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Episode 24: 2010's Music: Superstars, Streaming and Social Media · Bearded And Crunchy

0:00
SPEAKER_04: Hey Babble, I got a question for you.
0:02
SPEAKER_04: Oh boy.
0:04
SPEAKER_04: When do we officially become old?
0:06
SPEAKER_04: Uh probably when we started saying they don't make music like they used to.
0:12
SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
0:13
SPEAKER_01: And then you realize those kids we're complaining about?
0:16
SPEAKER_01: They're in their 30s, bro.
0:18
SPEAKER_01: Man, that's depressing.
0:21
SPEAKER_01: So today we're gonna go back to the 2010s.
0:24
SPEAKER_04: Uh, the 2010s.
0:26
SPEAKER_04: A decade that feels like it happened about five years ago.
0:29
SPEAKER_01: Bro, that was not five years ago.
0:32
SPEAKER_01: Don't ruin this for me, please.
0:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but think about how much changed.
0:37
SPEAKER_01: At the beginning of the decade, we were still buying CDs, downloading songs, making playlists, and carrying phones that actually had buttons.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: Ooh, buttons.
0:48
SPEAKER_04: And by the end of the decade, we were streaming everything.
0:51
SPEAKER_04: Talking to our phones, and watching strangers dance on the internet.
0:57
SPEAKER_01: And ironically, the music changed just as dramatically.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: Rock was trying to figure out where it belonged.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: Hip-hop became one of the biggest forces in worldwide music.
1:11
SPEAKER_01: EDM took over the clubs.
1:14
SPEAKER_01: Hop became impossible to escape.
1:17
SPEAKER_04: And every song had a guest appearance.
1:20
SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: You could sneeze into a microphone in 2016 and somehow Drake would show up on the remix.
1:28
SPEAKER_01: Ah, Mr.
1:28
SPEAKER_01: Take Your Girl.
1:30
SPEAKER_01: That man had a passport for every genre.
1:35
SPEAKER_01: But here's the crazy part.
1:37
SPEAKER_04: The 2010s weren't just about the music.
1:40
SPEAKER_01: No, man.
1:41
SPEAKER_01: They changed how how we listen to music.
1:44
SPEAKER_01: We went from owning music to renting music.
1:48
SPEAKER_01: And somehow we're perfectly okay with it.
1:52
SPEAKER_01: So today we're digging into the artists, the genres, the technology, the trends, the guilty pleasures, and the songs we're absolutely going to pretend we never listened to.
2:06
SPEAKER_04: Even though we don't yet.
2:08
SPEAKER_04: I have no idea what you're talking about.
2:12
SPEAKER_04: Sure, you know.
2:13
SPEAKER_04: So grab your headphones, turn up the volume, and take a trip back to a decade that somehow feels like yesterday.
2:23
SPEAKER_04: It also makes it feel really, really old.
2:26
SPEAKER_01: This is Bearded and Crunchy.
2:29
SPEAKER_01: The Twenty Tens Music Deep Dive starts right now.
2:57
SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to Bearded and Crunchy.
3:02
SPEAKER_01: The Twenty Tens?
3:04
SPEAKER_01: The Twenty Tens.
3:05
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
3:07
SPEAKER_04: I I I'm against my will.
3:09
SPEAKER_04: I'm here against my will.
3:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're not.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: We both took breaks from music during this decade.
3:14
SPEAKER_01: I had children.
3:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think our lives really.
3:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, both of us.
3:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, you had all your children in 2010.
3:23
SPEAKER_01: My first was born in 09, so I guess that can technically count as the 2010s.
3:28
SPEAKER_01: Close enough.
3:29
SPEAKER_01: I got married in the 2010s and life was happening.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: I went to college.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh so I it wasn't until later on in the decade that I really dove into the decade.
3:43
SPEAKER_04: I guess.
3:44
SPEAKER_04: I would bro, I was dreading this.
3:46
SPEAKER_04: If if we could ever post our text message thread, you would see how much I've been dreading this.
3:52
SPEAKER_04: We would lose followers.
3:53
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
3:54
SPEAKER_04: And I'm sorry, it's just not the decade for me because I'm I'm old school on a lot of that stuff.
3:58
SPEAKER_01: So I guess the problem with me, and we seen it with the 2010s, was it all going into one pile of ass container.
4:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
4:12
SPEAKER_01: Like the 90s really branched us out.
4:16
SPEAKER_01: The 2010s took us here, and as it came down, it started doing this.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:20
SPEAKER_01: And everything just kind of sounded poppy.
4:25
SPEAKER_01: And the 2010s really accentuated that.
4:28
SPEAKER_01: And um I'll let you get into your synopsis, but I I just for me, it was a rough era for my favorite genre.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of new styles.
4:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh that anyways, we'll we'll get into it later.
4:49
SPEAKER_01: I'll let you, I'll let you hit your synopsis, man.
4:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this was at first.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: I I you know, when we first decided we were gonna do this, I I was thinking that the 60s were gonna be the hardest.
4:59
SPEAKER_01: Um I I was wrong.
5:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this was definitely the most difficult.
5:04
SPEAKER_01: Because I did a dive, I looked at the top 100 songs, I looked at a list of the top 100 songs from the 2010s.
5:12
SPEAKER_01: Less than 10 of them were on my playlist or in my uh albums.
5:16
SPEAKER_01: Literally less than 10.
5:18
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: This was gonna be a problem.
5:21
SPEAKER_04: I literally realized that the more I kind of dove into the the decade, I'm like, bro, I listened to a lot more country from that time and and still like my old heavy hitters and I yeah.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: My if you look at my replays uh when Apple started doing those in like 2014, 2015, um, it's all old shit.
5:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's 90s and early 2000s, it wasn't uh oh, excuse me, my god, that's how I feel about the decade.
5:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, yeah, I mean, and and guys, don't get me wrong, there were some good albums that came out.
5:59
SPEAKER_01: Um there was some good some great songs that came out, but as a topic to discuss, I'd rather take a bath with my toaster.
6:10
SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's Thanksgiving dinner when you're done and you have a little bit of everything left just in the middle piled together.
6:20
SPEAKER_01: That's what it feels like to me.
6:21
SPEAKER_01: Like a just a mess of it.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: It's just a mesh of everything left over.
6:25
SPEAKER_04: Like I said, I I didn't realize how much I had delved into it at the time.
6:31
SPEAKER_04: Uh mainly because of believe it or not, because of my kids, man.
6:34
SPEAKER_04: And it just they're the reason I like certain things from that era, that decade.
6:40
SPEAKER_04: And it's like, but again, much like what you said, I'm still I want to hear my old standbys.
6:46
SPEAKER_04: I want to hear the bands I grew up listening to that are still thankfully making music.
6:50
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
6:50
SPEAKER_04: You know, granted, five finger death punch kind of really started rolling in the in the tens.
6:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's when they got popular for lack of a better word.
7:00
SPEAKER_04: And I do actually have a question for you.
7:03
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I forgot about the question.
7:04
SPEAKER_03: Don't forget about the question.
7:05
SPEAKER_01: Man, that think of how bad we like this episode is for us.
7:08
SPEAKER_01: And guys, it's not that we didn't like the music, it's just we weren't sure how to approach it for this episode because it it it was it was it's different.
7:19
SPEAKER_04: But it's also what we've talked about before, where you hit a certain age and music starts to mean less, you don't have the time to devote to that.
7:27
SPEAKER_01: That that that has to be the biggest part of it.
7:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it just it has to be.
7:31
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't feel the same.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't it doesn't grab you the way it used to.
7:35
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it it just feels different.
7:37
SPEAKER_01: So all right, what's the question?
7:42
SPEAKER_04: This is actually kind of a good one.
7:43
SPEAKER_04: It's kind of interesting.
7:44
SPEAKER_01: Of course it is, you came up with it.
7:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
7:49
SPEAKER_04: So did music actually change in the 2010s or did the way we listen to it change so much that it just feels different.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: Can I add a caveat to that?
8:02
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
8:03
SPEAKER_01: It's our show, we can do whatever we want.
8:05
SPEAKER_01: I think it's how they made the music.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh I think more people were doing it strictly from computers and and stuff like that.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: And unless you're around for analog and early digital days, you can't really tell, but you can kind of tell.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I I think both of what you said are part of it, but I think the way the music was created, like, you know, and I'm sure it's the same with you because, you know, like for instance, um Audio Slave that was Tom Morillo and the members of Rage Against the Machine with Chris Cornell, right?
8:44
SPEAKER_01: I think back then they would get together and they would make this album, like with hip-hop.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: It's like, okay, if Big E was on a verse with Jadakiss, Biggie would come to the studio and record it now.
8:55
SPEAKER_01: These guys record it, they mail it over, or they email it over.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's more what changed.
9:03
SPEAKER_04: There's no human interaction.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and I I see a lot of hip-hop, and I'm sure a lot of other artists in different genres feel this way.
9:12
SPEAKER_01: It's different when you're in there and you're feeling the moment, the vibe, the emotions of the thing.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: It can really get you something.
9:20
SPEAKER_01: And not saying you can't make a great song, but I do think you're gonna lose some of the emotion behind it.
9:25
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's not as personable.
9:27
SPEAKER_01: But that's that's my take on it.
9:28
SPEAKER_01: What are what are your your thoughts?
9:33
SPEAKER_04: I I will agree with you to a point, but I I do think the way we started listening changed.
9:40
SPEAKER_04: I mean, I had a f I had a stereo in my room in my house up until probably 2014.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I that's about the same.
9:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but and how do you listen to your music now?
9:54
SPEAKER_01: Bluetooth speakers, yeah.
9:55
SPEAKER_04: And headphones.
9:56
SPEAKER_04: Headphones.
9:56
SPEAKER_04: Uh, I'm lucky my sound bar has Bluetooth, so I'll crank it up on my sound bar.
10:01
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's but you know, it's just different now, and it just doesn't feel the same.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: It's uh I kind of figured you would say that, so I kind of wanted to leave that part for you so I didn't hog all of it.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: But I I I agree.
10:15
SPEAKER_01: I think the two biggest things are how it was consumed and how it was created.
10:19
SPEAKER_01: How it was created, yeah.
10:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, as much as I hated the iTunes by the song or whatever, I like the idea because if I didn't like the album, I could get the um, but now, you know, it's gone, even even that's dead now.
10:35
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: You can just do the song and 15 bucks a month, you have access to everything, dude.
10:41
SPEAKER_01: Could you imagine telling our 17-year-old self going driving, going through that CD book going and going like, hey, guess what?
10:47
SPEAKER_01: In 30 years, you won't have to do that, you're gonna plug that thing in right there, and you're just gonna have access to all of it.
10:54
SPEAKER_01: I would have smacked my future self in the face.
10:56
SPEAKER_04: But like, you're a liar.
10:57
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, You're a goddamn liar.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: Let me guess, we're gonna have flying cars, too.
11:01
SPEAKER_04: Not yet, but we're getting there.
11:02
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Self-driving is available.
11:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, but yeah, man, it was it's a wild decade.
11:08
SPEAKER_01: So um, I you know, as much as we said it was hard about this, I know you put a lot of thought into the synopsis.
11:14
SPEAKER_01: So let's see, you know, I guess break break break it down.
11:17
SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, it's it's a it's a hodgepodge.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: It is so much was happening, and and and I also think that the changing of how we were consuming it changed the way it was marketed and for sure.
11:31
SPEAKER_01: Like now, you know, it's harder to go platinum because you got to do it by stream.
11:37
SPEAKER_01: Like, it's just different.
11:38
SPEAKER_04: It's different.
11:39
SPEAKER_01: But take it away.
11:42
SPEAKER_04: I do have my synopsis.
11:43
SPEAKER_04: I write it down because I'm old and I can't remember shit anymore.
11:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're not supposed to.
11:47
SPEAKER_04: No, we're not supposed to.
11:49
SPEAKER_04: But you know, the 2010s, you know, it just it wasn't just another decade of music.
11:55
SPEAKER_04: It was, you know, the decade that completely changed how we listened, like we just alluded to.
12:00
SPEAKER_04: Uh the biggest story of the decade was access.
12:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
12:04
SPEAKER_04: Access, access, access.
12:06
SPEAKER_04: Think about it, for decades, where did you go?
12:09
SPEAKER_04: You went to a record store to buy physical copies you could hold, feel, touch, throw into a CD player, throw into a disc man if you had a disc man, or your if you had vinyl, throw it on your record player, right?
12:23
SPEAKER_04: And then we went from all of that to downloading songs on your computer, right?
12:30
SPEAKER_04: And we all did that.
12:31
SPEAKER_04: There's no getting around that if you're alive from then we didn't.
12:35
SPEAKER_04: Thousands.
12:36
SPEAKER_04: Thousands, yes.
12:37
SPEAKER_04: That's how my collection grew with tons of burned CDs.
12:41
SPEAKER_04: I still have a stack like this at home.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: I I w I wish I would kick would rem have remembered to bring in my book because I still have Napster mixes and this mix.
12:54
SPEAKER_04: And if you think about it, we kind of transitioned away from that with iTunes and then iPods.
13:01
SPEAKER_04: And then As quick as it was here.
13:04
SPEAKER_04: Right.
13:04
SPEAKER_04: You could just open your phone and access just about any song ever recorded ever through streaming.
13:13
SPEAKER_04: Beautiful.
13:15
SPEAKER_01: It is nice though.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: It is but it it it takes away it does.
13:21
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't have that emotion anymore.
13:23
SPEAKER_01: Right.
13:24
SPEAKER_01: The the the the the going to to Best Buyer Target, buying your CD, getting in the car, sitting in there, tearing the plastic open, ripping the plastic thing out, popping it in, and then just driving, listening to that.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: Oh, God man.
13:41
SPEAKER_04: Well, and here's where it gets interesting, and and what really happened in the decade is you know, streaming, it it led to the downfall of the traditional record label model.
13:51
SPEAKER_04: Yep.
13:51
SPEAKER_04: Or record industry model.
13:53
SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes.
13:54
SPEAKER_04: But where it kind of crumbled that, you know, monarchy, that hierarchy, artists got a little bit more involved where they could just build their audience through YouTube without relying on the companies.
14:07
SPEAKER_04: So they could make more money that way.
14:10
SPEAKER_04: But it also changed it to where music wasn't just something you heard anymore, it was something you shared, just like we still do now.
14:18
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, we share songs all the time.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, it it definitely helps.
14:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's much easier for artists to get known now, but that yeah, I also think social media is the big, the big change in that too.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: We have, you know, again, I I've been sharing with you um just because it is kind of recent, it's a little off topic, but it's our episode.
14:43
SPEAKER_01: Um I've been showing you that new Thai guitarist, Nini Royale.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm in love with this young lady.
14:51
SPEAKER_01: She is so good.
14:53
SPEAKER_01: Uh, she does so many different types of rock music and music, and I I like the fact that these kids can do that and not have to get these predatory labels and signed into a terrible 15, 20 year fucking sell your life.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: Right.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, they don't make any money.
15:13
SPEAKER_01: Man, let these kids fucking, you know, she's got talent.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: Like, um, but yeah, I mean, and you know, we we talked about kind of at the end of the 2010s, the megastar, but I think 2010s really took that to another level.
15:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like we had stars that were just yeah, for sure out of this world.
15:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh, where where do we jump into first?
15:42
SPEAKER_01: What do you want to jump into?
15:44
SPEAKER_01: It's just a mess of shit.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: So I mean, really, when you think about it, most of the places, the two biggest things, at least for me, it it was what you were talking about.
15:56
SPEAKER_01: It was the streaming revolution, but then there's what they called the genre fluid era.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and it just I I guess going even going back, very few artists had their own identity, it just all was the same.
16:17
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
16:17
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm really not trying to be as negative, but like as I went back, I was just like, there it's I don't know.
16:26
SPEAKER_04: It's all pop, man.
16:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the problem.
16:29
SPEAKER_01: Unless it's m rock or metal, it's pop.
16:31
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's still some underground rap artists, and I'm sure it's the same with heavy metal and rap, like these independents and stuff, that are still trying to keep some of the the main subgenres and the and and the main heart of it alive.
16:45
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I mean, you know, and with hip-hop, you know, in the late 2010s, um, you know, we had lost Mac Miller and like Juice World and this stuff.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: It was what was called drug rap.
16:56
SPEAKER_01: You know, if you remember when we grew up, it was all the drug dealers in the 2010s, it was all the drug users that was making, you know.
17:03
SPEAKER_01: Sorry guys, I'm not trying to, you know, but that unfortunately I never got behind that because we have family members and friends that we've seen dealt with that, so yeah, I never understood the um influx of of this type of music.
17:25
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was even into some of the pop music, and yeah, I it just I don't know.
17:30
SPEAKER_01: It it just maybe maybe it's because we got old, but it just doesn't have that feeling that that it that uh it for me and I'm obviously you too, as we've alluded to, yeah, it kind of died that that feeling we had for music died in the 2000s, man.
17:46
SPEAKER_04: And but you know the interesting thing I think when I think about it is like if I go back and listen to what's at my core, what I really enjoy, I get that feeling still.
17:57
SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
17:58
SPEAKER_04: It's just like the newer stuff, it just doesn't resonate with me.
18:00
SPEAKER_04: It doesn't hit uh it just I don't know.
18:06
SPEAKER_01: I just came up with an idea for something, don't worry.
18:09
SPEAKER_04: It just doesn't like again, it just doesn't hit with me like my my core stuff does.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, no.
18:15
SPEAKER_01: And if you think about it, if you go back to some of our favorite artists that came out in the 90s and 2010s, even some of them were experimenting a little bit in the 2010s and it didn't always hit.
18:26
SPEAKER_01: No, you know, that's true.
18:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, I have to say, after Minutes to Midnight, there was a few albums from Lincoln Park that I just Yeah, not that it was bad, it was just like uh it's not really you know, and and and not saying, you know, because me and you have said this many times, not that you can't branch out, you have to evolve, but you're taking a risk because there are gonna be some of your fans that ain't gonna like it, you know.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: You just you have to because it goes to what we always say.
18:55
SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, if you want to listen to their old the way they used to sound, then go listen to their old stuff.
18:59
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think that's where they did they went different with Hunting Party.
19:03
SPEAKER_04: It was a little bit more heavy, guitar-oriented.
19:05
SPEAKER_01: They kind of dropped a little bit of the it's weird you mentioned that because that was one of the better ones out of the ones that they like.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: What was the sunshine?
19:13
SPEAKER_01: What was the one that was it was something to do with I gotta look it up because it's gonna drive me nuts.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: But there was one album that I tried many times to listen to, and I bro, I just could not get into it, no matter how many times.
19:31
SPEAKER_01: Um A Thousand Sons.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: A Thousand Sons was okay, and then One More Light.
19:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh, those were the two that I just could not get into.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: Really?
19:41
SPEAKER_04: I love One More Light, man.
19:42
SPEAKER_04: This is the last one they did with him.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: I know, but it just didn't it didn't I again I when I say that I'm not saying it like I didn't like it.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
19:52
SPEAKER_04: It just didn't resonate go the way that kind of grabbed me, but the one song off of One More Light I will tell you to listen to is One More Light.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
20:01
SPEAKER_01: That's a deep I mean again, I've said this a lot, but you know, Chester was a good songwriter.
20:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, there was a lot of emotions into the shit that he wrote.
20:12
SPEAKER_04: So and he could fucking say man.
20:15
SPEAKER_04: Did you ever hear him do that cover of Adele?
20:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, rolling in the deep.
20:19
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
20:20
SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
20:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, people think because he would scream and stuff like that, but I could do it all.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: I always tell people go listen to Minutes to Midnight, and you will hear the vocal range from this guy in the different types of songs that are on that album.
20:33
SPEAKER_01: But well, since we've brought up rock music.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we should delve into that because it I mean, I talked about hip-hop a little bit, but I think rock really went through an identity crisis in the in the 2010s.
20:46
SPEAKER_04: A lot of people have asked the question, where the hell did it go?
20:49
SPEAKER_04: I don't think it went anywhere.
20:52
SPEAKER_01: I I think it was trying to find itself again.
20:54
SPEAKER_04: It much like the end of the 2000s, it was just not the dominant force in in American music.
21:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you still had big bands out there like the Foo Fighters, and I can tell you a quick story.
21:05
SPEAKER_04: Uh I'm gonna bring these guys up, but the Black Keys, you know the Yeah, from our hometown.
21:10
SPEAKER_01: Maybe Gold on the Ceiling's one of my I love that song.
21:13
SPEAKER_01: So they went to Firestone.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: They did.
21:15
SPEAKER_04: I uh Dan Arbach and what's the other guy?
21:18
SPEAKER_04: I don't remember the other guy's name.
21:20
SPEAKER_04: But, anyways.
21:20
SPEAKER_04: I have a funny story about that though.
21:22
SPEAKER_04: So when I was actively playing music at the band I was in, we went down, I went with my singer and his fiance at the time to her family owned a cabin down in southern Ohio on a lake.
21:35
SPEAKER_04: And we're there for a couple days, and and my singer goes, Hey man, uh, I just want you to know that her sister and her husband are coming with their baby.
21:44
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, Oh, cool.
21:46
SPEAKER_04: His name is Dan.
21:47
SPEAKER_04: Alright, cool.
21:49
SPEAKER_04: No biggie, more the merrier.
21:50
SPEAKER_04: We can have fun and drink by the fire, blah, blah, blah.
21:53
SPEAKER_04: So they show up and it's Dan Aurabach.
21:56
SPEAKER_04: Holy shit.
21:57
SPEAKER_04: From the Black Keys.
21:58
SPEAKER_04: And dude, I can tell you this.
21:59
SPEAKER_04: I know.
22:00
SPEAKER_04: Never I knew who he was.
22:03
SPEAKER_04: I knew what he was doing.
22:04
SPEAKER_04: I knew the fame that he had, you know, accrued with the band.
22:07
SPEAKER_04: I never once asked for anything.
22:08
SPEAKER_04: We just talked.
22:10
SPEAKER_04: We talked, we talked music.
22:11
SPEAKER_04: He played my old acoustic that I had at the time that I brought.
22:15
SPEAKER_04: And man, just the nicest guy.
22:18
SPEAKER_04: It's because he came from Akron.
22:19
SPEAKER_04: And that's what we all shared.
22:21
SPEAKER_04: It's like, where are you from?
22:22
SPEAKER_04: Well, I went I I'm from East Akron.
22:24
SPEAKER_04: I went to East High School and he's like, oh man, I went to Firestone.
22:26
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, my dad graduated from Firestone in 73.
22:29
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, just again, just the nicest freaking.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: I again, I'm I I I didn't listen to a lot of their music.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh and it's crazy because they had a more nostalgic type feel to the rock music that they made.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, but one of my favorite like rock songs, period.
22:45
SPEAKER_01: I love Gold on the Ceiling.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: It's good.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I love it so much.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: I just love it.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: I think it's such a good song.
22:52
SPEAKER_04: I always put them in that category of like uh I mean they're it's rock genre, but it's like a blues rock.
22:58
SPEAKER_01: It's like a blue rock, like a blues with with like a very bit of funk to it, like a tiny bit, but enough to and again, it's not that I didn't like them, and and I always like uh fucking push them forward, dude.
23:11
SPEAKER_01: They're from Akron.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: Factor, for sure.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: They're from our hometown.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: We want, you know, and they're nice people, yeah.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, good.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: I've I've always heard I can't I feel so bad I don't remember the other guys.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: I know anytime I've heard people that have met them, they say that they're just the nicest guys.
23:23
SPEAKER_04: I spent a couple days with them, yeah.
23:25
SPEAKER_04: Well, with Dan.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and you know, uh yeah, I mean I I could imagine like the world was going through a uh sexual orientation uh crisis, and it was like music was doing the same thing at the same time.
23:44
SPEAKER_01: It was like it didn't know what it wanted to do, right?
23:47
SPEAKER_01: Guys, I say that with I I don't care what you want to do.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: If you want to be a man or a woman, that's up to you.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: I don't yeah.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: If it makes you happy, then that's then you do that.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: It's none of my business.
23:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that makes you happy.
23:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I uh I mean that's I mean, I really where do we go?
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Because it all sounded like pop music.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: It just did to me, you know, I guess it did.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I'm sure there's like big music people out there that'd be like, well, no, if you really listen to it, it's like sure.
24:16
SPEAKER_04: Well, you know, for me though, with rock music in the 2010s, again, I had my Metallica's, my mega deaths.
24:23
SPEAKER_04: You know, they were still around.
24:25
SPEAKER_04: A lot of the older guys from the 80s and 90s were still doing shit.
24:29
SPEAKER_04: And you know, the you know, Slipknot was big in the 2000s, carried over into the tens.
24:34
SPEAKER_04: I love Slipknot.
24:37
SPEAKER_04: Five Finger Death Punch became again more prevalent.
24:40
SPEAKER_04: I still love those guys to this day.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: Disturbed, disturbed.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean Breaking Benjamin.
24:45
SPEAKER_01: I mean God Smack.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: But I I yes, but what I I think going to how we've approached these decades, though, we're talking about the births of new artists and where it was going.
24:58
SPEAKER_01: And and even though you're right, because it's the same with me, MM released three albums in the 2010s.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, we had Wu Tang releasing albums, right?
25:06
SPEAKER_01: So that was still happening, but I think outside of established and and and and decades before, it was kind of just like not knowing what it wanted.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: It was a midlife crisis for music.
25:18
SPEAKER_04: It was weird, yeah.
25:19
SPEAKER_04: You had your established bands that were doing their things that they had always done, changing a little bit with the times, modernizing, making it a lot of things.
25:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, they would change a little bit and try to try to evolve a little, but right.
25:29
SPEAKER_04: But when you start talking about the big rock, you know, artist uh of the tens, and you're starting to talk Foo Fighters, and again the Black Keys as much as I like them, but then you start talking like Arctic monkeys and 21 Pilots, dude.
25:43
SPEAKER_04: I don't get that.
25:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I did have there's one 21 Pilot song that was on the Suicide Squad album that I liked.
25:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, and Sonny was into 21 Pilots.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my kids were too.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: I mean, and and and the thing is, is it they're not even bad.
25:58
SPEAKER_01: It just I didn't get it.
26:01
SPEAKER_01: No, that's the easiest way to say I just didn't get it.
26:05
SPEAKER_04: You know, you're an OG hip hop head, I'm an OG metal head, and we just don't get that shit.
26:09
SPEAKER_04: I it just doesn't resonate.
26:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it it it it but you know, and and this just hit me just this moment, but maybe that's a good thing.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: Okay, because that's why we had 90s, right?
26:21
SPEAKER_01: These kids can have their 2010s.
26:23
SPEAKER_01: Our parents our parents probably did that shit.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they probably felt the same about the 90s.
26:28
SPEAKER_01: My mom was a little more open-minded, um, but my dad hated rap music.
26:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my dad's music.
26:34
SPEAKER_00: So you can't spell rap without crap.
26:36
SPEAKER_00: It's what he always used to say.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: You know what people would tell me that?
26:40
SPEAKER_01: Funny story, David Schweier said that to me.
26:42
SPEAKER_01: We were in high school, and he goes, and dude, I I I like embarrassed him in front of his friends.
26:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, because he lived two doors over.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: And you know, we we kind of grew up in hung with different crowds when we were high school.
26:53
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Hey man, what are you up to?
26:54
SPEAKER_01: Haven't seen you in a while.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: What do you?
26:56
SPEAKER_01: I was like, Oh, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
26:57
SPEAKER_01: I'll rap a little bit, and you know, I'm a I'm a hip hop hip level.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: He goes, Oh, well, you know what they say about rap.
27:01
SPEAKER_01: He said, You put a C in front of it.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, you could say that about rock nowadays, and I walked away.
27:06
SPEAKER_01: You're not rock, yeah, you know, and and I embarrassed him, but yeah, I had heard that, but um even with hip-hop, there was still artists that were kind of keeping it alive.
27:20
SPEAKER_01: Rock just really struggled.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: It did.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, it had, like you said, it had your break in Benjamin's.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: Even Tool had finally released their first album in a while.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: I think it was in 2019, it was the Fearinoculum.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, but it just seemed like it didn't know what it wanted to do.
27:38
SPEAKER_04: No, it was being pulled in different directions, weird directions, and again, a lot of the mainstream rock stuff was like I wouldn't have classified in the early 2000s or late 90s, I would not have classified these guys.
27:53
SPEAKER_04: Most of these guys that were mainstream rock, I would not have classified them rock at all.
27:58
SPEAKER_04: They would have been pop music.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I mean I think they even said, and we talked about this, imagine dragons.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're considered rock.
28:06
SPEAKER_01: And and I I can almost get that, but even that doesn't sound like any other rock up to that point.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: So it and and that's what's crazy too, because we we really talked about it in the 90s and the 2010s with subgenres.
28:19
SPEAKER_01: There's no subgenre for these guys.
28:21
SPEAKER_01: No, they're think about it, there's no new labels for them.
28:24
SPEAKER_01: Like it was just pretty much all pop music.
28:27
SPEAKER_04: I would have called it pop music, and you know, Imagine Dragons is they're a guilty pleasure of mine.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: And that's okay because I think they're good too.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: If we're gonna talk guilty pleasures out though, mine aren't there.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh I have a man crush on Ed Sheeran.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: I love that guy.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: Talented, man.
28:46
SPEAKER_01: I think he's talented as shit.
28:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh he's you know, I fall in love with with other genres that love hip-hop.
28:52
SPEAKER_01: You know, I love Jonathan Davis.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: He's a big hip hop head, he's done multiple songs with him.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, uh, but beyond that, I think he's uh again, it goes.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm starting to think that I was a songwriter fan and didn't realize it because he's an amazing songwriter.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: Um and he's not afraid to talk about his downfall.
29:12
SPEAKER_01: Like, I love artists that are just yeah, uh, what's the word I'm thinking of?
29:17
SPEAKER_01: Open, but um they're transparent.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: Transparent, but um it's escaping me and it's the perfect word.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:28
SPEAKER_01: But they're they're they're just um I don't know, they're just they allow themselves to be an open book.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: Um that's what it is.
29:37
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, i i i if you think about it, I mean, really i it it was truly the decade of the megastar, though.
29:44
SPEAKER_01: I mean, yes, we had them in the in the 2000s, but I mean we really had the singular stars in the 20 2010s.
29:53
SPEAKER_04: Well, since we've mentioned some pop music, I guess we can probably move into pa.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we have to.
30:00
SPEAKER_01: It was the biggest.
30:01
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think it was that decade's biggest I mean it was their biggest sellers.
30:06
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you look at the biggest sellers, superstars, yeah.
30:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was all pop music.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the hands are bearded crunching and popping.
30:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it goes right along with Pat Music.
30:17
SPEAKER_04: It's Pat Music.
30:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, look at I mean, look at the biggest stars.
30:21
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's all you know what I mean?
30:25
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
30:26
SPEAKER_04: Um, you know, Bruno Mars for me kind of stands out.
30:29
SPEAKER_04: I I I like him from my kids liking him.
30:33
SPEAKER_04: And we talked about this before we came on here, but 24 Carat, man, it's a great album.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: If you go back to the one before that, I think you would enjoy it a little more.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: It's probably it's called Doo Wops and Hooligans.
30:44
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I've heard it.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, he's got a song on there with uh Damian Marley.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm a big reggae fan.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: It's weird I say that, and we've never talked about reggae.
30:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, never talked about reggae.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: But it's never really been in the mainstream, so I I don't um but uh I yeah, uh we we can definitely Bruno Mars, I mean, he can do no wrong in my eyes.
31:05
SPEAKER_01: The dude is you know, for for a long time, I I I I started to say in the mid-2010s that like he had the trajectory to be a new Michael Jackson.
31:15
SPEAKER_04: But he's kind of slowed down in the last year.
31:16
SPEAKER_01: He has um and and I well I think I think he didn't want to be known as like this big.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: I think, you know, because we kind of talked about it before.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: This album was in the 2020s, which we're not gonna get to for four years because the decade's not over, if we ever get to it anyway.
31:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, but he did an album with Anderson Pot called Silksonic, and it had that song Um Yeah.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: What you doing?
31:44
SPEAKER_01: Where you at?
31:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, he had that.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: So I think he wanted to.
31:49
SPEAKER_01: I I don't think he wanted it to be like, oh, I'm this big pop star.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: So I think he kind of stepped down because you know, of course, we can't say it without mentioning the other ones like your Katy Perry's, yeah, um Rihanna.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: Even though she she still had that RB, but it had poppy feels to it.
32:06
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, of course, of course.
32:08
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then one that that I think you like, Adele.
32:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh dude, yeah.
32:12
SPEAKER_04: A lot of people shit on me for liking Adele.
32:14
SPEAKER_04: I don't care.
32:15
SPEAKER_01: She's what she has one of the she has, I would say she probably has the best voice of the 2010s.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: Again, she can say.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: And she's also one of those women that's beautiful when she was chunky and when she lost weight.
32:29
SPEAKER_01: I was like, you're hot both ways.
32:32
SPEAKER_01: How did this happen?
32:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and uh But she can say fun thing was I don't know if you know this, you know she was a smoker.
32:38
SPEAKER_04: I did not know that.
32:40
SPEAKER_04: Isn't that crazy?
32:40
SPEAKER_04: That rain sing like that?
32:42
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's what I haven't been a smoker.
32:43
SPEAKER_01: It's because it's because she's from the UK.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, then people can smoke and still sing like fucking.
32:48
SPEAKER_01: I don't get it.
32:49
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I mean again, guys, this episode's gonna be a little all over the place because we we did our research, but it's because the decade is all over the place.
32:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, and and we both took a break.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, we really like with the 90s and the 20s, 2000s, we didn't have to do research, but we did it to keep it structured.
33:10
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: With this, we just don't know what the fuck.
33:13
SPEAKER_01: Like I said, no, from 2011 to about 2016, 2017, I didn't listen to anything new.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: Right.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: Like there might be a song or two that come out, and I'm like, oh, I like that song.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: Um, but it wasn't until around 2018 when when Eminem dropped uh kamikaze, and towards the end when like Kenrick and J.
33:40
SPEAKER_01: Cole had finally and we'll I'll I'll get into them a little bit.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, it just I'm getting off topic.
33:48
SPEAKER_01: But um what about the weekend?
33:50
SPEAKER_01: What about the weekend?
33:51
SPEAKER_01: Oh, but see, and here's the thing.
33:53
SPEAKER_01: So when when he first I I got onto him late, yeah, me too.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, but he's different though, because I know he's a pop star, but he's he's able to really jump from actual different genres.
34:10
SPEAKER_01: Like you made a good point.
34:12
SPEAKER_01: Blinding lights is one of my like literally top ten favorite songs of all time.
34:16
SPEAKER_01: I love that song.
34:18
SPEAKER_01: And me and Rihanna, and when we when it when I let her hear it and we were listening to it, I looked to her and I said, This was it had been out for a year or two.
34:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I was listening, so I was like, This is really good.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Why does this song sound more like the 80s than any songs from the 80s?
34:35
SPEAKER_01: It sounded like it was made in the 80s, and I was just like, This guy's got his hands on the on the pulse of music.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, uh and maybe that's what's weird about it.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: All these guys were mega pop stars, but they all sounded a little different, but it was still all I don't I don't know what to do.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: I need an adult, like it's so hard to distinguish like what these guys were, right?
34:59
SPEAKER_01: Because the weekend is an RB artist, but I mean, like, dude, he had a remix with Eminem on a song, like yeah, you know, Rihanna had Eminem on a track, like Taylor Swift did a song with Kendrick Lamar.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
35:11
SPEAKER_04: And she blew up because she went from you know mainstream country to mainstream pop.
35:15
SPEAKER_04: So, and I thought, because I trashed it last episode.
35:19
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I just don't like her.
35:21
SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry, I just don't.
35:24
SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry for all of you that do.
35:25
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome that you do.
35:26
SPEAKER_04: I just don't get it.
35:28
SPEAKER_04: Again, it's probably because I'm fucking old and I don't get it anymore.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: It's because you're not a 15 to 35 year old woman.
35:35
SPEAKER_01: True.
35:35
SPEAKER_04: I just don't understand it.
35:37
SPEAKER_04: Whatever.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: I don't dislike her.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, I just don't go to her music.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: It's just not for me.
35:44
SPEAKER_04: I mean, it's I'm sure as a human being, she's amazing.
35:47
SPEAKER_04: I'm sure of that.
35:49
SPEAKER_04: Again, musically for me, it it doesn't tickle my fancy.
35:52
SPEAKER_04: Uh-uh.
35:53
SPEAKER_04: No.
35:53
SPEAKER_04: It doesn't it doesn't move my needle, and so to speak.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: We we obviously have to talk about the beebs.
36:00
SPEAKER_01: Um God.
36:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna mention this once and one time only, and if it's ever brought up to anybody that's listening to this, as God is my witness, we're throwing hands on Sarah.
36:19
SPEAKER_01: I fucked with the beeps.
36:21
SPEAKER_04: There's a few things.
36:22
SPEAKER_01: He had a couple of songs that I was like, alright, dog, you're catchy, man.
36:25
SPEAKER_01: I'm fucking with you.
36:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh, like Baby Baby, that was a good song.
36:30
SPEAKER_01: Um my favorite song from him is the song, and if I remember, I'll let you hear it.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: It's actually a good song.
36:39
SPEAKER_01: It's called What Do You Mean?
36:41
SPEAKER_01: Um I actually kind of fucked with the beebs.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: When he went on his little thing that all of these teenage stars end up doing in their 20s and got all the tattoos and started wilding out and and all that shit, that's gonna happen.
36:55
SPEAKER_01: But um that's another kid that was just talented.
36:58
SPEAKER_04: Um Yeah, I agree.
37:00
SPEAKER_04: What's really funny, a lot of people don't remember that, but he actually uh he did a song with uh I believe Dan and Shea in Country, Country Music.
37:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, and that's the thing.
37:12
SPEAKER_01: He's done a song with hip hop artists, pop artists.
37:15
SPEAKER_01: Like he's he can bend the laws.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: Fun fact, you know who found him?
37:19
SPEAKER_01: Take away.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
37:20
SPEAKER_04: No, it wasn't Dre.
37:21
SPEAKER_04: Who was it?
37:22
SPEAKER_01: Usher.
37:22
SPEAKER_04: Oh, it was Usher, okay.
37:24
SPEAKER_01: One of those producer guys.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh he's from Canada.
37:27
SPEAKER_01: Canada.
37:29
SPEAKER_01: Canadian, eh?
37:30
SPEAKER_01: There's a couple others that I didn't listen to at all.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, Ariana Grande made her, and she's and I will say this.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, I've never listened to her music, but I love Jimmy Fallon's uh wheel of music with it.
37:44
SPEAKER_01: She's amazing on that.
37:46
SPEAKER_01: She started on Nickelodeon.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: She can actually sing.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: I just don't like the songs that she sang either.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: Um and oh man, I I got some like our parents.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: Your kids are probably gonna hate me for this and and of the younger generation, but I just don't get post Malone.
38:04
SPEAKER_04: I don't either, man.
38:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh I I mean I get him, but I I don't and and that's another guy that like I've heard nothing, like I don't know if people that well, that and I've heard people he's a fucking amazing human being.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: Um, and I like that, but I just I don't get into that style of music that he does.
38:23
SPEAKER_04: Um The one thing he did that I thought was really, really cool is during COVID, he did that concert and he basically did Nirvana stuff, and he can do Cobain, like it's amazing.
38:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, and that's the thing, like when you're that talented, yeah, it's hard to put you in a box, right?
38:46
SPEAKER_01: But then that also hurts you because no, because yeah, I would say 70 to 75 percent of the average person doesn't think about music like me and you do.
38:56
SPEAKER_01: It's oh, I like rock and rock should be here, and then I like RB and RBC.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: We don't need it to be that way, but it still has to grab our ear though, sure.
39:05
SPEAKER_01: And post Malone just didn't he just didn't do that for me.
39:08
SPEAKER_01: Now, I recognize the talent, I recognize the person.
39:12
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, millions, maybe even now, billions of fans can't be wrong.
39:16
SPEAKER_01: Right, it's just not for me.
39:17
SPEAKER_01: No, um, and then I mean, really the only other one, and this was one that um they continued the boy band tradition, and my daughter was a fucking fanatic.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and that was One Direction.
39:32
SPEAKER_01: One Direction.
39:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the the the boys.
39:35
SPEAKER_01: Oh my Zane.
39:38
SPEAKER_01: I know all about them because that was that was Sonny's.
39:41
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that was that was her new kids on the block.
39:44
SPEAKER_04: And I think my kids missed the tail end of that.
39:47
SPEAKER_04: Uh thankfully, yeah.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: They might have been a little young.
39:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because they were they started, I think, in the late 2000s or early 2010s.
39:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
39:55
SPEAKER_01: And then it ain't for me.
39:58
SPEAKER_01: But uh no, it ain't for me.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: I have an interesting one as we're kind of talking about music.
40:02
SPEAKER_01: Dude, I'm just throwing shit out there because I have no idea what to talk about.
40:05
SPEAKER_04: Uh my daughter, and I'm not into it.
40:08
SPEAKER_04: Uh it it is what it is, but my daughter is really into K-pop.
40:13
SPEAKER_04: She loves K-pop.
40:14
SPEAKER_04: And I just, you know, it it's again, she loves like Nirvana and like death metal and shit like that.
40:21
SPEAKER_04: But she's like, Dad, I really like K-pop.
40:23
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, cool.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: That's her shit.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: That's a genre that was born in the 2010s.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: That's their yeah, that's your for you.
40:32
SPEAKER_01: Heavy metal was born basically.
40:33
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was born in the 70s, but it was really born and and same with hip-hop with me.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I mean, and that's cool.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: And and honestly, I mean, those guys dance better than the Backstreet Boys.
40:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if they sing better, but like the the ensemble of them is just I mean, the guy that these guys are talented, all of them they are.
40:52
SPEAKER_04: I mean, I give you so many of them.
40:53
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
40:54
SPEAKER_04: There's so many groups, it's like it's like their ex their 90s or 80s explosion of boy bands.
41:00
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's like, Jesus Christ, man.
41:02
SPEAKER_04: I can't keep up with all the stuff my my daughter's into.
41:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, country.
41:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
41:06
SPEAKER_01: And um, and obviously the two or two of the the biggest ones that we we didn't talk about was Drake and Rihanna.
41:13
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm not gonna leave a lot.
41:15
SPEAKER_01: I love Rihanna to death.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: I actually listen to a lot of her music and I like her as a person too.
41:19
SPEAKER_01: Um Drake, I'm not gonna get into.
41:21
SPEAKER_01: Yes, he was one of the biggest stars, but I think that dude's one of the biggest posers, and yes, I'm putting that on fucking camera.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: And he's been known to like go after like like um reaction people for talking shit about him.
41:36
SPEAKER_01: Really?
41:37
SPEAKER_01: Fuck you, you come for me, dog, because I don't care.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: I ain't got enough money, it would it would destroy you to come after me.
41:43
SPEAKER_01: But I just don't like the guy.
41:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I I I think there's a lot that's come out.
41:48
SPEAKER_01: This is gonna be a bashing section.
41:50
SPEAKER_01: I wasn't gonna do this, but I am now.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: Fuck it.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: We're doing it live.
41:53
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
41:53
SPEAKER_01: Um, I just don't like the guy.
41:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I I think I think he's a pervert.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think he steals people's music.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: Um, I think he has ghostwriters and doesn't give him credit for it.
42:03
SPEAKER_01: Um, I think he steals people's flows.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: Um and I think he's the new Millie Vanilli.
42:13
SPEAKER_01: Uh except Millie Vanilli actually had talent.
42:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, but they just weren't allowed to sing.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: I don't think Drake has any talent.
42:22
SPEAKER_01: Um, personally.
42:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get shit on for this, but I I'm I'm going off because I've kept it to myself for too long.
42:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, Jermaine tried to get me his very first album, it was independent, uh had a couple of good songs on it, but there was just something about him that just never grabbed me, and then he took off, and people were calling him the greatest hip-hop artist of all time, and that really rubbed me the fucking wrong way.
42:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, but he is considered the biggest artist of the 2010s.
42:55
SPEAKER_01: I could imagine.
42:56
SPEAKER_04: I don't but see, like yeah, I I I didn't get into it because at that point I was listening to this much hip-hop.
43:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
43:04
SPEAKER_04: That was from that time.
43:04
SPEAKER_04: It was all right.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: You weren't missing, you weren't missing anything.
43:07
SPEAKER_01: That's what I've heard.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you missed out.
43:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know who he is now, but Kendrick, that's when you gotta he he has that 90s feel.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, J.
43:16
SPEAKER_01: Cole has that 90s.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: There's we got some.
43:19
SPEAKER_01: We got a couple in the 2010s.
43:21
SPEAKER_01: We have, you know, that gritty the locks, Biggie, Tupac, that that boom bap?
43:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh, Griselda, who is out of Buffalo, New York, they still rap like that, and they came out in the 2010s.
43:32
SPEAKER_01: Oh, nice.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, but they didn't really blow to the end in the beginning of the 2020s.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, but um, yeah, I I just don't like Drake, and I don't I don't care if people hate me.
43:45
SPEAKER_01: I don't know it enough for him to uh he's a piece of shit.
43:49
SPEAKER_04: I just I don't fuck with him.
43:50
SPEAKER_04: I have one word Labronto, that's all.
43:52
SPEAKER_04: Yep.
43:53
SPEAKER_04: That was all you needed.
43:54
SPEAKER_04: That's all I needed.
43:55
SPEAKER_04: Um so get into hip hop then.
43:57
SPEAKER_04: Tell me what happened in the tens with it.
43:59
SPEAKER_01: Uh So, I mean, again, the same with you.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: Like, my ear was not to the streets, and the shit that was coming out was like Migos and people like Designer and I'm trying to think 21 Savage.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, kudos on these guys to be able to to to create generational wealth for their families.
44:19
SPEAKER_01: But I just the music wasn't for me.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: It was triple time flows.
44:23
SPEAKER_01: It was called uh uh trap.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, uh not trap, trap was what T.I.
44:29
SPEAKER_01: and like young jeezy.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Um this was called drill music.
44:33
SPEAKER_01: It was kind of it was a Chicago sound.
44:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, but if I'm being honest, really outside of what I just was mentioning, it gave us the birth who I think now is one of, if not the greatest.
44:47
SPEAKER_01: I I mean, many are calling him one of the top five dead or alive.
44:52
SPEAKER_01: Kendrick is considered one of the greatest teams of all time.
44:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've heard him.
44:57
SPEAKER_01: Bro, I could let you listen to some songs that I truly, I honestly believe you would you would dive into him.
45:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's just that good.
45:05
SPEAKER_01: Um and J.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: Cole's another one.
45:08
SPEAKER_01: He's more on the lines of so when you think Kendrick, think a mix between you know the game?
45:14
SPEAKER_01: Yes, him and Tupac.
45:16
SPEAKER_01: That's Kendrick.
45:17
SPEAKER_01: All right, J.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: Cole, think, Andre 3000, and Jay-Z.
45:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
45:27
SPEAKER_01: That's some yes, those big things too.
45:30
SPEAKER_01: And those they were like the Biggie and Pac of that generation.
45:33
SPEAKER_01: They weren't beefing at the time.
45:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
45:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, there was a little beef during the Drake shit, but I won't get into that because that actually happened in the 2020s.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I could do a deep dive into one of my I don't know if I've ever said this on here before, or even to you.
45:47
SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite things to do in hip hop, and I have a playlist of just it, and even if I didn't like the artist, I have is diss tracks and beef.
45:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
45:56
SPEAKER_01: I just have an obsession with it because it doesn't really happen a lot in other genres.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, but anyways, um, I mean, honestly, that's all I had to report on.
46:06
SPEAKER_01: Um I talk about I'm I'm gonna make um uh uh I I want to make a point because I haven't had a chance to talk.
46:12
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of underground rap music that I haven't ever got to get to because we only have so much time.
46:18
SPEAKER_01: Um but one of my favorite underground artists, and I've told you about him many times, is ASAP Rap.
46:23
SPEAKER_01: Um he's in he's an underground, he's very abstract.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: So if you guys go listen to him, understand that.
46:28
SPEAKER_01: And it's not ASAP Rocky from the ASAP mobs.
46:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this guy's been around since the late 90s.
46:33
SPEAKER_01: He was underground.
46:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, they were very what was called backpack rap, um, and he's abstract.
46:40
SPEAKER_01: He says things.
46:40
SPEAKER_01: I'll give you a line that you'll like.
46:42
SPEAKER_01: He has a line in one of my favorite songs, um, where he says, Um, my spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun, troll on the treadmill, record on the kessel run, allegedly.
46:58
SPEAKER_01: What he's saying is, is I'm trying to like exercise more and I'm trying to beat my past.
47:04
SPEAKER_01: But you see how he worded it?
47:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's how he raps in everything.
47:07
SPEAKER_01: You have to it it's one of those where you have to get the you have to listen to him to kind of get how to listen to him.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: But, anyways, he released my favorite album from his in the 2010s, and that was The Impossible Kid.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: And I'm doing that just for the very few listeners that will listen to this and and know who they are, maybe in the future.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, but other than that, that's really all I there's nothing groundbreaking about the 2010s.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: Drake was the biggest hip-hop selling artist, and I often don't want to consider him hip-hop.
47:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, I again you're finding out one of the artists I really don't like in hip-hop.
47:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I just can't stand the guy.
47:41
SPEAKER_01: I just don't like him.
47:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, I don't like his music.
47:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, he's had a couple of features that were good.
47:46
SPEAKER_01: You remember that song Forever by Eminem?
47:48
SPEAKER_01: He was on that.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: He actually had a dope verse on there, but unfortunately, since then, there's been other songs that said he's been ghostwriting.
47:55
SPEAKER_01: So I go, okay, well then who wrote who wrote for him?
47:57
SPEAKER_01: He writed it or somebody else, you know.
48:00
SPEAKER_01: But enough with that bashing.
48:02
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I gotta be honest, I don't have a lot to report on, man.
48:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't either.
48:05
SPEAKER_01: I didn't deep dive.
48:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, I did get into Kendrick and J.
48:09
SPEAKER_01: Cole, and and I talked about Griselda.
48:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's Benny the Butcher and Conway are the main ones.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: They have a the other guy, uh West Eye Gunn.
48:18
SPEAKER_01: Uh he's delved into fashion and art and stuff like that.
48:21
SPEAKER_01: He's kind of an entrepreneur.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I mean that's really I mean, some of our favorite artists released Wu Tang released a couple albums.
48:28
SPEAKER_01: They released Legendary Weapons, which uh was a very good album.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: Um, Eminem released some good albums.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: He released kamikaze.
48:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, it was kind of his down years, though, because a lot of people hated Marshall Mathers LP2.
48:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh, they hated um I'm I'm drawing a blank.
48:48
SPEAKER_01: It's the one that everybody hates, and I didn't think it was back.
48:51
SPEAKER_01: It was after recovery.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: How can I not remember?
48:56
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, but he released that.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't to big acclaim in any release kamikaze.
49:00
SPEAKER_01: He was like, okay, fuck you.
49:01
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
49:02
SPEAKER_01: And then that's when Kill Shot came out when he did MGK.
49:05
SPEAKER_01: That came out in 2018.
49:06
SPEAKER_04: Did it really?
49:07
SPEAKER_04: It's been that long ago.
49:09
SPEAKER_01: I can tell you exactly it was released Labor Day Weekend.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: I'll never forget it.
49:13
SPEAKER_04: You see what happened to him.
49:14
SPEAKER_04: He's not even in the genre anymore.
49:15
SPEAKER_01: First of all, he released one good song before that, and that was Wild Boys.
49:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
49:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, that was the only song I liked.
49:21
SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm gonna tell you right now, thank you for rep in Cleveland.
49:25
SPEAKER_01: He wasn't born here.
49:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh, bummer.
49:27
SPEAKER_01: He was not.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: He was a, I believe, one of those army brats.
49:31
SPEAKER_03: Oh.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: Um but I mean he moved here at a young age and he repped it, and I give him credit for that, but um he got beat so bad he changed genres.
49:40
SPEAKER_01: So I'm not even I'm not even gonna go there with him.
49:43
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I mean, really, that's uh I mean we've we've talked about what the 2010s were.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: Um it was it was it was like one big acid trip.
49:56
SPEAKER_01: Everything melded together.
49:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it it didn't make sense.
49:59
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if there's something I mean, one of the megastars we we didn't really delve into was Rihanna.
50:04
SPEAKER_01: We did a little bit, but I mean, you want to talk about country music?
50:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you said there was definitely a little bit of positivity on that side.
50:13
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I think so.
50:14
SPEAKER_04: I mean, there was some stuff that a lot of country purists didn't like.
50:18
SPEAKER_04: They've been saying that since the 90s.
50:20
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know, you had some bro country with you know groups like Florida Georgia Line, and I don't necessarily have anything against them.
50:28
SPEAKER_04: It's just not my thing.
50:30
SPEAKER_04: There's a few songs by them I enjoy.
50:32
SPEAKER_04: But you did have some big stars in the 2010s, Luke Bryan, Jason Al Dean, who I love Jason Al Dean.
50:38
SPEAKER_04: I don't mind him.
50:39
SPEAKER_04: Eric Church.
50:39
SPEAKER_04: Eric Church, Kenny Chesney carried over from the 90s, 2000s, Blake Shelton's another big one.
50:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was still still putting shit out, but he wasn't again.
50:50
SPEAKER_01: I always look at it as what new artists brought the genre.
50:53
SPEAKER_01: Right.
50:54
SPEAKER_01: I think we were at a time in the 2010s where the actual genre that we liked were being held up by its elders.
51:00
SPEAKER_04: It was some of it.
51:02
SPEAKER_04: I will talk about somebody that I found a little bit later on.
51:06
SPEAKER_04: In fact, I don't think I found him until 2019.
51:10
SPEAKER_04: 2020.
51:10
SPEAKER_04: But this album that he did came out in 2015.
51:13
SPEAKER_04: It's called Traveler, and it's by a guy called Chris Stapleton.
51:17
SPEAKER_04: And I will tell you this this guy, have you ever heard Chris Stapleton?
51:22
SPEAKER_04: You know, uh Tennessee whiskey, but there's a ton of songs, and this guy he brings the blues aspect to it, he brings you know pure country aspects to it.
51:33
SPEAKER_04: Like that Kentucky bluegrass kind of he was actually in a bluegrass band before he was solo.
51:39
SPEAKER_04: But the guy can absolutely 100% sing.
51:43
SPEAKER_04: And his music is fantastic.
51:45
SPEAKER_04: That's one of my other guilty pleasures, is him.
51:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, I mean I was see when it comes to guilty pleasures, I I I I said Sheeran was one of them for sure.
51:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
51:59
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm not gonna say like Rihanna and The Weekend or Guilty Pleasures because I listen to a lot of their music, so that's not that right.
52:07
SPEAKER_01: Um there's songs that like I like I'm I'm gonna I I think I know when they see this, the person that's gonna message me about it.
52:16
SPEAKER_01: There's two of them.
52:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh that's my friend Maureen from the West Coast and Peach, the one that I play.
52:22
SPEAKER_01: But Call Me Maybe by Carly Ray Jepson.
52:25
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why I like that song so much.
52:27
SPEAKER_01: Pop songs.
52:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I like it.
52:29
SPEAKER_04: Alright, I can give it to you.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: I'll give it to you.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: And I like it.
52:34
SPEAKER_00: Am I allowed to like it?
52:36
SPEAKER_04: Sure.
52:37
SPEAKER_00: Why not?
52:38
SPEAKER_00: If it's catchy.
52:38
SPEAKER_00: It's a guilty pleasure.
52:39
SPEAKER_04: If it moves your needle music.
52:41
SPEAKER_01: It does.
52:41
SPEAKER_01: Like, I anytime like it, like if I'm having like if I'm driving home and I'm not listening to a podcast and I'm just shuffling songs, yeah, and it comes on, I actually I actually get happy.
52:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
52:51
SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, alright, this song's doing what it's supposed to do.
52:54
SPEAKER_04: Sure.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, I mean, we can go into a couple more, like, is there just for shits and gigs, is there a couple of songs that you can remember remind remember from the 2010s that like you're like most people wouldn't think I like that song.
53:08
SPEAKER_01: Like, for instance, Blinding Lights by the Weekend.
53:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he's got other good songs, but that's that put him to the next stratosphere.
53:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, what about like um like I actually liked it, even though I know he doesn't really make music for some, but Little Nas X?
53:24
SPEAKER_01: Remember his little Old Town Road?
53:26
SPEAKER_01: I actually didn't mind that that much.
53:28
SPEAKER_01: Uh his other song I like better, the one that caught Flack, where he was like talking about doing nasty things to the devil just to fuck with people because you know he was gay, and yeah, why that was an issue, I still don't understand.
53:41
SPEAKER_04: But regardless, unfortunately, you've noticed his career's kind of trailed off now.
53:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
53:46
SPEAKER_04: After the majors, you know.
53:49
SPEAKER_04: I don't know, man.
53:50
SPEAKER_04: Like I've I've taken Flack for liking a lot of Adele's stuff.
53:56
SPEAKER_04: A lot of people go, how could you like that?
53:58
SPEAKER_04: Fuck that, dude.
53:59
SPEAKER_01: She's talented as fuck.
54:00
SPEAKER_01: She's a better singer than probably your favorite singer.
54:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and we talked about it earlier, but yeah, I like a lot of her stuff.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: Dude, she had three, was it three albums in that decade that went like fucking triple platinum in an age when people weren't selling records anymore?
54:16
SPEAKER_00: Um I mean somebody's going to jail.
54:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I I mean, I don't have much more.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: I don't have anything else to cover other than for for all you 2010s fans, sorry, I apologize, but I took a break from new music in the 2010s and it shows.
54:39
SPEAKER_01: It does.
54:39
SPEAKER_01: It does.
54:40
SPEAKER_01: You guys had your moments.
54:42
SPEAKER_01: Um I guess we'll go into final thoughts.
54:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, you guys, yeah.
54:48
SPEAKER_01: And then uh I don't to say this without hurting your feelings, you guys just didn't create anything that grabbed me.
54:56
SPEAKER_01: No, no needle to me.
54:57
SPEAKER_01: I mean, outside of Ed Sheeran, who Ed Sheeran texts me, I'm single.
55:01
SPEAKER_01: Um I'm just kidding, guys.
55:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't go that way, but it's he's my man crush.
55:07
SPEAKER_01: I love Ed Sheeran.
55:08
SPEAKER_01: I I just do, man.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: I think he's talented.
55:10
SPEAKER_01: I think he's a good guitarist.
55:11
SPEAKER_00: I've said it multiple times in this episode, but I love the guy.
55:14
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, I think we should I think we should go.
55:16
SPEAKER_01: I lost the paper rock scissors, so you gotta you get to go first for that.
55:20
SPEAKER_01: Hooray! Um Yeah, because you won.
55:23
SPEAKER_01: And the bullseying.
55:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
55:24
SPEAKER_01: Which actually that means you lost twice because you have to try to figure out songs from this decade.
55:31
SPEAKER_04: I have a playlist.
55:32
SPEAKER_04: I came prepared.
55:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I didn't.
55:34
SPEAKER_04: Probably the only thing about this decade episode that I have came prepared for or with was the playlist.
55:39
SPEAKER_04: Right.
55:41
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
55:42
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
55:45
SPEAKER_04: Wow, this is like really cool.
55:49
SPEAKER_04: This is country heavy.
55:51
SPEAKER_04: I kind of figured.
55:52
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
55:53
SPEAKER_04: Uh Heaven by Kane Brown.
55:56
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
55:56
SPEAKER_04: He's good.
55:57
SPEAKER_04: I enjoy Kane Brown.
55:57
SPEAKER_01: That's a that's a guy that popped up in the 2010 years.
56:00
SPEAKER_01: He was new that kind of 16?
56:01
SPEAKER_04: 2016?
56:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and he was like, what, 18, 19?
56:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
56:05
SPEAKER_04: He was young as fuck.
56:06
SPEAKER_04: Me and the wife saw him in concert in 21.
56:08
SPEAKER_04: Fantastic show.
56:10
SPEAKER_04: And then uh Drunk on a Plane by Dirks Bentley.
56:14
SPEAKER_04: Now here's where it gets a little different.
56:16
SPEAKER_04: Uh Deal with the Devil by Pop Evil.
56:20
SPEAKER_04: They're a nice band to listen to.
56:22
SPEAKER_04: Very, very talented people.
56:25
SPEAKER_04: Then I'm gonna go into I Drive Your Truck by Lee Bryce, another country guy.
56:32
SPEAKER_04: And arguably one of my most favorite covers of all time by one of my most favorite bands of all time.
56:41
SPEAKER_04: The Sound of Silence by Disturbed.
56:44
SPEAKER_01: We talked about that in our second episode.
56:46
SPEAKER_01: Yes, we did.
56:46
SPEAKER_01: It is such a good.
56:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm gonna have to tell Peace to listen to this because she actually likes the original better.
56:53
SPEAKER_01: I had a discussion with her.
56:55
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
56:55
SPEAKER_04: By Simon and Garfunkel?
56:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
56:57
SPEAKER_04: It's a good song.
56:58
SPEAKER_01: It is, but the way Disturbed did it just made it better, in my opinion.
57:02
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
57:03
SPEAKER_01: But that was a that was a good list.
57:06
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, kind of.
57:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, my first one's absolutely gonna surprise you.
57:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, actually, while we were sitting here, I did originally I was just gonna go to the hits playlist, but I didn't.
57:17
SPEAKER_01: I went through my my songs and I made a little 25-song thing and I shuffled it.
57:21
SPEAKER_01: So, first, Still Into You by Paramore.
57:24
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
57:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh right.
57:26
SPEAKER_01: I I did like them.
57:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Paramour's so.
57:28
SPEAKER_01: And then uh a group we seem to have keep forgetting to bring up moves like Jagger by Maroon Five.
57:36
SPEAKER_04: I know, right?
57:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, I actually liked Maroon 5.
57:39
SPEAKER_01: They were actually good.
57:40
SPEAKER_01: Uh Adam Levine is very talented.
57:43
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
57:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then um, of course, it wouldn't have been right because half of these songs were him, but Shape of You by Ed Sheeran.
57:55
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then I have a song that actually um I can't remember where I heard it, but We Found Love by Rihanna.
58:06
SPEAKER_01: Um they use the uh the original We Found Love kind of in the chorus and whatnot.
58:12
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then the song that I told about Beaver, what do you mean by Beaver?
58:17
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
58:17
SPEAKER_04: Man, yours was nice and rounded.
58:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, like I said, uh you know, I didn't, you know, there again, there were songs that I would hear, and I'd be like, I like that.
58:28
SPEAKER_01: But I never delved into artists or albums.
58:31
SPEAKER_04: I just kind of would hear a song and the single became the thing again.
58:35
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
58:36
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it really, really did.
58:38
SPEAKER_04: So it we kind of went three.
58:40
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, three sixties, it was the 45s that was the thing.
58:43
SPEAKER_04: And that's kind of where we're at now.
58:45
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
58:46
SPEAKER_04: The album dominated the 70s, 80s, and most of the 90s.
58:49
SPEAKER_01: Even the two at the beginning of the 2000s for sure.
58:52
SPEAKER_04: But the single became another, you know, it came around, and then you had, you know, just kind of tagging on here at the end, but you you had the viral hit through, you know, early TikTok, YouTube, things like that.
59:07
SPEAKER_04: So yeah.
59:08
SPEAKER_04: Not to forget about those platforms.
59:11
SPEAKER_04: Spotify became a thing.
59:13
SPEAKER_01: All of that, man.
59:14
SPEAKER_01: SoundCloud.
59:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, remember that's the same.
59:16
SPEAKER_01: Soundcloud, SoundCloud helped many.
59:20
SPEAKER_01: I think Post Malone started on SoundCloud.
59:22
SPEAKER_03: Like, yeah.
59:24
SPEAKER_03: But hey, Bob, you got one of them there, daddy.
59:27
SPEAKER_03: You ready for the dad joke?
59:29
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
59:29
SPEAKER_03: Another another decade music thing expi I don't know.
59:33
SPEAKER_03: I found it.
59:37
SPEAKER_04: Alright, here we go.
59:39
SPEAKER_04: Even though we did not mention this form of music, it was prevalent in the 2010s into the 2020s.
59:45
SPEAKER_04: Uh, what was the 2010's DJ's favorite exercise?
59:53
SPEAKER_01: I have no clue.
59:55
SPEAKER_01: The drop.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_01: And on that note, we'll see you next week.