July 31, 2025 • 38 mins
Songs Matt and Sam once couldn't stand somehow became some of their favorites—a weird musical paradox that deserved its own mix. The Stockholm Syndrome Mix takes you through twelve tracks that initially made them cringe but eventually earned permanent spots in our playlists.
What exactly causes this shift from hatred to devotion? As we discovered, it's partly due to relentless exposure—hearing a song 50+ times breaks down your resistance until you're begrudgingly nodding along. The Black Eyed Peas mastered this technique with tracks like "I Got a Feeling" and "Pump It."
The journey to appreciation varies wildly from song to song. Sam initially thought The Chainsmokers' "#Selfie" was a parody track, while Matt couldn't understand why anyone would play Counting Crows' "Round Here" at a party—yet both eventually became genuine fans. Justin Bieber's "Sorry" represents another common pattern: rejecting both artist and song before finally admitting defeat and acknowledging genuine talent.
Age and life circumstances play crucial roles too. Celine Dion's adult contemporary masterpiece "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" requires a certain maturity to fully appreciate—fittingly, the title itself reflects the journey from rejection to embrace that defines musical Stockholm Syndrome.
Which songs have captured your heart despite your initial objections? Share your musical Stockholm Syndrome stories with us on Instagram and threads @superawesomemix, and find all our mixes on YouTube!
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1. #SELFIE - The Chainsmokers
2. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
3. Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
4. (I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You - UB40
5. Sorry - Justin Bieber
6. It's All Coming Back To Me Now -Celine Dion
7. Shoots and Ladders - Korn
8. Fireball - Pitbull featuring John Ryan
9. Daft Punk is Playing at My House - LCD Soundsystem
10. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
11. Bodak Yellow - Cardi B
12. Round Here - Counting Crows
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Sidholm,alongside my co-host and
co-founder of Super Awesome Mix,sam Abusalvi.
Sam, how are we feeling thisweek?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Feeling pretty good, especially after listening to
this mix.
I feel comforted in a weird way, right.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In a weird way.
Yeah, I think that's a good wayof describing it.
So I think we're going to havekind of a polarizing mix this
week, and I think that's kind ofintentional right.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
I believe we came up with thismix as we often do in in the
episode of another mix that werecorded.
We come up with these ideas onthese like offshoot
conversations.
So this is the stockholmsyndromes mix and basically we
were charged with picking eachsix songs that represented
either a band or a song where,when you first heard it, you
(01:04):
were like this is an awful song,or like I hate this song't like
the band, I want nothing to dowith it.
But for whatever reason andoften is the case like these are
like top 40 songs you just kepthearing it over and over and
over and eventually you're like,okay, I kind of like this song.
And you get to the point whereyou're like, oh yeah, this song
is on.
And you get to the point whereyou're like, oh yeah, this song
is on.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's go.
Yeah, so just a level set.
Okay, I looked up the clinicaldefinition here.
Stockholm Syndrome is definedas a psychological response
where hostages or abuse victimsdevelop a positive bond with
their captors or abusers.
Okay, so yeah, you're exactlyright.
Musically it's.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I hated this song at first, but just somehow, over
time I I've grown to love thissong Exactly.
Yes, yeah, you hear.
You hear that phrase a lot tokind of encapsulate that exact
journey.
So we thought, like thathappens with music, that
definitely happens with music.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
A hundred percent, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, where at first you just feel, yeah, just you
object to everything about thissong.
And then one day you're puttingit on a mix, you're like, oh, I
love this song.
It brings me back.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No doubt, no doubt.
So well, we're going to startwith your first pick and this
one.
It's actually the second timethis song has made an appearance
on the mix, but it is HashtagSelf smokers yeah, I mean, the
first time I heard this song Ihonestly thought it was a joke.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
like I thought it was like like a parody song,
because I was like this is aterrible song.
Um, I think when I very firstheard it was in a tiesto mix.
Like I love listening to him.
He does these like hour longweekly podcast episodes that are
just him mixing songs and heincluded this song and the way
he even brought it up.
I literally thought it was justlike a parody song.
He's like, oh, that's cool,he's putting this in there.
(02:55):
But then it turns out it was afull song and I was like someone
made this song Like how, why?
And I hadn't.
I think this was kind ofChainsmokers, big kind of
breakout hit too.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That kind of got them on the scene and so I didn't
know who they were.
I was just incredulous thatthis song was playing anywhere.
But by the let's say 50th timethat I heard it, I kind of got
hooked.
You know, I kind of started tobe like I get it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like it's kind of started to be like I get it like
it's kind of catchy, you know.
And so that's the number 50, Ithink it was 50.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
50 is the number you know, and then, like it just
generated all these memes and itbecame like a whole thing.
Like, at first, let me take aselfie, and you know, and like
the music video also.
I ended up watching the musicvideo like I just kept going
further and further into selfieworld rather than running away
from it, and so by the end of itI was like, yes, this song's on
and and here we are so, yeah,this is a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This was on our earworm mix, and so once you
hear this, you'll, you'llrecognize it and it's definitely
an earworm.
But yeah, I mean, I I rememberhearing it and then I'd kind of
forgotten about it, and then youput it on the earworm mix and
then the second I saw it here, Iwas like, oh man, and yeah, I
could see how it would wear youdown.
Right, I'm not at that levelyet.
(04:14):
I will say, with this song I'mstill in the I can.
I can live without it side ofit, but I'm definitely like.
I'm like OK.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And it gets stuck in your head and you kind of start
bobbing along Right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of these Stockholm Syndrome
songs ended up kind ofearworming as well.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Definitely yes.
They just find a way to embedthemselves so you keep listening
to it hours after you'vestopped listening to it.
I think that's kind of theirsecret for sure.
All right, so track number twoyou know, we both had a feeling
that this was going to happen,but we actually both picked the
songs from this band because Ican't think of a better band
that encapsulates StockholmSyndrome music than the Black
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Eyed Peas.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So your pick and it's your first pick on the mix is I
Got a Feeling we kind oflaughed when this happened
because and I mean honestly, wecould have picked some others
right like honorable mentiongoes to boom boom pow, which
didn't make the mix, but verywell could have all right.
Like this one starts out andit's just like what is this?
(05:19):
Is that an organ or somethingthat they start with?
And then I mean, yeah, like thefirst time I heard this song I
was like I have no interest inin listening to this ever again,
but this song is ubiquitous, Imean you you hear it everywhere.
I don't even remember what yearit came out, but my, my kids
still like this is a verykid-friendly song.
(05:40):
So you hear a lot of kidbirthday parties and stuff and,
um, yeah, I mean.
And so it's just like, oh god,this is miserable, this is
miserable.
And then what's gonna happen isyou're gonna find yourself at a
wedding and of course they'regonna play this right and by the
time they roll around to 10nights, that night for the
second time, I mean, you'regonna be in there, like the
situation, just fist pumping inthe middle of the dance floor I
(06:06):
immediately went to weddings too.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I I think I think my wife and I actually put this on
our do not playlist for our dj.
I think we included this song.
Like you cannot play this songof, I got a feeling that
tonight's gonna be a good night,oh my goodness.
And like the lyrics.
Can we talk about the lyricsthat the black ed Peas produce?
I?
Mean there's literally asection where they just write
let's do it and do it, and do it, do it, do it.
(06:31):
What do we?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
do Hold on, hold on.
Now I'm going to jump in with.
Let's do it.
Yeah, no, no, no, go with that.
Go with that Apple D app.
Jump in with.
Let's do it right there.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's like they write lyrics of their songs like five
minutes before they arrive atthe recording studio.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This is a cram session.
It's just like guys remember.
They gave us that money sixmonths ago to write an album.
Well, today's the day we'rerecording it.
Okay, okay, hold on.
All right, how far is the drive?
I mean with traffic?
27 minutes, okay, okay.
Yeah, you know it's.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's not a reach, right, it's not a reach for them
to arrive at these lyrics in ahandful of minutes, like what
are we doing?
I don't know it.
Okay, great, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Let's do it.
Yeah.
No, he just wants somethinggeneral right like do it, do it,
we don't yeah we want to be forall fans.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We don't want to cut anyone out of the equation, you
know so we, if we mentioned whatwe're doing, we might lose 50
of our audience but if we justsay, let's do it yeah I mean,
everyone's gonna be, everyone'sgonna know what it is and look,
let's just make it a good night,not a great night.
Yeah, exactly like it's gonnabe a good night okay, you know
(07:53):
that's a low enough bar a lot ofpeople can get behind that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Um, all right, well, and this you know, of course, we
never planned this, but this isalways how it works out.
Okay, we, we had this as ourthese.
These these ended up being backto back your Black Eyed Peas
pick was Pump it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, I mean again written 10 minutes before they
sung the song.
Like there is I I don't evenknow, but like they, they're
just so catchy.
And I heard the song first andI was like my god, I don't like
the song and like I don't likethe black eyed peas, and they're
like why are these?
Who's giving them money to keepproducing music?
(08:31):
You know, like, please, please,stop.
But but then I just kepthearing it and and then I got to
the point where I literallyplayed.
I started to play it ironicallyand I think that's another trap
, is you're?
like oh yeah, yes I'm gonna playthis, even though I like hate
it, haha.
But then you're like, I kind ofreally love this song now,
(08:53):
let's just leave it to the end,guys.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Wouldn't this be a hilarious goof?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
okay, let me change it, please yeah, I think that's
exactly what happens.
But I mean, this is, this is acatchy song.
This is a very catchy song likeit's.
Just it, I don't know grew onme and now, um, I actually used
to play a remix version of it inmy spin classes back when I was
a spin instructor and, um,people liked it, it was a good
(09:16):
song.
It was a good song to spin toit's.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It just makes you want to move well, and you gotta
give a lot of credit to thesample they use here, okay, okay
, dick Dale and the DeltonesMiserlew, okay, and that got
kind of a second life in themovie Pulp Fiction and yeah,
like that, that song is awesomeRight, and it's kind of this
classic surf rock.
You know guitar riff and Ithink that lends itself to this
(09:41):
song being likable and wearingyou down.
But yeah, I mean just lyrically, you know, pump it louder, pump
it louder, like all right, andthere's a few raps in there.
You know, like bergie gets acouple runs, I don't know.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, I'mwith you.
I used it on a uh, when I wascoaching a basketball team, we
(10:01):
used it for our highlight filmone year.
Okay, like all right, let'sroll, guys bump it that would
make for a good one yeah yeah,good backing track for that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I like it all right, let's move on to your next pick.
So it is in parentheses.
I can't help.
And then falling in love withyou by you be 40 okay, so this
is a cover song.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Elvis did the original in 1961, and then about
30 years onward.
Okay, in the 90s, UB40 decidedto put their own spin on it as
part of the soundtrack for avery forgettable movie called
Sliver.
Never seen it, never seen it.
Yeah, yeah, you shouldn't right.
Terrible movie, but was sharonstone's follow-up to basic
(10:45):
instinct, so it's kind of a bigdeal because she had made such a
splash in basic instinct, right, um.
But yeah, when this one came onI was like what?
What is this?
Oh my gosh.
You know, because, like theelvis song is a very like kind
of sweet romantic song.
Right, and then there's this andthen, if you ever and again
(11:07):
nobody go out and watch thismovie, because I can't even
describe the plot, it doesn'teven really make sense, but the
whole music video for this iscentered around this movie, like
it's very much associated withthis movie.
This is a romantic song.
That is not a romantic movie.
So there's also some dissonancethere.
Um.
So like the music video doesn'tmake sense, the connection
(11:30):
doesn't make sense, but overtime I kind of started to like
it and I think it's the I, Ithink it's the horns, maybe at
the end that kind of kick in.
I'm like this is kind of funand maybe it's a sense of
nostalgia, I don't know.
But man, I don't know what'shappened.
(11:51):
But this song, over time reallyI was like okay, I think I'm in
on this and I kind of want toturn it up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm sure that nostalgia plays a huge role in a
lot of these songs.
Right like we, we as people, ashuman beings, tend to kind of
gloss over painful parts ofthings in history.
You know like, we'll look back.
I feel like everyone, likepresidents are a great example.
You look back at pastpresidents.
You're like, oh, he was great.
But like during theadministration, you're like this
is the worst president we'veever had.
You know like, but now you'relike what?
You know what's that guy doing?
(12:27):
Can we bring him back?
Did he do two terms or can herun?
Can he run?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
again.
I yeah.
I think there's this phenomenonwhere it's like we have to
describe what's going on now asthe worst time possible, so
anything prior to this wasbetter right, totally, totally,
yeah.
Yeah, we had gas lines withjimmy carter, but remember how
cheap gas was.
I mean, come on like maybe hekind of had something there
(12:54):
that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Um, yes, but yeah, I think, um, this song, I agree
kind of it just feels so chill.
You know like you're kind oflike I don't.
I don't know why it exists, butthe more you listen to it
you're like maybe it exists justbecause it's so chill and maybe
that's all that's what it'shere for yeah, I don't, I don't
know if I ever thought, you know, yeah, you wonder what elvis
(13:17):
would have thought of this right, if he was alive to see it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Um, yeah, it would have been like yeah, I think
this does need a reggae versionit like, took out all of the,
the oomph of it, and like theemotional quality to it and it
just basically turned it intolike a song that you could just
play in the background there'sno emotion, there's no emotion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's a great point.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, um, all right.
Well, here's a song that'sslightly more emotional.
Okay, uh, your next pick trackfive, it is sorry, by justin
bieber.
So, yeah, this here's a songthat's slightly more emotional.
Okay, your next pick track five, it is Sorry, by Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So yeah, this one's a little bit of both the song and
the artist, because in thebeginning I was very anti-Bieber
of his music and just like Idon't know, I didn't get it.
And this song in particular, Ithink obviously was like a huge,
huge breakout or not breakout,but just a huge song of his that
got played everywhere all thetime and so I just wanted
nothing to do with it.
(14:08):
But it would come on all thetime and, you know, I think
people would play it in spinclasses like other instructors
and have remixes of it, and soit just started to do that, do
its thing.
Like it just started to grow onme and I got to the point where
I was like, oh, I think I, he's, he's really good at pop music.
(14:30):
I, I admit it, I admit defeat,but wow, he's talented at this.
You know, like say, let'signore everything about the man
justin bieber and all of that,but like he can make pop hits
and he certainly did um over hiscareer.
So yeah, I this, this one grewon me, even though the first
several times I heard the songdid not like the song.
(14:51):
It also got stuck in my head.
I just felt it was likeannoying and whiny and I don't
know I did not like the song.
It also got stuck in my head.
I just felt it was likeannoying and whiny and I don't
know I didn't like anythingabout it.
But then now I'm like yeah,sorry Zahn, I remember that song
, great song.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've always loved it so I'm going to show my age here
, that, like, when this camearound, I don't even think I was
like you know, like I didn'teven know it existed, type of
thing, right, right.
And then, obviously, mydaughter just turned 12.
So it's like this is very muchin the mix for her, even though
it's kind of a.
I think it came out probablybefore she was born, but but
(15:25):
she'll listen to this, and sothat's how I became aware of it.
But I just my first note herewas like this is a great call by
you, because it is like when Ifirst heard this, I'm like God,
jesus, well, what am I listeningto?
Right, like.
But then after a while I'm likethis isn't bad, okay, I like
the change there.
Okay, he changed up the rhythma little bit, that's pretty good
(15:46):
.
And okay, yeah, I mean I I'm ahundred percent with you.
I kind of definitely was out onthis pretty quickly upon
hearing it at first, but I'vecome around to where I'm like
this isn't bad Now that might berelative to some of the other
stuff she listens to.
I may just be like I don't know.
Go back to.
Sorry, I'm good, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Your grading of music has to change because of what's
available to you.
This is the least disagreeablemusic Right.
All right, let's move on totrack number six.
Great pick here, and it's allcoming back to me now, by Celine
(16:28):
Dion.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, so this song came out in the mid 90s.
I think I was just startingcollege when this came out, and
so I mean, this is squarelyadult, contemporary, right, like
this is not something you'relistening to at 18 years old,
but this song was everywhere,right, and so it's like it's you
couldn't escape.
It was on the radio, there wasa music video, like there was
(16:52):
all of it, right, and uh, yeah,over time it just became this
song that I'm like you know what?
She's got a really good voice,you know.
Okay, hey, look, I can't faulther for singing, all right, and
then, and then you hear it again.
It's like god, that's a prettygood, pretty good intro.
You know the way it swells up,okay, I kind of like that and
(17:12):
then like again, I'll go back tomy daughter.
She recently discovered thisand she, she like, she's like,
oh, leave that song on.
And I was like, oh, okay.
And I'm like, yeah, this isawesome.
And now I'm squarely in theadult contemporary category and
so now I'm like all in.
I'm like yes, so it took me 30years.
(17:33):
I had to catch up to this song.
But I mean, I love this song.
I'm willing to say that.
But I will say when it came out, I was very much out on this
song.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm with you.
Like I had a similar journey.
I think my first introductionto Celine Dion was the Titanic
song, which she's probably sickof doing, right.
I mean like oh song, whichshe's probably sick of doing,
right.
I mean like oh, yeah, um, andso I, I didn't, I didn't care
for the movie, I didn't care forthe song.
I was like no, no, I was fartoo young to like connect with
any of it.
But then over the years, samedeal, like I've listened to more
of her music.
(18:03):
And then of course she, she didone of the last songs in the
olympic opening ceremony ohsinging from the eiffel tower
and I'm incredible, blown, blownaway, yeah, completely blown
away, unbelievable.
Her voice is incredible, and soI'm listening to this now and
I'm like, yeah, it's all comingback to me now.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
The title even fits how we feel about it now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It was her long game, this whole time talk about
musical brilliance.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean, how do you pull that off?
But she did it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Just sheer talent, you.
This is a song you just have tostart singing along with.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know, I mean it's just so good, it's so good, yes
, great karaoke song, if you canpull it off if you can pull it
off, yeah yeah, uh, now, not agreat karaoke song here, track
seven uh, this is called shootsand ladders by corn I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was like laughing when I picked this song, because
even even today there's momentswhere I'm like why, how is this
music like what?
What am I listening?
Why am I listening to it?
But here's kudos to Korn, right?
So Korn has some great songs.
I actually really do like themand I've grown to like them more
and more as I've listened moreto like hard rock and metal and
(19:24):
everything.
If you're into that genre, likeKorn is one of the greats from
that time period.
Here's where this song wins meover, number one.
How many songs do you know likecontemporary music, songs that
integrate a bagpipe for like thefirst, like two minutes of the
song you?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
know that's okay, not not many.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
It's impressive and that's fair, do it in a way
where you're like, okay, yeah,yeah, you know, like I I feel
those that drum beat behind it,like I'm kind of getting into
this.
And then he gets a lot ofpoints because he turned a bunch
of children's rhymes into areally dark song, just a really
freaking dark song, and I'm alsovery impressed by that like
(20:04):
this, you know, you're like, ifyou just read the lyrics alone
you'd probably be like, oh, thisis a great kid song, that's a
great point.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's a great kid song.
That's a great point.
That's a great point, yeah,yeah.
First of all, shout out, shoutout to our Scottish listeners
who just I mean, bagpipe musicis just pop music over there,
sam.
So I just want to make surethat everyone knows we're
culturally aware, right?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's just pop music over there.
That's all they listen to.
That's all they listen to.
It's it's just pop music overthere.
That's all they listen to.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's all they listen to.
It's a lot of bagpipes.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Anyway, we love you guys, keep, keep listening okay,
keep on listening.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, um, sam, I thought for a second that I was
listening to one of your picksfor the worst mix ever.
When I heard this song, I Ihated this song and maybe like,
like and I get it.
The whole point with StockholmSyndrome is you do hate it at
first and then eventually youcome around.
(21:00):
But I didn't even want tofinish listening to it for the
first time, so I don't know howI'm going to go back.
What was the number earlier?
50?
.
I don't know how I'm getting to50 on Chutes and Ladders to
where I'm like, yeah, okay,there we go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm just going to have to, rick, roll you over the
next couple of years.
I'm like Matt, we just got anemail.
You got to click this link inthere.
It's amazing, there's thisguest who wants to come on the
show.
You go, you click the link andit's just going to be this song.
I'll check in with you in acouple of years.
We'll see how you feel.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
A couple of years of it.
The Korn concert holding up asign play.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Chutes and Ladders.
That's my favorite.
We love you.
That's awesome.
Okay, this is another artist.
Let's move on to track eighthere.
Another artist that had to beon this mix, like just alongside
Black Eyed peas I think we allhave this relationship with this
(22:02):
a singer.
Uh, the song is fireball.
It is, of course, by the oneand only mr worldwide aka
pitbull, uh, and it featuresjohn ryan.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, I mean, if the black eyed peas are the gold
medalists in this category, Imean pitbull is a very, very
honorable silver medalist.
Okay, I mean absolutely.
And I could have picked I don'tknow 17 songs to go on this any
song he's ever produced, yeahlike is.
you're just annoyed by it atfirst, and then, yeah, it's a,
(22:26):
because of course he's going tostart.
Much like dj khaled, he's gotto tell you who he is.
Right, mr Worldwide.
Okay, here we go.
It's like, all right, we got it.
We got it Pitbull, because allyour songs sound the same, so we
know exactly who we'relistening to.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Okay, I also now know anytime someone's going to call
me from Miami.
I know it because of him.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's great we all know Miami's area code.
It's a great point.
Yeah, I mean all the cell phonecompanies can take that feature
off, just for Miami, becausePitbull has taught us yeah, yeah
, but this one, I mean againit's you know you're drinking a
Mountain Dew, right, it's emptycalories and it's just all right
(23:06):
.
Okay, here we go, mr Worldwide.
But then, yeah, the more youlisten to it, it again it just
starts to wear you down to whereby the end, you're screaming
fireball with everybody else,right, I mean great wedding song
.
This is a great wedding songbecause they bring it down, then
they bring it back.
I mean all the, all the things.
(23:26):
So, yeah, I mean this is uh, I,I don't know.
Just anything by pitbull justfalls squarely into this
category I, I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, he makes a really good like party song,
like where he can get the crowdin.
And I agree, like having doingthe like, get a little bit
quieter now thing, right likefrom that other song, get a
little bit softer now and then alittle bit louder a little bit
shout.
Yeah, yeah, yeah like I thinkthat that you put that in a song
, you're guaranteed you're goingto be in this category where at
first you hear you're like, oh,you might like eye roll a
(23:58):
little bit, but then by the youknow 10th time you hear it at
some party or a wedding, likeyou said, like you're going to
be really into it, you're goingto have a lot of fun and you're
just going to let yourself, justlet yourself celebrate.
So, yeah, well done to pitbullto write a song about one of the
worst drinks, I think, on thisplanet by the way, that's just
one of the worst ones A cinnamonflavored whiskey.
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The only incident, like theonly encounter I had with
Fireball was many, many yearsago, and I ended up swimming in
the Pacific Ocean at 2 am in themorning.
So that was it for me, that onetime.
You know that was it, that wasit.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That was it with me, that one time.
That was it, that was it.
That was it with Fireball, thatwas it with Fireball.
Okay, you'll be happy to know,I think, because I went to, I
think, a soccer match inMinnesota earlier this year and
I believe Fireball is theofficial flavored whiskey of
Minnesota United and theyactually had signs around.
That's like the officialflavored whiskey and I'm like we
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need official flavored whiskey.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, we absolutely do yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
By the way, Fireball, if you want to be the official
flavored whiskey of SuperAwesome Mix, give us a shout at
Super Awesome Mix on socialmedia.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll happily.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Happily.
We'll happily take your moneyand promote the, promote the
product, um all right track.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nine daft punk is playing at my house by lcd sound
system yeah, lcd sound systemhas also been making a lot of
appearances on my mixes and Ithink it's because I'm actively
at that inflection point of likeoh my gosh, I actually really
love this, love this sound.
Um, because really it's likethe first time.
I mean he, you know he's beenproducing music for a while.
(25:38):
I I ignored it for many, manyyears because every time I tried
to listen to it I was like Idon't get it.
I don't get it, like what is itabout?
Like his music that everyone'sreally into.
But now I just can't get enough.
Like it plays and I, I just Ican't hit stop, I can't hit skip
, like I just want to listen tothe entire song.
I want to be there for everystep of the journey, as
repetitive as it can be, like Ijust get pulled into a songs and
(26:00):
I can't, like it won't let up.
So I am at that point now whereI've just come full circle of
embracing LCD sound system andand just loving every single
second of it.
It's crazy, it took me a, ittook me like 20 years, but I'm
here.
I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I gotta say I kind of like this song right off the
bat.
Okay, that's great no it felt alittle bit like something cake
might produce.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Oh yeah, Okay, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And maybe that's where it kind of connected well
in my head.
But just the cadence with whichhe spoke, you know, kind of
hits the my house, my house alittle bit you know like a lot
of it.
But I yeah, I was like this ispretty good, I don't, I don't
object to this, so I didn't eventhink it would take me 50 times
to get to that point.
Now, now you wisely put itright after shoots and ladders,
(26:51):
so again sort of talking aboutrelative position in music.
Maybe I was just like thank God, this is just halfway
listenable.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But yeah no thumbs up on this one.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I liked it yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Okay, awesome, awesome, I'm going to get you to
come around on Chutes andLadders, you'll see it.
Yeah, okay, awesome, awesome,I'm gonna get you to come around
and shoot some ladders, you'llsee.
So let's move on to yourpenultimate track.
It is tonight.
Tonight by hot shell ray yeah,one hit wonder.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
From 2011, these guys are described as a pop band out
of nashville.
Um, this song, like I justthought it was so cheesy.
When it came out, I was likewhat is this?
It's not really rock or rap,it's barely pop.
It's a little emo with the wayhis voice sounds.
But the song got really popular.
(27:45):
So it was on the radio quite abit.
And then more recently and Idon't know how this happened,
but my son somehow discovered it, right, and it's just like dad
play this song and I'm like thissong and we start listening to
it and he's just delighted by it, like he loves it.
I mean, he's eight years old,right, so whatever.
But I got to admit I started tocome around on this one.
(28:09):
It's got kind of a 90s feel toit, even though it was made in
2011,.
I totally could have seen itbeing made in the late 90s by
some sort of weird boy band typething.
It's got kind of a rap thing atthe end.
That's kind of funny and, again, kind of gets the crowd
involved.
Anyway, now I'm like this is afun song.
I'm kind of in.
So, yeah, really, I totally getif um, I I have heard this song
(28:40):
.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'm not quite there yet to liking it, but I I agree
with you with everything you'vesaid.
It's got like that 90s soundfor sure.
What I kept thinking of when Ilistened to it is like it sounds
like the type of song you wouldhear being played in like a
home goods or a tj maxx, youknow where.
It's like it's kind ofagreeable to everyone, like no
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one is going to be sitting therelistening to it and being like
oh, oh, this song.
I'm going to speak to themanager and get it changed,
because I always remember onetime there was this song I think
it was by Akana Pop playinglike I crashed my car into the
bridge and watched it, let itburn and blah, blah, blah.
Like that song if you'refamiliar.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't know that song Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, it was playing once at like a sunglass hut and
like I was like shopping thereand literally a woman went and
asked for the manager becauseshe was so upset that they would
be playing the song because ofthe lyrics, because of what this
person was singing Wow.
It's like this totallyinappropriate, like really like
kind of Karen out on the managerabout the song Um, and so, yeah
(29:44):
, I just think that's like youplay music like this instead,
and no one's going to be upsetbecause you're just kind of like
okay, yeah, it sounds like amild song.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, and much like the brands, you might find that
like a home goods, like it kindof sounds like something you
like, but it's just not quite it.
It's not quite it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's so close, but but not there fully.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not quite not quite, but yeah, no,
that's funny and yeah, you'reright, totally agreeable song.
There's just nothingobjectionable at all in this, so
I could see how it became a pophit.
We haven't heard from theseguys since, though.
Yeah totally All right, yourlast pick.
This is Bodak Yellow by Cardi B.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
So Cardi B the first time Iheard this song I hadn't heard
of her yet.
I think this again, this iskind of like her arrival song
that was played a whole bunch.
I did not like it.
I thought like it, just I don'tknow something about the song
didn't stick with me.
It also didn't help that myfriend loved it and she had it
(30:48):
on repeat during a road trip forlike six hours, for like four
of those six hours.
So it's like, yeah, I feel likeit was like it was constantly
being played by her because shewas obsessed with it and it's
difficult to be introduced to asong that way.
I think, even if you like it,but you know, by the by the nth
hour of it, you're like I can't,please do not play that song
anymore.
Um, it's like I we'vereferenced this before but it's
like that scene in the officewhere they keep singing.
Life is a highway and yes anddaryl at some point it like
(31:10):
makes a phone call, like pleasepick up, please call me back,
like he just needs to get out ofthat car.
That's kind of how I feel, um,but you know what, like she, she
grew on me, right.
So I heard that song.
I didn't really care for it, Ididn't really listen to her, but
then obviously more of herstuff came out, more albums and
and I think she's got a new onecoming out here soon or is
(31:30):
already out.
But like incredible musician,incredible artist, incredible
rapper, like she's amazing andher music is so good, so I 100
came around to to her, but ittook me a minute to appreciate
all of that.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So what's funny here is I think we said on a recent
episode that you reallyshouldn't start beef with Cardi
B, right?
And here you are putting her onthis mix and saying you didn't
like this song at first.
I don't know what you're tryingto do here.
Okay with you and Cardi B, butI we're we're one or two more
mentions away from beingincluded on a diss track from
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her yeah, that's true, but youknow, I feel like it'd be really
good publicity.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Um, we, I, I would be , I would get into a diss war
with cardi b.
I feel like even if we lost, wewould somehow still win that's
a great point.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We could yeah, we would have to come up with our
own form of a diss track.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, a diss pod, but I don't know what that
would be like.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I uh no, but you know what here's, here's, if I could
say, I have a beef with thissong, right, um?
is that I kept waiting for it tokick in, and it never does.
It just stays on the same beatthe whole time and I feel like
she could have swelled up atsome point and done something a
little bit more.
But it's fine as a song.
(32:53):
I didn't like hate it, but Ialso didn't love it.
So I could see, though, overtime, how it might wear you down
and you like it a little more.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
That's a really good note.
Yeah, I totally agree.
Said that I'm like yes, that istrue, all right.
Um, this one I was kind ofsurprised by, so I'm eager to
hear the story here, because Ithought you were number one fan
of this band.
So we'll see.
But it is round here bycounting crows yeah, you're
right.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Uh, long time listeners of the show know I
love counting crows.
I've brought on a lot of theirmore recent music.
I've included them on other mix, uh.
But their first two big hitswere mr jones and this song and
I didn't really like either one.
When it came out right and Iwas telling my wife about this
mix and I even got to this oneand she's like what?
(33:41):
No, that's a great song, I go.
I did not like it when it cameout.
It's such a bummer.
And it came out like when I was, like I don't know, a freshman
or sophomore in high schoolmaybe, maybe I was older, but
like.
I remember someone playing itat a party and I and I remember
asking like are you trying toget everyone to leave?
Like, why are you playing thisright now?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
you know what's gonna be great.
We're so worried about cardi btrashing us like we're gonna get
we're gonna get the countingcrows to come after us now yeah,
and I'm gonna have to be likeno, no, no, like I love you guys
, but just this first couplesongs.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I just wasn't here, I wasn't feeling it.
I wasn't feeling it.
Yeah, this song, I think, issuch a downer or I remember
thinking it was such a downerand I just couldn't get into it,
I don't know.
So I was really out on this oneand then over time and the song
is like 30 years old, yeah, Istarted to come around and I
(34:37):
definitely appreciate it a lotmore now, and there's probably a
nostalgia feel to it as well,for for when it came out, but,
um, but yeah, this was, this wasone I will fully admit.
And look, this is for all thefans out there.
Okay, if any type of music, justbecause you hear one song by an
artist, don't dismiss themaltogether.
Right, like, get into theircatalog a little bit and you may
(34:59):
not like their big hit, butthere might be 50 other songs by
them that you would reallyappreciate.
And I think that's the lessonhere with counting crows is, I
listened to the rest of thatfirst album.
I did like that album, um, andthen all their stuff since then
and like they've got an albumthat just came out this year
that I can't stop listening to,like I love it and so, um,
(35:20):
anyway, but yeah, around here,it just wasn't, it just didn't
mesh this is an important thing.
It didn't mesh with where I wasand at that time in my life,
right, sure, kind of like theceline dion thing earlier, it's
just like, yeah, this is a greatsong, but I'm not, I'm not
listening to this right now.
Right, and so again anotherlesson there.
Like, right, it's like, justbecause you didn't like it at a
(35:40):
certain age doesn't mean youcouldn't come back and like be
like, oh, actually I'm, I aminto this song, this is great
yeah you actually.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Your first point really gave me um another mix
idea, which is where we couldpotentially put together a mix
where the most popular song of aband, in our opinion, is
actually like their worst song,and that they have like much
better songs yes, I think thatwould be a really interesting
mix because I can think of ahandful um just immediately
where it's like yeah, like thepop hit, like whatever they
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rolled out as a single that gotplayed everywhere is not at all
representative of like actuallytheir talent or like or their
skill.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Whatever it may be right there's definitely a lot
of music like that.
No, I love that.
I love that.
Yeah, that's definitely goingon the list.
Nice, all right.
Well, there you have it,another super awesome mix for
your collection.
Hopefully there's some on herethat you like right off the bat,
but if not, I mean, just keeplistening to this one, because
we think you're going to comearound, all right.
But I'm sure you have yourpicks out there of songs that
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you didn't like at first, butthen you started to really enjoy
.
So hit us up at super awesomemix on Instagram and threads and
, of course, check out all thevideos on YouTube at super
awesome mix.
We've got plenty of other mixesto get to.
So, for Sam, this is Matt andwe will see you next time.
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix.
My name is Matt Sidholm,alongside my co-host and
co-founder of Super Awesome Mix,sam Abusalvi.
Sam, how are we feeling thisweek?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Feeling pretty good, especially after listening to
this mix.
I feel comforted in a weird way, right.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
In a weird way.
Yeah, I think that's a good wayof describing it.
So I think we're going to havekind of a polarizing mix this
week, and I think that's kind ofintentional right.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
I believe we came up with thismix as we often do in in the
episode of another mix that werecorded.
We come up with these ideas onthese like offshoot
conversations.
So this is the stockholmsyndromes mix and basically we
were charged with picking eachsix songs that represented
either a band or a song where,when you first heard it, you
(01:04):
were like this is an awful song,or like I hate this song't like
the band, I want nothing to dowith it.
But for whatever reason andoften is the case like these are
like top 40 songs you just kepthearing it over and over and
over and eventually you're like,okay, I kind of like this song.
And you get to the point whereyou're like, oh yeah, this song
is on.
And you get to the point whereyou're like, oh yeah, this song
is on.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Let's go.
Yeah, so just a level set.
Okay, I looked up the clinicaldefinition here.
Stockholm Syndrome is definedas a psychological response
where hostages or abuse victimsdevelop a positive bond with
their captors or abusers.
Okay, so yeah, you're exactlyright.
Musically it's.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I hated this song at first, but just somehow, over
time I I've grown to love thissong Exactly.
Yes, yeah, you hear.
You hear that phrase a lot tokind of encapsulate that exact
journey.
So we thought, like thathappens with music, that
definitely happens with music.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
A hundred percent, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, where at first you just feel, yeah, just you
object to everything about thissong.
And then one day you're puttingit on a mix, you're like, oh, I
love this song.
It brings me back.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No doubt, no doubt.
So well, we're going to startwith your first pick and this
one.
It's actually the second timethis song has made an appearance
on the mix, but it is HashtagSelf smokers yeah, I mean, the
first time I heard this song Ihonestly thought it was a joke.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
like I thought it was like like a parody song,
because I was like this is aterrible song.
Um, I think when I very firstheard it was in a tiesto mix.
Like I love listening to him.
He does these like hour longweekly podcast episodes that are
just him mixing songs and heincluded this song and the way
he even brought it up.
I literally thought it was justlike a parody song.
He's like, oh, that's cool,he's putting this in there.
(02:55):
But then it turns out it was afull song and I was like someone
made this song Like how, why?
And I hadn't.
I think this was kind ofChainsmokers, big kind of
breakout hit too.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That kind of got them on the scene and so I didn't
know who they were.
I was just incredulous thatthis song was playing anywhere.
But by the let's say 50th timethat I heard it, I kind of got
hooked.
You know, I kind of started tobe like I get it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like it's kind of started to be like I get it like
it's kind of catchy, you know.
And so that's the number 50, Ithink it was 50.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
50 is the number you know, and then, like it just
generated all these memes and itbecame like a whole thing.
Like, at first, let me take aselfie, and you know, and like
the music video also.
I ended up watching the musicvideo like I just kept going
further and further into selfieworld rather than running away
from it, and so by the end of itI was like, yes, this song's on
and and here we are so, yeah,this is a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This was on our earworm mix, and so once you
hear this, you'll, you'llrecognize it and it's definitely
an earworm.
But yeah, I mean, I I rememberhearing it and then I'd kind of
forgotten about it, and then youput it on the earworm mix and
then the second I saw it here, Iwas like, oh man, and yeah, I
could see how it would wear youdown.
Right, I'm not at that levelyet.
(04:14):
I will say, with this song I'mstill in the I can.
I can live without it side ofit, but I'm definitely like.
I'm like OK.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And it gets stuck in your head and you kind of start
bobbing along Right.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah, I think a lot of these Stockholm Syndrome
songs ended up kind ofearworming as well.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Definitely yes.
They just find a way to embedthemselves so you keep listening
to it hours after you'vestopped listening to it.
I think that's kind of theirsecret for sure.
All right, so track number twoyou know, we both had a feeling
that this was going to happen,but we actually both picked the
songs from this band because Ican't think of a better band
that encapsulates StockholmSyndrome music than the Black
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Eyed Peas.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So your pick and it's your first pick on the mix is I
Got a Feeling we kind oflaughed when this happened
because and I mean honestly, wecould have picked some others
right like honorable mentiongoes to boom boom pow, which
didn't make the mix, but verywell could have all right.
Like this one starts out andit's just like what is this?
(05:19):
Is that an organ or somethingthat they start with?
And then I mean, yeah, like thefirst time I heard this song I
was like I have no interest inin listening to this ever again,
but this song is ubiquitous, Imean you you hear it everywhere.
I don't even remember what yearit came out, but my, my kids
still like this is a verykid-friendly song.
(05:40):
So you hear a lot of kidbirthday parties and stuff and,
um, yeah, I mean.
And so it's just like, oh god,this is miserable, this is
miserable.
And then what's gonna happen isyou're gonna find yourself at a
wedding and of course they'regonna play this right and by the
time they roll around to 10nights, that night for the
second time, I mean, you'regonna be in there, like the
situation, just fist pumping inthe middle of the dance floor I
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immediately went to weddings too.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I I think I think my wife and I actually put this on
our do not playlist for our dj.
I think we included this song.
Like you cannot play this songof, I got a feeling that
tonight's gonna be a good night,oh my goodness.
And like the lyrics.
Can we talk about the lyricsthat the black ed Peas produce?
I?
Mean there's literally asection where they just write
let's do it and do it, and do it, do it, do it.
(06:31):
What do we?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
do Hold on, hold on.
Now I'm going to jump in with.
Let's do it.
Yeah, no, no, no, go with that.
Go with that Apple D app.
Jump in with.
Let's do it right there.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's like they write lyrics of their songs like five
minutes before they arrive atthe recording studio.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This is a cram session.
It's just like guys remember.
They gave us that money sixmonths ago to write an album.
Well, today's the day we'rerecording it.
Okay, okay, hold on.
All right, how far is the drive?
I mean with traffic?
27 minutes, okay, okay.
Yeah, you know it's.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's not a reach, right, it's not a reach for them
to arrive at these lyrics in ahandful of minutes, like what
are we doing?
I don't know it.
Okay, great, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Let's do it.
Yeah.
No, he just wants somethinggeneral right like do it, do it,
we don't yeah we want to be forall fans.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We don't want to cut anyone out of the equation, you
know so we, if we mentioned whatwe're doing, we might lose 50
of our audience but if we justsay, let's do it yeah I mean,
everyone's gonna be, everyone'sgonna know what it is and look,
let's just make it a good night,not a great night.
Yeah, exactly like it's gonnabe a good night okay, you know
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that's a low enough bar a lot ofpeople can get behind that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Um, all right, well, and this you know, of course, we
never planned this, but this isalways how it works out.
Okay, we, we had this as ourthese.
These these ended up being backto back your Black Eyed Peas
pick was Pump it.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, I mean again written 10 minutes before they
sung the song.
Like there is I I don't evenknow, but like they, they're
just so catchy.
And I heard the song first andI was like my god, I don't like
the song and like I don't likethe black eyed peas, and they're
like why are these?
Who's giving them money to keepproducing music?
(08:31):
You know, like, please, please,stop.
But but then I just kepthearing it and and then I got to
the point where I literallyplayed.
I started to play it ironicallyand I think that's another trap
, is you're?
like oh yeah, yes I'm gonna playthis, even though I like hate
it, haha.
But then you're like, I kind ofreally love this song now,
(08:53):
let's just leave it to the end,guys.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Wouldn't this be a hilarious goof?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
okay, let me change it, please yeah, I think that's
exactly what happens.
But I mean, this is, this is acatchy song.
This is a very catchy song likeit's.
Just it, I don't know grew onme and now, um, I actually used
to play a remix version of it inmy spin classes back when I was
a spin instructor and, um,people liked it, it was a good
(09:16):
song.
It was a good song to spin toit's.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It just makes you want to move well, and you gotta
give a lot of credit to thesample they use here, okay, okay
, dick Dale and the DeltonesMiserlew, okay, and that got
kind of a second life in themovie Pulp Fiction and yeah,
like that, that song is awesomeRight, and it's kind of this
classic surf rock.
You know guitar riff and Ithink that lends itself to this
(09:41):
song being likable and wearingyou down.
But yeah, I mean just lyrically, you know, pump it louder, pump
it louder, like all right, andthere's a few raps in there.
You know, like bergie gets acouple runs, I don't know.
But yeah, I mean, yeah, I'mwith you.
I used it on a uh, when I wascoaching a basketball team, we
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used it for our highlight filmone year.
Okay, like all right, let'sroll, guys bump it that would
make for a good one yeah yeah,good backing track for that.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I like it all right, let's move on to your next pick.
So it is in parentheses.
I can't help.
And then falling in love withyou by you be 40 okay, so this
is a cover song.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Elvis did the original in 1961, and then about
30 years onward.
Okay, in the 90s, UB40 decidedto put their own spin on it as
part of the soundtrack for avery forgettable movie called
Sliver.
Never seen it, never seen it.
Yeah, yeah, you shouldn't right.
Terrible movie, but was sharonstone's follow-up to basic
(10:45):
instinct, so it's kind of a bigdeal because she had made such a
splash in basic instinct, right, um.
But yeah, when this one came onI was like what?
What is this?
Oh my gosh.
You know, because, like theelvis song is a very like kind
of sweet romantic song.
Right, and then there's this andthen, if you ever and again
(11:07):
nobody go out and watch thismovie, because I can't even
describe the plot, it doesn'teven really make sense, but the
whole music video for this iscentered around this movie, like
it's very much associated withthis movie.
This is a romantic song.
That is not a romantic movie.
So there's also some dissonancethere.
Um.
So like the music video doesn'tmake sense, the connection
(11:30):
doesn't make sense, but overtime I kind of started to like
it and I think it's the I, Ithink it's the horns, maybe at
the end that kind of kick in.
I'm like this is kind of funand maybe it's a sense of
nostalgia, I don't know.
But man, I don't know what'shappened.
(11:51):
But this song, over time reallyI was like okay, I think I'm in
on this and I kind of want toturn it up.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm sure that nostalgia plays a huge role in a
lot of these songs.
Right like we, we as people, ashuman beings, tend to kind of
gloss over painful parts ofthings in history.
You know like, we'll look back.
I feel like everyone, likepresidents are a great example.
You look back at pastpresidents.
You're like, oh, he was great.
But like during theadministration, you're like this
is the worst president we'veever had.
You know like, but now you'relike what?
You know what's that guy doing?
(12:27):
Can we bring him back?
Did he do two terms or can herun?
Can he run?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
again.
I yeah.
I think there's this phenomenonwhere it's like we have to
describe what's going on now asthe worst time possible, so
anything prior to this wasbetter right, totally, totally,
yeah.
Yeah, we had gas lines withjimmy carter, but remember how
cheap gas was.
I mean, come on like maybe hekind of had something there
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that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Um, yes, but yeah, I think, um, this song, I agree
kind of it just feels so chill.
You know like you're kind oflike I don't.
I don't know why it exists, butthe more you listen to it
you're like maybe it exists justbecause it's so chill and maybe
that's all that's what it'shere for yeah, I don't, I don't
know if I ever thought, you know, yeah, you wonder what elvis
(13:17):
would have thought of this right, if he was alive to see it.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Um, yeah, it would have been like yeah, I think
this does need a reggae versionit like, took out all of the,
the oomph of it, and like theemotional quality to it and it
just basically turned it intolike a song that you could just
play in the background there'sno emotion, there's no emotion.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's a great point.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Yeah, um, all right.
Well, here's a song that'sslightly more emotional.
Okay, uh, your next pick trackfive, it is sorry, by justin
bieber.
So, yeah, this here's a songthat's slightly more emotional.
Okay, your next pick track five, it is Sorry, by Justin Bieber.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So yeah, this one's a little bit of both the song and
the artist, because in thebeginning I was very anti-Bieber
of his music and just like Idon't know, I didn't get it.
And this song in particular, Ithink obviously was like a huge,
huge breakout or not breakout,but just a huge song of his that
got played everywhere all thetime and so I just wanted
nothing to do with it.
(14:08):
But it would come on all thetime and, you know, I think
people would play it in spinclasses like other instructors
and have remixes of it, and soit just started to do that, do
its thing.
Like it just started to grow onme and I got to the point where
I was like, oh, I think I, he's, he's really good at pop music.
(14:30):
I, I admit it, I admit defeat,but wow, he's talented at this.
You know, like say, let'signore everything about the man
justin bieber and all of that,but like he can make pop hits
and he certainly did um over hiscareer.
So yeah, I this, this one grewon me, even though the first
several times I heard the songdid not like the song.
(14:51):
It also got stuck in my head.
I just felt it was likeannoying and whiny and I don't
know I did not like the song.
It also got stuck in my head.
I just felt it was likeannoying and whiny and I don't
know I didn't like anythingabout it.
But then now I'm like yeah,sorry Zahn, I remember that song
, great song.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I've always loved it so I'm going to show my age here
, that, like, when this camearound, I don't even think I was
like you know, like I didn'teven know it existed, type of
thing, right, right.
And then, obviously, mydaughter just turned 12.
So it's like this is very muchin the mix for her, even though
it's kind of a.
I think it came out probablybefore she was born, but but
(15:25):
she'll listen to this, and sothat's how I became aware of it.
But I just my first note herewas like this is a great call by
you, because it is like when Ifirst heard this, I'm like God,
jesus, well, what am I listeningto?
Right, like.
But then after a while I'm likethis isn't bad, okay, I like
the change there.
Okay, he changed up the rhythma little bit, that's pretty good
(15:46):
.
And okay, yeah, I mean I I'm ahundred percent with you.
I kind of definitely was out onthis pretty quickly upon
hearing it at first, but I'vecome around to where I'm like
this isn't bad Now that might berelative to some of the other
stuff she listens to.
I may just be like I don't know.
Go back to.
Sorry, I'm good, right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Your grading of music has to change because of what's
available to you.
This is the least disagreeablemusic Right.
All right, let's move on totrack number six.
Great pick here, and it's allcoming back to me now, by Celine
(16:28):
Dion.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, so this song came out in the mid 90s.
I think I was just startingcollege when this came out, and
so I mean, this is squarelyadult, contemporary, right, like
this is not something you'relistening to at 18 years old,
but this song was everywhere,right, and so it's like it's you
couldn't escape.
It was on the radio, there wasa music video, like there was
(16:52):
all of it, right, and uh, yeah,over time it just became this
song that I'm like you know what?
She's got a really good voice,you know.
Okay, hey, look, I can't faulther for singing, all right, and
then, and then you hear it again.
It's like god, that's a prettygood, pretty good intro.
You know the way it swells up,okay, I kind of like that and
(17:12):
then like again, I'll go back tomy daughter.
She recently discovered thisand she, she like, she's like,
oh, leave that song on.
And I was like, oh, okay.
And I'm like, yeah, this isawesome.
And now I'm squarely in theadult contemporary category and
so now I'm like all in.
I'm like yes, so it took me 30years.
(17:33):
I had to catch up to this song.
But I mean, I love this song.
I'm willing to say that.
But I will say when it came out, I was very much out on this
song.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm with you.
Like I had a similar journey.
I think my first introductionto Celine Dion was the Titanic
song, which she's probably sickof doing, right.
I mean like oh song, whichshe's probably sick of doing,
right.
I mean like oh, yeah, um, andso I, I didn't, I didn't care
for the movie, I didn't care forthe song.
I was like no, no, I was fartoo young to like connect with
any of it.
But then over the years, samedeal, like I've listened to more
of her music.
(18:03):
And then of course she, she didone of the last songs in the
olympic opening ceremony ohsinging from the eiffel tower
and I'm incredible, blown, blownaway, yeah, completely blown
away, unbelievable.
Her voice is incredible, and soI'm listening to this now and
I'm like, yeah, it's all comingback to me now.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
The title even fits how we feel about it now.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
It was her long game, this whole time talk about
musical brilliance.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean, how do you pull that off?
But she did it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Just sheer talent, you.
This is a song you just have tostart singing along with.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know, I mean it's just so good, it's so good, yes
, great karaoke song, if you canpull it off if you can pull it
off, yeah yeah, uh, now, not agreat karaoke song here, track
seven uh, this is called shootsand ladders by corn I.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was like laughing when I picked this song, because
even even today there's momentswhere I'm like why, how is this
music like what?
What am I listening?
Why am I listening to it?
But here's kudos to Korn, right?
So Korn has some great songs.
I actually really do like themand I've grown to like them more
and more as I've listened moreto like hard rock and metal and
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everything.
If you're into that genre, likeKorn is one of the greats from
that time period.
Here's where this song wins meover, number one.
How many songs do you know likecontemporary music, songs that
integrate a bagpipe for like thefirst, like two minutes of the
song you?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
know that's okay, not not many.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
It's impressive and that's fair, do it in a way
where you're like, okay, yeah,yeah, you know, like I I feel
those that drum beat behind it,like I'm kind of getting into
this.
And then he gets a lot ofpoints because he turned a bunch
of children's rhymes into areally dark song, just a really
freaking dark song, and I'm alsovery impressed by that like
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this, you know, you're like, ifyou just read the lyrics alone
you'd probably be like, oh, thisis a great kid song, that's a
great point.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's a great kid song.
That's a great point.
That's a great point, yeah,yeah.
First of all, shout out, shoutout to our Scottish listeners
who just I mean, bagpipe musicis just pop music over there,
sam.
So I just want to make surethat everyone knows we're
culturally aware, right?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's just pop music over there.
That's all they listen to.
That's all they listen to.
It's it's just pop music overthere.
That's all they listen to.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
That's all they listen to.
It's a lot of bagpipes.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Anyway, we love you guys, keep, keep listening okay,
keep on listening.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, um, sam, I thought for a second that I was
listening to one of your picksfor the worst mix ever.
When I heard this song, I Ihated this song and maybe like,
like and I get it.
The whole point with StockholmSyndrome is you do hate it at
first and then eventually youcome around.
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But I didn't even want tofinish listening to it for the
first time, so I don't know howI'm going to go back.
What was the number earlier?
50?
.
I don't know how I'm getting to50 on Chutes and Ladders to
where I'm like, yeah, okay,there we go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm just going to have to, rick, roll you over the
next couple of years.
I'm like Matt, we just got anemail.
You got to click this link inthere.
It's amazing, there's thisguest who wants to come on the
show.
You go, you click the link andit's just going to be this song.
I'll check in with you in acouple of years.
We'll see how you feel.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
A couple of years of it.
The Korn concert holding up asign play.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Chutes and Ladders.
That's my favorite.
We love you.
That's awesome.
Okay, this is another artist.
Let's move on to track eighthere.
Another artist that had to beon this mix, like just alongside
Black Eyed peas I think we allhave this relationship with this
(22:02):
a singer.
Uh, the song is fireball.
It is, of course, by the oneand only mr worldwide aka
pitbull, uh, and it featuresjohn ryan.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, I mean, if the black eyed peas are the gold
medalists in this category, Imean pitbull is a very, very
honorable silver medalist.
Okay, I mean absolutely.
And I could have picked I don'tknow 17 songs to go on this any
song he's ever produced, yeahlike is.
you're just annoyed by it atfirst, and then, yeah, it's a,
(22:26):
because of course he's going tostart.
Much like dj khaled, he's gotto tell you who he is.
Right, mr Worldwide.
Okay, here we go.
It's like, all right, we got it.
We got it Pitbull, because allyour songs sound the same, so we
know exactly who we'relistening to.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Okay, I also now know anytime someone's going to call
me from Miami.
I know it because of him.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's great we all know Miami's area code.
It's a great point.
Yeah, I mean all the cell phonecompanies can take that feature
off, just for Miami, becausePitbull has taught us yeah, yeah
, but this one, I mean againit's you know you're drinking a
Mountain Dew, right, it's emptycalories and it's just all right
(23:06):
.
Okay, here we go, mr Worldwide.
But then, yeah, the more youlisten to it, it again it just
starts to wear you down to whereby the end, you're screaming
fireball with everybody else,right, I mean great wedding song
.
This is a great wedding songbecause they bring it down, then
they bring it back.
I mean all the, all the things.
(23:26):
So, yeah, I mean this is uh, I,I don't know.
Just anything by pitbull justfalls squarely into this
category I, I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, he makes a really good like party song,
like where he can get the crowdin.
And I agree, like having doingthe like, get a little bit
quieter now thing, right likefrom that other song, get a
little bit softer now and then alittle bit louder a little bit
shout.
Yeah, yeah, yeah like I thinkthat that you put that in a song
, you're guaranteed you're goingto be in this category where at
first you hear you're like, oh,you might like eye roll a
(23:58):
little bit, but then by the youknow 10th time you hear it at
some party or a wedding, likeyou said, like you're going to
be really into it, you're goingto have a lot of fun and you're
just going to let yourself, justlet yourself celebrate.
So, yeah, well done to pitbullto write a song about one of the
worst drinks, I think, on thisplanet by the way, that's just
one of the worst ones A cinnamonflavored whiskey.
(24:18):
The only incident, like theonly encounter I had with
Fireball was many, many yearsago, and I ended up swimming in
the Pacific Ocean at 2 am in themorning.
So that was it for me, that onetime.
You know that was it, that wasit.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That was it with me, that one time.
That was it, that was it.
That was it with Fireball, thatwas it with Fireball.
Okay, you'll be happy to know,I think, because I went to, I
think, a soccer match inMinnesota earlier this year and
I believe Fireball is theofficial flavored whiskey of
Minnesota United and theyactually had signs around.
That's like the officialflavored whiskey and I'm like we
(24:54):
need official flavored whiskey.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, we absolutely do yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
By the way, Fireball, if you want to be the official
flavored whiskey of SuperAwesome Mix, give us a shout at
Super Awesome Mix on socialmedia.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
We'll happily.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Happily.
We'll happily take your moneyand promote the, promote the
product, um all right track.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Nine daft punk is playing at my house by lcd sound
system yeah, lcd sound systemhas also been making a lot of
appearances on my mixes and Ithink it's because I'm actively
at that inflection point of likeoh my gosh, I actually really
love this, love this sound.
Um, because really it's likethe first time.
I mean he, you know he's beenproducing music for a while.
(25:38):
I I ignored it for many, manyyears because every time I tried
to listen to it I was like Idon't get it.
I don't get it, like what is itabout?
Like his music that everyone'sreally into.
But now I just can't get enough.
Like it plays and I, I just Ican't hit stop, I can't hit skip
, like I just want to listen tothe entire song.
I want to be there for everystep of the journey, as
repetitive as it can be, like Ijust get pulled into a songs and
(26:00):
I can't, like it won't let up.
So I am at that point now whereI've just come full circle of
embracing LCD sound system andand just loving every single
second of it.
It's crazy, it took me a, ittook me like 20 years, but I'm
here.
I'm here now.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I gotta say I kind of like this song right off the
bat.
Okay, that's great no it felt alittle bit like something cake
might produce.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Oh yeah, Okay, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And maybe that's where it kind of connected well
in my head.
But just the cadence with whichhe spoke, you know, kind of
hits the my house, my house alittle bit you know like a lot
of it.
But I yeah, I was like this ispretty good, I don't, I don't
object to this, so I didn't eventhink it would take me 50 times
to get to that point.
Now, now you wisely put itright after shoots and ladders,
(26:51):
so again sort of talking aboutrelative position in music.
Maybe I was just like thank God, this is just halfway
listenable.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
But yeah no thumbs up on this one.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I liked it yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Okay, awesome, awesome, I'm going to get you to
come around on Chutes andLadders, you'll see it.
Yeah, okay, awesome, awesome,I'm gonna get you to come around
and shoot some ladders, you'llsee.
So let's move on to yourpenultimate track.
It is tonight.
Tonight by hot shell ray yeah,one hit wonder.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
From 2011, these guys are described as a pop band out
of nashville.
Um, this song, like I justthought it was so cheesy.
When it came out, I was likewhat is this?
It's not really rock or rap,it's barely pop.
It's a little emo with the wayhis voice sounds.
But the song got really popular.
(27:45):
So it was on the radio quite abit.
And then more recently and Idon't know how this happened,
but my son somehow discovered it, right, and it's just like dad
play this song and I'm like thissong and we start listening to
it and he's just delighted by it, like he loves it.
I mean, he's eight years old,right, so whatever.
But I got to admit I started tocome around on this one.
(28:09):
It's got kind of a 90s feel toit, even though it was made in
2011,.
I totally could have seen itbeing made in the late 90s by
some sort of weird boy band typething.
It's got kind of a rap thing atthe end.
That's kind of funny and, again, kind of gets the crowd
involved.
Anyway, now I'm like this is afun song.
I'm kind of in.
So, yeah, really, I totally getif um, I I have heard this song
(28:40):
.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'm not quite there yet to liking it, but I I agree
with you with everything you'vesaid.
It's got like that 90s soundfor sure.
What I kept thinking of when Ilistened to it is like it sounds
like the type of song you wouldhear being played in like a
home goods or a tj maxx, youknow where.
It's like it's kind ofagreeable to everyone, like no
(29:00):
one is going to be sitting therelistening to it and being like
oh, oh, this song.
I'm going to speak to themanager and get it changed,
because I always remember onetime there was this song I think
it was by Akana Pop playinglike I crashed my car into the
bridge and watched it, let itburn and blah, blah, blah.
Like that song if you'refamiliar.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I don't know that song Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Well, it was playing once at like a sunglass hut and
like I was like shopping thereand literally a woman went and
asked for the manager becauseshe was so upset that they would
be playing the song because ofthe lyrics, because of what this
person was singing Wow.
It's like this totallyinappropriate, like really like
kind of Karen out on the managerabout the song Um, and so, yeah
(29:44):
, I just think that's like youplay music like this instead,
and no one's going to be upsetbecause you're just kind of like
okay, yeah, it sounds like amild song.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, and much like the brands, you might find that
like a home goods, like it kindof sounds like something you
like, but it's just not quite it.
It's not quite it.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's so close, but but not there fully.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not quite not quite, but yeah, no,
that's funny and yeah, you'reright, totally agreeable song.
There's just nothingobjectionable at all in this, so
I could see how it became a pophit.
We haven't heard from theseguys since, though.
Yeah totally All right, yourlast pick.
This is Bodak Yellow by Cardi B.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah.
So Cardi B the first time Iheard this song I hadn't heard
of her yet.
I think this again, this iskind of like her arrival song
that was played a whole bunch.
I did not like it.
I thought like it, just I don'tknow something about the song
didn't stick with me.
It also didn't help that myfriend loved it and she had it
(30:48):
on repeat during a road trip forlike six hours, for like four
of those six hours.
So it's like, yeah, I feel likeit was like it was constantly
being played by her because shewas obsessed with it and it's
difficult to be introduced to asong that way.
I think, even if you like it,but you know, by the by the nth
hour of it, you're like I can't,please do not play that song
anymore.
Um, it's like I we'vereferenced this before but it's
like that scene in the officewhere they keep singing.
Life is a highway and yes anddaryl at some point it like
(31:10):
makes a phone call, like pleasepick up, please call me back,
like he just needs to get out ofthat car.
That's kind of how I feel, um,but you know what, like she, she
grew on me, right.
So I heard that song.
I didn't really care for it, Ididn't really listen to her, but
then obviously more of herstuff came out, more albums and
and I think she's got a new onecoming out here soon or is
(31:30):
already out.
But like incredible musician,incredible artist, incredible
rapper, like she's amazing andher music is so good, so I 100
came around to to her, but ittook me a minute to appreciate
all of that.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
So what's funny here is I think we said on a recent
episode that you reallyshouldn't start beef with Cardi
B, right?
And here you are putting her onthis mix and saying you didn't
like this song at first.
I don't know what you're tryingto do here.
Okay with you and Cardi B, butI we're we're one or two more
mentions away from beingincluded on a diss track from
(32:09):
her yeah, that's true, but youknow, I feel like it'd be really
good publicity.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Um, we, I, I would be , I would get into a diss war
with cardi b.
I feel like even if we lost, wewould somehow still win that's
a great point.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
We could yeah, we would have to come up with our
own form of a diss track.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, a diss pod, but I don't know what that
would be like.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I uh no, but you know what here's, here's, if I could
say, I have a beef with thissong, right, um?
is that I kept waiting for it tokick in, and it never does.
It just stays on the same beatthe whole time and I feel like
she could have swelled up atsome point and done something a
little bit more.
But it's fine as a song.
(32:53):
I didn't like hate it, but Ialso didn't love it.
So I could see, though, overtime, how it might wear you down
and you like it a little more.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
That's a really good note.
Yeah, I totally agree.
Said that I'm like yes, that istrue, all right.
Um, this one I was kind ofsurprised by, so I'm eager to
hear the story here, because Ithought you were number one fan
of this band.
So we'll see.
But it is round here bycounting crows yeah, you're
right.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Uh, long time listeners of the show know I
love counting crows.
I've brought on a lot of theirmore recent music.
I've included them on other mix, uh.
But their first two big hitswere mr jones and this song and
I didn't really like either one.
When it came out right and Iwas telling my wife about this
mix and I even got to this oneand she's like what?
(33:41):
No, that's a great song, I go.
I did not like it when it cameout.
It's such a bummer.
And it came out like when I was, like I don't know, a freshman
or sophomore in high schoolmaybe, maybe I was older, but
like.
I remember someone playing itat a party and I and I remember
asking like are you trying toget everyone to leave?
Like, why are you playing thisright now?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
you know what's gonna be great.
We're so worried about cardi btrashing us like we're gonna get
we're gonna get the countingcrows to come after us now yeah,
and I'm gonna have to be likeno, no, no, like I love you guys
, but just this first couplesongs.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I just wasn't here, I wasn't feeling it.
I wasn't feeling it.
Yeah, this song, I think, issuch a downer or I remember
thinking it was such a downerand I just couldn't get into it,
I don't know.
So I was really out on this oneand then over time and the song
is like 30 years old, yeah, Istarted to come around and I
(34:37):
definitely appreciate it a lotmore now, and there's probably a
nostalgia feel to it as well,for for when it came out, but,
um, but yeah, this was, this wasone I will fully admit.
And look, this is for all thefans out there.
Okay, if any type of music, justbecause you hear one song by an
artist, don't dismiss themaltogether.
Right, like, get into theircatalog a little bit and you may
(34:59):
not like their big hit, butthere might be 50 other songs by
them that you would reallyappreciate.
And I think that's the lessonhere with counting crows is, I
listened to the rest of thatfirst album.
I did like that album, um, andthen all their stuff since then
and like they've got an albumthat just came out this year
that I can't stop listening to,like I love it and so, um,
(35:20):
anyway, but yeah, around here,it just wasn't, it just didn't
mesh this is an important thing.
It didn't mesh with where I wasand at that time in my life,
right, sure, kind of like theceline dion thing earlier, it's
just like, yeah, this is a greatsong, but I'm not, I'm not
listening to this right now.
Right, and so again anotherlesson there.
Like, right, it's like, justbecause you didn't like it at a
(35:40):
certain age doesn't mean youcouldn't come back and like be
like, oh, actually I'm, I aminto this song, this is great
yeah you actually.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Your first point really gave me um another mix
idea, which is where we couldpotentially put together a mix
where the most popular song of aband, in our opinion, is
actually like their worst song,and that they have like much
better songs yes, I think thatwould be a really interesting
mix because I can think of ahandful um just immediately
where it's like yeah, like thepop hit, like whatever they
(36:09):
rolled out as a single that gotplayed everywhere is not at all
representative of like actuallytheir talent or like or their
skill.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Whatever it may be right there's definitely a lot
of music like that.
No, I love that.
I love that.
Yeah, that's definitely goingon the list.
Nice, all right.
Well, there you have it,another super awesome mix for
your collection.
Hopefully there's some on herethat you like right off the bat,
but if not, I mean, just keeplistening to this one, because
we think you're going to comearound, all right.
But I'm sure you have yourpicks out there of songs that
(36:39):
you didn't like at first, butthen you started to really enjoy
.
So hit us up at super awesomemix on Instagram and threads and
, of course, check out all thevideos on YouTube at super
awesome mix.
We've got plenty of other mixesto get to.
So, for Sam, this is Matt andwe will see you next time.
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