Speaker 1: 0:47

welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is matt. Sit home alongside my co-host and co-founder super awesome mix, sammer Samer. How are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:57

Doing real well. I can't believe it. I mean, you teased it on an earlier episode, but here we are 99 episodes of Super Awesome Mix Unbelievable.

Speaker 1: 1:07

Unbelievable. This is our 99th mixtape and you know a lot of shows celebrate 100, right, like you know, you got to get at that century mark. But I think since pretty much day one, we have talked about the year in 1999 and how much great music we thought came from that year. And so you know, we thought, well, let's celebrate our 99th mix instead of our 100th mix and just do a tribute to our favorite, maybe our favorite musical year, 1999 it's high up there for sure.

Speaker 2: 1:41

Yeah, I feel like 99 is a good one. 97 was also a really good one, but we already missed that, so I guess maybe until 197, or well, or nine, or literally 1999. Yeah, I was gonna say 97 episodes by then.

Speaker 1: 1:57

I'm guessing we'll be reaching a little bit and so, yeah, we'll probably have to do year-specific ones at that point.

Speaker 2: 2:04

I mean, yeah, we'll see if there's an upper limit to how many mixtapes one can make Once we hit the year 1900, it'll just be year by year, right, like, okay, now in 1901, this was a monster hit.

Speaker 1: 2:18

it sold seven copies, guys, which in today's term would be 70 million it was triple platinum if the RIAA had existed back then.

Speaker 2: 2:31

It did not, though it did not, um, but yeah, so 99 episodes. So we did music from 1999. And I picked songs that I had on repeat 1999. This is by no means you know, we always have that disclaimer by no means a complete list. There are so many good songs and from the year you know, we also had Andrew Brand on, the author of the book Mixtape for the End of the World, which primarily featured songs from 1999 as well as they reached Y2K. So that was an excellent mix. If you're itching for more, you know 99 music, but here we go. Yeah, like I think we have a really, really good mix here. I was excited about this one.

Speaker 1: 3:10

Yeah, and a really diverse mix. Like I think we hit a lot of different genres, so that's good, so let's get it going.

Speaker 2: 3:17

Okay, this was your first pick and I thought no better way to start the mix with Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin. I mean, that's what we're doing, right, livin' that crazy life. We got a mixtape podcast going on 100 episodes. Oh my goodness, I love this song. I can't think of a better song to encapsulate the year 1999, at least in my head, right, I think. You know we tend to kind of have nostalgic views of the past and and kind of not look at all the terrible things that were going on. You know, the nineties by no means were perfect. There was a lot of civil rights issues, as there always have been, and you know other things going on, of course. But when I look back at 99, I'm like, oh, what a simpler, easier time. Of course I was younger too, that's the other thing at play. So I was like in high school. So you know who's worrying about the world when you're in high school. You got your whole life ahead of you, unless you're Greta, you know you're not really thinking about the world?

Speaker 1: 4:21

Yeah, unless, you're Greta Thunberg, who was not alive in 1999.

Speaker 2: 4:26

I'm just going to let that one sit with me for a second. Yeah, just let that one sit for a second yeah.

Speaker 2: 4:31

But yeah, I loved this song. What great energy. I mean this blew up Incredibly happy song. I think the rolling stones or someone rated it as like one of the happiest songs of all time. It absolutely could, you know, belongs on that list. Very, very catchy beat, contagious energy, um, and yeah, I just think like that's. That's what I like to think of you know, whenever I think of 99, we've got some dark songs on this mix, so we're gonna open strong and then kind of deflate the balloon a little bit.

Speaker 1: 5:03

A little bit right, um, but yeah, I totally agree. I mean, ricky martin had his moment in 1999. This was actually like his fifth album that this came off of, but it was his first big english language hit and he performed at the grammys that year. And it wasn't even this song, uh, that he performed at the grammys. But like people went nuts for ricky martin after this grammy performance, like you could you can google or go to youtube and and find the 99 grammys performance by him and and it was crazy, especially because I remember the artists in the crowd like really getting into it and usually they stay pretty cool and instead they just kind of got swept up into the energy of the performance and then that so that was February 99. Then a couple weeks later this song is released and of course it just goes crazy. So, yeah, monster hit for that time period. But also, like I love that you included it because that was a real like moment, like a real thing, and then you just got this wave of Latin artists after that becoming more mainstream.

Speaker 2: 6:12

Yeah, absolutely no, it was. Yeah, it was definitely the beginning of something awesome, for sure, all right. Track number two is your pick and you went with my Name Is by Eminem.

Speaker 1: 6:29

Yeah. So Ricky Martin, you know we just talked about him making a big splash in 1999. But you know we got our first taste of this guy named Eminem and this is the lead single off of his first album. And I just remember, I think the thing that stood out to me, it's like you heard it on the radio a little bit, but then the music video was just so funny and so weird. But then when you got into the lyrics you realize like there was a little bit of a darker side to them as well. But I think it was just an immediate signal like that this was going to be different. But I think it was just an immediate signal like that this was going to be different. And you know, over the next, like I'd say, decade, you got a lot more Eminem and you know you got a lot more out of his lyrics that he really went after some people. But yeah, this, this song, I mean just I just remember hearing it a lot.

Speaker 2: 7:15

But also, you know, go back and watch the video because it's just kind of peak, eminem sort of making fun of everything and everyone yeah, this definitely set the tone for for the first part of his career, no doubt, like just kind of attacking a bunch of different people and groups. And you know, I think if we ever, if we're itching for mix ideas, we could do like songs that didn't age well, and it would probably just be Eminem and probably some Kanye thrown on there, just things that maybe don't get played as much.

Speaker 2: 7:49

going into this, generation Seemed like a good idea at the time maybe Right, right, right, but no, I mean, yeah, my goodness, this song was very different.

Speaker 2: 7:59

I mean just very different, and it really did Like you heard it, you're like oh, wow, like it caught your attention. What I thought was really interesting that I didn't know is that the name of this song and kind of the whole premise of it is like he was so nervous meeting Dre, who helped to produce this album and the song, that the first words out of his mouth were like hi, my name is Eminem, like, and so then that just kind of stuck. The other thing I learned is he used to do all of his songs in one take and like, literally, if he messed up at the end of it, he just rolled the whole thing back and and do it over again, like he didn't want to edit any of his tracks. Um, I just think that's incredible. Like, with that in mind, listening to the lyrics and the rap that he delivers, like to do that in one take is very impressive yes, it's.

Speaker 1: 8:45

It's insane to think this is all one take.

Speaker 2: 8:48

Yeah yeah, wild stuff, but really good. Pick, strong opener on your side. We're actually going to go with a different pick of yours. Uh, you get two back to back here and it is another strong contender for 99 year, someday, we'll know, by the new radicals yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:05

So I I'm, you know, on this quest to include every song from new radicals only album in a mix at some point, and so I picked this one because I hadn't included it. I hadn't included it elsewhere. That's essentially why it's on here, but it's also just a great song. So this was their second single. So you Get what you Give is their big hit. It still gets a ton of radio play. And then this was the second single.

Speaker 1: 9:31

By the time this single came out, the band had broken up. So they have this monster single. They put out this album. This is the second single. The band is already dissolved at that point. Appropriate enough, because the song is about a relationship falling apart and how. Someday we'll understand it. I just love the lyrics in this one and how it is so well done, in sort of a reflective way, where it's like there's so many things you don't understand, but maybe someday you'll know and someday you'll understand why. The lyric that always stood out to me from like the first time I heard it I remember is that line where he asked did the captain of the Titanic cry?

Speaker 1: 10:15

Right which I think is such a great question but also, at the time, very appropriate, because, I don't know, titanic was probably still in theaters even though it'd come out in 1997 that's right.

Speaker 2: 10:27

I'm sure it was. Yeah, oh my goodness, I think my sister saw it like 14 times, so it's still very top of mind for people.

Speaker 1: 10:34

So it's like, yeah, well done including that, but also you know a good question as this monster ship is sinking. But, um, yeah, just a great I mean well written song. Again, I talk about this album all the time, how great it is and how unfortunate it is. These guys only made one album, but you know another one to check out.

Speaker 2: 10:53

For sure. I actually wrote here that I mean this album, and there are a number of albums out there, right, especially the ones where it's just like the one album from an artist that was perfect, where we could just probably do an entire episode just on the album, um, and talk about it, because, like, the songs are so strong and they each stand on their own. You know, the miseducation of lauren hill would be another wonderful example, which I also believe came out in 99. So that's another strong contender for why this year was so great. Um, but I do love this song. This is actually the song I fell in love with the new radicals listening to and I always thought it was a love song. Funny enough, this was in the category of songs. I just misinterpreted it as a love song as as a young teenager and it wasn't until much later I was like, oh right, it's a breakup song. So I apologize to any past interests of mine if I put this on a mixtape for you, it's probably really confusing, like why is he giving me?

Speaker 1: 11:48

a week later she's like look, I know we're breaking up. And you're like, what, what are you talking about? It just made you that mixtape. And you're like, yeah, no, I get it. I get it, it's time to move on that's why they were also short-lived I love the kind of running theme we have of you misinterpreting lyrics and giving them like I would just love to have some of these past relationships, like you know call into the show and just be like, yeah, no, it was confusing.

Speaker 1: 12:21

It was definitely confusing getting that song from oh goodness um, all right. Well, thankfully, sammer, I mean, this next song applies to you, because you're definitely seeing better days. Um, it's better days.

Speaker 2: 12:34

Parentheses, and the bottom drops out by citizen king yeah, I don't know that I have listened to a different song from citizen king and even doing this episode, I was like I was. I should probably try to listen to something else from from this group, from this guy, and I haven't yet, so that's on me, I will do that, but I love this song. This is another song that you know makes me reminisce about the year 99, especially because it was featured in the show Malcolm in the Middle, which was like just a huge, huge show, and you know, my goodness, talk about an actor who had a huge arc, going from playing the dad on Malcolm in the Middle to Breaking Bad.

Speaker 1: 13:13

Yeah, yeah. Bryan Cranston yeah, just the bozo dad on Malcolm in the Middle and then years later is winning every award on Breaking Bad.

Speaker 2: 13:21

Yeah, winning every award on Breaking Bad. Yeah, exactly, if you're playing like a masterful drug lord, that's a great show.

Speaker 1: 13:28

I'm going to be honest, I called it in 99. Yeah, I know that sounds crazy, there's no way to prove it, but yeah, I called it. I called it. You were a visionary.

Speaker 2: 13:40

You were a visionary. You know, another addicting happy song. The song definitely makes me like full of joy. I always love the bridge, like the random little sample which I thought was like very 90s, where there's like a woman who I think is saying like like my Gucci bag, and then there's a guy oh, that's beautiful, beautiful. It's like so random, you know, like just these random little samples it's thrown into songs back then. Uh, that I really enjoyed. So, um, but yeah, I really like it, even though, again, you know, as I read through the lyrics I realized that he's literally talking about how he's had better days and so he's kind of going through a rough patch right now. But I always just interpreted it as, like the good days are here, why not? Well, yeah, it's kind of're right.

Speaker 1: 14:22

It has this kind of happy poppy sort of tune to it, but yeah, it's like they're not having a great day and then the bottom drops out, right. It's almost like sort of this how much worse could this day get, sort of thing. But I, you know, you said at the beginning you're not sure if you've heard any other songs from them, and I had that same thought. I was like, do I know another Citizen King song? I really did think. And then I'm like you know what? This is a one-hit wonder, Because this is a song that still gets played. If you're on various SiriusXM channels it'll pop up. But yeah, we have not heard anything else from Citizen King, at least not on a big radio airplay level. I'm sure there's some super fans out there that can tell us otherwise.

Speaker 2: 15:08

For sure. All right. So track five here, a strong pick. I liked this one, and it was Goodbye Earl. By the Chicks.

Speaker 1: 15:17

Yeah, the Chicks, known at that time as the Dixie Chicks, this was one of. I mean, they had already had a number of big hits, but this album, fly, came out and Fly was a really big. I mean, just single after single after single was like really big for them. And this one just always stood out to me because I mean, if you're not familiar with the song, it's about domestic abuse and how, you know, this woman getting abused and her friend decide that they're just going to murder this woman's husband and get away with it.

Speaker 1: 15:53

And the video is so well done. It's really. And again, the song is super upbeat. The video is almost comical because you get Dennis Franz playing Earl and then you know you've got Lauren Holly and Jane Krakowski playing Marianne and Wanda, the two women in the song, and so you've got all these great actors in there and they're all kind of dancing around and having fun about how Earl had to die and you know, goodbye Earl.

Speaker 1: 16:25

But it's like when you take a step back it's like, oh, they're gonna murder this guy and this song's about domestic abuse and like it's kind of a dark song to where, like, a lot of radio stations at the time refused to play it because they were like, yeah, it's a little too little, too much. And it was actually, I think, the first kind of hint you got that you know the chicks were because later they got a lot more controversial and, you know, got into some trouble. You know right or wrong, like you know, we won't need to get into all that. But they definitely got a lot more political as their career went on. But at the time they were just a great like kind of country crossover sort of trio. And then this song comes out and it's like, oh okay, this is something a little different, but it was still kind of a pop hit. You heard it on the radio all the time yeah, this song definitely has an edge to it.

Speaker 2: 17:11

You're absolutely right. Like I, I view it as almost like a dark comedy kind of song, because you know they're they're singing it so lightheartedly and it's it's set to kind of a, you know, sonically it sounds more upbeat and kind of fun and playful. But, but, you're right, it's set to kind of. You know, sonically it sounds more upbeat and kind of fun and playful. But you're right, it's literally about like murdering someone and getting away with it. I feel like, if you've not seen the show Bad Sisters that's an excellent show on Apple TV this could have been like the theme song for that show, because that show also has a very similar like theme of you know, this group of women deciding that someone's spouse needs to die, basically because he was like a grade A A-hole. So I think they missed an opportunity there. They could have done that.

Speaker 1: 17:57

All right, so your next pick. You went with Steal my Sunshine by Len.

Speaker 2: 18:04

Next pick you went with Steal my Sunshine by Len. Yeah, this is another favorite of mine from 99. I love like the conversation that occurs at the beginning, you know again like just people talking in the middle of songs. I feel like it doesn't happen so much anymore, but that was definitely something that happened a lot. I love the question where he's like well, does he like butter tarts? It's like it's just a super, super Canadian question. Apparently, I've not had a butter tart, but apparently they are a butter based pastry, is my understanding.

Speaker 1: 18:35

Which sounds inherently pretty good, right.

Speaker 2: 18:38

I'll buy in um and then, yeah, like I, I really I just loved the sound of this song, like I just played it a lot. What's kind of funny is, you know, looking at it now all these years later and really investigating the lyrics, I just kind of feel like it's like a song of like these guys, tim and chad, who are just commenting on their bandmates like mark and sharon, and then just being like kind of mean about them you know, like I'm just gonna feel like they're giving them a lot of flack and it's like what?

Speaker 2: 19:06

what's up with you, tim and chad, like come on back what makes?

Speaker 1: 19:13

you so great huh right um, yeah, this is a.

Speaker 1: 19:16

I always consider this you're right, though like if you dig into the lyrics it's really not. But this is another one that I consider kind of a fun song. But I remember it from the movie Go, if you recall that movie then in 99. And that was a really kind of underrated fun movie, but also one that's kind of about a lot of criminal activity. So it's also kind of one of these. It probably fits that in that it's this fun sounding song with this fun seeming movie, but but maybe neither are as fun as you might think it is.

Speaker 2: 19:48

Right, Right, I have not seen that one so I'm not too familiar, but that that seems to fit thematically with it.

Speaker 1: 19:54

That's definitely worth checking out. You may want to go see that one.

Speaker 2: 19:57

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 19:57

And not in a Sam or you're going to hate it, but I want you to watch it sort of thing Like I genuinely think you would enjoy that movie.

Speaker 2: 20:05

Okay, all right, cool, all right. Track seven here. Now, I think for these next two tracks, we both get a little down with our mood. You went with Adam's Song by Blink-182.

Speaker 1: 20:18

All right, I just felt like this song was really important, right, and so, like when I think back to 1999, this was a song that always stuck with me because even at the time, when you know the Internet at that point people don't probably realize this, first of all there were no smartphones, for sure and like looking up lyrics on the Internet and meanings or anything like that really it just wasn't a thing right and so. But even at that time you hear the song and the tone of it and the lyrics and you're like you know exactly what this song is about and they do such a good job. I thought it was such a departure for Blink-182. That was such a fun band. They're still this fun band, right, but they wrote this song.

Speaker 1: 21:03

The song is essentially about teenage suicide and you know even the opening chords of it. Like I get a little emotional, like still listening to it now, even though I have no experience with those types of emotions or, thankfully, no direct experience with that. It's still something that resonates and I think that really speaks to the quality of the song is that it can kind of get you, even if you don't have a memory necessarily, to kind of attach it to. But yeah, I think it's so well done. And again, I love it when a band is really known for one thing and then can do something else speaks to kind of how talented these guys really are yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2: 21:47

I mean it kind of was a preview. You know, now, knowing what they did with their career was like a preview that they they also had an edge, like they could go dark with their music and and be very comfortable in that space. What I think is so funny is like a it's on an album called enema of the state right. B it's nestled it's track seven on this album and it's nestled between track six, dysentery, gary and then and then all the small things, which is another like mega hit of theirs, right, um, and so I just think that's amazing.

Speaker 2: 22:16

yeah, like you, you come off of dysentery, gary, and now you're like, oh right, great, I'm reading a suicide letter of a young teen, um, and it's like total mood and vibe shift. And then now you're talking about all the small things and like you're back, you're back at high energy and like punk rock and all that stuff, um, so you're right, like I think it it was really kind of cool and brave of them to throw this in there and to put it right smack in the middle of the album to where it just demands your attention, like you're going to hear it, and I think that's probably a big part of what made it so impactful at the time.

Speaker 1: 22:48

And that album was everywhere. I mean, that was a huge album. And at the time. You know there's no iTunes in 1999. So you're pretty much just buying the whole album and listening to it.

Speaker 2: 23:00

Yeah, exactly yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:02

All right. So let's take a little, a little shift here, at least from a genre standpoint, and you've got Porcelain by Moby.

Speaker 2: 23:10

Yeah, oh, I love, love, love the song and I think you know we talked about 99 being the start of new things kind of making their way to mainstream and I think this song was like one of the first kind of electric songs to kind of hit the mainstream, Certainly to be as big as it did or, you know, become as big as it did. So love, love this song. I just think it has this kind of like haunting mix of piano and that electronic beat and his you know, the beautiful vocals. It's a song about a breakup, so it's definitely like a moodier, sad song. And what's really funny, you know, in doing the research on it, is he didn't want to release this. He said he, quote, I had I actually had to be talked into including it.

Speaker 2: 23:54

When I first recorded I thought it was average. I didn't like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocal sounded really weak. I couldn't imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it. Uh, end quote. And I just think that's incredible that he, you know he put this song on there reluctantly and then it ended up just becoming one of the most like prominent songs off of this album and one that got played a whole lot and then 20 years later it was sampled by ASAP, rocky um and the song ASAP forever, and so it had a revitalization off of that Um. So I just think it's yeah, it's amazing and it speaks to you know, I talk on my show super awesome. You sometimes like what's, you know what's junky to you might not be junky to someone else. Like don't count yourself out, you'd be amazed. Like just put it out there and see what people think. So I like that aspect of this song a lot. I think it's really powerful.

Speaker 1: 24:43

Yeah, and you're right. I mean I talked to the top of the show how we really did a pretty good job of including a lot of different genres on this and it kind of speaks to like in 1999, there were a lot of different genres out there that were getting regular radio play and I think for moby this you know, dance electronic artist. I mean he really had a moment there for several years where he had a lot of radio hits, which is rare, I think, for that, that type of music. But yeah, this one was everywhere at the time. It's's only I counted there's 63 words in the song.

Speaker 2: 25:17

Wow. So pretty pretty low yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:20

Not many lyrics, but they're impactful. And you're right, it's a really well done song. And, you're right, you get a little bit of instrumentation along with, like, the electronic part of it. So, yeah, really well done.

Speaker 2: 25:33

Awesome, all right track. Nine here, one of my great pick.

Speaker 1: 25:37

I love this one, uh, one of my all-time favorites and it's my own worst enemy by lit yeah, this is such a fun song, like it's both, you know, regretful and funny at the same time. I mean at the time you know, 1999, I was 22, just graduating college, and so this song was right in the wheelhouse of you know any number of people that I knew, okay, and maybe myself, where it's like you wake up the next day and you know a lot of regrets about whatever went on the night before.

Speaker 1: 26:06

So yeah that was the. I felt like they just described this all pretty perfectly. And then it's just a great like sounding rock song at the same time.

Speaker 2: 26:23

It is. It has that, that energy. That's really fun. And I think, like you know, when I think about 99 going into like 2003, like those four years or so, you know you had like lit, you had All American Reject. You had a lot of groups come out that had this kind of similar sound to it, where it was like this punk like, but more mainstream punk, you know, like it is much more playable on the radio than like traditional punk, um, and so I I love that and this kind of maybe it kicked off that, that kind of love affair with that genre of music. But this certainly is is on that list all right, track 10, you've got a monster.

Speaker 1: 26:56

Hit um scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Speaker 2: 27:01

Yeah, my goodness, originally I wasn't going to include this on here, but, like Californication, the album is probably one of their best albums, if not their best album.

Speaker 1: 27:11

You know, there's they have a lot of contenders, but I loved this album.

Speaker 2: 27:14

I had a hard time picking which track I wanted to pick off of it. I had thought that maybe I hadn't picked Scar Tissue before, but it turns out I had. So, oh well, we get to talk about it again. But I listened to this song a lot. I didn't know what it was about, I just loved the mood of it. I loved the tone of it.

Speaker 2: 27:34

I think when you're a teenager certainly I was very, you know, like moody. I think emo head was beginning. You know we were like in the early part of like the emo movement and so you know it's getting into that kind of grungy. You know life sucks and blah, blah, blah, even though, my goodness, my life was great at 14. Oh, young sammer, you have no idea. But you know I just, yeah, I love, I love this song for the guitar solo, his instrumental breaks, his voice, like the storytelling, um, kind of struggling with addiction, what he's talking about and trying to like come back into normal life. You know, being being an addict and feeling that loneliness that you know, as he says, like with the birds, I'll share this lonely view, like just feeling that you're high above everything and you're not with the people down below. I think it's really poetic and powerful, but absolutely love this album and I've been listening to it ever since.

Speaker 1: 28:33

Yeah, the lyric that stands out is scar tissue. That I wish you saw sarcastic, mr Know-it-all. Like just those two lines have all stood out to me. And then, you know, putting it on this mix where we just had Adam's song, kind of highlighting kind of you don't know sort of what somebody is going through, like that kind of stood out to me a little bit more listening to this again, because I was like, yeah, that's, that's exactly it. It's like we kind of look at somebody and sort of make a judgment about them, but we don't really know what's going on or what they've been through and and all of that. So, um, yeah, this was yeah, that's absolutely true, yeah so it's a great pick and really kind of hit.

Speaker 1: 29:08

Hit a little differently, I think, when I put it in this mix with with Adam's song just a couple tracks before it.

Speaker 2: 29:18

All right, our last two tracks here are really strong to end this mix, so we'll start with yours first, and it is Heartbreaker, featuring Jay-Z by Mariah Carey.

Speaker 1: 29:27

Yeah, this one. I mean, okay, jay-z, at this point he's probably three albums into his career and he's pretty big at this point, like where it's just kind of single after single after single. Now mariah carey, at this point she kind of made a splash in the early 90s and then mid 90s you get the uh, all I want for christmas is you, which is still, like you know, the biggest song in the world every year. Right, but then she also had in like 96, 97, the collaboration with boys to men, one sweet day that set like a record for being at the top of the chart for a number of weeks.

Speaker 1: 30:05

But so then comes 99 and like she comes with this song heartbreaker, which I mean is a pretty strong song just by itself. But then she collaborates with Jay Z and he comes on the track and I just think it's a pretty strong song just by itself. But then she collaborates with Jay-Z and he comes on the track and I just think it's a great song and one that's a little underrated, like you really don't hear this much, but I think it's a great one from her catalog, but then Jay-Z makes a great addition to it.

Speaker 2: 30:31

Yeah, I agree, really really strong collaboration between these two. I didn't really, like many of them, didn't pay attention to the lyrics until kind of going through it and I liked it. Like I thought it was really clever, you know. It tells a story of like, basically from the point of view of a woman wanting to leave a guy but she can't, even though she knows that she should, coming in and being the other point of view of being that guy that like she's trying to leave and kind of being cocky about it and being like, oh yeah, she says that she hates me but she doesn't, you know, and like a very kind of common theme sometimes in relationships where you know one person wants to leave the other but the other has like this confidence and this allure and like there's like this kind of you know, arguably a bad place to be in. But anyway, I think capturing that in the song and having the two voices do that makes it very strong and it's a great track. So really really nice one.

Speaker 1: 31:22

All right, let's finish it off Our 99th mixtape. The last track forgot about Dre by Dr Dre and Eminem.

Speaker 2: 31:32

And I'm laughing here because we both wanted to put the song on here, and so we just need to know that none of us forgot about Dre. So, dr Dre, if you're listening, don't worry, we still remember you.

Speaker 1: 31:47

And we didn't forget about Eminem either, because he's on here twice.

Speaker 2: 31:50

Yeah, right, I know what a splash he made. Funny enough, after putting this mix together, I went back and watched the Super Bowl show of having Dre and Eminem and all those guys at 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar, because I was like you know what? That was a great halftime show. That was really good and watching it a year later, I still believe it was a very, very good show. I think it's one of the classics. It was a very, very good show, like I think it's one of the classics. Um, when those opening beats hit and you've got dre at the board, I mean I have never heard a crowd at a super bowl halftime show get into it as much as as you hear them there. It was wild, especially being you know they were playing in la like it couldn't have been more perfect right, yeah, he could have.

Speaker 1: 32:31

And when those, when those first bars hit, he honestly could have just stood there and done nothing for like the 20 minutes that they were supposed to be out there, and then everyone still would have been like man, that was incredible, right? Remember that he just kind of stood there and thought he was going to start, then he never did and then the second half started, yeah.

Speaker 2: 32:49

Yeah, I mean, you know this is such a good song Still gets played today, obviously obviously still monster hit when it's played. Apparently, eminem wrote most of the song, which I did not know. I think that's incredible. But you kind of hear that and I think you also hear it because it's like you know, he's a little bit more, a little bit more cocky, a little bit more sure of himself. So you kind of I understand now that Eminem wrote that, because that's definitely, you know, that was his vibe and his whole thing. So I think that's incredible. But yeah, what an amazing career that Dre has had. You know, thinking about the arc that he takes, going from you know where he was in 99, producing this music, to the launching beats and having that bought by Apple, and I mean everything that he's done since then is incredible. So it's really kind of cool to look at that from the point of view of a very successful businessman, basically. But great song and still holds up.

Speaker 1: 33:41

Yeah, and at the time he had kind of hit a little bit of a lull. If you watch that documentary on HBO, defiant Ones, people weren't really feeling a lot of his recent music. And then he came out with Chronic 2 at this time and then also was producing Eminem and I think those two things happening at the same time it was just like a huge comeback musically. And then you're right, from then the business side just kind of took off.

Speaker 2: 34:10

Yeah, incredible.

Speaker 1: 34:12

Well, so there you have it, folks, your 99th super awesome mix. This one a tribute to probably our favorite musical year, 1999. But don't worry, we have got plenty of mixes ahead of us. Um, hey, tell you what. That's our 99th mix. Let's see if we can get up to 99 reviews, okay? So if you're listening this right now, take a second. Whatever player you on, give us a five-star review, follow us at Super Awesome Mix, and Samer and I will get to work on our next 99 mixes. So for Samer, this is Matt. We'll see you next time.