The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2016 (Part One)

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[@thelionsmane3032]

I was in middle school when “Lost Boy” came out, we had three different girls sing it in our school talent show. Not together, three separate acts.

[@theinfantmetroid]

The same thing happened at my school but with the cup song lmfao

[@anthonydeadman]

Three seperate acts of the same fucking song? Screw being "talented", this is an Uncreative show.

[@MissNymwhen]

Urgg I hate that song. Especially because the first time I heard it I thought "Oh wow what does it say, Im gonna listen to the lyrics" and it says nothing. Its just bland and unoriginal peter pan lyrics. There is no different angle or clever metaphor. He def got it right that the other song was the good peter pan song.

[@landoman107]

same here man. except it was 4 freaking years in a row.

[@raidenslade]

this happened at my elementary school but with 7 years. at least one person played it on piano instead of singing tho so it wasn't utterly atrocious

[@nolyricsneeded8424]

sure the 2016 being a brutal year aged poorly, but you know what else aged poorly? Todd thinking Vine dying would save him from shitty songs with segmented viral dance trends 💀💀💀

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

What's funny about Vine is that back then when it was super popular and still around I remember when everybody absolutely hated Vine, and now people are nostalgic for Vine.

[@ZacharyResky]

Oh yeah TikTok exists

[@nedmode9412]

vine was still worse

[@metroidotherm6170]

Too be fair, even though I'm not a huge TikTok fan, it still did more good than vine ever did.

[@riley2243]

@@metroidotherm6170 Yeah, I’ve found a lot of lesser known artists from that app that genuinely make good music. There’s a few bad ones, but the good songs I hear do cancel the bad ones out

[@robjgolde3221]

I also hated “Ju Ju on that beat” buuut I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think “you ugly, you yo daddy’s son” is objectively hilarious

[@cangrejopendejo4909]

Someone tell this guy what 'objectively' means.

[@MarkHalberstram]

@@cangrejopendejo4909 he knows what it means and he’s using it correctly, stay mad.

[@cangrejopendejo4909]

^ Someone tell this guy what 'objectively' means.

[@MarkHalberstram]

@@cangrejopendejo4909 cry about it

[@rabidhog4912]

They were clearly just trying to have fun, zay honestly seems like a pretty chill dude from what I’ve seen

[@RhyperiorRanger]

Todd is like that teacher who knows which students will cause trouble when paired up in a group project so he tells Drake and Future they’re not allowed to work together

[@jessica-nd8ku]

Yup

[@happymilk7433]

Yet they somehow end up working together

[@Flowtail]

Now i kinda wanna see one of those speculative au blogs about the youtubers i like

[@MuhammadSalman7236]

They just made a song lmao

[@behindthegame0000]

He was a sub

[@Kumaclaws]

How to make a 2016 song: 1) sound bored or dead 2) use trap beats 3) rinse, repeat

[@stewyhosseini]

Toxicghosts22 (make sure you sound asleep/bored)

[@mcamman6193]

Toxicghosts22 4) Make dance song's for bonus points. 5) And last but not least, also make sure you have a gullible general public that will be stupid enough to buy it.

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

mm mm cam 47619 6) tryna look like a black person

[@RhythmGrizz]

Toxicghosts22 yep.

[@mcamman6193]

Brayan Argandona Florentino lol

[@Theriot6592]

Glad you realized that about Peter Pan too. Basically the entire point of the original book is that never growing up and staying in eternal adolescance may sound good at first, but is actually a really shitty way to live.

[@johnkoch9315]

Wanna explain that to me further? I'm genuinely curious and highly doubt Todd will ever bring up Peter Pan. It's actually the main reason I disliked the country song, thinking everything she's saying is actually making a GOOD case for the guy.

[@argoth231]

Rae Angel book written about this exact thing. bu Brom called "child thief"

[@Dreigonix]

+EaglesRugby After that song, I'm gonna go reread Peter And The Starcatchers. You know- a much, much better ascended fanfic of Peter Pan than that.

[@LittleGreenSoldier]

I was kind of hoping it would be a metaphor for drug addiction, with pixie dust being heroin or something and peter pan being her dealer/pimp, but that would have been a good song.

[@animasuperfreakgirl]

Maybe but I don't think he did, I read the book this year. "There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they would not be frightened." Gratned these are only stories that mister Darling has heard but i do think they hold value. Now while peter seems to have some concept of death he lacks the full understanding as he the emotional maturity of well a child and he forgets very easily as he is such as a child (in fact he forgot about hook after hook committed suicide but always remembered wendy). What you are referring to is that he "thinned them out". (Though you might also be thinking of the 'killing adults' thing but that needs a lot more context to understand) This is a vague statement that could easily mean that he abandoned them in the wood, made them leave never land and go back or kill them like you suggested. I was clearly left up for interpretation. If I remember correctly the lost boys used trees to get into their secret hide out but when the boys would no longer fit he would thin them out (this lead to a joke about how the fat lost boy thing out his tree instead). Which I interpreted as peter making them smaller potently horrifying or making no sense but this is a book where the narrator had an argument with Mrs. Darling, Mrs. Darling had a box holding a secret kiss and the narrator tossed a dice in order to decide how to tell the story. In other words, this book is big on whimsy and nonsense. It's possible that peter did straight up kill the lost boys but honestly I find that a boring interpretation as neverland is a child's playland dark and thrilling not a merely a paradise or merely full of silliness and laughter ( it is abit of all three). It is intense where children fly rather than walk and they kill the pirates that are as horrible as can be. While possible for peter to kill his friends it doesn't quite work with his mo of killing villains and most kids don't want their friends permanently gone rather they want the abblity to have their friends come and go when they( in this case peter) want so I think it's more likely that he kicked them out then forgot they existed. This in turn opens interesting stories about former lost boys living out in the real world which I find far more interesting. Especially since lost boys already die in the fights with the pirates. What's more peter pan is portrayed with both positives and negatives. Barry loves to show peter pan in a positive light but doesn't shy away from the tragedy and the negatives of the character. For example, he has the positives of a child as he is adventures and fun loving but also selfish and bratty and due to his short memory is incapable of deciding if he truly wants to be a kid forever or if he wants to grow up. This is something Barry did with Wendy to and even hook and tinker bell too much lesser extents. Barry portrayed peter pan as a complex figure and his never growing up as both good (endless adventure) and bad(unable to fully understand things like death). Sorry for the long post but over-simplifying children's story books bugs me ;) Also feel free to tell me i'm wrong if I forgot something.

[@PassTheMarmalade1957]

Lost Boy is the laziest song I've ever heard. Lazy lyrics, lazy piano playing, lazy singing. It's the musical equivalent of the colour beige.

[@tommycarr8111]

Lady Marmalade Hey! That's an insult to the colour beige. The baku would like to disagree.

[@helenanilsson5666]

1. If it's popular we call it "nude", not "beige". Though admittedly "nude" is a slightly too exciting word for this song. 2. I like the colour beige/nude. 3. The above is probably related to why I actually like the song quite well. It's very harmless, a little melancholic - and very neutralising when the road rage creeps up so I usually appreciated it when the song came on the radio.

[@vdnf321]

so what you're saying is that is passive?

[@walrusArmageddon]

I love that analogy holy crap

[@multijxde1855]

Thank god someone agrees with me

[@flamer3344]

Someone should’ve warned him about TikTok if he didn’t like vine that much

[@ffjreviews9029]

“IMMA TAKE MY HORSE TO THE OLD TOWN ROAD”

[@nifralo2752]

Amazing how quick vine became the new ask Jeeves or Myspace

[@blackacidgaming5672]

@@nifralo2752 in fairness, it died because of twitter not because of lack of popularity

[@dreamer1-7]

Someone should've warned him about 2020 being the worst year 👀

[@fedorafluke]

@@dreamer1-7 was just thinking that! His into would fit these year a lot too

[@erikdaniels0n]

It’s been 4 years, and yet Todd’s rant about Wikipedia not having a page for the Juju On The Beat guys while having a page about boob mountains has lived in my head rent free

[@robk7266]

They now have one

[@shawnfields2369]

@@robk7266 And?

[@EndParenthesis]

@@robk7266 And it's one paragraph long, two thirds of which is about the song rather than them as people.

[@robk7266]

@@EndParenthesis I like to believe whoever wrote that article did so after watching this video

[@redsxfenway]

​@@robk7266 You're definitely right. It was created the same day this video came out.

[@faelapis8780]

"lost boy" reminds me of those slowed-down trailer themes that think doing an acoustic cover of a children's song automatically make it deep and profound. i think ruth b was going for a nostalgic 'childhood lost - i need to escape reality', or even a 'Wish We Could Turn Back Time to the Good Old Days' vibe, but the song doesn't understand how to convey that without drowning in cliches and detached dullness.

[@eli-is]

I like both songs.

[@cookiemocher388]

Honestly slowed down kids songs sound more dramatic than "lost boy"

[@Vanillastump]

Or if she actually made clear it was a metaphor or something.

[@hackbelly2120]

I feel the same. Todd is just being unnecessarily mean about this one. I also have heard that ruth b had a pretty rough childhood, so maybe it's just her way to escape from the cruel reality, a lost boy nobody loved try to find his own neverland. What's to be mocked? I don't get all these judgement.

[@orangeants]

Apparently it's about her brother who died in childhood so I think it actually fits with the vibe and intention Could be wrong though

[@thefanficfanpony3551]

What I don't get is how overpraised "Lost Boy" is. Seriously, looking at the comments on the video, people seem to think it is "a song with REAL talent and meaning" and how it "brings up feelings" and such. I just really don't understand it.

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

Maybe they're associating it with drugs like with most other fairy tails. "Peter" is the dealer, "Tinker bell" is the main provider of "pixie dust" (read: blow), the "Lost Boys" and "Wendy Darling" are their customers, and "Captain Hook" is the Po-Po. I don't think I should mention the whole "flying" thing...

[@swivelkeyring3512]

CN what I'm Saiyan? if that's really the intention of the song, she sure made getting high sounds really boring

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

zaito k To quote Todd: "Never before has there been such a downer song about taking uppers."

[@maggie5990]

A G there's somber indie songs and then there's dull uninspired songs sung by teenage singers like they're bored out of their mind. The later is "Lost Boy"

[@annnee6818]

TheFanficFanPony It's dumb and whimpery but at least it's semi-competently performed...

[@PatheticApathetic]

The appeal of Lost Boy is that the somber tone tricks the young listener into thinking that it's more mature and there's a deeper meaning to it. Despite the fact that, even if there is a deeper meaning to it, that deeper meaning would be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the point of the Peter Pan story: you don't actually want to be a Lost Boy. The fact that Peter Pan and the Lost Boys never grew up is supposed to be a bad thing

[@andreizedlav7303]

Who else is watching this ASAP before it gets taken down?

[@bonkai68]

Andrei Zedlav yo.

[@yonavine]

yep

[@ieceineint452]

Andrei Zedlav too real for KZbin fair use policy.

[@handsomejack4125]

hello again Star. xD that said, ignore him. he'll go away if you don't feed him.

[@Unperceived]

Of course! You can't just miss a Todd video! That's the only rule of the channel.

[@StarShipGray]

Ruth B looks as bored with herself and her song as I am.

[@AikiraBeats]

Facts

[@corrieobsession6672]

Skye Gray Ruth b sung for her dead brother that passed away

[@Bubbleyumizchewi17]

🤣😂🤣

[@kieranstark7213]

Like Todd in the Shadows, A Dose of Buckley and the rest of us said, "Oh hell, this isn't a metaphor. This is a fanfic! It's a self-insert fanfic! Gawd, no wonder it's so serious! >:(". XD

[@patrickstar796]

Corrie obsession Doesn’t make it exciting or good

[@MakeAcid]

lost boy sound like the kinda song what you make as you go while warming up playing piano even the lyrics melody have that almost monotone delivery

[@corrieobsession6672]

MakeAcid Lost boy was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan

[@yunguboa]

@@corrieobsession6672 That still doesn't really change the quality of the song. Yes, you can write sad songs, but there's a way to do it. Have small lyrical notes so you can understand what the song is actually about. The song isn't really depressing or happy. It's nothing. You can potray that idea in a way, but it has to be done in certain ways (good writing).

[@yunguboa]

@@corrieobsession6672 You HAVE to reveal those themes for anyone to understand what the song is about. What is your source for this info anyway?

[@salma.elsaid]

It's either that or a song from an off Broadway musical, and the girl playing the lead hurt her voice, and the opening show is in a week so she's marking it. ....actually that's exactly what it sounds like....

[@shawnfields2369]

@@salma.elsaid Are we sure that's NOT what it is? I agree with Todd, this sounds like a dull-as-shit self insert fanfic. If it's supposed to be a tribute song, it's being done WRONG. There's a right way to do a tribute song,(as another commenter has said),and there's a wrong way to do it. Ruth B's song, is the WRONG way to do it. Plus, her name makes her sound generic as hell. Also, if this is a tribute song, it doesn't automatically mean the song will be any good. But, I like your interpretation of this dull-as-shit song, dude/lady.

[@ouijacorn]

The first time I watched this video, I hadn't heard that Lost Boys song and was thinking: "Surely, this song isn't as terrible as it sounds." Then I heard it playing in an ice-cream parlor and I felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body. The second time I heard it, I felt overcome by terror because my subconscious keeps insisting that there's some creepy hidden meaning.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

I find your review very amusing because if I had to describe the sort of person who would like that song, I'd start by guessing they say things like "i felt my soul INSTANTLY leave my body".

[@ouijacorn]

@@TheEvilCheesecake Aw, did you write it or something? Why are you so fuckin salty?

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

@@ouijacorn I'm just letting you know that you talk exactly like a vapid teenage tumbler girl, is all.

[@ouijacorn]

@@TheEvilCheesecake Has anyone told you that acting like a bitch online isn't a replacement for a personality?

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

@@ouijacorn I'm glad we can both learn from your personal history of experience.

[@lulucalliope713]

To me, the worst song on this list is Peter Pan. The way that the "artist" sings about the story just sounds so bored and detached that it becomes insulting to fans of the original story, as well every good adaptation of the story. I just...ugh.

[@MegaKH2fan]

Lulu Calliope To be fair, I think Lost Boy is supposed to be a metaphor for suicide, seeing the sad tone and quietness. It still sucks, but I got a soft spot for P Pan.

[@rainmanslim4611]

Dude the original was a written and published pedo fantasy.

[@rhodopisdenile8977]

Rainman Slim doesn't change the fact that people still like it I mean the original little mermaid involved a really down beat ending but that doesn't make me hate the story of the little mermaid besides the authors wife actually said that she didn't think he was attracted to anyone woman man or child

[@LaineMann]

I thought that song was good, but that's because it was different.

[@midbizkit]

Agreed

[@EmperorTigerstar]

The One Hit Wonderland joke with Juju On That Beat made me laugh really hard.

[@DetectorCliche]

I knew I couldn't have been the only one who felt that.

[@Karmy.]

EmperorTigerstar ya

[@StarlightPrism]

Same here. "They were fetuses".

[@Zodia195]

Hey Buddy, nice to see you here.

[@assafbarbash572]

EmperorTigerstar love your videos

[@heythereitsRBK2]

People in 2016: This is the worst year in history. 2020: *Hold my Corona*

[@planej6315]

Also people like to reminisce about Summer '16 as a great summer where great music came out when in reality people hated that year back then

[@Allovimo]

Right? Oh my sweet baby J.

[@douglasrau5094]

And it can still get worse.

[@wynignatius9289]

2020 is super great

[@normalpigeons5190]

I hate this meme so much

[@Thechad201]

Todd: how was YOUR 2016?! He he he he hehhhhh :-( 2020: *licking lips* *rubbing hands behind tree*

[@teachersears]

2021: does that fake humping move behind 2020

[@Daxter609]

Lost Boy is so dull how the hell did it get so popular?

[@goodjobeli]

SinPunisher remixes

[@thefanficfanpony3551]

Looking at the video, people seem to think it's some sort of musical masterpeice... Somehow.

[@SRLovesPandas1]

i would've never heard of it if it wasn't for this video

[@aaa1e2r3]

The song is so safe that it could be played on radio without ever having to fear that someone will be offended by it's lyrics

[@smurf0920]

SinPunisher marketed to edgy teens

[@lisabarnes924]

Juju on the beat was just a poor mans' cha cha silde.

[@SuperMonaLisaBros]

Oh come on. It's not *that* good.

[@omarr2x54]

A poor mans’ cha cha slide is 1000x better than Juju on that beat

[@russianname2986]

Omar Dagod this is a caveman’s cha cha slide

[@ffjreviews9029]

Juju on that Beat is better than Watch Me though.

[@kieranstark7213]

At least Cha Cha Slide is actually catchy, if slight over-popularized! Juju on that Beat just made 2016 one of the worst years of music!

[@hellsinvader]

It’s fun watching people call 2016 the worst year ever and think “the worst year so far.”

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

I'm from the future and we think the same thing about you

[@alannahfisherman1321]

Calling 2016 the worst year in history is laughable nowadays. There is published material taking shots at 2016.

[@MetalSandman999]

Ruth B.'s "Lost Boy": now THAT is a girl just sitting still and looking pretty lol

[@cappingbeara3212]

Such a terrible song

[@MetalSandman999]

@@cappingbeara3212 well, it is on the list for a reason lol

[@cappingbeara3212]

@@MetalSandman999 no wayreally

[@ameliatownsend5966]

:o as a Ruth b fan I think it’s an amazing song but if you hear it for about 10 times it’s awful.

[@riley2243]

@@ameliatownsend5966 …wait has she actually released -better- new music?

[@papersamurai00]

OH GOD, I hate that song Lost Boy! I hear it so damn often at work and it grinds my gears so hard I wonder how they're not all wheels by now. So droning and pointless...

[@skolworksedits8543]

papersamurai00 Luckily it's not popular where I live so I never heard it before this video

[@stephanierodriguez5498]

papersamurai00 It really salts my apple

[@corrieobsession6672]

papersamurai00 Lost boy was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan

[@randmiller88]

@@corrieobsession6672 She should have sung it at his funeral, and never again

[@VuNguyen-pt1vf]

@@randmiller88 oh yeah i agree , that song is so boring

[@arklestudios]

Future sounds like what my very white Mom thinks all rappers sound like.

[@Necron1999]

Brian Webber Honestly, nowadays, your mom isn't too far off.

[@littlelordfuckleroy3822]

youraverageevilpoet That's quite false but okay

[@guyman4823]

Andy Johnson In mainstream it's not that far off. Though overall it's far from the truth. Non mainstream hip hop is the best it's ever been, the amount of innovation and creativity going on in hip hop is incredible right now.

[@TheUltimateNavigator1]

cause they all do

[@deprhye7589]

TheUltimateNavigator 1 Havnt done your research then

[@UnknownMaster-go1lh]

Todd perfectly summed up my first reaction to lost boy."What the hell is this?"

[@cappingbeara3212]

It’s awful

[@StormyKopaAMVs]

"But every song is like-" "-YOU GET OFF ON YOUR NINE-TO-FIVE DREAM OF PICKET FENCES AND TROPHY WIVES"

[@gutsFunnyman]

I think those two songs would mash up well

[@corinnecann1404]

@@gutsFunnyman don’t do that to our girl lorde

[@HarryRickard]

'This isn't a song, it's Cliff Notes!' And that is why I love Todd in the Shadows.

[@nritsch]

I thought you were putting Sucker for Pain on the list, until I realized how appropriate it was to listening to 2016 pop.

[@hiimemily]

Damn shame. I'd have included it in the list because good _god_ is it miserable to listen to.

[@landoman107]

"Lost Boy" has been sung by someone at my talent show for 4 straight years. None of them have won.

[@CalebBurnsGamesDotCom]

Tell them “suck it” for me

[@joelkay4726]

"2016 was a particularly brutal year" *Laughs from 2020*

[@patrickgowen324]

I say 2016 is like Mortal Kombat to 2020’s God of War and Doom amalgamation

[@pumpkinisconfused5079]

Laughs in January 6 2021 as a US citizen but actually crying and thinking that the next 14 days will be real bad and slow

[@QueenCandy981]

@@pumpkinisconfused5079 Well you weren’t wrong

[@twentyonetortas5921]

ikr like in this vid he threw shade at Halsey only to be fine with her music in his 2020 hits video oh how time has passed

[@lo-fi8481]

Laughs from 2021

[@CyberKirby]

"Machine Gun Kelly" that name is trying WAY TOO HARD

[@jayromeo940]

Cyber Kirby Thats a name of a real gangster from the Prohibition Era.

[@guyman4823]

Jay Romeo Yeah but MGK is not a gangsta rapper at all or remotely threatening.

[@sjsjsjsjsbagahlwmdbxhamansksms]

He is a really good rapper

[@downward.spiral]

he's trash

[@dyldragon1]

He had one good track called Wild Boy and fizzled out.

[@darkhero-3097]

I hate all the artists who just play piano and sing softly. It's so boring, dull, and horrible. I've heard it so many times, and I hate it.

[@joewoods9612]

It's fine if they actually have anything interesting to say, but it's usually cliche melodrama

[@darkhero-3097]

Joe Woods I've only heard cliche melodrama. It's even worse when it's a person singing softly on a guitar.

[@cee_que]

DarkHero Gamer what about two people singing on piano and guitar

[@darkhero-3097]

Gd CK12345 I think those are fine, as long as they aren't sing too softly.

[@darkhero-3097]

Smooth Leprechaun They are exempt.

[@presidentdaddy4566]

Ruth B has made the most boring song in human history

[@shawnfields2757]

Yup. She also singlehandedly made the worst Peter Pan related piece of media ever!

[@YouCanCallMeXoe]

@@shawnfields2757 AND THAT'S NOT AN EASY FEAT!

[@shawnfields2369]

@@YouCanCallMeXoe No, it definitely isn't. People in the comments say she made the song for her dead brother who died and loved Peter Pan. While I'm sorry to hear that, it doesn't mean the song itself is automatically good. The song is still boring as shit.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

No. There's a song Ed Sheeran made with some other woman that appeared on one of Todd's worst list. That is the most boring song. Lost Boys is bad, but at least it has a basic rhythm. The Ed Sheeran song is milk on white bread levels of bland.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@jeremyusreevu237 You mean the song, "Perfect", with Beyonce, right? Yeah, I disagree. While I despise beyonce, it's only her version with Ed Sheeran that sucks. Ed by himself on the song isn't too bad. A bit corny, and had a bunch of romantic cliches, but the song itself isn't too bad. But like Todd said, that version forces you to imagine Beyonce and Ed Sheeran as a couple, which makes me want to puke(I added that last part in myself, because, blegh!) As hot as beyonce is, her music makes her seem very, very annoying. And Ruth B's awful Peter Pan song is STILL the most boring song, and worst Peter Pan related anything ever made or witnessed by humanity, 'nuff said.

[@sir.badger6910]

2016: I'm the worst year 2020: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[@pyporzpomyka7785]

It is at perfect numer of likes so im not gonna drop one but... nice

[@sir.badger6910]

@@pyporzpomyka7785 thank you

[@slamwall9057]

2020 is actually a good year for music... or at least a good year for good music

[@laroxiaparker9869]

Toad got a prediction right about the kids who made juju on that beat would only have that song

[@toptomato]

LMAO

[@finnChitwood]

i like 21p as much as the next person, but im also studying norweigan and that ø in their stylized name and now in every middle-schoolers instagram bio drives me crazy…

[@representationmetaphorique]

Faith Chitwood oh my God every fucking twenty one pilots fan on God's green earth does it while they're just typing. so say they want to say their Nona is a good cook, they'd type "my Nøna is such a gøød cøøk. stay alive -/" I love twenty one pilots but HOLY FUCK

[@finnChitwood]

erin h YEAH IT DRIVES ME UP THE WALL

[@DBfan12]

I don't even know who they are, but I am Norwegian and whenever I see someone use Ø like that it annoys me. Unless they really DO pronounce their name Twenty UHN-E pil-UH-tes.

[@K-a-i.]

:)

[@oscarnemo8084]

Same. In some cases it wørks. In others it døesn't.

[@CherryRedBanshee]

I think the appeal of Daya is the fact that she, like Lorde when she made it big, was 17 when she had her first hit. "Woooow, she's so young and is able to sing even though she's so young! Can you believe a teenager can do something as well as an adult? Amazing, give her a record deal!"

[@bigdaddy9579]

Sparkyisheretoparty I love how you assume any pop singer can actually sing.

[@LetsStopThisSong]

Sparkyisheretoparty lorde >>>>>> any of her wannabes

[@robertolie6798]

Sparkyisheretoparty Lorde had amazing self-awareness and insight and none of the pretentiousness. It bashes some of the artifice of culture/materialism but doesn't pretend that they're awesome either.

[@PatheticApathetic]

The difference is that Lorde's lyrics were great, and she wrote the songs

[@StormyKopaAMVs]

Listen to Lorde's new album _Melodrama_ and tell me again that she sounds bored.

[@nritsch]

I'm convinced Sucker For Pain was made for this video.

[@neoman289151]

Todd being happy about Vine shutting down is so beautifully poetic in the age of Tick Tock

[@that-guy-pearce]

Why do all the female singers in the past couple years sound exactly the same?

[@insertwittynamehere1411]

Secret Steve they're clones. Well, they might as well be

[@smurf0920]

Secret Steve little thing called illusion of choice. Artists are treated like brands and they try to brand them with a certain image depending on the market to their voice. If a star such as Lorde hit it big they try to tap into that and so on and so forth. Even bands so far back as the 50s were all trying to be the Platters or whatever trio/quintet group that was out there. That is until rock hit the scene and everyone is all just trying to compete for a more vast audience. Music isnt just a list. Its a spectrum, and it changes alongside society the way i see it.

[@brookenjonas]

Because they do and people don't like diversity in singing styles anymore.

[@Xehanort10]

Because they don't put any effort into their singing. They just care about making themselves look hot and shaking their boobs and ass at people to make them forget that the singing's crappy. Take Ariana Grande. She just wants all men to be so turned on by her shaking her tits in their faces that they'll ignore the fact that she's a horrible singer.

[@QteaTheSwag]

Xehanort10 I like how you chose one of the good singers from our generation..

[@totesme14]

"Before the hit... They were fetuses" made me choke on my spit XD

[@ItsOver9000000]

I really hate Camila's voice. It's so grating on my ears.

[@Briargh]

facts

[@brylisstormscourge603]

"where will we be without our tragically misused samples?" man we're all laughing about todd thinking vine dying would save him from bad songs but rehearing this line is especially funny after rewatching the 2022 worst of list

[@GoBuckeyes554]

God I hate that Peter Pan song it makes me angry it just bugs me to no end lol Dull boring with cringy lyrics.

[@braydenfitzsimmons6824]

GoBuckeyes554 listen to Kelsea Ballerini Peter Pan song, 1000x better

[@Aminangela]

A G I personally didn't like the lyrics... I usually don't listen to them but HOLY CRAP I CANT IGNORE IT IT'S SO STUPID

[@trrblv3]

A G you can have somber and slow songs that are way more well written than lost boy. Lost boy is very generic, and produced to appeal to the masses. There's a difference between somber and boring/poorly written. Also I don't agree that boring generic songs are popular amongst the indie fans. If you want to listen to a band that does slow songs that aren't generic af or boring and are actually well written check out the indie bands grizzly bear or alt j.

[@corrieobsession6672]

GoBuckeyes554 LOST BOY was written for her dead brother that passed away and loved Peter Pan

[@Bismuth83X]

@@corrieobsession6672 Still doesn't make it good!

[@Nymphonomicon]

If ever there was an expression to sum up Vine, "You ugly. You yo'r daddy son," seems to be competent.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

What I find funny is Juju On That Beat is also known as the TZ Anthem when it should be the Vine goodbye anthem. The camera spinoff they tried in early 2017 thankfully died off faster

[@missmferret3897]

Nymphonomicon I just want to punch those kids so bad ugh Just wanted to put that out there

[@AnnieKeller]

THANK YOU for mentioning Lost Boy (I know it's well into 2017 and I'm quite late to the party here but oops I'm just now seeing this). It was inoffensive, but boy did it literally sound like something I would write for my eighth grade English project and was so musically unoriginal that it made me cringe every time and I could never sit through it.

[@MetalSandman999]

Ruth B's song got big because: 1. Most people don't think about lyrics as much as they should. 2. People assume slow and piano means deep. 3. The girl is really cute. Not even like hot, but cute. Like a child growing up. I look at her and think she could be my daughter - and I'm whiter than a yeti lol

[@slamwall9057]

"People assume slow and piano means deep" That explains another, slightly more recent, song's popularity

[@soumyasingh7736]

@@slamwall9057 which one which one??!?

[@slamwall9057]

@@soumyasingh7736 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII think it's obvious which song IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm referring to

[@sperinthalakkat9831]

@@slamwall9057 I don't get it. I don't listen to much music

[@slamwall9057]

@@sperinthalakkat9831 well then it's better that you don't know

[@iainwaddell6620]

Wait Vine didn't actually shut down?

[@Redsoxking]

Smeagol Sandwich still run just can't make an account

[@lilacswimmer]

Smeagol Sandwich no, its just being rebranded to Vine Camera. existing vines and the website'll stay, but any new vines'll be put onto twitter instead

[@zombiechicken7114]

Finley Michaels if you don't update the app, it's fine.

[@aliccolo]

I got through all of 2016 without hearing ANY of these songs.

[@ttud293]

aliccolo sure

[@arnold20139]

aliccolo I know right :)

[@Bluecho4]

And thank God for that.

[@selina5598]

Me too. I don't feel so alone

[@asgrimurhartmannsson]

You also? Good. Lucky you, seems to me.

[@kmxrie]

I really did think 2016 was the worst fucking year of my life and then 2020 snatched me up by my fucking ponytail and brutally slammed me into the ground repeatedly and mercilessly.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

If you didn't spend so much time living on the internet then you would have a better time

[@cookiemocher388]

@@TheEvilCheesecake there was a pandemic during 2020 and you couldn't go outside, like what the fuck else would she have done

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

@@cookiemocher388 both of you could have grown a hobby or interest

[@itookallthenames]

@@TheEvilCheesecake says a person on the fucking internet

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

@@itookallthenames I don't live here, I just come here to laugh at the people who do, and then I leave.

[@VampKat]

Todd: *talking about vine making shitty songs get popular* Tiktok: Hold my beer

[@rojoe802]

Damn it Todd I was just about to go to bed

[@Luke-xq6iu]

SteelersFan 101 Its 9.14 am here lol

[@kingdylan5772]

xD

[@jeremymolinari6597]

Pittsburgh? Same! And also just about to go to bed.... Gotta see it before it's flagged. :P

[@oarck]

For real, got work in like 5 hours but when dad uploads im willing to sacrifice my only source of income

[@FlutterLights]

SteelersFan 101 same here bro

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

#8 - OH THANK GOD. I thought I was the only one who hated that simpering nonsense!

[@animation308]

m3rrys0ngstr3ss Sounds like a way to build up sadness in a sub par Peter Pan movie.

[@pareesgillard]

I love lost boy but I can agree with the points 😢😂

[@annnee6818]

m3rrys0ngstr3ss I hate it... but I hate Jumpman way more. Even though that girl sounds about as excited as Drake and Future do😆

[@karenpinckney3135]

m3rrys0ngstr3ss it was a snore feast

[@rajakzz4341]

A song has never physically hurt me till I first heard that

[@whiplashfilms]

It makes me happy that a year later after Todd pondered/worried if Lorde didnt have longevity he put one of her follow up songs as his #1 best of the year.

[@oldschool3424]

Lost boy is genuinely one of the most bizarre and confusing songs I have never heard

[@shawnfields2369]

Exactly. It may be the most boring song of all time.

[@smartsport]

Lol I love the ironic usage of the slashed o's that Twenty One Pilots use

[@bobdylan568]

They're ø's and they're pronounced differently than o, it's so stupid when people use it to make text look edgy

[@benjaminp1357]

smartsport I-/ :)

[@thumbsup5524]

Yes

[@ArmyPrint]

Surprised you didn't bring up that Lost Boy started its life as a Vine video. It was just soooooooo good, that she turned it into a whole song. Lucky us.

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

"If there was ever a good year to be a mediocre white man, it was 2016" -Todd in the Shadows

[@MyssBlewm]

Not even one whole year yet and most of these artists/songs are completely irrelevant. 2016 was a shit year.

[@Sonichero151]

Well MGK stuck around....... only to do himself in by Dissing Eminem and causing "KillShot" too be created that pretty much did what the title was

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@Sonichero151 I come from the future and now MGK diss Slipknot, can't wait to see which music genre he's going to find refugee next.

[@DendyJungle]

i thought i was the only one who hated that peter pan song. It sounds like a child song being sung by an emo who tortures hamsters

[@CNWhatImSaiyan]

And she sounds like a discount Colbie Caillat. And lord knows we can never have too much of those...

[@uneek35]

The ONLY one? Do you just not discuss music with other people? Or live on Earth?

[@TinyPlaysMinecraft]

Dangit, Todd. I was *just* about to go to bed.

[@noahgriffith1029]

Claire Sameeeee

[@0Game3Freak0]

Claire same

[@RandomRyter]

+

[@fakepro5848]

welp...you ain't now. thankfully I missed the notification so I got my sleep.

[@user-nl1pg9yt4h]

him saying "this is cleveland rapper, machine gun kelly" like he's completely unknown feels insane today.

[@ryanblaz4118]

2016 Todd: music this year was the worst! 2017 Todd beams in: no dude, drone rap takes over. It's not even funny. 2018 Todd beams in while on fire, and clothes ripped: *Run.*

[@ffjreviews9029]

2016 was the worst year, 2017 was an awful year, 2018 was also an awful year

[@SourGrapesandParmesan]

@@ffjreviews9029 About that...

[@peenixtrite]

👁

[@toouney9994]

2017 pretty much opened the flood gates for rap

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

2021 Todd appears without one arm, madly whispering: *yummy yum that yummy yum*

[@spiritmint5929]

Watching this before it gets taken down. Hype~

[@villekaleva]

spiritmint same

[@nomobobby]

TITS is just too hot for KZbin.

[@AgentDRJ]

spiritmint Hopefully it wasn't demonetized by the time I started watching it.

[@doctordalek2720]

The jøke about the Ø's from Twenty Øne Piløts is fantastic and I løve it!

[@hiimemily]

Three years later but yøu missed twø.

[@bernie9543]

hi i'm emily yeah ❤️

[@linusdn2777]

Stop using that letter as an O

[@pepe9022]

@@linusdn2777 nø

[@Cashout95]

@@pepe9022 Cancerkid

[@beepbeeplettuce5015]

"2016 is the worst year" *laughter that slowly fasdes into crying*

[@levyticus2760]

whenever people make jokes like "I can't believe we all called 2016 the worst year ever because a bunch of celebrities died," I always think back to your line at 0:57 : "A year in which we kept losing our best and brightest and empowering our stupidest and worst." That alone perfectly sums up the dread that I still feel when looking back on this year, and even though what was to come was a lot worse, make no mistake ---- It was still that bad

[@VernulaUtUmbra]

You know, Peter Pan would kill the Lost Boys when they got too old. The first one to escape him was Captain Hook and Hook tried to save as many of them as his could, which is where he got his pirate crew from.

[@VernulaUtUmbra]

Also, #7 gives me conniptions.

[@VernulaUtUmbra]

As much as an guy attempting child murder could be considered a good guy, I suppose so.

[@Rynjinivar]

If a child is hundreds of years old is he really still a child?

[@animasuperfreakgirl]

umm no. That is not cannon. There is a line about thinning out the lost boys but is vague and can be interpreted multiple ways including killing th boys but that is your interpretation and not fact. I read the book in 2016.

[@someonerandom8552]

That's just various darker retellings, not actual canon. The tragedy of Peter Pan is that he never grows up and forever hindered by the detriments of childhood. His life, though prolonged, is not a life. It's a game. He never experiences what it's like to actually live a fulfilling life, it's one stuck during the years of preadolescence. He never gets to meet his sweetheart or have kids of his own or build a life for himself. He doesn't know what it's like to lead a rich fulfilling life because he's too afraid to. I've read all of the original plays and novel. The darkness is overblown by conspiracy theorists on the internet.

[@TheNukaColaMan10]

Man this list is vastly different from buckley's. Love it, I don't listen to pop but love hearing people tear into them. ALSO PETER PAN'S WORLD IS MORE FUCKING DANGEROUS THAN PEOPLE SEEM TO REALIZE!!

[@TheNukaColaMan10]

SPEEDWAGOOOOOOONNNNN

[@warp_skip]

Speedwagon best waifu

[@savionallen-harding7889]

The Nuka-Cola Man DIIIIOOOOOOOOO

[@Alex-eb1ob]

+Pwntagonist No, nah nah nah nah, Tequila Joseph is best waifu

[@user-vi5le3nj4i]

>2016 was a brutal year for us Me, still don't knowing if I'm alive after 2022: Yeah... It was... Sure... My God, it's almost nostalgic.

[@314_ryan9]

It’s funny that almost all the songs on the list were remade by kids bop and even from how bad these songs are kids bop can just make it get W O R S E

[@CazTheGamerGuy]

Man, these One-Hit Wonderland episodes have gotten so short...

[@Advent3546]

Fitting music Todd. 2016 really was a Sucker for Pain.

[@guyman4823]

Advent3546 Actually not for music though. Besides the deaths and mainstream music they're actually a ton of amazing albums that came out this year in rock, metal and hip hop. Those are really the only genres I listened to so I can't speak much on the other. Apparently country had a great year but I'm not a fan of the genre.

[@pseudofox]

We don't need a lewd Lorde. Lorde can be Lorde.

[@RatelHBadger]

We didn't need Lorde

[@babscabs1987]

Lalala I am Lorde.

[@jmckenzie962]

Hey, here's a story for ya - 2016 was my last year of intermediate school (NZ equivalent of middle school) and at the end of the year we had our leavers' dinner. Everyone had to perform something that night (it was a small school, there were about 40 of us in our year) and as expected most people not part of a group performed a song - lots of white guys with acoustic guitars and white chicks with pianos. One such white girl with a piano performed 'Lost Boy'. At the time I assumed that it was an original song that she wrote simply because of how basic it was - I thought "oh cool, an original song and not another cover of some stupid pop song". Fast forward a few years and I watch this video. I remember thinking "wait, Lost Boy was like, an actual song? That girl didn't write it herself? Jeeesus"

[@silverzdk]

When you actually use ø in your language so it just looks stupid

[@catspoons]

:)

[@briantheduckgod2714]

*laughs in stressed out*

[@colltonrighem]

/st͡ʃɹɛst œʊʔ/

[@catspoons]

@@colltonrighem What?

[@colltonrighem]

JockeyHunter IPA

[@eartianwerewolf]

I would love a great song about Peter Pan. I fucking love that story...and it speaks a lot about the universal fear of getting older and letting go (but how doing so eventually allows you to experience more of life ). But yeah that song sucks and it's disappointing.

[@emeyeenaych]

"What is this?" "It's depression that's what it is."

[@annab6231]

Lost Boy should have been first. That song was written solely for edgy middle schoolers to cover it while playing the same three chords on piano

[@infinitewordcount]

I still like Alessia Cara's "Here." Shame she hasn't done any good since.

[@maocharlisme]

Here was phenomenal! Funny enough the most authentically original young voice coming through in a pop song since Royals!

[@jaxonmourning]

1-800 was amazing and she was in it. What did you think of that one?

[@jakegibbard]

I do love Stay as well. Her other stuff I'd call mediocre at worst.

[@Helaw0lf]

Hearing that song made me go look up Portishead's "Glory Box" which uses the same orchestral sample.

[@lizzybethnj617]

Here was her best song. I remember being excited for her next song and being disappointed

[@primarina2]

2 Things about "Bad Things" 1. That name "MachineGunKelly" reminds me of GunvsGun. 2. My mom absolutely HATES that song, and she kinda liked Fight Song. Yeah. 😕

[@RobertSeeJen]

Lost Boy makes me feel dirty. What was played here sounds like a story told from the view of a child abduction victim.

[@liliesaregoodfortheliver2954]

Hmmm. I can hear it now too, and my skin is crawling a bit.

[@reptilitronousprime9213]

I despised that Lost Boys song the very second I heard it! It sounds like one of those songs that tries one of those songs that tries to be edgy by taking a children's tale and making it dark and gritty! If I want to listen to a dark and gritty song, I'd lesson to Nine Inch Nails and they have more grace!

[@scooterwearssocks]

“I can’t think of a song where future was memorable” ~just over a year later~ *Ladidadida...*

[@TheDukeofCheese12]

This is seriously the fifth Worst List to use "Sucker for Pain" as the transition song

[@CoopRaccoon]

It fits the year. Seriously, I noticed ACriticNamedKevin use it, and I was surprised to see this here too.

[@TorgoEntertainment]

Great minds think alike.

[@RenewedAurora]

"There's a 2000 word Wikipedia page on hills shaped like breasts." Fucking. Lost. It.

[@nooneknows78]

Looking back at Machine Gun Kelly in this video to his career now, it’s safe to say that the only good thing he’s ever done is Megan Fox.

[@fangal12]

I remembered liking Bad Things, looking back I realize it was really only the chorus. MGK's verses were 'turrible'

[@DoctorWhoKage]

I actually like MGK #estallday #lacethefuckup but I just couldn't care for Bad Things mostly because it's just a mediocre song about MGK's BDSM fetish. My real problem with MGK is why the hell do they promote *that* mediocre trash over better MGK songs like "Gone" (which is a much better version of Eminem's "Mockingbird"), "Invincible", "A Little More Love" (a much better suicide prevention song than Logic's mediocre 1-800 bullshit), "Go For Broke", "Hollywood Whore", "Glass House", and etc and etc? That is straight-up bullshit!

[@kylehegedus5498]

BURN!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@cicadeus7741]

Aaaand he failed that too lmao

[@chorgin]

wan we please støp with the Ø shit??

[@ebuzzmiller34]

Agreed. Why the hell is everyone trying to sound Scandinavian?

[@yvette4948]

It's cause 21 Pilots uses ø in their name and all that. Because they're cool and that.

[@anthrax1328]

+Dom King Twenty one Pilots stylizes their name that way, and now every edgy emo kid has to use it too.

[@apinakapina]

Nah. Norwegians are allowed to have it. - A random Finn

[@dyldragon1]

God 21 Pilots is trash

[@Bibliosection]

These lists will never not be funny. Always great jokes. But I gotta say my favorite is coming back and hearing Todd talk about how bad/dismal the year was. Hello from 2020. Yes, it got worse.

[@tauaf2158]

Hey, Master of Puppets is sexy. You've never Metallica and chilled?

[@Kiwibr_o]

Hearing you call Lost Boy a self-insert fanfic has killed me

[@jessicablanc550]

Lol "to the point they called my dad ugly" I almost pissed myself laughing at this

[@ginamolina820]

Essa _xox Well, me and my dad are pretty ugly, so they’re not wrong there, everything else, however, completely wrong.

[@aaronhurst4379]

"This was a particularly brutal year" *Laughs in 2020*

[@PrettyPurpleness]

"Was it really the worst year ever? ...Yes. Yes, it was." 2017: Hold my beer

[@fero8955]

actually 2017 was really good comparing

[@b0ssboi762]

2016 was way worse

[@aljaberhk]

@@b0ssboi762 nah

[@aljaberhk]

What about 2001 September

[@kieranstark7213]

One of the reasons why 2016 is one of the absolute worst years of music is Jacob Sartorius. Sure, none of his songs were hits, but he did take absolutely awful music to a brand new level of low.

[@batatafrita2783]

people back then: 2016 IS THE WORST! people in 2020: well shit

[@isaiaharmand8841]

I personally Loved this year Music Was Catcy, Sports was at it's peak, and the world just Seemed more positive

[@richardwallace6643]

Generally whenever I hear a duet of the woman singing the chorus, and the guy rapping the verses, I just groan because the songs end up being dragged down by the guy. My best example is I Hate U I love U. Besides the U part making me wanna punch my screen, the chorus is actually good. At least I like it. Then Mr Whothefuckcares comes in and rhymes shit with shit.... 4 times. Thats basically the story with those types of songs all year, and it's kinda sad to me.

[@johnsmith2875]

that's how i feel with airplanes and love the way you lie and ANY SONG WITH PITBULL IN IT

[@gabrielhicks8043]

Like "You and I", I despise that song

[@jessenathan9346]

Well, that song did make it to #2 on the list

[@timthememer2785]

Future is like what would happen if Boomhauer became a rapper. Except not funny.

[@coloneljak42_]

"Man, y'know, they all comin' fast, they ain't gettin' no sleep, man".

[@johnindigo5477]

So dudes with southern accents cant make music then huh

[@RatelHBadger]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHW8c5Kaha5_sMU

[@thexalon]

Might I just mention here that I have a deep and abiding love of the "NOT A RHYME" button?

[@stevejacks8389]

Yeah, but when the Not A Rhyme alarm starts to dis-avow itself, it was a really bad year.

[@AuroraIceFlame]

“2016 was the worst year ever” 2020: *eternal screaming*