Baseball Misery And Banter

SPEAKER_02 0:47

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sid Home alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Sam Abu Sabi. Sam, how are we doing this week?

SPEAKER_00 0:58

You know, I think it was around this time last year that I was really excited that the Mets were basically leading the MLB. Yes, they were. And I'm sad to report that that is not the case this year. They're now last in the NL East. Um, they're just imploding in a very Mets way, despite having a stellar lineup of individuals both at at the mound and at uh at the plate. But, you know, that's that's just part of being a Mets fan in April, I think.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

It's just well, and I I'm a Rangers fan, and we swapped kind of big name players in the offseason with Marcus Simeon going there and Brandon Nimmo coming here. And Nimmo's been really good for us. And I understand Simeon is one of the worst hitters in baseball right now.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

I mean, they they all are. I think it's part of their contract when they get here. I mean, Lindor, I lead off Lindor, he's been he's been so quiet. Soto is injured right now. I mean, even even a healthy Soto just was not delivering his like one billion dollar contract. So, you know, it's it's just bonkers. It's it is what it is. So that's how I'm doing.

Why This April Mix Feels Different

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Well, Sam, I I can't magically give you some new Mets, right? I can't just like swap out players on the team, but I can give you some new music, okay? Because it's our April new music mix.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

I'll take it. I will take it, especially this mix. This has been a really this was a really interesting one. It's very eclectic, and and I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

I agree. This was very eclectic, and I gotta say, a little pat on the back for us, right? Because I mean, I think we had uh your now brother-in-law on in like season one talking to us about EDM music. And I don't know if we've included a whole lot of it over the years, but I think about a third of this mix could be in that category. So I was kind of proud of us.

Bruno Mars Goes Full Throwback

SPEAKER_00 2:52

Yeah, I know. Yeah, both sided, both uh both you and I put like electronic music on here, which is rare. I mean, I've been doing it a little bit more, but yeah, a couple of yours, I was like, wow, okay. What we need now is for me to pick a couple of country tracks, and then the I'll be real shocking. Um, but you know what? Let's get into it. Let's get into this mix because this really was a fun one. This first one is called Dance With Me by Bruno Mars.

SPEAKER_02 3:18

Yeah, Bruno Mars is back with a new album. It's called The Romantic. The lead single, I just might has been on the radio for a while, but I wanted to wait. And I and I like that song, but I wanted to wait for the whole album to come out. Um, the whole album is only like, I don't know, 35 minutes or something like that, which is kind of a trend, I feel like, with albums nowadays, is they will, you know. And maybe Bruno Mars is just sort of trained to kind of do the classic three-minute pop song type thing, and and there's nothing wrong with that. But um, I think this one, I pick this one because the whole album really has a little bit of a throwback feel to it, which I love when Bruno Mars does that because he really gets to show off his voice. And this one in particular sounds like something from the 50s, um, almost a little doo-wop. Uh, so it's just kind of a timeless little love song. I mean, you could play this for your grandmother, and I think she would love it. And and I don't even mean that as an insult. I think it's kind of rare for a modern artist that's as popular as Bruno Mars to be in a category where it's like, yeah, I mean, super old people would be into this for sure. Right. Um and maybe I'm trending towards the super old category. I don't know. But uh, while I still think I'm young, I think uh I think this is just a great song, and I think it's a really uh fun album that he's put together. And he also recently reported that he's out of debt with the uh Vegas casinos that he was reportedly in debt with. So way to go, Bruno. Things are turning around for him.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Yeah, I love that for him. That's that's great. Um, couple of thoughts. One, I think it was him on our end of the year best of mix that had like the 45-second song or something. So he's just trending. That's right. He he wants to be in and out of that studio as fast as possible. That's what I was doing.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

He's just doing a drive-by of the studio, right? Yeah. Um, my Chick-fil-A is gonna be ready in seven minutes. Let's see how many tracks we can cut. Ready to go.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

Hey, a fifth of the album is done. That's great. Um, that's some math for you. And then, too, this was like what made me laugh is like this is like the SEO version of making music, SEO-friendly thing. Because I feel like this is a song that could be picked as the first dance song for weddings for the next like 30 years, right? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Yes, yes, and I think that's what the smart pop stars do. They kind of suss that out and be like, how many different ways could this be replayed over the years?

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Yeah, exactly. Um, you know, he had that Marry Me song, which actually wasn't even about like marriages we talked about on the show. Like it was like someone being like, wait, wait, no, I'm sorry for like thinking he might have cheated on her and instead he's just being like, here, marry me. Um, but it gets played as a wedding song. But this one is is very wholesome, as you said, and very sweet. Um, so maybe when I hear this at the next wedding I go to, I'd be like, Good job, good job, all around, to Bruno and to the to the married couple.

Muse Turns Up The Metal

SPEAKER_02 6:08

All right. Well, one that you're probably not going to hear is a first dance. Um, maybe as a divorce song. I don't know. Maybe. Uh yeah, I like that. Yeah, divorce songs, by the way. That might be another good mix. Uh track two, this is unraveling by Muse.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

I really love the idea of this being a divorce song. I just that's awesome. We really do need a divorce mix. Like it we could just tell that story. I could begin with unraveling, that'd be the first one. Um that's great. So, yes, I had honestly kind of forgotten about Muse, and then I was like, oh right, they Muse um and listen to this track, and it's pretty much exactly how I remember them, um, which is a good thing, you know. Like I remember them as being like a darker EDM, you know, rock kind of fusion band in a way. Um, but this one I really liked because they went really hard into like the metal sound. I feel like I don't remember them being as kind of heavy metal sound or hard rock as this one really does, um, which I really like. The beginning notes sound honestly remind me of like a Stranger Themes, uh Stranger Things like theme song, just has that ominous EDM vibe to it. But then that plus the like heavy metal um just unravels into this like high energy chaos, you know, um, especially with like the the guitar solo that comes in at the end. It's a really cool song. Um so Muse is definitely doing their thing again, um, still doing their thing, and I'm here for it. It's great.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

I I'm with you that I don't remember them kind of rocking this hard, right? Which I I really loved out of this one. You know, it started off, like you said, kind of eerie, really kind of soft almost. And I was like, okay, what are we getting into? And then it kicks in maybe a minute in, and it's just like, whoa, and it's just a completely different song, but um pretty awesome. Yeah, I mean, and and you're right, it was very borderline metal, uh, but not modern metal. It almost felt like kind of 80s arena rock kind of metal type thing, but not in a cheesy way, right? Like I don't I don't put that label on there as insulting, but I think a lot of modern metal is is super fast guitar, and that's not exactly what we're seeing here.

Fantastic Cat Lyrics And Dark Humor

SPEAKER_00 8:14

Yeah, no, I totally agree. Yeah. All right. A uh a little bit of a vibe shift, just a little one. Um, this is Elevator by Fantastic Cat.

SPEAKER_02 8:24

Yeah, my favorite band of recent years, Fantastic Cat. They're back with a new album called Cat Out of Hell. Um again, they've got great lyrics. Uh, they're touring, but these guys are out of like New England, like hardcore New England. They're they're never coming to Texas unless I make that happen. Um, more likely than that, I'll have to travel somewhere else to see them. Uh, but it'll happen at some point. Um, this one sounds a little country, but it's not twangy. I think it just has a little steel guitar, so I hope you forgave that much. Um and I just love the refrain. When the elevator's broken, you've got to take the stairs. So I think the whole thing's about sometimes your plans don't always work out the way you'd like, and you've got to adjust if you still want to get to where you're going. So um cool song, uh, great new album by them. And um, I'm just gonna continue to uh tout how much I love them.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Yeah, the lyrics are really interesting. This is one where I just enjoyed listening to them like just sing whatever they were gonna sing. Like the line here that I really liked. Um, there were a lot of them. I could have just read the whole song, but the revolution came and went, nothing really changed, rolled all the bodies into one big shallow grave, called it a museum to pay and to pay our last respects for only$19.99. Like, I just think it's it's so dark, but in a lot of ways, like that's what happens sometimes. Like we just commoditize tragedy and whatever, and they were like, look, and we'll we'll teach you all about it for a nominal fee. Um, so there's just a lot of like commentary about that, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Like And don't forget to visit the souvenir shop.

unknown 9:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Exactly. It's so weird, it's really weird. Um, and then the other line I really like is like um ever since splitting the atom, they've done everything they can to put it back together again. You know, I just think that's really great too. So it's like the invention of the nuclear bomb was obviously this huge watershed moment for for like um politics and countries everywhere, and ever since then it's just like, oh, we probably shouldn't have done that. Um so yes, really good song. I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_02 10:20

Well, a lot along those lines, I always joke about how we we broke up, like nobody watches cable anymore. It's all streaming services, right? But now we have so many streaming services, they're bundling streaming services, and I'm like, this is cable. This is just this is what we had before. Yeah, we shouldn't have broken it up.

SPEAKER_00 10:39

I know, and somehow worse too, right? Like it's even worse. Like, at least then I just paid one company some money and I could watch whatever I wanted. Now I've got so many logins and so many different apps, and they're all terrible. Anyway, yeah, no, we've made it worse. Millennials have messed up a lot, I've come to realize. I just come to terms with it. Normally generations hate the generations after them or the ones that precede them. I'm I'm very much now in the category of like, I'm so sorry. Like I we just messed everything up.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

I'm more Gen X. I'm like, yeah, you know what? We did okay, right? Like it wasn't all perfect.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Yeah, y'all I feel like y'all are a very mellowed generation.

Moby Club Energy And Earworms

SPEAKER_02 11:23

Um, all right. Well, someone who I think is in that generation, um, maybe a little bit older than that, but track four is Every Time You Touch Me by Moby, and something he hopes he never hears at his concert.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Boo.

unknown 11:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Um this song reminds me of a song that you would hear when you're shopping at like an Abercombian Fitch, or like and it's so loud and you can barely hear yourself, and you're trying to ask someone for you know something, and it's like there's no conversations, there's just loud music being played. Um, it sounds like that type of a track. And in this case, I'm here for it. You know, it just has like a great little positive dance vibe. I remember one time um I'd seen aloe brands, you know, if you're familiar, like they do a lot of yoga clothing and stuff. I'd never been in an aloe store, and I was at a mall that had an aloe store, and I was like, Oh, I'm gonna pop in there. And it was one of those things where it's like the second I walked in, I was like, I'm I'm too old to shop at Aloe. I just knew because it was part of it was how loud it was.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Sam, they want your money, they don't want you in the store, okay?

SPEAKER_00 12:30

I was like, okay, I get it. I'm not, I'm I'm gonna go back to to my tracksmith brand, which is a nice, quiet northeastern brand.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Go back to REI, just whatever brands they have there, right? Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

Yeah, I'll be in Patagonia. I'll see y'all later. There you go. Um but no, this is just like a really great dance track, and I I loved it.

Jack White Keeps Rock Alive

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Yeah, um, it's got a lot of lyrics, actually, more lyrics than I would have thought. Um, it's got a catchy hook. Every time you touch me, I feel like I'm being born. Um, and it just I it's funny because I I listened to it once. I was like, okay, pretty straight ahead. Listen to it again, and then the rest of the day I'm like just listening to the song in my head. So, right? It's got that earworm quality, which I think is kind of crucial for like this genre. Yes, it is to really sort of capture you and get you to listen to it over and over again. So um, but take a look at the lyrics because I think there's a lot more here than you see in a lot of dance songs. So I thought that was kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

All right, track five, great song. I think this might be one of my favorites from yours, uh, from your picks this month, and it is God and the broken ribs by Jack White.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Yeah, Jack White showed up on SNL recently with Jack Black, and uh he's just got some great rock music coming out. His new album's not fully out yet, but he's got a couple singles, including this one. Um, man, the guitar in this one is just so great. Like, I just love this one and love his voice, and and the this one kind of almost borderlines like rock rap. I I started to think that we probably missed an opportunity uh just in the in the universe of Jack White teaming up with the Beastie Boys at some point. Yeah, because while while he was singing this one, I was like, man, wouldn't this be awesome if that was like MCA or someone like jumping in at that point? But it was uh anyway, this is a great song on its own, and um, so is the other single off of this one, which has a name I'm gonna screw up if I try to remember it, so I'm not going to. And um looking forward to the new album. But Jack White, just continuing to sort of carry the flame and the torch of like just rock music.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Yes. No, I like when I think of him, I think there's just like certain musicians that are so talented at music, right? At like playing instruments and just playing whatever you put in front of them. And Jack White's in that category. Like, I think I saw a clip one time of him doing an interview, and like he put together, I mean, he built like an instrument out of like a Kleenex box and some string and like played you know music on it, and you're just like, wow, like his brain just works that way, and I think it's amazing. It's wild. No, this is a really good song, and I love the guitar interludes between uh between the verses, it's so so good.

Temper Trap And Mixtape Sequencing

SPEAKER_02 15:14

All right, track six, halfway point of the mix. We've got Sun Gazer by the Temper Trap.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Yes, a new Temper Trap album coming out by the same name, Sun Gazer. Um I'm I'm convinced, I couldn't, I didn't have time to look this up, but I'm convinced that this samples the massive attack song, Teardrops, because it sounds so similar. Sounds like they took that like beat and kind of slowed it down a little bit. Um, if you play them side by side, they sound very similar. But yes, I love Temper Trap. I love I still listen to a lot of their earlier albums. Um there was another song, I honest to God, like my brain is just I've got new kid brains, so I don't remember if I put Lucky Dimes on a new music mix before, but that was like I think the first single to come off of this album. And that one's very earworming, and I've been playing it over and over again. So eager for the for the full album because um it sounds like one that I'm going to enjoy as much as their earlier stuff.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

So this is what this song uh got me thinking about, right? It's uh it's kind of a lower energy song, and it got me thinking about because we talk about mixtapes all the time. Like the placement on this mix kind of threw off, I think, my opinion of this song. Because we've got your dance track, then we've got Jack White, then we got this one, and then the next like two tracks are also kind of higher energy tracks. And then it was like, it was such a like e-break with just sort of a screeching halt with this one that I was like, oh, well, okay. And then it picked up again, and I was like, oh yeah, okay, we're back. Here we go, the energy's back. So I think that's what threw me off about this song. But you're right, it's very much in line with what you would expect from Temper Trap, which is and that's not a bad thing, right? But I just as as I'm listening to this, I was like, oh, why don't I like this as much? And I think it was because of the the placement on the track. So as you're making your mixtapes out there, keep that in mind. Uh that that's going to affect uh how some people may receive uh your mixtape.

Raye Builds A Pop Musical

SPEAKER_00 17:10

No, it's so true. I you know, for the new music mixes, I realize we just kind of mush these together randomly. But um if we if these were a proper mixtape, you would definitely want to flow uh from start to finish. Totally agree. All right, track number seven. Uh, I loved this song. This is also a very interesting, different song, but this is the WhatsApp Shakespeare by Ray.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Okay, so Ray has a big radio hit called Where is My Husband? And it's fine, but uh, you know, I didn't hear that song and was like, I gotta go listen to this full album. But, you know, I was like, uh, okay, maybe I'll just check it out. Because she's not like a bad singer, like I don't hate the song. I just wasn't like, this is what I want to dive into. And I'm so glad I dove into the album because the album is like a full-on musical, like from beginning to end. And I could have picked any number of songs. The the album's called This Music May Contain Hope. Uh, it's actually her second studio album. Um, but I just I ended up picking this one because it's just amazing lyrically and kind of sonically. You you kind of get to, you don't, you don't even really get a full feel for how good her voice is, I think, from this one. You just kind of see how how well she can kind of track a song like this, which is which is actually really challenging. And then um, I just love the lyrics in this one and and someone being a WhatsApp Shakespeare, you know, they even uh she also calls them a cursive kisser, where it's just this very uh this person who's very clever and could draw you in with their words, but it's not who they appear to be. Um so I don't know. I just I love this one. The whole album's really cool. So that if you've heard the song that's on the radio all the time and you're just kind of meh about it, which is kind of where I was at, um dive into the album because I think you're gonna love it.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Yeah, this was such an interesting song because it just changes themes multiple times throughout the song, too. And like I think that takes a lot of talent to A, produce a song like that, B, sing it and make it sound really good as she kind of moves through all these different like versions of music all in one song. And the lyrics too are really clever. Um, I love the lines Thy words I plead from thy tongue, his weapons of mass seduction, my midsummer night nightmare, don't end up like me. Um, so you know, just plays on on some words here of you know, taking Shakespeare's uh Midsummer Night's Dream and turning it into Midsummer Night Nightmare, and then weapons of mass seduction rather than destruction, I think is very clever. So I really enjoyed the song and it was a lot of fun.

Nine Inch Nails Meets Dark EDM

SPEAKER_02 19:40

All right, your next pick. This is Came Back Haunted by Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noise.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Yeah, so this is like a live album. Um, it was a matchup of Boys Noise and Nine Inch Nails, and so this is obviously not a new song. Came Back Haunted came out, I think, in the 90s by Nine Inch Nails, but I love this idea of taking like Nine Inch Nails songs and then adding a dark EDM sound to it, you know, like it's it they're already so perfectly suited for that. Um, it's almost like just taking a filter to it and just being like, cool, we're gonna take this really dark heavy metal band and add like an EDM element to it and see what happens. And I think the mashup works really well. So like the album is super interesting, especially some of the songs that you you know um you might be more familiar with from Nine Inch Nails, such as Came Back Haunted and Closer's on there and a bunch of others. But um, I almost picked closer, but the lyrics are just so they're so explicit and aggressive that just couldn't bring myself to talk about talk about it here.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

Boy, that may be another mix someday where it's just like songs you listen to as a kid that you're just like, wait, what? I listened to that as a kid, like that.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Yeah, immediately have so many songs that we could talk about. Maybe we need to do that, like uh an eight an adult swim uh mix or something we could call it like that. Uh but yes, I I just thought this was a really interesting mashup between these two artists.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Um yeah, I agree. I thought I thought this was really cool and kind of speaks to you know, Trent Reznor obviously became famous from Nine Inch Nails, but he's such a prolific songwriter, and he's done like music scores for movies and things like that, that it's no surprise that he would kind of do something like this. And, you know, it doesn't exactly sound like uh 9 inch nails, but at the same time, it kind of does, right? Like you said, it just kind of works, even though you wouldn't necessarily, if you're really familiar with the song, think of it as like an EDM track. But um, I think it works really well. And I it's I'm glad this is kind of a full album. I'm interested to kind of hear some of those other songs. And I'll just listen to Closer myself. I won't bring it to the mix and um enjoy a different take on it.

Snoop Dogg Still Has It

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Keep your children away from it too further. That's right. Um all right. Well, here is a person who I really want to nominate as to just be the ambassador for the United States going forward because he's a great man. Uh this is Step by Snoop Dogg, featuring Swiss Beats.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

So uh this is Snoop's 22nd studio album. And um whole thing is under 40 minutes, so you can go listen to the whole thing. Um I love that uh he's still making new music because like I my kid, I think we've joked about this on the podcast before. Like my my kids know who Snoop Dogg is, but they don't know who Snoop Dogg is, right? Just they're like, this guy's hilarious, and he's on the Olympics all the time, right? Or he's on Voice like this guy's great. And uh I like that he kind of does an album like this that just sort of reminds everyone who he is and how he became famous because this is a great, just uh it has almost a throwback feel, and maybe that's just the presence of Snoop, but you know, it's just him telling you how great he is, how great his life is, you know, just throwback in that sort of feel, right? Like that's what we heard from rap songs, I think, early on. Um, but yeah, it's uh it's awesome, and I think it could definitely be on like a strut mix if we do a volume two of that, um, because it's gonna make it feel good too.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Yeah, absolutely. As he sings, and I'm gonna clean this up like we do in our household now, face worldwide from Tokyo to Spain. You know my mother fudging name, so it's great. But it's true. Everybody knows and loves Snoop. And I hope he plays a really big part in the LA Olympics. I mean, he has to, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Oh, he's got oh my gosh, that's gonna be out of control. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Out of control, yes.

Lana Del Rey Nails Bond Sound

SPEAKER_02 23:42

All right, your next pick. This was probably my favorite of your picks this month, and it is First Light by Lana Del Rey.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

It's so funny. So, First Light is a new Bond video game that's coming out, has so much anticipation. I think it's one of the first like major Bond titles uh with new ownership of this of the name of the studio. But um you listen to this song that I hit play, and Lana's voice comes in, and it's just one of those things where it's like it just clicks of like, how have we not had her sing a Bond song before? Like, she is perfect, perfect for a Bond song. She just has that perfect voice for it, and it works so well. Um, I also really love kind of the it doesn't sound it like something about those horns, right? Like the horns kind of kick in now and then, and you're like, right, this is a James Bond song. And I just think that's so fascinating that there's something about the horns um that make, you know, kind of that classic James Bond sound to it, and and the theme that we've grown to know over these many, many decades of of the franchise. So this is really cool. I'm super excited to see how the game goes. Um, but it's like a it's really interesting to me too that James Bond has become so major that you could have a video game come out and people anticipate it, and that there's a song that comes out with it as big as like a movie coming out, right? Like it's really, really interesting.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Um, so here's what's amazing. I only think of James Bond in like movie terms, and I know there's not a new James Bond movie coming out, and so I had no context for this song. I just hit play, and I'm like, God, this sounds like a Bond theme. Like, this is amazing. And I was just so impressed by it and amazed by really what struck me was I think when Lana Del Rey came out, I was not like her initial singles, I wasn't blown away by it, right? And I know she got a lot of you know plaudits early on for it, but I was like, I I'm not, I don't know if I see it, right? But as her career's gone on, I've been more impressed with her music, and then I hear something like this, and I'm kind of with you. I'm like, God, she should do the next Bond theme, not knowing that this was that's exactly what this was, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Yeah. That's awesome. Oh man, I wish I could have listened to it not knowing that that's what it was, because that would be a really interesting experience. I imagine it'd be the same thing where I'm like, wow, sounds just like a Bond song. How cool.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Yeah, I was just enjoying it. I was like, this is so great. She should do the next bond, you know, because every now and then people get, you know, they get down on whatever the Bond theme is, and then you get like Adele did Skyfall, and that was a big one, right? Like, and she's perfect for something like that. Yes. And then I hear this and I'm like, oh, she got she's perfect for that. Not even knowing the first light was a Bond one, but yes, it's it's really enjoyable to listen to, even without that context.

Big EDM Finale And Rosalia Depth

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Yeah, yeah. We should maybe do a Bond song mix, actually. Um, just like our favorite pick our favorite ones are mixed together. That'd be cool. Um, all right, uh your last pick, track 11. This is Awake Tonight by Afrojack, Sia, and David Getta.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Yeah, I had to end on a high note. Um, not that anything on my mix is necessarily a downer, but um, this one kind of reminds me of the song Bulletproof, which is also David Getta and Sia. Um, and yeah, it was just it's just awesome. I don't know. It just sucked me in from like the first note and the energies throughout. And it's all about kind of that moment where you sort of wake up and you kind of realize that things are changing from that point on, right? Whether you've experienced that yet or not, I mean, I think it's uh I don't know, it's just cool to think about because she says she's not just awake tonight, right? She recognizes that moment, but then it's like, I'm awake for life. And it's like just from that point on, she's she's in like that, like that moment you see in The Matrix, right? When Neo takes the red pill or whatever it is, he could see everything now, and that's that's kind of uh what we get here from the song. But man, it is uh it's awesome. I love it.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

That it yeah, I I really enjoyed this song, it has a really nice, like hopeful sound to it. Um also obviously, I think between the Afrojack and David Getta, it's a it's a song that I instantly imagined playing in like a spin class. Like if I was still doing spin instructing, like this would belong there, like there'd be a million remixes of it, and they would all belong in that room. So I really like this song um really nice. And Sia's voice works really well with uh with electronic music too.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

All right, let's bring it home. This is Focu Rani by Rosalia.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

Yeah, I um discovered her like a couple years ago because of the show. Um, just in general, like as we've talked about, we just always poke around and listen to new music and artists. So she's not someone I think I would have ever really reached out and like listened to her albums or her music, but um I had started to, and now that I saw it, you know, she has new music, hit play. And again, I just it's so interesting. I love her voice. I think she has a really unique voice. Um, I love how different her songs kind of sound, you know, like it's just not something that you and and maybe that's because she sings in different languages. I don't know what it is, but she just produces different sounding music. That's like the best way I can describe it. Um, but I just think it's a really gorgeous uh song. And um yeah, I just I I like her music. I I just find it to be very different and interesting compared to everything else that gets released.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Yeah, this is this is one that I mean it's kind of in that EDM category, right? Again. And uh, but when I translated the lyrics, that's when this one really kind of took off for me because it was such a like it's the lyrics are emotional, right? And really powerful, and it's about sort of breaking out of this relationship, seemingly, that she's in or about to be in, because there's allusions to maybe a marriage or potential wedding. Um but yeah, I don't know. There was just way more emotion there than I think I got. You know, you can listen to the song and you can like it and kind of dance and bop around to it, but it's definitely one of those songs that when you get into the lyrics, it's like it doesn't quite match the uh the the mood of or maybe it does, right? Like because it is so empowering. I don't know. But that's what I was impressed with is when I kind of translated the lyrics and got into it, I was like, wow, this is this is a much deeper song than you would think.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

Yeah, that no, exactly. I I totally agree. Um, and I think your music is really good for that.

Episode 200 Goal And Ratings Ask

SPEAKER_02 30:00

All right, well, there you have it. Some new music for your collection this time. Uh, it is April already, okay, four months in to the new year. It continues to fly by us. Um, but remember, we're headed towards episode 200 later this year. And of course, we want to be the number one music podcast by the time we get there. So we need your help. So leave us a five-star rating. Okay, share this podcast with your friends, follow us on the social media. It is at Super Awesome Mix everywhere you go. And uh in the meantime, we'll get to work on our next mixes. So for Sam, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.