Introduction
Todd plays Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - "Señorita"[1] on piano
THE TOP TEN WORST HIT SONGS OF 2019
A year-end review
Todd: Hey everyone. It's Todd in the Shadows, everyone's favorite music critic on YouTube except for the other guy. Probably several others. (We're #4!) Once again, it's time for the worst hits of the year list, and there's a question I've been wrestling with: should I keep doing these?
Montage clips of Lizzo - "Truth Hurts"[2]; Ariana Grande - "7 Rings"[3]; Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus - "Old Town Road"[4]; Post Malone - "Circles"[5]; Halsey - "Without Me"[6]; (fill up space)
Todd (VO): "I hate this, I hate that, and-" Come on, right? We've got enough negativity in the world. Why not just elevate the things you love? Why you gotta be so harsh to innocent artists just trying to entertain people?
Todd: It's something I've thought about a lot, especially these last couple years where it's really been difficult to fill out the worst list.
Montage clips of Shawn Mendes - "If I Can't Have You"[7]; Sam Smith and Normani - "Dancing With A Stranger"[8]; Megan Thee Stallion ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign - "Hot Girl Summer"[9]; (fill up space)
Todd (VO): Popular music more and more gravitates to the middle ground so they can get on a Spotify playlist or something, and feels like very few artists have the courage or ambition to really, truly suck.
Todd: I thought about it, and I decided, "Yeah". Yeah, I am gonna keep doing the worst list, 'cause I need money. [picture of empty wallet] And the worst list is always my most popular video. [image of the view count on The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2018 (Pt. 2)] I mean, Christmas is coming up, if you didn't notice. [image of shopping crowd] I got a lot of shit to buy...for myself, while it's on sale. But I also genuinely want to make a worst list. Like, part of the reason I limit myself to the hits, and again, I define that as anything that reached [images of...] Billboard's Top 20 or made the Year-End Hot 100, the reason I do that more and more I consider myself a [image of professor with the caption "Snooty History Professor Todd"] historian of a kind, and this is an easy way to do [image of "2019: The Year in Review"] complete coverage of the year that was. [image of article titled "Critics need thicker skin than ever in the age of Twitter] And at the time when artists, and their insane fan armies, seemed to demand only positive coverage, it feels important to record the bad too. [image of The Annals of the World] I want the lousy trends recorded for posterity, even if it's just my personal interpretation of them. Now, keep in mind, I'm just a single critic among many and I have very limited tastes. I get things wrong all the time [image of kids] My kids will look back at these lists and laugh at me for not liking [video for Lil Pump's...] "Gucci Gang", which will be the most classic of hip-hop at that point. So, don't take it too seriously. We're just here to have fun, right? Right. Alright, we're counting down...
Clip of Flipp Dinero - "Leave Me Alone"[10], which serves as the interlude throughout the countdown
Flipp Dinero: Leave me alone
Todd (VO): The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2019!
#10
#9
#8
#7
#6
#5
#4
#3
#2
Honorable mentions
#1
Footnotes
- ↑ #15 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #13 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #7 On Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #1 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #62 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #3 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #29 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #14 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #93 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100
- ↑ #71 on Billboard Year-End Hot 100