ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter
Added 2025-02-28 23:52:39 +0000 UTCUgh, finally. A song I have been avoiding since forever.
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Once again, Todd makes a prequel trilogy joke that makes me crack up. But yeah, this is one of those songs that was played all the time, but when it was finally reviewed on this show, I was like, “What song was that again?” That a song can be played over and over without really leaving much of an impact typically doesn’t speak well for its longevity.
Crimson Nova
2025-03-19 04:34:59 +0000 UTCI don't know if I would call it a Trainwreckords worthy album. Maybe Before I Self-Destruct, which was a really bad album and had 50 quit rapping, but Curtis was more just him starting to phone it in plus the Kanye battle
Alt0id
2025-03-15 14:28:43 +0000 UTC50 Cent Curtis - Trainwreckords
Salvatore Sultana
2025-03-11 21:30:46 +0000 UTCGood thing that he did, and that James Blunts label said no to You're Pitiful. Otherwise we never would have gotten White And Nerdy
Adam F
2025-03-09 03:25:48 +0000 UTCWhat Do You Want From Me by Monaco. Technically a one hit wonder by the book, actually it's a chance to nerd out about two of the best bands ever to exist.
BscalE
2025-03-05 17:15:45 +0000 UTCI wish to take this back. Other people are also comparing the two... https://youtube.com/shorts/fz7jAlOnYPQ?si=F6Ew_a9pVoxWO2yP
Nadine
2025-03-04 16:33:12 +0000 UTCyup.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-04 03:11:59 +0000 UTCWhat song is it? i'm curious.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-04 03:10:41 +0000 UTCI saw the Patreon notification while I was grocery shopping and “Bad Day” was playing on the speakers. Transcendent.
Liza Boudreau
2025-03-04 01:30:30 +0000 UTCOh no, he only sold 6, and they sold out in under 2 hours. I was a Patron for years for years hoping he would sell them again. I scored one by turning on all my Patreon notifications and staring at my phone for two days waiting for the requests to open.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-04 01:25:42 +0000 UTCI literally was at a James Blunt concert yesterday and can confirm that there is noone on earth who knows all the lyrics to all of his songs BUT to compare the Bad Day guy to him... He has 7 no1 Hits in europe 😭
Nadine
2025-03-03 22:04:38 +0000 UTCHey Todd, seeing as you switched once the Anakin scene used in the episode, if by any chance you need to one day reedit it please put in the Darth Vader NOOO instead. Please and thank you
Nir revel
2025-03-03 08:04:11 +0000 UTCThe discussion on how when "Bad Day" hits wrong, it hits REALLY wrong very closely parallels the discussion for "Don't Worry Be Happy". No wonder he never charted again!
Russet Burbank
2025-03-03 02:50:18 +0000 UTCFor 20+ years I had no idea who sang this song or that it was Canadian. My brain always wants to mash this song up with "Breathe" by Faith Hill. A real Todd in the Shadows double-feature.
Steph
2025-03-03 00:12:45 +0000 UTCAre you still selling requests? Because I have a song I've been dying for years that you'll cover. It's a goodie.
BscalE
2025-03-02 22:55:44 +0000 UTCOne Tree Hill is better then The O.C. IMO, I really disliked how they fridged Marissa and had her seemingly forget about being attracted to women.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 18:59:23 +0000 UTCBen Folds, Randy Newman and Tom Tom Club aren’t one hit wonders. At the very least even if they only had one song on the Hot 100, Tom Tom Club had multiple top 10’s on the US Dance Charts, and Ben Folds, Ben Folds 5, and Randy Newman had multiple songs on soundtrack albums that charted.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-02 18:18:41 +0000 UTCI wonder if any of them requested that 4 Non Blondes song "What's Up" as Todd as repeatedly said he does not want to cover that song if possible because of how depressing and miserable it is. I'm not a fan of that band myself. I wouldn't mind seeing a OHW episode on the Fabulous Thunderbirds "Tuff Enuff" or Danger Danger - "Bang Bang".
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 18:01:35 +0000 UTCTodd's criteria generally is if a band had more then one top 40 hit on the Billboard hot 100 they're not a One Hit Wonder, so Sixpence just barely scrape by.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:59:21 +0000 UTCThe soundtrack for Josie was a hit but not the film itself sadly. She was also in that Nancy Drew movie.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:58:25 +0000 UTCYeah he did the theme song for "One Tree Hill", shame he performed at the Dunce inaguration though.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:56:27 +0000 UTCShe is? Aw damn that sucks to hear, I really liked her on The O.C. and in that movie Stay Alive.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:51:30 +0000 UTCYeah songs like this and The Fray's "How to Save a Life"(Which I will forever associate with a Youtube parody mocking Sony for the cold reception to the PS3 launch with how overpriced it was and how few games there were) were a dime-a-dozen back then.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:50:45 +0000 UTCApparently Daniel was reluctant to let Weird Al do a parody called "Bad Date" and only changed his mind at the last minute, by that point it was too late and it ultimately didn't happen. Too bad as a parody of that song might've prevented Powter from fading into irrelevance maybe.
RedBedroomRecords
2025-03-02 17:49:21 +0000 UTCI wonder if 9/11 and the subsequent war have anything to do with it. Like we had moved on from the immediate jingoism, were reminded what a long-term war actually looked like and started to sour as a popular culture. Bad Day definitely captures the sonic mood of Bush's second term and how we were in this for the long haul now
Bailey Vogt
2025-03-02 08:20:38 +0000 UTCHoly shit I forgot about the chipmunks version
Bailey Vogt
2025-03-02 08:19:48 +0000 UTCAnd his gay fling Dick Fellatio
Bailey Vogt
2025-03-02 08:19:01 +0000 UTCHey Todd! Pink Moon drowns you out at 3:19
Bailey Vogt
2025-03-02 07:53:25 +0000 UTCKinda. James Blunt gave Al permission so he recorded a song, but Blunt’s record label stopped the song being on the album.
Avram M Forstein
2025-03-02 05:18:21 +0000 UTCdamn that's another parallel between him and james blunt
Arbor Rainier
2025-03-02 01:24:48 +0000 UTCwait it's THAT ????
Arbor Rainier
2025-03-02 01:23:29 +0000 UTCcuz she had a MAG day she's bringing us down she's killing your rights if you're trans or are brown
Arbor Rainier
2025-03-02 01:22:42 +0000 UTCi'm genuinely surprised he didn't make that joke, esp with him talking abt how the song doesn't hit when you're having the type of bad day where it WONT get better tmoro
Arbor Rainier
2025-03-02 01:19:13 +0000 UTC10:23 the caption says “piece” instead of “pieces” LOVE YOU TODD
jacob Garaycochea
2025-03-02 01:03:21 +0000 UTCAlso an old "character theme songs" video where Spider-Man got Bad Day by Daniel Powter.
Simon Ritter
2025-03-01 23:57:03 +0000 UTCI always associate this song with Bad Day by REM, hearing both Bad Days a lot as a child of REM-loving parents in the mid-oughts. Also, both mention getting your picture taken on a bad day.
Simon Ritter
2025-03-01 23:56:14 +0000 UTCGreat video as usual, made even better by a Nick Drake mention - and a new title card font! As for errors, I noticed you wrote "piece" instead of "pieces" at 10:22, and there's a little audio glitch at 24:08. Also, the loudness changes pretty drastically throughout.
Zack
2025-03-01 23:42:23 +0000 UTCYeah I don't think it's extremely likely to happen (unfortunately) but I'm a huge Folds fan. I feel like the contrast between silly funny 'Rockin the Suburbs' Ben and depressing heartbreaking 'Songs for Silverman' Ben would be a fun thing to analyze. Silverman is an album I cry to literally every single time I listen to it, and I can't help but be amused that it's made by the same guy who made songs about having so much sex it hurts or Nu-Metal being a shitty genre. My top 3 picks for OHW episodes if I were able to nab a commission in time: 1. Randy Newman - Short People 2. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love 3. Ben Folds Five - Brick
Herbieguy98
2025-03-01 23:32:31 +0000 UTCIt was funny to see Sharon Osborne pop up briefly at the end there because my one abiding memory of post-Bad Day Powter in the UK was him singing one of the boring follow ups on Top Of The Pops, which she was presenting that week, and she commented that he needed to cheer up.
James Wymer
2025-03-01 23:32:10 +0000 UTCBadly Day Boy
James Washburn
2025-03-01 23:01:42 +0000 UTCIt’s funny to watch this episode and not see Todd describe this song with the Todd-ism that I’d use to describe it, which is that Bad Day is one of those songs that feels like it’s been around since the beginning of time. Like even though its sound is *immediately* identifiable as being from the mid-2000s, there’s still just something timeless about it and the way it’s constructed. (I’ll admit I could very well think this because I was only a year or two into elementary school when it came out, lol.)
Rei The Gei
2025-03-01 22:10:52 +0000 UTCThis is a guilty pleasure I’m sorry. Maybe because I was born in 2004 so at least I’ve heard it less than most
Kaylynn Williams
2025-03-01 22:09:32 +0000 UTCThat really was a perfect way to end this quintessentially 2000s episode, lol
Rei The Gei
2025-03-01 21:58:39 +0000 UTCI guess you're right. I would've thought that in 2006, she was still a big name, but looking at her wikipedia entry, she was doing direct-to-video and a lot of voice work then. Not that I think it's indicative of her doing "badly," she was working, possibly entirely happy with it, but if they called her up and said "this singer wants you specifically to be in his video" I can see where she'd have the time to say "yes."
Alina
2025-03-01 21:58:02 +0000 UTC"Detroit Cool." I assume he forgot to mention his Asian ex San Francisco Sushi and his Jewish ex Brooklyn Bagel.
Simon Ritter
2025-03-01 20:26:08 +0000 UTCBetween that and the James Blunt debacle, it seems like AL dodged two bullets that year
Russet Burbank
2025-03-01 20:05:56 +0000 UTCWithout watching the video yet, I’m assuming there’s an obligatory joke about every day being a bad day now.
Richard Angle
2025-03-01 19:50:46 +0000 UTCI believe I read that it would have been called “You Had a Bad Date”.
Avram M Forstein
2025-03-01 19:24:53 +0000 UTC"No one died or anything" *Zooms on Mandisa, who just died last year*
Justin V
2025-03-01 19:07:27 +0000 UTCWhat I noticed about the music video is that it has Samaire Armstrong, who is now a MAGA mouthpiece.
Kim P.
2025-03-01 18:56:56 +0000 UTCMinor error: the end credits say “This video is owned by Warner Bros” instead of this song
llama
2025-03-01 18:34:41 +0000 UTCIncredible restraint in not making a joke about the “Bad Day” guy being a “Daniel Pouter”
Spalfos
2025-03-01 17:58:10 +0000 UTCEven when it's for trashy songs like this, I still love 2000s one hit wonderlnds the most!
Kathy Mathers
2025-03-01 17:55:26 +0000 UTCIt’s like Hanson or Radiohead, where they aren’t one hit wonders but the most annoying song gets the most radio play.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 17:21:22 +0000 UTCNot because I hate “Brick”, I’m not sure “Brick” qualifies as a one hit wonder by any definition. I didn’t even know “Brick” was Ben Folds until I was complaining about it on Facebook being used as a Christmas song. Maybe it’s a Gen X thing, but Ben Folds and Ben Folds 5 have a bunch of songs and a pretty consistent presence on college stations and alternative radio.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 17:18:44 +0000 UTC"And Powter at the party, playin' with his nose now"
Henry Kiley
2025-03-01 17:04:35 +0000 UTCA OHW on “Brick” would be rough….. Not an easy song to cover on a show that’s still supposed to make you laugh
Christian Reiswig
2025-03-01 16:13:10 +0000 UTCOr hearing that “Hey Soul Sister” was an attempt at writing an INXS song.
Christian Reiswig
2025-03-01 16:08:56 +0000 UTCI’ve long said that this song could be another entry into the One Hit Wonder Spooktacular Halloween episode
Christian Reiswig
2025-03-01 16:07:36 +0000 UTCI wonder what the parody would have been. “You have a peg leg”? “Green ham and eggs”? Something about Ben Gay?
Christian Reiswig
2025-03-01 16:04:12 +0000 UTCThe Chipmunks version is used as the credits song in this vid
Christian Reiswig
2025-03-01 15:59:41 +0000 UTCAnd they made one of the most memorable choruses of the decade by doing so! It's very satisfying to learn all the words to it
Cody Baird
2025-03-01 15:00:00 +0000 UTCApparently that's sorta how Eve 6's "Inside Out" was written - the lyrics were meant to be placeholders, written for their sound and rhythm rather than for their meaning, and they just... never got replaced.
Es
2025-03-01 14:57:55 +0000 UTCWhen I saw this in my email inbox, I went like the Sicko meme "Yes, hahaha, yes!" I hated that song when it was around because it felt like radio stations refused to play anything else. Still know every line, still hate it, lol.
Semilocon
2025-03-01 14:25:05 +0000 UTCshockingly no mention of this song's biggest contribution to society as the first song sung by alvin and the chipmunks in their first live action movie
Lennon Riley
2025-03-01 11:58:23 +0000 UTCLove the NPs. They are basically GBV but replace the cheap domestic beer with homemade fruity wine
Cody Baird
2025-03-01 11:01:08 +0000 UTCAlso as the inevitable James Blunt episode will have to mention the Kosovo "didn't kick off WWIII in 1999" moment, might want to get that out before things escalate any more
Matt O
2025-03-01 10:53:28 +0000 UTCIf you'd never made this video, I'd have just thought this WAS James Blunt.
Matt O
2025-03-01 10:50:26 +0000 UTCOmg Free Loop was on German radio A LOT as well at the time, but I had no idea it was the same guy 😅
Dovis Bellwood
2025-03-01 09:21:11 +0000 UTCGreat video! Here's a couple editing mistakes I found: 3 black frames at 6:41. 1 black frame at 13:01 At 22:11 there seems to be an unintentional edit/stutter in the audio, although maybe that's from the source video. At 23:15 there are 2 fast frames flashing up from a later shot shot. At 24.08 the music skips/stutters, although maybe that's just the source footage.
Yannic Schäfer
2025-03-01 09:07:31 +0000 UTCDaniel Powter looks like Tony Hawk. I can’t unsee it.
Danny Bishop
2025-03-01 08:22:48 +0000 UTCI’m Australian, so this episode made me watch your Midnight Oil episode again. Because wow Tony Hawk is boring
Danny Bishop
2025-03-01 08:20:08 +0000 UTCGod, there would be so much to talk about with that song and its followup. I would guess that Z&E don't have enough video footage.
Russet Burbank
2025-03-01 07:41:21 +0000 UTCI'm shocked that "There She Goes" charted that low, I remember hearing it way more, and I would absolutely call them two-or-more hit wonders
Russet Burbank
2025-03-01 07:37:44 +0000 UTCThe New Pornographers too
Russet Burbank
2025-03-01 07:35:50 +0000 UTCAnyone who disrespects Weird Al deserves no respect in return. How dare he.
Herbieguy98
2025-03-01 07:23:00 +0000 UTCI think there's still three to go. If any of them requested Ben Folds or Tom Tom Club that's gonna be a dream come true for me.
Herbieguy98
2025-03-01 07:21:03 +0000 UTCCome on, this song is right in your pocket and you know it
Russet Burbank
2025-03-01 07:04:30 +0000 UTCHonestly, I kind of liked Bad Day back in the day and I still enjoy it as a happy little bop. I knew nothing about the artist, because apparently there was nothing to know, but I enjoyed every time you played it on the episode.
Lanth
2025-03-01 05:30:33 +0000 UTCSO THAT'S WHY I HATE WILCO
Noelle Harrison
2025-03-01 05:18:05 +0000 UTCUnrelated to the song, as a fellow Boston Terrier owner, she’s farting MORE? How is that possible? They fart so much! Anyway, those refrigerated sausage dog logs seem to make mine fart less. If it’s ok with your vet, try slipping her some yogurt.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 05:16:23 +0000 UTCThank you for confirming that Bad Day sounds like the remixed ingredients of You're Beautiful passed off as a new menu item. And for losing your patience with the indoor knit beanie pulled all the way down. I didn't want to be petty but that's a baffling choice.
Paul Anderson
2025-03-01 04:47:02 +0000 UTCAnd I was going to do a Daniel Powter parody on the new album, with his song Bad Day. And he said 'No.' "And then literally the day before we went into the studio to record White And Nerdy, we got a call saying he changed his mind and he wanted to do it after all. And I had to inform him that the train had left the station." - Weird Al Yankovic https://web.archive.org/web/20170502162722/http://jam.canoe.com/Music/Artists/Y/Yankovic_Weird_Al/2006/10/18/2059924-sun.html
Avram M Forstein
2025-03-01 04:31:22 +0000 UTCI don't like the song, but this video is classic and definitely cheered me up on a bad day. So, thanks Todd!
Keith Badje
2025-03-01 04:25:44 +0000 UTCThis song was stuck in my head for MONTHS in 2006. I felt like I was going insane. IF IT HAPPENS AGAIN BECAUSE OF YOU DOG FARTS WON'T BE THE WORST CURSE UPON YOU
S. R.
2025-03-01 04:25:02 +0000 UTCGo to Coors Field and see a Colorado Rockies Game. DJ Otzi is what they play during the 7th inning stretch. Though Daniel Powter would be more appropriate at most Colorado Rockies games.
Keith Badje
2025-03-01 04:20:54 +0000 UTCI feel that way about “Dancing Queen”
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 04:12:56 +0000 UTCHe seemed pretty pissed at me so I’m not mad he kept it anonymous
The Hand Of The People
2025-03-01 04:11:27 +0000 UTCI hate that song! (Brick, I mean, Bad Day isn’t terrible)
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 04:07:44 +0000 UTCI was nice! I requested a great song! Why would anyone blow $1500 on Bad Day? Edit: it occurred to me that the tragic ending of my “Tarzan Boy” request was pretty sad.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 04:07:07 +0000 UTCOh man, I really hate “Hey There Delilah” I was dating this guy/girl? Who was completely nuts when I was in a spate of post divorce derangement, who decided one day that he was transgender (he wasn’t, he changed his mind a few weeks later) and showed me a video of someone transitioning with that song in the background, and it almost turned me transphobic. I’m not, I’ve had friends transition and that’s why this guy going through a month long phase where he swears he’s trans, then claiming it was a “manic” episode made me sick. The guy was a total psycho who stole my stuff and then claimed he was going to give it back and sent me to a fake address in Oakland. So that’s what “Hey There Delilah” reminds me of every time.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 04:04:09 +0000 UTCI see why I got my request first, lol.
Sarah Schumm
2025-03-01 03:56:39 +0000 UTCYou made that song sound like a perfect little jingle, my lord is that a prometheian rhythm
Ashe.
2025-03-01 03:53:11 +0000 UTCI'm shocked and reassured to find out the hat wasn't stitched into his skull.
Castleknackers
2025-03-01 03:48:58 +0000 UTCUgh, this patronizing ColdplayXBruceHornsby garbage. Dude cannot sing.
Moizza Khan
2025-03-01 03:26:41 +0000 UTCalso thank u for introducing me to a girl named "detroit cool."
bail harp
2025-03-01 03:22:49 +0000 UTCi love how every single after "bad day" just gets progressively more ridiculous. the daniel powter/james blunt comparison is EXTREMELY accurate and im willing to argue "jimmy's gonna get HIÍIIIIGH" is a funnier "high" than "ffFUckinggg HIIIiiiiigh" from "you're beauitful." the whimpery falsetto really hits hard for both of em.
bail harp
2025-03-01 03:22:00 +0000 UTCYes, but this just seems more prominent. I was constantly drawn to it.
Katy Hart
2025-03-01 03:21:57 +0000 UTCI did recognize the chorus of "Free Loop", but I didn't know its name or that it was from the guy who sang "Bad Day".
Sean C.
2025-03-01 03:17:46 +0000 UTCwhen has he ever not had his mic in the shot?
bail harp
2025-03-01 03:17:00 +0000 UTCBrilliant idea for a video this year! It's the, uh, 500-year pre-anniversary.
Sadie S
2025-03-01 03:10:21 +0000 UTCI hate this song. Good video though. I will share with people when its public.
JazzySpF
2025-03-01 03:09:38 +0000 UTCGreat as usual. I would class this with Hey There Delilah in terms of annoying mid-oughts hits, except this one is too boring to hate. It'd be nice to have song lyrics on screen for the verse at 7:28, like you had for the previous verse.
Sadie S
2025-03-01 03:02:08 +0000 UTCDo you really want your mike in the shot the whole time?
Katy Hart
2025-03-01 02:59:24 +0000 UTCI guess it’s kinda fitting, since Rachael Leigh Cook is kind of a one-hit wonder in her own way. This is absolutely not a knock on her, since I met her at a Con, and she’s cool in person. That said, how many movies of hers do you think many people know besides She’s All That? I guess MAYBE Josie and the Pussycats, but that seems to be more of a cult hit than anything. I’m not sure where her career was at the time she did this video, but I guess something worked out somewhere. Though, speaking of She’s All That, could Sixpence None The Richer qualify for this show? I mean, Kiss Me was their biggest hit by far (peaking at #2 and going 3x Platinum), with their next biggest being a cover of The La’s’ There She Goes (which peaked at #32). So maybe they’re one of those kinda are/kinda not a OHW?
Tom Carter
2025-03-01 02:56:28 +0000 UTCI was waiting for the Chipmunk version the whole time lol. Great video Todd, you finally got it out of the way!
Gabby Wolf
2025-03-01 02:47:01 +0000 UTCMan I WISH someone commissioned Brick. I'd love to see Ben Folds covered on the channel. If I were fast enough I had 5-6 different one hit wonderland ideas in mind.
Herbieguy98
2025-03-01 02:39:22 +0000 UTCThis is just a post reminding y'all that Gavin DeGraw basically did the exact same "VH1 piano guy with a hat" shtick, but he was actually insanely talented and good at songwriting - give him a second look if you forgot about him!
Colton Moore
2025-03-01 02:28:06 +0000 UTCOh, and on the American Idol segment, you mention that it was a good choice because it’s not like anyone died. I don’t think you have Mandisa on screen at that point, but make sure she’s not at that point because she may not have died from Idol, but she did die last year.
Joe Moyer
2025-03-01 02:07:51 +0000 UTCI've liked both ways, but my favorite band, Guided by Voices, does a lot of abstract nonsense lyrics that just sound good to accompany amazing songwriting
Cody Baird
2025-03-01 02:06:01 +0000 UTCCame to mention minor error in lyrics at 10:25 of piece should be pieces. At least unless Daniel Powter’s enunciation wasn’t so bad that he just pronounced piece as pieces.
Joe Moyer
2025-03-01 02:05:17 +0000 UTCI know, right? It’s like hearing that “Steal My Sunshine” was inspired by the Velvet Underground or Silver Apples.
Kristopher Bluth
2025-03-01 01:59:44 +0000 UTCMy dream One Hit Wonderland episode is Zager and Evans’ “In the Year 2525,” another one of the rare examples of a HUGE hit from a group that never charted again.
Tashlin Familiy
2025-03-01 01:56:38 +0000 UTCHow are you inspired by Nick Drake and write Bad Day?
Anonymous Bear
2025-03-01 01:20:54 +0000 UTCI call it the "Wilco songwriting method", after Jeff Tweedy's book How To Write One Song (a fantastic book, btw) where he eschews the idea that lyrics have to mean something, in favor of their overall vibe and sound. It's definitely A Thing for a lot of bands though, and as a lyric-lover it's not my favorite thing.
Lanth
2025-03-01 01:20:42 +0000 UTChow are there two different 00s one hit wonders known for singing mood-lifting pop songs that aren't very genuine who are known for constantly wearing knit caps? all i'm saying is be thankful dj otzi never charted here in the states
Jordan Schmidt
2025-03-01 00:57:26 +0000 UTCI had this song in my head this afternoon, so this is a little eerie. I've watched maybe ten minutes of American Idol total, but even a Luddite like me couldn't escape this (I knew someone at work who freaking LOVED IT). Kristen Bell also sang a few lines of the chorus on an episode of Veronica Mars and actually made it sound kind of sexy, so maybe that's my other association? As for Powter himself, he doesn't come off as a bad guy and he certainly didn't seem like he asked for this. I'm not a fan, but I'd cut him a little more leeway than you do (and as someone who's actually bald, I was all set to chide him for the hat, but huh. Guess you learn something new every day).
Kristopher Bluth
2025-03-01 00:47:51 +0000 UTCI think it’s less about hating the song per se, and more about being forced to listen to it so often at a very angry time in my life lmao
Andrew Behm
2025-03-01 00:38:51 +0000 UTCSo I'm Canadian, and usually I know another hit or two from these one hit wonders, like from S club, or Crazy Town, even Eiffel 65 back in the day because of how weird our music industry is. I have no recollection of a single other Daniel Powter song. Not one. Not even a passing memory. But there are worse people to get a number one hit. So you know... Good for him.
Mitchell McIntyre
2025-03-01 00:38:11 +0000 UTCya know i think this is exactly what i expected from the Bad Day career except the hat. i didn’t expect the hat would always be there (and always has been there since childhood) good vid! minor error: 10:25 should say “pieces” instead of “piece”
Calvin Conklin
2025-03-01 00:37:10 +0000 UTCI love Bad Day, but the other songs you showed of his were all rough. Even if it's a little sarcastic, the song really does feel like a sincere pep talk from a friend for something that's not that big a deal. It's low key and grounded in a way that matches the spare piano vibe and low key look he has. One night stands and hard drugs are the complete opposite vibe lol.
triggthediscovery
2025-03-01 00:36:45 +0000 UTCThat's Rachel Leigh Cook in his 5th single's video. How on Earth could he afford her?!
Alina
2025-03-01 00:36:11 +0000 UTCIs there a shoutout to who did the request in this one?
Harry Harman
2025-03-01 00:34:39 +0000 UTCOh god, I had ENTIRELY forgotten Lie to Me, which I did have on my ipod that year, until it started playing here and it ALL came back
Jennifer Adcock
2025-03-01 00:32:34 +0000 UTCyou know todd is desperate for covers when you use the chipmunks version for the outro
duke86fan
2025-03-01 00:31:47 +0000 UTCI'm Canadian and I don't recall ever hearing another Daniel Powter song which is always impressive for a Canadian artist even if they are one hit wonders everywhere else. Usually they at least have other songs here, nothing else played in this video sounds remotely familiar. Like you said, charts only mean so much.
Vanessa Picard
2025-03-01 00:30:58 +0000 UTCMissed the plural on “falling to pieces every time” around 10:26. Loved the video!
Jack Darnell
2025-03-01 00:30:00 +0000 UTCMaybe I just have terrible taste, but this song isn’t that bad to me. It’s like the very poor man’s Brick by Ben Folds Five
Connor Rankin
2025-03-01 00:27:28 +0000 UTCI'd be interested to hear more about the different types of artists who seem to use lyrics for their phonics than for symbolic or narrative purposes, from Todd specifically. You find it in any genre from milquetoast ballads like this to weird indie rock
Cody Baird
2025-03-01 00:22:48 +0000 UTCI’ve been waiting for this one. I’ve always been curious about this guy, though not far beyond a Wikipedia search. The only mistake I could find was in the captions at 10:24. It should say “pieces” rather than “piece.”
Kyle Hancharick
2025-03-01 00:22:43 +0000 UTCAs someone who was really big into American Idol from Season 4-9, I remember they used to use this as the elimination montage song. That's how this song has always stuck in my brain. I've never really hated this song, but I can see why others don't like it.
Tom Carter
2025-03-01 00:16:09 +0000 UTCHilarious video! At 10:26, the subtitle should say “pieces” but says “piece”
pigeonb0y
2025-03-01 00:15:07 +0000 UTCWow. These patreon commissioners are cruel.
Herbieguy98
2025-03-01 00:13:54 +0000 UTCOh God, I was hoping to never hear this song again. Was inescapable when I was in middle school
Andrew Behm
2025-02-28 23:58:34 +0000 UTCI've wanted this one a lot. I remember looking into it and seeing he was Big In Japan, so I hope you bring that up!
Skull Servant Tier 0 (Rosie)
2025-02-28 23:57:03 +0000 UTCAHHH I love this song. My summer job after my first year at uni was in a supermarket, we had 1 CD with 6 songs and this was one of them. I went through every phase of feelings towards it until the Stockholm syndrome kicked in.
Jaszon Alexzander
2025-02-28 23:55:02 +0000 UTCThe one I’ve been waiting for. It finally happened.
waywardlaser
2025-02-28 23:54:08 +0000 UTCHeck yeah! The moment I needed the most! No but seriously, the fact that the American Idol library is (seemingly?) inherently unstreamable in a legal capacity is a major blow.
Scott Sandler
2025-02-28 23:53:55 +0000 UTC
