Patreon Preview #330: Name That Tune Hot 100

Hey, Adel.

Hey, Aaron.

I got a question for you, too.

Oh, Adel.

What's this gonna be?

What are you freaking?

What are you?

What are you jamming on these days?

What are you listening?

What are you listening to?

I'm about to back up from my computer at the speed of light if you are about to read lyrics to me in a monotone voice.

Are you about to read lyrics to me?

You look me in the eye, and you tell me you're not about to read lyrics to me in a monotone voice.

Aaron, the last time we did this series of episodes,

we were doing it with the music of the 90s.

And I had to pivot, we did a couple of episodes on it, and I had to pivot away from it so quickly because you do not know the music of the 90s seemingly at all.

Or the 2000s or the 2010s or the 2020s or the 80s or the 70s or the 60s.

Do either one of you seek out new music?

I let Spotify do all the heavy lifting for me in my Discover

weekly.

I used to be pretty proactive about searching out new music, and I feel like nowadays I kind of circle back to stuff I used to listen to, and then every once in a while, either through a Spotify playlist or something, I will find new music, but I should be better about it.

Well, I don't think anyone's judging you for not listening to new music.

Most new music is pretty bad.

Back when I had a pop music review show, I stayed more abreast of new music things happening specifically in the world of pop.

I will say, though, I would

try more things out and

quickly abandon things too, because I would like be like, okay, so this is an artist.

People are talking about this artist.

And I'd give them a try and be like, not for me.

Can't understand why they're for anyone, but they, you know, apparently are.

I've been doing some amount of like

an artist I already know I really like and then going back and listening to every album in their discography.

So like that's fun.

I did that with Electric Light Orchestra, and I was like, holy shit, they have some absolute fucking banger albums from top to start.

But I, I feel like previously, I just kind of knew the hits.

When you do that, do you start with the beginning of a band's discography and go for?

Okay.

Yeah.

Because I will say, sometimes that's the move, but some, like, some bands definitely put out their first album as their best album.

Yeah.

Some bands get better with time.

And it, and also some people's like sound change.

There's also like

sometimes it's the case on Spotify, but like maybe their first album wasn't their first studio album.

So you'll listen to someone's like first album and you're like, oh, this is pretty bad because he didn't have like any money or whatever.

But then like sometimes you'll be like, hey, your first album, you had your whole life to ponder on the music that you wanted to write.

And your second album, you had two years and like a deadlock, you know?

Sophomore slump.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Interesting.

Aaron, are you a big fan of discographies?

Yeah, actually, because I'm about to go on this long road trip, I've been thinking about listening to full albums.

And I think,

yeah, I like going back and doing one person at a time.

I can get hyper-fixated on a person like that.

That's fun.

Well, we'll talk about full albums and kind of what that means in modern day music, but

I wanted to do this game again.

This is one of my favorite games to do.

But last time I felt like Adle was on slightly better footing than you, Aaron.

So I wanted to...

I'm never going to be on good footing.

There's no, don't stop.

I know.

You can't get down, and there's no, there's no water at the bottom of this well.

Aaron, I'm not trying to put you on good footing.

I'm trying to put Adel on worse footing.

Oh, I see.

So I'm trying to even the playing field by making this so hard for both of you that I would be shocked if anyone gets a single one of these right today because today Instead of lending on like the like a Rolling Stone list or commercial jingles, please be commercial jingles, please be 2000s country, so no one gets a single right answer.

I wish.

We are going to do

songs that I have pulled off of current day, modern day F time of recording

Billboard Hot 100 songs.

Now,

what this is, is the most listened to songs

of right now.

I want to say Brat Summer is a thing.

Adult.

Don't do this to yourself.

You don't need to.

JPC, I'm so bad at lyrics.

If this game was the opposite and you you started humming a little bit of a song, I could be like,

Like, I could finish the humming.

I'm never, I'm never

a lyric thing.

Normally, I think I would be able to hum some of these songs.

I've compiled this list today, and I will tell you,

maybe three of the songs on this list were songs that I was aware of.

Almost all of the artists on this list, I had think I had heard the names of the artists before.

Horrible.

Horrible.

We'll see.

Hey, we'll see how far.

We'll see how far you guys get.

Okay.

We have lots to talk about.

I found this fascinating.

Absolutely fascinating.

Okay.

So the first, your first song, and you know, you guys also, you guys watch TikTok and stuff, right?

I mean, you're at least more plugged in than me.

Not really.

Okay.

Oh, not anymore.

Is that song?

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Is that song on the Rover Top one?

I had to delete TikTok off my phone because my entire algorithm was the Karen Reed trial.

And I was getting so addicted that I was losing sleep.

Aaron.

What?

You also told us earlier today that you didn't sleep at all last night.

So it doesn't seem like you're deleting TikTok from your phone thing has worked out.

I was thinking about the Karen Reed trial.

The verdict is going to be read at some point this week while I'm driving.

No, she was thinking about the Karen Reed trial all night again.

Erin, you're an adult woman.

When Zorp

started talking to the guy I'm doing this cross-country road trip with, they saw each other this past weekend on a show.

He was like, you're going to hear a lot about the Karen Reed trial.

I hope you're ready for five days of being held hostage.

You're ready to every single detail.

Okay, this one has been on the charts for 17 weeks.

Now, I am no mathematician,

but what is that?

17 weeks for

multiple months.

Four months?

Yeah, four or five months.

Okay.

Here it is.

So I believe it came out.

Oh, it says that this song debuted in February.

They say the holy waters watered down.

And this town's lost its faith?

Our colors will fade eventually.

So if our time is running out, day after day, we'll make the mundane our masterpiece.

Oh my.

Oh my, my love.

I take one look at you.

Do the chorus.

You're taking me out of.

Oh, um, oh, oh, um, uh, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz.

What do we do?

Aaron, go for it.

Um, uh, ordinary, maybe, uh, by Alex something.

Yes, Aaron, you win.

What point?

Ordinary.

Something by Alex something.

This is ordinary by Alex something.

In a cemetery.

Is that his name is Alex something?

No, his name is Alex Warren, but it's Ordinary by Alex Warren.

Yes.

Any relation to anybody?

It sounds like music that would have come out like 10 years ago.

Yes.

Or no, like more like, it sounded like, yeah, music that would come out in like 2014.

Yeah, 2014, I think, is a good gauge of it.

Adult, any chance that you've heard of this person or this song before?

No and no.

This is the music.

This sounds like

pirates of Penzance.

Well, that's because he heard singing.

All right, Aaron, you have one point.

Okay, so this next one might be a little harder.

This one's been on the charts for three weeks, okay?

So this is number two on the charts.

It's been there for three weeks.

Abrakadabra, Lady Gaga.

Three weeks, Aaron.

One, two, three, four, hate Riddle Riddles Clue Crew.

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