Episode 5 - Podcasters Choice What the Lyric

Episode 5 - Podcasters Choice - Anything goes on this edition of What the Lyric. Becky and Matthew choose their favorite bad lyrics from any decade and and genre. One is from 2016 and the other is from 1978. Who will be victorious?
Podcasters Choice
 
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Becky: Welcome. To What he Lyric? the podcast that confirms, yeah, that actually made it to radio.
 
Hello and welcome to What the Lyric? Today and What the Lyric? podcasters choice, we pick apart whatever song we want, it's a free for all. And I have picked something recent.
 
Matthew: Oh.
 
Becky: I think it still fits into the me-too movement theme I got going on.
 
Matthew: I do have to ask first though. Most hated bands…
 
Becky: These guys.
 
Matthew: Across the board…
 
Becky: Yes.
 
Matthew: Do not tell me yet. But any others like…
 
Becky: These guys.
 
Matthew: Was it an easy choice for you to make?
 
Becky: Yes. It was so… The first song that James Arthur, horrific train wreck of a wedding song that people are using. That one and I think this one are the reason that this podcast exists.
 
Matthew: Wow.
 
Becky: Yeah.
 
Matthew: There was no other song. That popped into your head?
 
Becky: Nope. This one. I was like and this is it. There are a couple others. That I thought of because they were funny, but I was like, no, I hate this one immensely. Like. So much, so much
 
Matthew: Fascinating. See! Mine was less generated by hatred and more confusion. Because I do have… This is again a favourite song of mine.
 
Becky: Kind of how bizarre confusion?
 
Matthew: Yes.
 
Becky: Okay.
 
Matthew: It is precisely how bizarre. I think everyone has heard the song and everyone has been like the f**k. I am excited to get into that.
 
Becky: Then I am going to let you go first, because…
 
Matthew: Really?
 
Becky: Yeah.
 
Matthew: End on the hatred note but start with confusion.
 
Becky: I have got a heavy dissertation going on over here.
 
Matthew: I mean, it is going to take, you no time to get…
 
Becky: Okay.
 
Matthew: What this song is. I am trying to think. Let me find. Oh, the songwriter is Jimmy Webb. And you know what…
 
Becky: Jimmy Webb?
 
Matthew: You’re going to have to think of more of the 70s. This is coming out of the 70s. I am breaking my millennial streak and also my 2008 streak.
 
Becky: Does it have to do with pina colada?
 
Matthew: It does not, although that is a fantastic song and I will not hear a word about those lyrics. I am going to skip the part where the song title is. Well, let's just start at the beginning. Spring was never waiting for us, dear. It ran one-step ahead as we followed in the dance.
Blank is melting in the dark. There is your first clue.
 
Becky: Is this MacArthur Park?
 
Matthew: Yes, and I…
 
Becky: And I can't tell you how much I love this song for craziness of it.
 
Matthew: Right, but precisely right. If you look at the lyrics and this is a fantastic song by Donna Summer.
 
Becky: Oh, no. It is not, have you read the history of this?
 
Matthew: I have read a part of it. I don't know all of it. I love the Donna Summer version.
 
Becky: Oh, that is the classic. That one. Yes. Then Anthony Clark, a comedian, did a version. Well, he did a part about this song and his bit, which always made me giggle.  We used to play this at work, I looked it up, and there was somebody that did a cover of it. That we then spent a good half an hour trying to find so that we could play it. Now I get to look it up. But yes, MacArthur Park, genius.
 
Matthew: So I already knew off the bat, like, this is going to be low on the yikes scale. because…
 
Becky: Oh, it is so good.
 
Matthew: It is a phenomenal song if you have not heard it. But again, the entire thing is about MacArthur Park.
 
Becky: Cake out in the rain.
 
Matthew: And supposedly, it is