Mixtape Rewind And Season Return

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Hey, super awesome listeners. This week, yet another mixtape rewind. We're back next week with a brand new episode. Season four starts next week, so tell everybody you know. But in the meantime, one more mixtape rewind. You know, back in July of 2023, Samur got married. But before he did, we decided to put together a mix of songs you should definitely not play at a wedding. And I think it was probably one of the more fun times we had recording an episode, uh, even if we didn't necessarily enjoy all of the songs on that episode. So hopefully you'll enjoy the discussion here. And like I said, tell everyone you know next week's season four starts for Super Awesome Mix, and we'll see you then. Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sidholm, alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Samur Abu Salbi. Samur, how are we doing?

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Doing real well. Um, I got at the time of this recording, my wedding is two weeks away exactly, which is really kind of mind-blowing.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Yeah, and it was kind of the inspiration. I was talking about your wedding, and my wife said to me, You guys should do a mix of songs that you shouldn't play at a wedding reception. And I was like, that's brilliant. Because I joked with you about like making like the worst mix ever. Like, could we make the worst mix type ever? Right? And we're like, would that repel fans? Would that draw some fans in? I don't know. But I feel like with this formula, we've we've got a winner the do not play at your wedding reception.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Yeah, exactly. Um, and as you texted me, we really did a great job at putting together a terrible mix.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

It's really hard to listen to. So just forwarding that right now, you know, if you're listening on our Spotify feed, you know, super awesome mix with music, you're probably gonna skip a lot of the song selections. Um or maybe we offend you. Maybe you're like, that's my favorite song. How could that be on this mix? But I think a lot of people are gonna be with us. And we know, I'll just say this right now, because my wife was just talking to me about um, like, did you include this song? Did you include that song? And I was like, no, but we still made a really bad mix. And she's like, Well, there's more songs that shouldn't be played on top of what you have there. Yeah.

Brown Eyed Girl Wedding Overload

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Yes, there's always a volume two waiting in the wings, there's no doubt. Um, but you know what? I'm gonna open this up by first asking you a question, Matt. And I just want to know, do you remember when we used to sing Shalala? Of course, of course, if you are a longtime listener, you know that this song was gonna be on Matt's Do Not Play, and it is Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

All right, let me start off by saying I like Van Morrison, okay? And there are plenty of great Van Morrison songs. If you want your first dance to be into the mystic, I'm with you. If you want to play moondance during the uh during like the cocktail hour or something, great call, okay? But please do not play Brown Eyed Girl, okay? I feel like I've heard it a million times in my lifetime, which probably isn't like actually feasible, but I feel like I've heard it so many times, but especially at wedding receptions, and it's also like the bride's uncle, who like knows nothing about her except that she has brown eyes, and so he requests this song. Right. And the kids, it's still early enough in the night where the the uncle's still there and and the the flower girls are all hopped up on cakes, so they're getting out there and jumping around and dancing. But this is an awful song, okay? And and like Van Morsen's a great artist, but this is a bad song. It's kind of like look, the Rolling Stones are great, right? Right. Does anyone want to hear Start Me Up? No, they don't. Nobody wants your Start Me Up. The Rolling Stones don't want to play it anymore. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

No, it's playing in my head, and I'm annoyed. No, I agree with you. This is so overplayed. Oh my gosh, this was a tough one to listen to the whole way. Um, I do have two shout-outs. I'm trying to keep some positive light on some of these. Number one, shout out to the again, the writer of the notes of the of the lyrics to write out all the shalala's and make them accurate. Great job. Love that.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Great job. Great job.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Uh number two, you know, there's not a lot of songs, I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, internet, about brown eyed women, right? I feel like you you hear a lot about like blue-eye, maybe hazel eyes, right? But like, shout out to the brown-eyed women out there.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

That's a great that maybe that's how this became overplayed. Right. Because brown eyes aren't like a rarity, right? Right. So it's like, yeah, but there's a ton of blue-eyed, right? Blue-eyed songs. You know, it's a good point. Maybe that's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

They need representation.

Ho Hey Lyrics Versus Reality

SPEAKER_00 5:43

All right. Your first pick for do not play, and you're gonna have to help me out on this one because I'm not I'm not totally like disgusted by this song. Like, I don't think this is a bad song, but help me out. Your first pick was Ho Hey by the Lumineers.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

All right, yes. So this was actually picked by my fiance. She was like, This has to go on the do not playlist. And at first I was like, Oh, really, why? You know, I also wouldn't have thought of this as like a top one. And and part of it is because the chorus is like, I belong with you, you belong with me, you're my sweetheart, you know, blah, blah, blah. And you keep singing it. And you're like, oh, that's so sweet. But when you really dive into the lyrics, it's like he has been broken up with for whatever reason. He's lonely, he's trying to win her back. Um, and in fact, I think she's with someone else at this point because in verse three he sings, I don't think you're right for him. Think of what it might have been if we had like been together instead. And so he's like ruminating or reminiscing or a mix of both of like, if only he had done certain things right, then they would still be together. And he's singing and it's like being very sorrowful that, oh, we belong together, and like you're you're the wrong guy. So, like, maybe this is a good pick if you are the person that is not being currently married and you wish you you were in the couple instead being married, and you go and request this song, and now you're gonna live in a world of unrequited love, and you're gonna be like creepily looking at the bride or the groom during this, you know, uh song. Maybe then it's a perfect wedding pick, but I think for specifically the bride and groom, um, not so much. I agree with my fiance, does not work well as a wedding song.

SPEAKER_00 7:19

Well, also, really hard. Like, this isn't a song you want to dance to.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

No, right, exactly. It's like a dance clearing song.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Everyone's just yeah, it's got kind of an awkward rhythm. Right. Like, do I slow dance to this one? What am I doing? Right?

unknown 7:32

Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Yeah, it's a vibe killer. Yeah. It is. So I'm with you on that one, right? I had not dug into the lyrics, but but you're right. So, yes, I I do enjoy this song. This was like their first big hit, so it's so good on them. And they have a lot of other great songs, but I don't know if there's anything in their catalog that you would say, hey, play this at the wedding reception, right? Right. So maybe I I'm I'm with you and and I'm with her there. Yeah.

Celebration And The Overplay Problem

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Okay, wonderful. I'm glad I I convinced you on that one. Um, track three is I'm pretty sure I know the reason why this is on here. Uh and it makes me laugh. Just I have a thing I need to read about it here in a moment. But the song is celebration by coolin' the gang, because of course it is.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Yeah, because hey, I mean, come on. Like it's you're you're there to have fun. So this DJ is like, let me play celebration by coolin' the gang. Okay. Yeah. They say the word celebrate or celebration 34 times in this song. And the song is three and a half minutes long. By the two-minute mark, you're like, has it been a half hour? Like, how long is this song?

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Right.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Oh my gosh. Um, there's not much to the lyrics at all here. And yeah, I mean, everybody knows it, but everybody goes through that stretch in life where you go to a bunch of weddings right in a row, like at some point, maybe in your late 20s, early 30s, or something like that. Um, and yeah, you just you're gonna hear celebration, I mean, a ton of times. And at this point, it doesn't make me want to celebrate, it really just kind of shuts things down for me. So um, I think it will have the opposite effect on your party. So don't play celebration.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Yeah, I agree completely. And okay, so the internet is sometimes a magical place, especially when it delivers just a wonderful little snippet. And I'm gonna share that snippet here. Um, this comes from the genius page. Like genius.com um usually has like a little bio of a song that someone has written. And I this this human being is summarized it better than I ever could. Okay, so here's the quote: a staple of New Year's Eve parties, wedding receptions, corporate parties, graduations, birthdays, roller rinks, spot mitzvahs, democratic conventions, and just about any social gathering that could lead to dancing. You couldn't escape this song even if you lived under a rock in a cave in Iran your entire life. In fact, when American hostages were returned home from Iran after 444 days of captivity, they were greeted with this song. Even the deaf have heard it at least once. Uh so you know, I that that's just the gem of a description. And I think they that is great. Yeah, that is great. They nailed it. Yes. I got nothing more to add than that.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Even at my kid's birthday party last year, Chuck E. Cheese played it like three times while you were there.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

It's too much. Yeah.

Marry You And The Vegas Hangover

SPEAKER_00 10:15

It's too much. It's too much. Um, okay, another one that I'm gonna need a little explaining on. Okay. Uh track four, your second pick. You pick Marry You by Bruno Mars.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Yeah, okay. So this one was one that I surprised myself with um because I was like, yeah, like what a cute song, and it's so happy, and it's got a great music video, and it's been used a lot on the internet, and it's like, yeah, like I want to marry you. And I mean, shout out to Bruno Mars. What a catchy song. It just has a happy vibe, but it's the lyrics where it kind of starts to fall down a little bit because it's basically a drunk dude who's in Vegas who's just kind of bored and looking for something to do, and he's like, I just kind of want to marry you, you know, let's do something dumb tonight. Um, and you know, like the lines of like, who cares if we're trashed? We got a pocket full of cash. Um, and then later, if we wake up, and this is the one where I think it really falls down in terms of like a song appropriate reception. So he sings, if we wake up and you want to break up, that's cool. No, I won't blame you. It was fun, girl. And you know, maybe not the vibe you want to put out. You know, I don't want my fiance getting any kind of like subconscious messaging of like, yeah, if you wake up in the morning, you're like, oh shit, Samura, this is a terrible idea, you know.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

Yeah, you you don't want to plant that seed in her head, like as you're running to the limo at the end of the night, right? And everyone's like, Yeah, I think I'm married and we're listening to Bruno Mars. And it's like, no, no, that is not what's happening.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yeah, so that's why I made the list.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

I think I think the lyrics have like make it fall down a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

Fair enough, yeah. And good call-out of some misunderstood lyrics, too, because this you're right, there's been so many like videos and stuff that have used this song uh to you know celebrate marriage and celebrate weddings. And it's like that that's not the right context at all for something like this. So it's a good one.

Mambo No. 5 And Bad Messages

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Yeah, which is a perfect segue for um a number of our uh songs really uh coming up here. Your your next one, Mambo number five, uh in the fifth position on our track, too, by Louis Vega.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

The great Lou Bega hitting the top five once again. Uh, this one of Mambo number five. Um, all right. So uh just fundamentally, this song isn't very good. I'm just gonna go out and say it. It's an earworm. Yes. And it's a celebration of all the women Lou Bega wants to hook up with. Right. And this isn't the idea you want to plant in your bride's head, right? Like that, hey, this guy, this guy used to get around. Like, what are we saying by playing the song The Wedding Reception? Right? It's not, it's not uh a good song for a couple to listen to together, right? Definitely uh if you have to listen to this song, it's either ironic or you're like a single guy trying to pump yourself up or something. I don't know. But um, that would be those are the only two acceptable like environments for the for people to listen to Mambo number five.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

I agree. And you know, there it's also got some problematic lyrics in it, uh, as I as I read through them. Um, I feel like this is very cancelable these days. So he's saying I do all to fall in love with a girl like you because you can't run and you can't hide, you and me gonna touch this guy. I feel like don't don't threaten a woman who's not maybe interested in you, you know?

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Like Lou, you've got a long list. Right. Why are you singling out one of them and saying she can't run and she can't hide?

SPEAKER_01 13:42

Right. Uh too aggressive, Lou.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Too aggressive. Too aggressive.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Too aggressive. Hey, never forget you're Lou Bega, okay?

SPEAKER_01 13:51

You wrote Mambo number five.

Pumped Up Kicks Dark Backstory

SPEAKER_00 13:53

You wrote Mambo number five. Plenty of fish in the sea, Lou. Plenty of fish. Um, all right. So speaking of problematic lyrics, track six here, uh, not so much for cancel reasons, but just, you know, maybe just give you the creeps reasons. You've got Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Yeah, I mean, this one is one where if you play it, especially if you've got like a millennial and you know, yeah, I think like a millennial crowd, especially, everyone's gonna flip out because they love this song. It got so much radio play. Um, Foster the People's Great, incredible album. I could have added to our no-skip album um recording that we did recently. But I, you know, if if you didn't, if you didn't already know, this is a song basically about a school shooting um and how all the kids are running away from this guy Robert, I think is his name, who's got pumped up kicks, like he or sorry, who's got a shotgun and they all have their pumped up shoes, you know. It's like a um callback to like when you'd like press do shoes do that anymore? I'm not even sure. Um you like fill them with air, you know, like the reebok pump.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Right type of thing.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Yeah. Oh, so much fun.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

I don't even know. I think I'm just yeah, I have no idea. Probably not. Probably not, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

But yeah, like people are gonna lose their minds because they love the song and it's like got a great nostalgic hit. But just pick almost any other song off of this album, and people are gonna be happy to hear Foster the People. They don't need to hear this song.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

Yeah, you're gonna be cooler if you go deep track on Foster the People, right? Agree. Because yeah, you'll you'll spin pumped up kicks and everyone's gonna be like, oh, cool song. I like this song. But yeah, if the lyrics kind of settle in in people's minds, it gets a real eerie vibe pretty quickly, I think.

Pour Some Sugar On Me Disaster

SPEAKER_01 15:37

It does, yeah, it does. It's no good. All right, um, track number seven. This was one that I wasn't totally sure on, so you're you're gonna have to explain to me um why it's on here, but it's pour some sugar on me by Def Leopard.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Okay. Uh if I've been to a ton of weddings in my lifetime, right? Um and at some point you're gonna be at a wedding where the groomsman may or may not have paid for his date to be there, okay? And then the DJ's gonna play pour some sugar on me, and something's gonna trigger in that young lady related to her day job, okay? And the the 13-year-old nephew's having the time of his life at that point, but everyone else is horrified, including grandma and the bride. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

So just avoid playing pour some sugar on me because you don't want that specific incident, okay, to come about at your wedding reception. Okay, it's just a bad idea. All right. It's a song for strip clubs, it's not a song for wedding receptions.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

It is a very specific situation that I imagine happens all the time. All the time. All the time.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

All the time. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Um, okay, well, that makes sense. And honestly, honestly, the song just made me very uncomfortable. Like, had it been even more explicit, had it just truly just been explicit, I would have been like more okay with it. But the fact that there is like some weirdness around what he's talking about when he says pour some sugar on me, which apparently is like some benign story about like how that he literally wanted sugar in his coffee or tea or something, and then they wrote a whole song on it. Um, it just makes sense. No way that's true.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

No way that's true.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

I mean, that's what they're saying. You're right, though. As I say that out loud, you're like, yeah, okay, no. That's like the G-rated version of that story.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

That's that's how they were able to, you know, get get that ban from the kids, the Teen Choice Awards rescinded.

SPEAKER_01 17:29

Or the kids, that's how they get it on kids' bops, you know, like they got the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Can we do this on kids bop? It's about sugar. Somebody call deaf leopards people. Check on the origin. Yeah, check on the origin.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

I love that. Um, you're right. Yeah, no, it makes me very uncomfortable. So I think that uh that's that was gonna be my guess, but your story also checks out. I like it.

The Pina Colada Song Is Cheating

SPEAKER_00 17:52

All right, so uh another inappropriate song to play at a wedding reception, okay. Do not play Escape parentheses, the pina colada song by Rupert Holmes.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Yeah, a song we've definitely talked about before in the exact same context of like you you're gonna want to play it because it's a pina colada song, and everyone is gonna want to sing, do you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain? And like from that point of view, if you're okay with with that, sure, go nuts, play the song, enjoy yourself. But this is basically like the modern day equivalent of like you're lying in bed next to your spouse or your partner, and you're on Tinder swiping, you know, actively trying to find someone else to hook up with. And then even worse, it's like you end up finding your partner on Tinder as well. And he or she has also been trying to find someone to like hook up with, and you rematch because you know you've learned like that you both apparently like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. And then for some weird reason, as we've discussed on the show before, you don't know this about the other person. Up and and and he's he says that he's been with her a really long time, and and none of this has come up. I find that hard to believe. He's never been at a restaurant, and they're like, What would you like to drink, ma'am? And she's like, Oh, I'll take a pina colada. If she likes them so much, she must be ordering them all the time.

unknown 19:06

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

The opening line to this song is I was tired of my lady. Right. Like just right off the bat. Like it, but yeah, you you laid out the perfect modern equivalent to this song, right? Right. Yeah, there are like you guys are lying in bed and you match each other on Tinder. That's exactly it.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Yeah, right. Because this is like, yeah, using, I think, uh, like um those ads in the newspaper, what were they called? Not one. The personal ads. The personal ads. Personal ads, yeah. Personal ads.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

So it'd be yeah. Like some personal ads used to be like, hey, I met you on the bus last week, didn't catch your name, but give me a call.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Right, like a misconnection, I think, is what they do. Yes, yeah, yeah. They would do that, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:44

And in this case, it was like, hey, I want to meet someone new, so I'm gonna take out a personal ad in the newspaper to try to meet someone new. Right. Yeah. And it had these very specific, which by the way, is no basis for a relationship either. Agreed. Yeah. I agree. Like there's plenty of people I don't like who I probably have a few things in common with.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

I mean, I'm talking to one of them right now, you know.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

It's a great point. I do a weekly podcast with one of those people.

Macarena Meaning Ruins The Dance

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Yeah. All right. Let's go to track number nine here. Um, this is a solid pick. I had no questions about why this is on here. And and it's Macarena by Los del Rio.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Yeah, I mean, okay, I'm not a line dance guy, right? I don't want the big group line dance at the wedding. Okay. So first and foremost, like this and and anything related to it could probably be left off your um wedding reception DJ's list. Okay. But more so, if you translate the lyrics to this one, and we've talked about this one before, the this young lady is is cheating on a young man with two of his friends while he's like going into the army or something like that, right? So just like we don't want Lou Bega putting it into the bride's head that like he's gonna go cheat, right? Right. We don't want the opposite to happen either. We don't want the groom sitting there thinking, hey, if I get separated at the reception, she's probably gonna go off with two of my groomsmen, right? Like that's the last thing we want in the groom's head, right? Yeah. And so just leave Macarena alone. It's it's not a kid song, even though my kids know it and they play it all the time, right? Yep. Not a kid's song, not a wedding song.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

I agree, yeah. Just anything having to do with actively cheating on one another um is probably best left for not the reception, you know. I I completely agree. Um, but if you want to see everyone yeah, do like a line dance and a choreograph dance that like I think was probably one of the original kind of like memes in a way, you know. I mean, now there's like TikTok dances every week, you can barely keep up with them. But this was kind of one of those early ones that I think even made like mainstream media, right? Like television and whatever, because it was kind of pre-Youtube.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Umchors standing up and trying to do the Macarena, right?

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Hey, let's go to Ted with the weather, but first, have you heard about this dance, Susan? The Macarena. Now, I think I've got the moves down here.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Oh, it's so painful. Yeah, this is definitely on my do not playlist for sure.

Black Eyed Peas Reception Burnout

SPEAKER_00 22:21

All right, now I had a feeling this next song might show up on this list. It is I got a feeling by the black eyed peas.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Yeah, I'm gonna have to go ahead and probably ban all black eyed peas songs. I think, I think, you know, no disrespect to Will I Am and all of the individual people who. Makeup black IPs, and they certainly have had some catchy songs. Like they are masters at pop, despite everyone kind of disliking them universally. They still produce massive hits.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

They still hit the top 10.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Every time, exactly. I'm just wondering, do people just angry listen to them? I think, right? Like they must be. Um, there's no other explanation. Um, but this one, especially, like, for sure, it's like one of those early in the night songs. If DJ's gonna want to play it, and like it's just not a good song. Like, I don't want to hear it. And I think it's also been overplayed at every single party you've ever been to, right? Like, again, early in the night, everyone's singing, I got a feeling, and like they're all like, Oh, yeah, tonight's gonna be a good night. It's too much. I just can't handle it. It's way too much.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

You can't do it. Yeah, it's of course it's gonna be a great night. Okay, you're there with a bunch of friends. There, there's hopefully free booze, at least free food, right? You know, and yeah, you're gonna you're gonna have a good time. This and and it's only slightly better or worse. I don't know where you are in these rankings from their other song, Let's Get It Started, right? Oh my god. I know. We could have just done a mashup and made the worst song ever, just putting those back to back.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Um, yeah, that one's equally if not if not worse. Um, yeah, I mean, look, hey, why don't you play a little uh Fergalicious, maybe to get the crowd started? I think you can get into that, or Clumsy, right? Right? There's a couple good Fergie starts. Yeah, you could feature some Fergie in there.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

Yeah, exactly. I completely agree.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Please leave out the black-eyed peas. And especially this. Like, just go to like boom boom pow. At least we don't hear that one 9,000 times.

Stroken The Ultimate Do Not Play

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Also a good one, yeah. I like it. All right. This next one just had me, I mean, just killed me. I mean, I I don't even know why this song exists full stop, much less why why it would ever be played at a reception or anywhere in any context. It should just not be played. And it is Stroken by Clarence Carter.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

So I'm guessing you've never heard this song before.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

I had never heard this song and I was horrified at it.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

It's horrible. Yeah. So it's it's it's a it's a funny song to listen to, right? So the first song I the first time I came across this, like I was cracking up. I was like, this is amazing. But let me just tell you, okay, the scenario I laid out for Pour Some Sugar on Me earlier didn't quite happen that way, okay, at a wedding I was at. This 100% happened at a wedding I was at. Okay, a groomsman decided to request them to play Stroken by Clarence Carter, and then proceeded to do a whole lip sync routine to the song Stroken by Clarence Carter. It is not like you want to talk about earlier how like pour some sugar on me's got some innuendo. Like a lot of the songs we've heard today, it's like, yeah, they're kind of insinuating something, okay? He flat out asks, he doesn't even sing it, right? Clarence Carter's just like, when was the last time you made love? Right? He just comes on to ask it. It just the whole song's about love making.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

In various places, yes. Yeah. In various places, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Yep. Yeah, like the backseat of a VW. Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

And then the police came to me, shined his light on me, and I said, I'm stroking. That's what I'm doing. I'd be stroking.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

There's no shame with Clarence Carter, okay? But let me tell you, when this groomsman went through his whole lip sync routine, I was kind of looking around, like, is this really happening? And like a few of the groomsmen were like cracking up, this must be like some old college bit that he used to do.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Right. Everybody else at the reception was like, Why is this song playing what is happening right now? Why is this at a wedding right now? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

Yeah, like unless everyone's in on the joke, don't play the song.

Hashtag Selfie And Peak Cringe

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Yeah, if your wedding reception is just like, you know, you've known your partner since like college, and uh, the only people there are your college friends. There's no parents or anything, grandparents. Yeah, go for it, I guess. Inside joke, but but yeah, don't do this at a reception with like 200 people there. No bad idea. All right, uh, let's bring it home. And I had forgotten about this one until uh until it showed up here. Okay. It is hashtag selfie by the chain smokers.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

Yeah, this is this is another one that came at the request of my fiance. She's like, no one, nothing by the chain smokers, please. She does nothing.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

Nothing, nothing by the chain smokers.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Nothing by the chain smokers. She's kind of creeped out by them, which I don't blame her for. Um, like they are kind of they're kind of creepy dudes. Um so, but this song in particular, I feel like what song by the chain smokers like would you just really never want played? Because like I I bet I could get her to play, to agree to be, you know, play closer, because like that was a great song. I loved that one. Yeah, you know, some nice nostalgia in there, people are gonna enjoy it, at least part of it. But this song is just I mean, like the first time I heard it, I legitimately thought it was a joke that someone had made this song. I I thought, like, there's no way this is actually like a song that someone's created. And I understand that that's really what they were going for, but still it's it's really painful. I would probably only want to hear like 15 seconds of this song. Like maybe just the clip of like first let me take a selfie, and we'd all be like, Oh yeah, I remember that song, but I don't want any other part of the rest of like three and a half minutes of this song, because it's it's not great.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Yeah, and like the Chain Smokers now, it's like you I I forgot they did this song, right? Like I remembered this song when you played it, but it's almost like um have you seen the movie Once Bitten? Have you ever heard of the movie Once Bitten?

SPEAKER_01 28:23

No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Okay, it's from 1985, no one's ever seen it, right? Um, but it's it's it's a ridiculous plot, it's an awful movie, but it stars a really young Jim Carrey, and it's his first like role. And at that point, he's not like this is an artistic endeavor, he just wants a job, right? Right, right. And that's what it felt like with this song. That I'm like, maybe this was just a situation where the chain smokers just needed to pay some rent. And it's like, all right, we could crank out this hashtag selfie song. So, like, hey, let's not hold it against them, just like, hey, we don't hold once bitten against Jim Carrey, right? Like, look at all the great work he's done since then. I like it. It's like same thing here, chain smokers. It's like, oh, maybe I want to just believe that they just did it to like pay the rent and that this isn't really like they kind of hate that this exists with their name on it, but it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Yeah, it is. I'm sure that they do. I I they might have actually said that they never really planned for this to be like the way that it was.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

So I didn't realize this was them, right? Like this started playing, and I was like, oh, this song, this is unlistenable. And then I was like, Oh my god, it's the chain smokers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Yeah, shocking. Oh, great job on this mix. This is definitely one I will not be going back to play.

Final Takeaways And How To Follow

SPEAKER_00 29:42

But hey, this is a public service to the people, okay? Because I mean, there's a lot of weddings going on this summer, and there's probably some debates over what should and should you not play at the wedding reception. And so I I think we did a lot of good today, you know? I agree. Yeah, this is helpful.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

This is helpful.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Okay. So so here's the deal Samura's got to go get married. All right. So we're gonna take a couple of weeks off from the show. We're gonna run some best of for a couple of weeks, and then we're gonna be right back at it with another super awesome mix for your collection. Follow us everything at super awesome mix on Instagram and of course on YouTube as well. So enjoy the hottest part of the summer, okay? Cool off with listening back at all of our super awesome mixes, leave us a five star review. We'll get to work on more. And so for Samura, this is Matt, and we'll see you next time.