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Music's Lost History Song Edition It Had To Be About The Loss Of First Love · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Collins! Music's lost history. The stories that made you move.
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  Speaker 1: Your soundtrack on fire. Music's lost history. Name the song,
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  Speaker 1: beat Every song has a story. Every story links the generations. ChatGPT, Alexa,
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  Speaker 1: and Siri, they're just AI. We lived it. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know the name? What songs do you sing? Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 1: Name the song before we do. Arrow Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: the song. Yeah, that one song. It's more than just
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  Speaker 1: another pop song. It's actually earned the honor of being
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  Speaker 1: named the blueprint for everything that is modern day pop star.
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  Speaker 1: And they emerged one by one from the Internet. Released
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  Speaker 1: in January of 2010, this Beatles moment style song was
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  Speaker 1: produced by Christopher Tricky Stewart, along with one of the
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  Speaker 1: most famous early day rappers of our time. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the rapper's participation with the song gave it a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credibility, which opened up the door for the song
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  Speaker 1: to cross over to the hip-hop scene. Oh yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: got a winning formula. Extremely positive, about first love, heartbreak,
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  Speaker 1: and wanting the girl back. That decision was to make
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  Speaker 1: sure the artist sounded like he pretty much went through
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  Speaker 1: his very first love crisis in life. Back, back, we're
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  Speaker 1: coming back. Music's lost history. Name the song before we do.
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  Speaker 1: Arrow Collins is coming back. Hey, coming up next, the video.
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  Speaker 1: The more different it was, the more popular it got.
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  Speaker 1: Music's lost history. Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History,
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  Speaker 1: the song edition. The video, oh my, this video. It
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  Speaker 1: completely changed the equation. The main character wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: show up in a conventional video. Ray K said it's
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  Speaker 1: got to happen in a bowling alley, surrounded by friends, dancers,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, ludicrous. But it has to be a
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  Speaker 1: true romance story, part dance video, while hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: those that you love most. This video went on to
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  Speaker 1: score 7.7 million views its first week of release, passing
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  Speaker 1: Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. So who was this performer? A kid?
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  Speaker 1: Who took or invented the new route to fame, which
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  Speaker 1: was YouTube? plus fans, plus viral attention, a record company, radio,
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  Speaker 1: and one thought, to take a song called Baby and
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  Speaker 1: give it a purpose in everybody's lives, which added up
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  Speaker 1: into millions. Now here's the thing, though. Millions of people
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  Speaker 1: also hated it. Oh my God. To be on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the musical journey? Not too many songs can
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  Speaker 1: do that. Who was it and what song? Justin Bieber's Baby.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Arrow and that's Music's Lost History, the song edition.