Welcome Back And The Premise

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Welcome back to another super awesome mix. We're going to pick up where we left off last week with part two of our best of 2022. Enjoy.

Road Trips And Turning Off Phones

SPEAKER_00 1:03

All right, and welcome back. We're just going to roll right into track 13. And it is your pick. And it is Drive Drive Drive by Jake Swamp and the Pine.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Yeah, Drew, who we found out is not named Jake, is uh was on the show recently, and he was just such a great guest. Um he was awesome, and uh their debut album is coming out very soon, um, called Simpson and Banks. And uh this was kind of the the second single that came out. So I didn't want to just go right back to Empty Stomachs and Bloodshot Eyes, which we had you know highlighted on the new music mix. Um I just thought this was a great this was a great driving song, which I I realized could be a mix of its own, right? Like driving songs. Um I've been on a number of like cross country road trips. And so I thought this was really cool. The time I was doing a lot of those cross-country road trips, I didn't even I didn't even have a smartphone necessarily. So I like literally had like a map that I was just kind of following roads uh to you know to kind of get around. Um and you know, you don't really have like a cell phone even at that point, like at least you know, you're gonna lose service pretty quickly if you were outside of a city. So, you know, he talks about kind of turning his phone off before taking a drive, but I was like, I didn't even really have service on my phone, so I was just gonna drive. And so anyway, I think it just for me hearkened back to those times and uh I just thought it was uh really well done, really great song.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

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SPEAKER_01 2:38

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SPEAKER_00 2:42

Exactly. Easily. You know, we just like to test out ad reads right there, just to let our our listeners know. If if you're working in in these businesses, we got you. We're good. No, but this is um this is a really great track. And I I love that call out about the turning off the phone and disconnecting and driving. Um, like you're saying, like some of us have been alive at a time when that wasn't even necessary because you didn't you might not even had a phone, much less needed to turn it over. Right, right. Um, but yeah, I just love like it's so catchy when he sings. Like, all I gotta do is drive, drive, drive, and then the instrumentation comes in and stuff. It's great. And you know, plus one to having him as a guest, that was so much fun. Really enjoyed talking to him about his music.

Taylor Swift Earworm And Self Talk

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Yeah, he was great. Um, now on the opposite end of the spectrum, we we just had one guest, you know, not as well known, first album, you know, you know, kind of making his way up. Your next pick, you went with uh what's gonna be the biggest album maybe ever. I don't know. You go with anti-hero by Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Yeah, I know. Um the the woman who broke Ticketmaster. Um, she is such a force in music, incredible. Um, and I feel like Jen would stop being friends with us, with me specifically, if I didn't put Taylor Swift on on the best of the year. This is a song, funny enough, that the chorus of, you know, or not the chorus, but the line, you know, hi, it's me, I'm the problem, it's me, has been such an earworm for me. I wake up like singing that to myself almost every single day ever since I've heard this song because it just sticks. And of course, it's being used in a lot of TikToks and like, you know, used very cleverly with that. Um, but then, you know, I I think it might be literally problematic because I'm wondering if I'm just reinforcing, like, I'm the problem, I'm the problem. Every single morning I'm waking up if that's the first thing that I'm saying to myself. I'm like affirming this. Is this this is not good self-speak, you know? Like I found myself being like, no, I'm not the problem. I'm okay, everything is fine. So that's been really funny. Um, but yeah, you know, like it's yeah, her album's great. It's another one, another huge success. I've listened to it a number of times and really enjoyed it. This one obviously is probably one of the largest off of it. I just love the line. Um, did you hear my covert narcissism? I disguise as altruism, like some kind of congressman. I just really think that the way she delivers that is so perfect, like in her timing and how she sings it. Um, and so I just that line always just makes you smile every single time I listen to it. But yeah, love love this album. I've listened to it a lot.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Yeah, she's she's such a great songwriter. I mean, we've talked about her both on this show and on Jen's show as well. So we have sung her praises. Obviously, it's a massive album. Here's what I thought about while I was listening to this. I was like, well, okay, this album's gonna win every Grammy, right? But then I look up the 2023 Grammy nominations, and they essentially had already been done by the time this album came out. So she's gonna win every Grammy in 2024. So, like it's 18 months from now. Like, I always think this is really weird when it comes to like Grammy nomination, because you're gonna watch that show in like March and be like, okay, well, where's Taylor Swift? Like, shouldn't she be up here? Like, what's going on? Right. And then it's like, oh, and then see the the period was for this time to this time, and she just missed the window. So, yeah, so it's gonna be 18 months from now when she wins like 15 Grammys or whatever she's gonna win for this for this album, because you know it's gonna be just every every single category.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

That that probably is not great for like every other talented musician who's gonna release music that is probably worthy of an award because they're all the the nomination committee is already like, well, our job's done. It's just T Swift straight straight. Just straight down ballot.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Just yeah, just hit all Democrat and just move on, right? Like get out of the voting booth. That's all they have to do. Hit Taylor Swift down the line, and that that's all you have to do. Um, that's rough. Yeah, that's a tough one.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Uh well, best of luck to everyone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

You did great work. You did great work.

Feel Good Party Cut Test

SPEAKER_00 6:52

You did. We'll be listening to you. Um, track three, or sorry, this is not track three. This is track two, the B side, because I'm gonna lose count here quickly. I don't know how to add. Um and it is Stay With Me by Calvin Harris, Justin Timberlake, Hosley, and Pharrell Williams.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

So I gave this song the ultimate test, which is I played it for my kids. And I was like, All right, guys, what do you think? And I don't know, it took them all of five seconds to be like, we love this song. Uh such a feel-good song. I mean, I just love the energy around it, and you've just got so many heavy hitters in the song. Like again, I think when I put it on the original New Music Mix, I was like, this feels like cheating because of course it's gonna be a great song. Um, but you know, hey, if you're gonna throw a New Year's party or any sort of party here near the end of the year, um, throw this on there because I don't think it got virtual. I have never heard it on the radio, so this was not like a big pop single. But trust me, you're gonna throw it on and people are just gonna, you know, they're just gonna love it at whatever party you're throwing.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Yeah, I agree. I don't think it got like as big of a play as as you would imagine, but it is so catchy. I mean, just right out of the gate. You know, I think I said this last time, like the line, hey, it's a mess out there. Um, and the way that it that's delivered and then repeated, it's just it's so much fun. Um, this is definitely like kind of a joyful song, I'd say. I've been putting in a kind of my peppy, like upbeat, you know, positive vibes uh playlist. So I really enjoyed it. Good pick.

Wet Leg Lyrics And Bubble Bath

SPEAKER_01 8:25

All right, your next pick. You went with Too Late Now by Wet Leg.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Yeah, I mean, every time I they're I say their band name every time without fail, I'm always like, ugh, I don't know why. It still weirds me out.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

It's a weird name, but it's it's memorable. It's memorable. They're hey very memorable. You know what? They're up for a Grammy, they're up for best new artists. So that's awesome. You're gonna hear someone say wet leg on national TV soon enough.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

That's great. Um, so I have, you know, I love this album. And this is funny. I don't know if if you're like me, listenerslash Matt. Sometimes there are albums where I will sit through and I will listen to it start to finish, and I'm like, cool, that was awesome. And then there are albums like this one where like I will just come back to different songs on it for whatever reason. Like I will never have listened to it start to finish, but I'd be like, cool, I listened to this song like a whole bunch. Now I'm gonna try a new song, and then I end up listening to that one a whole bunch. So that's how I've been like listening to this album this year. Um, and so the most recent song that I've discovered off of it and have just been obsessed with this is this one, too late now. Um, because I'd spend a lot of my time listening to Angelica and Shay's Lounge and a bunch of these other ones that are also just equally fun. But the bridge is why I love this track so much. And so she sings, she's kind of like sing speaking, where she says, now everything is going wrong. I think I changed my mind again. I'm not sure if this is a song. I don't even know what I'm saying. Everything is going wrong. And, you know, she repeats it. Um, I don't need no dating app to tell me if I look like crap, to tell me if I'm thin or fat, to tell me if I should shave my rat. I don't need no radio, no MTV, no BBC. I just need a bubble bath to set me on a higher path. So I just again, like their lyrics are so clever and funny of like all these things of like I don't need you to to tell me all these things. I don't need this like junk you're trying to put in front of my face. Like, I just want like something fun, like a bubble bath. Um, and again, like I yeah, I just love the the kind of crazy nature of their lyrics and and the way that they sing it. So that's why I keep coming back to this album. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yeah, I noted the same thing. It's about a minute 40 in, and it shifts from this kind of melodic song to you're right. I wrote down it was almost like a rap, sort of in the middle of it. Right. It reminded me, the whole thing in some reminded me of something that you know Blondie might have come up with. Like Blondie was big in like early, early 80s, right? Like right around like 1980, 81. And and that was kind of like she would do these little raps in between these, like sort of melodic things. And so this seems like an updated version of that, which I thought was really cool. Um, I thought it worked really well, even though it was very it's very different, like they're a very different band, but I I really like it.

Country Music That Wins Us Over

SPEAKER_00 11:10

Yes, it is very different. Um, all right, now a different kind of genre entirely. Um, a little whiplash here. We this happens a couple of times, actually coming up. You went with The Greatest Day of My Life by Zach Bryan.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

Yeah, I had to put some country music on there, right? Um, this guy is from a small town in Oklahoma. And um, I, you know, this song, I listened to it once, I was like, oh, it's pretty good. Then the more I listened to it, the more I was like, man, I love this song. Uh there's a lyric, you know, years are just moments in a great big pile. She's there on the porchwing of my life. And and I just thought, you know, one, that's a great way to put, you know, what what you know memories are, right? Like kind of moments in a great big pile. And then, you know, he's clearly thinking back on somebody who's maybe not there, either from like a past relationship or someone passed away, you know, whatever it was. But you know, in his mind, like she's still there. And you know, the whole song is kind of him highlighting sort of good things in his day, you know, and and he's kind of going through something, is what I I kind of took from it. Um, but he still kind of points out the good in his day. And like I just kind of thought, you know what, every day could be the greatest day of your life, right? If you just sort of pick out the five good moments from your day, I mean that that could be a really good day. Um, so I don't know. I just thought it was uh it was a really cool song. The more I listened to it, it really would gave me a good, I don't know, good perspective on things.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Yeah, I I agree with all of that. Honestly, it was funny because I wrote um I wrote that same line that yours are just moments, you know, in a great big pile. I I loved that line. That immediately stood out to me because I just think that that's such a great way to describe time sometimes where it's not it's not necessarily linear at all the way we remember it. It is just kind of like a big pile of things, and and you kind of dig through it and find little moments here and there. Um, but then I, you know, it's funny. I listened to this song and I found myself getting like a little emotional too. And and I never thought that would happen listening to a country song because normally I hear I hear that genre coming on, and my brain just tries to exit itself, you know, it just needs to go somewhere else for a little while while the song is playing and then come back. Um but this one kept my attention and I was like, I yeah, I I felt like a little emotional and I just never thought that would happen. So kudos to you know to Zach Bryan for bringing me on a trip here because um yeah, I literally never thought that was possible.

SPEAKER_01 13:42

Nice. I think the biggest thing I accomplished in 2022 is like I started to find country music that you could get into. That that's what I feel is one of my great accomplishments this year.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

You should be proud of that. That's a big one because I went from hating it to tolerating it to now starting to kind of enjoy it. So it's it's been a journey.

Rosalia And Empowering Translation

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Well, but I will say, like, I I totally get that if you're not a country music fan and you just throw on like your local country music station, right? You're probably not gonna like what's there, right? And now you you may like some of it, right? But but even I don't necessarily like a lot of the stuff that gets radio play. So um I get it when people say they don't like country music because a lot of it does, you know, when you talk to them, it's usually this category music that I'm like, yeah, I don't really like that either. So all right. So your next pick on our best of 2022, you went with Bulerias by Rosalia.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Yeah, or Rosalia. Rosalia. I think Rosalia. Um I might be wrong. I said that with such confidence in it.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

You did, but you know, the first note I put on here is I think you are a lot, you are the show's Latin music expert. So that's why I didn't quote sure.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Oh, that's terrifying if that's true. Um I this is this is like a kind of a dark horse album uh for me because you know, there's like a lot of my usual haunts of like rock and alt and you know, um uh alternative or whatever, etc. But then, you know, I wanted to do something that was like super different, and this is definitely super different than what I normally listen to. But this album is so good. It is like so many different genres like mashed into one. It's kind of hard to describe her music. I I almost view it sometimes as like experimental in nature because the way she just kind of moves through here. She has a track featuring the weekend, and it's actually I almost picked that one for my best of the year because that one is also really good. But I just love this one because it's like the the dance, the life of um of a flaminca dancer, um, and it's like the beat and the rhythm of the song coming through, and it's just it's amazing. And it's like the story that she's telling. Um, you know, the final lines here is to my family, to freedom, get out of my way, get out of my way, you get out of my way. And I love that of just this like story of someone being like, I'm I'm gonna go do what I want to do, like everyone get out of my way, including my family. So I I just think again, like she's super talented. Um, she's definitely an artist to watch and and kind of see like where she goes next. And um, thankfully, like this this album did get a lot of accolades and a lot of attention, which is how I, you know, kind of was first introduced to her. So very happy that I was and and very curious to see what comes next from her.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, the the first note I wrote is like this doesn't sound like anything else I've heard, which I think was awesome, right? Right. And then I translated the lyrics, and yeah, it's so empowering, which you don't I I said it almost as like something DJ Khaled would have put out, right? Like, you know, if she had thrown in a we the best in Spanish, I would have been like, Yep, I get it, I get it, you are the best. Um, but yeah, so I thought that was kind of cool too, because you don't see that from a lot of female artists either. And so um, yeah, I thought it was real, I mean it sounds great. So even if you don't sit down and like just translate the lyrics, um, I think you'll appreciate the sound. But when I dug in a little bit, I was like, wow, this is this is really unique.

Run The Jewels Protest Remixed

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Yeah, I exactly. I love that. Um, her whole album is is something, it's a trip. Definitely try to listen to that uh like start to finish and just pay attention to it. Um, all right, track 17 on the B side or 19 um in total. You went with just, but most importantly, this is the Toy Selective version, um, of course, by Run the Jewels um and LP and Killer Mike.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

Yeah, the new Run the Jewels album. I mean, just go and hit play on track one and then just sit back until it's over. I mean, it is incredible. And and one thing they did, you'll notice on this track, and you'll notice throughout the album, they have a lot of like Latin beats behind the uh behind the raps, which I thought worked so well. And uh I could have picked, I mean, I could have just picked the whole album. I mean, I really can't recommend it enough how much I enjoyed it. Um, but I picked this song, which I thought was so well done, and uh just I don't know, I just thought it was awesome. One lyric that stood out, the 13th Amendment tells you slavery is abolished. Look at all these slave masters posing on my dollars, which I was like, that's pretty. That's that's well done. It's it's good wordplay, but it's also true. So um yeah, thought it was uh just really well done. I don't know, loved it.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Yeah, so I mean this album was was released like the the non-spanish Mexican, I believe it was a Mexican version of this, um, was released in 2020 and then and it was RTJ4, I think it was their fourth album. So this is RT Quatro, RTJ4. Um, and so that's why it was so interesting to listen to like this song again, you know, two years later with that like Latin beat, it like mixed in with it, because it was like it was so strange to me to hear what is a really powerful protest album being mixed with what I would consider to be like traditional dance music, you know, at like a like a wedding or something like that. But it works really well. But I just there was so much dissonance the first time I was listening to this again of just being like, wait a minute, this is not the version of the song like I angrily listened to back in 2020. Um but but you're right, like the lyrics, like they work on top of it, and I just think it's so cool. And even this could be, you know, it's almost like it's a very unique take on their own music to kind of like flip it and have a bunch of of local musicians, you know, apply their their flavor to it the way that they did. Um, love run the jewels, they always bring like the fire and the heat in their lyrics, so you're absolutely right. Like the whole album is filled with lines like that where you're like, oh my god, that's so amazing. That's so powerful. Like that alone could be an anthem. So nice one.

Regina Spektor On Sugar Versus Love

SPEAKER_01 19:44

All right. Your next pick, you went with Sugar Man by Regina Specter.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Yes. Um, so another album I've talked uh, you know, a number of times about. I just wanted to pick a different track on it because this one I come back to just because I find it's so catchy. Like it is just has like a very catchy beat to it. Um, and I just really like the line, you know, when they serve the tea, watch the sugar dissolve, just don't confuse sugar with love. And this really is just kind of telling the story of like someone who's, you know, kind of feeding you sugar, and sugar is not always good for you, and you know, not to confuse uh sugar with love. So don't confuse like attention and adoration and whatever it is that they might be giving you with like actual love and caring and being nurtured. Um, and so yeah, I just really like the kind of the theme of this song, but the way she sings it again, like such a unique voice, such a beautiful one, and and this is a very catchy one. So I just really have enjoyed this whole album start to finish as well.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

I thought this was really cool how many different I she uses the word sugar in just like various ways, right? Because it's like there's the actual you know, you kind of get a reference to the actual uh ingredients, and then there's kind of a cocaine reference, I think, in there. And then you kind of get the sugar daddy reference, the sugar man, like sugar, like that it just seemed like a really cool exploration of the word. I I really like that wordplay and the lyrics and and how that's used in different ways, and exactly right, like it could be really sweet, but it could also be something you know harmful at the same time. So um, yeah, I I really appreciated how the uh how the song was constructed here.

Mountain Goats Workout Montage Energy

SPEAKER_00 21:21

That's awesome. Yeah, I hadn't even considered that part of it, but you're absolutely right. She uses it in a bunch of different ways. Um, and I really like that. All right, uh, track nine on the B side, 21 in total. We see again a great pick from earlier this year, training montage by the mountain goats.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

Yeah, um, the more I listen to the song, because I've listened to it a ton since I put it on the new music mix, because it's now on like my running mix as well. Um, this this might be my song of the year. I just think it's so good. Um, because you know, again, it it's describing a training montage from a movie in a song that can be used for a training montage. So I I love the unique nature of it and it just sounds great. So it's perfect for any sort of workout mix you might be thinking of putting together. Um and uh yeah, I don't know. I I just keep coming back to it and I'm like, man, I just love this song. And so yeah, this might be my song of the year.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

That's so cool. I love that. I haven't thought about what my song of the year is. I need to put some thought into that. But my favorite line of this one, as I said last time, it's still true today, is feels like it takes forever. It's maybe five minutes on screen. And something you just said, you know, the fact that like you're using this to like work out too, I can relate to that because sometimes you're like, okay, I must be like an hour and a half into this run. Right. And you look at your watch and you're like, you're like five minutes into it. That's not possible. So I get that. I get that.

Phoenix And Ezra Time Capsule

SPEAKER_01 23:00

That's great. Great track. I love the mountain goats. Um, all right. Track 10 uh on this side, but track 22 overall, you've got tonight by Phoenix and Ezra Koenig. Or Phoenix featuring Ezra Koenig, I guess it should be.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Yes, uh, from Vampire Weekend. Um and right, I think this one was an exact pick from mine from earlier this year, and just wanted to bring it back up again because I love this mashup between the two. Like I love the, you know, Thomas Mars and Ezra coming together to sing. I think their voices are so complementary. And as I mentioned, I think earlier this year, there was, you know, a time in my life where basically the only two musicians I would listen to were Phoenix and Vampire Weekend, like their albums like back to back to back to back. Like I had a playlist of just their albums kind of mushed together. Um, and so for both of them to come together on a single recording is so cool and it works really well and brings me back to a very happy time in my life. Um, you know, I think it was like 2009, 2010-ish, whenever I started to really get into them. Um, and so yeah, it just a lot of it's a you know, time capsule song for sure for me. Um, and I'm not even really again, this is this isn't a category of things where I keep trying to read the lyrics and try to understand what on earth they're talking about. And for some reason I just can't. I don't really know what they're talking about, which happened a lot for me for Vampire Weekend songs, too. Um you know, it's just something about the Northeast or about a person or a relationship. I don't know. I don't care. I just like how it sounds. I'm just putting that in this category. That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

That's fair. Um, I love this one. It sounded so like 80s from the start of it, right? Like it had a really 80s vibe to it. Uh the vocals really aren't like 80s at all. Obviously, it sounds like Phoenix and Vampire Weekend, right? And so uh, but I thought it was like kind of a cool transition. Like they put this sort of 80s skin on in kind of their music, is what I almost uh felt like. But um, yeah, I didn't dig deep into the lyrics here either. I just really enjoyed the track though.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah, I think that's fair. You know, like uh as much as we talk about lyrics, I just want to make it again known to people. Like, if you just like the sound of a song, great, enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. Okay, but look for our look for our everything's problematic mix that we're gonna make. That's just gonna ruin 12 songs for you. Okay.

St Paul Live Show Case

SPEAKER_00 25:20

Right. Oh goodness. All right. Um, home stretch here to round out season two. You've got appropriately called The Last Dance by St. Paul and the Broken Bones.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Yeah. So um these guys came through Dallas not long after I had listened to their latest album, which this is on. Um, and I get to see them. I think they might have they might have opened up with this song. Um, but it's uh, I mean, they're such a high-energy band. And I mean, it was an incredible show. I mean, their lead singer, he he was like walking through the audience and like climbing on things and doing and like he hits so many like crazy notes while he's sort of navigating through the you know venue that we were at. And I think tickets cost like 20 bucks to see them this year. And so everybody out there, like, just go and see these guys live because they're incredible, and do it now while the tickets are like 20 bucks, because in 12 months they'll probably be like a hundred bucks, uh if not more. Um, and not because of inflation, just because these guys are that good. I I think these guys are gonna be huge. So um, yeah, I I mean, just totally worth it from a live show perspective. So I wanted to want to kind of emphasize that like bring this song back because you should listen to this and the rest of the album, but also talk about um what a great live performance it was.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

That's awesome. Yeah, I love bands that put on really, really strong performances. It's it's truly a different like skill set, a different type of talent. Um, and some bands have it, others don't, but it's really fun when when they check all those boxes of of great music, which these guys have, and then also great performers. So really nice. Yeah, I love the line of just like I don't care if people watching me and they think I'm kind of strange, lose myself in music, feel it, feel it, feel it. You know, that's definitely a theme of of a lot of what we talk about of just like be yourself, have fun with it.

Kendrick Lamar And Shared Grief

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Yeah, why not? Yeah, whatever it is you're listening to. And we cover all sorts of music here. So um, yeah, but whatever it is that you're into, just enjoy it. Um, all right, here it is. Last track, okay? Last track of the uh best of 2022, and you came strong with this one. You picked United in Grief by Kendrick Lamar.

SPEAKER_00 27:36

Yes, I'm I'm realizing maybe my ordering should have not ended on such a like downer note. Um but you know, that's okay. Sometimes, sometimes the year is just gonna end that way. You know, this definitely fits in the theme of like thinking back of just kind of dealing with a lot and all the different ways that we deal with a lot and deal with grief and deal with suffering and and you know, big tree big tea trauma, a little tea trauma, like all the different things that kind of come up in our life. Um and it's interesting because you know, he he sings here, like the title is United in Grief, but then he keeps saying that like everybody grieves different. And I just think that that's also a really interesting juxtaposition of like, you know, we might all be grieving, but we're all dealing with it in different ways. And um and maybe even through the differences, that's how we're united. And I think that that's like another powerful theme. But what I also really love about you know, Kendrick Lamar is he's one of these, you know, there's like a handful of artists now where whenever they release an album, the whole internet kind of like holds its breath for it, right? Like they're all waiting for this new album to drop. And it becomes, I mean, my Instagram feed for Super Awesome Mix is overrun with like Kendrick Lamar, like reactions and posts and this and that. Like, you know, ta Taylor Swift is another one, Beyonce is another one, Drake is is another one. Like, um, but I think Kendrick might be one of the largest of all of them because everyone just appreciates truly what a talent he is and and his like masterful rapping and his lyrics and and even just the way he releases albums. There's not as much fanfare as like some of the others. He's just like I think he's doing it truly for the art of it all. Um, and so I think that's why he gets like a lot of credit. But absolutely beautiful song, um, and just very powerful, and and one that I listened to a whole lot this year.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Yeah, this was this was an incredible track. I mean, you almost have this like jazz trio kind of opening things up a little bit, and then sort of midway through when he gets into the rapping and and it's just like this unbelievable string of lyrics that it's like how is he how is he doing this? Right, and it just goes on for so long. And uh, so just you can kind of physically appreciate that, right? Like just being able to to hold that hold up like that and get through all those words, right? Um, but then also just listening to the lyrics. I mean, it's incredible. So yeah, and you're exactly right. He's definitely one of those guys who's gonna stop down everything when a new album comes out, and um yeah, he and he and Taylor Swift definitely had those moments this year.

SPEAKER_00 30:00

Yes, for sure.

Season Wrap And Listener Requests

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Well, there you have it, okay. The last super awesome mix of 2022, okay, the second half of the best of 2022. Um, and that is a wrap on our season two of Super Awesome Mix. So, like we said at the beginning, um, the next two weeks are gonna be a couple of our best uh episodes from this past year. And then we're gonna come back first week of January with a whole new episode for season three of Super Awesome Mix. But um, thank you guys so much for continuing to listen. Please rate, review the podcast, give us some five stars so other people can find it, or just send the podcast to your friends and have them share it with other friends so we can continue doing this and uh continue making mixes. So, Samura, thanks for a great season too.

SPEAKER_00 30:50

Yeah, thank you. This is always a pleasure.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

All right, so we're gonna take a little break, but then get right back to making more super awesome mixes. So for Samura, this is Matt, and we will see you next time.