't even bringing back the good stuff. We're so desperate at this point that we're bringing back Rude.

[@BigM33100]

Rude 2: Electric bogaloo

[@emdiar6588]

A word about UB40. Their first two albums are widely regarded as legit AF, and they are multi racial (Jamaican Rasta members). They were broke and unemployed in the deprived and depressed industrial Birmingham in Thatcher's broken Britain. Despite being radical and political, they had had a couple of hits and tasted the blood of commercial success. They lost their edge and embraced the mainstream. Red Red Wine was the garbage that heralded the horrible radio friendly pop reggae phase of their career which lasted til they split, but before they were rich, they were political and wrote genuine reggae protest songs about the evils of colonialism and racial injustice. Their first album, Signing Off, is frankly excellent.

[@jl8417]

the name UB40 actually was the old name for unemployment benefits (or something like that) in the UK back then so this backstory tracks

[@emdiar6588]

@@jl8417 I left school, in a mining town, 20 miles from Birmingham, in Thatcher's 80s. I've had my fair share of UB40 cards, believe me. It was a card you presented at the ''dole'' office, once a fortnight when you ''signed on'', and if you got a job you would fill in the details on the back and send it in, thereby ''signing off''.

[@icravedeath.1200]

They got corrupted by the money.

[@artboni3446]

Ngl todd was tapping onto something with the "gay reggae love ballad" between the dad and the narrator

[@NageebTheAverage]

Q: How can a Canadian marshmallow pop band fronted by an Arab make a reggae song about the collision of millennial entitlement and dusty boomer values? A: MAGIC!

[@tegantalks9612]

My dad hates this song because he finds the singer rude for going behind the dad’s back and marrying her anyways. Dad was not super thrilled when my husband didn’t asked for his permission when we got married.

[@dylansporrer1198]

Going back through old Todd vids and I am shocked to find out this was a contemporary song when the video was made. If you had asked me when 'Rude' came out I'd say like... 2006?

[@sylvaranti5046]

I kept trying to think why this song bothered me so much and at first I thought it was because of the line "I'm gonna marry her anyway" because there was just something I didn't like about it, but I think you've helped me figure it out. It's like you said, they don't focus on the daughter hardly at all. Honestly, I want to know how her feelings are about this whole thing. Sure, the music video shows her part, but I don't want to rely on the music video, I want to rely on the song alone cause that's kind of the point of a song if you're going to tell a narrative with it.

[@freddiesimmons1394]

I cant believe how many people don't assume that the daughter loves him when theyre planning on getting married

[@GlowingAlien]

I'm so glad you covered this. I used to rant about it to whoever was near me when it came on.

[@thestraysheep684]

I love the intro piano bit of the video, it's truly magical. I love it. 😍

[@riahlexington]

I always hear “Saturday morning put on my bear 🐻 suit,” lol.

[@air.presto8853]

"Maybe he helped write some of Chris Brown's worst album" That's true

[@CzlowiekDrzewo]

y u so rude

[@Ashethetics]

Człowiek Drzewo y u no let me marry

[@ricequin]

I asked my father-in-law for his blessing mostly as a joke. He just said “You’ll have to ask my son.” I was happy to tell him I already had and he’d said yes. It was a leap year so not totally non-traditional.

[@gxtmfa]

What’s off here is that “rude” means “cool” in Jamaican patois.

[@johnrondeau1180]

Todd your hilarious. Every video you do is just that hilarious.

[@thethe2852]

Good greammers. every greammers you do is great.

[@thethe2852]

The poor spelling was intentional.

[@gregorsamsa9264]

Good understanding of the joke. Your understanding of the joke is great.

[@ianmuir4168]

Thank you Todd. For some reason everyone I talk to about this song loves it!

[@chickenfox7445]

And now we observe Todd in his natural habitat. He's sleeping, now playing mortal combat, now sleeping again, now playing mortal combat again, now eating something, and now leaving to finish the pop song review.

[@weathermangohanssj4]

The missing K's are bothering me

[@Targisvear]

The fact he forgot "sleeping by a 50 Shades of Grey copy" bothers me more.

[@DrZuluGaming]

Except he didn't play Mortal Kombat. He played Marvel Vs Capcom 3.

[@gavmandragon8443]

He looks like Adam Driver after puberty but before his second puberty.

[@dannybuckle3763]

You know, I think there is a good story here f we go with what Todd said at first and make it a Gay Reggie song instead of the whiny stuff it turned out to be. The song could be about how the girl's father and the singer want to be together, but the girl, despite being good friends with the singer, dislikes the idea due to prejudices taught to her by her grandparents. Much more original and interesting than the crap we got here.

[@kinsey7894]

Todd: Yeah, I really like this song! Me: Oh god, the video's only half way over! WhAt DoEs He HaTe??? Me: *starts sweating

[@JaredtheRabbit]

He flipped the narrative.

[@emmaduncan2991]

hey! UB40's 1st greatest hits record 1980-83 was actually pretty good, as was Geffery Morgan! but according to Lee "Scratch" Perry, the Clash were the only white band to play acceptable reggae, and it should be noted UB40 have actual black members.

[@V4Now]

You owe me new clothes! I was eating chocolate when you said the *MAGIC!* LINE! Anyway this reminds me of a better Reggae song about a man asking for his daughters hand in marriage. Mr Walker, if i'm not mistaken, but it was taken as a tongue in cheek song about A man frustated by the woman leading him off and putting off a marriage.

[@sherwoodsmallidge9186]

love ur format

[@jadencrawford2772]

Having listened to this multiple times at restaurant work. Its a fun song to bop to with the melody and the lulling flow.

[@jonnybuijze1770]

I can't stop thinking about how the dad really looks like a very controversial politician from the Netherlands.

[@marystone1526]

The beginning of the video, where he was talking about it possibly being a gay reggae song, reminded me of Adam Buckley's review of the song. (I don't know when this was released on blip, but no matter which came first, I'm not calling either plagiarism.)

[@SemiIocon]

Funny how this pop song review literally became a OHW over time.

[@dtatertot]

I remember having a weird hand-held tablet game thing as a child called a LeapFrog. And for some reason, I remember watching the lyric video for this song on it. Somehow.

[@batman93oo]

Todd was right in the first hand about cultures. second half not so much. First hand experience. Been dating my girlfriend for 3 years. I have a graduate degree. overall good prospects in my career. Went to a good university. My GF's parents refuse to meet me because 1) they want someome from their nationality and 2) they want to decide who their daughter should date. Are we dating and moved in together anyway? Yeah. But would it also be common sense for her parents to get to know me and be happy for their daughter? Yeah. Which is the only reason I care for her parents coming around because would make my GF at ease. Otherwise yeah, we are going to live our lives regardless.

[@Wwumzymumzy]

It would've been nice if the song had this kind of context

[@Wwumzymumzy]

It would've been nice if the song had this kind of context

[@DravenUrei]

I see the song's point aswell. I was in the guy's shoes (and yours) too. I worked in the same field as them, graduated high school, had my own place, raised very respectful.....but I was black (dun dun DUUUUUUUUN). His parents were super traditional and really wanted a pure bred hmong baby. Lo and behold, I was already pregnant with their first grandbaby. Here is the difference...I made a compromise with his parents. We had a traditional marriage and decided to do the American wedding later. So I do see the fault with this song. You have to compromise with the parents. It's not fair to have your partner choose between you and family if you can help it.

[@thuongn85]

My brother loved this song due to the fact that he hates authority figures and people telling him stuff he doesn't want to hear so he would play it as many times as possible cause it connected with him. I on the other hand thought it was an obnoxious song about an emotional guy who won't take no for an answer, so yea why ask if you don't want to hear no. When he asked me and I told him what I thought about the song he was pretty pissy about it and all I had to say was thanks for proving my point.

[@xQueenyBee]

So, the very first time I heard this song was in an AMV with the anime My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute. I can never listen to this song without that popping in my head.

[@ddjsoyenby]

watching this all these years later when no one cares about this band anymore is not shocking.

[@sammcguire3798]

BRIAN!!! I KNOW YOU LOVE BLOOPY REGGAE JAMS!!!!!!

[@vaelethun]

Holy shit, didn't know this review existed! Thought I'd seen all of them. This one must have been in limbo for a long damn while...

[@theworstchannelyouhaveever9573]

13:42 what I wish Jotaro said to Anasui after he asked to marry Jolyne.

[@Nagoragama]

Wow, I completely forgot about this song until I was going through Todd's backlog. It gets zero radio play on the pop stations I listen to now.

[@artbk]

Haaaaaatee this song, it has become a easy listening PLAGUE! Great video on it.

[@Ratmus1]

Why ya gotta be so rude blip? heh

[@roarshach13]

The way they spell their band name makes me think of Strongbad's cameo in the Cobraman episode of The Aquabats Super Show. MAGIC!

[@Cream147player]

I can't imagine listening to this song and siding with anyone but the father. Like it's not even the father's place to say no but in this one exception, I can see why he needs to intervene. Besides, why ask him if you're not going to like the answer he gives?

[@countof3everybodyOD]

You don’t have daughters do ya Lol besides Isn’t it mostly just a silly tradition these days Like Has a dad said no this century

[@skylermaves7272]

I wonder if the dad said yes if would have sang polite instead of rude. I think I'd rather hear that.

[@annagrant3328]

when i first heard this song, i misheard it as “i’m gonna marry YOU anyway.” which sounds rather worse lol :’)

[@andysee6996]

I have the feeling that the first interpretation that Todd gave of the song was the mindset of Nasri Atweh (or however you spell his name) when he wrote the song. I get the feeling that a lot of listeners don't see it that way.

[@daniellevanvliet164]

Todd would probably still hate this, but I do listen to a girl cover which makes it gay, and therefore better.

[@obsessivelyShayz]

in some cultures, when signing a marriage contract, its the girls dads signature that goes on there. like ive heard of people marrying off their daughters without the daughter even knowing. so, if this was the kind of culture these people belonged to, yeah the dads okay is pretty important. since, he's the ultiamte decider of this girls fate. (which is messed up and awful, but it still happens.)

[@HoratioAccel]

these guys are from fucking canada no excuses

[@AntonioToronto]

Didn’t know they we from Toronto…… I mean I DID like the song when I was a kid, now I like it even more!

[@stupidname3627]

Yo like great review and all. captivating as always but like why are there scissors next too your bowl of cereal?

[@dekkacat8517]

I'm slightly upset that Todd doesn't like Dreadlock Holiday by 10cc, I think it's fun. I agree that UB40 sucks though, and this song is all I've heard from Magic! ,and they appear to suck too.

[@michaeladkins6]

Also, soon to fit in in one hit wonder category.

[@KuzzenFeralFerret]

I always thought he was saying Cruel... and I'm sure the line I heard was "why do you have to be so cruel, im going to marry ya anyway" which is disturbing on many many levels... I guess in was wrong or we got a different version in the UK

[@TheAllAroundMan]

This might as well be one hit wonderland

[@Daniel-ev1gx]

that "dad" totally looks like Mitt Romney

[@jdrebellove7460]

I like how Todd and Buckley had the same thought that it was about a gay reggae song

[@jamiewatts7255]

Wait, MAGIC! seems very metal. We need a metal cover immediately.

[@cedricfowler3465]

Here you go. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYS1lnqmm9ySg7M

[@cedricfowler3465]

It's a rock cover that makes it sound like a Police song.

[@thatonezeldaguy250]

the dad's not rude, "good luck my friend but the answer is no" he said no which sucks but he also called him friend and told him good luck smh

[@jamespw6206]

Pretty sure it's touch luck

[@aneiasl]

That's exactly how I feel about this song. !!!!!

[@csurname]

He says he put his best suit on. Suits suck, but what we're seeing isn't a suit, right?

[@moomoof8720]

I love this song XD but yea everything said about it is valid

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

I hate this song with a passion. Dammit Canada, I thought you were so nice. Why'd you send this here.

[@aaaaaa-rk7ie]

i mean, they send Justin Bieber

[@LazerDude]

+Janofa Ajenapol (Alexandru098) and you gave us Lindsey lohan and Rebecca black... so I think it evens out

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

LazerDude99 Wait, we did? On behalf of the United States I deeply apologize...Now take your people back.

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

kevin willems As long as they stay in your basement...

[@adrielarcher2151]

+A Certain Anime Theory Making Girl How do you think Canada STAYS so nice?

[@imfamoushero]

omg a todd video i haven’t seen unblocked

[@frankgonzales3742]

*_pitbull plays_* Oh, wonderful.

[@CosmicBaller1]

~~Even though Todd said ‘no’. I like the song anyway~~

[@kalebsantos72]

4:01 wait he said he put on his best suit did he take it off where did it go?

[@kaliora7047]

I worked retail when this song was huge and i wasn't able to decipher the lyrics well. I thought he was singing something along the lines of "why do you have to be so cruel.. i'm going to marry you anyway" and I thought like oh this song is so dumb why are you trying to marry someone you think is cruel? And then I watched this review for the first time and realized the song was actually dumber than I thought.

[@cfredrics]

What if he was only dating the girl to get closer to her dad?

[@witchflowers6942]

please anyone who knows this stuff lmk if there’s any actual gay reggae(Reggay) love ballads out there

[@zapruderofficial69]

Okay, but the lead singer looks like that one stock image of that bloke in those massive pants and the tophat that's kinda leaping through the air.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

2:04 - "I'm a bee under the mistletoe." So that's what all the buzz is about.

[@elizabethashley42]

Asking someone for something is giving them permission to say no. Also, some girls (like me) expect a guy to pass muster with their dad, and if he doesn't make the cut, we drop 'em.

[@michaeldebellis4202]

This song sounds to me very much like Mean by Taylor Swift only with Rude instead of Mean in the Chorus and Taylor Swift’s angelic voice replaced by nasally Cod Reggae whining. Yes, I confess she’s a guilty pleasure, at least a few songs.

[@alexwise5459]

Tbh I really dig this song.

[@zaksilva-sampaio7876]

Finally, some one else saying what I've been saying about this dumb song.

[@RoyFarrite]

Was gonna make a comment about Danny Sexbang, but... yo Marvel/UMVC3?

[@Moscato_Moscato]

I hate the original but I like the cover done by postmodern Jukebox

[@catherinemaw1869]

I thought this song was about the actress Mariel Hemingway.

[@babypurplebat2610]

Awww! Little Kali dog!!!