Speaker 1: 0:44

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Siddholm, alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, samer Abusalbi. Samer, how are we doing this?

Speaker 2: 0:52

week Doing real well. We're halfway through the year, it's June.

Speaker 1: 1:09

I believe that is the halfway mark.

Speaker 2: 1:11

My math holds up?

Speaker 1: 1:12

I can't be too sure. Remember, in in in december, we end up just putting together our best of, and so no new music mix in december. Um, so yeah, we're more than halfway with new music wow, that is that is crazy to think about.

Speaker 2: 1:27

Um, and and we got some really interesting ones here and it's funny. We'll talk about this. But I feel like you had like a kind of a prevailing genre, and I had a prevailing genre in our six picks here A little bit, yes.

Speaker 1: 1:41

I would tend to agree with that, but we also had a lot of notable names right Like we've talked about sometimes on these new music mixes, having to dig deep.

Speaker 1: 1:51

But in this case it was just like oh wait, they've got a new album or they've got a new single. Okay, let's dig into that. Okay, let's dig into this next one. So I thought that was kind of cool too, because you know, when you sent me your selections I was like, oh, oh, they've got new music. Oh, wow, ok, ok. So yeah, just one after the other.

Speaker 2: 2:09

Totally yeah. No, I felt the same way with some of but with that, let's get into it.

Speaker 1: 2:22

The first track on the mix is your pick and it is a bar song parentheses Tipsy by Shaboosie. Yeah, his real name is Collins Obinna Shaboosie, but he goes by the very phonetic pronunciation of his last name, shaboosie. So yeah, I knew I'd heard him before, because this song is like all over the airwaves right now At least I feel like it is. I don't know what it's like up there in New York.

Speaker 2: 2:47

Maybe it's passe by now in New York, by the time it gets to Texas. Yeah, we're on the cutting edge here.

Speaker 1: 2:52

You know we wake up, we're the first to wake up in the country first to get everything. But this song is kind of everywhere and I like, wow have I? I feel like I've heard his name before.

Speaker 1: 3:01

um, he did a song called start a riot from the spider-man into the spider-verse soundtrack, which sounds nothing like this one and so yeah, it was really impressive when I when I made that connection because I was like man, this guy's just a good musician, because this is very much kind of a country song and it's really like up there on the charts and, yeah, I don't know, really a cool song and just kind of a real mainstream type song versus maybe some of the other stuff he's done, so really excited for people to get to know him. I think it's rare that we pick a song that's just kind of really super popular and out there. But I had had this on my new music mix for a few weeks and then now it's like everywhere and I didn't feel like I was like well, I did kind of find it a few weeks ago, so I didn't feel as bad about including it, but yeah, obviously kind of a monster hit right now.

Speaker 2: 3:56

I mean, really, what you're trying to say is like you kind of discovered them and then everyone else caught up to you, right yeah?

Speaker 1: 4:02

Yeah, I didn't want to put it in those terms because I felt like it made me sound, you know, a little elite, but maybe I just am and I just have to accept that.

Speaker 2: 4:12

So, yeah, this song was funny because it kind of created a crisis in me because I couldn't decide if I liked it or I didn't like it, because there are moments where I'm like I kind of really like this and then I'm like, oh, but it's so country and I don't like that, and I don't know where I landed. Truth be told, it's a coin flip. It is a coin flip, but it is really catchy. Obviously, he borrows, um, you know, jay kwan's 2004 song tipsy here, um, and he does it very effectively, because you never would have thought that that song could have worked as a country chorus line. But, right, it works so well, like it fits right into this genre, right.

Speaker 2: 4:52

So, you know, think about that. That's, that's something really interesting, um, but yeah, I, just I. It was really interesting to learn that he was on that song, starter Ride, because that is like such a heavy, like rap, metal, like head-banging song, and then you listen to this one, you're like, wow, that is nothing like that. So kudos to him for having that range, to be able to kind of do that, which is great. But yeah, it was an interesting song for sure for me to listen to.

Speaker 1: 5:19

I also think it's cool that more artists are doing stuff like this. Like, obviously we have the Beyonce album this year that was a little more country themed, and I just like the idea of musicians kind of putting out good music regardless of genre, you know. So, no, I'm a big fan of this one and I think a lot of it is just driven by how different it is from his other work. So your first pick this one is Places to Be by Fred, agen, anderson, paak and Chica.

Speaker 2: 5:51

Yeah, this one is so, so catchy, right, like I thought this could be In my head, like when I'm listening to this, I thought like I would be either in like an abercrombie fitch or a hollister or like even aloe, like blast, really loud, really loud music that is like this right, like it's got that. That dance like youthful, like vibe to it, um, with some rap thrown in.

Speaker 2: 6:16

You know, like anderson pox, like, uh, you know his vocals are great, like on top of this track, um, fred, again super talented and artists blowing up absolutely. I think of this also just like a great summer jam, which is like kind of the prevailing mood of my picks. I'd say, um, overwhelmingly, but I, yeah, you know, like the the bridge, there is like a kind of you know someone is singing or someone is saying like a kind of you know someone is singing or someone is saying like I don't know, there's something about that song that just makes you want to get up and bust a mother effing move. And I cleaned it up a bit but.

Speaker 2: 6:45

I think that's spot on about this song, right. I just think it kind of makes you just want to move a bit. So I'm curious to hear what your thoughts are on it though.

Speaker 1: 6:55

I mean, I loved it just from the beginning, like one. I also love it, and we've talked about the. You know we don't share these songs before. We just send them to each other, right. And I like how our first tracks kind of were both super catchy songs that kind of just got got you going a little bit Um. But yeah, I just I, I've really just enjoyed it. I was like this is great. And as I went through your tracks I thought there was kind of a running much more upbeat theme. We got upbeat samurai. I feel like this month yeah, no, it's true.

Speaker 2: 7:25

Yeah, I think maybe the long days are having an effect on me or something, I'm not sure. Upbeat samurai. I like it. All right with that. Let's move on to track number three um next semester by 21 pilots yeah, 21 pilots has a new album out.

Speaker 1: 7:46

Um, I think I read it was like their seventh studio album or something crazy like that, which I'm like what? Like I didn't realize they had made this much music.

Speaker 2: 7:55

I didn't know that either.

Speaker 1: 7:57

Yeah, but you know, look, it sounds a lot like Twenty One Pilots and we've talked about this on the show before. That's not a bad thing, right? It's okay for a successful band to continue to put out songs that kind of sound like them. I think I like this one, just because I think it sounded. I just like the sound of this one better than some of the other stuff on the tracks. It's a good album, but this one stood out too from a timing standpoint, because a lot of people, a lot of our college age listeners, are home for the summer and are probably thinking back at their spring semester and maybe regretting some things. But you, you know you listen to this song and it's just like, hey, new, fresh start next semester, ok, moving on. And that's maybe some of the magic of college and some of the magic of summertime is that you do get that break before the next semester. So, yeah, I thought it was a good pick, timing wise and just like the song.

Speaker 2: 8:54

Yeah, I really like the song. This is one of the bands that I was like oh, I had no idea they were, you know, releasing new music and then, to your point, have had that many albums, so that's pretty cool, uh, because I listened to them ages ago and really liked them and then just kind of like fell off for whatever reason, I don't know why.

Speaker 2: 9:09

Um, it wasn't anything like particularly eventful about it, I just stopped listening to them, and so I really like this one. The chorus almost reminded me of like all american rejects, like something that they they kind of had that sound, so I think there was like a little bit of a nostalgia to me for me whenever I was listening to it. But, um, yeah, it's a great high energy rock song. Excited to listen to the rest of the album. The other thing that made me laugh is like there's a line in here where they say um, it's a taste test of what I hate less, which I think is a really good description of like most elections these days. Right, that's. That's kind of especially if you're like an undecided voter or you're in a swing state. I feel like it's pretty much like what do you hate less?

Speaker 1: 9:50

Like that's what you're going to vote for. Yes, that's what you end up voting for. That's a good description.

Speaker 2: 9:55

I feel like yes.

Speaker 1: 9:56

Especially this year. Yeah, all right, track four We've got To the Moon by Meghan Trainor.

Speaker 2: 10:03

Yeah, so she's got a new album Timeless, I think. At the time of this recording. It's actually out today, which is pretty cool. So this is the first track on the album Again, super catchy song, I think. It's like another great like summer track, another great like jam song. You just kind of want to crank it. She's got an amazing voice and just has like a great dance vibe and I think you know she continues to own that space of just um, you know, owning who she is and and singing proudly about it, and so I really like this song and I think it's just a great kind of pop song from her um, and I'm eager to listen to the rest of the album now that it's out yeah, she's.

Speaker 1: 10:41

She's kind of hit or miss for me, in the sense that some songs I'm like I can get into and I'm like, oh, oh, okay, this is a good one, and then others I'm like, ah, I don't know what, this is right, but throughout, I think she always has a great voice. Like you said it, it was like that's 100% true, she can sing, there's no doubt about that, and I like this one, like this one was much more like you said. I mean, mean, it's a great dance song. I think it's a really kind of straight ahead sort of love song kind of thing and uh, yeah, I don't know, I just thought it was a really solid pop song and, um, you know, again, I feel like sometimes she nails those and then sometimes not so much. She had that song, mother. I feel like maybe it was like last year at this time and I just thought it was a really weird song lyrically.

Speaker 2: 11:27

I didn't really understand it. I have to give that one a listen. I don't remember that.

Speaker 1: 11:31

Give that one a listen and and this may lend itself to a mix of of lyrics that kind of confuse you, um, because not you being you, sammer, but just generally. But I mean like, yeah, I just I listened to that one and I'm like I just don't know what the message is here, um, but anyway, she doesn't do that here. This was a really good effort by her, um, and, and definitely a very listenable and catchy pop song. I could see this one climbing the charts in the in the coming weeks absolutely.

Speaker 1: 11:58

Yeah, all right track number five you went with Elvis in Memphis by Pat Green yeah, texas's own Pat Green with, uh, with a new single and hopefully we get a new album out of this, but I couldn't find anything being announced just yet.

Speaker 1: 12:16

But yeah, this one is. I mean it sounds a lot like Pat Green, kind of rock country-ish sort of. It's funny because his pairs of legendary couples are he has Romeo and Juliet, bonnie and Clyde and then Elvis in Memphis, which I think is a funny trio, all three kind of met untimely demises. So hopefully I don't know if that was intentionally written that way or just kind of how it worked out and he also gets some backing vocal help from Walt Wilkins and people familiar with country music would know that name. But Walt's been in Pat Green's band for a number of years playing the guitar and has written some of his songs as well. So that was kind of cool here. So hopefully we get a whole new Pat Green album, at least for those country music fans out there. But in the meantime we get a nice little, nice little single here.

Speaker 2: 13:09

Yes. So earlier, when I was confused about whether or not I liked the first song, I can safely say I was not confused about my feelings on this one. It's a very nice song, it's a. I wrote it's a. It's a pretty song nonetheless, but it's one that I probably wouldn't listen to again. It's, you know, it's not, it's not for me, but but it's a good one. Um, I also. I just like the line too, like straight aces in Vegas, elvis in Memphis, we can have it all. And I just I like that. I like that little line there that he threw in there, uh, where it's like these are two great things that that you would want, right, you'd want all aces in vegas, you'd want elvis back in memphis, uh, because wouldn't that be great.

Speaker 1: 13:52

So I, I like that line, um, but no, you know it's a, it's a pat green song, so it's it's not necessarily for me I think one of my favorite things is getting you to kind of like struggle with describing a song you know and being positive about a song.

Speaker 2: 14:15

Take my duty very seriously, but sometimes it's more challenging than others. Yes, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 14:21

I appreciate that. Okay, so you probably had this type of reaction. The title of this next song, Okay when you started listening to it. Your pick track six it is oh no, by the Decembrists.

Speaker 2: 14:35

I like that. I like your reading of the title. Yeah, so they have a new album called as it Ever Was, so it Will Be Again. This is track two, and you know we mentioned like bands that sound just like them all throughout their history and and if you're familiar at all with the, december is like this is a december's track, like there's nothing different. They're not genre bending, um, their their sound at all, like they just continue to be highly lyrical, um, storytellers with like this great, great little sound of theirs.

Speaker 2: 15:06

Um, and yeah, I think think the oh no title here we Go Again, and even the album title is very appropriate, because I think a lot of us frequently throughout history, look at moments in history being like, oh no, like here we go again. And even you know, as we mentioned many times, even this election is literally a do-over of our election four years ago. So it's like, oh gosh, here we go again. So I think that they're kind of capturing that moment that we're all feeling, which is great. And then I think there's even a line here where it's like, and it's oh no, onto the next bloody show, you won't feel so loose with a noose around your neck, which is obviously a very aggressive line, but I think sometimes we can feel a little, a little tense as we go into these historical events watching, watching it unfold in front of us. So, um, but yeah, I'm very excited for the new album and I I've always loved the decemberis and their super lyrical tracks yeah, I, I.

Speaker 1: 16:31

This might have been my favorite of your picks actually.

Speaker 1: 16:34

Um, yeah, I love the horns on this one. Uh, just everything about the song. And it was interesting too, cause I thought after your first two picks you were kind of going like, just full on, maybe dance music for this one. And then obviously you see the Decembrists and I'm like, hmm, probably not a dance remix here. So I knew we'd get something different here, but still I I really liked it. It wasn't that, like you know, we still get upbeat sammer, even though the title's, oh no, maybe it's not super positive, but I I feel like this one still still put me in a good mood. I don't know, um, but had a great story to it, great rhythm, just just everything about it I think was really enjoyable. So, yeah, I'm, I'm also looking forward to get getting into this new album nice, all right.

Speaker 2: 17:21

Uh. Track number seven, continuing your theme of fix.

Speaker 1: 17:24

Uh, this one is pink skies by Zach Bryan yeah, I guess I did lean a little more country and I I it wasn't intentional, sam okay yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 1: 17:35

Just kind of how it worked out as I was sifting through new music. But Zach Bryan, he's got a new album coming out called the Great American Bar Scene and this is the first single off of it. Again, I mean, it sounds like a Zach Bryan song. He does a great job kind of describing this family reunion that's clearly taking place around a funeral and someone's passing. So I just I thought it was a great job of songwriting. It sounded great. I also laughed.

Speaker 1: 18:08

He's got a line in here. It says if you could see him now, you'd be proud, but you'd probably think they's yuppies. And he does say they's the apostrophe S, which is not proper English. Okay, but anyway, that line made me laugh. My dad passed away a few years ago and I kind of thought of that too is that he'd probably see us now, he'd be proud, but he probably would think we're yuppies. That's awesome. So, yeah, but no, I thought he just did a great job of describing that type of scene. If, uh, if you've ever been in a situation where there's a funeral and people are coming together for the first time in a long time and family members and all that, so uh, anyway, just a great, uh great job of songwriting here by Zach Bryan. Yeah, and the good news here, as as I thought about, actually, is you. You had so far we've reviewed like three country songs.

Speaker 2: 18:53

One for me was songwriting here by Zach Bryan. Yeah, and the good news here, as I thought about it, actually you had so far we've reviewed like three country songs. One for me was Undecided, one was I didn't really like it and this one actually I did like it. This fell into the category of country that I can get behind, so well done. But I and I do think it's because I, so I was reading it's believed to be about his mother and his experience, cause he lost his mother, I think at a relatively young age. So I think there's a lot of honesty in what he's thinking about exactly what you just now said, and it's just. It's a very beautiful, albeit, like I think of you know, a sad song, obviously on the subject matter, but I also really liked it was more like folksy than country for me.

Speaker 2: 19:32

I think it had like a little bit more folk music sound and there was a time period in my life where I was like all in on folk music and so I think it also made me a little nostalgic for that time period in my life and it was also around summertime, For whatever reason, I just sit by a pool listening to like folk songs and I was like this is great.

Speaker 2: 19:50

It was very relaxing, and so I think that I liked it for that, for that element as well, but no overall very beautiful, very beautiful song.

Speaker 1: 20:03

Yeah, he's got a twang to his voice so it's gonna fall into that country category just based on that. But you're right, it's. He definitely. Maybe is more, is more folksy than than country a lot of times. All right track eight your next pick. I love this one too.

Speaker 2: 20:16

Lost in space by foster the people yeah, new album coming out by foster the people. I'm pretty excited for this one. Their albums have been kind of hit or miss for me, so I'm hopeful that this one is more on the hit side. Um, so the new album's called paradise state of mind. This one had a very kind of like 70s esque feel to it. Um, I feel like it was a little bit like in their wheelhouse in that regard, because they tend to obviously be, like you know, a little electronic, dance-y-ish but more pop-ish, like they kind of sit in between a lot of these different genres in that space. But I loved it.

Speaker 2: 20:51

I also loved this description that they sing here of us on Earth, you know, and they sing and I'm lost. I'm lost in space, turning through the sky around a screaming ball of fire, which I love right. A screaming ball of fire, of course, is our sun. But then they continue, right, like love, a warm embrace. The more we give ourselves, the more we have to give away, which I also think is a beautiful sentiment. And it gets back to something we've talked about on, actually a recent mix on the word how Chili Peppers makes about giving it away. Like I think the more that we kind of give right the more that we have to give away. It's like a nourishing thing and kind of the opposite of what you might think just based off of the verbs being used. So in general I really like the song, super excited for the new album and hopefully it's.

Speaker 1: 21:40

Yeah, I love the.

Speaker 1: 21:41

I immediately like kind of dialed into the disco feel for this one and I was like that's very different for this band which, you know, like I said earlier, I love it when musicians kind of dive into new genres like that and then, reading up on it, it seems like they kind of just were big fans of that 70s disco era type music and kind of wanted to see how do you create that Like what goes into that type of composition?

Speaker 1: 22:05

Which I thought was really cool too for musicians to do is sort of do that research and try to put something together that sounds like that. And then they also added that they felt like the times then, like the 70s, kind of paralleled what's going on now, right, and obviously you know the end of the Nixon era and sort of all the mistrust around the government at that time and kind of what's going on now. If you go back and read some of that stuff, there are some parallels. So I thought it was cool that they did that both, you know, from just sort of a musical curiosity standpoint but also just from a, you know, looking at the world around them standpoint and kind of jumping into that. So really really cool song.

Speaker 2: 22:44

but then the more I read up on it, the more I appreciated it there is a, an apple music I think it's apple music documentary or apple tv documentary on music called 1971, and I strongly believe that if you just replaced 1971 with 2021, 50 years- later right or 2024 now, um, you could watch it and be like yep, and agree with everything that was going on, like it was.

Speaker 2: 23:08

It's fascinating. Uh, really, you know, to the point of the december is here we, you know, here we go again, right, um, well, that's like there's there's a book out there, kind of an older book, called biz.

Speaker 1: 23:19

I think it's called business adventures and it just kind of does a deep dive into companies and their missteps and mistakes and maybe unethical behavior. And if you read it, yes, some of it's dated and the amounts of money are smaller relative to now, but a lot of it is not, unlike what you hear now if you read into business news and stuff. So yeah, the more things change, the more they kind of stay the same.

Speaker 2: 23:46

Yeah, unfortunately, or not. All right, uh, track number nine. Your next pick, it is conquer the heart by orville peck and nathaniel rateliff okay, I was not familiar with orville peck.

Speaker 1: 24:00

Uh, nathaniel rateliff, we featured on the show before his band uh, him and the night sweats we've uh talked about before. He's got an amazing voice. But orville peck is a singer-songwriter out of south africa but he sounds very country, so I get how you'd be like, well, here's another country guy matt's putting on the mix. Um, he's got an album that just came out called stampede, volume one. It's nothing but duets and, uh, it's kind of amazing the duets he puts on here. He's got an album that just came out called Stampede, volume 1. It's nothing but duets and it's kind of amazing the duets he puts on here.

Speaker 1: 24:32

He's got one with Elton John where they do Saturday Night's Alright for a Fight. He's got Willie Nelson on there and they're doing a song together. He reminds me a little bit of Roy Orbison with his sound. He's got a very deep voice, um, but also kind of a I don't know very melodic at the same time. Um, and he wrote this song. This was an original on here but, like I said, gets help from Rateliff and uh, just, I don't know, I just found this kind of captivating yeah, I, I agree, I think, like the chorus, I really enjoyed the chorus in this song um again I.

Speaker 2: 25:03

This is at the point where I was like, wow, you were really on a country roll um on this new music mix.

Speaker 2: 25:11

I was like, oh my gosh, oh no, um, but it was, uh, it is a good song and I like the roy orvis in comparison, I think you're, I think that tracks um, from what I remember of listening to his music as well. So, um, but yeah, really good, really good song, and it's interesting too that we would have two kind of country sounding songs from, like, the continent of africa, right like you know these aren't these, aren't people grown in kentucky and tennessee singing about?

Speaker 1: 25:38

you know singing country songs, so I I do find that really interesting um to see that kind of it's funny because you're you're listening to this and you're just going another country song and I'm listening to these songs and I'm just like well, that's not really country and that's not really like. The only country song I thought of when I looked at this was Pat Green. But then, you're right, if you go through and listen to it it's like well, that's a country song.

Speaker 1: 25:59

All right, well, that's kind of a country, all right. Well, that's kind of a country. It's a little unintentional, yeah, and maybe unaware.

Speaker 2: 26:13

All right, track 10. You've got the Beginning by Snow Patrol. Yeah, I mean, this one is like a classic Sammer pick right Like alt rock. I'm going to pick something like this. I loved Snow Patrol in college. That was when I was first introduced to them. I think the album named final straw is the album that I listened to like 10,000 times, um, and continue to enjoy it to this day. It's definitely a no skip album for me. They have a new album coming. The forest is a path. Uh, this is the second track on it.

Speaker 2: 26:36

What I really like about this one one is I really like I believe the lead singer's last name is light body Um, really like his voice. I've always liked his voice. I think it just has like a really nice quality to it. Um, two, it's you know he tends to be, at least on this track, like very honest in in his singing and I think this one is really interesting having read into it.

Speaker 2: 26:55

They wrote this on the very first day of them working on this new album and then, shortly after finishing the lyrics, which I think they did literally within the day, they sang it.

Speaker 2: 27:05

And not only did he sing it, but they basically took the first track or, excuse me, the first recording. And that is the track that you hear, and I think that's really unique, right, whenever you think about a studio recording session, like you hit things over and over and over and over again to get it just right to be the production value. So I think there's magic when an artist can just be like that's. You know that's the take we're going to use and it's the first one and, as a result, there is like an extra level of like just truth and honesty. I believe that comes through on it. And as he's singing about this like you can, if you really tune into his voice, I feel like you can hear it. It's just like a very, very genuine singing of it. So, really like that and I'm very, very excited for this album. Hopefully it's another one that I can play forever and ever going forward.

Speaker 1: 27:54

Yeah, it's funny that that's what you pointed out was was Gary Lightbody's voice is, because that's what stood out to me in this one more so I think I noticed it more so than I have in other snow patrol songs that I know, um in this one.

Speaker 1: 28:08

So, yeah, that that stood out, and then there was a little bit of like synthesizer in this one and just the way the whole thing made me feel like this one could have been played at the end of any number of 80s movies, right when, you know, every 80s movie has the main character in some wacky situation that resolves at the end, but then, you know, the end kind of represents the beginning of some new chapter in their life, some new relationship, whatever it is. So I thought this would have been like perfect, as like, yes, it's running through the closing credits, but it is the beginning of this next thing in this character's life. So I don't know why this song that's what conjured it up in my mind but yeah, I thought it was really cool. Because of that I was like, wow, that's really well done and I love the fact that it was like just first time out they recorded it and it's like, yep, that's the one we're using.

Speaker 2: 28:59

Yeah, it's really nice.

Speaker 1: 29:19

That, yeah, it's really nice, that's awesome 12th studio album. But yeah, in this one it sounds like classic kind of Eminem. This is kind of a throwback sound to it. He samples the song Abracadabra by Steve Miller and Samra.

Speaker 1: 29:36

I know you tried to really be polite earlier with our Pat Green track and tried not to be negative, but I don't think I can do it here track and tried not to be negative, but I don't think I can do it here. I hate that song by steve miller. Okay, I I do not like the song abracadabra, okay. And here's the other thing steve miller's greatest hits is like every of my generation. It was like everybody's classic rock starter kit, so like everybody going to college would get get like Steve Miller's greatest hits, and so you just heard that over and over and again. Don't like to be negative on the show, not a big Steve Miller, but Eminem takes this, makes it very listenable.

Speaker 1: 30:20

Okay, he kind of takes his own, he samples his own stuff. He does the guess who's back at the very beginning of it and then he gets into it and it's just again, just an amazing way to put together lyrics and the way he pronounces the words to make it all work together Just does an amazing job. But yeah, two lyrics I'll call out. Here is when he says bumping R Kelly's favorite group, the black guy peas, which I thought was incredible as far as a lyric composition there. And during the bridge he says sometimes I wonder what the old me'd say if he could. If he could see the way stuff is today. He'd probably say everything is gay. And then in the background you hear him say like happy.

Speaker 2: 31:07

I loved that.

Speaker 1: 31:09

Which I thought was perfect, because obviously, if you listen to a lot of Eminem's track, he's been criticized before for a lot of homophobic lyrics, and so I think it's great that here he he still works in the word gay, he still tries to be true to himself, but then he caveats that with no like happy, it's like oh, okay, well, all right, yeah, we get the maturation of of him over that's right, yeah, yeah um no, I think this is such an interesting, such an interesting track from him because it's kind of evident that he has zero f's to give right, like, I think that that's

Speaker 2: 31:42

kind of like what he's arrived at. He doesn't care about cancel culture. He's like so burned out on Gen Z and younger. I think he's going back to his like you know, name calling and calling people out like his original stuff, right Like, and the album name I think it might be actually Death of Some Shady, you know basically is like maybe an allusion to the fact that it's his last album. So I think he just wants to go out with like a bang and be like here, you know, I'm back, right like, yes, he's back and I and I don't care about any of this like so it's gonna be right it's gonna be really interesting in a time when everyone's obsessing over diss tracks from a number of these artists.

Speaker 2: 32:20

Like I think he's just gonna burn the whole thing to the ground which will be very entertaining everyone. Yeah, yeah um, on the abracadabra song, though I have to note if you are a long-time listener. I've mentioned the the mom and dad like forever mixtape.

Speaker 1: 32:36

That was in the car this was on that so I know that song all the time.

Speaker 2: 32:41

So when I first hit play on this, I was like, instantly, I didn't even hear eminem's voice. I was like I know this song. Oh my god, why do I know this song? And I immediately pieced it together. I was like, oh, it's the abracadabra song. So yeah, a little bit of a little bit of ptsd as well.

Speaker 1: 32:56

Um sam, you heat it up and you couldn't cool down.

Speaker 2: 32:59

Okay, just like steve miller yeah, there was no going back, and I'm not kidding, I literally had to be like think of any other song, samuel. I was like coaching myself in my mind. I was like what about? Like can't stop, like just like can't stop. You know, I just tried anything to try to un-earworm myself of the abracadabra chorus line here, and it's, it's a tough one, it's a tough one it is.

Speaker 1: 33:24

It is so apologies to everyone, but it is worth listening yeah all right, your final pick, uh, it is with and also, ironically enough, this is an eminem uh song title. I just realized that oh yeah track 12 it is without you by kaigo and hayla yes, but certainly nothing like a track that Eminem would like. Nothing like that track. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:49

But yes, I love Kygo. He's got a new album coming out, I think for the first time in two years. It's his fifth one. I believe his first one is the one that I listen to just all the time Back in 2016,. I think it was called Cloud Nine. Loved, loved the the album. He does a really beautiful job of kind of like mixing piano with electronic elements and just kind of being almost like a softer intro to like EDM, right, like I think he's a more accessible popish EDM musician or DJ and so just again, really, you know, going back to my theme of super dancey, catchy summer songs, like this is a great one because it just has a great feeling to it. And then her vocals Hala's vocals are perfect. I mean the first opening notes, like you almost want to be like oh is Adele on this track, because she just has this really deep, rich, gorgeous voice on top of, on top of his work. So I really enjoyed the song and again, my, my vibe is is, as you said, I'm happy, sammer so it's great.

Speaker 1: 34:49

Okay, when I heard this one, all I could think about was spin instructor sammer okay because this was okay.

Speaker 1: 34:55

We're warming up, everybody, all right, but that hill's coming up and then the chorus hits. It's like everybody come on, power up that hill, and then you're over the hill. It's like, all right, we're coming down the hill, but we got one ahead of us. Guys. All right, ready, everybody. Okay, get out of the saddle, here we go. So I just completely envisioned spin instructor sammer shouting out instructions here to get get up out of the saddle and climb that hill when when the beat picked up here.

Speaker 1: 35:21

So no, you're correct me if'm wrong, but this would be a perfect hill climbing song right, not a hill climb.

Speaker 2: 35:27

It'd be a good sprinting one.

Speaker 1: 35:29

It's a little too fast for a hill climb.

Speaker 2: 35:30

Okay, sprinting yeah but a really good sprinting one.

Speaker 1: 35:34

I mean, I go up hills really fast.

Speaker 2: 35:35

Sam, okay, well, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1: 35:56

Not. All of us can not all. What did we say last time? It's just an enormous man. I think you did reference that. Yeah, yeah, oversized human being. Yeah, um, all right, well, there you have it. Okay, another new music mix. We are more than halfway through our new music mixes for 2024, but obviously a lot of big name artists coming out now with new music, so there should be some excitement there as we get into the summer. We've got plenty of other mixes coming up. We're going to do a listener supported mix, okay. So hit us up at Super Awesome Mix. We need songs of the summer, okay, summer songs, and we're going to use your picks. So, at Super awesome mix, and we'll post about it, we'll get plenty of suggestions and we'll put that out. But that's coming up and Samra and I have to make our picks For that mix, and so we'll get to work on that too. So for Samra, this is Matt and we'll see you next time.