August 7, 2023 • 25 mins
Bonus Content! Once a month, Las Culturistas is bringing you a new Top 10 list for various aspects of culture. In this inaugural list, Matt and Bowen break down the Top 10 Pop Girlie Debut Singles.
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are our famous lists, and we're sort of giving them
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Oh you, I can't let it go, one of the
many things I can't let go in my life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey hey, I said.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hey, So this today we're doing and we're gonna say
it in Unison, the top ten pop girly debut singles
talk about why it's important to make a splash with
your debut single as a pop girly. It's so important
to make a splash for your debut single as a
pop girly because there are so many pop girlies and
there are so many singles that you can get lost
(01:05):
in the fray, a fate worse than death. It's actually
a real culture. Number ninety nine Getting Lost in the
Fray a fate worse than death.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I mean, especially now you know it's so hard to
break through in a way that is monocultural. And yet
and she's not on this list spoiler alert. But like
Olivia Rodrigo with driver's license, she did that. I can't
believe she's not on the list.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We left out. We left it that we might have
to make another life, we might have.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
To make another list down the road, because that's truly
one of the most iconic pop girly debut singles ever.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But I think we're looking at a pretty concentrated set
of girlies that and when we say pop girlies, you
know what we mean.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I would say popgirlies, and I would say this list
is really giving millennial culture because Billy's not on this
list and Olivia's not on this list, But.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Pop girlies is a millennial term.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm sorry to the other generations, but it is like
twenty ten was the year when Like It Sprung, when
Like the Fountain was a low.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I also feel like you and I make no apologies
about being millennials.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Everyone needs to stop like shrinking into like a millennial.
I'm stupid, I'm doing it in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a really great millennial impression. It's almost stupid millennious.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Everyone's out here on these streets going, hey, I'm stupid,
I'm over medicated, I'm overstimulated, and I'm over educated.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm a millennial, honey, and I'm here, I'm in debt.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
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And this is why is that what it's called the
diamond prescription. I love that big money players. Our company
did not say plus or gold. They said diamond, diamond status, medallion, medallion,
and very delta, very very delta of them, very big plane.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Now we should get right into it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, So, like these lists are sort of famously known
for it, we're going to start at ten and go
to one, because who wants to start at one and
go to ten?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know what I mean, honey, it's literally diminishing returns, truly.
So Number ten so.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
The top ten pop girly debut singles of all time,
but mostly millennial.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Here we go, Number ten.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Genie in a Bottle.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Christina Aguilera as soon as she comes in and says,
I feel like I've been locked up tight in a
century of lonely nights.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Waiting for someone to release me. We get a sense
of sort of repression, but of a demon willing to
be unleashed. Not a demon really, more like a spirit,
a spirit like sort of This was Christina saying I
have a talent that is ready to be unleashed on
the world.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And it is a vivid.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
One that that you will remember forever.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And we have remembered forever, haven't we. And you know,
growing up, I think on the radio, hearing the difference
you gotta treat me the right way versus you gotta
rub me the right way, said well, no, why did
they change that?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What is so lamp imagery?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Why did they change it?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You gotta treat me, isn't it. You gotta rub me
the but so like, let's say, and I'm gonna reveal
myself as a Radio Disney kid on Radio Disney, they said,
you got to treat me the right way.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think that was classic parents saying I don't want
my kids rubbing. Well, I was like, what's so bad
about rubbing?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And then I learned, by exploring my own body the
beauty of rubbing.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What happens when you rub is so ultimately, honestly, it
was very Christina.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Christina literally put me on a path towards discovery.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is why it's such a great debut single, because
it hints at what's to come in the stripped album.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
She was rubbing so hard, she busted, Oh she busted,
and the sheets were soaked.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, and that's why Genie a Bottle is number ten
on the Pop Girly Debut Singles Last Coach List, number nine,
I kissed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The Girl Girl Katy Perry? Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wow, Who could forget when Katy Perry came out and
she dared be sort of a lesbian?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It is, and to be a lesbian is the most
daring thing. And so I think, no matter what, even
if you're curious, even if you're fully in your identity
and your power as a lesbian person, you've dared, you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Have been daring, You've been bold, You've been adventurous. Isn't
it interesting that she sort of came out with I
kissed her girl, and then she would sort of go
on to be one of the most heterosexual pop stars
that we have. Not only did she that, I mean
she dated John Mayer.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And that she dated John Mayer, and that she has
a child with really no bloom.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Incredibly straight girl things to do. She fucked Diplow, which
is about Diplo. That's the straight and now I mean, to
fuck a bye guy in the hindsight is very straight,
you know what I mean? And to like work in
Vegas is the straightest thing you could possibly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think all the big straight girls, a lot of
them on this list, have all worked in Vegas. Well,
I kissed her girl? What was your first memory of it?
Because I see it, so do you want to know
what happened. One of the times I was listening to
I Kiss a Girl, I got in one of my
very first car accidents while I was playing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In Long Island. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's now more funny than it was traumatic at the time.
It was traumatic because I wasn't sure if people were okay,
and everyone was okay ultimately, But I did get into
a car accident while listening to this song, and it
hasn't dominated my memory of the song.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's contributed.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I did make out with our friend Charlotte while the
song played in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You weren't on that trip.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We had to go see Katy Perry for my birthday
and Patrick House's birthday, and.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I made that with our friend Charlotte A bye woman,
A little little on the nose, but I love that.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I know I didn't mean to undercut. I'm just saying, like,
I think it's so apropos that you kissed Charlotte. A
lot of our gay friends thought it was quote hot hmm.
I'm so sorry I didn't. I wasn't coming for you
when I said it was on the nose, by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It was on the mouth is what it was, right
on the lips, And that's why I kissed A Girl
by Katy Perry is number nine on the top ten
Pop Girly debut singles Last Golf and number eight Your Love,
I Love a ballad, I love It, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Ballad with a sample, A ballot with the sample, Ah,
listen to this girl, Okay. So you know we should say,
of course, these are all of the Pop Girley's debut
studio album singles. So NICKI obviously had mixtapes, mixtapes you know,
beat Me Up Scotty as classic, but this was when
she came on the scene. This is right when this
(07:30):
woman was coming on post Monster verse you were like,
we need more of this person. It was really a
day where I like, I was in Honduras on a
medical brigade mission, oh my, after freshman year of college,
and the entire bus played monster in the entire bus,
all these fucking college students screaming Nicki's verse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I was like, what is this?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was the birth of a new artist. Well, they
were like, you haven't heard of Nicki Minaj yet. I
was like no, and then went home from that trip,
read up. And then when this song came out, when
your Love came out, this I've never been able to
get out of my head.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
He'd type to keep a couple of hundred and the
rubber band. I was just gonna say the same.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Line he that t hap to keep a couple of
hundred in the rubber band, the damn mon bam in
the mother blam and the money. Grand said he must
be from the motherland anyway. I think I met it
in the sky when it was a geisha. He was
somehow I understand him when he.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Spoke Tai never spoke lies, and it never broke fly
so much. Let me get my cape, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And all these words coming together make the great song
that is Your Love. I'll never forget. Well, my friend
Allison Coelo texted me and she said, have you heard
Your Love by Nicki Minaj? She introduced you to your
Well she didn't, I never mind and then she had
just heard it and she said, I had no idea.
She was like a real artist. I was like, honey,
get ready. Then Pink Friday dropped soon, We're gonna have
(08:53):
Pink Friday Part two. Excited for that, Excited for that.
All these reasons are why Your Love by Nicki Minaj
Number eight on the top end Pop Gurly Debut.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Singles, Last Coach number seven, Miss Independent Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Clarkson, you came from me earlier when I put this
on the list, and you have a point.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I said, does this count? Because I don't know if
this is the debut single.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Technically it was not the debut single. It's the lead
single from the debut album. And this is sort of
where I want to make the distinction, because I feel
like Kelly Clarkson does not consider a moment like this
her first single. I feel like she considers thank you
for teaching Independent her first single. And I told you
we could fight about this and you're not taking a
combative tone.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Because you just explained it to me and I appreciate.
Can I poke holes in that? If she's saying, moment
like this was not my debut, I have to respect.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, she was in no way, in any way in
control of that.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Of course the selection.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
She and justin saying it, it's not even Nicky mckibbon
even record.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
NICKI even saying, and so did Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I think I think they all had versions of it
that they were getting ready to release as the lead single,
and then they didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Have We heard the tamaira version. I would like to
dig that up.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I would love to hear that. All I want is
more a moment like this. But can we just talk
about how Misindependent launched Kelly into true pop stardom and
also co written by Christina Aguilera, This actually was a
Christina Aguilera castaway.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And sometimes the songs that are always like, you know
this song was supposed to be for blah blah blah,
I'm always like, well, I'm glad it worked out another way.
I'm never like, oh, I wish toxic was saying by
Kylie Minou, But no, that's Britney Spears's song.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Sometimes the songs end up with the right pop girly yes,
and this was the case of that. In fact, to
this day, Kelly Clarkson says that one of her favorite
songs to perform live is Misindependent.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I love that and for that reason, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Number seven on our list of top ten pop girly
debut singles.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Last Coach number six, Just Dance Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I know this changed her life. Actually, this wasn't the
song that changed my life. I know this was the
beginning of something that would ultimately change her life. Well,
I mean it was a song that like gives you
the classic Lady Gaga road map, right, like like you
here for the first time, you go, it's interesting. I
don't know if I love it just yet.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Then you listen to it again, then again and again
and again, and then something happens where you listen to
it on the radio or it comes on at the
grocery store and you go, wow, damn, that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Remember a chromatica ball.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
When she's sang this, oh my god, Well, she wasn't
moving at all and saying just dance. She needn't move.
She needn't because when she said just dance, you know
who heard her, the little monster, the little months we
were dancing fore mother.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Dada doodoo da da doo dooo. I said, she can't
come up with words for this, but I don't think
there there can't possibly be lyrics for that expression.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Didn't just dance.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Baby, Cooby o'donnas? Kobe o'donnas.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Those two words are why just dance is number six
on the top ten Pop Girlly debut singles Last Coach, number.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Five, Baby one More Time, Britney spears. I think we
all remember where we were when.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We saw her traps around the hallways, the basketball court.
Little heathen, little heathen, little girl, little girl dressed up
as a big.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Girl, confusing the fathers, the fathers, the mother's, the daughters
and sons.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, everyone in the family was confused, but intrigued.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I mean this was confusing for us as a generation
of little gay boys, because it was undeniable to any
living person at the time that she was the hottest
person alive. That she appealed to all sectors that if
you were a gay boy in the closet, you were like,
that's the most beautiful woman in the world, and that
was the same exact thing that was being said by
(12:45):
the straight boys.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Mm hmm. Yeah, it actually was a unifier. It was
a unifier.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I remember Britney Spears.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There was a time in my life when my aunt
and uncle were like, who's your favorite singer? And I
remember I didn't really have one of the time, so
I just said Britney Spears because it felt safe because
everyone knew who she was. Aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, the
childless know who bring childless, those without nieces and nephews,
the parentless, the orphans knew.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know. TLC was first offered this song. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, And you can kind of hear a tea Boss
chili vocal on this. You really listen hard.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
On the my loneliness.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
No, but I'm just saying like, if you if you
picture it in your mind's eye, Oh yeah, you can
sort of if you picture it in your mind's eye,
you can sort of hear uh huh. I can tell
on this. Although what would the Lisa Left Di Lopez
rap sample be on this?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It would be over the bridge. Although it's the classic
Max Martin thing of overlays the bridge onto the chorus
the last key change overlaying the bridge onto the chorus
at the same time, and it's like wow, like whatever
Phil Spectr Wall of Sound equivalent.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh my god, I turn but.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm sure I'm sure the left diverse would have been
over like the my loneliness is.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Killing oh intem doing it twice. I love the bridge
of the site and it's don't you know that's the thing,
that's the interval.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I love it, and we love it so much that
it is number five on the list of top ten
pop girly debut singles.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Lost Colt number four Call Me Maybe Carli ra Jepson,
Now this is technically not accurate either. Go on and
say why, because, as we all know, Carlie ray Jepson
places high in Canadian idol. In two thousand and eight,
her debut album comes out. Her single is something called
(14:34):
Sunshine on My Shoulders. I have not heard this song,
but that is technically her debut single. I've not heard
that song, but the song. But but you retorted, I retorted,
and you said you you were being retorted. I was
being retorted, I should say, and you said it has
to be on the list. And I mean, I said,
you know what, You're right, because this is the song
that everybody was able to be like, this is the song.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I I think that when this song came out, everyone
knew who Carli Raye Jepson was, and you couldn't tell
most people. This wasn't her debut single, and I think
it was designed by her record label to feel like
a debut single because this was her introduction. If you
weren't Canadian and weren't ringing the phones on Canadian idol,
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you didn't know this, young honey.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
If you're not living in Manitoba with the landline dialing
you know carl Ray's number every week, you didn't know
who the fuck she was.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No, you did not.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll never forget. At the time when this came out,
a lot of the narrative around her was like, well,
you know, she's forty, and I was like what. And
I think that I think the truth of it was
she was in her like late twenties and people like
she's so old. Fuck that fuck it sucks so much,
but you know it doesn't suck. The earworm that is
Call Me Maybe by Calie ray Jepson.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Can I say something before we move on with strings?
For me, the strings and the strings are the thing
that I'm always like, it's like a booooo.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'm like, yes, it's kissy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's one of the most you can never listen to,
which is why Call Me Maybe? By Carlie Ray Jackson
is number four on the top ten Pop girly debut singles.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Last Cult, Last Cult, number three Crazy in Love Beyonce.
I mean what song is more?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
When it starts at the Renaissance World Tour, serotonin releases
into your brain. Oh my god, the horns, the iconic stomp, stomp,
the dance at the end.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I would say the white girl stomp was an invention,
ironically of Beyonces in this music video and in the
subsequent live performances.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yes, she made that kind of stomp something that white
girls saw and said, I can walk too.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I bet I can lift my eyes a little bit higher,
shake my hips, sway them to and fro to fro
here there back forth. Can we talk about this? When
I talk to my friends.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So quietly, who he think he is? Look at what
you did to me?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
When I talk to my friends so so quietly, writing
the way that the that the chorus comes back in
when you don't expect it after the jay Z Verse,
Like the jay Z Verse kind of ends a little
bit sooner than it's supposed to do. Geniees, do you
remember when she said, got me hoping you page me
right now? Even in the year of our twenty twenty three,
(17:20):
we're still being like, got me hoping you page me
right now? I hope I get paged by the item
of my affection.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
This is one of those things like there is such
a fear these days around like, oh, let's not like
throw slang into like our scripts or our songs, because
then it'll date it too quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Every now and then it's fine. If it's good enough,
it won't matter because guess what, we're gonna be singing
it quoting it twenty years from now and we're not
gonna care.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Look out for my new single, Apple Watch dropping in
twenty twenty four. I look down, Am I Apple Wash
eerie seven. I look down, am I Apple Watch Series seven?
Say your name?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Saw you? What text to me?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
iOS seventeen phone had up? Did the iOS AA? And
that's why Crazy in Love by Beyonce is number three.
I'm the top ten popularly debut Singles last colt number
two TikTok Kesha.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, I guess we should save this for the end
of this discussion for this particular song, But now I
can't not say it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This was supposed to be number one. It was supposed
to be number one, and then no one reminded me
of another.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Song, and I said, wait, hold the phone on the
phone popular expression for wait a second.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I knew that that one had to be number one,
but this was number two. Here's the famous thing about
my life. The first time I heard this song, not
only did I hate it, I actually thought music was over.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm like, what are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I remember the second time I heard it, I thought
it was the biggest smash I had ever heard in
my life.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What do you think today?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I think it's number two on the list of top
ten popular Singlesauce Coach, that's what I think. This song
is fourteen years this recording fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
This is incredible.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You want to know why it's so iconic because it
gets Kesha across in a nutshell. All these songs need
to get the artists across in a nutshell and everything
about pretty much all of these songs says this is
who I am. Here is the introduction to who I am,
Like literally every single one of them. Like Ginny in
a Bottle you have that like raw sexuality and vocals
Kiss a Girl.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You have the cheeky humor your love.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You have like Nicki Minaj giving giving you like fucking
like a female rapper hasn't done before, Like syllabic acrobatics.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You're like, damn, like I would never have thought, like
Kabaha Na Green and the Rubber Band just laying many
things and the money Graham you know, I mean, you're like,
oh shit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yes, like giving like verity, verbosity and dexterity to everyone
and then everyone's sort of nailing it in their own right.
Then misindependent, you have like that big chorus that's indicative
of Kelly that like big blasted choruses and those tasty
little verses.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Tasty verses where she's low and crispy, okay, and then
keep going.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Just Dance Gaga. Just dance gave pure pop.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Dance pop, the revival of like Euro inspired dance pop techno.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Maybe one more Time gave tongue in cheek. I mean
those like little Stevie Wonderism vocals that Brittany had in
the very beginning Brittany that really was like pure nineties
pop sound too, like that she engineered and was like
sounded perfectly on.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But it's through one person. That's like yearning teenage yearning
through one person. So good, m okay, now call me maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I think call me maybe was just like a true
genius or songwriter getting it across and saying to you,
it doesn't matter what you want. You're singing my song.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And I think Carli ray Jepson like, especially for gays now,
it doesn't matter when Carli Ray comes out, You're singing it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Really is amazing how at this point she's established her
the thing she's established as like something different from like
Taylor's version. Let's say it's like, here are the B
sides that are gonna be just as good as the
regular album yep. Like we've gone through three cycles of
this now and I'm like, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, TikTok said I'm a mess and I'm chaotic, uh huh,
and you're singing along to it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We skipped it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Crazy and love, oh crazy and love literally even the
jay Z feature. It's just all like, this is Beyonce
saying I am a take charge. I remember the first
time I heard this, I thought, Michael Jackson, I thought,
like timeless. That's what I love about Crazy and Love
is it is a timeless sound. You could put it
out today. It would be a hit, even with the
page me lyric. I think she'd find a way to
make that like innovative.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's powerful, yes, as it harkens to the classics.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's dance forward, and also it had an iconic dance
move attached to it, which she would do many, many,
many times. I feel like that's also a part of
Beyonce that like gets lost. That's the fact that she's
like pretty much always gives you like, even if we
don't have the visuals explicitly on it a renaissance like
we have like dances that we're doing to the songs,
like She's just timeless and Crazy in Love was that?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Crazy Love was that?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And then TikTok by Kesha as we finished this conversation
about that song College for.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Us absolutely and said, I'm a nasty, nasty pop girl
who speaks singing, but it's melodic and musical and brilliant
and she would do that many many times, and that's
why it's number two on our Top ten Popularly debut
Singles Lost Cult, which brings us all the way to
number one. London Bridge Fergie, Yes a stupid, stupid, stupid,
(22:37):
so stupid makes no sense? How oh shit, oh shit,
oh shit, Burgie ferg what's up baby?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It makes no sense? How come every time you come
around my London London.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bridge want to go down?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Like much of her first album, her debut album, The Ductress,
doesn't make any sense, but we never have gotten a
better album. Since it's art, It's one of the great
pieces of art we've experienced in culture.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
The hits from that album are bountiful. Tell me a
better song than Glamorous? Go Ahead, Delicious, Don't cry because.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm gonna miss dude like a time, isn't there playing it?
I'm gonna get a loo with my life. I said
every song tasty girl, tasty girl, clumsy when I'm following
is lumsy?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Are you kidding me? People are still on these streets
singing glamorous. When they feel glamorous. The thing that pops
into their head is they start spelling the damn.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Word I can't describe how London Bridge opened the door
to Fergie. Yes, and here's the thing. It gets lost
in the conversation. Yeah, not anymore, not anymore. Number one,
because the second everyone turns off this podcast, they're gonna
go to their Spotify, their Apple Music, whatever there is.
They're gonna go to their walk came in if they're
still using one. They're gonna go to their vinyls. They're
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gonna whip out the Duchess final that they definitely own
and it got to get one.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm getting one.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
They're gonna put her on the player, put the thing
on the record and start spinning London Bridge.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, this sound is powerful. I'm so glad we
landed on This.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Isn't the Grey Goose Get Your Girl for Loose?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So dangerous to come out in the time when I
was going to sweet sixteens on high school because did
have your girlfriend and loose in front of my friend's parents.
My Humps was a sinful song that made our generation devils,
wares and devils, and then we thought we knew Fergi then.
But like even with London Bridge, it's that same thesis
that you were saying earlier, where this blasted down the doors.
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Fergie created the culture of our generation being whores and devils,
and that's real culture.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
At number eighty created the culture of.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Our generation being wares and devils, and that is Bye
London Bridge.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Fergie is number one on the Top ten Pop Girly
Debut singles last Culture.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well, thank you so much for joining us on this
mini bonus episode where we are beginning our journey into
top ten list culture. We're so excited.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We're so excited to join this journey because we are
really joining it too. We all already have already been
on it, and stay tuned for our next bonus episode,
which is Top ten Julia Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And we end every episode with the song when.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I Talked to the Coast episode Happy in the Loud
up Oky for again you love Me, Love to Shit.
If you want to listen to that, do exactly what
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And look over there is that culture.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Yes, Wow, Lost Ding Dong Lost Coultesa's calling. These Lost
Coach bonus episodes are top tens.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Top tens in the tradition of David Letterman, Miss Mojoe,
we are doing our countdowns.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yes, this is important, I tell you, No, you didn't. Basically,
it's a little bit of what we're known for, which
are our famous lists, and we're sort of giving them
in minisodes here.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
These are going to be tiny bites, quick bites.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh you, I can't let it go, one of the
many things I can't let go in my life.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hey hey, I said.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hey, So this today we're doing and we're gonna say
it in Unison, the top ten pop girly debut singles
talk about why it's important to make a splash with
your debut single as a pop girly. It's so important
to make a splash for your debut single as a
pop girly because there are so many pop girlies and
there are so many singles that you can get lost
(01:05):
in the fray, a fate worse than death. It's actually
a real culture. Number ninety nine Getting Lost in the
Fray a fate worse than death.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I mean, especially now you know it's so hard to
break through in a way that is monocultural. And yet
and she's not on this list spoiler alert. But like
Olivia Rodrigo with driver's license, she did that. I can't
believe she's not on the list.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We left out. We left it that we might have
to make another life, we might have.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
To make another list down the road, because that's truly
one of the most iconic pop girly debut singles ever.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But I think we're looking at a pretty concentrated set
of girlies that and when we say pop girlies, you
know what we mean.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I would say popgirlies, and I would say this list
is really giving millennial culture because Billy's not on this
list and Olivia's not on this list, But.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Pop girlies is a millennial term.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm sorry to the other generations, but it is like
twenty ten was the year when Like It Sprung, when
Like the Fountain was a low.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I also feel like you and I make no apologies
about being millennials.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Everyone needs to stop like shrinking into like a millennial.
I'm stupid, I'm doing it in New York.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's a really great millennial impression. It's almost stupid millennious.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Everyone's out here on these streets going, hey, I'm stupid,
I'm over medicated, I'm overstimulated, and I'm over educated.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm a millennial, honey, and I'm here, I'm in debt.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
This is why you need to buy the diamond prescription.
And this is why is that what it's called the
diamond prescription. I love that big money players. Our company
did not say plus or gold. They said diamond, diamond status, medallion, medallion,
and very delta, very very delta of them, very big plane.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Now we should get right into it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Okay, So, like these lists are sort of famously known
for it, we're going to start at ten and go
to one, because who wants to start at one and
go to ten?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know what I mean, honey, it's literally diminishing returns, truly.
So Number ten so.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
The top ten pop girly debut singles of all time,
but mostly millennial.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Here we go, Number ten.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Genie in a Bottle.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Christina Aguilera as soon as she comes in and says,
I feel like I've been locked up tight in a
century of lonely nights.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Waiting for someone to release me. We get a sense
of sort of repression, but of a demon willing to
be unleashed. Not a demon really, more like a spirit,
a spirit like sort of This was Christina saying I
have a talent that is ready to be unleashed on
the world.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And it is a vivid.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
One that that you will remember forever.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And we have remembered forever, haven't we. And you know,
growing up, I think on the radio, hearing the difference
you gotta treat me the right way versus you gotta
rub me the right way, said well, no, why did
they change that?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
What is so lamp imagery?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Why did they change it?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You gotta treat me, isn't it. You gotta rub me
the but so like, let's say, and I'm gonna reveal
myself as a Radio Disney kid on Radio Disney, they said,
you got to treat me the right way.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think that was classic parents saying I don't want
my kids rubbing. Well, I was like, what's so bad
about rubbing?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
And then I learned, by exploring my own body the
beauty of rubbing.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
What happens when you rub is so ultimately, honestly, it
was very Christina.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Christina literally put me on a path towards discovery.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is why it's such a great debut single, because
it hints at what's to come in the stripped album.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
She was rubbing so hard, she busted, Oh she busted,
and the sheets were soaked.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Absolutely, and that's why Genie a Bottle is number ten
on the Pop Girly Debut Singles Last Coach List, number nine,
I kissed.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The Girl Girl Katy Perry? Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wow, Who could forget when Katy Perry came out and
she dared be sort of a lesbian?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It is, and to be a lesbian is the most
daring thing. And so I think, no matter what, even
if you're curious, even if you're fully in your identity
and your power as a lesbian person, you've dared, you.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Have been daring, You've been bold, You've been adventurous. Isn't
it interesting that she sort of came out with I
kissed her girl, and then she would sort of go
on to be one of the most heterosexual pop stars
that we have. Not only did she that, I mean
she dated John Mayer.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And that she dated John Mayer, and that she has
a child with really no bloom.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Incredibly straight girl things to do. She fucked Diplow, which
is about Diplo. That's the straight and now I mean, to
fuck a bye guy in the hindsight is very straight,
you know what I mean? And to like work in
Vegas is the straightest thing you could possibly.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I think all the big straight girls, a lot of
them on this list, have all worked in Vegas. Well,
I kissed her girl? What was your first memory of it?
Because I see it, so do you want to know
what happened. One of the times I was listening to
I Kiss a Girl, I got in one of my
very first car accidents while I was playing.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
In Long Island. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's now more funny than it was traumatic at the time.
It was traumatic because I wasn't sure if people were okay,
and everyone was okay ultimately, But I did get into
a car accident while listening to this song, and it
hasn't dominated my memory of the song.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
It's contributed.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I did make out with our friend Charlotte while the
song played in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You weren't on that trip.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
We had to go see Katy Perry for my birthday
and Patrick House's birthday, and.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I made that with our friend Charlotte A bye woman,
A little little on the nose, but I love that.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I know I didn't mean to undercut. I'm just saying, like,
I think it's so apropos that you kissed Charlotte. A
lot of our gay friends thought it was quote hot hmm.
I'm so sorry I didn't. I wasn't coming for you
when I said it was on the nose, by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It was on the mouth is what it was, right
on the lips, And that's why I kissed A Girl
by Katy Perry is number nine on the top ten
Pop Girly debut singles Last Golf and number eight Your Love,
I Love a ballad, I love It, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Ballad with a sample, A ballot with the sample, Ah,
listen to this girl, Okay. So you know we should say,
of course, these are all of the Pop Girley's debut
studio album singles. So NICKI obviously had mixtapes, mixtapes you know,
beat Me Up Scotty as classic, but this was when
she came on the scene. This is right when this
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woman was coming on post Monster verse you were like,
we need more of this person. It was really a
day where I like, I was in Honduras on a
medical brigade mission, oh my, after freshman year of college,
and the entire bus played monster in the entire bus,
all these fucking college students screaming Nicki's verse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I was like, what is this?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was the birth of a new artist. Well, they
were like, you haven't heard of Nicki Minaj yet. I
was like no, and then went home from that trip,
read up. And then when this song came out, when
your Love came out, this I've never been able to
get out of my head.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
He'd type to keep a couple of hundred and the
rubber band. I was just gonna say the same.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Line he that t hap to keep a couple of
hundred in the rubber band, the damn mon bam in
the mother blam and the money. Grand said he must
be from the motherland anyway. I think I met it
in the sky when it was a geisha. He was
somehow I understand him when he.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Spoke Tai never spoke lies, and it never broke fly
so much. Let me get my cape, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And all these words coming together make the great song
that is Your Love. I'll never forget. Well, my friend
Allison Coelo texted me and she said, have you heard
Your Love by Nicki Minaj? She introduced you to your
Well she didn't, I never mind and then she had
just heard it and she said, I had no idea.
She was like a real artist. I was like, honey,
get ready. Then Pink Friday dropped soon, We're gonna have
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Pink Friday Part two. Excited for that, Excited for that.
All these reasons are why Your Love by Nicki Minaj
Number eight on the top end Pop Gurly Debut.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Singles, Last Coach number seven, Miss Independent Kelly.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Clarkson, you came from me earlier when I put this
on the list, and you have a point.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I said, does this count? Because I don't know if
this is the debut single.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Technically it was not the debut single. It's the lead
single from the debut album. And this is sort of
where I want to make the distinction, because I feel
like Kelly Clarkson does not consider a moment like this
her first single. I feel like she considers thank you
for teaching Independent her first single. And I told you
we could fight about this and you're not taking a
combative tone.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Because you just explained it to me and I appreciate.
Can I poke holes in that? If she's saying, moment
like this was not my debut, I have to respect.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, she was in no way, in any way in
control of that.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Of course the selection.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
She and justin saying it, it's not even Nicky mckibbon
even record.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
NICKI even saying, and so did Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I think I think they all had versions of it
that they were getting ready to release as the lead single,
and then they didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Have We heard the tamaira version. I would like to
dig that up.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I would love to hear that. All I want is
more a moment like this. But can we just talk
about how Misindependent launched Kelly into true pop stardom and
also co written by Christina Aguilera, This actually was a
Christina Aguilera castaway.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And sometimes the songs that are always like, you know
this song was supposed to be for blah blah blah,
I'm always like, well, I'm glad it worked out another way.
I'm never like, oh, I wish toxic was saying by
Kylie Minou, But no, that's Britney Spears's song.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I mean one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Sometimes the songs end up with the right pop girly yes,
and this was the case of that. In fact, to
this day, Kelly Clarkson says that one of her favorite
songs to perform live is Misindependent.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I love that and for that reason, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Number seven on our list of top ten pop girly
debut singles.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Last Coach number six, Just Dance Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I know this changed her life. Actually, this wasn't the
song that changed my life. I know this was the
beginning of something that would ultimately change her life. Well,
I mean it was a song that like gives you
the classic Lady Gaga road map, right, like like you
here for the first time, you go, it's interesting. I
don't know if I love it just yet.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Then you listen to it again, then again and again
and again, and then something happens where you listen to
it on the radio or it comes on at the
grocery store and you go, wow, damn, that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
It's like a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Remember a chromatica ball.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
When she's sang this, oh my god, Well, she wasn't
moving at all and saying just dance. She needn't move.
She needn't because when she said just dance, you know
who heard her, the little monster, the little months we
were dancing fore mother.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Dada doodoo da da doo dooo. I said, she can't
come up with words for this, but I don't think
there there can't possibly be lyrics for that expression.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Didn't just dance.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Baby, Cooby o'donnas? Kobe o'donnas.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Those two words are why just dance is number six
on the top ten Pop Girlly debut singles Last Coach, number.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Five, Baby one More Time, Britney spears. I think we
all remember where we were when.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
We saw her traps around the hallways, the basketball court.
Little heathen, little heathen, little girl, little girl dressed up
as a big.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Girl, confusing the fathers, the fathers, the mother's, the daughters
and sons.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, everyone in the family was confused, but intrigued.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I mean this was confusing for us as a generation
of little gay boys, because it was undeniable to any
living person at the time that she was the hottest
person alive. That she appealed to all sectors that if
you were a gay boy in the closet, you were like,
that's the most beautiful woman in the world, and that
was the same exact thing that was being said by
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the straight boys.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Mm hmm. Yeah, it actually was a unifier. It was
a unifier.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I remember Britney Spears.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There was a time in my life when my aunt
and uncle were like, who's your favorite singer? And I
remember I didn't really have one of the time, so
I just said Britney Spears because it felt safe because
everyone knew who she was. Aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, the
childless know who bring childless, those without nieces and nephews,
the parentless, the orphans knew.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know. TLC was first offered this song. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, And you can kind of hear a tea Boss
chili vocal on this. You really listen hard.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
On the my loneliness.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
No, but I'm just saying like, if you if you
picture it in your mind's eye, Oh yeah, you can
sort of if you picture it in your mind's eye,
you can sort of hear uh huh. I can tell
on this. Although what would the Lisa Left Di Lopez
rap sample be on this?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It would be over the bridge. Although it's the classic
Max Martin thing of overlays the bridge onto the chorus
the last key change overlaying the bridge onto the chorus
at the same time, and it's like wow, like whatever
Phil Spectr Wall of Sound equivalent.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh my god, I turn but.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I'm sure I'm sure the left diverse would have been
over like the my loneliness is.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Killing oh intem doing it twice. I love the bridge
of the site and it's don't you know that's the thing,
that's the interval.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I love it, and we love it so much that
it is number five on the list of top ten
pop girly debut singles.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Lost Colt number four Call Me Maybe Carli ra Jepson,
Now this is technically not accurate either. Go on and
say why, because, as we all know, Carlie ray Jepson
places high in Canadian idol. In two thousand and eight,
her debut album comes out. Her single is something called
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Sunshine on My Shoulders. I have not heard this song,
but that is technically her debut single. I've not heard
that song, but the song. But but you retorted, I retorted,
and you said you you were being retorted. I was
being retorted, I should say, and you said it has
to be on the list. And I mean, I said,
you know what, You're right, because this is the song
that everybody was able to be like, this is the song.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I I think that when this song came out, everyone
knew who Carli Raye Jepson was, and you couldn't tell
most people. This wasn't her debut single, and I think
it was designed by her record label to feel like
a debut single because this was her introduction. If you
weren't Canadian and weren't ringing the phones on Canadian idol,
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you didn't know this, young honey.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
If you're not living in Manitoba with the landline dialing
you know carl Ray's number every week, you didn't know
who the fuck she was.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No, you did not.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'll never forget. At the time when this came out,
a lot of the narrative around her was like, well,
you know, she's forty, and I was like what. And
I think that I think the truth of it was
she was in her like late twenties and people like
she's so old. Fuck that fuck it sucks so much,
but you know it doesn't suck. The earworm that is
Call Me Maybe by Calie ray Jepson.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Can I say something before we move on with strings?
For me, the strings and the strings are the thing
that I'm always like, it's like a booooo.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'm like, yes, it's kissy.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's one of the most you can never listen to,
which is why Call Me Maybe? By Carlie Ray Jackson
is number four on the top ten Pop girly debut singles.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Last Cult, Last Cult, number three Crazy in Love Beyonce.
I mean what song is more?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
When it starts at the Renaissance World Tour, serotonin releases
into your brain. Oh my god, the horns, the iconic stomp, stomp,
the dance at the end.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I would say the white girl stomp was an invention,
ironically of Beyonces in this music video and in the
subsequent live performances.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yes, she made that kind of stomp something that white
girls saw and said, I can walk too.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I bet I can lift my eyes a little bit higher,
shake my hips, sway them to and fro to fro
here there back forth. Can we talk about this? When
I talk to my friends.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
So quietly, who he think he is? Look at what
you did to me?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
When I talk to my friends so so quietly, writing
the way that the that the chorus comes back in
when you don't expect it after the jay Z Verse,
Like the jay Z Verse kind of ends a little
bit sooner than it's supposed to do. Geniees, do you
remember when she said, got me hoping you page me
right now? Even in the year of our twenty twenty three,
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we're still being like, got me hoping you page me
right now? I hope I get paged by the item
of my affection.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
This is one of those things like there is such
a fear these days around like, oh, let's not like
throw slang into like our scripts or our songs, because
then it'll date it too quickly.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Every now and then it's fine. If it's good enough,
it won't matter because guess what, we're gonna be singing
it quoting it twenty years from now and we're not
gonna care.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Look out for my new single, Apple Watch dropping in
twenty twenty four. I look down, Am I Apple Wash
eerie seven. I look down, am I Apple Watch Series seven?
Say your name?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Saw you? What text to me?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
iOS seventeen phone had up? Did the iOS AA? And
that's why Crazy in Love by Beyonce is number three.
I'm the top ten popularly debut Singles last colt number
two TikTok Kesha.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, I guess we should save this for the end
of this discussion for this particular song, But now I
can't not say it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
This was supposed to be number one. It was supposed
to be number one, and then no one reminded me
of another.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Song, and I said, wait, hold the phone on the
phone popular expression for wait a second.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I knew that that one had to be number one,
but this was number two. Here's the famous thing about
my life. The first time I heard this song, not
only did I hate it, I actually thought music was over.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm like, what are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I remember the second time I heard it, I thought
it was the biggest smash I had ever heard in
my life.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
What do you think today?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I think it's number two on the list of top
ten popular Singlesauce Coach, that's what I think. This song
is fourteen years this recording fourteen years old.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
This is incredible.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You want to know why it's so iconic because it
gets Kesha across in a nutshell. All these songs need
to get the artists across in a nutshell and everything
about pretty much all of these songs says this is
who I am. Here is the introduction to who I am,
Like literally every single one of them. Like Ginny in
a Bottle you have that like raw sexuality and vocals
Kiss a Girl.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You have the cheeky humor your love.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You have like Nicki Minaj giving giving you like fucking
like a female rapper hasn't done before, Like syllabic acrobatics.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You're like, damn, like I would never have thought, like
Kabaha Na Green and the Rubber Band just laying many
things and the money Graham you know, I mean, you're like,
oh shit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yes, like giving like verity, verbosity and dexterity to everyone
and then everyone's sort of nailing it in their own right.
Then misindependent, you have like that big chorus that's indicative
of Kelly that like big blasted choruses and those tasty
little verses.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Tasty verses where she's low and crispy, okay, and then
keep going.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Just Dance Gaga. Just dance gave pure pop.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Dance pop, the revival of like Euro inspired dance pop techno.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Maybe one more Time gave tongue in cheek. I mean
those like little Stevie Wonderism vocals that Brittany had in
the very beginning Brittany that really was like pure nineties
pop sound too, like that she engineered and was like
sounded perfectly on.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But it's through one person. That's like yearning teenage yearning
through one person. So good, m okay, now call me maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I think call me maybe was just like a true
genius or songwriter getting it across and saying to you,
it doesn't matter what you want. You're singing my song.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And I think Carli ray Jepson like, especially for gays now,
it doesn't matter when Carli Ray comes out, You're singing it.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Really is amazing how at this point she's established her
the thing she's established as like something different from like
Taylor's version. Let's say it's like, here are the B
sides that are gonna be just as good as the
regular album yep. Like we've gone through three cycles of
this now and I'm like, that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, TikTok said I'm a mess and I'm chaotic, uh huh,
and you're singing along to it.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We skipped it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Crazy and love, oh crazy and love literally even the
jay Z feature. It's just all like, this is Beyonce
saying I am a take charge. I remember the first
time I heard this, I thought, Michael Jackson, I thought,
like timeless. That's what I love about Crazy and Love
is it is a timeless sound. You could put it
out today. It would be a hit, even with the
page me lyric. I think she'd find a way to
make that like innovative.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It's powerful, yes, as it harkens to the classics.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's dance forward, and also it had an iconic dance
move attached to it, which she would do many, many,
many times. I feel like that's also a part of
Beyonce that like gets lost. That's the fact that she's
like pretty much always gives you like, even if we
don't have the visuals explicitly on it a renaissance like
we have like dances that we're doing to the songs,
like She's just timeless and Crazy in Love was that?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Crazy Love was that?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And then TikTok by Kesha as we finished this conversation
about that song College for.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Us absolutely and said, I'm a nasty, nasty pop girl
who speaks singing, but it's melodic and musical and brilliant
and she would do that many many times, and that's
why it's number two on our Top ten Popularly debut
Singles Lost Cult, which brings us all the way to
number one. London Bridge Fergie, Yes a stupid, stupid, stupid,
(22:37):
so stupid makes no sense? How oh shit, oh shit,
oh shit, Burgie ferg what's up baby?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
It makes no sense? How come every time you come
around my London London.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bridge want to go down?
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Like much of her first album, her debut album, The Ductress,
doesn't make any sense, but we never have gotten a
better album. Since it's art, It's one of the great
pieces of art we've experienced in culture.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
The hits from that album are bountiful. Tell me a
better song than Glamorous? Go Ahead, Delicious, Don't cry because.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm gonna miss dude like a time, isn't there playing it?
I'm gonna get a loo with my life. I said
every song tasty girl, tasty girl, clumsy when I'm following
is lumsy?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Are you kidding me? People are still on these streets
singing glamorous. When they feel glamorous. The thing that pops
into their head is they start spelling the damn.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Word I can't describe how London Bridge opened the door
to Fergie. Yes, and here's the thing. It gets lost
in the conversation. Yeah, not anymore, not anymore. Number one,
because the second everyone turns off this podcast, they're gonna
go to their Spotify, their Apple Music, whatever there is.
They're gonna go to their walk came in if they're
still using one. They're gonna go to their vinyls. They're
(23:56):
gonna whip out the Duchess final that they definitely own
and it got to get one.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm getting one.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
They're gonna put her on the player, put the thing
on the record and start spinning London Bridge.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
I mean, this sound is powerful. I'm so glad we
landed on This.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Isn't the Grey Goose Get Your Girl for Loose?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So dangerous to come out in the time when I
was going to sweet sixteens on high school because did
have your girlfriend and loose in front of my friend's parents.
My Humps was a sinful song that made our generation devils,
wares and devils, and then we thought we knew Fergi then.
But like even with London Bridge, it's that same thesis
that you were saying earlier, where this blasted down the doors.
(24:45):
Fergie created the culture of our generation being whores and devils,
and that's real culture.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
At number eighty created the culture of.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Our generation being wares and devils, and that is Bye
London Bridge.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Fergie is number one on the Top ten Pop Girly
Debut singles last Culture.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Well, thank you so much for joining us on this
mini bonus episode where we are beginning our journey into
top ten list culture. We're so excited.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
We're so excited to join this journey because we are
really joining it too. We all already have already been
on it, and stay tuned for our next bonus episode,
which is Top ten Julia Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And we end every episode with the song when.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I Talked to the Coast episode Happy in the Loud
up Oky for again you love Me, Love to Shit.
If you want to listen to that, do exactly what
I just said.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Bye Bye
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