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Earworm Wednesday Gets Another Go, I Guess · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right.
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  We've done all the work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin.
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  And normally what we would be doing is just that, having a
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  conversation about an artist. And in doing so, we would create
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  a top ten circuit list for you. In case you have never gotten
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  into set artist. Not today.
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  Somehow you've stumbled upon us on a day where we are doing our
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  daily pods, which is just a conversation about something
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  music related. Today you've stumbled on your
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  warm Wednesday. Still not completely sold on
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  this idea, but if something jumps in my head and and refuses
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  to get out, I'm going to talk about it in an attempt to get it
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  out of my head. So we did the episode on Halsey
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  at this point, I think in 22 or 23.
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  So it's it's been a couple years.
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  And in the meantime, towards the end of 2024, she came out with a
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  new record. Maybe they, I do apologize if I
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  am misgendering, but they came out with a new record in
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  October, the great impersonator in 2024.
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  And honestly, as somebody who's newer to this artist, I think
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  it's their best work. I truly believe The Great
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  Impersonator is the best Halsey record.
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  I can understand anybody who would disagree.
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  I get, I get the import of the records that came before it, but
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  the concept of the Great Impersonator really resonates
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  with me. And I'll get into like the song
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  specifically that was in my head, but the great impersonator
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  really struck with me because they went in and specifically
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  said, I'm going to do songs like these artists, including Bjork
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  and Britney Spears and themself from their first record, PJ
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  Harvey, Tori Amos, like a bunch of different, different artists,
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  Fiona Apple and went in and did these songs that are Halsey
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  songs with A twist of set artist.
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  And it's it's a whole record about masking and what we will
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  do to, you know, fit in, you know, for lack of a better term.
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  And in their instance, it's what they will do to fit in in the
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  music industry and or you know, the grander life.
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  But one song, which was one of the first singles off of it,
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  really struck a nerve with me. And it's lonely as the muse.
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  And Part 1 is because it's a rock tune, or at least as rock
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  as a pop artist can get. And in their previous record,
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  they kind of explored that territory.
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  And I really enjoyed, I mean, Trent Reznor produced the last
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  record, but they really explored these rock tunes and I thought
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  they were the better songs of that record.
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  And I was like, man, I think Halsey would be great in front
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  of a rock, a rock band. And so when one of the first
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  songs that comes out from the new record is a rock number, I'm
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  like, oh, cool. Like this is what I wanted to
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  hear. And so it already scratched that
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  itch. And then while I don't think
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  I've ever been anybody's muse, I can't relate on that level.
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  I can relate to a lot of lyrics that happened here.
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  And the the first line is, you know, I'm going to mess this up,
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  but it it is something to the tune of I was just sitting at a
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  bar, you know, I spent decades trying to be cool and you
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  erased, you know, so much my effort by just coming up to me
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  and say, Hey, I didn't realize you were here.
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  And it's the way in which it is, the way it matches with the
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  music. And I can just relate on on that
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  level. And the hook is, you know, I'm
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  willing to do I, I disassemble myself.
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  I will put myself back together in any way that you can find
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  abuse. And that is the thing I can
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  relate to is this idea of putting, you know, pulling
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  myself apart, putting myself back together in any way that
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  you feel like can be useful to you.
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  I want to play a clip here. I can I, I can't play too many
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  because I keep getting in trouble for it.
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  But hold on. You know what, we're going to
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  skip it. I'm not going to play the the
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  clip, but I, I always knew I was a martyr and that Jesus was one
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  too. It just though there's a point
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  at the end where they're really this is, it's, I can really feel
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  it her coming away from themself and really just shouting and I
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  could tell that this was a really cathartic experience for
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  them. And it just, it just resonates
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  with me. It gives me chills and I don't
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  know, a lot of the people who listen to this may not be into
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  it, but if you were willing to be open, I think it's a it's a
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  great tune. It easily gets stuck in my head
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  and it's an easy repeat for me. So Halsey's Lonely as the Muse
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  Is, has been in my head. Also, we talked about the Harry
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  Styles record last week and I've had a chance to like revisit it
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  a little bit. I've I've listened once or twice
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  through again kiss all the time. Disco occasionally is the name
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  of the jam. And I told you all last week I
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  wasn't all that impressed with Aperture.
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  I can't remember if my wife and I had watched the live special
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  it but that really changed my view on Aperture.
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  And then Harry hosted SNLA couple weeks ago and I watched
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  that. Actually.
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  I want to point this out, Dance No More is one of the songs that
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  he performed on SNL and when we were listening to the record the
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  first time, Dance No More really stuck out to me.
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  And I mean it's because it gets stuck in my head.
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  So Dance No More has really kind of following lonely as to me,
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  he's been stuck in my head this week.
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  So Dance No More is a really fun jam and I recommend going and
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  seeing the live of from SNL. That was a fun performance and
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  just the whole record. It's really good.
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  I haven't had enough time to like really truly absorb to give
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  you full analysis of of what's what on it.
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  But the pop numbers are great. And you know, Speaking of the
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  song pop, but dance no more is the one that jumped out to me
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  immediately and then upon second listen, and it's the one that
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  continually get stuck in my head.
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  So if you like Harry Styles, go listen to dance no more.
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  I will put that in the well, if you're listening on Spotify,
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  it'll be at the bottom. You can just click a link and
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  it'll take you right to it. So all right, folks, as always,
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  you know, I, I don't know how many times we'll do ear Worm
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  Wednesday, but if something strikes me, we will do it.
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  And that's why we're here. And in the meantime, today's
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  Wednesday. So that means tomorrow will be
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  our regular episode. So we will see you tomorrow.
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  Goodbye.