POP SONG REVIEW: "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake ft. Lil Jon

[@Infinity_Coda]

I don't know which made me laugh harder, the Kool-Aid Man clip with "YEAHYUH!" or Todd smashing his junk into the keyboard.

[@jakubdura828]

Both

[@CaitCher]

All of it

[@strawberryfields9762]

Damm straight😂 *WHAT! OKAY! YEAH!*

[@th3giv3r]

Yes.

[@wolfdarkforge2529]

I feel sorry for Todd, he wasn't crunk enough to try that move, but it was hilarious

[@V4Now]

Lil John is the Hip-Hop Kool-Aid man. That's... Just perfect :,(

[@gabrele.ggreen3429]

Yep

[@ticklezcat5191]

They've done a song together now.

[@Arak_Drakoniz]

Lil Jon needs to be the new voice of the Kool-Aid man.

[@asdkotable]

I hurt my throat laughing when he said that.

[@meatpopsicle6244]

ALLIREALLYWANTREALLYWANTFORCHRISTMAS

[@johnadams1667]

"Do we really need a guy who just says three words" well now we have ANOTHA ONE

[@ffjreviews9029]

WE DA BEST MUSIC

[@munjee2]

Although he atleast has 9

[@caspermcgoangle975]

I prefer lil John

[@lucillefrancois150]

“No song was ever hurt by having less Rick Ross.” Truer words were never said.

[@samanteater]

Devil in a New Dress was improved with more Rick Ross.

[@UnorthodoxIndividual]

yeah, Money in the Grave would probably be better with less Rick Ross even if he fits the song

[@m3tamorphosissystem250]

“Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it, I took her home and enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it” - Rick Ross

[@callalily0004]

Can we just take a second to appreciate how cool this song sounds on the piano and how well Todd plays it

[@PaulaSantos-uo7xi]

First I was like WHAAAT then I was like OOOK! then I was like YEAAAAH!!!!!! I died. 4 am now here and I'm binge watching this new found channel. Love it

[@ShinyGaara65]

Congratulations, Todd. You just topped your top 10 nutshots in movies with your own nutshot.

[@v.958]

lil Jon is not a rapper, he’s a hype man

[@jordyn-laurette_is_spicy]

He actually started getting notoriety as a producer. His "YEAAAAH, OH KAYYYY WHHAAAAAT"s were his equivalent of a producer tag

[@aaron1369]

Yup has is definitely hype man

[@ffjreviews9029]

He’s way better at his shouting than the worst rapper of all time AKA 69

[@Joeseph_Kerr]

Lil Jon 4 Prez.

[@dapperduckquack]

@@jordyn-laurette_is_spicy yup, he produced a lot of the big hits like "yeah"

[@enbytoon]

I love revisiting this just to s/o the music video directors on this masterpiece for getting so many awards and nominations for Everything Everywhere All At Once, I love seeing how people’s careers evolve

[@RileyHarrisVFX]

Which is better?; Oscar award winning directors of Turn Down For What Or Oscar Award Winning star of Turn Down for What

[@DKdrop]

I didn’t realize they had the same directors until now, but honestly, you can tell. Directorial style is fascinating.

[@gabe_s_videos]

"Off with you, now, before I smash you with my groin!" Oh my god, I can't breathe!

[@panthera9151]

What troubles me most about this song... when I first accidentally bumped into this song on the radio, all I could imagine was a gory, really gory Kill Bill like scene where a crazy chick walks into a club and kills anything inside her sword edge radius. And believe it or not, I wasn't even drunk at the moment.

[@shannonstrobel6727]

I'm not drunk either...and I am totally seeing that too!

[@minefilms1122]

that would be an awesome music video

[@PrincessNinja007]

The first time I saw it, it was to stabilized Star Trek, all I can see now is Patrick Stewart dancing.

[@herbertgrabbottom8060]

I don't think you know what ratio means.

[@panthera9151]

That's possible. Could be radius.

[@meeks102]

The Tasmanian Devil part made me stop the video until i could stop laughing

[@Duke00x]

meeks102 Are you sure you don't mean Tasmanian crunk-nado?

[@PandaWithThineGuns]

Krunk-nado would be an amazing movie.

[@WatchdogGoon]

+PandaWTG Somebody call SyFy!

[@petercahill6696]

Certainly a good idea for an hour long Adult Swim special.

[@stuffin91]

Man 2015 seems like a real long damn time ago now.

[@CarlsCozyCorner]

Try this: Harlem shake was 2013

[@ffjreviews9029]

This was made in 2014

[@sweesbees]

soon this review will be further away than the heyday of crunk was to this review

[@shamelesshussy]

2022 says “You’ve no fucking idea”

[@chaseywoot]

​@@sweesbeesI think we've reached that

[@bshinn4884]

Lil Jon is a hype man that managed to convince everyone he's a rapper. And I love the guy for it🤣

[@tired_eevee]

i love going back through these older videos and seeing todd talking about all these artists and groups that he talks about again or that just fall from relevancy rapidly. like the chainsmokers.

[@jacksonsmith2955]

if only this comment aged well...

[@oldladytrexarms]

Yes!!! Your "What?!", "Yeah!!", "Okay!" pun made me so happy! I do that all the time with my sisters. Don't forget to add "Get Crunk!" and "Shots!" to that vocabulary, too. As annoying as Lil Jon and this song is, we can't help but love them. Go look up the King of the Hill version of this. It's amazingly highlarious.

[@katkaitlyn155]

Ouch, Todd are you okay? That looked painful.

[@catiseith]

2:05 Oh! Alright then! I'll be back! **5 minutes later** OK, *WTF DID I JUST WATCH!*

[@erinbutler2892]

Awesomeness. Clearly. 8-)

[@unstoppableExodia]

I don't mind the song for what it is but the video is great. It's got some great visual gags that really convey the groove of the song.

[@brianvaira486]

The directors of this video are now academy award nominated directors. I just love that Edit: *academy award winning directors and screenwriters!

[@KoalaTulip47]

I hope they win Best Picture. Edit: Yay they did it!

[@TheIndifferentGamer]

And now they're academy award winning directors.

[@KoalaTulip47]

@@TheIndifferentGamer Well-deserved

[@antoniowoodson1262]

"Fire up your loud" "Light thine paper filled with marijuana of a large quantity of THC"

[@pootahg]

Lil Jon would make a fucking great metal singer.

[@z_monty]

Honestly such a good voice for it

[@familyguyfreemoviedownload8314]

“stop fuckin wit me” has him rapping over slayer riffs

[@johnclavis]

There has been many music videos where someone uses the power of music or rocking or whatever to display superhuman Powers. The Genius of this video is that these powers are shown to be terrifying and horrifying in their influence. Those shots where someone falls under the spell of the beat are hysterical and disquieting.

[@orhanamin1347]

Fun Fact: The music video of Turn Down for What was director by The Daniels, Who later go on to make The Oscar winning Masterpiece Everything Everywhere All at Once!!! 😲😲😲

[@insederec]

I don't know why the harlem shake dance got popular or even the song, but what I do know is that no one I mean *no one* questions papa franku

[@petercahill6696]

Insederec It was essentially a warning for the internet, yet did we listen? Did we dive deeper into the depraved and tortured world that the being in Pink and his friends dwelt? Did we do anything to stop that Filth they call Francis by sitting him down and try to be normal for one goddamn moment of his life? No, by Chin Chin!

[@tecwynjones6532]

Dude, it was literally: let's dance silly to a song. Internet memes are odd in that sense.

[@jordashi]

@@tecwynjones6532 Yeah no not when it was all planned from day one, I mean most people really believe the harlem shake craze was a real reaction to something viral and crazy but nope it was all a stunt that took a life of its own and left a mess in its wake. If anything the harlem shake ruined pop culture because now every artist needs to be attached to a meme or something viral to get a hit.

[@tecwynjones6532]

@@jordashi Planned? Maybe for one person, but with the amount of people who danced to it and did it, it certainly wasn't "planned". Also, got any evidence to say it's "planned"?

[@jordashi]

@@tecwynjones6532 I mean Filthy Frank did come out and admit he was behind the whole Harlem shake craze and you can google it and find articles on it. Honestly, the way KZbin is set up and now and even then nothing is naturally a viral hit that easily, there is a lot of planning that goes into making something viral and this craze was no different. In fact, if I recall right the same thing happened the next year with the pod challenge which was associated with the Black Beatles song, the same thing happened with the Watch Me Whip song, even musical acts aren't just a hit out of nowhere these days. There are people mostly the record industry who knows that people will jump all over a song if it's attached to something that can become a meme, and that is what happened with Harlem shake, I bet most people don't even remember who the artist was that made the song or even the original Harlem shake video which was Filthy Frank's who again started the whole craze. Sure there are times things become a viral hit off of word of mouth but most of the time somebody is behind it and planned the whole thing out and this was the case, now it's not to say people don't go overboard and made it such a big thing, but it wasn't like someone heard the song and made a video from it no it was a planned stunt that caught peoples attention and in turn, they copied it for the views and when mainstream America made it lame then we moved past it, basically it was a trend more than a viral hit, the sad part is the artist who made the song has never cracked in the top 40 in the U.S since.

[@thekingmaker7276]

Do we need a guy that shouts only three words? We The Best!!!

[@micahwright5901]

“A NOTHER ONE??” am I doing this right?

[@theycallmeroach1911]

"DJ KHALED"

[@Steve_Zilla]

Lil Jon is a combination of “Urkel and Animal from the Muppets.” Lol

[@CaptJosmy]

Sooo, I followed Todd's advice and paused this to go watch the video... ... Wish I hadn't done that.

[@CyclesMcHurtz]

Turn down for what?

[@rct3isepic]

Todd, the reason you like daft punk is most likely they aren't heavy (most of the time) and set more trends than follow them.

[@mixmastermind]

rct3isepic that and they're incredibly heavily influenced by disco, funk and early house. I mean they literally have a song on their album that's just Giorgio Moroder telling a story.

[@RhythmGrizz]

rct3isepic heavy? well of course not. it's not metal. gwar is heavy. cannibal corpse is heavy. cattle decapitation is heavy. I wouldn't call any edm/techno/electronica/trap heavy. bad adjective.

[@rct3isepic]

mixmastermind heavy doesn't just apply to metal. In the case of EDM, heavy refers to more aggressive percussion, more distorted sounds, and more aggressive and heavier bass

[@RhythmGrizz]

rct3isepic in my experience "heaviness" is directly correlated to how low the register of a song's key is. lower key = heavier sound. studies have been done on this. youtuber steve tereberry took lots of generally considered heavy songs, put them in higher tunings/keys, and the concensus was that they no longer sounded heavy. doom and sludge metal music is heavy as shit, and that music is built on slow tempos. so i don't think it necessarily has to do with tempo/speed or percussion. nor distortion for that matter. high tempos, perceived aggression, and distortion are often present in heavy music and associated with it, but I think they are more by-products. you can certainly have heavy sounding songs with slow tempos and minimal to no distortion. but you cannot have heavy songs in high-register keys.

[@faeriegraver]

Loads of dance music is heavy, like gabber.

[@dandelionjones3269]

The Lil Jon memes in this video are quality.

[@jackson5056]

11:57 That sounded painful.

[@sweesbees]

after finding out the directors of this music video would later go on to make everything everywhere all at once that explains so much

[@StarLightNow]

That poor piano at the end...

[@charlesmathieu9255]

StarLightFire what about Todd

[@AslanAtreyu]

Todd... just came across your channel. You're hilarious bro!

[@HazmanFTW]

I think Turn Down for What is even better with O Forutna playing over the top instead.

[@shadowlinkbds]

I always did like Lil Jon's music or whatever song he's featured in but do I like this one? YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[@draconiusultamius]

So what's that other line about? All I hear is 'farting loud another round of shots'. Or the alternative: 'farting loud and everybody shouts'...

[@PrincessNinja007]

Party Loud, another round of shots

[@skymundell301]

😂 farting loud 😂

[@cooldudeninja0219]

nice but what the hell is this that i am listening to.

[@dem160d]

Fire up your loud (light up sum dank ass weed) another round of shots (self explanatory I think)

[@browncoat697]

@@dem160d I thought it was lound for that dank shit. I figured "fire up your loud" meant "turn up the music."

[@TheEmmaHouli]

I have never gone away when a video says "pause this - I'll wait" I did this time and I was not disappointed... Wtf?

[@eggnogthespacecadet3392]

I thought "Smack My Bitch Up" was big beat, not drum and bass.

[@Autarch127]

Enoc Iglesias and you'd be right

[@elektrosoundwave]

It has shit to do with DnB. The Prodigy's first album was pre-jungle hardcore, but they went a different way than Goldie after that.

[@Jason_Altea]

2:05 Alright, fine... *3 1/2 minutes later* *_THE F^%# WAS THAT?!?!_*

[@whitechocolatte5863]

6:04 Lmao, remember when trap music was considered new? Feels like yesterday

[@TomBombadil168]

Turn down for Hwat? God dammit Bobby, turn down for hwat?!

[@Yvory]

I used to watch these all the time revisiting that time and omg you still crack me up man, love that you are still uploading as well

[@adanactnomew7085]

It's 2022 and the EDM trend is over. I miss it

[@DigiRangerScott]

Yeah but the directors of the video made a movie and won Oscars

[@AJSSPACEPLACE]

Daft punk is essentially modern Disco. And to be clear, I think that’s a good thing

[@sdgriffin7223]

Talking about something that distinctly isn't drum and bass. "this isn't edm, it's drum and bass!" cuts to another song that distinctly isn't drum and bass.

[@maisumcriticonainternet4351]

"For what posible reason would I enjoy my reverie any less than I am currently so doing?!" LOL

[@RobertSeeJen]

I always thought it was a declaration to the bar tender. Fire it up! Another round of shots! Silence implying people looking on in disgust TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?

[@sariarosegold]

I have been binging your videos Lately because I have a job that requires me to drive a lot. So I listen to you While I'm driving and I got to say that your content is really good. Even when I completely disagree with you. For instance. I actually like the song Scream and Shout. I'm not going to claim it's a good song but I like it. But I was dying laughing for most of your review Of it. You're just fun to listen to even when I don't agree with your opinion. Keep on with what you're doing.

[@colebelinsky881]

Lil Jon was the best Santa Claus.

[@wanderinghuntress8645]

Cole Belinsky what are you talking about?

[@oliviaautumn2488]

lol

[@SilverSpoonRiche]

"Off with you sir, before I smash you with my groin!" okay that got me to! LOL

[@nikitap6368]

If you hate EDM, try listening to house and trap. Best subgenres by far. Not all EDM is like Skrillex, Todd.

[@kimifw58]

Didn't he kind of say that?

[@iamaunicorn1232]

Todd strikes me as maybe liking electro funk, electro swing and other more "melodic" stuff like that. Energy and would still sound like music to him. Those and house are my personal favorite stuff.

[@xeferial]

I think this was my first Todd video I ever watched. It's a damn good one to start with.

[@zoeyag487]

Who would think that eight years later the guys who directed the music video for this song would win multiple Oscars?

[@Cai-Jo]

I always saw this as like an edm/trap version of the opening to "Chop Suey" by System of a Down. As in, its meant to make your heart race.

[@erickiam25]

lil Jon was a great producer before he appears on songs

[@gossiperzoroark9629]

_Todd actively penetrates the piano, to both his and the piano’s confusion_

[@littledemand2232]

did he just say "swerve"?

[@trrblv3]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that 😂

[@rct3isepic]

As of now, this ridiculous and awesome music video was directed by multi Oscar winners including best picture...

[@KoalaTulip47]

Which makes 2:23 excellent in hindsight, because they deserve it

[@mr.depressed886]

When Todd said trap Me in 2018 H E L P M E

[@micahwright5901]

Fuck trap. All my homies hate trap.

[@KewlImp]

How many takes did you do of the last scene?

[@florpfacejinglefribbins1984]

And then the directors of the music video would go on to direct one of the best films of 2016 and BLOW OUR F**KING MINDS.

[@thebowlfosho4974]

I want a full version of this song with the Tazmanian Devil.

[@Arlae_Nova]

How to understand this kind of music: don't listen to it, move to it.

[@christopherb501]

4:55 ...so yet another thing Dave Chappelle inadvertently ruins...

[@wdavem]

This video has kind of the same thing going on as Rat - Round and Around with people crashing through the ceiling, but its too much more demented and disturbing. It's apocalyptic and foul like a nightmare. I did have a dream about that Rat video when it was new. Not a bad dream, it was just very weird, I was 6 years old. There was a sequel 20 years later, no idea why.

[@infectedjake7208]

knife party is one of the most original edm like power glove or bonfire

[@mikeyvesperlick6982]

Excision

[@JRoJamz]

I always thought this song was the EDM Zombie Apocalypse. Which... I'm not that into EDM, and zombies are kind of over for me, but I dig it.

[@skyheartstar6510]

I think Todd likes Daft Punk because they’re not just EDM, they’re disco.

[@samanteater]

They're a specific type of house music that sounds different from other EDM.

[@CaptainJZH]

Dammit Todd! You just reminded me of Harlem Shake!

[@antikrista]

This song makes me have a physical reaction.. my stepdad used to use this to wake me up,, put the speakers on full blast and next to my head?? Made me have a panic attack multiple times Good times

[@riahlexington]

And also I unironically love “turn down for what”

[@joejoelesh1197]

I paused your video to watch "Turn Down For What?" That was great, so glad I watched it. You better be kind, because that video was awesome.

[@joejoelesh1197]

After returning, and watching Tod for a couple more seconds, I was not disappointed by his thoughts.

[@MrTantrill]

I actually like this song for the most part, but the music video just... kills it for me.

[@newperve]

I remember Eddie Murphy joking about James Brown's band leader not understanding a word he said, let Capone the audience.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Man I grew up with lil Wayne. God I loved hearing get low in need for speed underground

[@letsgotomarsman]

These songs are for clubs / concerts

[@artistwithouttalent]

1:14 I'm probably going to get shit for saying this, but to me Daft Punk is the King Crimson/Art Rock watershed moment for techno. Not that I think they're as good as King Crimson, but in the same way that King Crimson invoked musical elements that critics liked into their music to legitimize rock as a genre, Daft Punk has invoked Disco into their techno to legitimize EDM.

[@nomine4027]

All the pelvic thrusting makes me rather uncomfortable...

[@tylerensminger]

This song is starting to annoy me as ESPN uses it for their NBA promos. I am tired of hearing it.

[@Pyropuca]

Daft punk is more subtle and I love daft punk 😊

[@whatareyoudoinglookingatth8973]

Just remember, you can't spell newer, without *newer*

[@zekecurtis2704]

Every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[@erinbutler2892]

The BEST part is that the video has people in it instead of glossy Starship Trooper clones.

[@puli_dreadhead]

Remember when people used to say "function" when talking about partying.

[@paulyearley1084]

non-(versechorusversechorusbreakversechorus)-pop electronic music is... not the easiest thing to process when you first become aware of it. ...but it can be anything from the most fun thing to dance to, to the the most vapid thing in the world. That said, Turn Down For What distills Lil Jon to the basic essence of why we all love him

[@thevoidlookspretty7079]

One can only properly dance to this song while wearing a Henry V level cod piece.

[@jody8725]

That ending was pure gold

[@militarychica07]

Lmfao I know I'm late to this, but the tazmanian devil part had me bugging😂🤣

[@ewhite5810]

Lil John does a shit ton more than DJ Khalid.... By the way, DJ Khalid is the HipHop Pokemon

[@2120musiclover]

I always thought he said “Friday night, and everybody shouts.... turn down for what?!” Lol

[@emonerd9795]

Bet you had no idea the Daniels would win so many awards for a movie they directed after this video

[@hairyheartsmith8513]

You cracked me up sir. I have laughed less at major motion picture comedies. Thank you.

[@zacmitchel92]

Actually sounds decent on piano

[@RedPanda79]

Some songs work best on workout playlist not chilling at home

[@Cdr2002]

The end crotch shot is like the Todd equivalent of Lewis punching a robot then going “Owwwww!!!”

[@adam346]

The Daniel's are amazing indy filmmakers and even have a movie now! Two, actually! I forgot about Swiss Army Man... god what a good movie.

[@inafridge8573]

idk if you are using techno correctly but i do know that it is not a synonym for edm and is a specific genre in electronic music that isnt used to refer to all of it

[@SpektralJo]

turn down for what is trap, and not techno

[@Sharpevil]

Two mintues in, and Todd, you've never been more right about anything in the four and a half intervening years since this video's release.

[@manishasharma6776]

5:21 Thank God dj khaled shouts 4 words!