Speaker 1: 0:43

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

Speaker 2: 0:53

Doing really well Enjoying this. I think we're both enjoying some Arctic blast in our neighborhood.

Speaker 1: 1:01

Yeah, it got really cold in Texas for like two days and tomorrow, I think, it's going to be 70 degrees. So you know we're past it, we're working through it.

Speaker 2: 1:19

It's been like non-stop arctic temperatures in new york and uh, you know I'm I love winter. I'm not sure I love this version of winter. I I'm a little, a little, tired of all the layers I can't.

Speaker 1: 1:26

Yeah, that's. That was the part that got me when I lived. I lived in the northeast for a few years and I, just after a while I was like I can't do this long of a winter. So you, you know, went back to Texas where we've got a total of like seven really cold days a year and I feel like I'm better off. I feel like I'm better off.

Speaker 2: 1:47

That's good. Well, the other thing that's going on, of course, is we've got another new music mix for the month of February, which is always fun to discover new music and talk to you all about it.

Speaker 1: 2:00

It is and I just want to like this. Did not make the mix, but I wanted to kind of take a second to talk. If you heard this new song where Pitbull has taken that old Bon Jovi song it's my Life and like remixed it.

Speaker 2: 2:15

I haven't, but I'm already sold on just that description okay, I I did not include it.

Speaker 1: 2:19

Okay, spoiler alert it's not on my pick of songs this month, but I want you to go listen to it because to me it sounds like a reaction, like pitbull made a reaction video to a bon jovi song, like that's that's amazing it's like he's hearing this for the first time just sitting in his car and then decided to record a voice memo of, like, his thoughts about this bon jovi song.

Speaker 1: 2:43

So it's like it's playing in the background and he's just talking over it. I mean it's amazing that this is like getting plays and people are into this. But it's I I part of me hope he makes a whole album like this where it's just a bunch of of me. Hope he makes a whole album like this where it's just a bunch of songs that have nothing to do with him that he's just going to kind of react to. But he's just, and the other part he's just doing Pitbull stuff. So it's not like I'm going to react to this song in particular. He's just singing the same stuff he always sings, you know about how he's Mr Worldwide and he's come up from nothing.

Speaker 1: 3:15

Yeah, he's.

Speaker 2: 3:15

Mr Worldwide and he's come up from nothing, yeah, okay, well, I'm definitely going to listen to that after this recording. I can't wait.

Speaker 1: 3:19

Yeah, please do, and we'll, we'll bring it up and, you know, maybe next month's new music mix, just to kind of revisit and, um, yeah, I'd love to hear your thoughts, cause I think it's, uh, it's, it's pretty bad.

Speaker 2: 3:31

Um, here's what's not bad, sam some of the picks we've made this month. I think we've got a lot of great ones and we're going to start with your first pick, which is self-love by blondish blonde colon ish.

Speaker 1: 3:50

Yeah, I don't know if you, if you pause with the colon, I don't know. Yeah, I was like is it blondish, like just kind of blonde, or is it like blonde ish?

Speaker 2: 3:56

yeah, yeah, yes. So this is just like a happy sounding dance track and I, you know I'm here for that and at this point in my life I just kind of want that energy, especially with everything going on and the dark, you know, deep winter vibes that we are in. Nothing else. This is just a fun one, you know, and it's all about finding self love.

Speaker 2: 4:17

It's got a great message and you know, just kind of figuring out who you are and being okay with who you are. You know, I love the bridge where she sings like and I try to fit myself into the mold, but that don't leave me any room to grow. I guess I'm one of a kind hope someday I can find self-love, and I just think that's a really nice little message. So I wanted to kick things off with some. You know high energy, positive vibes, you know all good things.

Speaker 1: 4:43

Yeah, I immediately thought of Spin Instructor Sam when I heard this, because this is and you know the rhythms, you know like I'm bad about that stuff with like spin classes, like which songs fit the rhythm? So you, you know you could speak to that part of it, right, but I'm also just listening to this going. God, yeah, I could totally see this in a spin class just kind of getting people going, because it is, it's just such a positive message, but it's very much like a cool dance song, so kind of kind of fits the bill on two levels, so that's that's. Immediately I was like that's that's who was drawn into this one? It's the spin instructor side of Sam.

Speaker 2: 5:18

Yeah, exactly, well said, all right. Well, let's get into your first pick, and it is Black and White, by Teddy Swims and Mooney Long.

Speaker 1: 5:29

I'll go with Mooney Long.

Speaker 2: 5:30

What's that Mooney? I would pronounce that Mooney Long.

Speaker 1: 5:34

Yeah, teddy Swims. This is a guy who I think had kind of a big 2024, like a lot of stuff on the radio, a lot of radio hits, and he's coming out with a new album in 2025. We didn't really touch on him, I don't think, last year in any of our new music mixes or best ofs, but he was definitely, I think, one of the artists of 2024 from like a pop music standpoint. Definitely, I think one of the artists of 2024 from like a pop music standpoint. He's got a really super soulful voice and it's kind of really stands out. It's one of those things where you could see him having a long career just because he can sing the way he can sing. Right, he's super talented there. I love.

Speaker 1: 6:13

I pick this one off the new album because it kind of had a throwback to sort of early 90s like R&B to me, just not only with his voice, but just the you know the beat behind it and everything, and it's really just kind of a nice love song. So no, I don't know it just, but it just kind of struck me that I'm like we've never really talked about Teddy Swims and I feel like he deserves a little bit of shout out here because I do like a lot of his songs, just nothing that's ever bubbled up it's. You know, sam, we've talked about it. Sometimes it's hard to just get six songs right.

Speaker 1: 6:48

Like sometimes there's like 10 songs that we want to put on these mixes. So so, yeah, no, everybody should check it out. And the whole new album again. If you like the sound of his voice, you're going to enjoy this.

Speaker 2: 7:00

Yeah, it is like such a smooth song and just a great kind of slow dance type song, like I just imagine this, like with a montage of you know like a couple in a slow dance, candles being lit, you know like the lights are down low. It's got that kind of vibe to it. I also really love the album title. I've tried everything but therapy.

Speaker 1: 7:25

I think that's great probably relatable for a lot of people out there.

Speaker 2: 7:29

A lot of people, yeah you know that was me one time, but let me tell you therapy is great. I'm all here for people trying therapy. It can help a lot.

Speaker 1: 7:37

Agreed. Yeah, don't make that your last resort. You know, start that one earlier but you know Teddy's still doing okay in spite of it all. Yeah, doing fine, all right. Well, speaking of therapy and maybe the results of it, okay, I think that fits the title of your next pick, track three.

Speaker 2: 7:54

It is A Good, good, good day at last, by okay go yeah, I got really excited that I saw a new okay, go um track. This is a band, similar to many others that we've talked about, where, like I always kind of forget that they exist and then whenever they pop back up again. I'm like oh yeah, I really like them, like, I love their songs.

Speaker 2: 8:14

They're quirky, they always have amazing music videos that are usually done as like single cuts, right like they'll just do like one you know hit record and then that's the music video, like they don't stop or edit it in any way, and some of them are so complex and really kind of mind-blowing like what they pull off. So that's always really fun about them. They just seem like a band that's having like a great time together and I really enjoy that. But, um, you know, I really like this one. I think it's a very timely track, as as many of us kind of struggle to figure out everything that's going on in the world.

Speaker 2: 8:43

Um, you know, I love this line, though it's like they always tell you the darkest hours before the dawn. Maybe they're not wrong, maybe they're not wrong and that'll only get you just so far before it starts to come undone when it's high noon and there's still no sign of sun. I think that's great because, you know, there are days like even just let's put aside the metaphor here but there's definitely days where it's like it's still dark well into the day, because there might be a lot of cloud cover storms or whatever.

Speaker 2: 9:11

So I think it's kind of funny that that they're kind of speaking to that of like, yeah, you know always darkest before the dawn, but sometimes you know you're well into the day and you still don't see the sun, and I think that that's a something that is relatable to a lot of us right now uh, yeah, I agree, and I I love the really.

Speaker 1: 9:29

By the way, just generally, all your picks, I think this month have a lot of great energy to them, but this one, um, it's funny because I looked down and for a second there I thought it was the black keys and then I realized they're coming up later but, I was just listening to this while like doing other things before I started taking notes on the tracks, and I was like, oh, this is great.

Speaker 1: 9:52

I was like gosh, is this another new black keys? And I was like no. And then I scrolled down and I was like well, but something is coming up. So Black Keys. And I was like no. And then I scrolled down and I was like well, but something is coming up.

Speaker 1: 9:58

So yeah, that's so everybody stay tuned for that. But yeah, I mean just a great energy and great vibe. And yeah, you're exactly right. The message is both literally and metaphorically, like true, where it's like sometimes that darkness lasts a little bit longer than you want it to.

Speaker 2: 10:12

Exactly.

Speaker 1: 10:13

But I love it how it's like okay, there's a good day at last. Right, Like, eventually you do get there.

Speaker 2: 10:18

Exactly, yeah, awesome, all right. Your next pick, track number four it is your House by Inhaler.

Speaker 1: 10:26

All right, Sam. Are you familiar with Inhaler at all, or were you familiar with them prior to this?

Speaker 2: 10:30

I don't think so. Like the name sounds vaguely familiar to me, but I don't think I've listened to their music.

Speaker 1: 10:34

Okay, so they are a band out of Ireland and they are fronted by a lead singer named Elijah Hewson. And if his voice sounds familiar, I say his voice, because his name might not sound familiar. Right, if his voice sounds familiar, it may be because his dad, paul, has been in our lives for over four decades. Okay, his father's better known by his stage name of bono, and you know his band you too.

Speaker 2: 11:05

I really like the reveal there. I was on the edge of my seat there.

Speaker 1: 11:08

Yeah, that was good so, yeah, this is, this is bono's son, elijah hewson, and, um, here's what I one. I think they're a good sounding band, right, and this is one of the ones I think that's been getting some radio play. But if you go into any of their catalog, like it all, it all sounds good, right, and obviously they've probably got some pretty good support when it comes to producing good music. But I think what's even cooler, especially for YouTube fans, is I think he sounds so much like his dad.

Speaker 1: 11:39

It's almost like what, if you two got in a time machine and we had 1980, you know 85 Bono's voice and he was making new music with all the tools we have today, what would that sound like? And it's like, oh yeah, it's inhaler, it's inhaler. So I don't know, I would encourage fans of like you two out there, if you're, if you're longing for kind of something with a throwback field just on the voice, like check out inhaler, cause I think they're doing some great music. And again, once you kind of hear the connection, and again I like these guys, like I started listening to them and then I found out about the connection to Bono and then I can't stop unhearing it in his voice, right, um, so anyway, I I just thought this was uh, everyone should check these guys out, because I think they're going to be huge eventually yeah, I mean, it certainly helps when your father is Bono, but um doesn't hurt, but there's something to that, right, it doesn't.

Speaker 1: 12:34

it's like, yeah, okay, sure, steph Curry's dad played in the NBA, but he turned out pretty good, right?

Speaker 2: 12:40

Yes, yeah, there's a lot of father-son stuff going on these days there is Genetics, are real people yeah genetics are real, maybe we'll finally get some hopeful father-son music. I feel like our Father's Day mix that we put out there years ago is still still kind of rough yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:01

So many songs about dads are just like you were never there for me you were never there. Yeah, maybe here it could be like dad yeah, you were on tour all the time, but you helped me make a platinum record, so it's not all bad.

Speaker 2: 13:13

It's not all bad yeah, no, I like this. I like this song. I like the beat. It's got kind of a hopeful vibe to it, although it's like talking about being addicted to something that maybe you shouldn't be, which I thought was kind of fun. Um, so yeah, it was. It was a good song. I liked the topic a lot, the fun kind of addiction is what kind of addiction?

Speaker 1: 13:29

yeah, like like coke zero, you know fine non-official sponsor, although if they want to call us yeah take their take their money We'll take their money.

Speaker 2: 13:39

We will.

Speaker 1: 13:41

Okay. So this might have been my favorite song title that you included on here. Okay, your next track. It is Want to Start a Band by Sleigh Bells.

Speaker 2: 13:51

Yes, sleigh Bells has a new single, which is so exciting. I love, love them. I featured them on a new music mix a couple years ago with the album, I believe, texas, with an I, not with an A spelled in that. And yeah, so good. This is basically her, alexis Krauss and the. You know, just like she said that they literally started their band. They were eating dinner or lunch or something someday and they were just like, hey, do you want to start a band? And that's how it started is so fun, right? I mean, I think it's very similar like when we think about this podcast, right? I think you were just like, hey, what if we did a podcast?

Speaker 2: 14:25

and yeah, like sure and here we are you know five years later and and I can't escape it, even though I've tried so many times every time you quit I just laugh and hang up yeah you keep denying my resignation. Um, but no, you know, like I love slave vows, I think their sound is just perfect for like raising the volume and like losing yourself to, like the noise and heavy guitar sound and you know, it's just kind of like discordant, but it's a lot of fun, like I think they're really good at just making that style of music.

Speaker 2: 14:58

So it's a little chaotic and I think, again, it just kind of speaks to the energy that's kind of in the air these days.

Speaker 1: 15:03

So I really like it and I'm excited for new music from them yeah, what I loved about this is when you read the song title and then you start the song. It almost it like once that idea is planted in your head, the start of the song is just kind of all over the place and it does feel like somebody just going hey, let's start a band, what instrument can you play? Now you start playing that instrument and then just sort of playing all these different instruments in these different ways and it works together right. It sounds pretty good. But then they kind of settle in and you get the, you get the vocals and it sounds more like sleigh bells. But yeah, just uh, hearing this initially I thought that was kind of fun, that the intro kind of aligned with the song title yeah, exactly, I imagine that many, many bands begin with just kind of noise and so it works out really well, all right.

Speaker 2: 15:54

Track number six this one threw me because I was like this song sounds so familiar to me and then I very quickly realized it was a cover.

Speaker 1: 16:02

Um, this is I love, la by dawes yeah, so the original was done here in the 1980s by randy newman and I think I included it on one of our big game mixes when, uh, the la rams were in the uh in the big game a few years back.

Speaker 1: 16:19

Dawes is the brotherly duo of Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith. They're from LA. They put this song out just as a single kind of in response to the LA Wildfires, and so I think they're raising some money around it, and they opened up the Grammys by singing this with quite the super group around them. I don't know if you watched it, but they had. This was their backing band. It was Brittany Howard, sheryl Crow, brad Paisley, john Legend and St Vincent.

Speaker 2: 16:48

Wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 1: 16:50

Yeah, it's one of those cool Grammy moments where they get all these people up there playing together. But you know, they kind of played an extended version on there where they had some some of those members you know kind of do some solo stuff, um in there. But you know, the single is really solid, um, you'll definitely recognize the song, just like you did right they don't do anything too crazy with it, but um, I love like his vocal energy is is very different and stronger than like randy newman, where you know, randy, where Randy Newman sounds so like sardonic and just kind of just so dry, that it's a very different feel here and I just think they give it a little bit of new energy.

Speaker 1: 17:28

I just I really enjoyed it. So yeah, big fan of this one.

Speaker 2: 17:34

Yeah, I agree, I think this one felt even more like an 80s song to me. You know they just like have that great throwback sound to it. I agree, I think this one felt even more like an 80s song to me. You know they just like have that great throwback sound to it and they captured that decade in this version of it. So I really enjoyed it. But yeah, like, as I was listening to it, it immediately was like, oh, this sounds so familiar. And then I saw the songwriter and I remembered it all came back. So really nice pick.

Speaker 1: 17:55

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Speaker 2: 18:31

Yeah, dominic Fike was the name that was familiar to me. I featured him on a new music mix a couple years ago with a new album and still come back to that album and really like his sound. It's almost like Weezer-esque, you know. Like that's kind of how I think of him back into the trap and then you wake up and you're like oh, never again. And then you do it again and again, so very I think it's it's really appropriate to um call it a love hangover because, like, if you've ever had a hangover from alcohol, it again.

Speaker 2: 19:03

You just find yourself in that loop for a long time, unfortunately, of like just swearing it off and then you know, friday night comes back around and you're doing it all over again. So I think that some relationships definitely follow that pattern where you're like I really need to stop being with this person and yet you continue to be with this person. So I think the topic is great and I just think her vocals are just amazing and it's a really nice collaboration with him on the track, so I really just enjoyed this track in general.

Speaker 1: 19:30

Yeah, I thought we had back-to-back cover songs here, because Love Hangover is an old Diana Ross song and so that was kind of what I was anticipating when I saw it, but a little different than that. I mean kind of a similar theme actually. So I'm sure they're going to cut her a check at some point in time. So sweet. But then when you listen to the lyrics it's like well, no, this isn't so sweet. After all, it reminded me of uh. If you remember, at the uh in old school or the hangover, they have that wedding band and both of them the dan band, where the guy is like singing the song but then throwing in like the f word periodically and just kind of emphasizing things.

Speaker 1: 20:12

Because it's like I'm sitting here listening to a song and I'm like, oh, this is a really nice sounding song, and then I'm like, did you just say the f word? Like right, what am I hold on a minute? And then what are they describing? Hold on, let me like get this. So it's like it's kind of uh, there's a little bit of dissonance here because there is a not so positive theme to it. Yes, even though I think the beat here and the voices make you feel pretty good.

Speaker 2: 20:37

Yeah, there's definitely some explicit lyrics here. So you know, don't play this with children in the mix. All right, let's go on to your next pick. This is probably my favorite, one of all the ones that you brought this month, and it is, it's my Ego by Ice Cube and Scarface.

Speaker 1: 20:55

Yeah, brought this month and it is it's my ego by ice cube and scarface. Yeah, so, um, ice cube came out with a new album in november of last year called man down, and he had a version of this uh, it's my ego. But, um, he comes back here, includes scarface, he calls this the three mix and, um, yeah, I mean just such a throwback, like if you love ice cube and you love scarface, you're I mean this just just kind of playing the hits right like it sounds just like them. So many great rhymes in this one, uh, the one I'll call out you kind of timid me, I'm self-centered. You about as loud and rowdy as kawhi leonard, um, which is great. And if you're an nba fan, you probably don't even know what kawhi Leonard sounds like. Nobody does, because he just never speaks.

Speaker 1: 21:38

So it's a great call out there. And Ice Cube is famously a Laker fan, so shot of Kawhi Leonard, who is a clipper there as well. So yeah, I don't know. I just thought it was great and I love it when these guys kind of pop up with a new album and it just sounds like all the stuff that made them famous.

Speaker 2: 21:58

Yeah, I couldn't help. But just thinking now, knowing that I'm pretty sure you're a Mavs fan and I think the Lakers just literally robbed the Mavs, so I hope you're taking everything okay.

Speaker 1: 22:06

They did, yeah, no look, dallas, the city of Dallas, credit GM Nico Harrison. I mean everyone thinks they're giving and helping through the LA Wildfires. Right, he decided to donate the entire franchise.

Speaker 2: 22:20

It's really generous, it's just kind of like this.

Speaker 1: 22:23

I mean just speaks to the. You know charity in our hearts here in Dallas Because we just gave it away.

Speaker 2: 22:32

It's very generous, yeah, very forward thinking. That's what the city needs um. They need more star players on their already yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1: 22:41

Yeah, gosh, there's not enough superstars in the city of la to help them, right? You have the second greatest player of all time, and now? All right? Well, here's the guy who might replace him. Sure.

Speaker 2: 22:54

Exactly.

Speaker 1: 22:54

Great Good for you. La, I'm really happy for you.

Speaker 2: 22:57

Yeah, you know. Yeah, again, it's very nice of you, but this is a great track. Yeah, I mean, this is just like a fantastic classic hip hop sounding track Great bass beat, wonderful lyrics, and I just feel like there's really no one like Ice Cube that can just kind of deliver that edgy hard rap.

Speaker 1: 23:21

The way that he does like it's just so, so good, um, so I'm always here for it, so I really liked it all.

Speaker 2: 23:25

Right, your next pick, and this was probably my favorite of your picks it is the night before by the black keys, yeah, so no surprise here that if the black keys are going to release a new song, it's going to make it on the new music mix. Um, they just you know, it's a deal I have with them, it's just automatically, um contractually obligated to include new music by them also not an official sponsor.

Speaker 2: 23:43

But okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep um, but I'm hoping they'll come on the show one day. They'll, they'll find out and be like, oh, absolutely, he's. He's the reason our numbers are so good.

Speaker 2: 23:52

It's gonna happen, it's gonna happen but yeah, you know it's funny, I think it seems like they're leaning into that beck style poppy sound, right like we talked about their last album and and you know it was helped to be produced by beck and there's a lot of influence that you can hear and it seems like they're like leaning into that and so it's like a departure from their earlier stuff. But it works. I think it's really nice, um, to kind of hear that, that that evolution and that develop over time. So I really like this track. I'm curious if the rest of the album is going to sound like this or if this, you know, is just like a crossover, like single to get them, you know, into a different sound entirely or go back to the original one. So we'll find out with the uh, with the new album coming, but I really enjoyed this track yeah, I just love the energy in this one.

Speaker 1: 24:38

Right, like I said, all your tracks have great energy, but this one, I don't know, probably fit the best. I mean, I must have had black keys on the brain because again I I thought they came up earlier when it was okay, go. But then, you know, I heard this and again, just just really loved it. You know, know, loved it you know lyrically, and they're just so consistently good, right. And I think we've talked about this before with bands where it's like once you have the right style and the right vocals and all that, you can make it work and then you're right, like they kind of, you know, did a little bit of, you know, a veer away from that, just slightly, with sort of Beck's influence on the last album. But I don't know if that's here to stay. I don't. I don't think that's a bad thing, I think it's. It's gonna work really well with them all right.

Speaker 2: 25:23

This next track has literally just been stuck as an earworm in my head ever since I listened to it. It's definitely an earworm track, but it is islands in the stream. But this is the version by Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.

Speaker 1: 25:36

Yeah, so there's a new movie on I think it's Amazon Prime. It's called You're Cordially Invited and it's like a rom-com. I haven't watched it yet, but I think it is being very positively reviewed and so this is from that movie and so I'm sure it's some part of some climactic scene where they realize they're in love and they were in love the whole time. But yeah, I mean, look, we knew Reese Witherspoon could sing. She was in Walk the Line. Okay, we've heard her voice before. Look, shout out to Will Ferrell, because I think he does a pretty good job here, even though he's kind of trying to be half jokey while he's singing it and the sincerity in it, but I think he does a pretty good job with the with the vocals here you know, it's not bad yeah

Speaker 1: 26:21

yeah, it's not bad, and I mean, the original, of course, was made famous. It was written by barry gibb, recorded by dolly parton and kenny rogers. Um, I love this song. I think it's kind of, objectively, a great song. Um, this doesn't surpass the original, but I thought it was a really strong effort. And, look, I mean, if Will Ferrell is going to come out with a singles, I'm probably going to you know, if you have the black keys and they're all going to make the mix. I'm going to say the same for Will Ferrell.

Speaker 2: 26:51

We should put together his other tracks, cause I feel like he was great in Eurovision as well.

Speaker 1: 26:56

Yes, that's right. Yes.

Speaker 2: 26:58

Yeah, so good.

Speaker 1: 27:04

All right your last pick.

Speaker 2: 27:06

This one is Detroit by Bad Flower. Yeah, I mentioned American. All-american Rejects a lot.

Speaker 2: 27:09

I just feel like in my head they have just the sound and I just compare many bands to them and this is one of those ones where I just kind of get that vibe from them again, like the all-american rejects the early 2000s kind of alt rock sound that was like sweeping millennials everywhere, myself included, but I just really like the song again. I like the energy here. I like the you know topic of the struggle to like get on that screen you know of and, and that screen these days is not necessarily like the TV, but it could just be like getting in front of people's phones right, like getting on their phones and having people watch your content and what a struggle it is and, as they're thinking, you know, stepping over everyone. I'm so unhappy but I try my hardest.

Speaker 2: 27:52

I think that's very relatable as someone who also needs to produce content all the time for our stuff. It can, it can be a drag right, like at some point you're like, oh my gosh, like this, this is not a lot of fun, um, but no, I think this is a great song to kind of just speak to that struggle of constantly producing stuff to get, um, to get on people's screens and get on their, their mind uh, first off, I want to say the first band I wrote down while I was listening to this was all American rejects nice, okay, completely aligned there on the sound.

Speaker 1: 28:23

Yeah, yeah, completely. But yeah, I love the message too. And and one thing you know you talked about the struggle, but then he also mentions like it's so depressing having everything I wanted. So he kind of talks about the once you do achieve that, how maybe it's not as satisfying as maybe he thought it would be Right, like getting to that point and you know bad flowers, not that big, so it's like if he's depressed. Now I wonder what will happen if they really take off.

Speaker 2: 28:54

Well, you know, therapy is a great option. Therapy is a great option. Therapy is a great option.

Speaker 2: 28:57

It shouldn't be the last option, okay not be the last shout out to teddy swims yeah, it shouldn't be the last option um, and in fact you know, it's never too late to seek therapy. Yes, and that brings us to the last track here, which is never too late, by an amazing collaboration of elton john and brandy carlisle okay, these two have a whole album coming out later this year, um called who believes in angels, and there's a couple singles out now.

Speaker 1: 29:25

I'm not gonna promise you I won't include another track from that album once the whole thing comes out, whether it's on a new music mix or best of, because just hearing this song like the piano is kind of vintage, like elton john sounding right like kind of 1970s, ish.

Speaker 1: 29:43

I mean, he's blind, at least legally blind, and like he still has the voice though right. And then you bring brandy carlisle in with it and so, like vocally, I'm like this is incredible, um. And so I just first and foremost love the sound of it. But then, yeah, like the message here of just you know, like the title says, it's never too late, you've always got time. But then they also hinted things in the lyrics where it's like you also don't have a lot of time, right, like. So it's a weird dichotomy and just kind of the you know, kind of it speaks to just sort of being present in the moment, because you just have to value the time that you're in Right and use that wisely. So love the message here, I mean, and it's just a beautiful track to listen to. I think. I've listened to it to a few, a few times now, but can't wait.

Speaker 2: 30:32

I think the album comes out in Aprilil, but I think this is going to be, uh, just a great one yeah, it's really nice and it just has beautiful songwriting, um, and you know, like eldon john is a legend and I think it is always really amazing when, when these singers who get older can still sing, because unfortunately my wife and I recently watched the snl 50 um special and I had paul m, paul McCartney do a song. Yeah, and I you know it wasn't that good, you know like he he can play.

Speaker 2: 31:01

I didn't think it was that good. I don't know if it was the studio sound, if it wasn't mixed well, but he can play. But his singing just did not. I don't know, maybe he picked the wrong song but something about it.

Speaker 1: 31:16

No, I think you're right. I think certain voices one, I think, look just all of us physically will sort of deprecate over time and sometimes it does affect people's voices. But I do think his voice in particular, where I don't know, it's a slightly higher register. From a singing standpoint, I think that's harder to maintain, whereas, like elton john, being a slightly lower register, maybe that stays longer. I'm sure there's some vocal expert out there who can help us out, you know, at super awesome mix. But you know, in the meantime I can only speculate. But yeah, you're right, like he doesn't sound as strong.

Speaker 1: 31:45

I mean it's almost like the bob dylan thing, like bob dylan right out there and now it's like now we just have timothy chalamet and just like okay, well, you sing bob dylan songs instead. Right, we're all happier this way, even bob, you know right we'll just hot swap them in, no one will notice no one will know.

Speaker 1: 32:04

No one will know. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Um, all right. Well, there you have it. Another super awesome mix for your collection, this time new music from, uh, the month of february, february 2025. Um, we got plenty of mixes to work on the month of February, february 2025. We got plenty of mixes to work on the rest of the year, so Sam and I will get to work on that. And so, for Sam, this is Bat. We'll see you next time.